16/90 I was sent to Como in November of 1877 from Canyon City. I got off the train at the station after midnight, and enquired for the nearest hotel--( the station comprised two houses only), and where I could find Messrs. I was told that the section house was the only hotel in the place and that these gentlemen lived in the country and that there was no regular bus-line yet running to their ranch. A freshly opened box of cigars, however, helped clear up things, and I joined Mr.Reed the next day in opening "Quarry No. |