Show 1 LORD DUNRA YENS RANCH p LIKE HIS YACHT IT BRINGS BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT English Lord HAS No Better Success Running Colorado Farm Than He Did Racing for Americas Cup and So He Quits 0 Dunravon It when Lord Dunravon pockets the 50000 received In the sale of hU Colorado ranch which coat him several sev-eral hundred thousand ho denounces things American It will bo little wonder for he has found oily misfortune mis-fortune and disappointment on this side tho Atlantic American land ns well as American yachts have proved too many for tho titled Eng lehman Ho tried hard to win the Americas cup and got mad when he didnt Ho has tried even harder to 7 fin r yr vv 1 t + t 3a i l I I1 tJ 1 THE DUN RAVEN COTTAGE make Estes Park a go both as a hunting preserve and a profitearning ranch and now that he has given up the struggle ho will probably be madder mad-der than ever and cuss his American experiences from the western borderland border-land to tho blue waters of Long Island Is-land sound When tho deal was closed Dunraven Is said to have remarked to tho representatives rep-resentatives of tho western gentlemen who bought tho place I I wish you luck of It Estes park has cost me a pretty penny And what tho English lord had hoped to make a hunting paradise Is to become a summer resort and oven now In tho narrow valley tucked In between tho high mountains the sound of tho hammer and tho saw are heard and tho now hotel grows apace Dunraven himself had not visited vis-ited tho ranch In a decade of years but there remain tho Hereford cattle somo remnants of hl stable the pictures pic-tures in the cottage and the small unpainted chapel the wonder of all visitors to suggest tho pretty little harmless earldom ho meant to establish estab-lish for his recreation In the Rocky mountains It Is 70 or 80 miles from Denver about northwest a little cavity among the ribs of tho continent completely Isolated Au Au A Au A It was through no lack of love forEsts for-Ests Park that Lord Dunraven abandoned aban-doned this preserve From beginning to end things went more often 111 than well with It Tho settlers wore Inimical tho management was Inexperienced Inex-perienced tho property was n continual contin-ual heavy charge on the wrong nldo of tho account and the game prwcrvo Idea had to ho discarded before ho had given half n dozen hunting parties or fairly learned tho scents of the wood This Ifi tho story The carl first wdnt to Rates Park In 1873 Ho homesteaded as much of It as the law would permit and bought the homes of two settlers who had recently re-cently mails filings on tho land Thoao transactions gave him a largo part of tho most desirable land along the creek rich meadows where oat wo grass and there Is nothing sweeter to cattlo than mountain hay grew high highut But two or three settlers who remained re-mained along with others who had eyes upon this treasure of a valley warred against the Dunraven scheme Tho authorities at Washington worn Informed with considerable feeling of tho pretensions of this English lord who would turn one of tho fairest garden spots In Colorado Into a private pri-vate hunting patch It was not difficult dif-ficult to arouse antagonism to the enterprise en-terprise and while the earl won still negotiating for moro land tho government govern-ment suddenly threw tho entire park saving only certain timber reserves high up on the mountains open to settlement That was a blow to Lord Dunraven Ho was compelled to abandon his plan of owning tho whole park for the remaining re-maining settlers and the new once who came In soon were stubborn But Dunraven was determined not to bo driven away Ho would go to ranching like the rest of them From England was brought a fine herd of Hereford cattle which speedily speedi-ly became the cause of special bitterness bitter-ness In 1876 Lord Dunraven built a hotel ho-tel on a commanding site above hln ranch houses This like all the other features of the venture was never profitable but It afforded him facilities facili-ties for entertaining his friends Besides Be-sides there was tho cottage luxuriously luxurious-ly furnished filled with reminders of old England To this day many of tho pictures old steel engravings of Lnndsocr colored hunting r i rlnts and tho like remain on Urn walls of tho cottage Tho settlors rclleed of tho bodily presence of tho detent d British Brit-ish toll fond tales of what they call tho extravagances of thoso days A piano was brought by wagon and with Infinite labor over the mountains and Installed In the cottage Traps stau hopes and victorias wero Imported with similar difficulty to bo knocked to pieces speedily over tho unmade I roads and pastures of the ranch riMI I Y |