New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-30
THE WRsTRRN SARATOGA.
Colorado Soda Springs and La Fonf-The
Garden of the Gods and the Fortified
from the Denver Tribune.I

Colorado Soda springs ana La rOha-i NO
Garden of the Gods and the Petrihed
Forest.
From the Denver Trbune.I
Seventy miles south of Denver, at the
base of Pixies Peak, is spot the natural
America Here within small area are the
Garden of the Gods, the famous Fremont
soda springs Monument Park, the petrlhed
forest; Fountaine farms, and many other
objects of interest points of scenic beauty
and wonders of nature. Here too is the
natural ascent of Pixies Peak and entrance
of South Park. Professor Hayden. in his
report to the government on the geological
survey of Colorado and New Mexico, says:
II do not know of any portion OF the West
where there is so much variety displayed
in the geology as within a space of ten miles
square around Colorado City. Nearly all
the elements of geological study revealed
in the Rocky Mountains are shown ON
UNIQUE scale in this locality" The >"Gar-
den of the Gods" famous the country over,
pillars Of granite, the relics of mountains
washed and worn by waters and winds,
stand sentineled about upon the bare clos
ing bluffs of the hills with forms of such
majesty and personality as srouses ones
wonder and deepens curiosity into awe.
In speaking of the Soda Springs, three
miles from Colorado City, he says; The
have ever seen in the vicinity OF any other
medicinal springs. There are four OF them.
The first is close to the road, within nifty
feet of the creek, and is one OF the richest
in the world, containing an ounce OF medl-
Gated matter to every gallon OF water. IL
will be called the Galen Spring, and was
formerly known as the Beast" About
one hundred yards above this first spring
is the second one, on the right side of the
creek. This is much the largest, and has
formed a basin six feet across, from the
centre of which bOils up violent current.
This will be known as the "Great Spring."
for bathing purposes. On the opposite side
of the creek, not more than twenty five feet
from the Great Spring, and located about
ten feet above it, is third small spring
The water is stronger than that OF the
others. and is used principally for drinking
purposes. 1t will be known as the Iron
Spring" The fourth spring is perhaps
fifty feet above the second, on the right side
of the creek, and within four feet OF the
waters edge Its waters are rather
chaly beate than otherwise.
A noticeable feature of this spring is the
small per cent of sulphur. The ebulltlon
of gas is enormous and keeps the water III
a constant state of agitation. The spring
bursts out from a syenetic rock, but by the
overflow of its waters it has covered the
latter with crust of carbonate of lime sew
eral feet in thickness and much broader
than at the celebrated High Rock Spring of
Saratoga. Professor Hayden says he never
saw so violent an escape of gas except from
the Salina, near Kissengen, IN Bavaria, and
further adds that as the springs must, at
some period become a celebrated and popu-
lar resort for invalids and tourists from all
parts of the world, he appends an analysis
of a fragment of incrustation from one OF
them: