Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-06-13
ooLoRapo,s BEAUTIES.
A Letter from n Beilaire Lady Mt Chau-
tauqpa Park, Colorado.


A Letter nom n A<~'y
tauqua Park, Colorado.
CuAUrAUQUA PARK, Col June g.
To hs Editor Of ds Sunday RegistS.
This is the time of year when the fancy
of persona living in the hot dusty cities
tnrn to thoughts of a life i'll the country,
out in the pure fresh air by the brookslde,
and in the shades of the cool green groves
and mountain5.
Through the columns of your very en-
paper we desire to tell our many
friends in your vicinity something ct what
6 summer spent here in the Rocky Noun
tsins implies.
This Park is only forty miles from Den
YER by roll, and 10 one of the most delight
full localities in the State, We leave the
Denver and Rio Grsnde railroad at Lark'
spun, and enjoy stage ride of six miles
over a splendid road. One has fine view
of mountains and lovely green valleys,
with Pixies Peak looming up IN
the distance. The Park contains
about five thousand acres, and
every variety CT scenery, while the noun
tsins directly west OF US and at whose base
the houses are situated are full OF deer,
grouse and rabbits, while it is nothing
strange TO run across bear, aud occasional
" mountain lion blocks up the mountain
trail. We have aeyeral times stood IN the
front door and watched the pretty deer at
the deer lick" about $50 yards away
They come there in the moving IN droyes
of from three to fifteen and finally ssunter
of very leisurely smoug the rocks.
Then we have soda and an iron spring
near by and few yards away is the en-
trance TO the Hundred Falls canon, where
the cold sparkling water PUSHES and huIries
down over the rocks, some near hundred
feet in depth, thus making many beautiful
falls as it hurlies down TO irrigate hundreds
of acres of beautiful farming land in the
valley just below.
What 10y there is in living here if it were
but to breathe this pure, health giving sir,
at once light and cool, coming as it does
from tie everlasting SHOWS of the Rocky
Mountains and bslmy with the thousand
odcrous bresthings of the perfumed pines
and lsdered with the breath Of myriads o!
fowers
Then we have here a peculiar formation
Of rocks, bright red in color, that rise right
up out of the level plain for several hun
bred feet. Standisg thus perpendicular
and alone, they resemble the old ruined
castles of ancient days, with their turrets
gables. and fantastic shapes.
The Park has lately been opened as a
health and pleasure resort, by Mrs. Olive
Wright, the lady who so ably represented
Colorado at the Worlds Fair, at New Or
leans She has made a careful study o.
Colorado's natural advantages, with view
of aiding those who, as health or fortune
seekers, desire to locate in this delightful
region. After years of careful investiga
ton, this seemed to be the most desirable
location for home like resort for invalid'
and recreation ground for the well. There
will be no attempt to make it o tashions
bic resort. Still Colorado is not lacking
ing in fashionable resorts by any
means, for Mantle, Colorado Springs
and Idaho Springs, vie with
any of the resorts East in the way of ele
CANT dressing, iiOe laces and diamonds
and all the fashionable and all the fashion
able adjuncts Of Saratoga life, in the ta1
Weet. Mrs. Wright may well be enthusi
astic over the prospects d success for this
delightful resort, which nature has 30 bouE
tifully endowed with every element Of en-
ioyment, and she industriously improved
the opportunity she had for advertising it
merits during the past Exposition season
at New Orleans.
The glowing accounts OF the minera
wealth OF Colorado has been 30 extensively
advertised that 1t has 10 great extern
over-balaneed the natoriety she is entitled
| to BECAUSE OF her beautiful scenery AND
the curative properties in the air for al
pulmonary diseases. But gradually THU
fact is becoming known, and We hear al
most every day of some of the most won
dertul cures OF consumption or asthma
or consumption from living an outdoor
life here in the mountains.
think good way to ste Colorado
would be to START from Denver on the Den
yer and Rio Grande K. Il, at 7:30 a. IN,
come to Larkspur, take the stage for Chau
tauqua Park, stay here for several days
then go to Palmer Lake, Colorado Springs
and Mantle, only 40 miles south Of here.
Mantle is situated at the foot of Pixies
Peak, which can be ascended eithsr on
foot or on horseback, tho distance from the
base being IL miles One would need TO
spend several days there in order TO visit
the different canons, the Cave Of the Wind,
Rainbow Falls and the Garden of the Gods.
Then the Springs there are never ending
source of pleasure. Their waters are de.
licious and sparkling, palatsble TO the
taste and their we'll established medicinal
qualities and largely 10 their value.
Then take the ID & r. c. Il. r for Sill
vsrton, and on this part Of the tour you
will see La Veta Pasa, in crossing The
Saugrl de Christi range, the San Lcui Vol
ley, Foltie Gorge and tie Animus Canon
Valley. At Silverton one is in the very
heart Of the silvery San Jsun country
There be should take the stage for Ouray.
Along this route the scenery between Do.
range and OGray ia probably unequalled
anywhere else in North America.
Then there ia Leadville, and no tourist
should imagine tina. he has seen Colorado
if be has not seen Lesdvills But leave
more detailed account OF these worldre-
nowned places for a future letter, and
hoping that many of your citizens will
come here this summer and learn what il
is to live out doors in this wonderful re.
gion, for he who has made the railway trip
only has a knowledge Of the grandeur Of
the scenery, but has not felt what it ia TO
be in the mountains, and TO breathe the
mountain Dir.
MARGUERITE PATTERSON.
MARTINS FERRY's BOOM.