The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-06-21

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Mrs. A. j. Leckenby Steamboat Springs, COL
Having lived several years in the south, then re-
moving to Colorado, L think l can interest my
southern friends describing my home and the pic
turesque scenery surrounding it,
After being confined indoors by long winter,
am now enjoying both mental and physical eN-
ercise cleaning house, flower gardening, etc,
making both house and yard attractive; also de-
irving benefit from the bracing air and sunshine,
exploring the surrounding hills where wild flowers
are blooming in great profusion while IN
still higher altitude seen patches of snow that
glimmer in the sunshine against its dark back
ground.
Our home is situated on the eastern slope OF the
Rockies, pleasantly located in cove OF about
eighty acres, the gigantic mountnins forming q
background on three sides, hence the name ''Rocky
cove" The front opens out on level mesa that
is from five to ten miles wide, and is adapted to
agriculture, while the foothills and mountain
slopes are covered with luXuriant grasses afford
ing excellent range for thousands OF head OF
stock.
AS we wend our wav back from our house,
through the foothills, through cherry and other
wild fruit shrubs, we soon find ourselves several
hundred feet high in 4 spruce grove, by minia-
ture lake, with lovely ferns crowdng to the water
edge. Here we stop and feast eyes on the beau
ties of nature. AS we gaze down on the level mesa
and our neat little town OF Steamboat Springs,
they call forth eXclamations of admiration and we
gaze in silence on the panorama OF beauty spread
out before us. The clear crystal waters of Walton
creek winding its way around through the valley
iuXur Mt with vegetation, dotted here and there
with cultivated fields and Well-kept homes all
deno9e prosperity.
But our mind is soon drawn to the diversified
scenery about us. We wander on at our right to a
etlli hi cher peak where huge rocks of various
shapes, towering toward the sky Some of chem
look as though the least wind would topp!e them
over Still higher up the eye rests ON huge cliff
several thousand feet higher, called Saddle rock;
then to still another known as Rabbit Ears.
The streams are running down through the
gulches in their greatest rapidity, forming beaut-
ful waterfalls az they trace their course through
cracks and CrcyiCcs, over rocks down, down,
swelling the more placid streams below.
| have often found myself dreaming OF the
beauties of the Colorado canyons; OF the majestic
and massive mountains, the grand waterfalls that
glitter in the sun like diamonds, but never tn l
found it in reality did realize Its beauty 1t must
be seen to be appreciated.
Steamboat Springs has many attractions, and q
large number of tourists come yearly to enjoy the
natural scenery and drink the mineral waters
from her springs. First in order comes the hot
spring and Wcil-kept bathhouse, where one can
enjoy good bath summer or winter as it flows
from its bed. A little farther mp the valley Is the
iron and soda water springs with It's ICY waters
boiling with great activity and il is the popular
drink for the people. A few yards from this is the
Steamboat spring, from which the town derives
rock, resembling the putting of a steamboat Still
farther is the Milk spring, the water resem-
bling milk in color, and of 4 SWeCtiSh taste. The
sulphur and various other springs are found
here.
Perhaps no state in the union affords such varied
attractions as does Colorado. 1t has its scenery
for the lovers of nature its game for the sports
man. its health for the sick, and its hidden wealth
of mineral that has lain hidden for years and is
now being developed in nearly all parts OF the