Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-05-19
Perched on the Peak.
EDITOR WHITE VIEWS THE WORLD
FROM A LOFTY PINNACLE.
He Communes With Nature In Its Yir-
GIN Purity and on the Mount Sees
Missouri fisi0ns-PrObably
as High Up as He Will
Ever Get.
Editorial, Correspondence of The Ledger.

Editorial Correspondence of The Ledger
PIXIES PEAK, Colorado, May IL
With the old time western traveller
and gold hunter "Pike's Peak or
Bust" was q common expression.
Well, we are here and-almost
bustedl From the top OF lofty
Pixies Peak we imagined We could
see almost everything in the world,
the booms of some of Missouri's pol
iticians, Mexico's kite track and
her perspective Board of Trade in
Guided. The pinnacle of the Peak
is a long ways from terra firma. |
thought so by the time | got to the
bottom.
I notice from the LEDGER that all
the primary returns are in from the
county and that most of the candi-
dates were defeated. l am truly |
sorry for this. There were some
surprises to some people, to be sure,
and a Gland Slide or so. Some
sided more swiftly, l see, than
others. / am pleased with the ticket
and, in my opinion, it would have
heen hard to find a stronger or better
one in the county.
We leave here for San Diego, Cal. !,
tonight. We have three special
trains of sleepers and six hundred
delegates are being royalty entertain
ed at all the leading cities en- route.
In the party are prominent news
paper men from all over the United
States.
Following are some of the sights
we have seen in this part of the
world: In the immediate vicinity
of Colorado Springs we viewed South
Cheyenne Canon, which is three
quarters of a mile long, with rock
walls 1900 feet high; at North
Cheyenne Canon, southwest of Colo
RADIO Springs, the rock walls are also
1900 feet high and the canon 5 miles
long. A carriage road climbs
Cheyenne Mountain to Seven Lakes
and the summit of Pixies Peak.
Here superb views are afforded. We
rel delighted with a carriage ride
through a greater portion of Bear
Greek Canon, where were ume
Gus cascades and towering walls of
rock. There is a delightful summer
watering place at Manitou, reached
by steam and electric railways, car
riage roads and boulevards. There
are grand caverns in Ute Pass and
Cave of the Winds in Williams Can
on. To reach the summit of Pixies
Peak you go through Ruxton Canon,
81 miles long. This is a splendid
triumph of modern engineering.
Pixies Peak is 14,147 feet above the
sea. There have been rich gold fields
recently discovered southwest of
Pixies Peak. In the Garden of the
Gods there can be seen marvellous
and curious rock formations some of
them nearly 400 feet high. From
the top of Austin Bluff magnificent
views of the mountains and plains
meet ones eye. Among the lead
ing institutions of Colorado Springs
are the State Deaf Mute Institution,
Colorado College, Ell Paso Club,
Childs-Drexe Home for Union
Printers, a magnificent Board of
Trade building and the main
branch for Colorado of the Kelley
Institute.
We have not struck a town yet of
any consequence without a good
Board Of Trade or a Chamber of
Commerce. They are an absolute
necessity to every live town.
The Democrats out here are all
for Cleveland for President and
the Republicans for Harrison.
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This is a great country for rocks
and climate and scenery. Rocks
oyershadow everything else. You
could not raise even a political row
on the land without irrigation. II
will add that "irrigationn is gem
orally what raises political rows
everywhere.
Sunday, May 18th, we arrive at
San Diego, 2,20s miles from st.
Louis. The party will leave San
Diego, Tuesday the 18th. The in
~tervening time will be spent in and
about that place and Coronado. Wei
San Francisco on May 22d
where four days will be spent in
conventioa and sight seeing, after
the party will visit the States
of Oregon and Washington, crossing
Puget Sound to Vancouver Island
and returning by the Pacific ocean
up to the mouth of the Columbia
river, up which we will be transport
ed by steamer to The Dalles, whence
we will return home, some by the
and others by the South
ern Union and Pacific Railways.
r. NJ. WfuTE.
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