The Newtown bee., 1895-11-08
NUMBER As.
the yellow metal daily,so that altogether

the yellow metal daily, 80 that altogetheI
| coLoRADo's GOLD PRODUCT
for the present year is hoped to reach
$40, 600 600, nearly twice that of last
year. Statistics are rarely poetic to the
average reader, but when not in the in
terest Of addition, division and silence
are often mighty instructive. The Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron Company produced
over 35,000,0O0 pounds of iron ore last
year. About half Of which went into
| street rails. Colorado's coal output for
1894 was nearly 5000. 900 tons, third of
which was shipped out Of the state, even
as far away as Montana, Texas and Cali
fornia. Denver's clay Industries had an
output of 81 300, 900 for 1898 while it goes
without saying that country SO presis-
| tently standing On end to reach up to-
ward the blue empyrean is rich beyond
calculation In all beautiful mineral specf
mems and in the more substantial sand
stones, GRANTEES, marbles and other build
ing materials. Florence, where the
Cripple Creek mines connect with the
main Denver and Rio Grande railway
system, has been producing 2500 barrels
of crude petroleum daily and is said to
be the only petroleum section west of
Ohio where paying oil has been struck
with parafine for base. Pennsylvania
and Ohio oil has 20 per cent of illuminat-
ing oil and 25 per cent of the parafines,
while the Florence oil has 75 per cent of
the parafines, by far the more valuable
products, which are refined at Overton,
80 miles away, where the oil is piped.
CoLoRADo's AGRICULTURE
is naturally in its infancy, but its IL, 900
miles of irrigating canals vitalize 2,000.-
600 cultivated acres which can be increas
ed by the same water supply to twice as
much more. She claims to raise an
average of % bushels of wheat 10 the acre,
a bushel more than the Dakotas; 25
bushels of oats more than any other state
but the Dakotas; 200 to 400 bushels of
potatoes, to advertise which Greeley is
giving a monster bake this week, and
claims that her farm products already en-
ceed in value those of her famous mines.
The cattle ranges are also being replaced
with imported stock of all kinds, horses,
asses, cattle and sheep, but Colorado
still has to import so per cent of dairy
products. 75 per cent of poultry products
and nearly all.pork supplies. The states
fruit crop for 1894 is placed at o., 900, 900
and as apples and pears can be ripened
here at an altitude of 5000 feet, and as
prominent Canyon City orchardist claims
to have netted S400 and $500 an acre from
10 acres for six years, there is an inviting
and profitable field for development.
Colorado has not yet ceased to be
paradise for the sportsman, both in hunt
ing and fishing, but is preparing for more
enduring fame by throwing down the
gauntlet to Switzerland, ''the playground
of Europe" as her superior in mountain
scenery, good climate and mineral
springs. To be sure Mont Blanc with its
l5,7s1 feet and the Matterhorn with a.
s36 feet can overtop anything Colorado
caps with snow. but aside from these the
highest Alps are only from 5000 to 5000
feet. OF Colorado's points Of vantage
120 over 13, 500 feet of altitude, Of which
30 peaks range from II, 900 feet upward,
about 10 times as many as in all Europe.
HOW FEW HAVE HEARD
of, much less seen, Colorado's highest
mountain of IA, 43S feet, Sierra. Blanca in
Costilla county, county bordering New
Mexico's line! But what wonder when
mountains are SO lavishly strewn that -
of between 13, 500 and IA 800 feet are yet
unnamed. Pixies Peak, most famous Of
this cloud-capped galaxy of grandeur, is
only 9th in height of those already NAM
ed, its IA, l47 feet standing like beckon-
ing seminal to Capt Zebulon NJ. Pike,
whose description named it after he saw
it and failed in its ascent in November of
1906, and his successors who approached
it across the barren and thirsty miles to-
ward the Sunset empire, whose Pathfind-
er was Fremont. Pixies Peak, however,
seen close at hand, is not the solitary
mountain Of which you naturally think,
but the highest in range with other
snow-clad SUBMITS, rising from Cheyenne
mountain at the southeast and falling
away more abruptly to the northwest.
Its cog-wheel railroad, finished October
20, 1890, is about eight and three-quarter
miles long, its greatest grade being 1920
feet to the mile and the round trip to the
grandly revealing summit, with its royal
outlook over 40, 900 square miles, costing
So. You cannot fail Of rugged grandeur
wherever you penetrate the Rockies,
whether from Denver by the Denver and
Gulf line of the Union Pacific system on
its loop trip past Idaho Springs, with -
hot and cold mineral water, from Cols-
RADIO Springs by the Colorado Midland
the Pixies Peak route of the Santa Fe,
sthrough the Ute pass climbing upward" !"
or by the ramifying Denver and Rio
Grande,
DISCLOSING so MUCH MAJESTIC SCENERY
of towering Canyon and hoary peak in
in many directions by standard
or narrow guage. When you gaze up
sheer cliffs for 1000 feet or more
as In the Royal Gorge Of the grand can.
yon of the Arkansas, in the canyon OF
the Grand river and In many another
titanic cleft, where mountain waters
fall away to the sea, you behold scenery