The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-09-05
GRAND SIGHTS AND SCENES.
The Editor on What he Sees in the Wild
and Woody West.
Editorial correspondence
SALT LAKE CRY, Aug. %, 1895.

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. %, 1895.
This travelling all night and sight
seeing all day, does not put a fellow in
the best condition for letter writing,
and the promises the spirit made before
leaving home to write daily, | find the
flesh unwilling to fulfill. Every even
ing finds us all tired and each morning
with it's promise of pleasure. finds us
ready to early begin the program of
the day. Our brief stay at Omaha was
most pleasant. The Commercial club
successfully carried out the plans laid
for our entertainment, and Friday
evening we left for Denver, arriving
there Saturday morning. Here we
were met by old friends who spent the
day in plotting us to all the points of
interest in that fair city, and there are
many of them. To my mind Denver is
the finest city have seen in the west,
and the only place in which | should
care to reside. ] met John T. Yule's
daughter, Mrs. Lucy Yule Moses, and
her husband, on the street. Mrs. Moses
is looking well and says she is much
pleased in her western home.
Leaving Denver Saturday night we
arrived at Colorado Springs that even
ing and the next day our party drove
to Manitou via Garden of the Gods,
and in the afternoon assembled Pixies
Peak on the cog wheel railway. This
railway is certainly wonderful feat in
engineering, and our townsman 2. G..
Simmons was extensively interested in
it's construction and now in it's opera
zion. The electric railway connecting
the railway station with the mountain
road, about one mile in length is, be-
lieve, owned and operated solely by
Mr.. Simmons Most of our readers
have probably read of this, the wonder
full Pixies Peak railway, but for myself
/ never before realized what it meant
to overcome a twenty-five per cent
grade, so that hundred passengers at
a time could be safely and comfortably
transported up such an incline
Don't miss a trip up the peak if you
can get as near as Denver to it.
The trip did not agree with all the
party. Several were quite sick and
none escaped dizziness as result of
the IA, 600 feet altitude.
Colorado Springs and Manitou are
pretty cities and at this time of year
very busy, but it seems to me that a
discouraging dullness must prevail
throughout the winter. Those engaged
in trade seem to be prospecting and
prices on everything are certainly ten
per cent. higher than in Kenosha.
Leaving the twin cities of the Rock
les, Sunday evening, we began long
day Monday in being routed out of our
berths at 2:30 o'clock Monday morning
to change cars at Salida to the narrow
guage train which was to take us over
the famous Marshall pass. This trip
takes us past some of the grandest
mountain scenery in the world, the
railway climbing in thirty miles to a
height of IL 900 feet, the ascent being
made by a succession of loops, then
descending the western slope in the
same manner, passing through the
grand canyon of the GunnisOn river.
The scenery here is inexpressibly grand
and seen from an observation car is a
never to be forgotten sight. From the
canyon to Grand Junction the land is
barren, the temperature high, the
roadway dusty and the ride altogether
disagreeable. AS one of the party OBJ
served, the soil would have to be fertil-
lied to make good brick. Grand juno
ton is quite a point, and of this city |
shall have something to say in another
letter when / can find an opportunity
to think the matter over a little, but
this letter writing en- route is not at all
satisfactory. More anon. F. Ell. Fl.