Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-04-14

beads of flower work stitched on tn
back of his long muscatare like gloves
Perhaps he was going to see his bes
girl. Near West Water station wespass
ed the State line between Utah and Colo
RADIO, 1t is marked ON the rock on tn
side of the Canyon. Our eyes are wear,
from sight seeing, but it must be a dul
mind that could sleep through sucl
scenery as we have passed. Night come
and we stop off at Glenwood Springs tt
resume our journey by daylight, for thu
grandest is yet to be seen. GlenwOod il
a little three-cornered plot fatironet
shaped spot, and can never become {
very large city for the three high noun
tain walls around it. Here are no
springs oozing out of the earth with th'
water at lao degrees Fahrenheit. Th'
principal one discharges an immens,
body of water. Large bathing pooh
with bath houses have been built, and 6
$3.50 600 hotel erected. The waters ar
said to benefit invalids.
Thursday, March 2Sth, we leave tn,
hotel, and board the train to cross tn,
Rockies. The varied scenery is extremely
grand, as we pass by the high cliffs thai
are crumbled and twisted by some an
cient volcano. Along the fertile valley ar
banks of q stream boiling and dashine
over boulders that impede it's progress
then skins across the plain, and through
the mountain gorges. Here, along the
streams, gold miners have left evidence
of their mining. Heaps of stone art
piled all along, the sand having beer
washed for gold dust. As we dash past
and around the sharp curves OF the h.gf
carved and cut by the elements and re-
semble huge castles, our minds wander
in dream-land and we think of the pre-
histOne tribes of giants that dwell
therein. Some layers near the top pro
ject and form caves. The different col
ors blend and make the rock-piled pyra
mids seem like the works OF an ancient
race. We pass streams of purple water
from the wash of purple rock that the
elements are pulverizing and washing
down. The porter directs our attention
to the Elephant rock, huge mass o.
granite, portion of which resembles an
ELEPHANTS head and trunk.
Next we see huge heaps of blackened
charred and burned rock, the last remi
nant of an extinct volcano and up the
mountain side the gorge is filled with
solidifed lava as if cooled in it's down.
ward flow. All along we see evidence OF
gold prospecting, and one hole in the
mountain side has new door crOss-bar.
red and locked. We were told that this
bids fair to be the richest mine in the dis
trict. A few feet above, the ground is
broken by prospector, who few years
ago, evidently just missed a great fnd
Leadville, the world renowned mining
camp, now city of 20, 700 inhabitants,
is passed where $5, 900, 900 of gold dust
was washed from streams in 5 years,
and millions of gold and silver have been
mined from the rocks. Along Eagle
River canyon and high above, $1,000 #.
on the side of the cliff. in the hooks and
crevices are cabins of miners who are
drilling and blasting rock to obtain the
rich ores, which are conveyed by tram
ways and endless steel ropes to the
tracks below.
Next we scoot through tunnel cut
through solid granite, 4 mile long. Next
is Fremont Pass, the highest elevation
II, $3.50 feet above sea level, and next, q
tunnel, O,24O feet above sea level. The
porter passed through thu train, inform.
ing the passengers that we were about
entering Grand Canyon, (Royal Gorge,)
| sst on the car platform with good
grip on the iron post. | had a good
view. The walls in one place are 1000
feet high, perpendicular, of clean, un-
broken rock So narrow is this crevice
between the mountains that in one
place there is no room for the road-bed
and stream; the gorge is seven miles
long, and the highest walls are 627 feet
them. In some of the mountain gOrges,
high up, is strong evidence of the once
water line, and the boulders in the bot
tom of Royal Gorge are curved out in
various forms by the action of water.
Night comes and Denver is reached.
Our scheduled stop-off of day in Denver
was sufficient to convince us that it is
the best built town we have yet seen.
There are no frame buildings in the city
limits and nearly all of the little out
houses are brick. Denver has scores OF
milionaires and this country has felt
their power. They have good, solid resi-
deuces that compare favorable with their
piles. We visited the State House, and
rested in the Senate Chamber while the
Senate was in session. The building is a
credit to the State. The halls and cham.
bers are wainscoated with Colorado
onyx, the prettiest stone we ever saw
We left Denver at 40 p. m. for Omaha
and Conncil Bluffs, where we learned
that bad snow storm is raging in the
Rockies, delaying all trains, and we fee
thankful for our escape. At Denver
Mrs. Lake called on her friend, Mrs. An.
drews who had come on few days
ahead of US. From Omaha to Chicago
the scenery is vastly different. Here, in
stead of mountain peaks are thrifty
farms and hundreds OF graneries filled
with corn awaiting shipment at the diff
ferent stations. After seven hours in
Chicago, a visit to the Park. The Ferris
Wheel and Lake Michigan, and we take
the sleeper for home, where we arrive
safely, April 3rd, after the longest and
most pleasant trip we have ever taker.
A. LAKE.