The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-09-21
THROUGH THE WEST.


for irrigating, pure cool water is
brought in iron pipes from Ruxton's
Creek, six miles away on the noun
tain side, where it is free from all
contamination. The supply isprac-
tically unlimited, and the pressure
is such that fire cain be extinguished
without engines. The dry air, the
altitude and the climatic conditions
make this one of the best resorts in
the world for those suffering from
consumption. Physicians of the
highest character assure the public
that this climate is sure cure tor
consumption, if theinvalid will come
before the disease has progressed too
far. The death rate is very low,
being SO per 1000; from zymotic
disease, 1.6 per 1000. The busi-
ness interests are large and growing
Five miles due west, the street
railway brought us to Manitou
Springs under the frowning shadow
of Pixies Peak, famous the world
over for its mineral waters, grand
and beautiful surroundings and pre-
cminently as place for rest or
pleasure, the visitor may spend days
visiting Rainbow and Minuehaha
Falls, Grand Caverns, Cave OF the
Winds, Ute Pass and Garden OF
the Gods. Manitou was the first OF
the many health resorts of Colorado
to attract geneial attention. Being
easy of access and less than three
hours from Denver, it has rapidly
grown in popularity and is visited
annually by people from all parts of
the world. Manitou has half a
score of good hotels and first-class
boarding houses, which lack of space
forbids description of in detail.
Here, too, the "Cog Road" the
most novel railway in the world, be-
gins the ascent of Pixies Peak,
climbing above the clouds to an
elevation more than fourteen thous-
and feet above the sea. From the
station in Manitou to the summit its
length is 81 miles, the cost of con-
struction being nearly 100000 per
mile. A trip over the Cog Road
enables the visitor to enjoy, without
discomfort, the grandest expense .of
earth ever spread before the eyes.ef
man. Only two miles from Mahitou
is the Famous Garden ofthe Gods,
whose stately walls, gateways, port
ais, cathedral spires and monumental
fgurges have inspired the pen Of the
poet and the painters brush. The
portals of this famed gateway spring
from the level plain to the height OF
three hundred and thirty feet and
glow with the most brilliant color.
ing of red. There is an outer para
pet of pure white and inner columns
of varied hues, the whole suggest
ing the ruins Of a vast temple, once
the receptacle of sacred shrine Of the
long buried gods. Within the Gar.
den the rocks assume strange mi
metic forms, and the imagination o.
of the spectator is kept busy dis
covering resemblances to figures Of
beasts and birds, of men and wo-
men and of strange freaks in archi
lecture. 1t is possible to have ,
glimpse of all these wonders, leav-
ing Denver in the morning ant
leaving the same day for otherscene
as we were compelled to 60 on &C
count of lack of time.
On Sunday morning before leav
ing Colorado Springs, a visit wa
made to South Cheyenne Canon. A
the entrance stand those two magni
fcent rocks, the "Pillars of Her
cules." In our ascent of the noun
tain by carriage, we passed Prospec
Dome. This is a graceful symme
trical pinnacle OF granite more thai
800 feet in height. 1t stands alon
in one of the side canons like
watch tower of the god Of war, it
. foot wrapped in a great cloak Q
dark sombre vegetation. We mex
came to the Seven Falls where Ma
ture out-does herself in a grand dis
play of mighty cliffs and rushin
/ waters. Here the canon proper end
in a colossal amphitheatre, dow
one side of which plunges the foam