Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-07-25
A Few Interesting Sights
Seen on a Trip Through the
Rocklas, Beginning july
IL, 1901, by Mrs. G. II.
Babbitt.

NOR. beautiful nor more hot tyenin,
ever was cxpctiencel in Chicago than tn,
night Of the 9th on which left for a fri,
winch time can never erase from my memory
After leaving my family and AL that WA
most dear to mo found myself in an elep.n,
sleeper, speeding ,anidly over the bro.e
prsir:es and through the beautiful sties ot
Illinois and Iowa. When morning dawnetl nav
the broad field. and the sturdy farmer as h,
hApp ly tolci ploughing his corn aud hoeinc
his garden.
hut must speed on With NV story Al ran
idly az tho Northwestern carried mt ouickl,
over beautiful rivers and pictu,e4aue plsins
must not full to speak of the Mississippi
that dear old Father of Waters" AZ he fi.atec
majestically on toward the gulf bearing az
his bosom thousands of logs and putting
steamboats Nor was the Cedar river lea,
beautiful with its clue ,ers of trees along II,
banks inter-mingled with the long prairi,
grass ii at drabbed in the waters and az tn.
waves came along it dashed up and down anc
reminded me of mermaids hi air.
soon reached Missouri Valley, q town Of
about 1900 inhabtan a, situated on the south
ern aide of range of hills. Here was ioined
by my friend Mrs Heilman who was tn accom-
paay me ON the rest of my journey. My siste1
and father. who live in that town gave me 1
snmptuous lnnch, and after many goodbye t.
my friends we were again speeding away. We
soon crossed the Missouri river, n very wide and
sandy river. 1t had no beautiful scenery along
ts banks because il is very restless, always cut.
ting and changing its course unless it is rim.
raped which is terrible expense and only
done when absolutely necessary.
| AT Omaha crowds poured into the cars to be
carried west and TO zee the wonders of nature
The Nebraska land and the eastern part of Col
orada was very barren, there were no trees no,
grass, in fact, vegetation of any kind was ex
treme'y scarce. When we got to Juesburc
we were compelled to turn our watches back
just exactly one hour, for the earth in its rota
ton takes just ID degrees to turn to the differ.
ent longitndes, and that 10 degrees is Just al
hour When we were ne,ring Denver We came
ip sight of the mountains They were IS miles
away and still We were able to see their snow
capped tops.
1 Our train was late into Denver and caused us
to miss our south bound train hut we accepted
the inevitable with good grace and spent our
time IN viewing the place which we saw was
larger than Omaha, but we cou d suggest to tho
councilmen that they spend few dollars in
the cleaning of their streets and alleys. Al
340 p. III. we boarded train which we imme-
dlately noticed was very narrow and adapted ia
climbing the mountains. The line we took
wound in and out of high mountains and
boulders. We passed high mountain rising
thousands of feet called II astlc Rock, " because
the rocks were piled up so wonderfully as to re-
semble an immense castle. We also saw a
mountain the top Of which had been blasted
of and had been used for aquarry The wild
flowers along the way we're very gorgeous. We
knew we we're getting higher into tho noun.
tains for we could look down i'll the valley for
many feet,
| JUST outside of Colorado Springs we passed
through the world famous Garden of thp
Gods which ia composed of hugo rocks piled
~P III ".-terl0ns ways ~y.ivl. Imaginative peo.
pie have named kissing Elephants" 1.-The
Princess, etc. Right near this was the cele.
brated iron and sulphur springs. The noun
talns about Manitou outdid themselves in grim.
ueut. Inc tram passed. through min, long
tunnels cut through the mountains and in
other places passed over high bridges. We no
tlced all along that the mountains were solid
tock WITH pine trees growing out of the nitches
or wh.rever they could find q little soil We
Kept climbing the mountains until we were
lo.oooteet above sea level, and we got fine
view "iAltman, the highest incorporated town
in the World. We then passed into Victor and
we're mt by our friends and taken down and
mp the hugh stfeets till they reached our stop
ping plae. After our old acquainta ce had
been ren@ed wo retired for tho night. After a
Festlu' sep arose, but when started about
my scyeraltuties found the altitude affected
me greatly nd for a time was very miserable
mo next Ting of Importance was Kate and
myself took stroll over to Second street and
there got the lost elegant view OF Pixies pesk
Oh! 1t was shply grand. What feeling
there was st'rtehp In my heart. The snow
covered sizes anots position and all was be-
You'd my power otdescription. As Victor or
Cripple Creek distct contains the richest uoId
mines in the state thought would visit one
of them. All overthe mountains we can acc
the huge shaft housesnd dumps which are 40
familiar in all mining egions. The Portland
q il the best paying of al 1t is noted for fla
1 Pockeo ol goa. lone day last week il
turned out 81 100000 With of gold ore. hut as
this was so far up on the,ountain VIC thought
we wonld Just a. soon'Hit the Gold Coin
mine owned by the WoodHJompsny. We en-.
tered the large shaft housed there .au NJ.
chinery which was very lare The piston rod
on one of the wheels was as ,rge a. NV arm
g and about lG feet long. View tho immence
q buckets that carry the orc upae shaft. What
we saw was very interesting t,s Int c,tremo,v
. hard 10 set down in words.
e The next interesting place a waited u..
1.-THE Economic Gold Extractic m;,,;n. ~. !.
MIR. Ed. Beall, the night watclan toll -.
q through the most important plac The h,;,d-
q ing is at the east end of Colpmbi The Viz
r WI .uAne. *a'cn - '''oo tee' anu ,ns through
to the Gold Coin NINE The machiv throuoh.
l. out the buildings is automatic, onli ,tv mon
10 employed IN az. ore oars are dpod into
< large bins and carried by conyeyd ~, hv
- pulley belts to large crusher. 1t is 60,
* one orusher to another until the TO. :. 70.
le duccd to dust, after which samples to- a.
sayed are briokcd by men who ,he ,ho...
- pestle on an iron mortar. All ,unb. ava
t6 kept separate and numbered 80 tint be,.,..
OF stock in any mine can be detemiedand
ia dividends made on reliable Asis xter
40 samples are taken out all the ore itmind
m <ko Gold op6 baoop,o.