The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
Agricultural Department
CONDUCTED BY FULTON S. WHITE.

a beautiful clean and healthy city. Here one should spend at least half day in the capitol building looking over the mineral and historical exhibits of the state Then to see Denver one should take the car called Seeing Denver and for 25 cents the visitor is carried around and shown all the places of interest. The elevation of Denver is nearly one mile. The one mile elevation is marked or one of the great business houses. Denver is well supplied with good hotels. and living here is as cheap as in the east. While here l had fine room with every convenience, in- cluding bath, at a cost only of S1 per day. My meals I could get at pleasure. and cheap.
 Colorado Springs.
 Next to Denver in interest was Colorado Springs. This is great city for tourists. and lies at the foot of historic Pike's Peak This is really the better city from which to radiate out into the great noun tains I was charmed with this beautiful little city and it's surroundings, and the more so from the fact that all the while I was here the city was crowded with tourists. the greater number being ladies from all parts of the country. Yes. the city was crowded with them and go to any place 1t was dress fashions intelligence and beauty. It just seemed as if the whole atmosphere was charged with sweet scent ed perfumes. Truly it was a haven of rest and place where one should never tire, but remain contented forever. In all my travels I have never found a place where was so fascinated and from which l was so loath to leave. Standing in PilSe's Peak avenue and looking west we see standing out before us, covered with . snow the top of Pikes Peak. The snows l here are eternal. This. too. adds much to the interest of this beautiful little city. | Colorado Springs is said to be the richest city in the United States of like popua- tion They claim to have forty-fve mill | lionaires.
 Up Pike's Peak.
 | Now for me to start out to tell of the many places of interest which I visited would take up too much time and space. But I will speak of a few On Sunday morning l made the trip up Pikes Peak. over the wonderful cog wheel railroad, on top of the snow-capped mountain, 14147 feet high. Here the government has an observatory from which can be seen mountains 200 miles away, while the eye can follow the great stretch of plains for many miles, By the aid of this glass one can read the signs on the houses ill Colo rado City fourteen miles away.
 But the most novel experience of all a tern Union telegraph station, and from this lofty peak I was able to send my wife. 1900 miles away. a loving message from above the clouds. This day was beautiful. a bright Sabbath, and so we had time to enjoy ourselves. We could stand and with one hand make snow balls and with the other pluck bright flowers from plants growing right up through the snow. After spending few hours here dpsCpn1pd md l dinner visited South Cheyenne canon and the seven falls. This was one of the most romantic places l visited But it was all ! interesting.
 Splendid Railroads.
 l visited beautiful Manitoa, Cripple Creek, Leadville, Glenwood Springs and many other places of great interest I can't mention them all. But the railroads mounting and crossing the Rockies are marvels of wonderment and most have re- quired great scientific engineering to lay out the routes. In one great tunnel two miles and thirty-five feet long the con ductor of the train came in and said: Now you are as deep under ground as you may ever be again and as high up You are three thousand feet under ground and eleven thousand feet above the sea. When we leave the end of this tunnel we are on the Pacific slope. At this end we are on the head waters of the Arkansas river where we can step over it on the | rocks. After leaving the west end of this tunnel we travel fourteen miles in order to descend one-half mile"
 But l must close this without having { mentioned all saw of interest There is the Georgetown Loop, the Royal Gorge. the Placer mines, with their gold wash ings, and hundreds of others places-too many to mention I spent the eight days that l was there most pleasantly. Few men. perha~e o'er saw more in the same length of time.
 In conclusion I will say if one has time to take ion by all means go to cool Color 9. where you can be enter tained every minute of the time while there In fact one can never realize what they have missed until they make a visit out in this ----~derful land
 l expect to go back to Colorado In Sep- tember and when l have more time may have more to say of it's scenery.