The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-10-16

almost lifetime to devote to 1t,
tour Of Colorado must of necessity be
a matter OF selection. There are in
Vulnerable localities that it would be
desirable to visit and many among
which it is difficult to choose, but some
there are that one MUST see.
Mention was made in a former
article of Pixies Peak. The envire-
ments Of this interesting mountain
are almost as facinating. There is
Colorado Springs, Manitou, Cheyenne
Canon, Garden Of the Gods, Temple
Drive and other points of interest.
Colorado Springs is beautiful and
very wealthy CITY of about 40, 900 peo-
pie. The owners of most OF the
Cripple Creek gold mines live there.
The town takes its name from the
famous mineral springs which are
really at Manitou, Ave miles distant by
steam and trolley cars, at the foot Of
Pixies Peak. Between the two cities
is still another, Colorado City. You
are out of Colorado Springs, into Colo
RADIO City and then into Manitou be-
fore you really know 1t. The only in
dication of passing from one to an
other is the trips through the cars by
the conductor, collecting three nlckles
for the five mile ride. Manitou has
single street which penetrates an i'm
mense chasm rent into the base OF
Pixies Peak by mountain torrent
the street ending at the station Of the
cog railroad. The village contains
1000 people. 1t has been built where
stream and canon permitted, and is
very picturesque on account of its
irregular contour. The water from
the mineral springs is the most fa-
nous in the world in some respects
and the only natural mineral water [
ever tasted fit to drink. The water
from the Iron Spring tastes exactly
like highly charged soda water and is ]
very refreshing as we'll as healthful.8
Among the scenic attractions Of the
place are Ute Pass, Rainbow Falls,
Grand Caverns, Williams Canon and
Cave of the Winds. Some are worth
your time and some are notr-mostly
not.
But never leave Colorado Springs
without seeing the Cheyenne canons.
These are rugged gashes in the red
granite, cut to depth of 1880 feet
and threaded by brawling streams.
The south canon is more than mile
in length, its profoundest clevagc
being arrested by Seven Falls. In
| that brief distance the tourist passes
between massive granite walls rising
| perpendicular a quarter Of a mile and
in places only forty feet apart. At
the end Of the canon proper is a wall
three hundred feet in height, down
! which pours a silver cascade, the de
cent being accomplished in seven dis
tlnct leaps. The top Of the falls may
be reached by several flights Of steps,
4 and the view from there fully repays
4 the climb. You can see these canons
on foot, in carriages or on burros.
i There are but a short distance from
J! Colorado Springs by trolley cars.
i When I first visited them several
years ago they impressed me as being
, the most beautiful works of nature l
had ever seen. Like the Grand Canon
of the Yellowstone, no writer can des.
). Ecribe them on paper; no ar tist picture
them on canvas.
: There is another trip out Of Colorado
! Springs that must not be Ommitted-
/ If you ever go there-and that is a
S trip to Cripple Creek over the new
) "Short Line. 1t is the quintessenct
: Of Colorado reduced to ten-houl
limit-mountains, plains, rocks, can
S ons, railroads, beauty, sublimity
{ thrills, wonder, admiration, geologi
j cal phenomena, and the greatest golt
S lmining camp on the continent all OF
: one ticket-price SIS. Until two year
S ago the only railroad communicated
e between Colorado Springs and Crippl
b Creek was either going around by th
+ way Of Pixies Peak or still farthe
S south to Pueblo. ltWas a long, round
6 about trip for the men In COLORADO
e Springs who owned eighty per cent Q
d the gold mines in the Cripple Cree
# district. But a stage coach had bee
e running up and over Cheyenne mour
e tain to Cripple Creek for several years
,e and it isa saying in Colorado tina
J. wherever stage coach can go raj
S road can; and so with a daring tina
b seems awful when you look at it forty
e five miles of railroad were constructe
e over the mountains to Cripple Greek
IS at q cost of SO, 600, 900, shortening tt
$. distance between the two cities on
n. half and incidently atfording tourist
IS one Of the most remarkably oneida
.s trips in this OF any other country.
se1 The Denver s. Rio Grande railroa
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