Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-02-28
Some Resources of Colorado
Undeveloped in Idaho Springs
Our Social Advancement.

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railroad builder, philanthropist and
builder of Colorado Springs, recently said
that "the greatest commercial resource of
Colorado had not yet been developed that
of the Colorado atmosphere" While talk
ing against the building of smelters and
factories in Colorado Springs he again said
that ''the income to Colorado from her clear
and pure air, and from her mineral waters,
will soon become greater than from the
mining and agricultural resources of the
state combined"
General Grant, after drinking from our
springs said it was the greatest healing and
most refreshing water he had ever tasted.
Richard Mansfield said lately, while tour
ing the state, that every breath was worth a
cent and every view dime.
Bob Fitzsimmons says our mineral baths
are the most strengthening of any on earth.
Idaho Springs is certainly exceptionally
well located to profit from its clear and pure
air, its mineral springs and its scenic at
fractions, which are unsurpassed in the
world. Our scenery is ever changing view
of wild, weird grandeur beyond description.
The greatest word painters can only fall
down and worship in mute sensations of
beholding the sublime. One is lost as in a
dream on viewing the grandeur stretching
out in a panorama that lays around you
from Filtration park, the location of the
Bradley hotel
The Bradley mineral springs are the most
important and compose the finest qualities
of any ever discovered in Colorado. Its
medicinal qualities are said to be an absolute
cure for indigestion and dyspepsia by some
of the most prominent physicians, who make
a speciality of these disorders. There have
been many cures of these diseases by those
who have used the water
The water is most refreshing drink with
pleasing and satisfying taste to the invalid
as we'll as to the healthy. A plunge bath
in its sparkling water is to experience a
pleasant sensation long to be remembered.
The building of the Bradley hotel under
the control and management of the Blue
Ribbon company means great deal more
to Idaho Springs than can at once be rightly
or fully estimated. 1t means the starting
point to future wealth of Idaho Springs; it
means the building of a city of beautiful
homes, filled with every luxury that wealth
can buy; it means the coming of refinement
and culture and the arts of the proud and
wealthy; it means the building of other
hotels, and which will be needed; and, il
means capital for the development of our
mines and other resources. We have not
felt the influence of all these blessings only
in slight way as yet, and do not stop to
study the matter as we should, nor do we
realize some of the greater benefits as to our
social advancementS. Surely the mighty
dollar is not all there is in life.
In our eastern states many capitalist:
have built up conntry seats sourroundinf
noted watering places and in the mountains
| John R. Drexel, owner of one the finest oi
these, while on a visit to this city last yeal
I told me that could some of his friends see s
! few of the beautiful building sites for noun
| tain homes, he was convinced that many
| country places would be located here
| These capitalists would be drawn here BY
| the building of the hotel and bath hous,
as proposed.
l am certain that in a short time after it
completion it will form the "home point
to chain of tourists hotels that would b.
located at different points most attractiv,
in scenic environments the whole to be con
neCted by electric lines or boulevards suita
BILE for automobile excursions. Capitalist:
are even now looking toward building {
tourists hotel at St. Mary's lake of forty
rooms with several rustic cottages surround
ing. Loeb Lomond is being watched by
others as hotel site. Every hotel thus
built will be help rather than an injury tc
each other. There is certainly room in Idaho
Springs and in surrounding mountain parks
for twenty such hotels as proposed by Mr.
Bradley.
The building of this hotel can certainly be
credited to the enterprise of Mr.. Bradley,
The general plans suggested and adopt
ed for the hotel has been worked out after
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