The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-09-07
INNOCENCE VISITS WYOMING.

eteu through OOA0TAQO into Wy0-i
ming, Manitou, Colorado City and
Colorado Springs are practically one
city. 1t is about six miles through
them and it is almost one solid row
of houses all the way through. Col
orado Springs Is larger than both
the others put together and although
all the mineral springs are at Mani
tou just as many visitors stop at
Colorado Springs as do at Manitou.
The water at Colorado Springs is
piped from away up in the mountains
from lake on the side OF Pixies
Peak. 1t is melted snow, as clear
as crystal and ! rarely ever see
ice put in the water here. The city
of Manitau extends for a mile up
and down a canyon, and at the upper
end of thescity starts the cog railroad
that runs to the top of Pixies Peak, a
distance of six miles. Pixies Peak is
II, l47 feet above the sea level.
have not yet ventured up there, but
myself and better half stood at the cog
road depot the other day and witness
ed three coach loads OF people get off
who had made the trip to the top.
Some few people get dizzy up there,
others noses bleed, but the great
majority hugely enjoy the scenery,
snow and pure air of the peak. The
trip costs five dollars and the road
is kept busy at this season OF the
year when thou sands are here from
every state in the union. We figur-
ed the other day that this road mu st
, have taken in from 5000 to $500 tba at
day. The cars are shaped like any
other cars except that they are low
er and the road has a middle rail
e This is the cogged rail and the Ell.
CINE has attached TO it heavy cogs
. that fit into the cogs OF the rail
The engine is not attached 10 the
cars by couplings, but simply push
"a es the cars up the track so that j.
an accident should happen to The
. engine the brakes could be set on
, the cars and the engine allowed {,
20. This wonderful road has beer
: built fifteen or twenty years anc
only one engine has run away il
that time In this instance the ca
was stopped, the engineer jumped
y of and the engine plunged down tht
~ mountain into a gorge two thou sane
n feet below the track. where. IL il
) said, it still lies.
/ This Rocky Mountain range run,
. almost north and south through
+, Colorado and it is about fifty mile,
] across it, The mountains are ful
. although it has been more than fifty
years since the first gold and silye,
and coal mines were opened, pros
t pectors now, each and every week
are making new discoveries Of The
precious metals. The hardy prospec
tor takes little burro, loads on l.
him little bacon and beans, flour
and coffee and taking his pick he
F. drives his little loaded burro ahead
n him into the mountains, and or
some bench on the mountains he
Z topples his burro, strikes camp and
9 goes with his pick in search of gold
! Since we have been up here several
rich strikes have been made. When
this hardy prOspector strikes a lie az
. men of money furnish him means Ia
2 blast into the rock and prove its
20 richness. ! saw one man recently
| hn -
So 900 for one OF his claims which
he lad just discovered. The pur.
chaser showed me piece OF rock
but little larger than my two fists
which contained $3.50 in gold. He
said there were millions in this
! mine and he was working thirty OF
forty men, taking out the ricn rock
which is packed on burros, or else
wagon road is built to the mine,
J and the ore is hauled To smelt ell
, whore the rock is ground up and the
gold separated from it.
Denver, the capitol of Colorado is
twenty-nine miles north OF Manitou
) and Is city Of nearly 2O0, 900 people
r 1t is one Of the prettiest and richest
cities on the continent. MIR. ellis,
son, the general passenger agent AT
Fort Worth, gave us ticket only 10
Boulder, nifty miles north OF Den
Yer. Up here / read of a roping and
riding contest with Indians and COW
boys 10 come off at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
81 on the 20, p and 18th of August. Mr..
Fisher Is the passenger agent of the
Fort Worth Il Denver, at Denver
and as soon as We got to Denver /
IN ade for Mr. Fishers office. | was
holsted in an elevator to the top OF
a nine-story building. Once up
there | showed him my Texas tick
~ and when he looked at 1t he knew
! was newspaper man from Texas.
1 told him l wanted that ticket ex-
tended 10 Cheyenne, il be pleased
and he smiled and said, Innocence
Abroad, j cannot send you to Chey-
enne, but will put you into Greeley
as far as my road goes, and there
you Will have TO take the Union Pa.
eitic." / thanked him and three
minutes later | had ticket in my
pocket 20 Greeley. How Mr.. Fisher
the ger eral Iasseuger agent, way up
p here In Colorado, knew my newspE-
per name / DO not yet know. He
treated rDa uipalv the few mo mani :