The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-08-02
COLORADO
The Haven of Health and
Land of Wealth.


the air is so pure that it is a plea,
sure to breathe the breezes. A
piece of fresh meat hung from a
tree in the woods will not spoil or
decay, so purifying is the atmos-
phere. Baraboo is situated about
889 feet above the sea while Denver
is 5, 1873 feet; Colorado Springs is
5,992; Manitou is 6,318; Cripple
Greek is 1896 and Leadville is
10000. By the time you get to the
top of Pixies Peak you are up
IA, l47 and there are % other rocky
projectionsin in the state that scrape
the sky at a dizzier altitude.
The top of Pixies Peak is of al
most everlasting snow and so cold
is the temperature that plants and
animals in the wild state can not
exist. Water boils at 184 degrees
instead of PIP and so low is the
boiling point that some things can
not be cooked by placing them in
hot water. To gain the top one
can walk if he has good steppers,
can ride burro if he has the pa
tience and can go on the railroad
with cog wheels if he has the price.
When once on the top there is a
range of vision of $4,000 square
miles and a panorama said to sur
pass any view in the Alps. When
some people GO up their heart is
effected, others bleed at the nose
and still others become very dizzy.
In 1906 Mai. Pike went halfway up
wrote about it and since then it
has been pixies Peak or Bust"
Full of Holes.
The valleys and mountain sides
all over Colorado are full of holes
made by the prospectors for gold.
AS you ride along the mountain
railway heaps of earth and rock
tell you that some adventurer for
gold or silver has spent days and
weeks endeavOring to find hidden
store. A few did become kings of
wealth and then not content with
their success made a plunge for
still greater gain and in overleap-
ing lost it all. In Denver, Colora
do Springs, and the other cities
they will point out these derelicts
of specula tion and mining adventure
who have known better days.
New discoveries of rich ore are
being constantly made. Only re-
Gently some prospector found a
rich bed of ore underneath the city of
Leadville and the find is yielding
! So, 600 per day. A diamond drill
went down 800 feet and there was
wealth which is bringing to the
owner vast riches and many luXur-
les.
| At one time gold was washed
from the beds of the streams but
now great hills of low grade ore are
being crushed and washed for the
precious metals.
Not all Gold.
The wealth of Colorado is not all
gold. The Colorado crops are richer
than the mines. You see in the
Centennial state that riches are
found not only in the earth but on
the earth. In 1894 the amount OF
gold produced was $28, 151, 646 while
the farms including dairying and
poultry, yielding $43,934, 264. In
the same year the coal mined was
$11.851,O0O the live stock sold
amounted to $11, 400, 900. Comparison
with other products would show
that riches are pouring forth from
the hills and soil beyond all dreams
in Colorado.
Scenery.
There are some gorgeous views in
the mountains of the state. Go
| from Denver to Salt Lake over the
Denver & Rio Grande and see the
mighty chasms and cloud capped
pinnacles. The rivers along the
track hurry eternally on, working
for a miner here, making sugar
there and irrigatiug plain yonder
At some points the road is built
on the side of the mountain, anc
the engineering skill displayed L
marvellous in the results accomplish