The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-06-27
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DEE ldIlHeI- lOldpdn, NEVADA, Is my
next stop.
Preached Salt Lake City, more than
$500 miles from Oakland, at D. m.
today. The trip from Denver must be
taken to be appreciated as the English
language fails in adjectives to describe
the scenery. Jehovah has surely here
wrought with Titanic force and while
we stand in mute admiration of his
handiwork we must likewise greatly
marvel at the skill with which man has
here done his part. Hardly a moment
of the more than twenty-four hours
consumed in the journey over the Colo
RADIO Midland railroad were we out of
sight of the SUBMITS of the Rockies,
covered with perpetual snow, more
than forty peaks of which rise to an
altitude of 1000 feet or more
| was greatly surprised to learn that
the city of Leadville, the greatest min
ing camp in the world in point of gross
production to date wiz. 1925, 900, 900, al
though Cripple Creeks annual output
is now greater) is 10000 feet above the
sea and only few feet lower than Alt
man.
Mt. Massive, the highest point in the
state, 226 feet higher than Pixies Peak, is
near to Leadville. A few miles farther
on we passed the highest artificial lake
in the world, the great reservoir which
contains six billion gallons of water for
use in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Works
at Pueblo $50 miles away and owned by
John w. Gates and his associates.
We are fast approaching the highest
point of the railroad and we stop at
lvanhoe after passing though Busk tur-
mel over two miles long, with 1900 feet
of the mountain above our head and
the passenger get out and engage in a
genuine game of snow ball on one side
of the train and pick mountain flowers
in full bloom on the other We are
1894 feet above sea level and the
waters at our feet flow to the Pacific.
As darkness is coming on, will men
ton but two or three more items of in
terests which we pass. He'll Gate is
considered one of the most magnificent
view in the world, a rugged chasm in
the mountain with cliffs 1000 feet sheer
descent. The train goes around four
teen miles in order to descend one-half
mile.
Back several miles from the main
line on branch at Aspen, are the two
richest silver mines in the world the
Smuggler and the Mollie Gibson.
Glenwood Springs is a great summer
resort, boasts of a bath house costing
half million dollars; the swimming
pool is 10 feet by 700 feet and all warm
water
We pass through a little town called
Palisade with worldwide reputation
for fruit raising. The belt is two miles
wide and less than five miles long and
land in it is worth 81, 400 per acre. A
gentleman who lives in it told me that
a person could buy a farm here and
raise enough peaches and apples in
three or four years to pay for it. Big
story! The westerners are all "boos-
ters"-no knockers to be found any
where.
All kinds of country are traversed in
the descent into Salt Lake City-sage
bush plains, badlands, alkali bottoms,
stock ranches, the fidest alfalsa farms.
1t is surprising what thousands and
millions of acres of land this great coun-
try contains, absolutely unoccupied,
much of which needs only water. Water
is the great fertilizer of the west, moth
grows without it and everything, in an
abundance absolutely incrediable to the
eastern man, grows with it. This is
the land of the irrigation canal and
both the federal government and pri-
vate corporations are today spending
millions today in their construction.
The Salt Lake Valley is beautiful one,
surrounded by snow capped mountains
and growing fruit and farm products in
the greatest profusion and abundance.
U. G. PALMER.