The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-13


ten an inter ting letter to Fred Hab-
Ierman of Dellware avenue, describing
some Of the beauties of the Colorado
lsceneTy.
A portion f the letter is given be-
low:
MY wife AID / with couple oil
friends took stroll through the
South Cheyenne Canon on the Fourth
iofJuly. and if | could command the
Language, | would like to describe
the scenes IN the trip; but | am un-
able TO express my feelings, or con-
vey an idea of the grandeur Of the
masses of P'anite bordering the
stream and rUtdway through that
break in the cid Rockies. We went
up the Canol as far as the Seven
Falls, and ascerded the stairs of 276
steps to the head of tie falls, which
was a pretty good climb for old peo-
Iple, and was net accomplished with
out COUPE of rests on the way
! The water fats perhaps $50 feet in
| the seven parts of the descent, the
longest drop icing about 80 feet. After
/ luIIlNlu8 a. tur IbD VI lut ldllot We
| followed tue creek for about quart
er of a mile on up the mountain, and
luntil we found a nice place in the
shade of the mountain pines, where
we proceeia1 to cat a substantial
lunch when the ladies Of the party
had prepare for this particular oc-
casion.
After dinue~ we all took the trail
for the top of Cheyenne mountain,
and a visit to tie grave of Helen
Hunt Jackson at Inspiration Point,
where she did the most of her writ
ing and Observation Point, where
she took great pleasure in viewing the
vast plains east of the Rockies and
the nearby Ctes Of Colorado Springs,
with it's suburbs of Ivywild, and
Broadmore, and the old capitol, Color
ado City. ] am unable to describe the
beauty of the country as seen from
the above mentioned points, so If
You are not satisfied with this sketch,
you will have to come out and climb
that zig zas trail to the top of the
mountain AMI take a look for your
self.
After Teasing our eyes on the scenes
Iabove mentioned as long as our time
would permit, | proposed TO the party
that we CLIMB further mp the noun
tain to the 32uthward until we struck
the old Cripple Creek and Colorado
Springs stage road. We made the
trip after hl"j climbing and numer-
Gus rests on the way, and spent much
time en- route, gathering the many
kinds of will flowers to be seen. All
Of these are different from flowers
ION the 'lowllhds, and some are very
beautiful We saw numerous patches
of Kinnik'nicS, which the natives say
only grows a. an altitude of 1000 feet
and over. 1; looks very much like
wintergreen. : have pulled handfuls
of something which looked like Kin
nikinick while on our trip TO the
woods. | though it was wintergreen
until | taste1 it.
After we struck the old stage road
1t was easy going, being down hill
with numerous crooks and turns for
about two miles, to the street car
pavilion at the mouth of the Canon
The South canon is owned by a com.
pany whict mas placed a toll gate
across the way and charges 90 cents
for the privilege of going up to the
Seven Falls, L distance of about two
miles.
The North Canon is owned by the
city of Colorado Springs and is as
free as a park 10 walk or drive
through rha city has built fine
carriage road cor the distance of three
miles from The mouth Of the Canor
and ending lr Bruin Inn, "A nice hote
and resort Quilt in 4 rustic style o.
logs, and facing one Of the larges
falls On the stream, which makes {
very pretty picture, the water falling
almost perpe ldicularly for about q
feet, and da 'hing into white foam on
the rocks below. 1t makes so mucf
noise that conversation is difficult
when near the falls The falls hert
in the Canol is ascended by means
of a stairway of 80 or 40 steps.
There are two waterwCrks systems
Supplied from the creek in the Nortl
Canon, and with one system there II
nothing but n 10 inch pipe line laiC
in the bottom of the creek on tht
rocks, with the open end of the pipC
upstream. The force of the water il
the mains at lyywild is ample foI
fire protection, The other, or Broad
more system, has a cement dam across
the creek, Which forms a reservoir
about 20 feet across at the dam, abou
; 100 feet long and from one to eigh
feet deep. About half way up tn
North Canon is found one of the fines
springs of clear cold water eve
saw The er comes from under
mass of sranite about 200 feet higt
and flows about as fast as from
, three-inch pipe. At another point o
the way up the Canon, there is see
: a nice waterfall coming over mich
in the mountain wall about 800 fee
> from the stream below. 1t at first fall