The Glenwood post., 1907-08-03
sHosHONE ROAD IN GOOD SHAPE
(BY H. q. ovERBECK.)

spell, or they did not know whereof
they spoke.
There are parts of the road on which
little repair work could well be done,
not because it is needed to make this
beautiful driveway passable, but be-
cause it would make it the most com
Portable road in this part of the state
for a pleasure trip. But to intimate
that the road is in dangerous or i'm
passab1e condition is most erroneous,
dition as it ever has been.
A trip over the road yesterday show
ed that the upper part from Grizzly to
Shoshone, is in excellent shape; better
than it has been since the road was
opened. Undoubtedly this is due to the
care given by the Central Colorado
Power company, for necessarily they
find it advantageous to have a good
road for their teams in hauling supplies
up and down the two miles over which
the work is now spread out.
The only really bad stretch is along
the lower side of the Broughton ranch
at Grizzly creek, over the substitute
for road which was constructed when
the upper part of the road was shut
off. This is rocky, and one has to drive
slowly to avoid being Jared out of
the rig by the sharps rocks covcrd by
loose sand from the river bottom which
was used as a top dressing. Another
poor spot is deep chuck hole this side
of the Broughton place, where the
river washed in an eddy during the
high water, and made a pool which is
still full of water and in which the
wheels sink on one side to depth of
IS inches A load OF small stone dump
ed in this place would suffice to put it
in good shape.
One abuse, which might well be
looked into, is in existence in the
space at the opening of Dead Horse
| Gulch. This formerly beautiful grove
has been almost entirely cut away, and
the place seems to have become a camp
ground without any sewerage system.
A round dozen tents are located close
together, and down by the rivers edge
there is a pig sty that smells to
somewhere. Not content with this,
some one has dumped mass of offal
from the road into the river just around
the bend from this camp site, that also
smells-up and down the road, for a
hundred yards, and, in fact, for over
II half mile above this place there is
a succession of disagreeable odors en-
tirely foreign to such a beautiful loca-
tion.
| The people who are occupying this
camp are not connected with the power
company, but are located some distance
above the company's camp, which ends
below the Shoshone station. The power
companvs' camp seems to be unusually
well policed with regard to sanitation,
for the place is as clean as the original
ground although there are now over 600
men employed on the work.
The offensive odors mentioned above
are not encountered unless one goes to
the Gulch and above, and an ordinary
| sight seing tour to Shoshone will not
bring the tourist within reach of this
nuisance.
The Gulch is being improved with
wagon road toward the direction of the
Hanging Lake This is not yet in
state where it can be used except by
persons on foot, but it opens up a
number of unsuspectcd attractions in
the Clutch. One of the prettiest Of these
is natural bridge behind which there
is a waterfall of probably ten feet in
height, and back of that succession Of
shorter falls, the water from which
flows through the natural stone arch.
Another thing of great interest was
fossil bank, which was opened up,
and showed distinct petrefaction of a
great tree, the rings of the original
timber being well shown in the calcere-
Gus deposit.
1t is reported that at the far end of
the canon there is a place which was
washed out entirely by high water this
spring. but this is almost entirely dry
now, and could be repaired at a small
expense. A rig which was abandoned
in the place referred to, by party of
Glenwood fishermen, was recovered yes
terday by Billy Richards, who made
trip up there for the purpose This
place probably would interfere with
anyone contemplating a through trip
by way Of the canon, but it is several
miles farther up than any point us.
ually reached by parties going out for
merely sightseeing purposes.