The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-20

slow walk. We took dinner at
Corona, but it did not taste good
and it was said that cooking could
be but very imperfectly done at
such an altitude.
This railroad is one of the great
est pieces of engineering on this
continent. 1t has maximum
grade of 4 per cent and has SO tun
nels in IS miles. In one place 1t
makes a complete loop, crossing
it's own line after running a curva-
ture of many miles several hun
dred feet above its track below, III
its ascent up the mountain
We went from Denver to Colo
RADIO Springs, where there are prac-
tically three cities in one, as they
all join-Colorado Springs, Colo
RADIO City and Manitou-all situa-
ted at the foot of Pixies Peak,
ii 500 feet in elevation, up which
runs the famous Pixies Peak rail
road, one of the greatest cur1oslt1es
in the way of railroad construction
in the world.
Colorado Springs, as it appeared
to me, is also the most beautiful
city in the world. There live
there some IS millionalres. The
cities streets are laid out with the
principal avenues $50 feet IN width,
parks are established in the middle
of them so feet wide, some con-
tanning shade trees with shrubs
dispersed among them, while 9TH
ers only have flowers and shrubs
dotted about in irregular clusters
All of these parks have the green
est coats of grass kept in an evenly
sheared condition, making them
the most beautiful pictures that
the Landscape architect could con-
ceive. In this city full latitude
has also been given to the archl-
tect in building construction. The
residences all seem to be built for
people of vast wealth who are bent
on nothing but comfort and ease
the remainder of their lives. The
unlimited free hand in the art Of
building construction with unim-
tied means behind the architect,
has created some of the best speCi-
mems it has been my pleasure to
witness in America. There is the
bungalow, the Renaissance, the
classic and Romanesque, all treat
ed by high-class artists with the
blending of colors, all of which
makes the town, with its parks,
driveways and mountain scenery
picture that would cause the most
feeble invalid to forget himself for
hours at time
But l am talking too long about
one matter, so l will skip the Grip
Pile Creek district, where more
gold is mined than any other place
in the world, and go westward tor
more than $50 miles to the Royal
canon in Colorado, where the Ark
ansas river has cut through
mountain of rock to a depth of
1000 feet in some places, for a dis
lance of more than 20 miles. The
width of this canon in some places
is apparently not over 80 feet.
The waters which come from the
snow capped mountains above
rush down the canon with such
terrific force that it causes the on
locker to be stricken at once with
a feeling of horror and awe. On
arriving at the entrance of this
canon our party, consisting of more
than hundred passengers, was
provided with open-topped cars in
which we could be seated while
going through this never-to-be
forgotten gap. The smoke and
cinders from the two mountain
climbing locomotives which were
hitched to our train made it i'm.
possible for us to sit in those open
cars and look at the sights without
having spectacles fitted to our eyes
and faces so closely that cinder