The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-18
Letter From The West
CoLoRApo SpR1Nes, Cor

Mr.. ED1roR:-T Thinking your
many readers would enjoy short
history Of this great health resort
oity, / send you short history
Colorado Springs is 80 years old,
with population of 10000; six
railroads enter the oity on their
own trscks. The direct lines to
the E4et are the Rook leland and
the Santa Fe; to the West, the
Denver and Rio Grande and Mid.
land; to the North and South, the
Colorado and Southern. The Short
Line-The Colorado Syringe and
Cripple Greek District railroad is
largely Colorado Springs iustitu-
tion. having been financed by Col-
orado Springs capitalists that an
efiaieni @ilet be provided for the
produbts of the great gold mines
of the Cripple Greek district. By
the Missouri Pacific, also, through
trains are run into the oity over
the trsoks of the Denver and Rio
Grande No fewer than fifty pass
enger trains enter and depart each
day; this number being easily
doubled in the GUNNER months
when the tourist travel is at it's
height More than 60 600 tourists
visited this oity last summer. There
are forty organized churches of
different denominations. The
ohuroh property is valued at about
S74O,OOO TIE population being
30 600, if we subtract 6.OO0 ohil
dren who are too young to be
ohuroh members, of the % 600 re-
naming it appears that $4,000. or
about one. half, are ohnroh men,
bers; remarkable showing. There
are ITO automobiles owned in the
oity in addition to the oars owned
by residents here. There are oon-
stantly several d zen in the oity
that have been brought by owners
who are stopping here temporarily
in search of health or pleasure. 1t
is not an unusual spectacle to see
nearly double the number of ma
chimes owned hero, on the streets
and drives surrounding the oity.
In addition to the automobiles,
there are 81 motorcycles in oom-
mission The estimated value of
all motor machines in the oity is
$500 900
Tue Uuion Printers Home was
built here, and in the years follow
ing il has grown into an institu
ton that commands the respect of
the world. It is source of solace
for the tflioted printers, and is
pointed to with pride by the resi-
dents of Colorado Syringe. The
Union Printers Home is being
followed by other organizations
in euoh measure that it is safe to
prophecy that within few years
the Pixies Peak region will contain
more national homes than any
other oity of its size in the world.
Within the next year a start will
be made on what promises to be
the greatest institution of it's kind
in the world-the new home and
sanitarium of the Modern Wood.
men of America, They have al
ready acquired site embracing
600 acres and building will be.
gin in a short time. The Odd Eel.
lows of the State have chosen Ool-
orado Springs for the location of
their State Home. This will be
an institution worthy of the great
Order that maintains it.
The colleges of this oity have an
enrolment of 500 students; have
15 buildings, which represents an
Investment of 81 100000.
This city is situated on plateau
over mile above sea level, The
summit of the Peak is nearly two
miles higher than the town.
The oity owns and controls eight
large parks with an area of 1 l,979
acres, and the oity has 1l2 miles
of streets and avenues 100 and 14O
feet in width, respectively, and Sd
miles of alleys. which bring total
breathing epaoe of the oity to ap-
proximately 5000 aores. Water
clear as crystal, oold as ioe and
absolutely pure is supplied by the
O ty from lakes and reservoirs near
the summit of Pixies Peak.
Yours respectfully,
. r. CLENDENIN,