The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-19
COOL COLORADO.
Thousands of Tourists Drifting
There for the Summer.

I
I'VE left Waxahachie Monday
morning Junen 1, for Colorado. At
ter leaving Fort Worth, we were in
| the flooded district the balance of
the day and lost much time on this
account. At Iowa Park several
freight cars had been blown from
the track on the evening previous.
At several points water was run
ming over the tracks and for several
hours our train did not make over
| ten miles an hour. After reaching
the Panhandle proper, conditions
were greatly improved. At Amarillo
we saw Mr.. Hans Holland, who had
left Waxahachie Sunday afternoon.
| He had been delayed fourteen hours
in Iowa Park and his train was only
one hour ahead of us. The balance
of the trip through the foot hills of
eyentful and we reached Colorado
Springs about midnight Tuesday,
coming in about ten hours late. At
Texline we changed our watches
from central time to mountain time
and thus gained one hour, as we
| had to turn our watches back this
much.
Wednesday morning, we started
out to look for permanent quarters
| for the summer. We first went to
Manitou, but found everything so
unreasonably high, that this place
was out of the question. one lady
showed us a shack made with wood
en- frame covered with canvas, for
which she wanted $50 rent for the
| season. / will take the contract to
| build any number of such houses
at $40 each. Another place of three
rooms was offered us for SOS per
month, but this was also considered
exhOrbitant. The citizens do not deny
that this is unreasonable, but calmly
assure you that you have twelve
months in which to make your mon
ey while they must make enough
in three months to last them all the
year, and that they depend upon the
tourists for this amount. 1t is some
what early in the season now, but
a little later they will have no trou-
BILE getting any price they demand,
for through July and August at
least $4,000 visitors come to Colo
RADIO Springs and Manitou.
After deciding that Manitou was
out of the reason, we came back to
| Colorado Springs, and was shown
several houses by a real estate deal
err These houses contained from four
to seven rooms and rented for from
$25 up to $50. We decided upon a
| neat cottage of five rooms, nicely
furnished and located, and for this
we pay S35 per month. To this must
be added water and lights. We are
well satisfied and have settled down
for the summer. Our place is q e.
Washington street, Colorado Springs.
Thursday we went to the Rainbow
Falls. These falls are in Ute Pass,
made the climb on foot and were
well repaid for our trouble, as ma
ture has surely wrought wonderful
ly here. The path lies between tow
ering mountains and overhanging
rocks. The falls are beautiful as
they dash down over the huge gran
is shining, the spray causes beau
tiful rainbow to be shown. Truly, a
beautiful sight.
We spent one afternoon at STRAIT
ton Park, about two miles south of
Colorado Springs and at the mouth
of both North and South Cheyenne
canons. In the South Cheyenne can
on are the Seven Falls, the Pillars of
Hercules, the DEVILS Slide, Helen
Hunt Jacksons grave and several
other points of interest, which are
pointed out by the guide as you make
the ascent to the falls The water
makes seven distinct precipitations
as it dashes down the side of the
mountain. There is a stairway of
hundreds of steps which built up
the side of the mountain directly adj
jacent to the falls, and after a per-
son has mounted these steps he
views such sights as make him stop
in wonderment. To a person who has
been raised upon the prairies of
Texas it is doubly beautiful.
The weather has been ideal-a tri-
file cool at times-but it has been
such as we expected Have slept I'M
der as much cover as is ever used
in Texas through the winter, except
upon the extremely cold nights.
Pixies Peak, with its snow-capped
summit, is in plain veiw from our
cottage, and as the cool breezes come
down upon the city, it reduces the
temperature materially, and thus
gives rise to the name of Cool
Colorado"