Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-07-16
From Colorado Springs, Colo.

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of my trip. SO here goes.
Nothing of interest occurred until
| reached Kansas City. The Mis-
souri, river was on rampage, and
the part of the town that wasn't
under water was pretty wet-if it
was Sunday. guess it would
have required several lids and more
than one Folk and Wallace to keep
out the dampncss.
There | caught IL Santa Fe train
to Denver, but on account of high
water in Kansas | couldn't take the
direct line to la Junta, but was
switched onto the southern route,
across Oklahoma and into New
Mexico, circunbendibus of about
1900 miles.
| saw some fine country. especial
ly in southern Kansas and Okla
homa, but that part of Kansas that
wasn't under water is too poor to
produce II disturbance. There were
thousands of acres of wheat. ready
to harvest, standing in water up to
the heads Of gram, while fields that
might have been in corn would
have made fine duck ponds. They
i 1
east Missouri only for the fact that
the cypress knees and sweetgums
were missing.
| pom aWaking next morning |
bcheld Il broad eXpansc Of prairie,
instead Of water, and burned to II
crisp by the sun, with here and
there an adobe shack, the one-time
home Of some sheep hcrder, now
in ruins.
asked the porter where we we've
and was told that | was in New
Mexico. was not very much i'm
pressed with that territory, and Il
fellow passenger told me was see
in. the best part of it. | see that
the Republican National convention
recommended that it be admitted
to statehood. They must be tigur-
ING on few electoral votes from
the land Of cactus, sand hills and
"greaScrs.'
A few hours run brought us to
Colorado. | think | recognized the
change without telling, for the land
looked better, the people take some
pride in their homes, the sheep
ranches and 'dObe huts giving way
to irrigated farms, with the grain as
green as if they had rain every day,
instead Of every six months, as is
sometimes the case, especially in
that part of the state,
Soon we were speeding thru the
cattle ranch country, and one could
see thousands Of head of cattle
grazing on the open prairie. West
of us were two snow-capped noun
tains which, by consulting the rail
road map, | found were the twin
sisters, or Spanish peaks. They
looked to be real close, while in
reality they were miles away.
Our next important stop was at
Pueblo, which, by the way, is one
Of the best towns in Colorado. The
huge smelters, employing thousands
of men, may be seen from the Santa
Fe train. The city has popula'
ton of 10000, and Is a great point
for tourists, about 10000 stopping
there last year.
After leaving Pueblo l obtained
my first view of Pixies Peak. There
was not much snow on the summit
and at distance of forty miles il
looked like a blue cloud, but as we
came nearer it was plainly outlined
until one could distinguish the tim
ber line and the signal station. Thi:
mountain, although one of the mos
famous, is not the highest. There
are eighty taller peaks in Colorado
but the Pixies Peakers think the,
have the only genuine specimen 0
"a big mountain to be found on tn
map.
After about two hours run from
Puebla our train pulled up at Colo
RADIO Springs, the mecca of tourists
located on the plains, six miles from