The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-04
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city IN America. Aslue rum the III
portance of the big convention, it will
be a place to Wis, because of the
opportunity for a general vacation.
.;ixty bands have been engaged to
furnish music In all parts of the city.
Excursions will be conducted every
day by the railroads that have lines
into the mountains. good cheer will
be in the air. and men and women of
national and world renown will be
upon the scene This city will be
the center of the national stage at
that time. Whether the candidates
nominated in the big auditorium are
elected or not. they will be an i'm
portant factor in the nations affairs
for months following, and all who
visit Denver ON that memorable &C.
easion will be glad that they spent
their vacation in the shadows of the
Rocky mountains.
Elaborate preparations are under
way to entertain the delegates and
alternates that attend the convention.
They will be given an opportunity to
visit all points of scenic interest in
the state. they will be banqueted-
in fact. forms of entertainment TOO
numerous TO mention will he present
ed on all sides.
Meet me at Denver, a mile high,
and in the shadows of the Rocky
mountains" is a call that has gone
forth all over the land
Visitors are astonished when they
make their first journey over a
mountain railroad in Colorado.
They marvel at the manner in which
the long trains of coaches climb steep
grades, skirt the edges of precipices,
rumble through dark tunnels, dash
down veritable toboggan slides of
smooth steel rails and plunge into
the depths of canons, the sides of
which are solid, perpendicular walls
OF unbroken rock. Railroad men
who are used to operating trains on
level ground or in country that is
lust hilly.. hold their breath when
they are riding on trains in the
mountains of Colorado, and they are
frank in their admissions TO the
trainmen. whose guests they usually
are, that Colorado trainmen know
more about operating railway trains
under difficulties than any other rail-
road men on earth.
Under the head of one-day trips
out of Denver the visitor will find
enough diversion for nearly a week.
BY way of a beginning, the famous
Georgetown Loop and Gray's Peak
trip is mentioned. The Loop is a
difficult piece of railroad engineering
on the Colorado & Southern Rail-
way. between Georgetown and Silver
Plume, two noted silver mining
camps The trail winds back and
forth in a great mountain canyon.
always with the view of ascending
higher and higher to reach the top
of the mountains. The track crosses !
Clear Creek eighteen times, and
finally spans the stream on bridge
80 feet high. The two mining towns
are only one mile apart by wagon
road and four miles by rail Silver
Plume rests at an altitude of 9176
feet above the sea.
At Silver Plume the traveller climbs
aboard the train on the Argentine
Central to journey TO the summit of
Mount Mcclellan, .007 feet high,
and to visit the ice Palace,
wonderful formation of crystals in a
cavern in the rocks. These crystals
sparkle like millions of diamonds
under the rays of electric lights that
have been installed in the Palace.
This is the land of perpetual snow.
Another branch of the Colorado &
Southern takes one to the famous
mining camps of Central City and
Black Hawk. the scene of the first
big gold strike in Colorado in 1863.
In a special observation trolley car
one may make the trip to Golden, a
pretty little city in the foothills, IL
miles from Denver. Golden was the
first capital of Colorado and is the
home of the Colorado School of
Mines.
NEW RAILROAD SCENERY.
The "Moffat" road also takes one
into the land of perpetual snow on
top of the Continental Divide. This
is a new railroad that is pushing
through an "undeveloped empire" in
northwestern Colorado, and on TO
Salt Lake City and the Pacific Coast.
The scenes on this road beggar de-
scription. The traveller may enjoy a
one-day trip on this line to the top of
the Divide, or spend two days and
journey into Middle Park and see
one of the greatest agricultural
parks in the world.
Boulder. the home of the State
University, can be visited in one day
This little city is situated in the
foothills about forty miles from
Denver. BY devoting an extra day to
sightseeing. the visitor may travel
on to Longmount, Loveland. Fort
Collins and Greeley. beet sugar fac
tory towns in the heart of the farm
ing district of northern Colorado, the
largest body of land under irrigation
in the world. This is called the
Horn trip. and is a branch of the
Colorado 4 Southern Railway.
The Burlington Railway has
road to Lyons, a busy town not far
from Longs Peak, where one of The
largest stone quarries in the state is
located. From Lyons one may travel
by stage to Estes Peak. which lies in
the shadow of Longs Peak.
The Union Pacific runs through