The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-01
"a TRAMP ABROAD"
Interesting Letter from MIR. August
j. Rehbein.
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Leaving Ogden we pass through
Echo canyon, with its walls from
! five hundred to eight hundred feet
high, with it's weird and striking
rock formations, and follow the
Webber river. There to our right
across the stream, out from the red
soil rises two dazzling walls of
white rock, forty feet high, twenty
feet apart, from the brink of the
cliff to the waters of the Webber
river, at an angle of 40 degrees.
They are called the Devels slide,
and so all along for some distance,
we saw turrets and domes of gray
and red stones. Then we came to
Battlement Rock, huge rock that
made us think of our own Irving
Cliff. | guessed its height to be
about 400 feet; Prof. Clark thought
| 500 or more; a gentleman at the
station told us it was 1900 feet
high, showing how easily we can be
deceived in distances and heights
| in this clear, dry, high altitude. We
pass on to Granger, Wyoming, where
the Oregon Short Line from Port
land, Seattle and Spokane connects
with the main line of the Union Pa
cific Railroad. Soon Green River is
reached, a place made noted by
their finding in the shale, fossil fish,
insects and skeletons of huge an
cient monsters. We pass Rock
Springs, the greatest coal mining
town in the west, and go through
the divide, down into Rawlins, nam
ed after President Grants Secretary
| of War. Here we cross the North
| Platte river and at nine o'clock We
are at Hanna. another coal mining
town. All this day we have been
travelling over high plateau, at an
elevation of over four thousand feet
above sea level. We pass Laramie
and during the night our car is
switched from the main line of the
U. p. R. R. at Cheyenne to the Den
yer branch. At $40 the next
morning, twenty minutes late, We
are at Denver, Colorado. We en-
gage our room at the Albany Hotel
and leave at once via. ID. and R. G..
R. r. for Colorado Springs. This
run of seventy-tour miles is in sight
of gorgeous array of the lofty
monarchs of the Rockies. Longs,
Gays. Torrey's, Pixies and the
Spanish Peaks all are in plain view.
To our left we pass Castle Rocks,
/ the Elephant rock and Palmer Lake.
At | | O'Clock we are at our destina-
! ton
( Colorado Springs is an attractive
| city and is probably the best known
of the ll-the-year-round pleasure
and health resorts of Colorado.
| They have one Of the finest hotels
/ in the country, "The Antler." Al
! ter lunch. street car took us to
| StrattOn Park, where a carriage
| took us for Il trip through South
| Cheyenne Canyo2, passing the Pill
| lars of Hercules, ii feet apart and
| $40 and 100 feet high, to the foot
| OF the seven falls. We climbed the
stops leading to the top of the
falls 23S feet high,
We next 90 by trolley through
/ Colorado City, first capital OF the
| state, on TO Nanitou, which nc5tlcs
| at tho base Of Pixies Peak at an al
| titude Of 6,324 feet. ManiCou is
| famous for it's mineral springs, OF
, which there are ten. We cook a
/ drink from its celebrated soda
| springs. Here VIC hired carriage
and drove through the Garden of
| tho Gods where the awful forces Of
nature have played strange pranks
with the rocks. High on the right
as We approach the entrance is the
Frog, ON The same side, fifty yards
above lies the Sea Lion, and a short
distance beyond that are the heaps
OF piled and tumblcd rectangular
rocks known as the Baggage Room.
Thirty yards beyond this and on the
left, stand the Toad and ToadsIools
sometimes called the Mushrooms
AS We proceed up the road, we see
the Chinese Temple, the Porcupine
and Antoater, the old Mans Wine
cellar and the Balanced Rock
Twenty feet away stands Steamboat
Rock. We passed through the
| curio store and ascended to the up
per deck and by the use of the tele-
| scopes could see many points of in
| terest, among which was the Sum-
NIT House on Pixies Peak. We
continue our drive, passing the three
graces and the huge red rocks that
constitute the eastern entrance of
! the Garden. Our drive brings us
| back to Manitou. We return to
Colorado Springs and to Denver,
where we spend the evening looking
about the city.
Denver, the capital of Colorado,
and the metropolis of the middle
west, is situated fourteen miles east
of the base of the snowy or frost
range of the Rocky Mountains, at
an altitude of $40 feet above sea
level The city is built almost eX-
clusively of brick, stone, concrete
and steel, has we'll built solid busi-
ness blocks, fine public buildings
and parks, siXty-one graded schools,
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