The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-12-30
News Boosts Roads.

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th- Rocky Mountain News of Denver
last Sunday. Mr. Eaton spent q day
here looking over conditions and EXPIRE
sed his observations aud impression in
q way that 10 very complimentary to the
zeal of our people.
"Ask any man III Idaho Spring.
about the good roads movement here
for transcontinenta' line through
Idaho Springs, and the substance OF
bis answer will be:
OF course Idaho Springs will ben
eft. but it is really more to the inter
est OF Denver. Denver now stands to
be left of transcontinentsl automo
bile road through Colorado We Of
Ter a road that needs little work. and
which is already passable for autos
direct from Denver, and it is ihe
shortest route and Que OF scenic splen
dor. 1t Ia up to D,nver now. ii Den-
yer wants TO be on the transcontiuen
tai road. Denver is now the end OF
the road from Omaha and one from
Kansas City Does Denver want a
through road?
We now have road open between
Denver and Grand Junction, and we
havs rebuilt the FLOYD Hill road, and
with a few more thousands Of dollars
wa can make this road the greatest in
the country We want Denver to
awaken to the possibilities Of this:road; !;
to this road that makes Denver the
base OF p,lgrimages OF the tourist, aud
the starting and ending point OF the
transcontiuental road through Colora
do.
The proposed road is scenicaliy,one
of the grandest in the world. 1t reall.
begins at 6 ,ldeu, The road will
here climb up into the mountains,
passing the huge IN" So familiar to
people, on over Lookout mountains all
on 5 per cent grade, and connect
with the "Idabo Springs Way in
Mount sysrnon canon, in Clear Greek
county. Jefferson county has con
tr;buted S8 600, the highway COM
mlssi on 5000 and the citizens $1,000
for this part of the road. The Idaho
Springs people have built the road
up to where il met bv the Golden
road. The road is OVER the noun
tains, with sweeping views OF the
plains, of views that extend far into
Wyoming, into New Mexico, with a
hundred towering peaks lifting their
hoary heads into the clouds, and with
the whole Rocky Mountain range
spread out in a great tumhled mass.
From the Floyd Hill station the
road creeps along Clear Creek canon
into Idaho Springs From here ii
follows the windings of the canon in
to Idaho Springs, and then plunges
up the summit of Berthoud Pass,
Here, once more, has the Idaho
Springs spirit manifested itself--aud
through the county commissioners
The dreaded Blue hill has been elm
mated by a new road, SO the climb to
the sumit of Berthoud is easy.
From the summit of Berthoud Pass
to Spruce Lodge, on the Pacific ocean
side OF the Rockies, is four miles.
1t is thirty four miles from Denver
to Idaho Springs. 1t it fifty four
miles from Denver to Spruce Lodge,
The fisherman in his automobile ca
leave Denver at o'clock in the morn
ing, and go to the head of Fracier
river on the western slope, arrive there
little after eight O'Clock, fish all day
in the worlds greatest fishing stream,
leave at four o'clock in the afternoon,
be home for dinner at O'Clock, and
90 to one OF the summer resorts or to
Eliches for the evening performance.
The Pacific slope OF the Rockies by
auto is three hours from Denver-the
time it takes to go to Colorado Springs.
From Spruce lodge to Sulphur
Springs and Kremmling there is
splendid road. Then onward there
are two routes under consideration.
The first is the old stage road up the
Muddy to Pass creek, along Pass
creek and over the Gore mountains to
Tonopas, and on to Yama and Steam
boat Springs, through Hayden and
Craig, and to Meeker to connect with
with the stage road between Meeker
and Rifle, while at Rifle the main
auto road to Grand junction is
reached. The second is from Krem-
ling I'D the Blue to Colorow into the
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