Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-11-07
DARABOO VETERANS
CROSS MOUNT A|NS

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no description of the country
east of the mountains would
be of interest. 1t is simply one vast
corn field. We left Chicago at 10 p.
m. on the 10th and arrived at D,nvel
at daylight on the 18th. After leav.
ing Denver we began to climb the
Rockies. There was nice young man
on the train who seemed to have no
other business but to explain all the
points of interest and tell all he knew
and some things we thought he di int
know about the wonderful mountain
scenery. The first thing be called our at
tention to W as the Elephant rocks. We
could imagine that they looked very
much like Ringlings whole herd of
elephants, riders and all, at least they
were about the color of elephants, but
the riders were not dressed for parade.
They had not put their red coats on,
! looked as if they were on a strike and
didn't intend to parad,. The nice
young man Informed US that they
keep them here ali the year around
just for tourists to look at.
Porter Gould Eat Them.
The scenery all along the route is
very fine, and the nice young man
had pictures 10 sell of all the points of
interest and of some of the points
without interest. Colorado Springs is
a nice hole in the Rockies. They keep
The springs here all the time and
claim TO have river. We asked to
see them and were shown good place
for river and was informed there is
water there sometimes in some places;
but We could see nothing but sand and
inquired if they could irrigate with
sand, was Informed that they could
when it is wet. The G .rd IN of the
Gods is located here but owing to
strike last year they are not cultivat-
ing the Gardens now. We did not
see the Gardens but saw Pixies Peak.
1t looked cold ana clamy. We wanted
10 go over to it but the train would
not wait for us. They have some
thing that looks like Jacobs Ladder
up there that they must use when
they want to climb up out of the
snow. We could see no other use
they bad for it.
We found Canon City above the
clouds so we were told but as we could
see no clouds balow us we did not
take much stock in the cloud business.
We got some apples that were said to
have been grown above the clouds.
They were very fair to look upon but
did not taste any better than apples
grown below the clouds. We could
not eat them, but the porter could eat
anything.
Found Where Devils Lake Bluffs
Came From.
The Royal gorge is the grandest
point of interest on the whole route.
AS we approached it we were invited
to the left side of the train so as 10
learn how to get into the gorge and
we think most of us learned some
thing about it. We were told the
gorge was named after man named
ROYAL who manufactured this as well
as many other gorges throughout tue
mountain region. We were also told,
that here is where they got the Devils
Lake bluffs and that old Royal still
has claim on them. We do not
know how valid his claim may be, but
we imagine it is about like the
claim of the Canister GO. We were
informed that old Royal was willing
to move the " hole gorge to Devils lake
but the state park board would only
give him a lease OF so years, the same
as they gave those who have cottages
there. The walls of Royal gorge are
said to be ten tn ousand feet high. AS
we didn't have time TO measure them
we accepted the statement but intend
to measure them some time in the
near future.
Tried to Kill Fish in River.
Our train stopped in the gorge
about two hours. 1t is said they
pulled draw blr-out and had to
make another. The passengers got
out of the cars and filled themselves
with views of the gorge and tried to
kill all the fish in the creek by throw
ing stones at them. After passing
through the gorge we arrived at the
top of the world, where the railroad
! track is 1925 feet up and the noun
tains on all sides are several thousand
feet higher. We did not try to see any
of the world except the top, was afraid
we might fall off if we ventured too
near the edge. We bought q picture