Gilpin observer., 1914-07-09
WONDER OF
THE WORLD
eILPIN couNTY's RADiUm RE-
SORT suRPAssEs CELEBRATED
SPAS OF EUROPE.

t1on OF the Humanitarian hotel and
its beautiful surroundings, for the es-
special benefit Of tourists, erected on
the old Kirk ranch in Russell Gulch,
and now one of the most noted and
, invigorating sanatoriums known to
the civilized world.
In giving our description, we based
our facts and figures upon the maps
and plans of the chief engineer, who
had reduced the time limit to min
utes, as well as actual position. So
confident was he in his calculations
that he had ordered from the Stroehle
Boiler Works at Black Hawk, a steel
funnel, ten feet in diameter at it's
base, and twenty-five feet, six inches
high, made of five-eighths inch boil
er plate of the Armourplate type. This
hood was placed over the expected
opening in the earth's crust, and se-
curely fastened down by guy rods
| (Leschen's best steeD five-e:ghths of
an inch in diameter connecting with
eye bolts imbedded fifteen feet in the
solid cliff, with two-foot globe
valve near the top of the funnel to
control pressure
The chief engineer had assured
Manager Kirk that the radio-mag-
netic-electro waters would burst
through the earth's crust at six-thir-
ty p. m. on the evening of July third.
when the sun was shedding its last
lingering rays on the pine clad dome
of Pewabic mountain.
With these assurances, the manager
had assembled the five hundred
guests of the hotel. together with a
motley throng from Russell Cullen,
Central City and other points in the
state, arrayed in ra.n-coats and high
rubber unmentionables, to protect
their gala attired forms from the eff
fervescent spray of tie healing wat
ers. And at last came the first thrill
with the throbbing and trembling
earth, vibrant with emotion that the
secrets of her mage site body should
be laid bare to the hungry eyes OF
man, and place before the vulgar
gaze of humanity the mysterious
workings of her hitherto impregnable
interior. With vicious and ominous
murmurings and mutterings of discon-
tent, the cuticle OF Mother Earth
gave way and with the deafening roar
of thousand pieces OF artillery, the
long pent up waters, pregnant with
emanations of radium, burst through
and shot heavenward in wild and riot
GUS abandon.
| The description of this scene is be-
yond the scope of man. The tremen-
dous volume of water mounted up
ward into the firmament, radiating
those irredescent colorings vieing in
beauty with those in the tail of that
proud and naughty bird of the genus
pavo cristatus, and when the water
had attained an altitude of five hun
! dred feet, it descended in graceful
curves, returning to earth in a cloud
of irredescent mist. o, the magnifi-
cence of that sight, with the tower.
ing snow-clad peaks of tie continen-
tai divide for background, with
their lofty and spectre-like eminences
! finally lost in the purple haze of the
distant horizon.
| Owing to the wide circulation OF
the Observer, the most widely known
photographers of tie age had been
attracted to the spot, and they es-
tablished themselves along points OF
vantage on Pewabic mountain, and
photographed this wondrous scene in
all its majestic grandeur. From these
photographs paintings will be made
to adorn the walls of palatial homes
all over the world. and this momen-
tous occurrence will go down into the
archives of history as the greatest
event in ancient or modern times.
After the waters had spent their
energy by dislodging the material in.
cident to the earth's crust. myriads
OF eyeless fishes were shot up from
the bowels of the earth. showing con.
clusively that the interior of the
earth abounds with subterranean
lakes and rivers. and last, but not
least. came a larger species OF the
genus homo type, that landed in the
largest pool, and proved to be the
most beautiful mermaids ever seen
by man. with the most charmingly
developed faces and bodies ever con
ceived, and painted by our most
noted masters. These mermaids, as