The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-07-20
Colorado Letter.
Strasburg. Colo.

Strasburg, Colo, July 7th.
Dear Folks-This is the third time
have started to write you since l
came back from the mountains. Lois
| is not feeling as we'll today, as COM
mon, but nothing serious at all. Don
| is building a porch and she helped
| him and it tired her. How are you
feeling. We have been looking for
letter but have failed to get it. The
letter you sent Lois was taken to
Andy's and she did not get it until
Sunday We left home Monday even
! ing about and reached Denver
| about Z, ate our lunch at the city
| park and then went to hotel and
engaged our rooms and went to the
! show. We left Denver about in the
| morning and went to Golden. 1t is a
small place in the mountain. Here
Don and Glen Huston 1--WE went with
| him) hired a big steam car for Idaho
Springs in the mountains. We had
hardly started up the train until Lois
began to notice the change in the alti-
tude. When we had reached the ele-
walton of about 500 feet we saw
forest fire along Clear Creek Canyon.
We went along some places that
made us hold our breath, running
along path just barely wide enough
for car to go, and we could look
over on one side and not see the top
and then look down on the other side
and see hundreds of feet below U.S.
We reached the summit of Mt. Look
Out about noon. This mountain is
about 1900 feet above sea level
There is cafe and an artificial lake
which supplies Golden with noun
tain water. l do not like the water,
it is so much mineral. At Mt. Look
Out the boys got lunch and then we
started on. At the foot of noun
tain there was little church and a
graveyard and you could not see
house of any description any place.
About half way up between Golden
and Idaho Springs there is noun
tain called Mt. Genesee, which has
nothing on the summit but big
American flag. Glen Huston took his
camera along and took l 4 pictures. In
one his sister-in-law and l were stand
ing on projecting rock. And it was
when | began to climb the mountain
that 1 noticed the difference in the
altitude. / could scarcely see the
top of it. / have some rocks which
l picked up while there. We were up
so high that Glen looked like little
boy Another place was out in the
middle of Clear Creek Canyon on a
big rock and 1 was mighty glad to
get back. We reached Idaho Springs
about in the afternoon and was
there about an hour before we start
ed back. The driver said it was only
% miles up there, but it was long
trip. There were some places that a
car could not pass and several times
we had to stop, back down so we
could pass the cars. The trail we
were on was just lined with cars. 1
never saw anything like it. When
we were about 800 feet up we could
look down on the other cars below
us and they looked like toy cars. 1t
cost SIS for 6 of us, $3.50 apiece,
but | certainly enjoyed the trip and
it was worth it to me. felt sorry for
our driver. You. could see in his face
that he feels the responsibility of the
drives A Sunday school was organ
lied here last Sunday and l wanted
to go but Andy's folks came and l
couldn't, but am going Sunday l
like the people out here quite we'll,
they are so friendly. Well it is sup
FER time and will have to get busy
Eliza MillSaD.