The Tomahawk., 1916-01-27
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1 Il shaped glen, which is proper
ly the opening of Ute pass, at an ele-
walton of 6,123 feet above sea level.
The town is shut away from the winds
by a majestic mountain wall, whose
precipitous sides rise almost from it's
streets. Pixies Peak, trending west
ward and just visible above the crowd
ed SUBMITS, CLEANS like silver hem
to the blue mantle of the sky, writes
Gilbert McClurg.
Manitou is essentially summer wa
tering place. Although it's excellent
sewage, it's modern means and meth
DDS of living render it desirable
place of permanent residence, yet 1t
Is best known as an agreeable sum-
mer watering place. 1t offers tour
lists accommodations ranging from
tent and automobile camp, modest
boarding house or picturesque bunga-
low to modern, excellently equipped
hotels in varying style proportioned to
all purses.
These center around the wonderful
group of radioactive mineral springs
in the towns heart, where the resort
hotels, Swiss chalets or bungalows,
line winding avenues or dot hillside
terraces bright with flowers or foliage
shaded.
Its Springs Bring Health.
Varied as to analyses, Manitous
fourteen springs are strongly impreg-
mated with soda, iron or magnesia,
lithia, lime, potash and other health
full elements. They are specific for
stomach. kidney and blood diseases
and rheumatism, while highly tonic
and beneficial to the nerves.
In radio-activity the gases OF the
tShoshone spring at Manitou have 31.2
mache units andF Navajo geyser at
iManitou has 1873 units, while Johanna
had spring at Baden-Baden has 1876
units and Vichy but one unit.
Pagosa springs are almost identi-
cal with the waters of Carlsbad, and
Bad Nauheim is duplicated at Glen
wood Springs. The thermal waters
of Idaho Springs, near Denver, are
chemically akin to the Sprudel wa
tiers of Carlsbad, Bohemia.
At Wagonwheel Gap, Colo., there
are three famous hot springs, the Hot
Saline, Hot Soda and Boiling Spring,
and cold lithia springs. These springs
are similar in general naturalization
to the waters of Ems, Germany.
Clark's Wells in Pueblo are a high
ly valued group of mineral springs.
This list does not by any means
cover the groups of mineral springs in
the state, but these are chosen be-
cause Of the comparative analyses
that have been made with the waters
of noted European resorts.
The writer of these lines well re-
members now about forty years ago
there was persistently brought to mar
ket for $50 chalybeate spring. The
spring lay in high meadow near the
Platte river in the beautiful South
park of Colorado, the Bayou Sa1ade
of the early explorers.
The water was deliciously cold, as
if refrigerated in unknown depths, or
SURPRISING flavor, as it dubbed up
among the gentians which fringed its
pool.
But who wanted a spring fifty miles
from nowhere? So the bargain was
offered without takers from the in
frequent teamsters or rheumatic Grip
pies who passed or tarried at the
springs.
These Hartsel hot springs and the
Iron spring are now being developed
by Chicago capital and are valued at
$4,000.
Great Place for Excursions.
Three red canyons converge at
Manitou-Riverton, the shortest horse
back trail to Pixies Peak; Williams,
or more properly Manitou Canyon, the
highway to the Cave of the Winds,
and the Pass. The latter, which gave
FL Paso county its name, shows on its
ribbed sides many geologic strata, be-
ginning with Laurentian granite.
Up Ute Pass, past Florissant with
the petriied stumps, over the Hayden
Divide and up Grand Canyon to