The Pulaskian., 1916-01-14

AU orado watering place, lies as
 in cradle nest, in a cup
 shaped glen, which is proper ly the opening of Ute pass, at an ele- vation 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. Pike's Peak, trending west ward and just visible above the crowd ed summits, gleams like a 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 ods of living render it desirable place of permanent residence, yet it is best known as an agreeable sum- mer watering place. It offers tour ists accommodations ranging from tent and automobile camp, modest boarding house or picturesque bunga- low to modern, exeellently equipped hotels in varying style proportioned to all purses.
 
 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
 It's Springs Bring Health.
 Varied as to analyses, Manitou's s fourteen springs are strongly impreg- mated with soda, iron or magnesia, lithia, lime, potash and other health full clements. They are specific for stomach, kidney and blood diseases and rheumatism, while highly tonic and beneficial to the nerves.
 In rsdio-activity the gases of the Shoshone spring at Manitou have 31.2 mache units and Navajo geyser at Manitou has 13.3 units, while Johanna bad spring at Baden-Baden has 16.6 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 ters of Carlsbad, Bohemia.
 At Wagonwheel Gap, Colo, there are three famous hot springs, the Hot Salme, 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 how about forty years ago there was consistently 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 Salade of the early explorers.
 The water was deliciously cold, as if refrigerated in unknown depths, of surpassing flavor, as it bubbled up among the gentians which fringed it's pool.
 But who wanted spring fifty miles from nowhere? So the bargain was offered without takers from the in- frequent teamsters or rheumatic crip- 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 $50,O00.
 Great Place for Excursions.
 Three red canyons converge at Manitou-R -Riverton. the shortest horse back trail to Pikes Peak; Williams, or more properly Manitou Canyon, the highway to the Cave of. the Winds, and the Pass. The latter, which gave El Paso county it's name, shows on it's ribbed sides many geologic strata, be- ginning with Laurentian granite
 Up Ute Pass, past Florissant with the Detrified stumps, over the Hayden Divide and ID Grand Canyon to
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