The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-01-09

OF the tnamDer oil Commerce on North
Fifth street, very notable collection
of old photographs. prints. Autographs.
stereopticon views, etc, relating to
pioneer days in Canon City The dis
play. which was collected by Secre-
tary E. A. Bradbury. is probably the
most complete showing of its kind
ever made here, and should be seen
by everybody concerned in 1.-The old
days" of the community.
The exhibit constitutes a sort of
pictorial history OF the town from
the times when the surrounding coun-
try was inhabited largely by the Ute
Indians. a half century and more ago,
down TO a far more recent period. The
greater number of the views. how
ever depict sce-es of the territorial
epoch. when Colorado was a sort of
buffer between savagery and ciyiIizs-
tion. and In that respect are especial
u Interesting.
Two. Of the pictures show an old
corral and camp house, long since de
molished. on the north side OF Main
street. jetween Fifth and Sixth
stree ne old Presbyterian church.
alsu thing of the past. is seen in one
of these views, before the east addi-
tion was built. Other views delineaie
he construction of the Denver & Rio
Grarde railroad through the Royal
Gorge in the early SOS. One of them
is a picture OF the Royal Gorge before
the railroad entered it. and shows the
famous canon as II existed when Col
zehnlon Pike and spatahrders'
came here in 1902 Others show the
artially-constructed road ard the
men guarding whs: vas known as the
dead line during the historic rail-
road war between the Rio Grande and
Santa Fe companies for the possession
of this remarkable pass through the
mountains between Canon Citl and Sa-
Ida and points beyond. The work of
building the roadbed before the rail
road ties were laid and the interstices
filled in is shown. as well as the first
locomotive that made the trip over
them and the first train of sightseers
that made the trip between Canon
City and Parkdaie Old Camp Judge"
is shown in one of these pictures
where the food supplies for the rail-
road builders were lowered by ropes
from the top of the ciiffs down to the
men at the bottom OF the canon. many
hundreds of feet below. Still an
other view depicts an ice jam in the
Arkansas river at a narrow place in
the Royal Gorge.
Several pictures of the Colorado
state penitentiary as il existed in ter
ritorial times are shown One of
them shows the first prison building
constructed here. another the FIRST
wall for the detention OF prisoners at
that institution. and still another the
penitentiary as il was a generation or
more ago. The FIRST wall was n
wooden stockads. but it gave place 10
stone barrier in 1879.
A series of views of the Soda
Springs as they existed in early Gays
are shown in the exhibit. One of
them represents the springs before q
pavilion of any kind was built over
them. The water at that time ran
through a udely-constructed fi0me
into a little stone basin. Rocks OF
varying size, some OF them large. are
shown in the street opposite the
springs. where they had rolled down
from the hogback ard had lain for
ages. another picture shows an old
pavilion over the springs done in rus
tic work. Later this was removed
and pasodas erected over each spring
in somewhat similar style of con-
struction. The first of the views
alluded TO shows the old ditch fiume
above the springs. which was changed
later when a tunnel was driven
through the shoulder of the mountain.
This Improvement was made in 1867.
The street scenes shown in the dis
play are exceptionally interesting and
afford the spectator an excellent pan
orama OF their appearance 40 or so
years ago. Cre shows Coy. Hunt is
suing -four rations to the Indians. An
other made In 1878, shows tho old
stage coach which operated at that
time between Canon City and Califor-
mia Cuich. now Leadvilie. Another
shows The old Wet Mountain .fiay
houxe. = which was located At the cor.
rep or Main and Sixth streets. where
Mitchell & Egbers' drug store now
stands, Stin another. a lnrge picture,
owned BY d. L. Robson. shows Main
street hooking west from Third street.
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