The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1920-02-20
the very top of Pixies Peak, $4,000,
feet where he turns to see Colorado

feet where he turns to see Colorado
Springs 5000 feet below, and thir-
teen miles away. Or if one is 80 for
tunate as not to be the possessor of
"fiver" then he can take the street
car to Manitou and there take the
cog railway to the very summit. If
one does not linger too long at the
Tip Top house, the trip is made in
four hours. or less.
Two brothers who have climbed the
Peak annually for twelve years, last
week walked to the top in five and
half hours. rested an hour and return
ed in three hours. So to speak, they
raised themselves over a mile and
half in the air ''by their boots," in
little over five hours.
This trip is given as an example of
accessibility. There are scores of
auto and railroad trips that occupy
from a half to whole day while
others are just an hour or two away.
The roads are generally fine and
Pixies Peakregion is an automatic
paradise.
will not attempt to detail the
mountain grandeurs and beauties, but
that which impresses the visitor first,
last and all the time are the great
mountain walls which bound the west
ern horizon. AS the sun moves from
sunrise to sunset the shadows change
on the rough faces of the range so
that there is never ending panor-
anna. Every minute the view dis
solves and the mountains never look
quite the same, no more than do the
clouds that sometime cluster and oc-
casionally hide.
One goes to Yellow Stone or Gla-
cier or similar parks to visit, see and
come away. Here tourists come to
the city, go to the hotel or rooming
houses and stay week or many
weeks, taking the many mountain
trips at their pleasure.
Cripple Creek about thirty miles
away, still yields gold and silver ore
smelted in this city. Ignite coal is
mined close to city limits and bitum-
inous coal is dug not many miles
away.
The "Springs" as people say for
short (and by the way the Springs"
are all over at Manitou four miles
away,) is most literally laid out.
Most of the streets are one hundred
feet wide with boulevards in the mid
die. The average residence lot is so
by 100 feet, houses set we'll back
from side walk, and most everybody
has garden spot, and keeps chickens
and some raise Belgian hares. The
business streets are lined with fine
blocks and have excellent stores.
Like as is said of Washington, "this
is a city of magnificent distances"
but impresses the stranger as very
pretty city with many pretty homes.
Perhaps we have used enough of
the Pioneer Express precious space
from the point of view of the pleasure
tourist and may now pass to the
really more important matter of Pixies
Peak region as health resort.
One of the objects Of writing this
article is the possibility Of norhans of
special interest to so-oe +ubn"cu1oeis
invalid who is looking this wav for
POSSIBLE relief and cure. Thourh in
these days everybody is learning that
tuberculosis is rava"irg and con-
tagious enemy of mankind.
Pure fresh air and good nourish-
ing food and absolute rest are practi-
cally the only known remedies for
tuberculosis, known to and agreed up-
on by the medical profession All
three are of equal importance. All
three are obtainable almost anywhere
in the United States, but necessarily
modified by surroundings and circum-
stances. North Dakota has as health
full ozone air as any state, but the ex-
;. treme cold of the long winters neces-
sarily confines a patient indoors to Al
great extent. AS personal not
medical opinion the writer believes
that the excessive energy required of
the bodily functions in that climate
! Just to combat the cold, might better
be utilized in milder climate in the
upbilding of the body and in combat
ing disease, and that is why Colorado
is better for the invalid than is North
Dakota in winter. Almost any change
of climate and scene is usually of
benefit. Air, water and environments
generally, seem to to effect both body
and mind when changed, and there is
no doubt that mind can and does con-
troll matter in large degree.
Colorado Springs is largely a sani-
tarium city. There are MANY of these
ranging from private residences to
the great Woodman Institute. By