Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-09-03
DENVER ATTRACTIVE
TO ITS VISITORS
"cIeanest City in the World"
Is CIaim-ls Mecca For
Thousands Of Auto Tour
lists From South.

DENVER, August 28.-Denver is
peopled by public spirited citizens
who believe in their city and are
right up on their toes whenever
there is a chance to do anything
for it.
Just now the visit of "Lindy,"
who will be here Wednesday, is
the big interest. They have ar
ranged an elaborate parade sever
al miles IN length, with a stop at
the Denver University stadium
where all the school children will
be assembled and a great banquet.
Perhaps some of our Vegas friends
listened in on this through KOA
which will broadcast the entire
event. The streets are gay with
flags and every show window is
filled with Lindy pictures, flags
and models of airplanes. 1t is fine
to see a people showing such
spirit and enterprise.
| understand that Lindbergh will
go to the coast by way of Reno,
in which case it is quite possible
that he may return via Las Vegas
Denverites claim that their city
is the cleanest city in the world
One may easily believe it. The
buildings, some of them of white
marble, are Glenn and bright The
frequent rains help some perhaps,
but the absence of smoke is the
principal reason. There has been
a campaign on for several years
against smoky smOke-stacks, and
now there is little smoke, and of
course in the main portion of the
city where streets are paved, but
little dust. Denver calls many to
it because of it's cleanliness,
wealthy people who build homes
here where the air is uncontamin-
ated.,
Denver, as most know, Is locat-
ed at an altitude of one mile above
sea level. On one of the steps of
the capital there is a bronze mark
er exactly $3.50 feet above sea
level, and people always stop and
stand on that step a moment to
see just how it feels.
The location of the city is rather
novel 1t is on a level, fertile,
we'll watered and well cultivated
pain. The South Fork OF the
Platte is made up Of small streams
which rise in this neighborhood.
To the stranger, at first glance
Denver appears in location much
like any prairie city of the middle
west. But looking toward the
east, we see the great range Of
the Rocky Mountains, the Con-
tinental Divide, rising quite alb
ruptly from the plain about Is
miles distant.
To the southwest of Denver is
Pixies Peak and to the Northwest
is Longs Peak. Both rise above
$4,000 feet. Those two are quite
common names. But | think it is
not generally known that they are
not the highest peafs in Colorado.
Pixies Peak is 14,110 feet; Longs
Peak 14,255. But there are IL
not the highest peaks in Colorado.
er than Longs Peak; and AZ
peaks $4,000 feet and over in the
state.
Denver has a beautiful system
of city parks comprising several
hundred acres of green lawns,
wooded areas and charming little
lakes. The municipal improve
ments comprise an extensive zoo,
large Fairgrounds for the children,
bathing beaches, boat houses and
things of that nature, all connect
ed by many inlet of. paved boule-
wards. Two of the parks at least
were given to the city by public
spirited citizens.
The greatest park of them all is
Denver's Mountain P6~k, many
thousands of acres in extent. 1t
lies in the foothills and mountains
Is miles west of Denver. The city
has spent large sums of money on
system of paved roads, through
beautiful canyons and UP and over
high mountains. In this park at
Lookout Mountain, on a point
overlooking the valley and the
cities of Golden and Denver, is
the grave of VIM. F. Cody (Buf-
falo Bill. 1t is a shriee to which
thousand of travellers go each
year. Near the grave is quite a
museum Of historic relics mostly
pertaining to Buffalo Bill. and
among many other interesting
things, / saw the first scalp Buf-
falo Bill lifted whet he was just
beginning his career OF Indian
fighting.