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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1924
THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT
JOY, LANCASTER CO., PA.
Interesting Facts
From Denver, Col.
(From Page 1.)
This poem is famous around
the world as defining the spirit
A than anything yet written. It was
written by a reporter on a Denver
Bluffs, Towa, on the east bank of
the level plain south of the train,
day afternoon at 3:30.
Utah, for a week and I will also try
Range is called here.
Plymouth in 1620.
color red.
were astonished at seeing many red
rocks, dirt red rivers and red soil—
also the Red Man, in what is now
Colorado. The Spaniards’ quest for
treasure resulted in a futile search
for the city of Quivira,
resplendent in its streets of turquoise
and palaces of gold. This traditional
city, shown on old Spanish maps,
was supposed to be some where near
to where Denver sprung up like
magic, three hundred years later,
when gold was discovered in market-
of the West more effectively [able quantities near by in Clear
Creek Canyon.
Coronado was perhaps the first
newspaper on the occasion of a dis- white man to set foot upon what
pute as to the real boundary of the | Coronado’s
West. called:
When I left Mount Joy, the first| rocks.”
Monday in June at 9:46 A. .M, I|ly four hundred years, billions of
changed to a fast train at Harris- organisms, half plant, half animal—
burg and arrived in Chicago on as if carrying out Coronado’s color
Tuesday morning at 7:30. I waited | scheme, are borne on Chinook winds
there until 11.80 A. M. and then|from the Artics
left over the Burlington Lines for | surface of large snow patches in the
this city. I reached Omaha, Neb., heights of Rocky Mountain National
about one o'clock in the morning| Park, transforms them, to the won-
and went through a terrible thunder |der of tourists, into
storm before we got into Council | summer,
The first American known to put
the Missouri river and opposite] foot upon Colorado soil, was in 1803
Omaha, Neb., which is on the west|and the first known log house was
bank. erected
I was awake at the time and saw| Spanish cavalry patrolling the Ar-
a wonderful display of lightning over| kansas, near the site of Pueblo, Col.
x This State was the thirty-eighth to
and, believe me, it was some rain. Ij cyte the Union, and is called the
finally reached Denver on Wednes-| centennial State, having been admit-
during the time
Recently I was in Salt Lake City, | Centennial was held in Philadelphia.
. There are arrow-market cabins of
and write you something about that prospectors for gold still standiing.
city and the trip over the Contin- Days of the ox team, and the his-
ental Divide, as the Rocky Mountain| stage coach, are
in memory by some
Coronado, -a Spandiard, was the| timers, who live again the romantic
first white man to touch Colorado,| days in tales to tourists.
late in 1540, forty-eight years after|ies center in Col. W. F. Cody (Buf-
Columbus discovered America in| falo Bill), whose grave is ‘on the
1492, and eighty years before the|summit of Lookout Mountain, about
landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at| six or seven miles
The other
“Colorado of the
Now, after a lapse of near-
and, covering the
in 1816 for
ted in 1876
from this city.
Sunday I was up there
Colorado, in Spanish, signifies| and copied the following from a
Coronado’s followers| bronze tablet on the monument:
In Memoriam
Colonel William Frederick Cody
“Buffalo Bill”
Noted Scout and Indian Fighter
Born February 26, 18456
Scott County, Iowa.
Died January 10, 1917
Denver, Colorado.
The grave is covered with a mar-
ble slab and standing on the four
corners is a miniature buffalo in
bronze, and the grave is inclosed by
an iron fence about five feet high.
Not far from Buffalo Bill's grave, is
his memorial museum, called Pahas-
ka Tepee, in which Buffalo Bill's
relics are kept. I was in there and
what I saw was very interesting.
This State has the deepest can-
yons in the world traversed by rail-
roads; the highest passes in the
world crossed by standard tracks;|
the highest summits in the world
reached by rails; lakes innumerable, |
watering places uncounted, includ- |
ing the most potent radium springs|
in the world and pools of warm
sulphur water; ruins that puzzle his-
tory, the relics of a forgotten peo-|
ple; two National Parks, and phe-|
nomena of lava, ashes, glaciers, |
boiling mud and sculptured cliffs and!
a great many other scenic attrac-|
tions. The air of this wonderful
Rocky Mountain State is thin, dry
and crystalline, invigorating body
and mind. The sky throughout the
summer and fall is blue and cloud-|
less, except for brief thunder storms
of rare grandeur. The thermometer
occasionally climbs into the eighties,
but the dryness of the atmosphere
makes it seem much less and it is
always cool in the shade. Humidity
is almost a minus quantity. Heat
prostrations are unknown. Cool
breezes from the snow-capped moun-
tains make blankets at night a ne-
cessity. This Colorado climate is
unusual. Within its boundaries you
can journey from Temperate to Ar-
tic climes within a few hours, or slip
across the street on the warmest day
in summer, from a heat-baked side-
walk into the shade and enjoy the
cool atmospheric refreshment with
which the air seems permeated.
Denyer, “The Paris of Ameriea”,
and city of Mountain Parks, one
mile above set level, is the leading
gateway to the Colorado Reckies.
The city has a population of 270,000,
Among the public buildings are the
State Capitol, the Public Library, of
Greek design; the State Museum,
which contains the finest collection
of cliff-dwelling relics in the world;
the United States Mint the new Post
Office building built of Colorado
marble; and the Colorado Museum
of Natural History in the City Park.
In the Municipal Auditorium, having
a seating capacity of 12,000, an im-
mense organ has been installed, and
here free recitals entertain thous-
ands every noon during the summer
season. Denver's Civie Center
covers nine acres. Its princinal fea-
ture is a Greck open-air theatre with
a stage adequate for every sort of
free entertainment,
This city has thirty-five parks
within her borders. A municipal
band play in the principal park
every afternoon and evening during
the summer,
Denver is not far from the moun-
tains and an extensive view is af-
forded of 200 miles of the Snowy
Range, from Long's Peak on the
north to Pike’s Peak on the south.
A seventy-mile circle trip embrac-
es Denver's unique mountain parks.
Through the recent completion of a
new highway one can visit a hither-
to almost inaccessable region lying
westward from this city. Leading
through picturesque canyons, giant
forests, and beautiful glacial val-
leys. This road reaches some of the
highest mountain lands in the Unit-
ed States. On a trip over this high-
way it is possible for one to stand
on the ridge pole of America where
the water from one glacier flows to-
ward the Pacific and the waters of
another one flows toward the At-
lantic, and behold the great forested
areas of this wonderful region.
Colorado Springs, which has an
altitude of 5992 feet above sea
lavel, is seventy miles south of Den-
ver and is the gateway to the Pike's
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greater warm-weather comfort.
It’s only the fellow who lays down and says it can’t be
done who suffers from a midsummer business slump.
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"| Peak region. Bix miles from Colo-]
| pioneers, “Entrance to the Promised
rado Springs lofty Pike's Peak dom-
inates the city. It was discovered by
Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike, of the
United States army in 1808, but it
was not until many years later that
the hardy American pioneers made
permanent settlement in that local-
ity. Lieutenant Pike did not climb
the peak; he made an attempt, but
failed, and stated in his diary that
“no human being could have ascend-
ed to its pinnacle.”
A number of years ago some rail-
road men conceived the idea of a
railroad to the summit of Pike's
Peak (altitude 14,109 feet) to su-
persede the horse and the burro; and
the spectacular Cog Road, following
the old-time trail, was the result.
Some years ago there was an auto-
mobile road constructed to the peak,
so one can either go to the top by
the Cog Road or by automobile.
The automobile road is eighteen
miles long and at some places fifty
feet wide. I got the greatest thrill
of my life when I was on the peak,
twe years ago. In addition to the |
scenery along the route, the great
granite blocks on the summit, the
accumulation of everlasting snow,
the view out over Manitou, Colorado
Springs and the plains beyond, also
backward over the neighboring
ranges, together with the floating
clouds close at hand and far below,
produced an impression I will
never forget.
Recently I was on a week’s trip
to Salt Lake City, Utah, via the
Denver and Rio Grande railroad. I
left Denver late at night and en-
tered the Grand Canyon of the Ar-
kansas some time in the morning.
This roalroad enters the canyon
west of Canon City. Here the train
rounds a long curve and rushes into
the canyon. The steep, sagy hills,
between which hurries the dashing
green water, give place to rock, and
following the immense breach in the
granite the train seemed to be pen-
etrating the very bowels of the
earth. This, the Grand Canyon,
through which the Arkansas river
pours from the high country to the
lower, is ten miles long. Clinging
close to every twist the trian rushed
on. There is hardly space between
wall and river for the single track.
The narrowest portion of possage,
the famous Royal Gorge, was reach-
ed later. The red granite walls
tower aloft on either side 2,677
feet; the sky looked like =a thread
and almost obliterated by the jag-
ged sides and stars could be seen
at midday by looking up into the
sky. At ome point, the hanging
bridge, the width is about ten yards
and the roadbed has been built out
over the water. The river runs mad-
ly through this part of the canyon.
After leaving Salida on this trip
the train went over Marshall Pass,
10,856 above sea level. In making
the assent of the mountains two
engines took the train in tow. In
a serpentive trail the track goes
wriggling on, seizing every advan-
tage, weaving in and out and doub-
ling on itself. Each turn occupies
higher ground than the preceding,
and thus by a series of loops the
Continental Divided was scaled. It
was up, up, up, with the air growing
rarer and the view over the tops
of the timber steadily expanding,
until, having climbed over 200 feet
per mile for many miles of the ad-
vance. Upon the “Top o’ the
World” the train paused more than
two miles in the air, and almost at
timber line. At such a great height
vegetation is stunted; below are
tracks, successive steps like terraces;
from the summit all the mountains of
the Rockies seem visible—range af-
ter range, dark green, gray or snow
white. After the halt, the train
rolled down the farther slope by
gravation, and with braker set and
finally we were west of the Contienn-
tal Divide and traveling northward
over the great-tableland toward the
Grand Mesa Lakes and later on we
reached Glenwood Springs. This
town is one of the best known re-
sorts in the west. Here are located
hot sulphur springs with extensive
bathing pavilions and an immense
outdoor swimming pool.
After a short stop at Glenwood
Springs, the train headed for Utah—
“The land of Surprises.” At Castle
Gate, Utah, a remarkablle fountain
of red sandstone rises 500 feet on
either side of the track, here the
train entired Price Canyon. There
are about ten miles of this, the sand-
stone changing shade and shape a-
bout every mile. It was called by the
Land.” After going through this
canyon the train made the ascent
of the Wasatch Range and the top
is reached at Soldier Summit, from
this point there is a gradual des-
cent to the fertile Utah Valley.
There is only one Salt-Lake City,
its situation and surroundings are
certainly picturesque and beautiful.
It sits enthroned, like a queen of
the mountains and valleys, upon an
ancient beach of the Great Salt
Lake. The star attraction is ten-
acre-square Temple Block, sur-
rounded by a ten-foot-high, five-
foot-thick wall, in which stands the
Mormon Temple, Tabernacle, and
Assembly Hall. The Temple was
begun in 1853 and completed in |
1894 at a cost of $4,000,000. The
tabernacle is an architectural curio.
It resembles half of a monstrous
egg shell, cut in two the long way,
is built of stone, iron and glass and
is without post or pillars. Ii seats
about 8,000, and its acoustic prop-
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erties are so perfect that a whieper carry
can be heard all over it. It con-| land riv
tains one of the largest organs in
existance. A free organ recital is| lake. {
given every day at noon during hte| West of Salt Lake City are
summer season, Natural
Saltair Beach is about one-half
float on the water without the slight-
est exertion and it is not necessary
cranes and the sight of thousands
of birds which inhabit it is a re-
markable one. These birds must
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ride from Salt Lake City.| thick d almost pure salt.
The water of this inland sea is a| railroad crosses near the centre, ar
brine so dense that no animal life|the salt bleing perfectly white, hard
can exist in it, with the exception of }
a minute shrimp. I went bathing| a great Polar ice-field, while mirage-
in the lake and, believe me, it was| like images of lakes and land merge
full of surprises. It is possible to|into the very real distant mountains,
There is a great deal more to see
in this State but I did not have the
to be a swimmer. The water holds| time as I was only gone from Dene
one afloat for any length of time.
There is an island in the center
of the lake where ocean bird life a-
ver about
bounds. Seagulls, pelicans, and|and from there south to this city
where 1 arrived about 2 A. M. on a
Saturday, from this wonderful trip.
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