Monday, January 21, 2013

Colorado anyone?

We are now in Colorado is where we left off I believe..

We see a large body of water I asked the conductor what it was, he said " It was a reservoir, 2 H miles square used to irrigate with". We pass miles and miles of prarie country, we get to Denver and change cars. The platform is so crowded that we can hardly get to our train, we take a tourist car. Long about 10 o'clock we come to Castle Rock, a little station and on one side is a high hill with a rock on the top called castle rock and a man is standing on it. Go on a little further and come to Palmer Lake. A little boat sailing around on it with three men in it. And we pass a rock in the shape of an elephant called Elephant Rock, it is sure wonderful along here. Then Colorado Springs, the city of sunshine, it is a beautiful city of 30,000 people, 6 thousand feet above sea level. At the foot of Pike's Peak is the entrance of the sunshine garden of Gods and picturesque Manitou. While we are at Colorado Springs we can see Pike's Peak, it is 14,147 feet above sea level. It is the Observatory and Unites States Signal station one of the highest in the world and covered with snow. We pass through Pueblo, we did not stop there long enough to see any of the city.
Its beautiful country along here.
Then we come to Canon City, a city at the eastern entrance of the Famous Royal Gorge, it has soda springs hot and cold.
We go on a few miles, it begins to be rough and rocky, banks on each side of the track just solid rock...

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