The Gavelyte, November 1910

C~DARV lLL.bJ COLLBGE. 167 A Visit to Colorado. EDNA STORM01 T, '14. Four miles from the house is a little mining camp, Garfield, near which the · Lily mine is located. : A tramway, run by electricity, has This last summer my cousin and I been built to the mine, and, one day had the pleasure of a trip to Colorado, while at Garfield, we watched several on a visit to her brother. We went by buckets of ore come in to be emptied way of St. Louis, starting on Thursday into cars, Lut did not have time to morning and reachin~ our destination ride out to the mine, which I think on Saturday evening. After leaving we would h::tY·J enjoyed very much. St. Louis we passed through Kansas The ore is taken down in cars to the City, St. Joseph, Denver, Colorado smelteries. Pines r,nd quaking asps Springs, Pueblo, and Canon City. Of cover the lower slope,s of the mountains, the two states Kansas and Nebraska, I while up a little higher are some cacti. liked Nebraska better. From what I One day we walked up a mountain saw, I think Ohio corn is just as good near by, 2 nd went through a tunnel as that of Nebraska or Kansas. We which was between two hundred and had our first glimpse of the mountains. three hundred feet long. It had been just after leaving Denver. The clouds blasted and dug out of solid rock by a were very low at Palmer Lake, Colo., man who w::is hunting for ore. ,There at an elevation of 7224 feet and we hud are several of these tum.els in the sides the novel experience of riding through of the mountains. Another day we them. One of the most beautiful took our lunch and walked up to Lime places we saw was the Royal Gorge, Peak, \vhich is between. nine and ten through which rushes the Arkansas thousand feet high. river. At s.:>me places in th~ Go:ge I There are very many chip~u~ks near the mountains were half a mile high · there, and also some pra1r1e dogs. straight up from the river. Sometimes, ! One evening we thought we heard a when the sun is shining brightly, the I coyote, but did not see any. In the mountains are all colors of the rainbow. I rivers are many mountain trout, which Observation cars are nearly always J make a very delightful dish. . plated on the train, but it happened . 1 On our way home we stopped at that the1e was none on ours, so we did Canon City, where we visited for two not get to see the mountains so· ~lainl~. , days. The Colorado State P~nitentary It t uok us half an hour to go tnrougn is located there. A beautiful place I .the gorge, as the train went very , near the city is the sky-line drive, on slowly. 1 Hogback. This road was constructed My cc,usin's home is thirteen miles ! by the prisoners from the Penitentary. from Salida, the nearest city. It is I One can get a good view of the city almost surrounded by the mountains. 1 from the top of this drive. There are The railroad track and Little Arkansas !many fruit orchards near Canon City, R . · f t of 1·t and the Con- I and the apple treei. were loaded down 1ver are m ron , ·th th · f ·t • • . WI eir rUI • tinental D1v1de 1s only about ten _or i We took the trolley from Colorado twelve miles away. We could see ht- Springs to Manitou, which is at the tie patches of snow on the Range. foot of Pike's Peak, and which con- 1