DENVER AS A TOURIST CENTRE

" I have been in Colorado probably twenty times and I never tire of the State. I enjoy the atmosphere, the beautiful sunshine, the exhilarating effects of the climate and the beautiful scenery of the mountains."
--Hon. Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, Washington, D. C.

     "I had been quite well informed of the resources of Colorado, but a personal visit gives a more vivid and clear understanding. Certainly, Colorado, of all the States carved
out of the great West, has the most varied and apparently inexhaustible resources. The people of Colorado are very cordial to tourists and visitors. " --Hon. James H. Eckels, Ex-comptroller U. S. Treasury, Washington, D. C.

     Colorado is the Switzerland of America for sublime mountain scenery, curative mineral springs and picturesque health and pleasure resorts, with the addition, however, of phenomenal gold mines and wonderfully productive farming and fruit growing districts.

     The following are some of the tours which can be made with absolute comfort and at moderate cost, by railroad, from Denver (altitude 5,196 feet).

     To Golden; up the wildly grand canon of Clear Creek, through Idaho Springs (7,543 feet) with its mines, mills, mineral springs and bath houses; to Georgetown (8, 476 feet); over the world famed "Loop" to Silver Plume (9,176 feet), near the foot of Gray's Peak (14,341 feet); returning over the same route.

      To Golden Forks of the Creek and Central City, (8,503 feet) the centre of the oldest mining district in the State; thence by stage coach to Ward; thence by Colorado & Northwestern Railroad to the charming university city of Boulder; thence by railroad to Denver.

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     Up the romantic Platte Canon to Kenosha Summit (10,130 feet), down into and through the South Park, across the valley of the Arkansas, piercing the crest of the Continental Divide at Alpine Pass (11,590 feet), down the gorge of Quartz Creek to Gunnison, the whole constituting the grandest one day railroad ride in Colorado. The tourist can, however, at Como in the South Park take the other branch of the railroad over Boreas Pass (11,470 feet) to Breckenridge and thence to Leadville (10,025 feet) "the Cloud City."

     To Colorado Springs and Manitou "the Saratoga of the West;" to Pueblo, "the Pittsburg of the West," with medicinal springs and baths; to Florence, the petroleum centre of the State (from which point the tourist can take the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad for "the richest gold camp, for its size, on earth,"--Cripple Creek); from Florence to Canon City, embowered in orchards, with minerals springs equal to those of s Vichy, France; through the world famed " Royal Gorge " to Salida and Buena Vista with its celebrated hot springs; thence to Leadville; to Glenwood Springs " the Kissingen of America," with palatial hotel and bath houses; thence to Grand junction, celebrated for peach orchards and vineyards; or, branching off at Salida: over Marshall Pass (10,852 feet); through the awe-inspiring "Black Canon of the Gunnison" to fruit growing Montrose; thence through "the Golden San Juan," a combination of magnificent mountain scenery and mineral treasure vaults, including the towns of Ouray (7,654 feet); Telluride (8,756 feet); Rico (8,737 feet); Silverton (9,224 feet); and Durango (6,520 feet); returning via the great agricultural San Luis Valley (7,500 feet) as large as Connecticut.