. The Pacific tourist . at each descent from the upland into eachlittle valley, the view is one of beauty and pleas-ure. The railroad as it turns East from ColoradoJunction, reveals at the right, the busy town ofGolden ; a mile distant, over it, towers a peak of1,000 feet high and down the little valley ofClear Creek, the route passes till your terminusat Denver. This route of reaching Denver from the Eastmust be specially advantageous to Tourists. The Denver Pacific Railroad also runsdirect from Cheyenne, southward, to Denver,and trains connect with the mid-day trains ofthe Union Paci
. The Pacific tourist . at each descent from the upland into eachlittle valley, the view is one of beauty and pleas-ure. The railroad as it turns East from ColoradoJunction, reveals at the right, the busy town ofGolden ; a mile distant, over it, towers a peak of1,000 feet high and down the little valley ofClear Creek, the route passes till your terminusat Denver. This route of reaching Denver from the Eastmust be specially advantageous to Tourists. The Denver Pacific Railroad also runsdirect from Cheyenne, southward, to Denver,and trains connect with the mid-day trains ofthe Union Pacific Railroad. The distance, 106miles, is mainly over a vast level plain, coveredonly with the short gray buffalo grass, butparallel with the main range of the RockyMountains, and 20 to 30 miles from their east-ern base. Greeley,—Named in honor of Horace Greeley,and settled in May, 1870. The colony passessabout 100,000 acres of fine alluvial soil in theValley of the Cache La Poudre River. Irrigat- THE PACIFIC l^_-- .^ ::i ?-,:■: -:;^ :? TSE PACIFIC TQVRIST. (0 ing ditches htve been constructed, and there isan abundance of water for all agricultural pur-poses. The town for several years has increasedwith steady rapidity, and the population is slight-ly over 2,000. At this place are located someof the finest grist-mills of the entire West. Theplace has achieved considerable reputation as atemperance town. Denver—is the capital of the State. Thishas become a large railroad point. From it di-verge the Kansas Pacific, 63tS miles eastward toKansas City, the Denver and Rio Grande Kail-road. Narrow Gauge, southward, to Canon City,Pueblo and Trinidad, and Port Garland: alsothe various branches of the Colorado Central toGeorgetown, Idaho Springs. Central City, andthe mines of the mounta: Its population exceed- 20,000, and its locationis most advantageous for easy trade and com-munication with all the principal points of theTerritory. Located on an open plain, aboutthi
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