. Shoshone, and other western wonders. wealth and possi-bilities. The Union Pacific branches give themall necessary transportation facilities, and thenearness of the Denver ore market enables aresident miner to dispose of his product, nomatter how small it may be. The main lines of the Union Pacific systemare the South Park and the Colorado the roads are good examples of modernengineering, and the country which they developis as interesting a bit of Colorado as you can find,or would wish to see. It has no end of pictu-resqueness, and is like an offspring of Switzerland,being overr
. Shoshone, and other western wonders. wealth and possi-bilities. The Union Pacific branches give themall necessary transportation facilities, and thenearness of the Denver ore market enables aresident miner to dispose of his product, nomatter how small it may be. The main lines of the Union Pacific systemare the South Park and the Colorado the roads are good examples of modernengineering, and the country which they developis as interesting a bit of Colorado as you can find,or would wish to see. It has no end of pictu-resqueness, and is like an offspring of Switzerland,being overrun with mountains and containing ahalf score of little villages that are snugly tuckedaway among the narrow valleys which the rangeshave formed. Passing a few days in this districtwill give one the best possible idea of what Colo-rado is like; and more than this, it will enablehim to visit some of the best-paying mines inthe State, and to study the old placer-miningindustry, which now, alas ! is nearing the end ofits golden HANGING ROCK, CLEAR CREEK CANON. CLEAR CREEK AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 57 The best-known towns of the district areGeorgetown, Idaho Springs, Central City, BlackHawk, Boulder, and Fort Collins. The UnionPacific has extended branch lines to these sev-eral centres, and good hotels have been built atplaces most convenient to outlying regions ofinterest, such as Middle and Estes Parks. An hours ride from Denver brings one withinthe very embrace of the mountains. For thefirst fifteen miles the country is comparativelylevel. There is a succession of farms, each withits fields of bright green alfalfa, and in the neardistance are the foothills, so closely packed to-gether, and with the heights behind them soformidable in appearance, that one questionsthe ability of the railway to find an entrance totheir protected valleys. But long before onesdoubts are dispelled the outside world is lost toview. Suddenly, almost mysteriously, the gate-way is entered, and one
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