. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. new vigor and advanced greatly in prosperity. La Jara is one of 106 TO THE GOLDEN GATE. 107 the towns that has received this new impulse. Its people are enterprisingand industrious. Agriculture and pastoral pursuits contribute to the townssuccess. (Population, 300. Distance from Denver, 265 miles. Elevation,7,609 feet.) Manassa. This is a village for a colony of Mormons, which has beenestablished near Antonito. These Mormons do not pr
. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. new vigor and advanced greatly in prosperity. La Jara is one of 106 TO THE GOLDEN GATE. 107 the towns that has received this new impulse. Its people are enterprisingand industrious. Agriculture and pastoral pursuits contribute to the townssuccess. (Population, 300. Distance from Denver, 265 miles. Elevation,7,609 feet.) Manassa. This is a village for a colony of Mormons, which has beenestablished near Antonito. These Mormons do not practice polygamy andare industrious and law abiding citizens. Antonito, This town is a thriving and prosperous place, the last oneof any special importance on the railroad in the southern part of the SanLuis Valley. Stock raising and agriculture occupy the attention of thesurrounding population. There is a fine stone depot here, and there aremany creditable business blocks. It is the station for Conejos, one miledistant; for Manassa, a large and prosperous Mormon settlement, in whichpolygamy is not practiced, eight miles distant, and for San Rafael, four ^. OLD CHURCH OF SAN JUAN. miles distant. Its position in the heart of the San Luis valley (for fulldescription of which see Alamosa) insures it a generous and constantlyincreasing support from agricultural and pastoral industries. Being thejunctional point of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroads New Mexico andSan Juan branches gives it a large railroad business. Tourists will do wellto stop at Antonito and visit the old Mexican town of Conejos, which is themost accessible town of the typical Mexican character in Colorado. Heremay be found the plazas, churches and ancient adobe houses peculiar tothe early civilization of the Spanish. Fine fishing can be found nearAntonito. Antonito itself is a modern town with all the life and push oi theAmerican, full of business and enterprise. (Population, 400. Distancefrom Denver, 279 miles. El
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