San Francisco 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition 1915 San Diego Panama-California Exposition . grandest canons, torrents, lakes and valleys. Palmer Lake, Colo-rado Springs, Manitou, Pikes Peak, Cripple Creek, Pueblo andCanon City are well known. The Wonderful Royal Gorge Primarily the Royal Gorge—the Grand Canon of theArkansas—the worlds most remarkable chasm through whicha railroad winds, gave the name of Scenic Line of the Worldto the pioneer steel highway of the Rocky Mountains when it con-quered this stupendous fastness to reach the mines of Leadville. Oo Mam i»en?er & Klo G
San Francisco 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition 1915 San Diego Panama-California Exposition . grandest canons, torrents, lakes and valleys. Palmer Lake, Colo-rado Springs, Manitou, Pikes Peak, Cripple Creek, Pueblo andCanon City are well known. The Wonderful Royal Gorge Primarily the Royal Gorge—the Grand Canon of theArkansas—the worlds most remarkable chasm through whicha railroad winds, gave the name of Scenic Line of the Worldto the pioneer steel highway of the Rocky Mountains when it con-quered this stupendous fastness to reach the mines of Leadville. Oo Mam i»en?er & Klo Grande RailroadEagle River Canon, Colorado Oq Mala Line Denver & Rio Grantie RailroadFirst Tunnel, Caition of the Grand River, Colorado and the camps west of the Continental Divide. Few in thosedays believed Colorado of much industrial worth outside of themines and the scenery. Today the value of the crop outpouringsfrom the farms and orchards, which annually pass through theRoyal Gorge, far exceeds the output of the mines in the halcyondays of their bonanza prosperity- Verily, the Mountain Empireis not dependent upon mines and scenery, rich though it is in these. Viewing ilic Scenery from Observation Cars Out from Canon City in observation cars, the train in a fewminutes passes between the lofty portals, whose walls seeminglyclose in, irresistibly barring the onward way, only to open anew surprisingly, until at the Hanging Bridge they are but thirty feetapart, and rise almost vertically quite half a mile above the can hardly indicate th
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