. The Promised land: information for the visitor to the world's fair, Chicago, 1893 . routes is the most inviting. It is a com-petition of magnificent scenery whichwould puzzle any judge who sought toaward a prize. But here are the threeroutes. You pays your money (thoughat very reduced rates) and you takes yourchoice. (i) The Denver and Rio Grande Stand-ard Gauge whirls you past ColoradoSprings and Manitou, through the GrandCanyon of the Arkansas and the RoyalGorge, which beggar description ; past thefamous Red Cliff,Rock Creek and Beldenmines, which in rugged picturesquenesssurpass the dizzi
. The Promised land: information for the visitor to the world's fair, Chicago, 1893 . routes is the most inviting. It is a com-petition of magnificent scenery whichwould puzzle any judge who sought toaward a prize. But here are the threeroutes. You pays your money (thoughat very reduced rates) and you takes yourchoice. (i) The Denver and Rio Grande Stand-ard Gauge whirls you past ColoradoSprings and Manitou, through the GrandCanyon of the Arkansas and the RoyalGorge, which beggar description ; past thefamous Red Cliff,Rock Creek and Beldenmines, which in rugged picturesquenesssurpass the dizziest habitations of Alpinecliff dwellers ; takes you through Lead-ville, the snow-capped capital of the min-ing empire, where $160,000,000 in gold,silver, copper and lead have been dugout of the earth in the last ten years ;carries you over the Great Divide anddown the Pacific Slope by the GlenwoodHot Springs, and at last into the widen-ing valleys and out upon the desert. (2) Or you can go by the NarrowGauge line of the Denver & Rio GrandeR. R., which also passes through theM. A STRIKING COMPARISON! THE HOLY LAND AND UTAH. 15 Grand Canyon of the Arkansas and theRoyal Gorge., climbs the dizzy height ofMarshall Pass, and shoots through thenever-to-be-forgotten Black Canyon of theGunnison. (3) The Colorado Midland route takesyou by the doorway of the Garden of theGods, under the shadows of Pikes Peak,through the pass renowned for its beauty,through Leadville and the famous Hager-man tunnel — 11,528 feet, or more thantwo miles above the level of the sea — thendown the western slope of the mountainsthrough Glenwood Springs, a well-knownresort, and to the common terminus ofall three routes, Grand Junction, on thewestern border of Colorado. ©ver tbe XHtab 3Boun&ar£. AT GRAND JUNCTION the solid ves-tibuled trains pass without the lossof a minute upon that magnificenthighway, the Rio Grande Western Rail-way. Now you are headed for Utah, andin a few minutes you are rushing acrossth
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