. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . MOUNTAIN OF THE HOLY CEOSS, COLORADO. TME ^^€£WI€ W&WMMW. 79 ible poverty, and I may also say of coarsenessand rowdyism, impressed me on my visit verystrongly, as did the earnestness, activity and in-tensity of life which is everywhere so apparent. P. T. Bamum once said of Colorado, in a lec-ture : Why, Coloradoans are the most disap-pointed peopl


. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . MOUNTAIN OF THE HOLY CEOSS, COLORADO. TME ^^€£WI€ W&WMMW. 79 ible poverty, and I may also say of coarsenessand rowdyism, impressed me on my visit verystrongly, as did the earnestness, activity and in-tensity of life which is everywhere so apparent. P. T. Bamum once said of Colorado, in a lec-ture : Why, Coloradoans are the most disap-pointed people I ever saw. Two-thirds of themcame here to die, and they cant do it. Thiswonderful air brings them back from the vergeof tha tomb, and they are naturally exceedinglydisappointed. The average temperature is about 60*^ the yearround—the air is bracing, winter mild, and daysalmost always full of clear skies and bright warmsunshine. The purity and dryness of the atmos-phereware proverbial. Motmtain of the Holy Cross.—The nameof this remarkable mountain is renowned to theends of the earth, and is the only one with thisname in the world. It is the principal mountainof the Sawatch Range, just west of the MiddlePark of Colorado, and ex


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