. The great West: a vast empire. A comprehensive history of the trans-Mississippi states and territories. Containing detailed statistics and other information in support of the movement for deep harbors on the Texas-Gulf coast /by Dana. eral way, the statement is sufficiently accurate for the purposes ofthis article. This contact between these two limes has been traced in a northand south course entirely across Pitkin county, a distance, as beforestated, of about forty miles. Development was begun on the moun-tain sides near Aspen, and there the mining operations of the districthave mostl
. The great West: a vast empire. A comprehensive history of the trans-Mississippi states and territories. Containing detailed statistics and other information in support of the movement for deep harbors on the Texas-Gulf coast /by Dana. eral way, the statement is sufficiently accurate for the purposes ofthis article. This contact between these two limes has been traced in a northand south course entirely across Pitkin county, a distance, as beforestated, of about forty miles. Development was begun on the moun-tain sides near Aspen, and there the mining operations of the districthave mostly been carried on. The result has been, that a number ofmines that rank among the largest in the world have been openedthere. It lias long been known to those who have examined and pros-pected other sections along the contact that it was at all points fully asrich as at the points where the bonanza mines have been opened. Ithas been a little hard to convince those who would not investigate forthemselves that such was the case, but recent developments, bothnorthward and southward from the section in which the old mines arelocated, have established great faith among all mining men in the en-tire stretch of the belt. 214 The Great u Q -o O COQ DC The Great West. 2 1 5 5ALIDA, THE city of Salida is situated upon the line of the Denver tfc RioGrande Railway and on the Arkansas River, in a beautiful broad valley, in marked contrast to the Royal Gorge, which must be passedin order to reach this lovely spot. The Royal Gorge for years stoodan impassable barrier to the onward march of steel, and hung overthis delightful valley like the flaming sword which has shut out fromthe Garden of Eden the descendants of Adam and Eve, lo! thesethousands of years. The Denver <te Rio Grande, the Little Giant ofthe Rockies, broke through this seemingly insurmountable barrier,and, with a thread of steel, drew to this Gem City of the Moun-tains a class of citizens of sturdy character, energy an
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