New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . a fine school building of light-colored stone,and a hotel very pleasantly situated in view of the mountains. Downfrom the Divide comes the Monument Creek, joining, just below thetown, the Fontaine qui Bouille, which we shall l)y-and-by see at Manitou,and away up in the IJte Pass. Along the wide central street or avenue EL PASO COUNTY AND COLORADO SPRINGS. 57 (and what line names they have! — Cascade, Willamette, Tejon, Kevadajand Huerfano), and up the grade toward the pass and the South Park gothe great canvas-covered four-mule teams, bound, •• freighting,
New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . a fine school building of light-colored stone,and a hotel very pleasantly situated in view of the mountains. Downfrom the Divide comes the Monument Creek, joining, just below thetown, the Fontaine qui Bouille, which we shall l)y-and-by see at Manitou,and away up in the IJte Pass. Along the wide central street or avenue EL PASO COUNTY AND COLORADO SPRINGS. 57 (and what line names they have! — Cascade, Willamette, Tejon, Kevadajand Huerfano), and up the grade toward the pass and the South Park gothe great canvas-covered four-mule teams, bound, •• freighting, for Fair-play, Leadville, and the Gunnison. But we must go five miles north-west (the Commodore loould ride his burro, Montezuma, and the Colonelpositively refused, and took a horse), and climb Austins Bluffs, and lookout. To the north rises the Divide, nearly as high above the sea as Sher-man, on the Union Pacific Railroad, Westward the great mountainsseem to have taken on thousands of feet in height, and to loom up with ^^^. FLOCK ON AUSTi: added grandeur. Away at the south, whither the course of the Fontaineis marked by the line of cotton-wood-trees, are seen the Sierra Mojada, and,on a clear day, the Spanish Peaks: and to the eastward stretch, across twoStates, and afar to the Missouri, the great plains. It was to this pleasant region that the Colonel and the Commodore,after their researches, alreadv chronicled, among the cattle ranches farther r»S M:\V (.^ADO AM) THE .SANTA FE THAIL. poutli, had conic in search i»f * fivsli iicMs and pastures new; and tlieywere not loni^ in discovering that Kl Iaso County was famed for its shoej),and the (juality of its wool product. It stretches from a point well overthe range, out toward the Kansas line some seventy-two miles, and fromthe Divide on the north well down toward Pueblo; and there are between15(),(»0() and 2(>0,()00 head of sheep returned as held last year within itsborders. Although in many respects the sh
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