. Under the turquoise sky of Colorado .. . rope is theHospice of St. Bernard in Switzerland (8,200 feet). In Colo-rado the mining town of Leadville, with 15,000 inhabitants, isover 10,000 feet above sea level. Other mining camps are stillhigher and some gold and silver mines are worked at an eleva-tion of over 13,000 feet. The celebrated Jungfrau Railway in Switzerland, which isthe highest in Europe, ascends a mountain with a maximumelevation of 13,720 feet. In Colorado the Colorado & South-ern— Grays Peak Route, reaches the summit of Mt. McClellan,an elevation of 14,007 feet; the Colorado Mid
. Under the turquoise sky of Colorado .. . rope is theHospice of St. Bernard in Switzerland (8,200 feet). In Colo-rado the mining town of Leadville, with 15,000 inhabitants, isover 10,000 feet above sea level. Other mining camps are stillhigher and some gold and silver mines are worked at an eleva-tion of over 13,000 feet. The celebrated Jungfrau Railway in Switzerland, which isthe highest in Europe, ascends a mountain with a maximumelevation of 13,720 feet. In Colorado the Colorado & South-ern— Grays Peak Route, reaches the summit of Mt. McClellan,an elevation of 14,007 feet; the Colorado Midland Railwaycrosses the mountains through Busk Tunnel in the HagermanPass at an elevation of 10,944 feet; the Denver, Northwestern &Pacific Ry., Moffat Road, crosses the divide at Corona, 11,660feet; and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad crosses the conti-nental divide at Fremont Pass, 11,330 feet, Marshall Pass,10,856 feet, and at Tennessee Pass, 10,240 feet. There arewagon roads over numerous passes in Colorado ranging from. On the Way to Cripple Creek 12,000 feet upwards, Mosquito Pass (13,185), being thehighest. In Switzerland the cog-railroad from Vitznau to the summitof the Rigi Kulm (5,900 feet), has a length of four and a haltmiles, in which the ascent is 4,072 feet. In Colorado the cog-railroad from Manitou to the summit of Pikes Peak (14,108feet) has a length of eight and three-quarters miles, in whichthe ascent is 8,100 feet or an average of 846 feet per mile, themaximum grade being 1,320 feet per mile. In Switzerland 8,500 feet is the usual line of perpetual Colorado the timber line is 11,000 feet. Davos Platz (5,200 feet) in Switzerland is considered themost desirable of the high altitude health resorts of leading climatologists and specialists of London, Glasgow,New York and Boston say that Colorado is far superior toDavos Platz for pulmonary and kindred troubles, having a higheraverage temperature, less rainfall, less humidity, and about twice
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