. To California and back;. oicespecimens of Colorado minerals, which constitutethe most valuable collection of minerals in the is open every day to vistors. Sixty miles east from Pueblo one comes again toLa Junta, the junction-point in Southeastern Col-orado which was passed on the outward this point to Chicago and St. Louis the sceneswould be familiar except for the fact that many lo-calities which were formerly passed in the night arenow seen by day. The marvels of the West, however, have nowbeen left behind, and the tourist may be expectedto be absorbed in pleasurable
. To California and back;. oicespecimens of Colorado minerals, which constitutethe most valuable collection of minerals in the is open every day to vistors. Sixty miles east from Pueblo one comes again toLa Junta, the junction-point in Southeastern Col-orado which was passed on the outward this point to Chicago and St. Louis the sceneswould be familiar except for the fact that many lo-calities which were formerly passed in the night arenow seen by day. The marvels of the West, however, have nowbeen left behind, and the tourist may be expectedto be absorbed in pleasurable anticipation of hishome-coming. He returns not as he departed, forsuch a journey as that which now draws near itsclose possesses an emphatic educating value. He150 knows definitely now about those features of ourWestern empire which before were to him a vagueimagining, inadequately, and perhaps wrongly, con-ceived. And, not the least valuable of human accjuisitions,henceforward he will have a storv. ATeHr^:? (RiiHl!. 151
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