. Over the range to the Golden Gate, a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound, and the great Northwest . bound in game. The La Veta Hotel, the eating station forpassengers, is one of the most magnificent in Colorado, having been erected at anexpense of $225,000. It is elegantly furnished, and offers first-class accommoda-tions for the tourists who may wish to spend a few days or weeks here, hunting andfishing. Crested Blltte Braiioll. From Gunnison the Crested Butte branchof the road extends to the northwest to Crested Butte, a distance
. Over the range to the Golden Gate, a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound, and the great Northwest . bound in game. The La Veta Hotel, the eating station forpassengers, is one of the most magnificent in Colorado, having been erected at anexpense of $225,000. It is elegantly furnished, and offers first-class accommoda-tions for the tourists who may wish to spend a few days or weeks here, hunting andfishing. Crested Blltte Braiioll. From Gunnison the Crested Butte branchof the road extends to the northwest to Crested Butte, a distance of twenty-eightmiles. The line extends up the Gunnison River, which swarms with trout and isan extremely picturesque stream. The Elk Mountains are in plain view, and addgrandeur to the scene. The intervening stations are Almont, at which place is arecently erected Sportsmans Lodge, Jacks Cabin, and Glaciers. Crested Butte. This pretty village is situated most dehghtfully amongthe mountains, one castellated peak directly opposite the town conferring the name GUNNISON. Population, 2,500. Distance from Denver,288 miles. Elevation, 7,683 feet. Eating EAGLE RIVER CANON. 84 OVER THE RANGE it bears. This is the center of the most remarkable coal region yet discovered inColorado, and abounding also in rich mines of gold and silver. At Crested Butte,just back of the village, is found abundant measures of exceedingly bituminouscoal, which is mined largely and made into coke. A few^ miles north of the townat Floresta anthracite coal, equal in every respect to the best found in Pennsylvania,is taken from the top of a mountain, and shipped all over Colorado and fishing and hunting in the mountain streams, and over the wooded hills, furnishabundant sport for the residents and tourists, and the rides and drives afford analmost infinite variety. (Population, 1,200. Distance from Denver, 316 , 8,878 feet.) Floresta. Eleven miles Vjeyond Crested Butte. The prese
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