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What to see in America . Falls below Chasm Lake Beavek Dam neak Estes Park hole district is dotted withmining towns, some ofwhich are reached by rail-ways that show moststartling and daring meth-ods of construction. Aparticularly attractive ex-cursion from Denver is byrailroad seventy miles tothe summit of Mt. Mc-Clellan. You pass throughGolden, Colorados cap-ital from 1862 to 1868,and enter Clear CreekCanyon, where the earli-est discovery of gold inthe state was made, andas you go on, twistingand turning to follow thevagaries of the rushing ?ji^j^A 406 What to See in America torrent, you lookup to see MotherGrundy andHanging of the cliffsare a thousandfeet high; andalong the wayare great mines,and enormousdumps of goldand silver pass IdahoSprings, frequented for its hot

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