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Magnetic well. Parnassus Alkaline. Carlile Soda. Ca?on City Soda. Royal Gorge Hot springs. Wellsville Hot springs. Poncha Hot springs. Waunita Hot springs. Ouray Hot springs. Salt Lake City Hot sulphur. Buena Vista Cottonwood hot springs. Heywood Hot springs. Leadville Soda springs. Siloam Springs Hot springs. Steamboat Springs Hot sulphur, iron and soda. Glenwood Springs Hot sulphur. Wagon Wheel Gap Hot springs. Antelope Springs Hot and cold. Pagosa Hot springs. Ojo Caliente Hot springs. Trimble Hot springs.

PLEASURE RESORTS.

Perry Park Buena Vista Ouray Glen Park Twin Lakes Provo Diana Park Glenwood Springs Lake Park Manitou La Veta Cottonwood Lake Beula Palmer Lake Evergreen Lakes Salida Monument Park Steamboat Springs Lake City Colorado Springs Wagon Wheel Gap Cimarron Ca?on City Trimble Springs Salt Lake City Poncha Springs Antelope Springs Trout Lake Rico Telluride

MOUNTAIN PEAKS AND PASSES OF COLORADO.

FEET. FEET. Blanca 14,464 Grizzly 13,956 Harvard 14,383 Pigeon 13,928 Massive 14,368 Blane 13,905 Gray's 14,341 Frustum 13,883 Rosalie 14,340 Pyramid 13,895 Torrey 14,336 White Rock 13,847 Elbert 14,326 Hague 13,832 La Plata 14,302 R. G. Pyramid 13,773 Lincoln 14,297 Silver Heels 13,766 Buckskin 14,296 Hunchback 13,755 Wilson 14,280 Rowter 13,750 Long's 14,271 Homestake 13,687 Quandary 14,269 Ojo 13,640 Antero 14,245 Spanish 13,620, 12,720 James 14,242 Guyot 13,566 Shavano 14,238 Trinchara 13,546 Uncompahgre 14,235 Kendall 13,542 Crestones 14,233 Buffalo 13,541 Princeton 14,199 Arapahoe 13,520 Mount Bross 14,185 Dunn 13,502 Holy Cross 14,176 Bellevue 11,000 Baldy 14,176 Alpine Pass 13,550 Sneffles 14,158 Argentine Pass 13,100 Pike's 14,147 Cochetopa Pass 10,032 Castle 14,106 Hayden Pass 10,780 Yale 14,101 Trout Creek Pass 9,346 San Luis 14,100 Berthoud Pass 11,349 Red Cloud 14,092 Marshall Pass 10,852 Wetterhorn 14,069 Veta Pass 9,392 Simpson 14,055 Poncha Pass 8,945 AEolus 14,054 Tennessee Pass 10,418 Ouray 14,043 Tarryall Pass 12,176 Stewart 14,032 Breckenridge Pass 9,490 Maroon 14,000 Cottonwood Pass 13,500 Cameron 14,000 Fremont Pass 1,540 Handie 13,997 Mosquito Pass 13,700 Capitol 13,992 Ute Pass 11,200 Horseshoe 13,988 Lizzro Head Pass 10,248 Snowmass 13,961

Seventy-two peaks between 13,500 and 14,300 feet in height are unnamed and not in this list.

ELEVATION OF LAKES.

FEET. Twin Lakes 9,367 Grand Lake 8,153 Green Lakes 10,000 Chicago Lakes 11,500 Evergreen Lakes 10,500 Seven Lakes 11,806 Palmer Lake 7,238 Cottonwood Lake 7,700 Trout Lake 9,800

ALTITUDE OF TOWNS AND CITIES.

Revised Since First Edition From Engineers' Measurements.

FEET. FEET. Alamosa 7,546 La Veta 7,024 Animas City 6,554 Leadville 10,200 Animas Forks 11,200 Las Pinos 9,637 Antonito 7,888 Montrose 5,793 Aspen 7,775 Malta 9,580 Buena Vista 7,970 Manitou 6,324 Cation City 5,344 Ojo Caliente 7,324 Castle Rock 6,220 Ouray 7,640 Colorado Springs 5,992 Ogden, Utah 4,286 Crested Butte 8,875 Pogosa Springs 7,108 Conejos 7,880 Pinos, Chama Summit 9,902 Cottonwood Springs 7,950 Poncha Springs 7,480 Cuchara 5,943 Palmer Lake 7,238 Cumbres 10,015 Pueblo 4,669 Delta 4,963 Red Cliff 8,671 Del Norte 7,880 Rico 8,735 Denver 5,196 Robinson 10,871 Durango 6,520 Rosita 8,500 El Moro 5,879 Ruby Camp 10,500 Ft. Garland 7,936 Saguache 7,723 Granite 8,945 Salt Lake City 4,228 Grand Junction 4,583 Silver Cliff 7,816 Gunnison 7,680 Silverton 9,224 Glenwood Springs 5,200 Salida 7,050 Howardsville 9,700 Telluride 8,758 Irwin 10,500 Trimble Springs 6,644 Kokomo 10,631 Westcliffe 7,864 Lake City 8,550 Wagon Wheel Gap. 8,448

INFORMATION FOR TOURISTS.

Tickets will be placed on sale May 1, and continued until October 31.

Tickets for the journey "Around the Circle" will be sold for .00 from Denver, Colorado Springs, Manitou and Pueblo.

Tickets will be good thirty days from date of sale.

Stop-overs will be allowed at any point or points on the trip for any length of time within the life of the ticket.

Side trips can be taken to any point on the line, not covered by the round trip, at one-half the regular rates.

The purchaser can have choice of route, going either via Silverton and Ouray or Montrose and Ouray, or via the Rio Grande Southern R. R.

The journey "Around the Circle" can be comfortably made in four days, with rests at Durango, Silverton and Ouray. Or the entire thirty days can be profitably and pleasantly spent in viewing the wonderful scenery of the trip.

SEVENTY POINTS OF INTEREST "AROUND THE CIRCLE"

FOR ONLY

$ 28 $

ALL SEEN FROM THE TRAIN

A THOUSAND MILES THROUGH THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

DENVER U.S. CANTONMENT ROYAL GORGE OURAY THE GRAND CA?ON UNCOMPAHGRE CA?ON Arkansas River BEAR CREEK FALLS COLLEGIATE RANGE MOUNT ABRAHAMS PONCHA HOT SPRINGS Ouray & Silverton Road Poncha Pass Red Mountain SANGRE DE CRISTO SULTAN MTN. Atlantic Slope SILVERTON MT. SHAVENO ELK PARK MT. OURAY NEEDLE MTNS. Marshall Pass Garfield Peak Pacific Slope Animas Ca?on Chippeta Falls TRIMBLE HOT SPRINGS CURRECANTI NEEDLE RIO LAS ANIMAS GUNNISON RIVER DURANGO Black Ca?on Fort Lewis CIMARRON CA?ON Mancos Valley Cerro Summit Lost Ca?on UNCOMPAHGRE MTNS. DOLORES RIVER

DALLCE DIVIDE Sierra Blanca RICO LA VETA PASS TELLURIDE Mule Shoe Curve TROUT LAKE SPANISH PEAKS LIZARD HEAD PUEBLO OPHIR LOOP CHEYENNE MT. INDIAN RESERVATION PIKE'S PEAK CUMBRE'S RANCE MANITOU LAS PIONS VALLEY COLORADO SPGS. GARFIELD MEMORIAL GARDEN OF THE GODS TOLTEC TUNNEL PHOEBE'S ARCH TOLTEC GORGE PALMER LAKE Phantom Curve CASA BLANCA Rio Grande Riv. CASTLE ROCK San Luis Valley

Transcriber Note

Minor typos corrected. All references to Canon were changed to Ca?on.

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