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Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak. 



The tourist finds ample opportunity to 

 satisfy his cravings for novelty in the 

 world's famous convention city, Colorado 

 Springs, and the many attractive moun- 

 tain resorts so easily reached from this 

 center. 



The Antlers' Hotel has no superior in 

 any portion of the West, yet the larger 

 majority of visitors find homes with pri- 

 vate families. 



The system of electric roads is very 

 superior, reaching most of the near-by 

 resorts. 



North Cheyenne Canon, a free park be- 

 longing to the city, contains many very 

 beautiful rock and canon views and hand- 

 some trees. 



Manitou, with its celebrated springs, 

 are well known, while a trip over the Cog 

 road to the summit of Pike's Peak is one 

 never to be forgotten. 



Thousands each year ascend this moun- 

 tain either to its summit or to the delight- 

 ful camping place, the Half-way House, 

 walking all the way or riding burros, if 

 not by the Cog road trains. 



This region is rich in botanic speci- 

 mens, in trees and shrubs and flowers. 



The water used in Colorado Springs is 

 brought from the highest valleys of Pike's 

 Peak, the supply being collected in sev- 

 eral lakes, which form a chain of fine 

 reservoirs. 



No country in the world possesses more 

 beautiful coniferous trees than Colorado, 

 specimens of most of which are found in 

 the slopes or caiions of Pike's Peak. 



The Continental Divide has great inter- 

 est at all times for the tourist whose home 



life is in the large cities or among the 

 arable lands of more Eastern States. 



AT HAGERMAN'S pass. 



The wonderful formations of the giant 

 rock masses, whose crevices are filled with 

 hidden minerals, are attractive to the 

 prospector who searches for coal or iron, 

 or else for the precious metals. The lakes 

 and mountain streams have a fascina- 

 tion for the sportsman in search of the 

 speckled irout. The rarefied atmosphere, 

 and pure water, trickling over the granite 

 rocks, aerated in its rapid passage from 

 the banks of snow on the slopes, give 

 health and strength to the invalid who 

 here seeks their curative powers. 



While the snow-covered peaks, broken 

 into numerous shapes, and the piles of 

 rock of massive dimensions and thrown 

 into many fantastic forms by the upheaval 

 forces of nature, or left high above the 

 surface while the surrounding softer 

 masses have been washed away by cen- 

 turies of storms or the action of former 

 glaciers, and the precipitous, many-col- 

 ored rocks, stained by iron oxide and 

 other mineral solutions, give a never- 

 ending panoramic change, delightful to 

 the seeker for picturesque views. 



All of these things are enjoyable to the 

 editor of Arboriculture, who, during a 

 part of June, again visited Hagerman's 

 Pass, and with two of his family spent a 

 night and day in this high altitude, eleven 

 thousand feet. 



Of course the forest problems of the 

 region were uppermost in his thoughts 

 and examinations. 



The red spruce (Abies Douglasii), va- 

 rious forms of Colorado blue spruce 



