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probably not surpassed anywhere on the continent. The 

 fact that this road has been in operation for twenty years 

 and that no harm has yet come to the traveler is certain 

 indication of its availability by even the most timid person. 

 Pike s Peak is called "The Monument of the Conti- 

 nent.'' and this is certainly a fitting term, for Indians 

 and frontiersmen and pathfinders and tourists have all. in 

 their day, looked with eager eye on this mark that first 



Pueblo Cou'nty Beet Field. 



broke the march of civilization westward, and that stood 

 as a guide, philosopher and friend on more than one 

 occasion. 



I'ike's Peak is a history and a romance. Major Zebu- 

 Ian M. Pike, a soldier and adventurer, discovered it No- 

 vember i:>, 1800, and attempted to ascend it. He and his 



most famous gold camp, leave the traveler with a mingled 

 sense of awe and sheer pleasure. 



At the Cripple Creek end of this trip there is what is 

 known as the Electric Circle tour. This passes the back 

 doors and the front doors of all the big mines in the 

 district, and it is illuminating and entertaining to any 

 stranger to have a look at close hand at the mines of 

 which he has so long heard and which are such wonderful 

 producers. 



One of these is the Low-line and the other the High- 

 line. The Low-line has the more mines along its way, 

 but the High-line scales mountains and goes through 

 Midway, Independence and Goldfield, all thriving mining 

 towns. The great scarred mountains tell the story of the 

 tunneling and digging, of the lives that have been lost 

 and the treasure gained, but of an industry that seems just 

 as prominent now as it was in the exciting days of gold 

 discovery in that district. 



At Canon City, where the Royal Gorge of the Ar- 

 kansas presents a scene only equalled on this continent by 

 the Grand Canon of the Colorado or Yellowstone, one 

 may find very great pleasure indeed. The Skyline drive 

 is not equalled anywhere in this country and only at one 

 place in the world, at Caracas. Canon City should be on 

 the list of all Colorado pleasure seekers. 



Picturesque, scenic Colorado plus all its mineral de- 

 posits, and its wonderful agricultural attainments under 

 irrigation, and plus the greatest gathering held in the 

 west this year, make it worth the while of anyone to tarry 

 for a month. 



Foreign Representation at the Congress. 



Xot least of the splendid features of the Eighteenth 

 Xational Irrigation Congress, Pueblo, Colorado, September 

 26-30, 1910, is the factor of foreign representation. 



It is the opinion of Dr. E. McQueen Gray of Albu- 

 querque, New Mexico, the industrious and exceedingly 

 accomplished foreign secretary of the congress, that the 



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The Minnequa Plant Pueblo's Great Steel Works. 



men tried it time and again and while they did not reach 

 n- I"]), they carried back the word of it and today it 

 bears the soldier's name and a plate suitably inscribed on 

 its summit is a monument to him as much as the stone 

 that rests in the beautiful park near the Antlers Hotel at 

 Colorado Springs. 



The trip up the road to the summit is not to be de- 

 scribed idly. It is a thing that must be undertaken to be 

 appreciated. The narrow defiles, the steep grades, the 

 look into canyons and gorges, thousands of feet deep, the 

 approach to timber-line, the winding way around the sum- 

 mit until the top is finally reached, are exhilcrating, inspir- 

 satisfying. 



The short-line trip over the range to Cripple Creek 

 out of Colorado Springs, is one Aat cannot be overlooked 

 in the log of any traveler. This road, built less than 10 

 years ago, a distance of 45 miles, at a cost of 20 million 

 dollars, is an engineering feat as daring and as successful 

 as the cog-wheel road itself. The trip is a continuous 

 panorama through canon and mountain scenery, starting 

 at an altitude of 6,000 feet at Colorado Springs, and work- 

 ins up to 10.000 feet at Summit. 



The scaling of mountain sides, the tunneling through 

 l>nii]iices here and there, the spanning of canons and 

 gorges, the double "S." the constant winding round and 

 round the mountains, and the final descent into the world's 



foreign representation will be from 35 to 40, in number. 



This representation will include the leading countries 

 of the world, not only Europe, through its diplomatic and 

 governmental representatives, but Asia, the Republic of 

 Mexico, South and Central American republics, Canada. 

 Cuba, and other nations. 



Canada was the first to name these foreign delegates, 

 and they include, five in all, irrigation and engineering 

 officials of different provinces. 



The Republic of Mexico was next in line. The secre- 

 tary of state, Enrique Creel, former ambassador to the 

 United States, informed Secretary Gray that a distin- 

 guished representative would come from that country. 



Dr. Gray is now engaged in the endeavor to secure 

 some distinguished diplomatist preferably, Ambassador 

 Bryce and also a noted French engineer from the depart- 

 ment of public works of that country. 



The foreign representation was first taken up two 

 years ago in the Sixteenth National Irrigation Congress 

 at Albuquerque, and has grown to be one of the most 

 interesting features of the congress. 



Meanwhile, Secretary Arthur Hooker of the national 

 organization continues to receive lists of delegates in in- 

 creasing numbers, and the gratifying thuig to him is the 

 high character and degree of prominence of the men 

 named on the state delegations by the different governors 



