DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN ROUTE. 
ments of tilted and highly colored sandstone. 
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Although less known 
than the Garden of the Gods, near Manitou, it is similar in general 
appearance and by many is regarded as fully equal to it in natural 
beauty. In these castellated rocks those who have a vivid imagina- 
tion can see mystic monuments and towers, battlemented walls, 
minarets and steeples, and the remains of vast cities that still nefleek 
soe to this supply its streams furnish 
water for irrigating 4 acres of 
rich agricultural land at the foot of 
the ns, 
region now included in this for- 
est Fates an immense amount of 
timber during the early development 
of local industries, about 000, 
eet b. m. having been cut prior to its 
establishment as a national forest. In 
the re 
In Gilpin County considerable areas 
of forest land were practically denuded, 
for trees 
the detriment of the timber stands of 
gions. 
the 
then permitted a rapid run-off of wa- 
ter after heavy rains, which caused 
considerable destructive erosion. Sim- 
pa 
and owing to generally favorable con- 
aie, many areas have naturally 
become reforested. 
In the early days all eget build- 
put up their own buildings of logs ob- 
tained from the national forest under 
hed r 
ere 
built, and ERE, all wiggt aegg? 
was done wit tim Most of 
the cutting was te by — oper- 
ators, with sawmills of 6, to 10, 
feet b. m. daily capacity, who would 
locate or purchase s tract of 
tumpage 
timber ‘and cut only that which was 
the most easily obtained or which was 
best suited to their purpose. 
Since 1905, when the forests came 
the Forest 
m 
eral allowance for profit to the 
ator. 
The amount of timber cut in the Pike 
National 
The area of the Pike National For- 
est is 1,256,112 acres, of which 162,956 
acres is patented or privately owned, 
and 108,000 acres is above timber line, 
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