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canyon (see Pl. XXIX) is attractive not only on account of the 
beauty of its magnificent granite walls—a miniature Yosemite—but 
also because the cut in the massive granite is the enduring record of 
events that took place long before the white man saw this country 
and in all probability before man existed on the globe. All the 
mountains, hills, valleys, and plains constitute records of similar 
events, but here the record is so clear and distinct that anyone may 
decipher it after he has had a slight training in the alphabet Nature 
uses, — 
spectively, and ae large anes 
tities of very Four 
drainage hag ae Tiga Good 
Will, Ophelia, and Standard, were be- 
gun about this tim Another notable 
event of the yea was the sale 
of Stratton’s Independence, the mos 
famous mine in the district, to the 
Venture Corporation (Ltd.), of Lon- 
don, for $10,000,000. 
In 1901 the Colorado etl 
Cripple Creek District Railw 
(“Short Line”) was built into the 
district. 
reduction works in Colorado City, and 
for about two years the district was 
the scene of many deeds of violence. 
With the deepening of the mines the 
the porous volcanic rocks 
drain mines 
long. 
The Cripple Creek hills lie near the 
eats border of a lofty and deepl 
sected pti which slopes gently 
Rep 40 miles from the 
southern end of nie Colorado Range, 
pa nated by Pikes Peak, to the rela- 
tively low De connecting the Mos- 
During Terti ev 
tions broke through these ancien 
pl 
rocks of the Cripple pee sieves: are 
the products of one of the sm 
lated volcanic vents of this sree a 
vent that erupted phonolite, a kind of 
rock that does not occur elsewhere in 
this general region. The most abund- 
ant products of the Cripple Creek vol- 
cano now preser are tuffs 
breccias, which cover a aida ellipti: 
in 
Hill, to Stratton’s ee ee mine, 
places actually overhang the breccia. 
tire southwest contact repre- 
sents a part of the wall of the great 
pit formed by the volcanic 
that produced the breccia, In most of 
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