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above 12,000 feet elevation, and its eastern portion is cut by 

 canons, many of which are renowned for their beauty or 

 grandeur, such as the Ute Pass, Williams Canon, Bear Creek 

 Canon, and North and South Cheyenne Cafions. Ute Pass is 

 the outlet through the mountains by which the Fountain, once 

 called La Fontaine Qui Bouille by the old French trappers, 

 reaches the plains. The trappers called the stream by this 

 name because of the bubbling mineral springs where Manitou 

 is now, and the pass was so named because it was the high- 

 way by which the Ute Indians reached the plains. Streams 

 are found in all these various canons, and high in the moun- 

 tains about Pike's Peak are Lake Moraine and the Seven Laktes, 

 converted into reservoirs which belong to the water supply 

 system of Colorado Springs. 



Standing somewhat apart from the rest, at the south- 

 easterly end of the range, is Cheyenne Mountain, rising abrupt- 

 ly from the plains, and though not lofty, but little over 9,000 

 feet, it is one of the most beautiful mountains we have, 

 many consider it the most beautiful. 



Once the mountains were entirely covered with forest, 

 of pine, spruce, and aspen, but forest fires, some of them 

 many years ago, and some of them of quite recent date, have 

 destroyed considerable of this. 



The extreme southwestern portion of the County is a 

 somewhat rolling region, with yellow pines, cedars, and piilpns. 



The northerly edge of the County is occupied by the 

 "Divide'' region, the watershed between the Arkansas and 

 Platte Rivers. This has at Palmer Lake an elevation of 7,200 

 feet, and the summit of the watershed has an easterly trend. 

 It has an undulating surface, and where not cleared is largely 

 covered by a forest of yellow pines. 



About five miles north of Colorado Springs are what are 

 known as the Bluffs, a range of low sandstone ridges pre- 

 senting sufficient vertical faces which, though low, enough to 

 justify the name. These extend easterly from the foothills 

 for about eight miles out into the plains. They have a few 



