422 GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 



LEADVILLE TO MANITOU. 

 ITINERARY. 



Station. 



LeadviDe* 



Malta 



Crystal Lake 



Ilayilon 



Twin Lakes 



Granite 



1'ine Creek 



Riverside 



Amcricns 



liuena Vista 



Midway 



Natluop 



lire la Junction... 

 Browns Canyon . . 

 Salitla 



Cleora 



5wi88vale(Badger) 



Howard 



Distanoe. 



Miles. 





 4 



12 



1G 

 18 

 22 

 27 

 31 

 35 

 38 

 43 

 51 

 53 

 60 

 62 

 68 



Kilo- 

 meters. 



Klo vat ion. 

 Feet. Meters. 



(I 10. 



6 



11 

 19 



26 9, 



29 8, 



35 8, 



43 8. 



50 8. 



60 7. 



61 7, 

 69 7, 

 82 7. 

 85 7. 

 97 7. 



100 7, 



109 ti. 



116 6. 



185 

 565 



317 

 143 



012 



930 

 640 

 357 

 125 

 955 

 837 



680 

 356 



307 

 034 

 000 

 852 

 699 



3, 104 

 2.!; 15 

 2,840 

 2.787 

 2. 747 

 2. 722 

 2. 688 

 2. 547 

 2, 176 

 2. l-_T. 

 2,388 

 2,841 

 2.212 

 2,227 

 2.114 

 2, 134 

 2,088 

 2.042 



Station. 



Miles. 



Vallie j 78 



Cotopaxi >l 



Texas Creek 91 



Parkdale : 106 



Canyon City ' 116 



Florence 121 



Bearer 184 



Carina 137 



Swallows 142 



Meadows 147 



1 ; Inight 153 



Pueblo 157 



F.tltii 165 



Buttes 183 



Fountain ] 188 



Colorado Springs 202 



Maniton 207 



UU'r. 



Elevation. 



Kilo- 

 meters. 



IVt't. 



Meters. 



126 



6, 534 



1.1192 



184 



6.371 



1,942 



146 



6.211:: 



1, 891 



171 



5. 722 



1.741 



187 



5, B29 



1 , 62 1 



2i 111 



5. 184 



1,580 



216 



1 988 



1,519 



220 



1,936 



1,504 



228 



4,863 



1,481 



237 



I. 7'J7 



1.461 



246 



4.713 



1,436 



253 



4,658 



1,418 



266 







294 



5, 355 



1.632 



303 





1,692 



325 



5,978 



1,822 



333 



6, 309 



1 . 928 



Population. 11.212. 



[By S. F. Emmons.] 



From Leadville the road descends over the gently sloping mesa of 

 Pleistocene lake beds to the Arkansas valley bottom at Malta. It then 

 follows the level river bottom southward for 12 miles and enters a nar . 

 row, winding gorge in Archean granite. The old outlet of the lake 

 that once filled the upper portion of the Arkansas valley lies to the 

 west of the present course of the stream, nearer the ba.se of the Sa watch 

 mountains. It is now filled with gravels and crossed by magnilicent 

 moraine ridges of the later glacial epoch. These gravels carry gold, 

 and it was this that attracted the first miners to this region in I860. 

 A flume carrying water for hydraulic washing crosses the railroad on 

 the right. As one descends the valley, many abandoned placer wash- 

 ings in the coarse glacial gravels can be seen. 



Twin Lakes is the station from which the beautiful glacial lakes a 

 few miles to the westward are reached. These lakes lie at the opening 

 of a magnilicent gorge in the Sawatch range and are formed by terminal 

 moraines, a moraine ridge separating the one from the other. 68 



