CROSS.] 



MAMTOU. 



431 



the Archean contact is obtainable. The line of the fault mentioned 

 above is seen in going up Buxton ('reek to the I'te lion Springs and 

 to the depot of the Pikes Peak railroad. 



The mineral springs, for which Maniton is famous, issue at several 

 horizons in the sedimentary rocks and from the Archean. They are all 

 carbonated and saline, while one of them is strongly chalybeate. The 

 temperature of the water varies from 4.V to 60° F. (6°to 15° (.'.). There 

 is a bath house in connection with the larger soda springs. The Ute 

 Iron Springs are ill Ruxton valley.* 



The "Garden of the Gods" is situated about one mile north of Foun- 

 tain creek and three miles northeast of Maniton. In it rise towers and 

 pinnacles consisting of the vertical strata of the white Dakota sand- 

 stone, or of the red Triassic sandstones below. Some of these huge 

 masses rise vertically for 200 or 300 feet, and serve as fine examples of 

 the erosion of steeply-upturned strata of varying consistency. Lower 

 white ridges of Jurassic gypsum or of Cretaceous limestone afford 

 strong contrasts in eolor when compared with the red sandstones. 



Pikes Peal: — Pikes Peak rises to an elevation of L4,147 feet (4,.'U2 

 m.)j or 7,838 feet (2,389 m.) above Maniton. It is seven miles distant in 

 air-line; is reached by cog-railroad, by horseback on path, or by car- 

 riage from Cascade station on the Colorado Midland railroad. 



Pikes Peak is the center of a group of mountains which are mainly 

 made up of a coarse reddish biotite granite. In the granite are many 

 coarse pegmatite veins, and in some localities pockets lined by crystals 

 of smoky quartz, ania/.on stone, and a large number of less abundant 

 minerals. While these mineral occurrences have made the name of 



•The following analyses of the waters of tin- principal springs arc taken from Dr. 

 A. C. l'eale's Mineral Springs of the United States: n 



MAXITor SPRINGS. 



[Parte in 100,000.) 



Constituents. 



Sodium carbonate 



Calcium carbonate. . . . 



Magnesium carbonate. 

 Lithium carbonate — 

 Iron carbonate 



Sodium sulphate 



Potassium sulphate. . . 



Sodium chloride 



Silica 



Total 



Oscar I.oeu , analyst. 



Imn I'te. 



Little 

 Chief. 



16-10 



Maniton. 

 52 26 



Navajo. 

 121 -CO 



1 

 I te Soda. Shoshone. 



69 -:!4 



23 -82 





88-80 



.V.i -ot 

 11 -56 



75-20 

 13-01 



ill -oo 

 20-51 



120-40 



31 tit; 



40 -(HI 

 6 10 



1 



108 -50 



Trace. 



Trace. 



0-21 



o„ 



m 



1 race. 





Trace. 



:. 78 



1 -80 



Trace. 





1-40 







30 86 



51-88 



1971 



18-42 



12-24 





37-08 



7 -dl 



6-24 



1 B*S6 



16-21 



Trace. 





5-12 



:si -69 



47-97 



40-96 



89 78 



13-93 





42 12 



2 -69 



o ■•_'■_> 



2-nl 



1 47 



Trace. 





Trace. 



210-87 



213-48 



260 -00 



361 87 



97-49 





281 -62 



