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to leap the stream, as shown in the view, and follow down 

 the opposite side until the same conditions occur again. 

 The roadway is a most excellent one, built only after great 

 labor and expense. The canon is about seventeen miles in 

 length, cutting deep down through the tnetamorphic rocksof 

 the foot hills, so that in some places the sides of the canon 

 rise up nearly 3,000 feet above its bed. The Caribou mines, 

 at the head of this canon, are among the richest in Colorado, 

 and the transportation between them anil railroad eomtnuni- 

 nication passes through this canon. 



In this view the sides of Castle Kock rise up abruptly to 

 its full height, showing the perpendicular face on the left. 



Nb. 59. CARIBOU, A mining town of some :>()!> inhabitants, situated 

 high np on the foothills, about the head- waters of the Middle 

 Boulder. Its elevation is 9,730 feet, being veiy near the tim- 

 ber-line. It IS the scene of considerable mining activity, the 

 hills all about being deeply furrowed with mines and pros- 

 pect holes. The Caribou mine, from which the locality 

 takes its name, was sold to a company of foreign capitalists 

 for $3,000,000, and it is said to prove a good investment. 

 There are others in tin 1 same neigborhood which are said to 

 be equally promising. The ore occurs in fissures between 

 the gneisses and quart/.ites. 



Nos. (50-02. JAMBS PEAK and the range northward, a panoramic view 

 from a high point east of the peak, at an elevation of 12,200 

 feet, the peak being 13,130 feet above the sea. It is on the 

 main divide, which, at this point, turns sharply to the west, de- 

 scribing a great arch around to Gray's Teak and -Mount 

 Rosalie. Like the rest of the range, it is of metamorphio 

 rock, gneiss and schist predominating. To the left, in the 

 distance of the first view, is a spur of Parry's Peak, which 

 lies close to Berthoud Pass. In the next view we have a con- 

 tinuation northward, showing a deep, snow-tilled valley and 

 numerous lakes, not yet freed from their icy bondage. Load- 

 ing up to the right is the trail from the South Boulder, over 

 to Middle Park. A wagon-road is in the course of construc- 

 tion, that will afford easy access to the park. This is known 

 as James Pass. In No. 62 the view is One north toward 

 Arapaho, whose square-topped summit looms up in the dis- 

 tance far above the surrounding range; and from it the 

 mountains sweep down in undulating lines to the foot-hills, 

 that appear almost as a rolling prairie. 



No. 63. Frozen Lake, near foot of James Peak, the source of 



Pall Liver. One of thousands similar, scattered all over the. 

 mountain range; small basins filled with the waters from the 

 melting snows, and remaining ice-locked until far into the sum- 

 mer. They will average from two to three acres in extent, 

 and rarely exceeding a half mile in length. In this view -we 

 see one of the great snow-fields that remain all summer long, 

 feeding the thousands of little brooks that gather together 

 into the great streams, which water the plains and trans- 

 form the wilderness into smiling gardens. 

 Xo. 04. GEORGETOWN. A view from the summit of the trail leading 

 from the valley below to Empire, at an elevation of about 

 one thousand feet above the creek. The town has a pop- 

 ulation of about 3.000 inhabitants, the outgrowth entirely 



