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Aryan man, the great explorer and 

 trader and civilizer of the world, is about 

 to complete his circuit of the globe. 

 Beginning his career of activity in the 

 western section of the Orient, he sent 

 one branch of his family eastward into 

 India and Burmah, while the more pro- 

 gressive and vigorous branch turned its 

 face resolutely toward the setting sun. 

 Westward, through the mountains and 

 valleys and plains of Europe, he marched 

 until he reached the Atlantic, sending 

 thence a thin line eastward by way of 

 the northern and southern routes, to 

 begin the flanking movement upon the 

 commerce of the Orient, while the main 

 body of his forces still moved resolutely 

 to the west, across the Atlantic. In 

 America he halted for a time, until he 



had peopled and developed that mag- 

 nificent section of the world, and then 

 he began his final movement upon that 

 great commercial prize, to which his 

 eyes had been turned for thousands of 

 years. Building his railways across the 

 American continent and laying his ca- 

 bles beneath the waters of the Pacific, 

 he moved steadily across that great 

 ocean, step by step and island by, island, 

 and today Aryan man, American man, 

 stands in the Philippine Islands knock- 

 ing at the doors of Asia, inviting the 

 nations of that great continent to admit 

 him to a peaceful interchange of com- 

 modities, and with that a development 

 of friendship which shall be strong 

 and lasting and beneficial to the whole 

 world. 



MAPS RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY THE U. S. 

 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY* 



THE OURAY QUADRANGLE, COLORADO 



THE only important town or set- 

 tlement in the quadrangle is 

 Ouray, a city of 2,500 inhab- 

 itants, which is the southern terminus 

 of the Ouray branch of the Denver and 

 Rio Grande Railroad. Ouray, which is 

 widely known as a gold and silver min- 

 ing camp, produces a daily output of 

 gold alone approximating $10,000 dur- 

 ing a large part of the year. Among 

 the mines tributary to this town is the 

 "well-known Camp Bird mine. 



The town of Ouray is most pictur- 

 esquely situated. This beautiful region 

 of massive and vari-colored mountains, 

 tinted in autumn with all the blends of 

 quaking aspen and mountain spruce, 

 well deserves its local appellation, ' 4 The 

 Switzerland of America." East of 

 Ouray lies a vast arena, i 1 /, miles in 

 diameter and 1 mile in vertical depth, 



called "The Amphitheater," which is 

 surrounded by superb volcanic walls 

 that make it well nigh inaccessible. 

 Farther southwest Canyon Creek enters 

 Ouray through a box canyon so deep 

 and narrow that it is said sunlight never 

 enters there. Trails have been blasted 

 in the quartzite walls and a portion of 

 the canyon has been tunneled, so that 

 the visitor may better inspect the dark 

 recesses. Two miles south of town be- 

 gins the Bear Creek trail, which is said 

 to offer more magnificent scenery than 

 any other bridle route in the West. 



One of the very few old overland 

 stage coaches now left in the West runs 

 daily between Ouray and Red Moun- 

 tain. Its route makes the closing link 

 of 10 miles, through a country inacces- 

 sible to the railroad, in the famous 

 "Around the Circle Route" of 1,000 

 miles, which is made wholly in the state 

 of Colorado. Much of the stage road 



*The price of these maps is 5 cents each. They may be obtained on application to the 

 Director of the U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



