Identifier: aroundcircle00denv (find matches)
Title: "Around the circle."
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Denver and Rio Grande railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Veta Pass; Old La Veta Pass; Veta Pass
Publisher: (Chicago, Knight, Leonard & co., printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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p-heavy on curves or in a high wind. This isalmost an unnecessary precaution, as it is not expected to make the ascentin less than two hours. On the ascent the cars are pushed by the engine,but on the descent the locomotive is placed in front. The engine achievesthe tremendous grades by means of a cog wheel, which fits into the cog rail.This mountain road is a great attraction, added to the many which alreadyrender Manitou the greatest summer resort of the mid-continental region. The run from Colorado Springs to Pueblo is down the valley of a prettylittle stream, the Fountaine qui Bouille, along whose banks are situated richfarms, or as they are universally termed in the west, ranches, on whichlarge crops are grown through the medium of irrigation. A hundred milesto the westward may be seen the faint blue outlines of the Greenhorn rangeof mountains, while to the eastward stretch the plains, the view of which islimited only by the horizon. Pueblo is the great manufacturing city of cen-
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Around the Circle. II tral Colorado. It has one of the largest steel manufactories in the world,and a number of extensive smelters. Its close proximity to coal and ironmines, and the fact that it has become a railroad center of much importance,makes the future of the city exceedingly bright in promise. With a popula-tion of over 20,000. constantly increasing, and with the energy and push of itscitizens, it cannot fail of achieving the greatest prosperity. From Pueblo, 120 miles distant from Denver, the journey is continued tothe south, still across a level country, and to the left the Spanish peaks soonrise to view. These mountains possess a peculiar attraction, rising, as theydo, directly from the plain in symmetrical, conical outlines, and reaching analtitude respectively of 13,620 and 12,720 feet. The Indians, with a touch ofinstinctive poetry, named these mountains Wahatoya, or Twin Breasts. Shortly after sighting the Spanish Peaks, the ascent of Veta Pass is begunThe ascent of th

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