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worship is’ held, eight banks, including

at a point where the rolling prairie land
three for savings; secret orders are numer-

gradually slopes to the westward, facing
the mountains at the junction of Cherry
Creek, 5,224 feet above sea level. _

The mountains extend north and south
as far as the eye can trace their rugged
heights. The highest points, Long’s Peak,
to the north, Pike’s Peak, to the south,
and the “dome of the continent,” Gray’s,
in the center, are in full view, towering far
above the tops of the surrounding moun-
tains. An open, rolling country surrounds
the city, being the outer border of that im-
mense plain which stretches away to the
waters of the Missouri River, 600 miles to
the eastward. Denver is built up prin-
cipally with brick of the best quality, pro-
duced near the city—and in point of rich-
ness, beauty, and the style of its private
residences, is not to be outdone by any city
five times its age.

The city has many fine brick business
blocks, a United States mint, 20 church
edifices, or places where regular public

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ous, so much so, that there are no secrets
any more—say what you like. Of flour-
ing mills, there are five; street car lines,
several; breweries, three.

The city is provided with water by
means of a canal 15 miles long, which con-
ducts the water from the mouth of the
Platte Canyon, to the southwest, over the
high prairie to a reservoir above the city,
from which, a portion of it, is made to flow
through the streets of the city, and the
parks and grounds of many of the citizens.
The influence for good, of these little
sparkling streams.of pure mountain water,
and the long rows of shade trees that have
been set out on each side of the streets,
within the last five years—upon the health
of the citizens, as well as the sanitary con-
dition of the city, cannot be overestimated
or described.

Besides the above, Denver is well sup-
plied with seminaries, schools, gas works,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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