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scenes I ever witnessed. Here, also, are to be seen
soda and chalybeate springs of great medicinal value,
and hot springs bearing a temperature of about eighty
degrees Fahrenheit. The mineral springs are distant
from Canon City one-quarter of a mile, the hot springs
one-half a mile, and the Iron Rock spring three and
one-half miles. Owing to the existence: of these
springs, and the fact that extreme cold in the winter
is never known in Pueblo or Canon City; these two
places are becoming widely known as most delightful
winter resorts for invalids, in addition to their unusually
attractive features for a summer residence.

Eighteen to twenty-five miles from Canon City are
some wonderfully rich silver deposits, and six miles
distant are the oil wells on Oil Creek. Here the
petroleum may be seen oozing from the ground like
a spring, and the oil used in Canon City for some
years past has been furnished by these wells.

And now, having become fairly weary in overstrain-
ing myself in viewing so many grand sights, I get my
ticket, and seating myself once more in the doll’s

train of the “narrow gauge,” I return to Denver. And

here I intend to spend my winter, for I have fallen
in love with the Rocky Mountains, and hope to enjoy
a few months of uninterrupted nomadic life among

her crags and waterfalls.