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The village of Colorow is enclosed by a colossal aray stone, in whose niches arped pines stand like spectators silent and waiting Six thousand feet above the valley floor green and orange slopes run to the edges of perennial ice-fields, while farther away, and peering above these al Titans, rise three great ether a stage worthy of sootten hamlet
The railway enters the valley fro, foaines cautiously feel their way a perilously between perpendicular cliffs by slender iron rods, or creep like e, so that when they have reached safe harbor beside the little red depot they never fail to pant and wheeze like a tired, gratified dog beside hisof these trains, the town is silent as the regarding pines
The only other ways of entrance to this deep pocket lie over threadlike trails which climb the divide from Silver City and Toltec and Ver courses down the declivities trod only by the sturdy burro or the agile, sure-footedpaths, worn deep and dusty once, are grass-gro, for they were built in the days when silver was accounted a precious metal, and only an occasional hunter or prospector , tuamblers, and social outcasts, is now risen (or declined) to the quiet of a New England su old), butfas, for these splendid peaks have their waters, hot and cold and sweet and bitter, whose healing powers are beco number of those Americans who are minded to explore their native land
This centre of aërial storroups of transcendent suular sense of proprietorship hich each discoverer regards them The lucky traveller who falls into this paradise is seized with a certain instant jealousy of it, and coe only to his family and his friends Nevertheless, its farowing numbers to the one little hotel and its ramshackle bath-house, so that the coins to take tis, and here and there a little log-cabin (as appropriate to this land as the chalet to the Alps) is built beside the calling ripples of the river, while saddled horses, laden burros in long lines, and now and then a vast yellow or red ore-wagon creaking dolefully as it descends, still give evidence of thetrails towards the soaring, shining peaks of the Continental Divide