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Title: A description of the western resorts for health and pleasure reached via Union Pacific system, "the overland route."
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Union Pacific railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally & co., printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tion, resting the wearied and heal-ing the sick. Hot and steaming they bubble and hiss from the ground, or icycool they rise to the surface, and steal away in glassy streams. Besides thenumerous private baths, there is also a mammoth swimming bath, in which agood swim may be enjoyed, as a current from the earths bosom is continuallyflowing. The natural cavern, hot as a Turkish bath-room, is more effectivethan that penetrating bath. It boils impurities from the blood and aches fromthe bones. There seems to be life in it. The pool that the angel troubled inolden times never worked greater curative wonders. People drink the cool water with the same zest that they bathe in the warm,and with equally good results. It has everything that the delicate require, suchas pure air, constant sunshine, and invigorating waters. An experienced andtraveled physician has started a sanitarium at Idaho Springs, selecting it becauseit has more days of sunshine in a year than any place within his knowledge.
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(30) FOR HEALTH AND PLEASURE. 31 The following is an analysis of its hot waters : Carbonate of soda 52 Carbonate of lime 16 Carbonate of magnesia 4 Carbonate of iron 7 Sulphate of soda 50 Sulphate of magnesia 32 Chloride of sodium 7 Silicate of soda 6 Total 177-69 CLEAR CREEK CANON. Clear Creek Canon is one of the wildest gorges in Colorado. Through thesolid rock of this gorge has been blasted the road-bed of the Union Pacific. Itis the most accessible gorge of any in the State. In the days of stages andfreight-wagons, it was used as a thoroughfare. The caiion is only about onehours ride from Denver, and it is reached from that city, via Golden, by theColorado Central Branch of the Union Pacific. This Branch until it reachesthe foothills, runs through fields as green and past farmhouses as pleasant asany of which the older States can boast. Leaving Denver Union Depot the road winds along past Argo and Arvadato Golden, a pretty and thrifty place just fairly in the mountains. Its site i

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