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Title: The Great West: its attractions and resources. Containing a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ... by Prof. F.V. Hayden ... Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Brodix, Charles R., (from old catalog) pub Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
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Publisher: Bloomington, Ill., C.R. Brodix
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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as been paid to fruit-culture in the valley of the Arkansas east ofCafion City, and it boasts the largest apple-orchard in the State, yieldingover two thousand bushels last year. Grapes grow in abundance, whilethe foot-hills are full of wild fruit. Fremont county boasts a real andpersonal property of two and a half millions, which is destined to rapidlyincrease. Gilpin county is the smallest political subdivision of the State, butone of the most important, and embraces within its limits the richestgold-mining region in the Rocky Mountains, and perhaps in the world.Broken by mountain-ranges and their intervening gulches and chasms,it is rich in the precious metal. Its mountains are covered with forestsof pine, and its rugged ravines hide rippling waterfalls and grass-coveredbottoms. Central City, Black Hawk, Nevada, and Rollinsville are the principaltowns, the two first being surrounded and traversed by belts of gold-mines, while in the immediate vicinity are gulch- and placer-diggings
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WILLIAMS CANON, COLORADO SPRINGS. BY THOMAS MORAN. COLORADO. 121 that have yielded millions of dollars worth, and will yet yield millions of dollars worth more. The mercantile and commercial interests of thecounty are important, and are skilfully managed by a class of merchantsand business-men possessing unusual enterprise and ability. The alti-tude of Central City is eight thousand three hundred feet, while theaverage of the county reaches nine thousand. The climate of the districtis mild and healthy. Railway communication is had by the narrow-gauge system, and the ride from Black Hawk to Central, where severalmiles are traversed to gain one in distance, is one of the grandest in theworld. Grand county lies in the northern part of the State, between Larimerand Routt. It comprises within its borders North and Middle Parksand the Rabbit Ear range of mountains, in which some silver-veins havebeen discovered. The famous Hot Sulphur Springs are in the last-namedpark. The North Fork of the

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