Identifier: overrangetogolde00wood (find matches)
Title: Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wood, Stanley
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks Pacific States -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tumultuous stream,abounding in rapids and presenting a most interesting, varied and exhil-arating panorama to the eye. Emerging from the canon and gaining agreater altitude, the view is one of magnificent extent and grandeur.Northward the peaks of the Elk Range form a long line of well-separatedsummits. Northeastward, the vista between nearer hills is filled with theclustered heights of the Continential Divide in the neighborhood of theMount of the Holy Cross. Just below them confused elevations showwhere Marshall Pass carries its lofty avenue, and to the southward ofthat stretches the splendid, snow trimmed array of the Sangre de Christo.The enterprising and thriving mining town of Lake City stands in a littlepark at the junction of the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River with HensenCreek, both typical mountain streams. A substantial and pretty town hasbeen established. Mines of marvelous value surround the town, and theadvent of the railroad has given new life and energy to all the com-
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GATE OF LADORE. 86 OVER THE RANGE. LAKE CITY. Picturesque Mining.Town. Population, 1,500. Distance from Denver,352 miles. Elevation, 8,604 feet. mercial and speculative projects of the people.The development of her mining resources hasbeen retarded during the past by the lackof transportation facilities, but this has onlycaused its stores of wealth to be held inabeyance for awhile before their coinage.Many another district a few years ago thoughtequally profitless has risen to become the sceneof steady dividend making labor through theperfection of processes. It will not be longbefore, by like means, the reviving of Lake Citys mines will occur, andenable her to catch up with her more fortunate sisters in the wide circle of theSan Juan silver region. The romantic surroundings of this pretty town,—the lovely lakes from which it takes its characteristic name, the grand moun-tains and the grassy parks—have made it a favorite for the lovers of naturein the past, and will still attract

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