Wonder of the World." From Denver to Steamboat Springs

Wonder of the World." From Denver to Steamboat Springs is 214 miles and and allow me to say that you enter into the tunnels so quickly and so often in traveling that distance that you intuitively are as apt to grab your seat mate, (no matter whether it be a lady or gentleman, white or black) as you are to grasp the back of your seat. The sudden darkness from the brilliant and dazzling sunshine of a moment before inspires you with wonder and moves you to awe. But there are fifty-six of those tunnels yet to pass through before we reach the end of the road, Steamboat Springs. Soon we go to Arena whose altitude is 6162 feet then on to Crags 7040 feet, and 27 miles from Denver. Here in tbe "Crags of the Roclfies" a resort is being built by the "elite" of Denver where some very nice little bungalows are built on the points and peaks of this rocky elevation where play and danoe halls adorn the tops with prettily smoothed roads dodging in and out of almost impassable places. Still on we go passing a station occasionally-unless flagged-reaching Rollingsville elevation 8 367 then on to Tolland, elevation 8889 where we stop for ten minutes taking on fuel and water before we make the detour above the clouds, where we are informed in our ascent we travel 14 miles and raise 4000feet-although we were from Missouri-we took the informants word for it and start up the hill to Corona 11600 feet above sea level and the highest peak in the known world traveled by mortal man on a broad guage railway of commerce. Here we find a tunnel over the mountain top one and a quarter miles long with a restaurant that rings its "gong" inviting you to LUNCHEON A HOVE THE CLOUDS. Whether hungry or not you accept the invitation and willingly partake of sandwiches and coffee which you hastily devour and out you go like school boys from their studies at recess, and through the openings climb to the perpetual snow clad peaks of the