Just below the hotel are two cold springs, with pagodas surrounding them, both furnishing exceptionally pure water. Near the hotel in another direction is an excellent iron and sulphur spring, and between the hotel and the lake is a beautiful little park, with a fountain in the center. On the banks of the lake you will find a pretty boathouse, where the boats are kept for the use of the guests; the equipment of row and sail boats is unsurpassed in the West. Near the center of the lake is a small island, on which is a pavilion and band stand. Near one end of the lake is a fountain, which breaks up through the level surface of the lake and throws the water to a height of thirty or forty feet. On the edge of the lake is an iron spring, which is second only to the great spring at Manitou.

Arrangements are being made to accommodate the thousands of expected health and pleasure seekers who may come here during the coming summer. This resort may be reached by the Colorado Midland Railroad, from Colorado Springs. Accommodation trains will run between these points, making several trips each day, besides the four regular daily express trains of this railroad, and it is reported as having sold during last season, 16,000 tickets to this place, which was then scarcely known of, and only beginning to be improved.

The Colorado Midland, in constructing their railroad through the Ute Pass, displayed some of the finest engineering skill that was ever accomplished in the world. Up as far as Green Mountain Falls, the road cost to construct, about $162,000 per mile, there being nine tunnels in that short distance. It passes along the edge of the mountain at a height of from 500 to 1,000 feet above the bottom of the canon, appearing like a spider's web clinging to the sides of these massive stone walls. It is well worth a tourist's travel from the Atlantic to the Rockies to be enabled to ride over this fifteen miles of the most picturesque scenery in America.

The Green Mountain Falls Company have their office at this place, as well as at Colorado Springs, and they have 840 acres of land, which lies very beautifully for platting; they have also some 300 or 400 lots on the market for sale, at extremely low prices considering the advantages for building, etc.

There are several branches of business already represented here, and others soon to be established. The Baker Mineral Paint Company are operating near here, where they have the best bed of mineral paint in the West, putting up all kinds of paint, which are said to be of the purest kind. One, a red mineral, containing a large per cent. of oxide of iron, and used extensively for roofs, cars, bridges, etc., and for coloring mortar for fine brick work; and the other, a yellow ochre of excellent quality.

The Baker Mineral Paint Company's mines near Green Mountain Falls are now producing two valuable mineral paints that have not heretofore been found in any such quality or quantity in the West.

This company is composed of some of the best and most responsible citizens of Colorado Springs. They are amply able to make good their engagements; their characters are irreproachable. F. E. Ďow, President and Managing Director, has resided in Colorado Springs sixteen years; came to that place from Olathe, Kansas, where he had been in the clothing business. He was engaged in the clothing business in Colorado Springs for eleven years; served as City Clerk and Treasurer for three years, and two terms as Mayor, the last term he had no opposition for re-election. He is now President of the Exchange National Bank of Colorado Springs; a good and highly esteemed citizen.

I. J. Woodworth is Secretary, Treasurer and Consulting Attorney for the company; has lived in Colorado Springs about one year; formerly lived in Sycamore, Illinois, where he was practicing law, and was Administrator of the Waterman estate, valued at $1,000,000, and Captain Benjamin Page's estate, valued at about $50,000, but was scattered all over the world. After having satisfactorily and in a business-like manner, closed up the affairs of the two estates abovementioned, he came to Colorado.

For seven years he was Principal of the theoretical business department of the Jacksonville, Illinois, Business College, and for five years Principal of the same department of the Gem City Business College at Quincy, Illinois.

Charles Sprague, Manager, came to Colorado Springs one year ago, and was one of the organizers of the company, and the present excellent condition of the company is due to his able management. It was through his efforts that the present owners were induced to take hold of the enterprise, and place it upon a sound financial basis. Mr. Sprague is always in attendance at the Falls, and receives guests with his unsurpassed grace, and points out the numerous points of interest thereabout. He also has charge of the extensive improvements which the company are making. Mr. Sprague formerly lived in Olathe, Kansas, where he was Deputy Register of Deeds for two terms, and in the real estate business.

Messrs. Dow and Woodworth own about two-thirds of the stock of this company and are energetic business men, which assures the complete success of the enterprise:

Green Mountain Falls Town and Improvement Co., 112 Pike's Peak avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado,

OFFICERS F. E. Dow, president and executive director; Dr. M. H. Smith, vice president; I. J. Woodworth, secretary and treasurer; Charles Sprague, general manager.

DIRECTORS F. E. Dow, I. J. Woodworth, J. G. Garland, Charles Sprague, E. W. Sells, Dr. M. H. Smith and S. N. Nye.

REFERENCES First National Bank and Exchange National Bank, Colorado Springs; E. E. Parker, vice president American National Bank, Kansas City.

The following named gentlemen are our agents for the sale of lots in Green Mountain Falls: T. H. S. Schooley, Grand Hotel, Pueblo, Colorado; A. Alloway, 111 East Eighth avenue, Topeka, Kansas; W. B. Henry, Olathe, Kansas; W. S. Tower, Carthage, Missouri; T. D. Walton, Seventh and Delaware, Kansas City, Missouri; Mr. Thomas L. Drake, office 1018 Seventeenth street, Denver, Colorado.

MANITOU PARK.

THIS charming spot is situated twenty miles from Colorado Springs, up the Ute Pass, on the line of the Colorado Midland railway. The Ute Pass has been known for years to the freighters and occasional tourist as containing some very charming spots for a summer outing. The beauty not escaping the gross nature of the ordinary "bull wacker," and captivating the more refined nature of the tourist, so that twelve or fifteen years ago some enterprising individuals from Colorado Springs erected a fine hotel and cottages at a point six miles distant from the present Manitou Park; the railroad station being established about two years ago when the Colorado Midland had completed their construction as far out as this point. Here is destined to be erected another Colorado Springs, which will be to the resort six miles distant, all that the Springs have been to Manitou. The site for a city is unsurpassed in loveliness and grandeur, Here in the midst of the Creator's grandest handiwork is an elevated plateau, 8,500 feet above the sea level, surrounded by noble mountains, far enough distant to permit the sun to pour its rays into this valley, tempering the atmosphere in winter, and in summer forcing vegetation to the utmost limit of its propogation. It is in a veritable park, filled with natural flower gardens, and studded with stately pines and spruce, with clusters of shrubs, vines, etc., all of which contribute to the pleasure and comfort of the citizen, tourist or invalid. The elevation has proven especially beneficial to pulmonary diseases, asthma, hay fever and other throat diseases. It will attract thousands of people from the east who will make this their permanent home, and build up a city, combining the commercial with the health-giving qualities of the mountains, which will rival the now famous Colorado Springs. A large pavilion is being erected with a balcony on its top, from where an unobstructed view is afforded of three mighty monarchs of the mountains, snowcapped and glistening in the perpetual sunshine of this region. Pike's Peak, to the south only a few miles, Gray's Peak, 75 miles to the north, and Long's Peak, nearly 50 miles farther north than Gray's Peak; imagine an atmosphere so clear that the vision can be extended 125 miles without the aid of artificial lenses. Turning to the west, the snowy range, the "Back Bone of the Continent" is plainly visible; 60 miles to the nearest point, visible for more than 100 miles of its course, extending from north to south, resembling a silver cord studded with diamonds in its snow-white glistening beauty. Near the pavilion is a kitchen arranged and equipped for the accommodation of picnic parties, who also use the pavilion for spreading their lunch and for dancing, all free of charge. The management will provide, during a large por