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A. J. DENTON.} LOANS And Negotiated. MADE<br />
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wending their way thitherward to secure from nature simple<br />
prescriptions more effective in bodily and mental ailments than<br />
that which the combined scientific knowledge of all the medi-<br />
cal school in the world can furnish.<br />
This mineral water is now being bottled and is offered to<br />
MANITOU SPRINGS. the public abroad in carbonated form by the Manitou Mineral<br />
Water, Bath and Park Company. It is said to retain its fresh-<br />
ANITOU lies in a narrow valley five miles west of Colorado<br />
Springs, at the foot of Pike's <strong>Peak</strong>. By judicious<br />
advertising it has become what Nature designed it should be,<br />
ness and sparkle after being bottled longer than any other<br />
natural water in the world.<br />
For those who admire the grand in nature, the mountains<br />
tower in the western heavens, marshaled and captained by Pike's<br />
the most fashionable summer resort of the west. Its altitude <strong>Peak</strong>; for those who are moved by vastness, the mysterious<br />
is 6,400 feet above the level of the sea, and it has about 1,500 plains stretch boundless to the east ; for those who love gentler<br />
permanent residents, with churches, schools, pleasant resi- aspects, the valley of the Fountain qui Bouille, glowing with<br />
dences, and six large, first-class hotels ; also numerous other<br />
hotels and boarding houses. During the summer months it<br />
swarms with life, its hotels overflow, and private houses take<br />
in. strangers; summer cottages and tents are perched like<br />
birds' nests on the hillsides, among the rocks, and in the<br />
greenery and planked with flowers, affords perennial pleasure.<br />
Manitou Springs has also claims as a winter resort, which<br />
are beconling recognized; and it will soon be regarded, as it<br />
undoubtedly is, the best winter resort in the west, especially<br />
canons, and in every available place.<br />
for invalids; being sheltered by the mountains from the cold<br />
It is the wonderful mineral springs tha,t have so largely northeast winds, which are the prevailing storm winds of the<br />
added to the fame of this delightful resort. What was first<br />
chosen as a pleasant place for quiet homes has become a sarzistate,<br />
and is in every respect more comfortable and pleasant<br />
than cities and towns situated on the open plains. Having a<br />
tary retreat, whose remedial results have attracted the attention<br />
of scientists all over the world. Truly is it called the "Saragravel<br />
soil, there is no alkaline dust to irritate the thraat and<br />
lungs. The stillness of the atmosphere and contiuous warm<br />
toga of the West," but it possesses worth of waters that no<br />
Saratoga east, nortli; or south, or Spa, on the colltinent pas-<br />
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sunshine throughout the day more than compensates for the<br />
few minutes' earlier sunset. With its bright, warm sunshine,<br />
sesses, and the day is not far distant when the great medicinal fresh air, pure water, good food, and superior tonic springs,<br />
merits of these mountain springs will become more generally<br />
understood, and the ailing and sick of all Christendom will be<br />
Manitou Springs has claims which are paramount to those of<br />
any other resort in America.<br />
Real Estate and Loans<br />
0.1 117 E. PIKE'S PEAK.<br />
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