Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1899 — On Pikes’ Peak. [ARTICLE]

On Pikes’ Peak.

George E- Marshall and Miss Jessie Bartoo are still traveling in vicinity of Colorado Springs, and while looking up a good business opening for a gallery are taking in the sights and excursions of the wonderful conntry they are in. He writes (in a letter to his family) We were up on Marshall Pass and Royal Gorge. Did not see any resemblance to myself however, but it is a great ride getting up there. I climbed around like an old mountaineer, while we stayed there. The pass is nearly 11,000 ft. high and I went 500 to 1000 ft. higher. I picked ripe strawberries and a great bunch of flowers, and right over the brew of the hill from the flowers, I dug out a big chunk of snow, from a drift of several acres. There were but few in the crowd who got to the snow bank, and when I got back to the sheds whioh the excursionists were using for a depot, the snow was in great demand by many who wanted to taste snow on the Ist of August. The altitude was too high for much exertion and we were mighty glad to have heavy wraps on, as it was very cold, even while climbing the hills for flowers, strawberries; snowballs and other tropical productions.