History of Georgetown, Colorado
THE BOOM- Early Mining
"Men are cheaper than timber. Wood for shoring is dear and scarce. Greedy men are cheap and plentiful."
Anonymous, 1866
In the earliest beginnings when the crust of the earth was being formed in a chaos of fire, and at intervals later during dramatic changes and upheavals on and beneath the surface, intense heat flashed metallic substances to steam and, when later condensed, these molten metals flowed into crevices and defiles in the common rock to solidify into veins and lodes deep within the ground.
As the forces of wind and water wore away the surrounding area, they also ate gradually at the weathered ores, washing them downstream only to be dropped at slack-water areas, there again to be covered by overlying muck and sand, and to eventually form another vein or lode. Sometimes, in pre-history, these ancient stream beds were lifted high above the surrounding areas, only to be chewed at again by more modern stream systems.
This was the precise situation facing the prospector in the early sixties in the Front Range of the yet-to-be -formed State of Colorado. These men had only three ways to discover the treasure they sought; panning of the heavy metals the stream had dropped, searching for "blossom" or oxidized outcroppings in the native rock, or by the simple expedient of driving a by-guess-or-by-gosh hole into the ground and hoping for a strike.
The more experienced (those from Georgia and veterans of the California Rush) used a combination method known as "watching the float" which in a more sophisticated form is still used today. The prospector would pan up the stream until he ceased to find any color in his pan. He would pan back until the "float" appeared again. At this point he moved up the bank of the stream sinking small shafts to keep track of the float until one shaft no longer showed evidence of metallic ores. Here he would cut across between the last two shafts in hope of hitting the main vein.
Once the main ore body was found, the miner would tunnel, or "drift" along the vein, cribbing or timbering as delivery to the crude processing mills of the day. Remember, if you please, that the miner had no power excavating machinery of any sort. He used an eight- or sixteen-pound "jack" or "double jack," and with great effort drove drill steel into the rock in order to place giant powder. Once this was done and the "round" was blown, he more than likely had to wait several hours for the air to clear of smoke before he could again enter his mine and "muck out" his high grade. Eight to ten feet a day was extraordinary progress in the Georgetown area under those conditions.
Many such mines were extremely dangerous because proper supports for tunnels were seldom used. It took time to cut trees for timbering, time that could better be used to gouge the precious metals from the earth. It can truly be said, that in the early mining days around Georgetown, owners and operators considered men at $2.00 a day, cheaper than timber. Needless to say, many men died, due to poorly built and greedily operated mines.
The high grade or "pay" had to be further processed in a crushing operation. The early pulverizing implements were primitive Spanish arrastres, consisting of two large rocks, the bottom one flat and the top one attached to a pole so that oxen or other animals could revolve it. The ore was thusly crushed and the gold or silver was separated from the debris by washing in pans.
Later, the more efficient "stamp mill" was introduced. This consisted of heavy weights, raised by mechanical means, and dropped on the ore. Ball mills were also used Here the ore was placed in a large iron sphere which revolved on a shaft. Within the sphere, intermingled with the ore, were cast-iron balls that battered and crushed the high grade to a point where again the gold or silver could be extracted with the good old pan or sluice.
All milling of ores in the earliest days of the Pikes Peak Rush depended upon the hydraulic action of water In the larger operations, where it was more efficient to bring the water to the ore than vice versa, miles of ditch and crude flumes and aqueducts were constructed it order to wash debris from the heavier metals. Sometimes, where stream banks and softer cliffs were believed to contain gold or silver, pressure nozzles, called "giants' were used to knock down and separate the treasure from the overburden.
The visitor to Georgetown and its contiguous mining district is constantly amazed at the scars and dumps that cover the mountainsides. This visual evidence of early mining under the most primitive conditions proclaims to the modern world a physical stamina and stubbornness not known in this day of sophisticated machines and high wages. We cannot help but admire the tenacity exhibited by these men of a century ago even when we realize the they, for the most part, followed false dreams, and the greed was by far the driving force that gave impetus to that dream.
Still, many were adventurers, pure and simple, who felt that the search itself was the important thing and seemed vaguely disappointed when Lady Luck treated them to a rich strike. A majority of those fortunate ones ultimately sold their claims for little or nothing and continued on into another wilderness following yet another dream. It can only be said, in retrospect, that early mining in the Georgetown district was indeed an arduous and dangerous undertaking that required great stamina and no little ingenuity, for while much of the work saw new and continued improvements in method, the mining continued to depend almost exclusively upon the brawny muscles of the individual and would so be for at least another half century.
The Discovery-1859
And there was a mountain of silver! We passed it by in our frantic search for gold."
D. T. Griffith, 1865
Of course, no one will be sure of the feelings of George Griffith as he climbed slowly up the side of the rocky slope above the flooded beaver pond and willow flat near the end of a box canyon nine miles above Jackson's Bar. But we can be certain that he was downcast and disappointed over his thus-far barren venture into the front range of the shining mountains of the Kansas Territory. He and his mule must have been dead tired after their month long journey from Auraria (soon to be Denver City) up Clear Creek to the Gregory diggings and then through Russell Gulch and down Virginia Canyon to Sacramento City (or Jackson's Bar and later Idaho Springs). And now it seemed that he had reached a dead end. Here the stream that he had followed so hopefully split just above the beaver flat and climbed two equally steep and rocky gorges. If the golden treasure he sought was not to be found here where the water quieted to drop its heavier minerals, then what chance had he to discover anything of value in the swift and tumbling streams above?
Griffith climbed to a level area on the hill side and rested for a moment to sort out his muddled thoughts. The mule grazed tiredly a few yards away. He and his brother, David, had started from Kentucky many months previously with an idea to make their way overland to the golden shores of California. Perhaps, they felt, there were still rich and unstaked claims to be had in that far-away land. But on their weary way overland they had been sidetracked by the news of William Green Russell's strike at Dry Creek near the confluence of the South Platte and Clear Creek.
However, when they had arrived in Auraria they had found only a miserable huddle of log and sod hovels- and no gold to speak of. But there was word in the cold wind that blew down Clear Creek that a man named Jackson had panned out a bonanza thirty miles upstream where it was joined by a rill he had named Chicago Creek. He and David had hurried to join the rush, but before they reached Jackson's Bar they had been sidetracked by what seemed to be better news, that John Gregory had hit it big several miles to the north of Clear Creek. There was gold in Gregory Gulch, but by the time the Griffiths arrived the timberline hills teemed with men and all the claims that were worthwhile seemed to be already staked.
David stayed at the Gregory diggings as a two-dollar a-day contract miner, but George and the mule moved on up the mountain to where Russell was working another gulch that was to bear his name. It was the same story all over again, all the good claims were gone. "Go over the hill," Russell advised him, "and down what we call Virginia Canyon. Good color there, and if you have no luck it will lead you to Sacramento City." So George worked his way, prospecting as he went, to Jackson's Bar, his original destination. It was the same story all over again and rather than admit total defeat, he and the mule plodded upstream. Now it seemed that they were boxed in by seven high mountains and the cliff-spewed stream.
Perhaps George Griffith lighted his pipe and watched his mule graze; perhaps he mused over a cleft in the rock close by the little glade in which he sat. "If only that were filled with gold," he might have said to himself. At any rate, he investigated the tiny crevice-and discovered an outcropping of what he believed to be gold bearing ore The Griffith Lode had been found!
George Griffith hurried back to Gregory Gulch, hearing on the way that it was to be re-named Central City and brought his brother back to the valley of the seven mountains. They named the beaver flat upon which their crude shelter stood, George's Town and began to work their find. With the help of three other men, they took over $500.00 in gold from the small opening in the rock face.
The word of their discovery got away from them and soon the valley swarmed with other treasure seekers. But no more gold was found. Instead, other men discovered The Belmont Lode up near McClellan Mountain in the Argentine, and free silver two miles away in a place that one day would bear the euphonious name of Silver Plume and the peaks that frowned down upon George's Town came to be called "The Seven Silver Mountains." Until Virginia City and Leadville came in, George's Town -or Georgetown, as it later came to be known-was the greatest silver producer in the world.
But it was not until 1864 that all this came about. In the spring of 1860 George, David, another brother an his wife, Elizabeth, and their father returned to the valley and staked the entire area as a homestead ranch. This was called the Griffith Mining District and in June of that year the miners called a meeting and drew up laws and regulations to govern the district. This was the true beginning of a boom town that was truly unique in the annals of mining communities throughout the world. But that is another story entirely.
The Birth of a Town...1864
At the juncture of two streams we set our town. History did the rest."
D. T. Griffith, 1870
There can be no specific date for the beginnings of a community, for often the unofficial birthing consists only of a lonely building at an obscure crossroads, or a mill at a convenient junction. Just as often nothing comes of such placements, and they fall into disuse and ruin. But, occasionally, others build on the location, and once in a great while a city evolves. Who can say the exact day, or even year, that the city was born?
In the case of Georgetown, however, we can pinpoint its birth to the summer of 1864, the date of the discovery of the Belmont Lode by James Huff, Robert Steele and Bob Layton. Although Huff found the rich quartz ledge (50 lbs. of quartz assayed 1000 oz. of silver to the ton) all three must share in the discovery that started a stampede from the gold camps, and ultimately gave Georgetown its uniqueness and the euphonious name of "The Silver Queen of the Rockies."
There were only four cabins, a few tents and one or two dugouts in George's Town in the spring of 1864. By snowfall the heavily forested slopes had been laid bare to provide timber for a score of mines, and the rows of cabins neatly arrayed along the two streams.
Actually there were two towns, the original Griffith settlement was located below the juncture of the two streams on the beaver flat. But as more men arrived they began to build to the south, at the foot of Leavenworth Mountain. This area grew rapidly and soon became the more populous. It was named "Elizabethtown" after Griffith's sister-in-law who was probably the only "lady" in the camp at that time.
When a post office was granted in 1866, a public meeting was held and it was agreed to combine both camps under the name of Georgetown. So much for chivalry!
By 1867, Georgetown was the center of a silver craze that was to eventually sweep the entire western half of the country and cause tremendous political upheaval at a later date. When the Anglo-Saxon, with ore assaying at $23,000 a ton, was discovered in that year, the boom came on with a rush and the small mountain valley rang with the mingled voices of 5000 miners.
Georgetown had become a city, no doubt about that! Each day, Concord Coaches from Denver arrived over the newly built toll roads up Mt. Vernon Canon and down Floyd Hill (more or less the highway 40 route of today) disgorging adventurous men and women intent upon wrestling treasure from the earth, or from their comrades. Jack trains, bells jingling, crowded the muddy streets, beginning the arduous pack climb to the High Argentine. A branch bank of Clark and Co. of Central City, and Wells Fargo, opened doors to handle money matters, and the fabulous Barton House, said to be the finest in the newly formed Colorado Territory, presented first rate accommodations and cuisine to the be-dazzled multitude.
If it can be said that the shady ladies made a quick appearance in the camp and quickly began the lusty work of "mining the miners," we must not short change the "Soldiers of the Lord" who were, as always, not far be- hind. All major denominations were represented, Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics and Episcopalians. First services were held in the saloons, the fleshy back bar painting covered with burlap, and "no booze for thirty minutes, boys, the sky pilot's got a few words to say," but by 1867 religion was a part of the town. The first church to be built, the Grace Episcopal, promptly blew down in the "big wind of '67," but was just as promptly rebuilt, and stands today on Taos Street, almost as it was over 100 years ago.
Yes, a lusty, brawling child was Georgetown, but it needed a charter and incorporation before it could truly move from gangling adolescence to maturity. That happened one year later-in 1868!
Big Men and Little Engines
"Rails will never breach those crags. Only a bird or a burro can take men into the Rocky Mountains."
Anonymous-1860
Fortunately for Georgetown, one man, General William Palmer, believed that the shining mountains could be crossed by rails. General Palmer had been a director of the Kansas Pacific line which had reached Denver in 1870. In that same year he began organizing the Denver and Rio Grande, and because the D&RG was to run through the mountains at Raton, General Palmer set the track gauge at a three foot width instead of the growing American standard of four feet, eight and one-half inches.
This "narrow gauge" decision by Palmer was to have a tremendous effect upon transportation into and through the Front Range of the Rockies. This decision, more than any other, kept the mining boom going in the high mountain valleys, for it made possible the easy and inexpensive transportation of supplies into the camps as well as the out-shipment of ore to formerly inaccessible markets.
Two unusual and eccentric gentlemen who gave their names to a couple of Colorado's most scenic passes, W. A. H. Loveland and Capt. E. L. Berthoud, conceived and surveyed a rail line up the tortuous Clear Creek Canyon in 1867. Loveland, who practically owned the City of Golden at the mouth of the canyon, believed, along with Berthoud, that eventually the line would travel to the Pacific shores, and that Golden would become the new capital of the Territory.
But for intermediate financing of this transcontinental dream, Loveland abandoned the almost impossible idea of standard gauge trackage and hustled his little road along the steep and narrow banks of the tumbling creek to Blackhawk and Central City. When Berthoud could find no realistic engineer to undertake the 11,000-foot pass, he allowed Loveland to move the rails south to Georgetown where they came to an end.
In 1879, Jay Gould took over the Colorado Central, as it was then called, and upon a visit to Georgetown, envisioned an extension of the line to the booming city of Leadville. Under his auspices, The Georgetown, Leadville and San Juan Railroad was organized for this rather grandiose purpose. However, The G.L.&S.J. never put down a foot of track, and another line, The Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville Railroad, performed one of the great engineering feats of the age by lifting itself some 638 feet, from Georgetown to Silver Plume, over a track distance of four and one-half miles. This was done (on a gradient of 143 feet to the mile) by the dramatic engineering device of The Georgetown Loop. Here the three-foot tracks spiraled upward above the Devil's Gate canyon of Clear Creek and passed over themselves by the celebrated "high bridge" and on into Silver Plume.
Although Gould's idea of moving over (or under) Loveland Pass to Breckenridge and Leadville never immaterialized (the tracks stopped forever at Graymont), and the ownership passed into the hands of the Union Pacific, the entire Loop setup was widely exploited as a scenic attraction. As many as seven or eight special trains made the trip up Clear Creek from Denver daily during the summer season, in addition to the two scheduled runs each way.
Twenty years after the construction of the Loop, one of the more unusual narrow gauge roads in the world was built over wavy tangents, sky-high curves, and slender trestles from Silver Plume to The Argentine district town of Waldorf, nearly 12,000 feet in altitude. This was the famous Argentine Central road with its unique Shay geared locomotives, the only adhesion motive power cap-able of operating over the steep grades.
Thus Georgetown became, for a brief time, the center of a complex of narrow gauges only rivaled in density of trackage and operations by Denver itself. Clear Creek Canyon, The Loop and The Argentine Central made a trip to Georgetown a must in the guide books of the time, and a scenic attraction of unsurpassed beauty.
And so it is today. Don't miss it!
The years dealt impartially with mining in Colorado and with the narrow gauges, and the decline of one into terminal borasca spelled the eventual end of the other. In 1912, The Argentine Central was sold for $5,000. It had cost close to half a million. And in 1919 (13 years after its completion) it was sold for scrap. In 1939 the last engine rolled across the spidery Loop, and by 1941 the entire narrow gauge complex (by then, The Colorado and Southern) from Denver to Georgetown and Graymont had heard the last cheerful tooting of the little trains. The tracks were torn up to make way for the more efficient highway system, but no automobile, no matter how glamorous, will ever have the romance of the little engines- or the big men who ran them.
NOTES: Highway Six from Golden to Georgetown is the approximate route of the narrow gauge line. The six tunnels are strictly highway engineering, but if you look closely you will be able to see long stretches of railroad grade winding along the river banks. It is anticipated that the Colorado Historical Society will soon rebuild the famous Georgetown Loop as well as a model mining complex alongside its historic right of way. You may today drive over a portion of the Argentine Central grade by way of a county road to the ghost town of Waldorf. Anyone interested in The Loop and The Argentine Central may see them in all their previous glory when visiting The George-town Railroad Museum where the largest operating rail-road model in the world portrays the lines, and the towns of Georgetown, Silver Plume and Waldorf as they were in the booming times of yesterday.
The Brave Fire Laddies
"The red devil fire has destroyed every other town in the state. Due to the bravery and training of our teams, our town never burned."
Senator E. O. Wolcott, 1882
At their meeting on February 20, 1868, the board of selectmen of Georgetown, recognizing the need for a fire department, appointed three selectmen, H. K. Rearson, W. W. Ware, and a Mr. John Scott as a committee with full powers to act.
Since at the time Georgetown had no water works or water systems, the duties of the Fire Department centered around prevention and removal of probable causes. This in itself was a mighty job. Georgetown being constructed of mostly wood, bucket brigades and fire lanes for them were organized. And from such a small beginning came Georgetown's Fire Department, known across the United States for their wonderful efficiency at a fire, their organization, and the number of prizes and trophies they won in fire rally competition with other towns.
In December 1869, the citizens of Georgetown sub-scribed $1,100.00 for the purchase of a hand fire engine and 300 feet of hose. This apparatus was delivered in March, 1870. However, in February, 1870, the citizens of Georgetown, acting independently of the town authorities organized and trained a fire company, known as George-town Fire Company. This company is still in existence and is known as Georgetown Fire and Hose Company Number 1 or "Old Missouri."
In 1871 a hook and ladder truck was purchased and the citizens again formed and trained a company which was known as the Star Hook and Ladder. With these two companies the board of selectmen was requested to create offices of City Engineer with assistant. The duties of these engineers are defined by ordinance.
On the 4th of July, 1874, races and contests were run between the two fire companies. This is the first record of Fire contests and races held in Colorado Territory. On July 23rd, 1874, Hope Hose Company No. 1 was formed with Thomas Gaunella as foreman. Hope Hose, contrary to most beliefs was dismantled. It did not burn down, to make room for the present Engine Company No. 5.
On August 30th, 1874, the fire ordinances were passed and amended to the charter of the city of Georgetown, and on November 24th, 1874, Alpine Hose Company No. 2 was formed. Alpine Hose still holds a record for the fastest time ever made over a 700-foot course with hose jumper carrying 250 feet of hose in a straight-away race.
Now Georgetown possessed 4 top rate fire companies, paid for and supported by citizens and assisted by the town treasury. These companies were very exclusive and even today citizens desiring to become volunteers must meet with trained men and are eventually approved.
Monumental to note, at this point during the period 1867 to 1874, the small fire combat resources successfully extinguished all blazes or prevented material damage to other structures. Big fires recorded during the period were the old Burton House (site of the new grade school), on January 7, 1871; the Washington Mill on July 20, 1871; the Bolor Reduction Works on August 15, 1871, and the Stewart Reduction Works on January 14, 1872. This works (Stewart) was saved and remained in operation after the fire. In 1875 President Grant visited Georgetown and was amazed at the proficiency of the fire companies in races and contests as well as their time records.
During the centennial year 1876, Georgetown celebrated with a grand schedule of races, fire tournaments and fireworks. The J. H. Jambell and company cast a brass cannon in their works at Georgetown, and on the evening of July 4, 1876 the cannon was fired 38 times. Once for each state in the union at the time. The cannon was the first gun made in Colorado and was presented to George-town. 1876 saw Colorado taken into the union as the Centennial State.
The year 1877 was one of the most significant in the history of Georgetown. Typical of competitions in which the four fire companies participated was one that took place at Idaho Springs. With the completion of the Colorado Central Railroad to Idaho Springs from Denver, the Woodie Fisher Hose Company of Denver made its first excursion, challenging all comers. On June 12th twelve companies from all over the new state took part. Distance of the run and hose lay was set at 700 feet. Teams of 11 men pulled the Woodie Fisher cart, weighing 1400 pounds. The run was won by Star Hook and Ladder in 32 seconds with the Rescues of Central City being second. Time: 31-3/4 seconds. On July 4th with the same conditions at Idaho Springs, Georgetown Fire Companies held a tournament. First prize was a silver fire trumpet ($125.00 value). This was won by Star Hook and Ladder in 32 seconds flat. The average times on the run for all fire companies was 32 seconds 7/10 and 16/100.
On August 14, 1877, the railroad arrived in George-town. Governor Routte and Secretary of State Clark were guests. There were some three thousand people that came up on the excursion trains throughout the day. For the occasion the Georgetown Iron Works cast a brass cannon as first prize to the fire competition. The big race over a 700-foot course pulling a hose jumper with 250 feet of hose was won in 29-3/4 seconds by Alpine Hose No. 2. J. E. Bates team of Denver was second with a time of 30 seconds flat, and Star Hook and Ladder third in 30-3/4 seconds.
From this race came a challenge race between Bates Company of Denver and Alpine Hose, to be run on Taos street in Georgetown in October 1877. This was a hub to hub race, distance 700 feet, with hose jumper and 250 feet of hose. Eleven men on each team. The Alpine Hose won this race by a foot in 26-3/4 seconds. Jim Canavan of the Bates team fell as they were crossing the score (finish line) and was run over by the cart. He was not seriously injured.
In 1878 Star Hook and Ladder went to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where they won 2nd place, and in Pueblo, they won Colorado first prize and championship belt for the state associations' convention.
During 1879-1880 Georgetown started building houses for the four companies, three of which are in existence today.
In 1880 Col. W. A. Hamill presented a bell to Alpine Hose No. 2. During this year, Col. Hamill donated $2,055.40 to the fire departments. In 1886 there were 183 active firemen in Georgetown, with new engines and 3,500 feet of hose.
Georgetown has on several occasions been threatened by fires. In 1871 the Barton house was destroyed, and in 1887 the Fish Block in the center of the business district was burned, however this was restored. The McClellan Opera House, situated in the center of town was destroyed. Even in June 1967, the Fish Block was gutted by fire; however, 18 minutes after the alarm was sounded, the fire was downed with no damage to adjoining buildings. Every time an alarm has sounded since the 100-year-ago beginnings, the fire companies responded so promptly and combated the fire so efficiently that Georgetown is the only original frame and wood constructed town in Colorado which has not been swept out by fire-a splendid record for the departments and for the town. Properly organized, trained and efficient, today as well as yesterday, Engine No. 5 and the present department is continually active in training, inviting chiefs and firemen to assist in the training from Denver and surrounding cities. Proper education, inspection and fire consciousness in Georgetown are a continuation of the 100-year tradition set by the bucket brigades of '76.
Georgetown-1880
The following description was taken from Crofutt's "Grip-Sack Guide of Colorado." The guide was printed in 1885 by The Overland Publishing Co. and sold by news agents on the railroads, at newsstands, and at book stores throughout the United States:
Judicial seat of Clear Creek county, Georgetown is in the center of the oldest silver mining region in the state of Colorado, at the eastern base of the "Snowy Range," 52 miles west from Denver, on the "C.C." division of the Union Pacific railway. Altitude, 8,530 feet. Population about 3,000. The city contains some very good business blocks, and stores and shops of all kinds, two banks, eight stamp mills, ore sampling and reduction works, five churches, good schools, two weekly news-papers, the Miner and the Courier, and quite a number of hotels, chief of which are the Barton, Hotel de Paris and American. Masonic, Odd Fellows and other secret orders have their halls for meetings. Gas works supply the town with illuminating facilities, and water, the finest in the world, is conducted in pipes from a mammoth reservoir, 500 feet above the city, which affords great protection in case of fire.
As a winter resort, the citizens of Georgetown claim to have some advantages over all other mountain towns. Situated as it is, at the head of the valley, walled in on three sides by lofty mountains, which protect it from the wind and storms, the air is of great purity, and the climate mild. For these same reasons, it is cool and delightful in the hot summer months, and of late has become quite attractive as a summer resort.
Georgetown is strictly a mining town. The first discovery of silver in Colorado was made by James Huff, September 14, 1864; the location is about eight miles above Georgetown. Of the thousand rich mines in the vicinity of the town, those shipping ore are: Colorado Central, Terrible, Pay Rock, Vulcan, Griffith, Baltimore Tunnel, Equater, Mendota, Little Matte, Native American, Corry City, 7-30, Joe Reynolds, Tenth Legion, and many others.
The most noted mines from which ore is brought to Georgetown for treatment are situated in Silver Plume, Brownsville, Silver Dale, West Argentine, and Bakersfield.
Georgetown is noted for the multiplicity, beauty and interest of its attractions. The noted "Green Lake," is reached in two miles, "Devil's Gate" and "Bridal Veil," in half a mile; "Gray's Peak," 14 miles; "Chicago Lakes," eight miles; "Summit Lake," 10 miles; "Empire," four miles; "Berthoud Pass," eight miles, and the remarkable railroad engineering feats of the "three-ply," "horse-shoe," etc., in two miles. These wonders can all be reached by good carriage roads, as also the "Snake River Pass," where you can stand, one foot resting on the Atlantic, the other on the Pacific slope. From this point is one of the grandest views of mountain scenery on the continent. The tourist can here pick flowers with one hand and gather snow with the other.
Georgetown is on the "C.C." division, Union Pacific railway, reached by two regular passenger trains from Denver daily; fare, $3.45. To Hot Sulphur Springs, 47 miles; Grand Lake, 55 miles; fare $11.00, "round trip," four-horse coacheS.