Colorado for invalids / by S. Edwin Solly.

  • Solly, S. Edwin (Samuel Edwin), 1845-1906.
Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Colorado for invalids / by S. Edwin Solly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    it contains three first-class hotels and several fair boarding houses; and a few cottages are to be had. The horses are excellent. The village is thronged with visitors through the summer months; it is somewhat cooler and less dry than Colorado Springs in the summer, and warmer in the winter; though, owing to the shadow of the hills, the hours of sun- shine are shorter. It stands about two hundred feet higher. The springs from which Colorado Springs derives its name are really here. They all contain more or less soda and some iron. They are peculiarly adapted for the dyspepsia of the consumptive, and the Iron Ute Spring is specially remarkable for its blood-making properties. Pueblo is hotter, dustier, and more windy, but drier than the Springs. It has very few attractions, but the warmer win- ter weather suits some invalids. Canon City stands about fifteen hundred feet lower and is warmer and more sheltered than the Springs, but there is much clay in the soil, and when snow falls it is not so healthy. It is well suited in some cases for winter residence, but an- uninter- esting place. Here also are springs resembling those of Manitou. They are not efficient for drinking, but there is an excellent thermal soda spring for bathing. During the summer there are many places in the mountams open to invalids, such as Idaho Springs, and Estes and Manitou Parks, where good hotels are to be found; and there are numerous good boarding-houses scattered through the moun- tains. A change to these elevations is generally attended with benefit in the summer ; but it is seldom wise for an invalid to go higher than the foot-hills till he is thoroughly acclimatized. 1