Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Colorado Springs

COLORADO SPRINGS, a city and county-seat of El Paso co., Colo.; on the Denver and Rio Grande, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and other railroads; 70 miles S. of Denver. It is situated on a plain 6,000 feet above sea-level, and is a health resort for victims of lung troubles. The city is the center of the gold mining district of Colorado, and the seat of Colorado College, sanitariums, St. Francis Hospital, the State School for Deaf Mutes, and the Union Printers' Home, several parks, and many handsome public buildings. It has electric railway connection with adjacent towns, electric lights, public schools, several daily and weekly newspapers, churches, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 29,078; (1920) 30,105.