The New Student's Reference Work/Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, county seat of El Paso County, is an attractive city, 65 miles south of Denver. Its altitude is 6,000 feet, and it is situated on a plain near Pike's Peak, and is known the world over as a health and pleasure resort. The city possesses a handsome opera-house, five clubs, several fine school-buildings, the State Blind and Mute School, sanitariums, hospitals and fine churches. It was settled in 1870, but the Cripple Creek gold discovery in 1891 nearly doubled its population. Colorado Springs is served by six railroads, and has all the adjuncts of a modern city. Population, 29,078.