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Show Ben Lomond Beacon, March 23, 1978, Page 9 a look for North Ogden tourists and travelers at Pike's Peak, through the Garden of the Gods in the Colorado Rockies, where land is lifted in white-robepeaks. Its natural wonders are conserved for all to en- HERE IS ITS LIKE A trip to another age to visit the centuries-olruins at Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. Cliff Palace is only a small portion of the extensive ruins left by an ancient and mysterious Indian to 1300 A.D. These remarkably well preserved dwellings, civilization which inhabited the area from hanging on the steep cliffs as eagle nests, were occupied by Pueblo Indians about 800 years ago. Continuous excavations are adding more artifacts to the large park museum and to the knowledge of ancient Indian d d oy. 1 lore. BY GI.EN PERRINS Beacon Writer Ogden spring vacationers and travelers, ir North Ogden folks who ould like to take a look at eauties ol Colorado while hey stay at home, turn to the Beacons 3en Lomond ribute to the neighboring state in this issue. This is the season to step nto that high, wide and vonderful world at the top of iur nation. Springtime in the Rockies is much more than just a melody. Here are North some natures greatest of League, a Pultizer Prize nomination in History, and Colorado Colleges Benjamin McKie Rastall Award for distinguished service to the cultural development of Colorado. The handsomely bound volume is published by the W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 500 Fifth Ave., of New York, and the American Association for State and Local History, Nashville, Tennessee. The new book not only works of art. In future Beacon issues well take a pictorial peek at Wyoming, native state of Glen Perrins, Beacon writer and also a look at Nevada. North Ogden residents who travel to look at Colorado will find much meaning in this colorful new book, Colorado: A Bicentennial by Marshall History, Sprague, a resident of Colorado Springs since 1941. He is an author of note, and his works have won awards from the Colorado Authors describes NARROW GUAGE railroads through the rugged Rockies were an integral part of Colorado's development during the past century. Some of these steam trains such as the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad (CATS) between Antonito, Colorado, and Chama, New Mexico, are still operating and offer scenic and historic "trips into yesterday" for summer vacationists. expected that the caves would remain closed until early June in order to complete total within the caves. However, the late arrival of some specially designed equipment has delayed the project advance reservations are required. Those groups arriving without reser- vations will not be able to tour the caves. Sponsors should begin making plans soon in order to be assured of reservations for the spring and summer. may be classified ads to sell those unwanted items . . . and save! Add ye.i'S to the life of your cur-petRent a Steamex It s as sun. to pie use .is a vacuum Sx power jets oosen and lift out harmful g'Ound m d '1 !' at cuts ca'pet life D' es ful results sho't and also 756-449- (lu.S y1 For beauti- the pro about "breadlines and the Big T," ind war and peace," the writes Crossroads and ends with the Coloradoans and the conflict between their wish to preserve their beautiful land for the joy of it, and their need to mar its beauty by exploiting its resources for material gain. The book has a handsome cover photograph by Bob Peterson as we; as a photographer's essay by Mr Peterson. Also, there are original maps of Colorado ti.w 3 I IY;nV company LYNN'S DRY CLEANING 1959 W. 5700 So., Roy 825-431- INTERMOUNTAIN STEAMEX DIST. 1 773-920- 0 Did you know . . . raw wMm 9:00 TILL makers Those individuals who wish to bring groups of 10 or Reservations I OPEN g county Do it yourself $ on the plains. Chapters relate boom days and statehood at last, and tells about the Utes, the Cripple Creek, the tourists and the Twenties. The author 7 made by calling (801) between 8 a m. and 4:30 p.m. daily. Use the up the mountains, and of replacing cattle baronies with KTI QUALITY EYEWARE INCOME TAX & HEARING AIDS HAS AN ADDITIONAL NEW LOCATION IN DAVIS COUNTY Hanry w. BlocK "If we make an error on your taxes, ue pay the penalty and the interest. 26 DAYS We fill optical prescriptions written by your eye doctor. We have large selection of eyewear frames. We have prescriptions and non prescription sunglasses. We repair broken frames and replace broken lenses. 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N- -l as Steamex gets the dirt other methods dont reach. tells about driving railroads until after Labor Day. more people to visit the caves are reminded that Passes. The volume is a valuable addition to the libraries of beautiful author graphically students average layman, and especially tourists and travelers who wish to know and get better acquainted with the beauties of colorful Colorado and its History. and Peaks Rockies: and well as the as Colorado, Contemporary, and the Colorado as well mountain scenery, but tells also of gold in 1859, then silver, followed in more recent times by uranium and molybdenum, as well as Colorados vast holdings of shelet oil and coal. The Timpanogos schedules cave tours for 78 Superintendent Sherma E. Bierhaus announced today that Timpanogos Cave will be open as soon as weather permits, probably sometime during May. 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