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Show ; ESTES-ROCKY MOUNTAIN NA-i NA-i TIONAL PARK. MANY years ago three Englishmen bunted big game in the Uocky ! mountains. They had hunted in Asia, I Africa and South America, but as they stood on the continental divide in north-central north-central Colorado and looked down into Esies park it seemed to them a very paradise' on earth. One of Colorado's 1 most satisfying outing places ever J since that time Uncle Sam. in 1915. proclaimed part of Estes and the territory ter-ritory immediately to the west a national na-tional park. Only 70 miles from Denver, it is the most accessible to the largest number of people of any of our great national i playspots. Here, at an average eleva-i eleva-i tion of 7,."00 feet above sea level, is a ! pine-scented. snow-capped pleasure-i'land pleasure-i'land a perfectly delightful refuge of pmccful grandeur, where one may be I out every day from May lo October in j clear, bracing air, beneath a bright but j scorchless sun and enjoy every night i the cool, refreshing sleep that only the ; mountains can induce, j Long's Peak stands sentuiel over I he i park. In which are lakes on which Moat ice cakes in August ; masses of snow i (glaciers) a mile long and hundreds of feet thick, supposed to be older than I the pyramids of Egypt, always exposed i to the sun. far away from their starl-j starl-j ing point, yet slower than a snail; moraines great ridges formed by gla-j gla-j Hers which moved through the park ; centuries ago; rock-walled canyons; I magnificent forests of pine and aspen; ! numerous uiouiil a in-l rout streams; I broad valleys, carpeted wiln luxuriant J wild (lowers of many varieties, including includ-ing the delicate columbine Ihe slate Power of Colorado. (Copyright, ll'lll, U'"slim Xt-WMj,;, i r I'ulnrii |