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Title: "Around the circle."
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Denver and Rio Grande railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects:Ophir Loop on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad
Publisher: (Chicago, Knight, Leonard & co., printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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upon all sides of it, graduallywidening, until by describing a circle of their summits they appear as the topof a huge funnel. Among them is the famous Telescope Mountain, a freak ofnature only to be seen to form a proper realization of the aptness of its name.The place has much of historic interest, as evidences of early Spanish dis-coveries are found on many sides. Leaving Rico, the line continues up the Dolores, which grows smaller andsmaller, until it becomes a mere silver thread winding in and out among hugerocks and boulders. Thirteen miles north of Rico, and after climbing manymiles of three and four per cent, grades, the summit of the Lizard Head Passis reached at an elevation of nearly i i,oco feet. From the summit and to theleft will be seen the Lizard Head, a peculiar rock formation capping a tall,bare mountain. This rock derives its name from its resemblaace to the headof a mountain lizard, though at the same time it may be said to resemble theshaft of some large monument.
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Around the Circle. 23 Descending the pass through the mountain gorges over rushing mountainstreams, one finds ones self at Trout Lake. No more graphic description ofthis sheet of beautiful blue water can be given than a verse from a poem by H. H. The mountains wall in the water; It looks like a great blue cup ;And the sky looks like another Turned over, bottom side up. Here the sport-inclined tourist may spend a few days, for the lake is in-habited by thousands and thousands of mountain trout. Shortly after leaving Trout Lake, the famous Ophir Loop is passed. Herethe skill of the engineer was taxed to its utmost, for the track winds in zig-zagsdown the mountain side, rushing through a deep cut here, over a mountaintorrent and a high bridge there, darting around sharp curv^es, in and out ofsnowsheds, until on the opposite mountain and high above us is to be seen aline of freshly-turned earth, which the knowing ones say is the track overwhich we have just passed. From Vance Junction, a

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