at if these conditions were
violated, the land and buildings thereon should revert to the
original owners. There have been violations of this clause, and the
courts of this state, and the Supreme Courts of the United States,
having decided in favour of the provision, valuable property has been
lost to the owner."

Colorado Springs is a misnomer, inasmuch as the medical springs are
not there but at Manitou, five miles off, in the heart of the
mountains, and in superb scenery. Mrs. Dunbar thus describes it:--

"Five miles west of Colorado Springs, in the midst of the hills, lies
Manitou, at the foot of Pike's Peak, in the beautiful valley of the
Fountain, out of whose banks bubble the mineral springs that have
made this place the most fashionable summer resort of the West. It is
a small and quiet town in itself, of about five hundred inhabitants,
with churches, and schools, and pleasant residences, and four large,
first-class hotels. During the summer months it swarms with life; its
hotels overflow, and private houses take in the strangers; summer
cottages and tents are perched like birds' nests on the hillsides,
among the rocks and in the canyons, and in every available place.

SODA AND IRON SPRINGS.

"The Fountain is a stream of clear, swift-running water that comes
from high up among the mountains, through Manitou Park and down
through the Ute Pass, forming there the beautiful Rainbow Falls.
Ruxton's Creek, flowing down Engleman's Canyon, joins the Fountain at
Manitou. In this canyon of remarkable beauty are several iron springs,
the best known and oftenest visited being the Iron Ute. On either
bank of the Fountain are scattered the other springs. Their abundant
waters overflowing into the Fountain have coloured the rocks and
earth with the mineral matter which they contain. Rocks near the Iron
Ute look like huge blocks of iron. About the Shoshone, rocks and
earth are clothed with a yellow, mosslike crust. Down the sides of
the Navajo and Manitou the water trickles over rocks that are white
with soda, and striped with green and peacock blue.

"There are six or seven springs in all. Their Indian names and
legends are all that remain to remind us of our red brothers, whose
offerings to the 'Manitou' of the 'medicine waters' filled the basins
of the springs and hung from the neighbouring trees and bushes when
the 'pale face' invaded this their favourite camping-ground. The
springs differ much in their properties o