with opportunity and incentive, and necessary reliance, into more of manhood and womanhood."

- Mr Bowles quoted in The Mines of Colorado, Ovando Hollister

Leisure Pursuits

Favorite pastimes included: music, dances, ice-skating, bobsledding, church socials, lodge meetings and dinners as well as hunting and fishing. Baseball became the community passion-all the mines, mills, businesses and boarding houses had their own baseball team.