TowerScope Volume 9 Issue Nr. 4, April 1972

              Facts and figures
How about impressing your friends and relations
.(especially those everlasting visitors) with a few facts
*dbout our superlative state?
DID YOU KNOW:
Colorado is known as the "Top of the Nation"
because it contains 75% of all the area in the U.S.
over 10,000 feet. It has 54 peaks more than 14,000
feet high, and over 1000 peaks two miles high. The
mountainous area of Colorado is six times that of
Switzerland. Elevation extremes range from 3300 feet
on the Colorado-Kansas line to 14,431 at the top of
Mount Elbert.
Trail Ridge Road, at 12,183 feet, is the nation's
highest continuous highway.
Colorado is the eighth largest state, with an area of
104,247 miles.
The State has more than 296 days of sunshine per
year, with an average humidity of 33%.
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Grand  Lake is the highest registered yacht club in the world.
Golf Lessons anyone?
The Employee Health Education Committee, in an
effort to encourage employee recreational and
physical fitness, passes along this information. Mr.
Jim Man, golf pro at Kennedy Golf Course, will give
group golf lessons to our Hospital employees and
their friends at a reduced rate. For a series of six
lessons, the charge is $25 a person for groups of two
to four, and $20 a person for groups of five to eight
people. Charge includes use of clubs and balls.
Lessons are every day except Monday.
I The Committee also reminds employees the physical
fitness program at a special rate is still available at
Gym of Denver. Contact Employee Health Service at
extension 2235 for details on these two programs.
Colorado has 54 peaks more than 14,000 feet high.
Waters west of the Continental Divide How into
the Pacific Ocean; east of the Divide, into the
Atlantic.
The State is second in the nation in the production
of sugar beets. It leads the nation in oil shale reserves,
and molybdenum production.
Only Washington D.C. has more federal offices
than Denver. The U.S. Mint here is second only to
Fort Knox in gold depositories.
The world's largest open air hot springs swimming
pool is at Glenwood Springs. The highest registered
yacht club in the world is at Grand Lake.
There are almost 3.000 varieties of wild flowers in
the foothills. Colorado Carnations are the only
trade-marked flowers in the U.S. A third of the zinnia
seeds for the U.S. are produced in the Arkansas
Valley.
We have two national parks, six national monu-
ments, one national recreation area, and 1 1 national
forests. We have over 32 developed ski areas.
Grand Mesa is the world's largest Hat-top moun-
tain.
Colorado, "Mother of Waters", has 13.022 miles
of unposted trout streams, and 2,311 trout lakes
open to public fishing.
The Capitol dome is covered with 24-carat gold
totaling 250 ounces.
The state flower is the Columbine (it is against the
law to pick them). The state animal is the bighorn
sheep, and the lark bunting is the state bird.