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READY FOR DEDICATION

[[1 image - Caption: The feudal castle in the Cheyenne Mountains above Colorado Springs has been completed as a memorial to the late Will Rogers. it will be dedicated officially next summer.]]

CASTLE IN SKY COMPLETED AS WILL ROGERS MEMORIAL
COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 1. (Exclusive) - The famous "ladder to the sky" highway which zig-zags up the face of Cheyenne Mountain above Broadmoor and Colorado Springs, now has been crowned with a feudal castle. 
Appropriately, the castle in the sky is to be the shrine of a great American - Will Rogers. Devoid of fanfare, the memorial has been built during the last fifteen months by Spencer Penrose, wealthy Coloradoan and close friend of the humorist and actor. It will be officially dedicated next summer as the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun.

TYPICALLY RUGGED
Like Rogers, the tower is typically rugged and reflects the warmth and friendly spirit of the West. It stands as a beacon on the front range of the Rocky Mountains, where western plains roll abruptly into the backbone of the nation. It is 2000 feet above Broadmoor at an elevation of about 10,000 feet.
Just two miles of Pike's Peak, the snow-capped mountain sighted in 1806 by Lieut. Zebulon Montgomery Pike.
Penrose, builder of the West, has taken millions in gold from the Cripple Creek mines at the western base of Pike's Peak. The Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun is just one of the many things Penrose has don't to beautify the Pike's Peak region and to make the scenic wonders easily accessible to the American public.

BUILT OF GRANITE
More than 5000 cubic yards of light pink granite has been taken from a single boulder of Cheyenne Mountain as material for the 100-foot tower. The quarry is only a short distance from the memorial site - a point where Rogers has often enjoyed the vistas of rolling plains, framed in the west by the towering Rockies. The tower was designed by Charles E. Thomas so that its sharp angles would catch the sun's rays. 
By night the shrine will be equally lovely. At the highest point will be placed a sodium light, similar to those used on the new Oakland-San Fransisco Bridge. This light will be turned on at the time of dedication-to burn forever. It will easily be visible 125 miles eastward into Kansas and toward the south-eastern plains of Rogers's native Oklahoma.