The caption on the cover photo says that it depicts a “monument to a mining empire.” Today, people would call it mining scars in need of restoration. The back of the menu calls the mountain in the photo “Red Mountain,” but there are three of that name in Colorado. The one in the photo is the tallest and is known as Red Mountain No. 3.
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This menu was used for travelers returning home after a convention of Job’s Daughters, a Masonic affiliate for 10- to 20-year-old girls. The menu is dated August 14 and 15 but without a year.
The fine print lists H.L. Scofield as Rio Grande’s passenger traffic manager and C.A. Wall as dining car superintendent. This dates it to between 1941, when H.W. McAbee was dining car superintendent, and 1947, as H.F. Eno became passenger traffic manager in the latter part of that year. Since national conventions of groups such as Job’s Daughters were probably suspended during the war, I suspect the menu is from 1946 or 1947.