PUERTO PRINCIPE 



PUGET SOUND 



south of Denver. The city occupies an area 

 of over eleven square miles, in a broad basin 

 in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. It is on the Arkansas River at the 

 mouth of Fountain Creek, and is served by 

 the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chicago, 

 Rock Island & Pacific, the Colorado & South- 

 ern, the Colorado-Kansas, the Missouri Pa- 

 cific and the Denver <fe Rio Grande railroads. 

 The population, which in 1910 was 44,395, had 

 increased to 54,462 (Federal estimate) in 1916. 

 About twenty per cent of the inhabitants are 

 foreign born. 



Pueblo's parked area covers 330 acres and 

 includes City Park (161 acres) and the Mineral 

 Palace Park (forty-seven acres). Prominent 

 buildings are the county courthouse, completed 

 in 1912 at a cost of $700,000; the Federal build- 

 ing, a Carnegie Library, a Y. M. C. A. build- 

 ing and the Mineral Palace, in which is a com- 

 prehensive display of the state minerals. 

 Among the more important institutions are the 

 Benedictine College, Loretta Academy, Gulli- 

 ford Academy, the state insane asylum, three 

 large hospitals and several charitable organiza- 

 tions. 



The smelting of zinc, lead, silver and gold, 

 and the manufacture of iron and steel products 

 (over 6,000 men being employed by one com- 

 pany) are the chief industries. The plants are 

 situated near a rich mineral territory, and con- 

 venient deposits of coal and oil are used as 

 fuel. Pueblo has also extensive stockyards, 

 foundries and machine shops, railroad shops, 

 lithographic works, canning factories, a packing 

 house and manufactories of saddles, confection- 

 ery, bricks, stoves, wire fence, farm imple- 

 ts and other articles. There are 18,000 em- 

 ployed in the various industries, and the 

 lily pay roll exceeds $1,000,000. Pueblo is 

 an important distributing center, and handles 

 a vast amount of freight. The agricultural and 

 stock-raising interest* of the surrounding coun- 

 considerable. 



:irst settlers on the site of Pueblo were a 



[party of Mormons, who came in 1846. Four 



man later a trading poet was established, but 



tin 1864 the inhabitants were the victims of tin 



Llndians. Another settlement. which was or- 



Uanued in 1859, became a city in 1873. In 1912 



the commission form of government was 



The water system is owned by tin- 



municipality. P.A.G. 



PUERTO PRINCIPE, pwair'toh preen' the 

 pay, the old nanir I.H tin- ('ul>:m rity of 



'.I'T.Y (which see). 

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PUFFBALL, a species of fungus belonging 

 to the same class as the toadstool and the 

 mushroom. The spores of this plant develop in 

 a globe-shaped body that bursts open when 

 ripe, sending out, through an opening in the 

 top, what seem to be puffs of brown smoke. 

 This smoke consists really of clouds of tiny 

 spores. Puffballs vary greatly in size, as gome 

 are no larger than the head of a pin, and there 

 are giant specimens from a foot to twenty 

 inches in diameter. Some of the larger puff- 

 balls are said to emit spores at the rate of one 

 million a minute for several days. They spring 

 from mycelium, a growth of long, slender fibers 

 that extend for a considerable distance through 

 the soil. When young, puffballs have a white, 

 fleshy interior and can be eaten like mush- 

 rooms. 



PUFFIN, puj'in, or SEA PARROT, an odd- 

 looking bird found in the Arctic waters of both 

 hemispheres, related to the auks. It has a 

 stocky body, a large head and a bright-colored 

 beak, a portion of which it sheds at the close 

 of the nesting season. The breast and under- 

 parts are white, the wings, tail and forepart of 

 the neck blackish, and the sides of the head 

 and throat white. The puffin is an expert 

 swimmer and diver and comes to land only in 

 June and July, the breeding season. These 

 birds nest in large colonies on rocky coasts, one 

 white egg being deposited in a burrow or 

 crevice of the rocks. Puffins are valued as food 

 by the Northern peoples, who net them in large 

 numbers on their annual coming to land. 



PUG, a small house dog with a thick body, 

 short, wrinkled, black nose, deeply-wrinkled 

 face, short, smooth, fawn-colored hair, and tail 

 curled firmly over 

 the back. The 

 pug is a lazy, 

 sluggish dog, and 

 as its chief busi- 

 ness is that of be- 

 ing a pet, it usu- 

 ally becomes fat 

 on account of 

 inactivity. 

 Though fawn-col- A pua DOG 



ored pugs are most commonly seen, black dogs 

 of this breed are also found. 



PUGET, pu'jct, SOUND, a large, irregular 

 inlet in the northwest corner of the state of 

 Washington. It is of great commercial im- 

 portance, for on its shores are located Scat- 

 ii< . Tncoma, Olympia and other port*. It is 

 one of the most picturesque bodies of water 



