THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Pueblo and the Arkansas Valley 



As a Place to Locate or as a Section in Which to Invest. 



A great commercial and manufacturing city of the Rocky Mountain Region ; a great 

 railroad, steel and iron center; a great jobbing metropolis; finest climate in America. 



By E. W. PALMER 



To trace the development of cities and follow their lines 

 of growth is always an interesting study. That a city has 

 been founded, grows, fosters certain lines of industry and 

 development, is usually because of clearly defined reasons. 

 Men do not build cities in certain localities 'by chance, but 



her location, her topography, climate and multifarious and 

 rich gifts nature has bestowed upon the broad stretches of 

 plain, mountain and valley which surround her. 



Pueblo is the natural meeting point of the East and West. 

 Situated as she is at the point on the Arkansas river where 



Pueblo's Wheel of Fortune. 



because the results obtained for their labors there are greater 

 than are apparent elsewhere in the territory tributary . 



The growth and development of Pueblo into a great 

 industrial city has been the natural and logical sequence of 



valley and mountain meet, she commands not only the fertile 

 lands of the Arkansas valley, "the richest valley in the world," 

 but receives the trade and resources of the great mountain 

 region to the west through the only gateway to it, the Royal 



