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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Gorge. On the south she commands the rich coal fields of 

 southern Colorado and the trade of Mexico and Arizona. 

 To the north the iron deposits of Wyoming come to her in 

 great trainloads drawn by the magnetic touch of Pueblo coal, 

 clay, limestone, abundant labor, and unexcelled facilities of 

 distribution. Through her great railroads Pueblo distributes 

 to all the West from the Mississippi river to the Pacific 

 coast. 



Industrial Pueblo. 



Pueblo is a great manufacturing city. Her manufac- 

 tories sprang into being because of man's necessity and because 

 Pueblo was the one city in the West that could best supply 

 that necessity. She is the only great iron and steel city yet 

 developed west of the Mississippi river. The smoke of her 

 great mills and the glow of her fiery furnaces never cease. 



Her great steel plant, the Minnequa plant of the Colorado 

 Fuel and Iron Company, cost forty millions of dollars, em- 

 ploys over five thousand men, and its output of steel rails. 

 pig iron, nails, barbed wire, water pipe and other products 

 supplies the wants of half a continent. This steel plant at- 

 tracts trains of iron ore from Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, 



Cozy Corner, Mineral Palace Park, Puebio. 



Creede, Leadville, Aspen, the Coeur d'Alene district in Idaho, 

 and the hundreds of smaller camps in the Rocky Mountain 

 region. While the smelting industry has declined all over 



Sugar Beet Field Near Pueblo. 



coal and coke from Colorado and clay and limestone from the 

 local quarries. In mine and forest over a great area an army 

 of men are toiling to supply coal, coke, iron ore, and by-prod- 

 ucts for the roaring furnaces of this mighty industrial giant. The 

 plant consumes thousands of cars of raw material and its 

 output is over $22,000,000 of finished annual product, almost 

 half a million dollars a week. 



But Pueblo is not merely a steel city. She is a great 

 smelter city. To Pueblo come the ores from Cripple Creek, 



Mineral Palace. Pueblo. 



the West due to many causes, Pueblo maintains two great 

 smelters in constant operation, one of them, the zinc smelter, 

 being the largest of its kind in the United States. The 

 smelters employ over a thousand men and the output in 

 gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc approximates $8,000,000. 



The same generous mother nature which made possible 

 these great industries, has made possible other and lesser 

 industries. Pueblo has three brick plants, one of them the 

 Standard Fire Brick Company, being the largest of the kind 

 in the West, manufacturing all kinds of brick, tile, sewer pipe, 

 crucibles, pottery, etc. Pueblo brick plants employ more than 

 six hundred men. 



Pueblo has eighty-five other industries ; three saddle and 

 harness factories employ 100 men and output $400,000 

 worth of goods ; several candy factories produce $225,000 in 

 finished goods. There are five other iron plants manufactur- 

 ing stoves, mining machinery, railroad supplies and general 

 foundry work. One tent and awning plant ; one artificial 

 limb factory, two baking powder and extract factories, one 

 dynamite plant ; a number of big printing and publishing 

 houses ; five bottling plants, one brewery, two wholesale 

 bakeries, four steam laundries, a broom factory, two mattress 

 factories ; a canning company ; two creameries ; one farm 

 implement factory; one engraving plant, one electro-plating 

 plant ; two macaroni factories ; two packing companies, em- 

 ploying one hundred and fifty men and outputting a million 



