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dollars ; three planing mills ; railroad repair shops of five 

 railroads, employing more than five hundred men ; a rug 

 factory ; two steam dye and cleaning plants ; two trunk fac- 

 tories and many others. Pueblo factories output more than 



York and New Haven. More than 16,000 passenger cars 

 enter and leave the Union Depot each month. 



In addition a new electric line is building from Canon 

 City to Dodge City, Kan., a distance of four hundred miles, 

 with headquarters at Pueblo, thus making Pueblo a great 

 retail market. 



Pueblo The Financial City Her Banks. 



Few cities of equal size have as many strong banks and 

 financial institutions as Pueblo. The city has seven banks, 

 all of them growing and increasing in business. The reason 

 for their growth is no secret. An immense amount of busi- 

 ness is transacted in the ambitious and expanding city at the 

 junction of the Arkansas and the Fountain. The banks of 

 the city are the natural clearing houses for the handling of 

 this business. 



As an index of the greatness of Pueblo and the im- 

 portance of her banking institutions about one-tenth of all 

 the bank deposits in Colorado are in the vaults of this city. 

 In addition a great chain of banks are tributary to the banks 

 of Pueblo, capital from this city controlling banks in Denver, 

 Florence, Trinidad, Lamar, Silverton, Durango, Ouray and a 

 score of other cities in Colorado. The total deposits in the 

 banks approximate $12,000,000, besides deposits in building 

 and lean associations and similar institutions. Capital from 



Alfalfa Field Near Pueblo. 



$40,000,000, a greater sum than the entire manufacturing out- 

 put of many states. 



While manufacturing has gained great headway in Pueblo 

 her jobbing trade has not been retarded. Pueblo has thirty- 

 five jobbing houses and keeps 200 salesmen on the road con- 

 stantly. In wholesale groceries her territory is her own 

 exclusively, covering all southern Colorado, fifty salesmen 

 alone selling groceries from this city. In some lines of 

 jobbing Pueblo trade extends from the Republic of Mexico 

 to the Canada line, with an ever-expanding output. 

 Pueblo Railroads. 



By reason of her industrial supremacy, Pueblo is a fine 

 field for the railroads of which she has five great trunk lines. 

 No other city of like size in America handles during the year 

 so much freight and passenger business as Pueblo. Her 

 annual freight bill to the railroads amounts to more than 

 $12,000,000 and more than 1,500,000 cars each year are 

 handled in her freight yards. On one single track south from 

 Pueblo more business is done than on the North- Western be- 

 tween Chicago and Milwaukee, some days more than eighty 

 trains passing over this one line. There are more daily pas- 

 senger trains between Pueblo and Denver than between New- 



Pueblo finances cattle, land, irrigation, mining, manufacturing 

 enterprises all over Colorado and the West. 



Aside from the great steel and iron interests, the smelters 



Lake Minnequa, Near Pueblo. 



