THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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at $50 per acre, now command $1,000 to $1,200 and upward 

 per acre. 



The vast areas of non-irrigated land particularly in the 

 eastern third of the state will produce large crops under 

 eastern third of the state will produce large 

 crops under modern methods of treating the soil 

 now in vogue. The State Agricultural College 

 is experimenting with various types of cereals 

 with a view of selecting varieties peculiarly 

 adapted to the soil in non-irrigated districts. 

 The United States Department of Agriculture 

 has established experimental stations, and with 

 the co-operation of railroad companies and pri- 

 vate individuals is solving the problem of dry 

 farming, and results so far attained are most 

 favorable. 



To tell all Pueblo's industrial features 

 would needlessly extend this article. In the last 

 few years Pueblo has made many notable im- 

 provements. All the business section has been 



has beautiful Lake Minnequa, with club house and theater 

 and all the details of a popular summer outing park for the 

 people of the city. 



Material resources, factories, homes, banks and railroads, 



A Pueblo Home. 



recently paved and curbed at a cost of almost a million dol- 

 lars. Storm and sanitary sewers have been constructed, and 

 several hundred miles of cement walks laid. Her park sys- 

 tem is the pride of the city, comprises twelve parks with an 

 area of three hundred and fifty acres. Two of these parks 

 are really notable. Mineral Palace Park, with its beautiful 



Entrance to City Park, Pueblo. 



North Main Street, Pueblo. 



Lake Clara and splendid Mineral Palace, with a great collec- 

 tion of Colorado minerals, and City Park, which has the 

 finest collection of trees in the West. In addition, Pueblo 



Crews-Beggs Dry Goods Co., Pueblo. 



are not the full measure of a city or a people. A city may 

 possess all these and yet be base and unworthy. What show- 

 ing can Pueblo make of the things that min- 

 ister to man's higher nature, such as schools, 

 churches, colleges, hospitals, clubs, music, 

 libraries? These more truly measure a city. 

 Pueblo has fifty-four churches and organiza- 

 tions representing all denominations, three 

 great hospitals, three children's homes, an 

 organization of associated charities, and many 

 lesser organizations to aid the weak and un- 

 fortunate. The public schools of Pueblo justly 

 occupy a high rank. Without exaggeration 

 they can truly be said to equal the best in the 

 United States. There iare twenty-four public 

 school buildings, including two splendid high 

 schools, with 800 students. In the public 

 schools are enrolled about 8,000 pupils. Pueblo 

 has one college, two commercial schools, 

 three schools of music and art, and several 

 academies. Pueblo is the home of the Colo- 

 rado State Fair, now grown to be a great 

 state institution with ample buildings and 

 grounds. 



Among her notable public buildings is her 

 Grand Opera, one of the finest in the country, 

 erected at a cost of $350,000; a fine public 

 library, costing $100,00, with 25,000 volumes; 

 the Federal building, an impressive structure 

 of gray brick; a new court house is under con- 

 struction at a cost of $400,000. The great 

 group of buildings of the State Insane Asylum 

 is in a beautiful park in the western part of the 

 city. The Mineral Palace, a pure white build- 

 ing of noble architecture, cost $250,000, and contains the 

 best display of Colorado minerals in the state. 

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