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THE IEKIGATION AGE. 



PUEBLO: THE HOST CITY. 



Pueblo Is "The Gateway to the Mountain West." "All 

 Roads Come to Pueblo, the City of Sunshine." 



PUEBLO, the host city for the Eighteenth National 

 Irrigation congress, is the second city in size in 

 Colorado, eclipsed only by Denver. Its population is in 

 excess of 50,000. It is the. third city in size in the Moun- 

 tain-West, only Denver and Salt Lake surpassing it. 



Pueblo gets its name from the tribe of Indians by that 

 name, which was the first agency in this country, so far 

 as known, to practice the art of irrigation. Long before 

 the Spaniard came to the Great Southwest, the Pueblo 

 Indian had his system of agriculture and irrigation, crude, 

 yet effective. Hence the significance of the great city of 

 Pueblo entertaining this year the Irrigation congress. 



Pueblo is "The Gateway to the Mountain-West." 



Through its portals pass the great transcontinental 

 trains, bound for the East, the West, the North, the 

 South. Its position is strategic, and its supremacy is 

 assured. 



Pueblo is the capitol of the famous Arkansas Valley 

 of Content, and tributary to it, therefore, is a splendid 



were validated at Pueblo. Pueblo is the best distributing 

 point in Colorado. It is the only natural location for 

 gathering raw material in the Rocky Mountain region; 

 hence the only manufacturing center. 



Pueblo, the Manufacturer. Pueblo is the great manu- 

 facturing city of the Rocky Mountains. Its steel works, 

 smelters, brick plants, saddlery establishments, candy fac- 

 tories, foundries, machinery and implement plants, tent 

 and awning and niattress factories, and its many other 

 plants, produced in the year 1909 more than 50 million 

 '.ollars of finished products; an output greater than many 

 states. Pueblo's monthly pay-roll is \ l /2 million dollars, 

 and it has 20,000 workmen. Among the lines still open 

 are : Boots and shoes, woolen goods, stoves, glass, wool- 

 scouring, and overall and shirt factory. 



Coal. Pueblo is peculiarly fortunate as to coal. Right 

 at its doors are the only great coal fields of the West. 

 The quality is superior to any other. Within 75 miles 

 to the south and 40 miles to the west, the supply is in- 

 exhaustible. Three-fourths of the coal used in a radius of 

 500 miles comes from Pueblo coal fields. 



Agriculture. While long known as "The Pittsburg 

 of the West," from its strength as an industrial center, 

 Pueblo is more and more becoming the center of a splen- 

 didly developed agricultural country, under irrigation. 



Pueblo County's New Court House. 



agricultural area with more than a half million acres 

 under water and nearly as much more assured irrigated 

 area within the next year. This great area produces 

 almost every known variety of agricultural or horticul- 

 ture, and Pueblo is the mart of not only the valley but of 

 western Kansas, northern New Mexico, and even Utah. 



The great factor in the upbuilding of Pueblo, the 

 torce that will take hold of its work of the future, is the 

 Pueblo Commerce club. This important commercial body 

 has a membership of more than 500, divided into bureaus, 

 and is working hand in hand with the board of control of 

 the Eighteenth National Irrigation congress. Few towns 

 in the West have such effective agencies for the perform- 

 ance of the town's work as the Pueblo Commerce club. 



The Pueblo Territory Pueblo's Exclusive territory 

 covers 200,000 square miles of growing country. It is a 

 great commercial, industrial and railroad center. Its trade 

 territory covers southern Colorado, northern New Mexico, 

 northwestern Texas, northwestern Oklahoma, and western 

 Kansas. Its business extends also to the famous Western 

 Slope of Colorado, across the Great Continental Divide. 



Pueblo Railroads. Pueblo is a great railroad center. 

 This industry employs 4,400 men, and 12 1 /-, million dollars 

 is paid in freight annually. In 1909, 25,000 tourist tickets 



Pueblo is the capitol of the famous Arkansas Valley, 

 aptly termed, the "Valley of Content." This valley extends 

 275 miles, from Canon and the Royal Gorge of the 

 Arkansas to Garden City, Kansas. Sugar beets, alfalfa, 

 celery, fruit, cantaloupes, truck, wheat, corn, cattle, and 

 sheep are making the farmers of the Arkansas Valley rich. 

 Sugar beets produce $75 per acre, and other crops in 

 proportion. In addition, the new fruit section, the farm 

 and stock lands, of the Western Slope, the San Luis 

 Valley, the Durango and Farmington regions are directly 

 tributary. 



Stock Interests. Pueblo is the natural depot for the 

 stock interests of a vast ragion. This territory ranges 

 from western Utah to southern New Mexico. Pueblo 

 stock yards and buyers handled in 1909, 750,000 sheep; 

 140,000 cattle; 14,000 horses, and 10,000 hogs. With the 

 constant increase of alfalfa production, the stock industry 

 is in its infancy, and the hog industry especially is making 

 a marvelous growth. 



Internal Improvement. Pueblo has in recent years 

 entered upon a magnificent campaign of internal improve- 

 ment. A great storm sewer system has been put in at a 

 cost of $400,000. Many miles of asphalt pavement have 



