DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN 
ROUTE, 59 
by the pall of smoke that overhangs this “ Pittsburgh of the West,” 
as the citizens like to have it called. Pueblo is essentially a manu- 
the anomalous position of having the 
first rig o the canyon but being 
estopped from occupying the roadbed 
of having its mnie system under 
lease oP the rival ro 
these points were being con- 
wen 
f San Luis, in cna 
papiee Bowen enjoined the 
e from operating the Rio 
Grande Railroad and from exercising 
COFpOrate rights within the State. This 
ity to regain control its n 
road under judicial authority, and 
accordingly th ri n- 
that were attacking the Santa Fe men 
at several points along the line. The 
offices of the Santa Fe at Denv 
titioned to call out the militia to stop 
bloodshed, but he left the matter en- 
tirely in the hands of the sheriffs of 
the counties. 
Counsel for the Santa Fe appeared 
in the Federal court at Denver and 
moved to quash the “ Bowen injunc- 
tion.” In the meantime the Rio 
Grande had retaken most of its sta- 
tions, offic 
Santa Fe; then, if the Rio Grande so 
desired, it might institute Proce 
for the cancellation of the lease. He 
also decided that the ig Grande 
might take possession of the narrow 
part of the Royal Gorge by paying to 
the Santa Fe the cost of construction. 
July 14 the Federal court ordered 
all work stopped in the canyon pend- 
examination by a commission of 
engineers to determine the cost of con- 
struction. While these court proceed- 
ings were in progress the Rio Grande 
engineers erected fortifications and 
stopped the Santa Fe gra t 
preme Cou ae long-ex- 
pected Pasig as Rin fee 
“That from the ge “of the can- 
yon to the mouth of the South Arkan- 
sas River [Salida] the Rio Grande 
was to take and hold the prior right 
of way; that it might take the road- 
bed of the Santa Fe in that part by 
to be cael and set tlle and 
of prior location. 
Soon after ae mae long fight be- 
tween the two roads was termi- 
nated by a ee agreement in 
was sat to build to Leadville, the lease 
was to be canceled, and the Rio Grande 
was to pay the Santa Fe for all grad- 
ing it had done in the canyon ‘Thus 
ended one of the longest and most bit- 
terly contested railroad wars that were 
ever fought in this country. In the 
legal battl of the most noted 
lawyers of the West were employed, 
and the encounters in the 
