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facturing community and is the largest town of this kind in the 
ocky Mountain region. Indeed, it is generally considered the 
greatest manufacturing center between Missouri 
River and the Pacific coast. Pueblo is in the Ar- 
kansas Valley,** which is well watered and capable 
of supporting a large population. 
Pueblo. 
Elevation 4,668 feet. 
Population 43,050. 
Denver 119 miles. 
storage reservoirs to hold the water in the upper courses of the river 
and deliver it as it is needed below for irrigation the valley would 
support many times. its present population. Pueblo has abundant 
railroad connections, both for the receipt of crude material to be 
manufactured and for the distribution of the manufactured products. 
Coke can readily be obtained from the Trinidad field, on the south, 
marked by deeds of heroism and blood- 
shed that were worthy of a better 
cause. 
S we see that the Denver & Rio 
the Rio TAG oi! with its main line, it 
failed to 
After vile "eihugltdasltse construction 
was carried forward rapidly, and the 
ee gage line reached Leadville in 
July, 1880. The first line across the 
Continental Divide—the line over Mar- 
State line in esas ber, 
About this time the Pleasant Valley 
Railway of Utah, extending from Provo 
to Clear Creek, was purcha y Gen. 
Palmer and the Denver & Rio Grande 
ilroad and extended eas to th 
Colorado line under the name Rio 
laying of a third rail to give standard 
gage between Denver and Pueblo was 
completed on December 1881, and 
the main line from Denver to Ogden 
was perc to standard gage by the 
autumn o 
Several ss the branch lines of this 
system are still narrow gage, and the 
traveler who wishes to see Marshall 
ass and the Black Canyon of the 
Gunnison will have ample opportunity 
to compare the narrow, cramped cars 
with the modern equipment of a stand- 
ard-gage lin 
Recently “ pre: s been re- 
organized, and the name eae & 
Rio Grande Western Satins has been 
pein for there entire system. 
e 3-5, 1921, a succession of 
Waves occurred in Arkansas 
River as a result of heavy rains of 
“ cloud-burst ” violence in the drainage 
basins of several small streams tribu- 
ary to the Arkansas above or near the 
igh 
flood 
feet deep flowing through the lower 
parts of the city drowned many people 
and wrecked scores of buildings. The 
property losses caused by the flood in 
the Arkansas River valley aggregated 
nearly $20,000,000. The flood is de- 
scribed in detail in U. 8S. Geol. Survey 
Water-Supply Paper 487, The Arkansas 
River flood of June 3-5, 1921. 
