Sketch of the Pueblos and Pueblo County, ColoradoIllustratedPublished by the Board of Trade . e the Santa Fe road standsthere, with its standard-gauge, steel-railed track, magnificentequipment, and unrivalled management, ready to take up theproducts of the mine and ranch and carry them to the marketsof the east. So truthfully does this describe the relation of TheSanta Fe to the commerce of Colorado that one, though neverhaving studied the situation before, can understand why theA., T. S. F. is the great inlet and outlet to Pueblo, and throughthat city to central and southern Colorado. It is s
Sketch of the Pueblos and Pueblo County, ColoradoIllustratedPublished by the Board of Trade . e the Santa Fe road standsthere, with its standard-gauge, steel-railed track, magnificentequipment, and unrivalled management, ready to take up theproducts of the mine and ranch and carry them to the marketsof the east. So truthfully does this describe the relation of TheSanta Fe to the commerce of Colorado that one, though neverhaving studied the situation before, can understand why theA., T. S. F. is the great inlet and outlet to Pueblo, and throughthat city to central and southern Colorado. It is such extra railroad facilities as these that have attractedthe attention of capital to Pueblo as the most eligible point inthe state for manufacturing purposes, and have induced the in-vestment here of millions of productive capital. The facilitiesprovided by this company have increased, too, in direct ratiowith the increase of the business to be done. There are now tworegular passenger trains running daily between this city andKansas City and Atchison, on the Missouri river, one of which,. KOYAL GORGE—ON THE LINE OF THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE RAILWAY, Railroads. 49 the popular Thunderbolt, makes the trip between the riverand the Union depot in this city—619 miles — in 21 hours and15 minutes, and returning in 20 hours and 45 minutes. Thereare only one or two trains in the United States that make anybetter time than this. This train also connects in this city withthe Salt Lake and Ogden train on the Denver and Rio Grande,placing Pueblo on one of the new routes to San Francisco, andon the shortest route from Kansas City to Salt Lake City and allpoints in Utah. Pueblo has also felt the effect of the extension of the Atchi-son, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad into New Mexico. Duringthe past year large shipments of ore have been received at oursmelting works from the mines of that territory, and as thepromising mining interests of that section develop, Pueblo tradewith the southern c
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