Sketch of the Pueblos and Pueblo County, ColoradoIllustratedPublished by the Board of Trade . s. Your state has theprecious metals, and is already traversed by great throughlines of travel, which seem to me to so concentrate at Puebloand Denver, or Denver and Pueblo, as gentlemen may choose toput one or the other first, as to secure to these places great com-mercial advantages. My third proposition was that the possession of the materialsfor iron and steel, and adequate fuel and fluxes for workingthem, would give prominence and prosperity to a state. Theseelements of greatness and wealth I dec
Sketch of the Pueblos and Pueblo County, ColoradoIllustratedPublished by the Board of Trade . s. Your state has theprecious metals, and is already traversed by great throughlines of travel, which seem to me to so concentrate at Puebloand Denver, or Denver and Pueblo, as gentlemen may choose toput one or the other first, as to secure to these places great com-mercial advantages. My third proposition was that the possession of the materialsfor iron and steel, and adequate fuel and fluxes for workingthem, would give prominence and prosperity to a state. Theseelements of greatness and wealth I declare unhesitatingly to ex-ist in a greater degree and in closer proximity in Colorado thanI have found them at any point I have visited in this country orGreat Britain. [Cheers and applause.] I say this not to flatteryou, nor to exaggerate the brightness of the future of the state,but deliberately, because ray judgment approves it as solemntruth. [Applause.] IRON AND STEEL. When England sent Mr. J. Lowthian Bell as commissionerto the Centennial Exhibition, to report on iron and steel, she. TULTEC TUNNEL—ON THE LINE OF THE DENVER A RIO GRANDE RAILWAY. Address of Hon. Wm. D. Kelly. 57 confided that duty to a man of rare learning, scientific attain-ments, and of large observation and experience in everythingthat relates to the production of iron and steel. In the officialreport of this capable man, it is set forth that the instance inwhich any of the materials for the manufacture of iron or steelin Great Britain require transportation for one hundred mileswas very rare, while, said he, it is no unusual thing for ironmakers in the United States to transport some of the elementsanywhere from six hundred to one thousand miles. In thisrespect the location of the works of the Colorado Coal andIron Company might be regarded as fortunate even in location was selected and the works planted by Pennsylva-nians and are where they have ample supplies of every varietyof ore, flux
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