Sketch of the Pueblos and Pueblo County, ColoradoIllustratedPublished by the Board of Trade . ry. The proximity of the best and cheapest fuels in the state,the presence of works producing all the raw materials necessaryfor any iron or steel industry, together with cheap labor andexcellent railroad facilities for distributing manufactured pro-ducts, makes South Pueblo the natural point at which all theiron and steel industries of the state must be congregated. TheColorado Coal and Iron Company owns large tracts of landadjoining South Pueblo, and also owns a large part of the townsite, and is al
Sketch of the Pueblos and Pueblo County, ColoradoIllustratedPublished by the Board of Trade . ry. The proximity of the best and cheapest fuels in the state,the presence of works producing all the raw materials necessaryfor any iron or steel industry, together with cheap labor andexcellent railroad facilities for distributing manufactured pro-ducts, makes South Pueblo the natural point at which all theiron and steel industries of the state must be congregated. TheColorado Coal and Iron Company owns large tracts of landadjoining South Pueblo, and also owns a large part of the townsite, and is always disposed to offer favorable terms for land andthe best facilities for water, etc., to any manufacturing concerndesiring to locate. This company also owns and operates coalmines at Canon, Walsens, El Moro and Crested Butte, fromwhich mines are produced the best domestic, steam and black-smith coals found west of Pennsylvania. It also owns cokeworks at El Moro and Crested Butte, where coke is made of thebest quality, which is exclusively used by the smelters, etc., ofColorado and FOUNTAIN SCHOOL. RAILROADS. THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILROAD. Pueblo, as the railroad center of Colorado, has always lookedupon The Santa Fe as one of the chief contributors toward hergrowth. Perhaps the easiest way to understand rightly the im-portance to this city of the facilities afforded by the A., T. &S. F. is to try to imagine the situation if The Santa Fe were totake up its rails back to La Junta. Pueblo would no longer en-joy equally as good facilities for communication with the east asDenver. The outlet for her manufactured products, and theavenue through which must come all supplies from eastern mar-kets, would be Denver. Our manufacturing industries would beplaced at a great disadvantage as compared with those at Denver,while our promising and growing wholesale trade could not correspondent of the Chicago Tribune states the case veryclearly, as follows: The termin
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