New geographies . cky Moun-tains. Being a railroad center, goodsare easily shipped to and from the sur-rounding farming and ranching are no mines close by, but in themountains, at no great distance, arevaluable mines of gold, silver, and lead,as at Ceipple Creek and of the ore from these places isshipped to Denver for smelting. THE WESTERN STATES 155 Pueblo, farther soiitli, has much thesame relation to the surrounding countrythat Denver has. Ores are shipped toPuehlo for smelting, and since both coaland iron ore are found not far distant,iron smelting (Fig. 191) a
New geographies . cky Moun-tains. Being a railroad center, goodsare easily shipped to and from the sur-rounding farming and ranching are no mines close by, but in themountains, at no great distance, arevaluable mines of gold, silver, and lead,as at Ceipple Creek and of the ore from these places isshipped to Denver for smelting. THE WESTERN STATES 155 Pueblo, farther soiitli, has much thesame relation to the surrounding countrythat Denver has. Ores are shipped toPuehlo for smelting, and since both coaland iron ore are found not far distant,iron smelting (Fig. 191) and manufac-turing have developed. Salt Lake City, in the midst of anoasis due to irrigation, is mainly a trade Arizona, thriving cities in the midst offertile irrigated regions. Many smaller cities and towns in theWest, about some of which you willlearn later, are important trade centersin the farming or ranchijig country. Butte, in Montana, maybe taken as a good exam-ple of a flourishing mining ce^iter. (3) Butte. Fig. 195. —The Canyon of the Colorado, a gash of over a mile in depthcut by the river in the solid rock. center. The products of the farms findtheir way to the city for sale, and, inreturn, the city supplies the farmers witharticles that they need. It also suppliesgoods to the mining towns in the neigh-boring mountains. The same is true ofBoise, Idaho, and Tucson and Phoenix, When a vein of metal that someprospector discovers turns out to bevery rich, many men are,needed inobtaining the metaL Some are em-ployed to dig out the ore, others tocrush it in the stamp mills, andstill others to work in the a good-sized town may quicklyspring up about a single rich often, too, where there is onerich mineral vein, there are othersclose by, so that a group of minesmay be opened near together. Thena mere mining camp may quickly be-come a large city. That is what hap-pened in the case of Butte. It is agreat copper-mining center, and, sincethe ore contain
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