The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-31
PUEBLO, COLORADO.

Company have published very handsome
Autograph map which gives bird's-eye
view of Pueblo from the northeast, with
the following information in foot note to
the chart.
"South Pueblo has an irrigating ditch
covering 2O,000* acres of the most fertile
land, has 10000 trees along all the streets,
has fine railroad depot, and many stores
and houses on the bottom land. The bluff
is laid out for colony, which is rapidly
forming in the east, under the auspices of
the Central Colorado Improvement Com
pany."
Scattered over the Arkansas river bot
tom on the north side, for mile and a half
in extent and half mile or more in breadth,
are the buildings composing the old town,
or North Pueblo, with the principal build
ings-brick and adobe residences and bust
ness blocks, clustering along Santa Fee Ave
nue. and Main street. On the south side of
the river, small cluster of buildings eccu-
pies the central point of what is designed,
in the future, to be the business part Of
Pueblo, and widely scattered up and down
the river are seen small frame buildings,
while the principal part of this bottom is
covered with dense growth of wild sun
flowers, whose luxuriant growth indicate
the extreme fertility of the soil. The bot
tom which constitutes the site of South
Pueblo, is probably 800 hundred yards wide
at this point, when the bluff abruptly rises
forty or fifty feet, and then far-reaching
plain, clothed with thin tufts of buffalo
grass; and on this plain is laid out the
streets and avenues of South Pueblo Col
ony. The artist has drawn broad avenues
and streets on the plain overlooking the
river and town, and graceful, winding
drives and diminutive park-like enclosures
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the future, when all these lots are covered
with residences and stores, are designed to
be graded into beautiful winding drives.
Ten thousand young cottonwoods are grow
ing along the little bitches which mark the
borders of future streets, a hundred feet
broad, and with wide avenue running all
along the edge of the bluff, forming
grand boulevard. One hundred and eigh-
teen squares are here laid out beautifully,
and provided with shade trees and bitches
of pure sparkling water, by the enterpris-
ing Company, for the comfort of the colo
nists who are expected to flock here and
fix their future homes, like those of Den
yer, Colorado Springs, Greeley, Evans and
many others, but there is only one or two
small houses yet perched above the bluff.
But the Company are hopeful, and the
Pueblo folks second their enthusiastic
Colorado Springs. and tell you that in
August, 1871, the town of Colorado Springs
and the Fountain Colony were started by
the management of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railway Company, on their plan of
Colony settlement. 1t was then bare
site on the plains, in advance of the rail
way construction, and with no improve
ments, excepting the irrigating canal of the
company, which was just begun.
1t is now a prosperous town of over
1000 Inhabitants, with schools, churches,
banks, hotel, and thriving established
trade; and what has been done at Colo
RADIO Springs they expect to repeat, with
even greater results in this new project at
Pueblo, which has the additional advan-
tages Of being an old town, and a point
where the trade between New Mexico and
southern Colorado has long conferred.
The main work, however, on which the
future of the town and settlement depends,
is the irrigating canal twenty miles in
length, which has already been built at a
cost of 100000 The canal covers and
waters tract of 10000 acres, and this
tract constitutes the colony and settlement
of South Pueblo.
The hopes of the Company for the
future of South Pueblo were founded in
a great measure on this becoming the CEN
ter of great railway system of the Rocky
Mountains. They expected, and with good
reason, apparently the continuation of the
Arkansas Valley Railroad from Las Ami
mas, ninety miles, to Pueblo. The Atchi-
son. Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, which
now stops at Granada, it was expected
would be pushed on to Las Animas, but
this company, it would seem, have determ-
ined to build from Granada toward Santa
Fe, and by a branch, tap Trinidad, ninety
miles south of Pueblo. Trinidad is zeal
GUS rival of Pueblo, and has the best coal
for coking, it is claimed in the Territory,
and equal to any in the country. Before
tho crash in business came, every thing
looked promising; at present the future
prosperity of Pueblo does not seem SO
bright. The railroad question above noted
is very serious one, and find many who
doubt the success of the South Pueblo
inducements to capitalists to establish
smelling works, iron furnaces and wooden
factories, Pueblo is in danger of being left
by the tide of emigration and the golden
stream of trade, and the point which was
at the crossing of the Arkansas river by
the old Santa Fe trail, may not become the
central location of system of trade and
travel controlled by steam in stead of pack
mules and OK teams. Many are the advan-
tages claimed for Pueblo, but whether
Pueblo, or some more fortunate rival will
reap them, very much depends upon the
whim which influences companies who
have in hand unfinished railroads. Stock
casing is one of the greatest industries of
hhs country. Southeastward of Pueblo,
almost ilimitably stretches an excellent
sheep and cattle range, and Northeasterly
to the Great Divide, there extends another
section which will be devoted mainly to
grazing. 1t is claimed, also, that the
Arkansas Valley is to be the main grain
producing district Of Colorado, but the
cattle men are contendng for it aud will
eventually own the greater part of the
land adapted to irrigation. They are gen
orally heavy capitalists, who buy out the
small farmers whenever opportunity offers
*NorE-This is probably a typographical 'r,or: a.
the pamphlet gives the number OF acres US loooo