The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-01-17
PUEBLO, CoLo., Jan. 9Th, 1889.

Ann Radcliffe or the poetical inspira.
ton Of Byron or Burns, still would I be
unequal to the task OF adequately por-
traying the grandeur and beauty Of a
climate surprising that Of Italy or Eden.
In addition to her climatic advantages,
which, as I remarked in my last letter,
are, to the invalid, Of the most import.
ance, Pueblo is blessed with numerous
other natural advantages, which are
almost certain to cause her to become
one of the largest and most prosperous
manufacturing and commercial cities of
the West. One Of the greatest of these
advantages, especially as regards her
manufacturing interests, is the fact that
Pueblo is the lowest city in the State of
Colorado, thus giving down-hill pull
from every direction, and thereby en-
abling her to receive the output of all
Southern and Western Colorado, Arizo-
ma and New Mexico's rich gold, silver,
lead and coal mines at much less cost
than any other manufacturing point in
the Rockies. The numerous manufactur.
ing establishments already located here
are ample evidence of the truth of this
statement. Besides the four smelters
now located here, and the prospect of two
more large ones in the near future, this
city has the immense furnaces of the
Colorado Coal and Iron Company, the
Bessemer Steel Works, the steel rail
works, the nail works, the largest copper
plant in the United States, besides
numerous foundries, mills and other
smaller institutions. An almost unlim-
tied water-power, furnished by the Ar.
kansas River, which divides the city
into North and South Pueblo, is another
natural advantage of no small conse-
quence. Being the Gateway to the
Rockies makes Pueblo an admirable
point for commercial center, and es-
pecially for wholesale houses.
Another advantage with which the
city is blessed is her numerous srtesian
wells and mineral and magnetic springs
Among the latter the Clark Magnetic
Springs is, perhaps, deserving of men.
ton, as its curative powers for quite a
number of diseases have acquired Ma
tional reputation, and quite large
amount of the water is being constantly
shipped to all parts of the United Slater.
I have tasted Of this water, but as this
climate is by far the more pleasant
medicine to take, and as the time for
the inauguration of great reforms is now
at hand, hereby resolve henceforth
and forever to refrain from the us OF in
l mean the water of the aforesaid mag
netic springs.
It is said that "a town makes the rail-
roads, and the railroads make the town."
Surely Pueblo can show the truth of
this assertion, for she is reaching out for
the commerce OF all the surrounding
country with fourteen railroads.
Like all Western cities the morals of
Pueblo are by no means perfect, yet as
far as my personal observation has gone,
and considering the size OF the two
places, the immortality of this city is not
to be compared with the corruption OF a
certain small city in Ohio which at one
time bore the name of the "Model
Town." Here vice and sin are above
board, while there you know not at
what moment you will stumble against
it in its most virulent form. Here, in
order to be one of the high "muck.a.
mucks" land, by the way, a large mum.
ber, yea, a majority, of Pueblo's leading
business men are also active members
and leaders in the various churches) you
do not have to be a member of the lack
Walton Club. Here, gambling is openly
INDUCED in, while there right under the
noses Of the officers Tor perhaps more
properly speaking, story or two above
their noses) the vice is INDUCED in
nightly and you know not who the
guilty parties are. The "Turf Exchange
is the gambling center in this city, and
not night passes but what it is crowded
and every game of chance known to
man INDUCED in. Dodgers containing
matter as follows: "Keno every night
at the Turf Exchange" "Prize Keno at
Turf Exchange tonight" "No use to 60
to the Turf Exchange tonight for it will
be overcrowded." ETC., etc., are daily
scattered broadcast over the city.
The real estate boom here is assuming
wonderful proportions, and lots in any
part of the city are now worth from 25
to rs and 100 per cent. more than they
were when landed here. / will give
an illustration which passed under my
own personal observation, and in which
Mr.. John A. Collins acted as council in
each instance. On Saturday certain
tract OF land was sold for $500. On
the following Monday it was again sold
for $4,000. Such transactions are oi
daily occurrances, and the danger which