Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

place in the West, without vastly larg-
er population, affords so good a mar
ket for farm and garden products.
This fact is the natural result of a
large population tributary to Trinidad,
engaged in the pursuit of coal mining
and coke production, who devote but
little attention to garden, cows or
chickens. The men who work in the
mines make good wages, and they are
generous providers for their tables,
buying literally and of the best.
Stock raising is also carried on on
large scale. About 250,000 sheep
and $4,000 head of cattle are marketed
annually. For years Trinidad has
been looked upon as one of the great
stock raising centers of the West.
What has been said relative to Trim
idad as splendid market for farm
and garden products, is also true as to
Trinidad being a jobbing center for
groceries, meats, feed, flour, hardware,
furniture, ETC., and as a wholesale dis
tributing point for her successful
candy factory, carriage factory, sew
eral bottling works and three cigar
point, Trinidad is geographically very
fortunately located, being in the cen
ter of large consuming territory, and
enjoying common point freight and
express rates. Her jobbers and man
ufacturers are thus put in a position
to, and do, meet the competition of the
large markets in a territory covering
practically all of southern Colorado,
northern New Mexico, northern Texas
and northwestern Oklahoma.
This great territory is made easily
accessible to Trinidad by the splendid
railway facilities with which the city
is favored. The Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe, the Colorado & Southern,
the Denver & Rio Grande and the Col
orado & Wyoming railways all pass
ing thru or having terminals in Trim
idad I.t.--
The diversity of the resources of the
territory tributary to Trinidad insure
the greatest measure of stability to
the business of the city.
AS a retail market for the purchase
of general merchandise, the stores in
Trinidad and the outlying towns are
very complete. The large stocks and
great varieties of merchandise carried,
as well as the prices, are a source of
satisfaction to all who deal with them.
In addition to its business opportu-
mites, Trinidad cannot be excelled as
city in which to live. The winters
are mild and the summers are never
excessively warm. Trinidad has year
around climate that is probably not
surpassed in the United States.
Trinidad has an abundant supply of
pure mountain water which is piped
from the foot of the mountains thirty
five miles to the West. Milk is pro-
duced by local dairies that is clean and
wholesome, and cannot be excelled and
is seldom equaled.
1t has eight public schools, high
school, academy, business college, Car
negie library, thirteen churches, mod
ern $75,000.00 opera house, four banks
having an aggregate deposit of nearly
four million dollars, two parks, new
S400, 100000 county court house, ST.
900, 100000 water works system, two
daily and several weekly newspapers,
and interurban line, S100,00000 city
hall, 100000 federal building, wool
securing plant, modern brick factory,
cement block factory, two artificial
ice plants, cold storage plant, bottling
works, large creamery, candy factory,
railroad shops, planning mills, iron
foundry, a number of well equipped
garages, packing plant company is at
present being organized, six miles of
paved streets, four frst-class hotels
and numerous smaller hotels and
boarding houses.
Trinidad has an abundance of mag
nificent scenery around it to delight
the eye of the tourist 1t is situated
at the base of Fishers peak, which
towers majestically above the city to
a height of 10000 feet above the sea
level. To the West the great Sangre
de Cristo range rises to an elevation
of over $4,000 feet above sea level,
covered with perpetual SHOWS which
glisten and sparkle in the sunlight,
and form the source of the city's wa
ter supply. At the foot of this mighty
range lies the beautiful Stonewall
country, thirty miles from the city,
one of the most beautiful spots in Colo
rado to snend an outing Here is