PUEBLO
, a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Pueblb county, the second largest city of See also:Colorado, U.S.A., and one of the most important See also:industrial centres See also:west of the See also:Missouri See also:river, situated on the See also:Arkansas river, about 120 M
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S. by E. of See also:Denver
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Pop
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(1890), 24,558; (1900), 28,157, of whom 4705 were See also:foreign-See also:born, 1250 being See also:Austrian, 587 See also:German, 529 See also:Italian, 415 Irish, 391 See also:Swedish, 385 See also:English and 341 English See also:Canadian; (1910, See also:census), 44,395
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It is served by five See also:great See also:continental railwaysystems—the Denver & Rio Grande, the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific, the See also:Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific and the Colorado & See also:Southern, giving it altogether a dozen outlets
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It lies about 468o ft. above the See also:sea, in a valley at the junction of the prairies with the foothills of the Rockies, on both See also:banks of the Arkansas river, near its confluence with See also:Fountain See also:Creek; the city has an exceptionally See also:good See also:climate and attracts many See also:winter visitors
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There are a See also:state insane See also:asylum and four hospitals, of which the Minnequa See also:Hospital (for the employes of the Colorado See also:Fuel & See also:Iron Co.) and St See also:Mary's Hospital are the most notable
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Among the public buildings are the McClelland public library (1891) and the See also:court-See also:house, the latter of See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone quarried in the vicinity
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The See also:Mineral See also:Palace (1891), having a roof formed of twenty-eight domes, in the See also:northern See also:part of the city, contains a collection of the minerals of the state
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Pueblo is chiefly an industrial city, and is often called the See also:Steel City, or the See also:Pittsburg of the West
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Cheap fuel is furnished by the excellent See also:coal of See also:Canyon City (about 30 M. west), Walsenburg (about 40 M. See also:south-west) and See also:Trinidad (about 75 M. south)
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See also:Petroleum deposits in the immediate vicinity are of growing importance
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Fluxing material is only about 5o m. away, around Cripple Creek
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The See also:rich river valley yields abundant crops of See also:alfalfa, See also:sugar See also:beets, cantaloupes, apples and peaches, and the dry lands behind its shores prove fertile under See also:irrigation or under the See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell See also:system of dry farming; on the plains livestock interests are important
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In 1905 Pueblo's See also:total factory products were valued, at $2,197,293 (an increase of 52.6% since 1900); if the output of the great smelting and refining establishments just outside the city limits had been included, the value would have been considerably larger
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Pueblo is the greatest smelting centre west of the Missouri and probably the greatest in the See also:United States
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The bulk of the steel rails used on western See also:railways are from the See also:mills of the Pueblo See also:district
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Pueblo was originally a Mexican See also:settlement
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A considerable See also:body of See also:Mormons settled here temporarily on their way to See also:Utah in 1846-1847, and a trading See also:post was established in 1850; but the site, owing principally to See also:Indian troubles, had been practically abandoned before 1858, when another settlement was made on the See also:Fontaine qui See also:Bouille, or Fountain Creek
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Two years later Pueblo was surveyed and .platted
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The first railway—the Denver & Rio Grande—came through in 1872
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Pueblo was chartered as a city in 1870, and again, with an enlarged See also:area, in 1887
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