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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. S. by E. of See also:Denver. Pop. (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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Pueblo is chiefly an industrial city, and is often called the See also:Steel City, or the See also:Pittsburg of the West. 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). See also:Petroleum deposits in the immediate vicinity are of growing importance. Fluxing material is only about 5o m. away, around Cripple Creek. 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. 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. Pueblo is the greatest smelting centre west of the Missouri and probably the greatest in the See also:United States. The bulk of the steel rails used on western See also:railways are from the See also:mills of the Pueblo See also:district.
Pueblo was originally a Mexican See also:settlement. 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. Two years later Pueblo was surveyed and .platted. The first railway—the Denver & Rio Grande—came through in 1872. Pueblo was chartered as a city in 1870, and again, with an enlarged See also:area, in 1887.
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