Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1874 — Colorado. [ARTICLE]

Colorado.

Colorado to-day is the center of the test as well as the largest emigration from the United States. And with reason, for both in the way of geographical position, internal resources and capacity for diversified industry it stands at the head of all the Territories. Geographically, Colorado is in the very van of the column of solid migration, being the western front of that great tier of prosperous commonwealths which belt the Union—Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado. Emigration always moves in straight lines—the population of any one climate, soil, or temperature following its parallel of lath tude. This has been the uniform history of settlement in this country. Colorado, however, will have the advantage of her older sisters in that, while their settlement was slow, fortuitous and disintegrated, hers is rapid, organized and systematic—while theirs was the work of individuals, hers is the work of great organizations, supported by experience, capital and combination. She begins at a point the others only reached after e generation. Already her condition reveals her vantage ground and demonstrates her position as the leader of the great column of the Middle States. Colorado is even now an exceptionally favored territory for any one thinking of going West to settle. ' Society is already established there; railway communication with the Atlantic and Pacific States is direct and good; the Territorial Government economically organized and honestly administered, exempting the settlers from onerous taxation. Witness the following Jtems:______ Taxes.—There were no Territorial taxes laid in 1873. Public Debt. —There is no Territorial debt, and a balance of $18,172.19 in the Treasury. Schools. —The educational facilities of the Territory are first-class. The common school system is well organized. There are good, ladies’ theological, conventual, and boys’ schools. There is a college at Colorado Bprings. The Press —There are 7 daily and 36 other papers published in Colorado. Banks. —There are 27 banks. Telegbatii. —There are 1,018 miles. SOUTHERN COLOKADO. Southern Colorado is the richest, most fertile and mildest-tempered section of the great Territory of Colorado. It is a Btate within itself of magnificent proportions, incalculable natural resources, and a diversity of soil and climate, and a capacity for agricultural, pastural, mining, manufacturing and commercial develop ment which renders it seli-supporting. Lying south of the Great Divide it is the most genial climate of all Colorado. The Arkansas, the greatest river running from the Rocky Mountains, gives it the richest valley and strongest water power in Colorado. Embracing in its limits the South Park and Ban Juan country, it covers the richest mining districts of She Territory, its minerals being not merely gold and silver, but coal, iron, copper, marble, petroleum. « 5 , pueblo. The capital city of this great region is Pueblo, located on the old trading route of the Santa Fe trail, just where that ancient highway crossed and the trunk line of railway now crosses the Arkansas River. .... Pueblo is an old, well-established point. It has been a missionary station, a trading post, a ruilitaiy fort, ana is now a thriving Western town. Its location lias been determined by the established routes of travel for over a century. It has therefore a solid foundation: It is now a railway center. Five roads, two built and three building, converge here. At this point will stand the great central city of toe far west. In every respect of centrality, climate, local situation, position with reference to North, South, East and West, Pueblo is destined to become the great commercial city of the Rocky Mountains. For 1,000 miles along the base of the mountain range there is no point equal to it as a commercial center. , SOUTH PUEBLO. The Systematic development of Pueblo toward this, its own proper position, is now going on under the auspices of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, who have opened to colony settlement and improvement the land on the south bank ol the Arkansas, heretofore unoccupied by reason of the w'ant of capital in Colorado to construct the great irrigating canal necessary to supply water. South Pueblo has been regularly laid out and platted, streets opened and graded, 10,000 treesplfinted along the aveDuesand public squares, a large park laid out and planted, bridges built, and all the foundations for a prosperous town broadly and intelligently laid. The streets are 100 feet wide, the central tyoulevard 150 feet. Acequias, or miniature canals, run along the front of each sidewalk. The main work, however, is the great irrigating canal, twenty miles in length, which has already been built at a cost of |90,000. This canal covers and waters a tract of 10,000 acres, and this tract constitutes the colony settlement of South Pueblo. South Pueblo differs from the generality of towns just starting in having already established railways, telegraph and express and postal connections with the entire country. The old town of Pueblo is located on the north bank of the river, and just opposit* South Pueblo, being connected by four completed bridges and a horse rail<sjionists,lin addition to the facilities of the new town, will have all the advantages in the way of markets, society, etc., afforded by the old town. South Pueblo is not an experiment. One thousand people are now on the colony grounds. The title is clear and simple, confirmed by a recent act of Congress, and now in the trustees of the company, . Jobs Edoab Thompson, Philadelphia, President Pennsylvania B. £. Co. Samuel M. Felton, Philadelphia. Late President P„ W. & B. B. R. Co. Louis H. Meter. Banker, New York. Schools, Churches, Etc,— Large reservations have been and will be made for school; church, park and other public purposes. Expenses op Emigration.— Persons holding certificates, of membership, who apply at an early date, will secure passage and freights on household goods, from the East to South Pueblo, at greatly reduced rate*. These prices note are about as follows forfinUtau tickets;

From Philadelphia to Bonth Fa*blo. $66 00 From Cincinnati to South Pueblo' 46 00 FrAm Chicago to South Pueb10...... 45 00 From Omaha to South Pueblo.... 32 00 From Bt. Louis to South Pueblo 40 00 From Liverpool to South Pueblo £25 These rates are a per centum reduction on the full fares, and will change from time to time as these fares change. Health.— All the world now visits Colorado to find health. Health is the poor man’s capital. Scenehy. —The scenery is the grandest and most beautiful on the continent. Soil. —The valley of the Arkansas raises fifty bushels of wheat to the acre. Social Chances. —Every man’s children start equal and with even chances in the West. Colony Plan.— South Pueblo is being settled by the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, in regular course of their plan for the systematic development of the country along the line of their route, under the same plan of colony which has proved so successful in the case of Colorado Springs, the great pleasure and health resort. This plan secures to the individual settler all the advantages and reductions of colony emigration without subjecting hjm to the ordinary limitations of colonial enterprises, i. moving with a large body, or at a given time. Full details of this plan, with pamphlet and map, will be furnished by either Denver & Rio Grande Railway Co., 216 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia. Thomas C. Parrish, Treasurer, South Pueblo, Colorado. Nelson &. Bollkb, Cincinnati, O. Holbrook & Fox, Boston, Mass. W. O. Buchanan, Montreal, Canada. Geo. F. McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. A. BtKDELUEiMER, Kansas Pacific Depot, - Kansas City. J. BuroeSs Brown, Central Depot, Indianapolis. AlsaoerHay Hill, London, England.