[Colorado]: [Kelley, William D.]:

$1,250 · Offered by William Reese Company

SKETCH OF THE PUEBLOS AND PUEBLO COUNTY, COLORADO. A scarce promotional for Pueblo County, published by the Pueblo Board of Trade. The city of Pueblo was one of the older European settlements in Colorado, arising as a trading post in the 1830s and becoming seat of one of the territory's original seventeen counties in 1861. It thrived in the gold rush and, unlike many such towns, retained its population and importance when the rush died down, pivoting into the state's manufacturing and smelting center. This pamphlet, printed in 1883 in the offices of Pueblo's first and longest-running newspaper (The Pueblo Chieftain), extols the many virtues of this southern Colorado county: climate, education, appropriateness for farming and stock raising, its position as a hub on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and of course mineral wealth. Detailed information within includes the current cost of all household necessities, the average wages for a variety of jobs ranging from baker and barber to waiter and watchmaker, real estate values from an 1882 assessment (with an update for 1883 tipped in), local churches (including a Colored Methodist Episcopal and Colored Baptist church), and a brief history of the county and city. As for "Who should seek a home in Pueblo?," they confess no further need for doctors and lawyers, stating that "The great want of the Pueblos is capital, and men to start and operate manufacturing enterprises." The last part of the pamphlet contains a sympathetic speech d

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