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<br />. <br /> <br />3072. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />A large restaurant, 80 unit motel, Arabian horse farm, rodeo <br />and riding center, nine holes of the eighteen-hole Champion- <br />ship Golf Course, mobile home subdivision with a recreation <br />complex to include an indoor swimming pool, additional pav- <br />ing of roads and extension of the present utilities are <br />finished or being completed. <br /> <br />In the industrial complex, the Aspen Ski Wear Company has <br />completed a clothing manufacturing plant and employs 50 <br />people. Fountain Sand and Gravel Company is considering <br />the construction of a concrete batch plant. Mountain States <br />Telephone Company has purchased a five-acre site on which it <br />will soon build a satellite exchange for Pueblo West. <br /> <br />The main routes of transportation traversing the Pueblo <br />metropolitan area closely follow the old trails established <br />by the lndians and early settlers. The Atchison, Topeka <br />and Santa Fe Railroad, the Colorado and Southern Railroad, <br />the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and the Missouri <br />Pacific Railroad serve the metropolitan and Arkansas Valley <br />areas. The adjacent areas have a good system of county, <br />state and Federal highways, including Interstate Highway <br />25, U.S. Highway 50, and Colorado State Highways 96 and 76. <br />A municipal airport is located six miles east of Pueblo, <br />and Pueblo West plans to construct an airfield adjacent <br />to the reservoir. <br /> <br />2. <br /> <br />Probable future environment without the proposal <br /> <br />Private ownership and development would continue to restrict <br />public access to the Arkansas River and its adjacent lands <br />acquired for the Pueblo Reservoir project, and substantially <br />eliminate hunting, fishing and other recreation opportunities <br />for Pueblo residents. Urban encroachment will cause further <br />deterioration of wildlife habitat and populations as the <br />project land is reverted from public to private ownership. <br /> <br />Land in the Arkansas Valley area would continue to be used <br />.primarily for agricultural production with some encroachment <br />upon these lands by urban and industrial development. <br /> <br />Economic pressures on primary and secondary agriculture produc- <br />tion in the Arkansas Valley will continue to augment the trends <br />of consolidating small farms into larger units, and force an <br />outward migration of rural residents to large urban centers <br /> <br />36 <br />