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<br />J ,.' <br />, - . . <br />;..- . '~', -02-61 <br />C'arey Holbrook <br />I002Fifth Street,N.W. <br />Albuquerque, New Mexico <br /> <br />"..., <br /> <br />"FABULOUS SKAGUAY" <br /> <br />i <br />.' <br /> <br />The history of Southern Colorado is full of romance and unbelievable <br />tales of hardship and adventure. The Republic of Texas once drew a line <br />through this territory, and claimed ownership of part of it. Traders and <br /> <br />trappers from the French in Louisiana settled in this section and <br />claimed a part of it as their own. Reaching across the Northern bounda- <br />ries of New Mexico, the Maxwell Land Grant, that wilderness empire granted <br />by Spain to one of her subjects, took in an area of many thousands of <br />Colorado acres. Here,too, beginning at the foot of La Veta Pass, are the <br /> <br />. <br />rOfling pastures of Trinchera ranch, part of another Spanish grant, ac- <br />quired as a plaything by the McCormick interests in Chicago, now owned <br />and operated by the heirs of Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms. The Spanish <br /> <br />influence has come do~m through the years in names of cities, rivers and <br /> <br />, <br />mountained - La Junta, Costilla, Sangre de Cristo, Huerfano. <br /> <br /> <br />Serving a large part of this territory is the Southern Colorado <br /> <br />Power Company, a sprawling enterprise with a turbulent history dating <br />back to shortly after the Civil War. The present corporation, starting <br /> <br />, <br />with the Pueblo Street Railway, incorporated in 1879, was built, you <br />might say, plant by plant! In the boiling years of its growth more <br /> <br />than thirty-five electric organizations were merged to form,the company. <br />Many of these concerns were organized with little capital, to serve small <br />communities. They came into being, operated a while and were sold, <br />merged or abandoned. Some of them were backed by names familiar in <br />financial cir~les - David H. Moffat, Andrew W. Mellon.' .In-this surge <br />of business growth fortunes were made and lost. Men and machinery <br />lived their little day and were swallowed up in the sweep of progress. <br /> <br />j <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />I <br />