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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1906
Page
3
The Leader Store advertises building supplies fixtures and hardware at low prices with timing work heating plumbing and bath appliances. It highlights experienced supervision quality groceries varied stock and favorable cash change terms as reasons to shop there.
The Civic Improvement League reports four months of work and over a thousand dollars spent on water pipes at penitentiary park and tree planting. They secured convict labor with Warden Cleghorn to clean streets and drain irrigation ditches, leveled Margaret Park, and transformed City Gardens. Plans include a bridge across mill ditch and a Royal Gorge moonlight excursion to raise funds.
An article on kidney function notes the kidneys filter all blood every three minutes and remove impurities daily. It cites back pain and other symptoms from unhealthy kidneys and highlights Doan's Kidney Pills with a customer testimonial from Mrs. A N Stephens of Florence Colorado, plus dealer and price details.
Denver native James Richard De Remer dies at 59 from a stroke. A noted civil engineer, he built the Rio Grande through the Royal Gorge and the famed swinging bridge there. He leaves a widow and three children and was active in Masons Elks Knights of Pythias and Woodmen. Funeral from his Pearl Street home.
The narrative recalls Canon City’s Royal Gorge struggle between the D R G and Santa Fe railways to control the line. Santa Fe leased the wagon road, built toward the twentieth milepost, and faced eleven forts with 195 guards while Santa Fe’s 1,200 workers pressed forward. An iconic deadline tie blocked crossing, authorities cited were the supreme court, and eventually the D R G secured the Gorge rights by purchase, ending the contest.
Mixed with pure linseed oil it is the accepted standard paint. Looks best tastes longest and costs least in the long run. Free booklet available illustrated. Valuable to anyone who would preserve and beautify property with minimal outlay. National Lead Company Clerk Ave and 10th Sts St Louis Mo For sale by reputable dealers. For sale by all dealers.
The Rio Grande purchased its first Baldwin locomotive, naming it the De Remer Fast Passenger Engine No. 85. An advertisement extols Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy, offering a hundred dollar reward for any failure to cure.
George MacKenzie, tied to E G Bettis, returns to Cotopaxi to advance the Springfield group copper properties nine miles north. He cites ore showing 65 to 70 percent copper from current workings, with two shafts at 150 and 60 feet and drifting extending along the vein. He claims ongoing extending ore and strong future for the mine.
Exploitation of the properties is controlled by five men with Canon City stockholders. They claim one of the state's largest copper propositions and plan extensive development. Eight workers are currently employed, with expansion anticipated as conditions allow. A renowned mining expert was involved.
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