Big Convention Favors Good Roads in Fremont County
The National Good Roads association held a three quarter day convention at Canon City with Col. W. H. Moore presiding. Speakers praised local leaders and outlined plans for highway improvements, urging science based construction and use of convict labor provisions.
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Canon City
Col
W. H. Moore
National Good Roads Association
Denver
Col. Moore
Rocka
Fruitmere
Coulter
C. C. Dawson
C.A. Linkins
Fremont County
Messrs
Dawcon
Linkins
Capt. Rockafellow
United States
F. A. Raynolds
C. R. C. Dye
W. H
Moonlight Excursion To Royal Gorge Promoted By Recount
The Reconn urges a moonlit special train by the D a R G to Canon City for Royal Gorge viewing August 11. Tickets in advance at 65 cents for adults and 35 cents for children under 12, with a round trip including stops at Hanging Bridges and Parkdale.
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Royal Gorge
Sith
Reconn
Rio Grande
Tue Recorp
Canon
D. & R. G. Gepet
Hanging Bridges
Parksdale
Rarcorp
Ditch Companies Object To Water Decree Move
Canon City Merchants Association forms a three member committee to represent the group at a Fremont county meeting with ditch companies. They plan to oppose Colorado Fuel and Iron Co bolding a decree to divert 70 cubic feet per second from the Arkansas River for its Pueblo steel plant via the Bessemer canal. The Pueblo county district court hearing is set for the 28th of the month.
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Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Canon City
Pueblo
Bessemer
Pueblo County District Court
What Can You Make On a Canon Fruit Farm
A request for readers near Canon to share earnings from fruit farming. The Booster Edition seeks figures per acre or per larger tract, including strawberry, cherry, apple, small fruit, vegetables, and poultry profits. Readers who have done well are invited to contribute experiences for a regular meeting.
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Canon
County's road pledge to adopt scientific building principles
The meeting urges county commissioners to abandon temporary repairs and adopt permanent roads built on scientific principles. It asks municipal boards to consider the resolutions and pledges the new permanent organization to cooperate with all local boards in the Good Roads effort. Batchelor of East Canon is active in road work on North Diamond Street, while A H Craig travels to Grand Junction for the Uintah land drawing.
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National Roads Association
Wm. Bradburn
National Good Roads Association
Committee On Permanent Organization
Fremont County Good Roads Association
Board of County Commissioners
Batchelor
East Canon
North Diamond Street
A. H. Craig
Craig Brothers
Grand Junction
Uintah Reservation
Iron Expert and Hunter Visits Canon
Elmer Davis of Dwight Illinois, a Risdon Iron Works supervisor en route to Seattle to oversee a twelve story steel skeleton, is also a famed hunter. He shared stories of big game in Africa and displayed hunting trophies at his Dwight home, amid Pike and Carson club conservation aims.
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British East Africa
Nile
Equatorial Africa
Mr. Davis
Urganda
Victoria Nyanza Lake
East Africa
Davis
Dwight
Pike and Carson Club
The
Union
Brakeman Callahan Killed Near Parkdale
Brakeman C. H. Callahan of Pueblo died after a D. R. G. freight wreck near Parkdale caused by washed out track from Arkansas River floods. The train left the rails at a curve west of Parkdale, two boxcars overturned, and Callahan, head brakeman, was crushed while attempting to jump. He was unmarried and had long service with the railroad. he was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
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Arkansas
Parkdale
C. H. Callahan
Pueblo
Calahan
D. & R. G. Company
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Local merchants urged to stock in demand goods
The Teluride Journal argues merchants can curb out of town orders by stocking the products customers want and repeatedly informing the public through local press columns. The piece stresses the need for locally available merchandise to reduce reliance on mail order houses.
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Teluride Journal
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Florence
Good Road
Fremont
Aman Moore
Portland
J. Q. MacDonald
OC. A. Linkins
Committee On Resolutions
Committee On
National Good Roads
Hooper
Niagara
Yosemite
Yellowstone Park
Grand Canon
Arizona
Tee Record Office
the Royal Gorge
Merchants’ Association
Dall DeWeese
Callahan
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