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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1899
Page
1
American Zinc Lead Smelting Company announces construction of a new plant covering twenty six acres in Canon City. The facility is described as the world’s largest zinc smelting operation, signaling a major industrial expansion for the company and the region.
The American Zinc Lead project expands to three times current capacity near Carson City. A brick plant will produce 20,000 bricks daily and a new 1000 horsepower power system, two 18-foot exhaust fans, and 24 zinc furnaces are ordered. The overhaul adds fourteen buildings forming a wind-protective hollow square on 26 acres, with a barrel factory turning out 200 barrels daily and a 300-ton daily output of white lead. The enterprise employs 225 workers with a monthly payroll over five thousand dollars.
Prof John P Meakin renowned fraternal evangelist visited Gate City Camp No 18 Woodmen of the World and delivered a moving lecture Human Progress and Fraternity drawing tears and laughter from the audience. Several Carson City travelers were aboard trains wrecked near Salida injuring J E Brown and W A Chapson with six killed including residents of Denver Grand Junction and Oberlin Ohio.
A survey of magazines and books from McClure's, Sat urday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and Colorado literature. Highlights include Laurens's mission in 1781, Denver Almanac contents, Colorado in Color and Song featuring twenty four landscapes and poems, and biographical sketches, with prices and delivery notes.
A chaotic block of old ads and notices offers furnished rooms on Main street, a horse pasture for rent, alfalfa crops for sale, a fence company selling woven wire fencing, underwear and furnishings, a confectionery business for sale, a steam laundry service, and a bicycle shop with low prices. Names include G. H. Atwater, Thurston White, John Weed, Vaughn, McGee, W. D., and F. E. Thomas. Locations center on Canon City area streets and businesses.
Bright shoppers search for useful presents as a local shop promotes linen handkerchiefs gloves rugs silk skirts waists sterling silver novelties purses leather items and toys. The note promises new stock arriving soon and hints at favorite gift ideas for friends and grandparents.
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