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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1906
Page
9
The town’s grocers boast quality goods at fair prices and invite patrons to view an engine and spraying outfit from Field Force Pump Co of Elmira New York. The event aims to show durable equipment and savings on living expenses.
Canon City confronts a pivotal vote on a financed electric line from the Royal Gorge through town to Florence with branches to Lincoln Park and north. Henry Hutton urges immediate, united effort to secure the bonus needed, warning that delay could extinguish the once in a decade opportunity.
$100 reward announced for catarrh cure as Hall's Catarrh Cure is described as a constitutional treatment. The South Canon City council passes a street railway franchise ordinance, considers extending lines to hot springs, and a committee will coordinate with Canon City officials. City Clerk George B. E. Colgate resigns and donates his salary to the city. John Minister seeks one third of a reward for his drowned son. A committee is named to meet Canon City council and county commissioners. Estimates are sought for building a four cell jail as bids are discussed.
Editorial in the Pueblo Chieftain notes rapid agricultural and manufacturing growth in Fremont Pueblo Otero Bent and Prowers counties along the Arkansas River. It argues for improved freight and passenger rail facilities as several projects from Holly to La Junta and electric lines at Canon City and Florence are considered. The piece maintains current population could sustain better service and that enhanced railways would spur further growth.
The city to witness Charles B. Hanford in Othello at the Opera House on Friday January 19. Miss Marie Dromah will portray Desdemona with praised stage presence. Frank Hennig appears as Iago in a carefully cast, lavish production aimed to honor a brief but brilliant engagement.
Mr. Daniels, a large man, used extraordinary effort to reach through a fence and grab his sister’s hand, pulling her to solid ground. Neighbors aided with first aid, and Mrs. Keller’s condition was treated with external and internal applications. She escaped serious harm aside from a sprained thumb and a small cut, despite a perilous moment on the icy bank.
An advertisement promises a guaranteed cure for piles with PAZO OINTMENT. It claims relief from itching, bleeding, and protruding hemorrhoids within 6 to 14 days and notes druggists will refund the money if it fails. The product is priced at 50 cents.
Canon City readers learn ex councilman Pierce is poised for wealth from the Jo Dandy mine at Cripple Creek. J M Wright spent over $1000 examining the property and secured the option, finding ore values far exceeding prior expert forecasts. The Jo Dandy company annual report completed by Wright shows $200,000 in sight and validates Wright’s judgment.
The year shipped 12 283 tons of ore leaving 11 838 dry tons after moisture deductions with a gross value of 247 473.42 and net value of 151 728.41. After 76 432.25 in expenses, profit totals 75 296.16. Average ore value 21.06 per ton, dump ore 11.06, December ore 40.35. a ten foot high grade strike with 84.4 to 101.2 ounces per ton, screenings around ten ounces, coarse rock at least five ounces. Cross-cut advanced ten feet.
A Florence Tribune snippet notes an advert for a patent cold cure using Laxative BromoQuinine with a 25 cent price and a Grove signature on each box. It also comments that despite numerous incendiary fire reports in Canon City the county seat has not suffered a serious blaze, suggesting the publicity may be sensational.
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