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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1900
Page
1
E F Jewett general manager of The Diamond Fire Brick Company returns from the East pleased with progress. The firm plans a 120 by 50 foot drying kiln with fifty large flues to dry at least 30,000 bricks daily, and building work will begin immediately near the Santa Fe line by South Ninth Street.
A Pueblo steel works employee Thomas Carroll suffered injuries when a chair failed as the excursion train neared a curve near the Royal Gorge. He endured head injuries with twenty three stones removed from the skull area and was later sent home. Governor Thomas closes a warden inquiry at Colorado State Penitentiary, supporting Warden Hoyt with caveats. A Presbyterian church patriotic service followed, led by A S Rudd and Miss L W Mingay with music by Frank McClintock.
Canon City welcomed a large holiday crowd during an outdoor excursion tagged as the greatest gold camp on earth and the Little Pittsburgh of the West. Despite intense heat, visitors enjoyed the Royal Gorge ride, with two Pueblo trains and one from Cripple Creek and Victor arriving crowded with families and sightseers aboard fifteen to twenty cars each.
Pueblo merchants and officials urge Denver and Rio Grande to build the Silver Cliff line via Beulah from Pueblo, arguing regional business and resource potential justify direct access. The letter asks for a committee meeting to discuss routing, highlighting metals and agriculture in Wet Mountain territory. County officials report a rise in recorded documents and activity compared with last year.
Obituary recounts Jesse Rader dies June 30 1900 at age 71 after years in Missouri Virginia Tennessee and Colorado. Mentions sheriff terms early frontier life near Cajon City Parkdale Garden Park family, children, funeral details, and community notices including a July 6 1900 mothers lecture at Baptist church and a piano contest promotion.
A period-stye poem pleads for an end to barbarous strife while local items note residents visiting family in Casion City, moves by Carson City figures, and reports on mining district activity. The Judah era pieces reference George Bush of Bland, a rancher near the city, and various social notes from the Aspen Times and Victor Record.
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