Gold From Arkansas River Sand Bars Spurs Placer Mining
A. N. Strickland of Florence and associates plan placer mining in auriferous sands along the Arkansas River upper Royal Gorge. The ancient sandbar yields gold values up to 400 dollars per cubic yard and abundant pea sized particles. Strickland has built a shack and opened a road access, hoping to turn the venture profitable and rich beyond belief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. N. Strickland
Florence
Royal Gorge
Strickland
Parkdale
Arkansas River
Canon
J. J. Lewis
Arkansas
Board of Education Plans Eight Mile Park School
A special board meeting in the Burrage block discussed building a one room school at Eight Mile Park to serve twenty two students near Royal Gorge. Residents urged prompt action and a teacher appointment to begin instruction. Eleanor Warner from Colorado Springs was elected English teacher for Canon City High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
F. N. Carrier
Burrage Block
Eight Mile Park
Royal Gorge
W. G. Cord
Albert Gilm
L. D. Goss
G. Ricchiutti
Colorado
Devil’s Gap
Eleanor 8. Warner
Colorado Springs
Myrtle Goodykoontz
Canon City
Warner
Colorado College
Leland Stanford Jr
Palo Alto
California
Prof
Patterson
Frontier Statesman William A. Stewart Remembered
The obituary recalls Senator William A. Stewart who rose from Carson City to Nevada’s Senate. He helped create Nevada statehood, backed amendments shaping citizenship and civil rights, and played a key role in territorial politics and the Capitol battle between Carson City and Virginia City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam A. Stewart
Washington
Virginia City
Nevada
Comstock Lode
Territory of
Stewart
Carson City
Mark Twain
Neia
Carson Y
Senate
Denver and Rio Grande Adds Through Train to Grand Junction
The Denver and Rio Grande extends passenger train No. 15 from Leadville to Grand Junction, arriving 8:00 p.m. daily. Return runs 2:30 p.m. from Grand Junction, reaching Canon City at 1:30 a.m. The service includes Leadville Glenwood sleeper and a Grand Junction sleeper, supplementing existing Denver to Salida and Denver to Leadville sleeping cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Grande
Grand Junction
Leadville
Canon City
Glenwood Springs
Denver
Salida
Pupils Recital at First Presbyterian Church
A piano class recital presented by Miss Grace Dale and students in the Sunday school room of the First Presbyterian church. Emma Swanson led with Bach and Clementi pieces, with Miss Dale and others performing duets and selections, followed by orangeade served by Misses Ripley, Paxton and Corrin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Dale
First Presbyterian Church
Gurlitt
Wilma Paxton
Leora Corrin
Dale
Bach
Emma Swanson
Lilly Dale
Ruth Morris
Miss
Catherine Ware
Ming Dale
the Miller Boy
Althea Talbot
Miss Dale
Blanche Anderson
Lucrezia Borgia
Donizetti
Mabel Kent
Mozart
Nora Fankhauser
Wachs
Spaulding
Blanche
Katherine Anderson
Clementi
Miss Preston
Ascher
Misses Preston
Fankhauser
Emmerson
Ripley
Paxton
Corrin
Durable concrete bridges mark South Canon street improvement drive
The South Canon village council launches a campaign for street upgrades under Street Commissioner George B. Kirkland. Cement bridges with forty foot abutments rise on New York Catlin Douglas and Riverside avenues, seen as a lasting, value-driven investment by the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Canon
George B. Kirkland
New York
Catlin
Douglas
Riverside Avenues
Dr Cannon to Move Family to Weiser Idaho
Dr J W Cannon has returned to Canon City from Weiser Idaho and plans to move his family there within a week to ten days. He has bought a large tract of horticultural land near Weiser and expects value to rise with local prosperity. He will largely abandon medicine to focus on real estate and seeks warm wishes from Canon City as he moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Cannon
Canon City
Weiser
Idaho
Cannop
Silver Cliff Woman Improves After Dog Attack Wounds
A niece reports Mrs. W. M. Ozburn is resting comfortably and slowly improving from injuries after being bitten by dogs at Hermit Lakes. Undersheriff John Chetelat notes extensive damage with arms and legs torn and lacerated and over a hundred bites on the legs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Chetelat
Ed. Osburn
Silver Cliff
W. M. Osburn
Ozburn Sr
Daily Record
Hermit Lakes
Catarrh Cure Promises Cure All Stages
$100 reward offered by Hall's Catarrh Cure proprietors for any case it fails to cure. Cure claimed to be constitutional, taken internally to reach blood and mucous surfaces. Also mentions 75c Hall's Family Pills. Then notes Blake Rogers returning from a Pacific coast trip detailing Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition and comparisons to St Louis and Chicago fairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & O.O
Toledo
Ohio
Blake Rogers
Pacific Coast
Mr. Rogers
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Portland
Seattle
Northwest
Columbia
Alaska
Hawaii
Philippines
St. Louis
Chicago
Gwillim Investment to Supply South Canon Artesian Water
Gwillim Investment Co holds a village franchise to pipe artesian water from Chandler to South Canon. The firm has secured funding and plans a six month extension to complete a large reservoir and steel-pipe system delivering up to one million gallons daily at a maximum rate of twenty-five cents per thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwillim Investment CO
South Canon
Gwillim Investment Company
Chandler
South Cance
Lincoln Park
Prospect Heights
State Inspector Praises Canon City Food Laws
Colorado food inspector Rd. Coulter, visiting Canon City on a Leadville to Denver trip, hails Canon City and Fort Collins for their strong food inspection ordinances. He urges adoption of similar statutes statewide and notes poorer conditions in Leadville. He commends city inspector Richard Houle for thorough work.
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Rd. Coulter
Denver
Statutes of
Colorado
Leadville
Coulter
Richard Houle
Canon City
Fort Collins
Publc
Houle
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Denvee
Dai
DR. Cannon
Wes. W. MH. Ozburn
PECOS
Middle West
Fort Sumner
Geo. W. Temple
Me. D. J. McCannie
Mr. Words
Gsnswer
Fort Luroner
New Mexico
Wyoming
Montana
Oregon
Roswell
Pecos River
Pecos Valley
Palisades
Grand Valley
United States
Stark
Joseph Powell & & Co. Co
Anges. Ord
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