Pioneer Days in the Far West and Colorado Pioneers
Canon City reminiscences recount early Colorado settlement. Dan Mehan, born in Ireland in 1830, travels from Portland to Denver in 1859 with 20 wagons, recalls buffalo, Ute Indians, and Kit Carson. He describes hardships, frontier life, and the note of Ouray’s subsidies, while noting Mehan’s mixed life with Mexicans and residence on Smelterhill. J. M. Granger and family planned move to Muncie Indiana after three years in Canon City.
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Ouray
United States
Plains
Frontieramen
J. Fenimore Cooper
Six Nations
Tri
New York
West
Cooper
Kit Carson
Kit Caron
Grand Canon
Colorado River
New Mexico
Mexico
Mehan
Europe
J. M. Granger
Muncie
Indiana
Mr. Granger
Canon City
Hoosier State
Younger Generation A Promising Canon City Boy
Jesse Peabody son of Mr and Mrs W H body of 827 Greenwood avenue was born August 9 1900 and is just over three. A lively bright boy he already prides himself on his great uncle being the governor of Colorado and intends to become a great man. He is known in town for his humor and bustling energy and has a bright future ahead.
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Canon City
Jesse Peabody
Jesse
W. H. Body
Greenwood Avenue
Colorado
Pioneer Colorado memories from J C Fisher in Pike’s Peak era
J C Fisher recounts frontier Colorado days from his basement post office venue a quarter century ago. He describes leaving Chicago with his father in 1859 traveling via prairie schooner to Denver and Black Hawk after early attempts near Pike’s Peak. He recalls miners law lynchings, frontier justice, and a people bound by mutual aid. He shares war service in Santa Fe, mining ventures, and views of Indians as lazy, not wholly vicious. Canon City and Montrose figure in his later years as pleasant towns while he reflects on mining’s primacy and his lifelong fascination with prospecting.
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J C. Fisher
Colorado
Mr. Fisher
Chicago
St. Joe
Missouri
Denver
Mr Fisher
Pike's Peak
Nebraska
Missis River
Lisi
Gold
States
On River
Republican Valley
Gilpin County
Gilpin
New Mexico
Fisher
Santa Fe
New England
Montrose
Ouray
Canon City
St. Crispin
Vote for Judge Campbell in State Election
Call to support Judge Campbell for Supreme Judge with emphasis on opposing Denver corruption and the need for Republican turnout in Fremont County. Warn of potential low turnout in smaller towns and urge every Republican to vote next Tuesday. Highlight Campbell as superior candidate worthy of state's needs.
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John Campbell
Denver
Campbell
Wonderful Vitality at Graves Hospital After Typhoid Fight
Mrs. Dr. Johnson has been an inmate of Dr. Graves hospital for fifty nine days due to typhoid fever. She has shown wonderful vitality, surviving an ordeal that could have finished many. For a month her condition was so serious friends doubted she would live to see another day.
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Dr. Johnson
Dr. Graves’ Hospital
Empire Mining to Develop Small Hopes Mountain Property
The Empire Mining Company, with stockholders from Durango Canon City and New York, has nearly complete plans to develop Small Hopes mountain property eight miles west of Durango. It secured a six year bond and lease from Swiss owners for 130000 with the first payment due within three years. The Swiss had mined $60000 in gold to the 240 foot level before halting due to the manager's extravagance. Empire plans to employ about twenty men and begin shipping ore after the new year.
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Empire Mining Company
A. van Buskirk
William Price
Small Hopes Mountain
Durango
Empire Company
Switzerland
Europe
Canon City
New York
Wonderful Climate Makes Colorado a Winter Playground
The article extols Colorado's climate as ideal year round, arguing the Arkansas valley offers cool winters and milder springs, with less humidity or eastern winds. It highlights healthful, stabilizing weather compared with Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Michigan, and the Dakotas, predicting growing appeal to leisure seekers and migrants seeking health and business opportunities.
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Colorado
Mississippi
Arkansas Valley
Alleghany Mountains
Kansas
Tophet
Florida
Illinois
Missouri
Nebraska
Minnesota
Michigan
Dakotas
Myers Concert Promises Delightful Evening at Church
The Myers concert at the Methodist church on November 2 features Prof. Myers with violinist Prof. Dietrich from Colorado Springs. Local talents Canon City include Misses Biggs Dale Lee Selleck and Mrs. A H White, plus a reading by Miss St John. The program, printed elsewhere, suggests varied and enjoyable entertainment.
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Myers
Methodists Church
Dietrich
Colorado Springs
Canon City
Helen M. Biggs
Grace Dale
Elisabeth Lee
Virginia Selleck
A. H. White
Miss St. John
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Far West
Colerate
Richardsons
Waters
California
Union Pacific
Sacramento
Pike
Fremont
Gunnison
Robinson Crusoe
Gov
Rudd
Dan Mehan
Smelterhill
South Canon
Ireland
Emerald Isle
America
Old Country
Atlantic
Portland
Maine
Sutters Mill
Argonauts
Pikes Peak Or Bust
Missouri River
City of
Fremont County
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