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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1906
Page
4
Mrs. Carl Schultz reports Boston capital backing a copper mine near Cotopaxi with $35,000 subscriptions. A company formed for exploitation with 1,500,000 shares at $1 each plans active development soon. Assays show up to 20 percent copper from limited work.
A lion faced calf born near Silver Cliff in Colorado is shown in a Main Street tent near Sixth in Canon City drawing wide attention. The calf, a native of the Wet Mountain cattle country, was raised briefly by its mother before being abandoned, then saved by ranch workers. The animal has a mountain lion like head, short ears, wide eyes, tapering nose and a long sinewy body with pale brown hair and cloven hooves.
Visitors to the Canon City fair are urged to visit the manufacturers' tent and inspect cement building blocks made by the Canon City Cement Building Block and Tile Manufacturing Company. The firm, a Canon City industry, has been too busy fulfilling orders to mount as large an exhibit as planned.
The company completed a cement block building near the D R G railway station. Manager Ritzman says the block business is in its infancy but will soon become the main material for foundations and walls. Officers include John Ritzman, president, and Lorentz Ritzman, general manager.
The Singer sewing machines exhibit, worth about $3,000 and led by district agent 8S. B. Freed, showcases models 66 Vibrator and Wheeler & Wilson with embroidery and drawn work samples. After the fair it moves to the Pike Centennial in Colorado Springs. Also noted are two Colorado Springs residents buying five acre alfalfa tracts and four residential lots in Canon City.
In an off year Abe Hewson is elected to the state legislature from a mountain district. His wife warns him to keep his honesty as lobbyists push for a railroad bill, and she travels overnight to urge him to vote against it to remain a square man. The final passage vote ties, but her arrival sways him, and the bill is defeated.
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