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Tut b*mM:-!a conrequonee of the cron del etata of oar oola«n« iait week we wers unable to r*/er to the completion o( theMnnaaentin lb* Plata,ai «i other-wi*e *buuIJ baeodonc.Thin work wae begon Itit J«r under contract by th» Moire MoCin iu puratian oc of an act of the legislature of that ya? authorising th« coniuustlen of a mooamcnt and making an appropriation of Iftew hundred doll art far the work-fht eaulraciori faithfully priHicuted tbalr wtrfc under lb* gr«at«*i lt;I1S and moitdlaonuraging eircumatancea, tb-caeh ealut of tba Territorial * arrant*, in which tba; nor# paid, not hem; mor* than fifty emit on the dollar. At thi lata icmon of tbo I.-gnlature there via au additional appropriation of ol^bt-rh hundred JoIUrt nude which enabled the -nntrartnr* to Gniati the monument which will for all lima to coma comincmumtc the memory of the dead in wboae honor it wni erected, b« an oroainant to tbo city and a irredit lo it* builder*.Tba idea of erecting the mioumsnt originated witb tba lata Chief Ja^tico .John V. Slough, who waa chiefly in«truaoni»l in having tba first appropriation inado by th- l,e-i*lalurr. lb wat, aa Colonel of tbo I at Colorado Volunteer*, mainly in#-trumrnlal in holding the Temur* a^a.nat the Teiana at the lima of tbo iuiaaion. rhay had pniaenion of tho Territory aouib of S.iD'.n Kc, except Fort Craig, and were inarching on Fort I nion, which woe gar rironed by a force wholly Inadequate to raalit tbam. Col. Slough by unprcccdinl-ml march** in the tnual inekm*n! araaonnf the year, threw bin regiment into Fort Colon in Uini to prevent iu dcitruotion aa w.ia contemplated by Co I. Pail, and •ate the irutn*nae aupply of itorra that wnt tbrr«, by inarching wait the rrgulan and volunteers to moot (bo enemy and turn them back at Pigeon’* Ranch.Havin’ been Iboe prominent and acttr* in thceccni'* of ISOli in thi* Territory it i« not itrsngi that be ahouli hare tnkrn a deep irtcreat m their commemoration and we regret that his name wn« 10 itodioua-!ly excluded from theinacriptioui u?un the tatileU.
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Santa Fe Weekly Gazette
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Sat, Jun 13, 1868
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