Colorado Agriculture and irrigation rise in old west farming
An 1885 overview details Colorado farming under irrigation, crops like wheat and corn, and the shift from mining to agricultural wealth. It notes land prices, equipment costs, and the benefits of diverse crops, dairying, and hay for steady income, with census figures and production estimates.
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Colorado
New West
Asell
Arkansas
Platte
Ndin
Commissioner Ofgriculture
Commissioner of Agculture
Eee Rge
In Prison and a Call for Prudent Reform
A letter from Coupenia, a radical republican and ex union soldier, shares prison observations at Canon City and comments on solitary confinement, the treatment of prisoners, and lack of women inmates. The writer notes many youths in custody and questions justice and reform while urging editors to report on new duties of a state official.
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Greeley Tribune
Canon City
Tanner
Angil
Charles Reade
Reade
Walter Scott
Cleveland
R.A. Cameron
Dr. Holland
State Penitentiary
Colorado
Masona
Tennyson
Anon
Coupenia
Beauregard
Johnston
Heberd
Imboden
Colquitt
Gordon
Wickham
Hansom
The
New York Tribune
Philadelphia
Vansville
Boards of Health
Brooklyn
Baltimore
State of
Maryland
C. Fawcett
Union Protestant Infirmary
McLane
Roberts
Latrobe
Adreon
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Rome
Edinburgh Review
Sies
Delis
Frontina
Aquarum
Nerva
Trajan
Sumer
Marrana
Tiber
Appennines
Appia
Marcia
Claudia
Monte Cantaro
Anio
Novus
Dave Day
Muldoon
Denver
Gov. Eaton
Khartoum
Sandwich Islands
Delaware
New York
Montclair
Grover Cleveland
Thomas M. Patterson
Thom
M. Patterson
Dennis Sullivan
Amos Steck
John Atkins
Jo Chaffee
al Branch
Capt. Bean
Stapleton
Safe Pence
Harley B. Morse
France
London
Liverpool
N. S. Independent
Nebuchadnezzar
Darius Hydaspes
Union Pacific Railway Company
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
Portland
Oregon
Washington Territory
Shoshone
Idaho
Wood River Mines
Camas Prairie
W. Moxse
G. P
Ilion
J. Phelps
England
State Department
United States
Canada
Physic
Pracsine
Charles A. Vogeler Co
Tooessore
A. Voorler & CO
Daltimore, Md
T. C. Morley
KR. Steele
T. C. Morley & CO
Platte Valley
Sterling
W. C. Packard
Sterling, Colorado
Main Street
H. A. French
Greeley, Colo
Studebaker Bros., Manufacturing Company
Family Spring
Greeley
P. Huffsmith
Maple Street
Bay State
George D. Horne
Greenlee & CO
Denver, Colorado
E. Brooks
A. Miner
Chicago
Orthwestern Railway
Maha
Council Bluffs
Des Moines
Marshalltown
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
Dixon
Milwaukee
Pease
Nebraska
Wyoming
Utah
Daho
Nevada
Washington
California
Omaha
C Oome
Union Pacific Railway
Union Depot
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Detroit
Columbus
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Niagara Falls
Buffalo
Pittsburg
Toronto
Montreal
Boston
East
North-Western
M. Hudghitt
R.S. Hair
Guipr
Montgomery Ward & CO. Acing
Freeport Machine Co
Freeport, Ill
U.S. A
Pitman
J. H. van Sickle
Tabor Block
Jia
Stix~ Son & Co
Maine
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