Local Business Ads Brighten Greeley Market Scene
A stream of advertisements lists ARX & CO selling goods at New York prices for 60 days with bargains on Cloths Clothing and Furnishings. Other notices promote nurseries dentists jewelers bakers and a law and real estate office offering abstracts lands and taxes services in Arapahoe County and Denver City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ARX & CO
New York
Facct
Greeley
Marx & Co
Maple Street
Ttorney
Arapahoe County
Denver City
Washington
Multiple Advertisers Market Goods and Services in Greeley
Local notices list MES I I Paine millinery and hair work on Spruce Street, J Joyce bootmaker on Maple Street, real estate agents for Greeley Colorado with land and U S Lands focus, F M Babcock attorney, Philip Taylor and Monk wholesale goods in Denver, Bond lawyer, Percival carpenter, Park House hotel, J W Benson attorney, Salomon store offering dry goods and low prices, Beckwit real estate agent in Burlington, and northern Colorado land warrants and abstracts of titles.
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EAL
Greeley
Colorado
U. S
F. M. Babcock
Philip Taylor
F.C. Beckwion
Burlington
Mountain Trip Reflections From Greeley Tribune Editor
MAC SMITH describes leaving for the mountains while his wife bakes and prepares. He notes visitors’ surprise at Greeley’s growth with brick blocks and neat homes, claims moral progress, and laments lazy locals. He urges narrower gauge railroads to access canyons for mineral and lumber.
California letter notes dry season and climate contrasts
From Manysville California July 10 1871 a correspondent reports unusually dry conditions delaying harvest with deep tillage and subsoiling yielding 30 to 60 bushels per acre. He contrasts hot sunny inland warmth 100 to 106 degrees with cool foggy San Francisco and Greeley winters, hoping for better healthful locations and noting persistent ague.
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Manysvillle
Cal
J. C. Hietey
Colorado
Coast Range
Sierra Nevada
San Francisco
Greeley
Changes in new countries across the prairie region
A Chicago Tribune writer reflects on the prairie settlement era and climate changes east of the Mississippi. He notes shifts from ague to healthy pastures, the decline of buffalo and sage brush, and the promise of irrigation and railroads transforming Illinois plains into fertile, populated lands within thirty five years.
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Board of Trade
Waters
Rocky Mountains
Eldorado
Mississippi
Chicago
Egypt
Syria
Asia
Praiie
Wisconsin
Minnesota
California
Great Lakes
Illinois
Worth- Jerssage
Grand Chain
Cariboo Mine Explores Rich Vein Extending West and East
A detailed field report describes the Cariboo Mine on the hill near Cariboo town. The vein runs nearly east to west with a deep, widening ore crevice yielding high grade silver ores including sulphurers and silver glance. The main shaft reaches 185 feet below surface with two levels working toward east and west as operations expand toward a large mill at Dayton.
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Cariboo
Old
Cariboo Company
Messrs. Breel & Cutter
Allum
Hill's
Blackhank
Dayton
Comstock
Bil Messrs. Breed & Cutter
Clara Barton in Europe and Paris relief work described
A correspondent recounts Clara Barton's wartime relief in Alsace and Baden, detailing her founding of hospitals, providing work and clothing for thousands, and saving ongoing aid to Strasbourg residents amid the Franco-Prussian War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Army Journal
Lyons
France
Clara Barton
Wilcox
Miss Barton
Europe
Alsace
Weissembourg
Woerth
Freshwiller
Carlsruhe
Baden
Strasbourg
Heaven
Antoinette Mancor
Rue de Vendome
Japan Aims at Higher Civilization With Student Corps
The article states Japan plans to send eight hundred selected men, two from each of its four hundred provinces, to Europe and the United States to observe and learn the arts of civilization. It also notes Japan’s growing need for American school settings and the large shipments of dictionaries and scientific manuals to Japan last year.
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Japan
Europe
United States
Rich silver quartz veins boost Utah population and exports
The Utah population rises since January due to discovery and development near Salt Lake of rich silver quartz veins yielding up to $1000 per ton. In four months two thousand tons of ore were shipped by the Union Pacific to New York and from there to Swansea and other European ports for smelting, with domestic smelting expected to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
Salt Lake
Union Pacific Railroad
New York
Swansea
Europe
Hucky Mountain Herald
Cattle Trade Growth in Texas Surges to New Heights
The article notes four years ago the first Texas cattle head shipped via the Kansas Pacific at Abilene. Last year 131000 head moved through the point with expectations this year to more than double, as ranchers seek safe, profitable markets in Colorado and beyond. It also mentions a time-keeping device for stations and a Edinburgh prize episode involving a female student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas Pacific
Abilene
Colorado
Kansas
Chieftian
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Leavy, Urseryman and Florist
Main St
Grant
Sherman
G. H. Webster
Fs, Scott
Pine
Madison Street
S. K. Thompson
Quageon and
Madison and
Spruce Sts
J.C. Higley
Ivery, Feed and Sale Stable
L. van Gohren
Walnut Street
G. W
J. L. Stotts
LVERY
Spruce Street
L. Childs
Boston
Colony Hall
Harvey Townsend Cora
Walnut St
Park
Daniel Witter
MES. I. H. Paine
Spruce St
Jefferson Avenues
J. Joyce
J. H. Jones
Salomon's
Babcock & Taylor
E. c. Monk & Co
Boots and Shoes
Pioneer
Gneevey
Con
H. G. Bond
Tobrney AT Law
Hussey's Bank
F and Holladay
Denver
Colonapo
Percival
Arpenter
Con. WaAtLxor
Mapison
Park House
J. W. Benson
A. E. Gipson
Greener
CoLonano
Trimone Bock
A. Z Salomon
Place Toduy
Mac Smith
Greeley Tribune
Jackson
New England
M. L. Dunlap
Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Phobus
Pygmalion
Ouane
Pheobus
New Orleans
Bill Jenks
Colusa
University of Edinburgh
Titus Sail
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