Mining rush and mule train peril in Colorado frontier
Descriptions of a rugged trek across mountains with pack mules carrying heavy freight while danger lurks on steep slopes. Old Joe the mule survives a spectacular crash and resumes travel. Reports from Hot Sulphur Springs and Fairplay note improved mail service and rising mining activity in Middle Park and Southeastern Colorado, with clergy and professors tied to Colorado Springs.
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Penata
Gil
Joe
Hot Sulphur Springs
Middle Park
Denver
Denver News
Lucien B Maxwell Dies After Eventful Life in New Mexico
Lucien B Maxwell a founder figure in early New Mexico history died at his Las Vegas home after an active life linking with St Vrain Bent Kit Carson and others. Born in Illinois he moved to New Mexico in 1841 married Luz Beaubien and built the Maxwell Grant Cimarron Fort Sumner site. He shaped Ravado and the Maxwell Grant era, famed for hospitality generosity and frontier enterprise. EVANSVILLE Aug 9 The Wabash river reaches 1828 high water with levee breaks flooding farms and endangering stock as tugboats move barges.
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Lucien B. Maxwell
New Mexico
Las Vegas
Colorado
Mr. Maxwell
St. Vrain
Charles Bent
Kit Carson
Robert Owen
Kaskaskia
Illinois
Taos
Luz Beaubien
Chas. Beaubien
Maxwell Grant
Fremont
Rocky Mountain
California
Columbia
Platte
Arkansas
Miranda & Beaubien
Ravado
Cimarron
Fort Sumner
Denver News
Evansville
New Harmony
Journal
Grasshoppers, floods, and fortunes flood Greeley News
The Greeley column reports vast stock losses from floodwaters five thousand acres submerged and grasshoppers swarming Grand Leland Central City Wood River and Hastings. C W Sanborn sells the Cash mine for 12000. Harvesting thrives while town business remains dull. Church notes and social events fill a busy schedule as new businesses and mining ventures unfold.
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Grand Leland
Central City
Wood River
Hastings
C. W. Sanborn
Emerson & West
Park Church
Hart
Jacob Welch
Marx & Co
J. W. R. Spencer
San Juan
Fannie Guinney
Greeley
Ohio
Denver
Congregational Society
Thompson
Salomon
New York
Frank J. Annis
State Agricultural College of Michigan
Deacon Thompson
Adams
Island Grove Park
Episcopal Church
Allen
C. F. Thompson
Green Co
Wisconsin
Colorado
Sterling
G. H. Adams
Sid Mr. Lemon
Omaha
Grange seeks Colorado grasses for Centennial Exhibition
Harpin Davis and Overseers of Colorado State Grange urge entries of Colorado grasses for the Centennial Exhibition. Send specimens by August 7 to the Grange Room, with roots intact and soil removed. Pack dry specimens in bundles no more than five inches in diameter, wrapped and labeled.
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Harpin Davis
Colorado State Grange
Colorado
Local Trade and Rail Promotion Items
Sraid and Embroidery Stamping offers Pure Maple Syrup at $1.50 per gallon and announces building material prices for lumber, shingles, lath, doors, windows, and plaster parts. J. L. Bross outlines a general cattle commission business with sources in Greeley and Denver. Kansas Pacific Railway touts through tickets, baggage checks, and Pullman service to the East, urging Colorado friends to travel via Kansas City and Leavenworth with executives Lyford and Keim named.
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Colorado
Kansas Pacific Railway
Union
Kansas City
Leavenworth
O. 8. Lyford
Beverley R. Keim
Oldest shortest route to Chicago via Chicago & North Western
Traveling public urged to use the Chicago & North Western Railroad for the safest and quickest journey between Omaha and Chicago. The line has steel rails, refurbishments, and centrally located Chicago depot with early arrivals to secure Eastern connections. Tickets via Marshall Cedar Rapids Clinton for Northern Iowa. via Fulton for Northern Illinois Wisconsin. through sleepers day coaches and smoking cars. Through offices and agents offer maps and timetables.
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Carcano & North Western Railroad
Omaha
Chicago
Iowa
Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
Illinois
Wisconsin
Fulton
Chicago & North-Western
United States
West
J. H. Mounrarx
Western
Neb
W. H. Stennert
Thanking responders for Maple and Monroe house input
The undersigned expresses gratitude for information about a house at the northeast corner of Maple street and Monroe avenue. He notes that many who spoke ill of the house have never entered it and signs W. E. Panson as the speaker.
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Maple Street
Monroe Avenue
W. E. Panson
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