Invalids by Ranch Life in Colorado Cited as Hard Paths
The piece warns that poor invalids seeking work in cattle ranches near Colorado towns face harsh conditions. It notes bedding is not provided, lodging is rough, food is inadequate for invalids, and workers endure heat, hunger, thirst, and cold. It compares rough treatment to earlier slave labor, urging invalids to stay home where death may come more peacefully.
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Greeley
Colorado
Telemachus
Africa
Journey to Middle Park Amid Mountain Roads and Climate
The text notes a journey to Middle Park from Boulder about sixty miles, with Rollinsville forty miles and an express starting Tuesdays. It describes the Snowy Range descent as steep and eight miles into the park as challenging, with many small parks separated by 10 000 foot peaks. Crops are sparse this year except turnips. potatoes planted late likely won’t mature. cucumbers reportedly cannot be grown. climate varies by region, elevation over 7000 feet, and snow lingers long.
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Middle Park
Rollins
Boulder
Rollinsville
Grand Lake Park Notes From the Territory Frontier
The park draws visitors to Sulphur Springs with hot baths and good fishing. Grand Lake supplies mining towns. cattle, milk, butter, and flour are sold locally. A new hotel nears completion amid several stores and a liquor problem at one shop. Grimshaw opens a ranch near the Frazier river with stock and grassland. Frosts damage crops. game is scarce, though prairie chickens and sage hens are plentiful. The scenery invites a summer residence despite cold and few musketeers or flies.
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Grand Lake
Grimshaw
New Light on Fruit Growing in Colorado
The article reports on fruit growth near Boulder Longmont and Greeley Colorado. It notes widespread tree death from sunscald and heat while Siberian crab apples fare better. A pruning method of low heading encourages strong lateral branches protecting trunks. Orchards on plains may succeed with dense protection and self shielding trees.
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Boulder
Longmont
Greeley
Colorado
Denver
G. M. Smith
Mr. Smith
Rhode Island
Smith
Salt Lake
Mr. Greenley
Wolff
Delaware
Concord
Hartford
Ezra Baker
Colorado grape growing method sparks new light
The Salt Lake report notes Black Hamburg grapes grown in Colorado by laying trellis and vines on the ground during winter, suggesting a notable new light on local fruit growing practices.
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Salt Lake
Colorado
Mining growth near Boulder and political unrest in Colorado
The Boulder region sees rapid growth as mining and reduction works expand near Gold Hill ten miles away. Grasshoppers damage farms around Boulder Longmont and Denver while wheat fairs better. Colorado politics show dissatisfaction with congressional candidates amid McCook Chaffee tensions and likely light voter turnout. A pamphlet promotes Golden School of Mines as a source of useful information.
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Boulder
Gold Hill
Boulder Canyon
Middle Boulder
Rollinsville
Central
Idaho
Georgetown
Denver
Clear Creek Canyon
Massachusetts
Longmont
Dr Miller of Omaha Herald Travels Colorado Territory
Dr Miller of the Omaha Herald journeys through Colorado Territory writing lively letters. He reports on local scenes, people, and events as he travels, offering vivid impressions from various settlements.
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Dr. Miller
The
Omaha Herald
Colorado
Territory
Kingsley Praises America and Its People in London
Canon Kingsley lauds America in a preface to South by West, praising its manifest destiny and virtues. The Pall Mall Gazette notes English hospitality to Americans and contrasts it with Americans hosting in London. Kansas Pacific official Lamborn resigns to lead C I Co., with Col. Lamborn heading to South Pueblo and E S Nettleton mapping L C land near the depot for rapid sales and future Hot Springs development.
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New York World
London
Canon Kingsley
South By West
America
Washington
Pall Mall Gazette
United States
Hurlingham
Zoological Gardens
Brillat-Savarin
Canyon City Times
Discoveries of the Black Hills Expedition Reach Floral Valley
Gen Custer reports rapid advance from Prospect Valley through Little Missouri and Belle Fourche into the Black Hills. The party notes Floral Valley with 125 plant species and rich grazing, encounters with a small Indian village, and plans to push toward the Cheyenne and Fort Lincoln, with gold deposits hinted and bearing quartz veins seen.
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Black Hills
The
New York Tribune
South Fork Currens
Ava
Charley Raynolds
Custer
Prospect Valley
Dakota
Little Missouri
Montana
Belle Fourche
Wyoming
Inyan Kara
Floral Valley
Blae Hills
LRP
Poudre
Bozeman
Harney
United States
Kentucky
Fort Lincoln
The Hot Sulphur Springs Resort Reopens With Improvements
The famous hot springs resort is in fine condition with a rebuilt bath house containing four rooms. August offers ideal travel as rains end berries ripen and roads improve. The Rolling road is finished with gentle grade and no slides, and ample provisions and shelter are available for campers at the Half-way House or Granson's Hotel.
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Granson
Land dispute shocks readers amid Colorado fears
The Larimer Express accuses six thousand acres in Kut of being a land steal linked to Griffith Evans and Lothrom Brown, urging U. S. Attorney Alleman to investigate fraudulent titles. Longmont News notes rural opposition to cattle along creeks, while Boulder’s Emerson Backthaw building nears completion. Grasshoppers devastate grain. one farmer floods fields to protect crops.
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Larimer Express
Kut
Earl of Dunraven
Griffith Evans
Lothrom Brown
U. S
Alleman
Clear Creek Valley
Dr. King
Weld County Precinct 7 GOP elects delegates at Greeley meeting
At Nichols Hall in Greeley on Saturday evening last the Weld County Republican Precinct No. 7 elected delegates to the Evans convention on August 22. They named J C Shattuck, J Max Clark, J H Foster, A Z Salomon, B H Eaton, Joseph Moore, John Leavy, W G Bentley, Henry T West, B C Adams, S B A Haynes and A B Gipson. Officers chosen include Justice of the Peace J G Scott Constable B F Marsh and Road Overseer Arthur Hotchkiss. The group adopted resolutions opposing county bonding for a new court house in Greeley and for an irrigating canal from the Big Thompson. They pledged to offer free courthouse space locally for five years and urged local papers to publish the resolutions.
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Weld County
Colorado
Nichols Hall
Greeley
Evans
J C Shattuck
J. Max Clark
J. H. Foster
A. Z. Salomon
B. H. Eaton
Joseph Moore
John Leavy
W. G. Bentley
Henry T. West
B. C. Adams
Weld
Tribune and Sun
Evans Journal
Greeley Precinct Delegates Elected August 15 1874
At a Democratic precinct meeting in Greeley on August 15 1874 delegates were chosen for the County Convention A W Fisk F W Ross and Eldridge. A resolution disapproved bonding for a ditch or canal from the Rio Thompson to increase fertility and growth.
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Greeley
A. W. Fisk
F. W. Ross
Eldridge
Greevey
Ferth Iona
Grange Adopts Weight Threshing Resolution 1874
Greeley Grange No. 3 P of H passed August 11 1874 a resolution urging threshers to weigh grain instead of bushels. The measure notes that scales often understate weight by five to ten percent and requires counting each half bushel by weight.
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Greeley
Grange
Colorado
Grose’ No
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Beecher
School of Mines At
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Emerson & Backtnghaw
Local Politics
B. Baker
Childs
H. G. Clerk
Mise Villa Mosher
Mr. Stolta
J. E. Graham
W. T
Miss Rath Maltbig
W. C
Emily Emons
W. A
Susie A. Sizer
L. D
J. Wright
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