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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1873
Page
2
The Denver plan to divert Platte water for a 200 mile canal faces criticism. Analysts question surplus water, storage, and city needs for Denver and surrounding farms. They warn the project could drain river resources and leave land unrealized for irrigation and settlement.
The speaker mocks a Platte water illusion and urges a 200 mile canal while predicting political backlash. He warns that if the Legislature allows expansion, Denver could retaliate by destroying the dam and headgate, condemning the plan to perpetual contention.
The Denver News retorts against claims it cited Gov. Campbell as authority for a 700,000 acre figure. The Greeley Tribune from Oct 22 1873 is invoked to prove earlier reporting. The piece accuses the News of misrepresentation and belatedly attacking prior statistics as false.
The Denver News reprises Mr Rand's piece Does Farming Pay and derides Stanton as a nonirrigating critic. It notes farmers and agricultural writers attend conventions while fields lie fallow and snow falls, questioning timing and practicality. The Omaha Herald reviews J Max Clark's irrigation talks, praising him as a statesman and Colorado farmer.
The French steamer Ville du Havre was sunk in a collision with the British Loch Earn on the 23rd alt. and 296 lives are reported lost. The vessel was described as a French steamer and the incident occurred at sea.
The article notes Grace Greenwood and various nobles considering wintering in Italy and Southern France, then highlights Colorado as a dry healthful destination. It praises Colorado’s climate for avoiding dampness and fog, cites rainfall comparisons, and mentions notable visitors like the Empress Eugenie and Gen. Grant. It closes with a Denver News item about a close-quarters shooting incident and a near miss.
The list names the elected county school superintendents in Illinois. Nettie M. Sinclair in Kane County, Mrs. F. Brown in Boone, Mary E. Crary in Cass, Mrs. H. Hinckley in DeWitt, Mary Welch in Green, Kate Hopkins in Knox, Mary A. West in Mercer, Mary W. Whiteside in Peoria, and Sarah Meliutosh in Will.
Report alleges a large land theft in Las Animas where Denver men dispossessed farmers of thousands of acres. Congress will be appealed to for relief and full particulars are expected later. Pueblo land office officers are named as parties in the fraud.
Gov. Yates of Illinois recently deceased aimed to move to Colorado next spring and live there for life. Chief Justice Chase also planned to visit but died before preparing to come.
Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, brother in law to Queen Victoria, visits America then travels to Colorado for buffalo hunting after paying respects to the President. The Phrenological Journal offers December contents with portraits, essays, and lectures. Pine 30 cents. $3 yearly. S. R. Wears, 389 Broadway, New York.
The National Temperance Alwnue, published in New York, touted for family readers with engravings and a directory of temperance organizations. It notes the Order of Good Templars founded in 1851, with forty five Grand Divisions and about six thousand subordinate lodges. The District Methodist in Greeley is highlighted as lively and instructional.
A thirty page pamphlet describes towns along the railroad line and sites of interest. It forecasts Greeley’s growth, predicting it will rival Salt Lake City in ten years as a town of about 25,000 people.
A German settler near Running Creek about thirty miles from Denver built a homestead and range facilities on Dry Creek. Saturday night a party of armed men raided the property, attacking the fenced yards as the rancher slept, prompting a quick investigation to uncover the sequence of events and any involved individuals.
Articles filed for a Colorado Canal Irrigation and Land company to buy land and build a main ditch from the Platte canyon east through Jefferson Douglas Arapahoe Greenwood and Bent counties. Water sold for irrigation at up to $2 per inch. capital stock ten million dollars in 100000 shares. to exist twenty years with trustees including William Anderson Henry Morris and Norman JD Sampson. Principal office in Denver.
The writer urges admitting Colorado as a state and promoting irrigation from the eastern Rocky Mountain slope to the Missouri River. They oppose private land donation except for this project, arguing arid lands could be made productive with canals, linking mountain mining regions to older states and opening lands for settlement under a reform law at low prices.
The article criticizes a proposed trans Plains canal plan as a costly, politically driven scheme likely to benefit speculators and soundly oppose actual settlers. It condemns the water project as a sham, urging farmers to seek direct gains and water access for genuine irrigation.
Rumor places Eugenie ex emperor of France buying a romantic villa plot at Manitou with plans for a grand residence under an agent tied to editors from Pueblo Chief and Colorado Springs Mountaineer. A marble quarry is reported discovered at Fort Collins though details remain unclear.
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