Trinidad and El Moro poised for growth in southern Colorado
A Denver Tribune correspondent surveys Trinidad in Las Animas county, detailing its valley setting, elevation, proximity to Raton Pass, and rapid growth spurred by the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe railway. The piece highlights mining prospects, mills, banks, schools, and substantial infrastructure, plus the looming tunnel project and regional trade dynamics.
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Colorado
Denver Tribune
Trinidad
Las Animas
Purgatone
Raton Pass
Fisher's
el Moro
Denver & Rio Grande
New Mexico
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company
Atchison & Topeka Railway
Place
The
Vers
Enterprix
First National
Bank of Southern Colorado
St. Joseph’s
Sisters of St. Joseph
Trinidad Academy
de Busk
Rocky Mountain
Empire
City
Barnes Brothers
Chicago
Illinois
Hastings & Co
Las Animas County
Boulder County
Purgatoire
Arkansis
Abishapa
San Francisco
Trinchera
Romero
Stonewall
Iron Mountain
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
St. Louis
Boston
Missouri Iron Mountain
Pilot Knob
Colorado & New Mexico
Clifton
Tamel
Willow Springs
Chicken Creek
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Company
Pike’s Peak
Long’s
Fisher’s Peak
Raton Mountain
Denver & Rio Grande Railway
New Mexican
Arizona
Orord, Sellars & Co
Browne, Manzanares
Barrels Bros
South
Simple home remedies and grain trade notes mix in a 19th century column
The piece extols hot water baths for fevers and convulsions, salt solutions for poisoning and eye ailments, and home treatments for sprains and earaches. It also notes popular herbs, leeches of old wives lore, and cautions against overly medicalized cures while praising kerosene for diphtheria in several reported cases.
Curious Fragments From A Distant Era Of News
A collage of items including jokes about a Russian General and Dennis Kearney, immigration figures by country, Barnum show lions reacting to a giant, and a Colorado farming vignette describing R. L Franklin’s 169 acre farm with mills, irrigation, crops, and livestock details.
Diphtheria and Its Cure Allegedly Guessed at in Local Letter
A Plattsburg Republican letter warns of a diphtheria outbreak in the county. It recounts a Rochester family moving to West Chazy and claims Mrs Light cured diphtheria with kerosene gargle and ingestion, later affecting Joseph Jelley’s five children with swollen throats.
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Light
Rochester
Joseph Jelley
Milliette
Jelley
Auction Sale of Cheyenne Valley Sheep Ranch Reported
The sale drew a large crowd with spirited bidding. Prices included 132 thoroughbred ewes to John Kerr at 11.20, 31 buck lambs to John Carr at 5.70, a bull to Kerr for 5850, the stallion Neshobe to A. Matthew for 4477, and odds and ends selling up to 102.5. Proceeds totaled over 3200.
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Denver Tribune
Cheyenne Valley
John Kerr
Rich San Luis valley yields abundant crops and vast cattle range
The San Luis valley spans forty to seventy miles wide and about three hundred miles long in southwestern Colorado. It boasts fertile soil with wheat oats hay and vegetables grown via irrigation. potatoes yield high cash returns. a German immigrant farmer reports sixty bushels per acre of wheat and massive cabbage. The stock range is vast with nutritious grasses supporting beef quality without heavy feeding due to mild winters.
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Longmont
LH. Dickson & Co
Standard Mills
Weld County
R. L Franklin
Franklin
Frenklin
San Luis Valley
Colorado
Sierra Madre
Summit Range
Great South Mountain
United States
del Norte
Rienan & Shields
New York
Prospecter
Colorado and Iowa notes overshadow regional news
In Denver area proceedings a committee formed at the irrigation convention drafts a bill for the Legislature at Wentworth House. Judge Belford receives a gold headed cane from Central ladies amid campaign tensions. A mare owned by W A Loveland is killed. motive unknown, called a cowardly act. In Lemars a stock drover buys forty thousand bushels of corn at eight cents per bushel. Ouray reports a blast furnace exceeding capacity at forty five tons with no silver or lead in slag samples. Begole Farm ore being opened. a baby’s cry disrupts a photograph demonstration.
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Obadiah
C. E. Fisher
Pete
Ed. Stephenson
Colorado Springs Gazette
Denver Tribune
Silver Cliff
Lake County
Leadville
Denver
Wentworth House
Belford
Ladies of Central
W. A. If. Loveland
Golden Globe
Lemars
Iowa
Colorado
State School of Mines
Moss
Ouray
Norfolk and Ouray Mining Co
Begole
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Graham
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Minnie
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K. Thompson
Main Street
Canon City and
Boulder Valley
Weple Street
Joseph McCore
H. Bennett
Smerson & West's Bank
E. Marsh, M.D
Greeley House
Greeley, Weld County
W. Stein
D. L. Dawley
Wain Steet
H. N. Rogerson
M. Prebman
J. D. Buckley
Union Colony
Freeman & Buckley
Mestad
Union Bank
Masonic Block Greeley
Trinidad and Bumor
Pennsylvania Oil Region
Standard Oil Company
Atlantic
Richard Grant White
Burlington Hawkeye
Cabrot
Cadull
Lusin
William Kinery
Robert Gillette
John Reynolds
Ingraham
George Gillette
Brownly
Pingry
Boston Transcript
Dennis Kearney
Cheyenne
Free Press
Dennis
Philadelphia
Great Britain
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China
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Africa
Barnum
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Hingham
Massachusetts
Joseph Andrews
Peter Klart
Plymouth County
ST. Vrain
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