Artesian well debate stirs Hyde county tax plan shifts
Hyde citizens discuss county options to split taxes into two payments or extend delinquency, hoping tax relief. Fort Morgan notes corn shipments and a pastor installation. Longmont reports water line extension and construction progress at religious buildings. Akron eager for immigration drive and school enrollment steady. Article compiles regional updates from multiple towns with small notices on trivial civic acts.
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Hyde
Colorado
Fort Collins notes mining progress and town growth
Fall term closes at Agricultural College as examinations occur and alumni reunion planned. J D Learnard reports Longmont prospects rising with smelters likely to move north. Water works extend, stonework delayed by rail delivery. Queensland sickness reported but fabrications denied. Brighton expands with opera house and Guards tenancy, artesian wells, ditched irrigation, and a brick creamery boosting dairy output.
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Agricultural College
Opera House
J. D. Learnard
Manhattan
Oak Street
Mountain Avenue
College Avenue
Longmont
Fort Collins
Colorado leads nation in farming pace and output
Field and Farm notes Colorado has the highest share of American farmers at eighty percent of tillers. Castle Rock creamery processed 2500 pounds of butter in November, double last year. Bent and nearby counties harvested extensive mangel warzel yields, with Den ver area reaching about fifty tons. Larimer Boulder and Weld together planted nearly all winter wheat acres, about 9500 total, double prior year. Denver market absorbs about 1200 Nebraska hogs weekly with Colorado money, while plaster on corn in June advocates soil fertility. In 1884 Colorado counted 8474 improved farms, rising to 20000 by year end, a gain of 11526 in four years. Mr Geo West of Greeley promotes farm lands and water.
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Colorado
Union
Castle Rock
Douglas County
Bent County
Rocky Ford
Denver
Larimer
Boulder
Weld
Nebraska
Geo. West
Greeley
Small farms and water plans echo through Viatte Valley
In the Viatte Valley near Kearney, a farmer favors eighty acres for a single holder, praising small farms as the path to prosperity. Professor Powell dismisses the timber theory for water storage, urging reservoirs and prudent use. Thomas Griffin, injured in Royal Gorge, survived a severe skull fracture and improves at the hospital as doctors initially feared the worst.
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Viatte Valley
Kearney
Greeley
Powell
Thomas Griffin
Canon
Royal Gorge
Jackson
Keep Interest at Home for Mesa County Prosperity
The Grand Junction News argues that Mesa County loses at least 100000 yearly in interest sent out of the county on borrowed money. The paper urges farmers to sell lands and pay debts, remarking that fully paid 20 or 40 acres bring personal security and opportunity for local improvement instead of lingering under heavy debt.
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Mesa County
Grand Junction News
Clark and Randolph Apple Stand Promotes Michigan Fruit
Clark and Randolph advertise the finest Michigan apples for Christmas groceries offering seasonal selections and local fruit quality.
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Clark & Randolph
Michigan
Drain Tile and Bargains From Greeley Market
An advertisement lists drainage tile from 8 to 12 inches for land improvement and mentions large sizes for dykes and culverts. It also promotes farm equipment, a house and lot, harness, overshoes, slippers, rose seedling potatoes, and loan offers from Brandt’s Reliable Shoe Store and Sanborn Phillips & Co.
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Greevey Brick and Tine Co
F. E. Smrru & Co
FENCE TAX DUE AND HOLIDAY SHOE PROMOTIONS
The notice announces the fence tax due with a ten percent discount if paid before January 1, 1889 by collector B. F. Marsu. It also advertises hay and alfalfa supplies, Christmas gifts, and Brandt's Reliable Shoe Store offerings including dancing pumps and guaranteed quality, along with Clark and Randolph's fruit selections.
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B. F. Marsu
Straw for sale delivers city wide at two fifty a load
Promotes good wheat straw delivery to any part of the city at 2.50 per load with ordering by mail to Jonn Hatt in Creeley Colorado.
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Jonn Hatt
Creeley, Colo
Brandt's Reliable Shoe Store Adds Doll Shoes in New Store
An early notice announces Brandt's Reliable Shoe Store in Weld County expanding with a new stock of doll shoes and slippers. The ad highlights a wide assortment at favorable prices and mentions the address Box 118 New Windsor Colorado. It targets mothers wives or daughters seeking child footwear.
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Brandt
Reliable Shoe Store
Larimer and Weld Co Canal
New Windsor
Weld Co
Colorado
Dist
Union Block
Eighth Avenue
Girls praise luxurious Wabash Route palace cars
Miss D Arcy and Miss Almighty Dollar return from Coney Island and Long Branch. They boast the Wabash Route palace cars and reclining chair cars, with attentive conductors, as the trip’s highlight. Benton Hoover advertises LaSalle property with house barn and three acres in Greeley at less than building cost.
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Miss D'Arcy
Miss Almighty Dollar
Coney Island
Long Branch
LaSalle
16Th Street
6Th and
6Th Street
Greeley
Benton Hoover
The Overland Route Golden Gate Special
The Union Pacific Golden Gate Special, known as The Overland Route, runs between Council Bluffs Omaha and San Francisco. The modern Pullman vestibuled train includes dining, barber shop library observation and ladies rooms, a lady attendant, and a hotel on wheels. Leaves Council Bluffs Wednesday 7:45 am arrives San Francisco Friday 9:45 pm. Fare 100 dollars includes berths meals and conveniences. Secure accommodations early.
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Golden Gate
Union Pacific
Council Bluffs
Omaha
San Francisco
Annual Meeting of Cache la Poudre Irrigating Co
By reason of the legal holiday the annual meeting of stockholders will be held at the company's office in Greely Weld county Colorado on Wednesday January 2 1889 at one o clock p m to elect trustees for the ensuing year and to transact other business as may come before the meeting W M Morse Secretary
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Cache la Poudre Irrigating Company
Greley Weld County
Colorado
W. M. Morse
Holiday Rail Deals and Fresh Produce at Clark & Randolphs
The listing notes Mexican oranges and Malaga grapes available at Clark & Randolph's. The Union Pacific Overland Route offers holiday tickets to Colorado points within 200 miles for Dec 24 25 31 and Jan 1. Tickets are single date outbound with return by Jan 1 at a single round trip fare.
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Clark & Randolph's
Union Pacific
Colorado
Aow
Wabash Route Offers New Pullman Service to East
The Wabash Route in connection with Union Pacific announces daily Butter Pullman cars between Cheyenne Denver and St Louis with one change to Cincinnati Louisville and other East Coast points. The service boasts shortest route 120 to 130 miles and connections at St Louis in Union Depot. C M Hampson commercial agent Denver Colo announces official schedule later.
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Union Pacific Railway
Kansas Division
Cheyenne
Denver
St. Louis
Kansas City
Cincinnati
Louisville
Chicago
Detroit
Niagara Falls
Buffalo
Rochester
Albany
New York
Boston
Indianapolis
Akron
Columbus
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Seaboard
Union Depot
C. M. Hampson
Colo
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Jasper Price
Geo. M. Darley
Presbyterian Church of
St. Vrain
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Wilcox
Talley Redaction Works
John Killgore
Sterling
Advocate
Times
Hodge
Chapman
the Herald
Township 4
Range 52
Washington County
Round House
the Courier
E. N. Elton
Baptist Church
State Board of Agriculture
Eugene Holmes
Express
Episcopal Guild
Frank Stover
North Park
Johnny Moore
Fort Scott
Kansas
Reduction Works
Brighton
Burlington
N. H. Taylor
C. J. Cole
Larimer County Ditect Co
Gro. H. West
Greeley, Colo
Sanborn, Phillips & Co
Rhoads
Branvor’s Reliable Shoe Store
Clark & Randolph’s
J.M Ferauson
Tribune
Joan W.sannorn
EF. VonGorren & Co
Searing & Macy
Sth St
7Th & Sth Ave
THE
Wabash Western Railway
Boston One Price Clothing Company
NEW Union Bank Block
Bill Jones
A. F. Sipperley & Co
New Union Block
8Th Avenue
Kee
Friznr’s
Tur Trrevyr
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