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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1871
Page
2
Discusses Colorado’s winter and its impact on cattle and farming. Notes future dairy expansion with 2000 cows, rail blockades affecting shipments, and the need for legitimate farming. Mentions new settlers to Greeley, smelting plans in Denver, and optimistic views on resources and development.
The article argues English investors have purchased thousands of acres between Denver and Colorado City, warning it delays settlement and harms stockmen by creating land monopolies. It says small purchases in settled districts would benefit both labor and growth, noting Western laborers deserve their own farms.
Citizens discuss building a woolen manufactory citing rising sheep numbers and water power. They note available skilled workers, potential stock investment of up to $10000, and the need for an Eastern partner with capital and machinery to establish the operation. They present promising statistics as a prelude.
The Georgics passages describe classical winter in Italy and the Hungarian region of Tokay. Farmers endure cold, store provisions, and celebrate feasts while ships return home. In Hungary, snowbound plains kill cattle, freeze rivers, and alter wine production as people butcher game amid relentless frost.
A car load of coal arrived in Greeley last Sunday while over 20 car loads passed to Cheyenne. Union Pacific traffic westward is blocked, stopping Evanston shipments. Colorado supplies the two eastern divisions along a 500 mile line. Many families are without coal or wood. Higley’s mine delivers four to five tons daily by team, distributed locally. Some Meadow and St. Vrain loads are mentioned.
The Pacific Rural Press item details crops and farming in California. It notes fine English chestnuts in Tulare, walnuts in Los Angeles, Angora goats in Trinity, and a push to graft raisin grapes. Rain, wheat sowing, irrigation developments, and big acreage claims in San Joaquin and San Jose areas are reported, with teas seed from Japan and new potato varieties.
The report outlines a ditch west of Denver taking water from Clearcreek near Golden City, sixte en miles long with capacity of 3000 inches. It lists sales of water, crop production and costs, including one million one hundred sixty five thousand three hundred eighty pounds at two and a half cents, and total crops under ditch of 57185.50. It notes Arvada shipped eight rail car loads of grain, two thirds of crops still in farmer hands, per the Denver News.
The Denver News argues Colorado cannot be admitted this session due to a population threshold of 133000. It urges creating a Bureau of Immigration to promote population growth and advertise Colorado’s resources, climate, wages, and routes to attract settlers. The piece also reports on Lyceum events and promotes a political book by Henry Carey Baird.
London iron man Mr. William Cope arrives in Colorado aiming to form a smelting company with at least 110000 dollars capital to erect Swansea plan works near Denver Marshall coal banks for economical fuel supply and ore collection across the Territory. Central Register notes the suggestion of a public meeting on his return to advance the project.
The Georgetown Miner reports ongoing ore shipments from the Clark Silver Mining Co on the Terrible lode with smelting ore sent to Swansea Wales and a car load of Equator ore prepared. Napoleon mine operations in Montana District under KR B Griswold are praised, while mining faces a looming ore blockade as mills exceed capacity. A large silver ore mill, financed by Norman B Judd & Co of Chicago with F W Crosby supervising, will be built near Devil's Gate on the Bakerville branch of Clear Creek, powered by water, to process ores and maintain reserves. The Kansas Pacific railway receipts exceed last year by about a half million amid lower expenditures.
Reports from a Denver area Farmers Club and several local groups. L. R. Perrin presides a newly organized club north of Denver among Clear Creek farmers. a singing association meets at Colony Hall. an Agricultural and Industrial association forms in Southern Colorado with $10,000 capital across Park El Paso Lake Fremont Pueblo Greenwood Bent Las Animas and others. The piece notes high river levels and saw logs plus 5000 cords of cord wood at $5 each. Christmas and New Year activities in Greeley include a Union Sunday School program, a Silver Cornet Band reorganization, and a Baptist Church Christmas event with a New Year concert program outline.
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