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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1888
Page
6
The Kiowa and Bijou ditch near Fort Morgan, about fifty miles long, will be finished this season with water rights priced at $800. Irrigating ditches along the Arkansas and other areas are attracting capital, suggesting profitability. The piece urges careful selections for legislators to prevent granting value privileges to exploiters.
The New York Herald reports a Vancouver to London telegraph feat via Mackay Bennett and Canadian lines. It covers 7 619 miles with seven repeaters from London to Vancouver, noting time saved and Atlantic transmission details. Also mentions George H. West as a Republican nomination prospect for New York State Treasurer.
A letter column criticizes a canal related communication and outlines disputes over canal ownership by Greeley city and The Greeley Irrigation Company. It notes the Feb meeting of The Greeley Irrigation Company and Union Colony directors and mentions George Ady resigning as Colorado Passenger Agent to become General Passenger Agent of another railroad.
Mayor Lee and his wife visited Greeley as guests of ex-Governor Eaton. He praised the welcoming people and the country, predicting Greeley will soon command influence in the state socially politically and financially. He cited Wela county agricultural resources as a future state leader.
A group of prominent citizens in Greeley plans a 600 lamp dynamo powered by Westinghouse light. The plant, estimated at about $12,000, will supply sixteen candle power lamps at no more than $1.00 per month each. Louis Youngmark is in Denver researching the system for the Citizen's Electric Light Company.
Obituary notes William Marshall of Schenectady New York aged eighty eight who served as cabin boy on the ship that carried Napoleon to St Helena was conductor on the first Albany to Schenectady railway in 1833 and later among early California gold seekers.
Vermont's first railroad board has shown a duty to oversee trains and report on accidents, with focus on the White River Junction crash. Ex Governor Pingree and Col. Fletcher, visiting the city, studied car heating and lighting safety, signaling forthcoming recommendations to Vermont railways.
A writer recalls Colorado winters and shifts to New York City poverty in the Fourth Ward. A police rescue of a dying mother and child exposes tenement filth and a philanthropic visit by well meaning but naïve young ladies amid urban ruin and crime.
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