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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1876
Page
2
The Arimer Express argues for the doctrine of priority of appropriation to water for irrigation, warning that equal division or latest-come-rights would ruin farming and devalue existing ditches. It urges studying foreign irrigation practices before enshrining general rules, and notes a reader's inquiry about emigration and government land near a western colony.
The Denver Tribune reports last Saturday’s House debate on the financial question drew little attention as speakers offered vague ideas and no clear plan for improving finances or currency, suggesting lawmakers lacked a definite strategy.
The Chicago Alliance issue promotes Prof Swing as a leading thinker and reader interest rises in his sermons. Congress votes a million and a half for the Centennial with Senate likely to concur. Colorado’s role remains open as postal law passage looms and Kansas City Price Current offers wide information.
The piece discusses stock growth across the Western country and urges stockmen to patronize it. It notes concern over West County’s House of Representatives election and questions whether the elected candidate will attend, mentioning William McKee’s whisky fraud conviction in St Louis and upcoming trials of Secretary Babcock and a murder case related to Brusette shot by Hughes in Erie. It also cites Pueblo money lending at one percent per month.
Middle Park reports Baker, Royer, Stokes & Co. plan to start mining the Baker silver mines in the Rabbit Bar range. Twenty men to build a trail from Martin creek to the mines. Utter's pack train to haul ten tons of ore from Grand Lake when the road opens. Assays run from 520 to over 2000 ounces. a deeper stake could yield 5000 ounces. A town is expected to form next summer.
A Barnum Wall meeting adopted a constitution for the Weld County Woman Suffrage Association. It outlines aims to secure women’s voting rights and equal legal status, with officers and an executive committee to govern, annual elections, and membership by signing the charter and paying fifty cents.
A report to H H Clark superintendent of the U S railroad details the Centennial Gold Mine on the Medicine Bow range between the Little Laramie forks thirty miles west of Laramie City Wyoming The log notes open mining on a large scale with capital and improved methods and cites a bed rock formation cost of 60000 While reporting ore crushed over 14 days yielding 903 ounces gold and 006 silver per ton the record tallies coin value at 1877 plus a 13 percent premium totaling 2142 22 dollars and shows 430 in currency as the run cost The piece also includes a copied act amendment for Weld County agriculture and related legal text.
Proximity to Canyon City and Mt Pisgah discussed as minerals and potential growth attract readers. In town: Z McLaughlin of the Australian Company and A E Gipson named postmaster of Greeley. Snowfall heavy, no sleighing. grist mill ships flour to Cheyenne. Hall & Johnson operate steam mill. Richmond Fisk out with rheumatism. new post office at Smith’s ranch. Union Colony treasurer election slated for February 14, 1876. Concert last Thursday lauded as best yet in Greeley. mail route to Sterling might extend to Julesburg. church services for youth at M E church. quarterly conference to follow. La Poulin Lodge officers elected for the year.
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