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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1885
Page
1
Denver visitors and local dignitaries fill the page with notices of openings and moves. Boots and shoe shops start up, town lots are laid out, and a new skating rink is planned with construction details and backers named.
George Graham draws plans for a house on his tree claim. Baker crews move about 100 tons of ice in two weeks. F A Baker’s pile driving on the Pawnee ditch to wrap up in days. Mrs L W Kimball travels to Greeley for a relatives visit. John Haff and Jim Walker drill for coal west of Devel hills. Fuel prospects in the area remain under study. Howard Rea reports Percheron-Norman horses thriving on range. He plans marriage soon but names withheld.
Oscar Eston of Greeley writes to the Tribe seeking to sell 320 acres near Canal No 2 for six dollars per acre after noting an eight dollar assessed value and taxes near three cents per dollar. He calls the valuation robbery and a burden on farming communities, urging fairer taxation.
February notes from Platteville describe mild days, crowded skating rink with music, and upcoming masquerade on the eleventh and social dance on the thirteenth. Arrangements by C J Clennan W W Knowlton Charley Miller and reception team J Coykendall J H Osman plus Butroff. Wheat production in Colorado cited as below needed for home use per state engineer Nettleton.
Jan 31 report notes Mr Pound of Highland Lake sold wheat by contract for 1.35 per hundred to Miller Mullen. Eighteen ice houses filled with ice blocks, alfalfa thriving, and forecasts of a strong wheat year with many farmers exiting the business. L D Oviatt sold his herd of dairy cows for 37 a head to Robinson Brothers. Diptheria seen in the area, school closed briefly but reopened after treatment by Dr Mead.
Special Correspondence from Eaton reports warm springlike weather inviting farmers to plow. Social notes include the LaGrange Literary Society visit, a charivari for the Eaton nuptials, and remarks on local travelers, rolling onlookers, and community chatter.
Greeley Tribune correspondent notes several local movements in Denver and Chicago visits. Updates include Mrs Streeter and son returning from Chicago, Dr D N Stradley resuming residence in Longmont, and Charley Cantonwine's slow recovery after injuries.
The judge altered a sentence leading to Charles E. Cooper remaining confined at home for two weeks due to rheumatism. John Munson & Co. bought H. H. Dobbins stock and added boots and shoes. The Edward Dingly benefit at the Opera House was postponed after the leading actress fell ill and actors failed to arrive, delaying Saturday night’s show.
A call to Colorado wool growers urges liberal contributions to the State Association funds. The appeal cites apathy, pressed by the 1867 tariff repeal, and seeks renewed action to restore tariff protections and secure supportive legislation. Ivory Pairs chairs, J. F. Gists secretary, with committee members named.
Governor Routt and associates plan large scale irrigation this summer and have formed two ditch firms. Owl Canon Ditch company will water Owl Creek lands with reservoirs and sale of water and land. Poudre High Line Ditch and Reservoir company will also irrigate and sell fish, claiming 30 cubic feet per second from the Poudre River.
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