Southern Colorado Prospects Rise With Railroads and Mines
The piece outlines strong growth for Southern Colorado as the Atchison Santa Fe Railroad nears Pueblo, D&RG progress reaches Trinidad, and rich coal, grain, fruit, and mineral resources boost prospects. It notes irrigation, manufacturing needs, andiron and beet sugar debates, alongside regional rail expansion and a push for agricultural and industrial development.
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Colorado
Atchison @ Santa Fe
Pueblo
Denver
San Juan
Arkansas Valley
Arkansas
South Pueblo
Rocky Mountain
Pennsylvania
Nagland Itaol
Greeley
River basins compared to Pueblo and Platte align with Arkansas
A center states the Platte mirrors the Arkansas and Pueblo serves as a comparison, noting each basin has significant issues to address. The remark links regional hydrology to urban and agricultural planning, indicating shared challenges across river systems.
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Pueblo
Platte
Arkansas
Rich gold vein discovered in mountain tunnel
The plan shifted to tunnel through the mountain and strike a rich gold bearing vein five feet thick. Patties extract solid quartz masses as large as a trunk for the Philadelphia Centennial display. Specimens measure three to six inches long and one to three inches thick, showing splinters from mining. The discovery is hailed as possibly one of the world’s most valuable gold mines.
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Philadelphia
Denver Times reports on mountain lake soda plant near Morrish
The Denver Times notes a new plant twelve miles southwest of Denver near Morrish erecting a 104 by 20 foot evaporation building. It will produce five to eight tons of sulphate of soda daily, with a second building for desulphurizing, lixiviating, and evaporating to yield soda ash and related by products.
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Denver Times
Denver
Morrish
Burdsal
Committees and members listed for Colorado Legislature sessions
A long roster details committees and members across the territorial and state bodies, including Judiciary, Finance, Education, Military Affairs, Roads and Bridges, and many others with names like Morrison, Stiles, Hummel, Clelland, Wilson, Salisbury, and Eaton. The list spans several departments and notes shifts between territorial and house assignments.
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Council
Hughes, Morrison and Salisbury
Finance
Ways and Means
McBride, Stiles and
Hummel
Education
Halen, Clelland and
Stiles
Ialon
Aston
Sunso
A. D. Wilson and
Hughes
Seceuery, Hummel and McBride
Territorial Library
Stiles, Kubo
Suaso
Rice
D. Wilson
Eaton and
McBride
Morrison
Clelland
Salisbury
A. D. Wilson
Eaton
Clelland, Hughes
Suase
Eaton, Hahn and
Hahn and
Huges
Jaromillo
Everett
Apodaca
Sanchez
Trippe
Meldrum
Larned
Gurule
Kruse
Smith
McNutt
Peyton
Rettberg
Marshall
Yonley
Platte River Trade Gap Prompts Road Intersection Plan
In Sarinda Col January 1 1875 C M Ansprost reports deputy surveyor Leavitt and two Sterling men surveyed the Juleeburg and Buffalo Wagon Road to intersect the Sidney road to ease crossing the Platte River. Residents note potential cheaper Julesburg Sidney supplies, issue cautious about river crossing impacts on trade. The letter covers weather, a dog incident with a postmaster, buffalo at the river, a candy pulling, sheep curing, stock wintering, a New Year birth in Sarinda, and absence of Indians in the valley. The Tribune welcomes readers and signs off.
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Gresley Tribune
David Leavitt
Sterling
Juleeburg and
Buffalo
Sidney Road
Platte River
Julesburg
Sidney
Greeley
Evans
Platte
Sarinda
Surinda
Troyer
the Tribune
C. M. Ansprost
Col
Social notes from Park Church week events
The Sociable at Park Church is set for Thursday evening. Richmond Fisk, a long time resident, is ill with rheumatism. Captain Macy returns from the East with his family who are welcomed. Several nosebleeds occur this winter with no fatal cases. Salomon and wife mourn infant son lost to scarlet fever. Union meetings planned at Park Church and the Presbyterian church. A youth at Graham's hotel froze his feet last week while traveling from Crow Creek to the Platte. Two steam engines long awaited for Hall and Johnson buffalo robe factories.
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Park Church
Richmond Fisk
Macy
Salomon
Union
Presbyterian Church
Graham's
Crow Creek
Platte
Buffalo
Hall & Johnson
Washington Gossip on Russian Ministers and Royal Processions
The column describes a Russian minister and his wife visiting Washington with a chasseur in full dress, including a sword and feathered cap, accompanying ceremonies. It notes a wedding at which the minister and wife attended, the clergy involved, and questions about divorce effects on court reception, ending with a reference to Col. Kinney.
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Russias
de Catacuzy
Stile
Biv Saguat Bishness
Beneah
Matame Chichkine
Sctaovakoy
Carrie Carroll
Doveton Haggard
Legation
Lewis
St. John’s Church
Col. Kinney
Postlethwaite
Reformed Episcopal Church
Baltimore
England
Queen Victoria
Home Office
Londo
Washington
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Agricultural College Fund
New England
Hartford
New Haven
New Britain
Coloorado
Max Clark
Dae Grange
Colorado Industrial Association
NM. Byers
M.N. Everitt
Sec
J. 8. Maynard
John Armor
Denver Mirror
Laramie Plains
Wyoming
Union Pacific
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Colorado Legislature
Morri
Greeley Tribone
J. Max Clark
Iowa
Clark
Lowa
A. Z. Salomon
Far East
Brother Clark
Joux TomMapLeton
Olmstead & Pettibone
Caen
Eddys
Chittenden
Y Mont
Lemeser
Ste
Republican
Kansas Pacific
Union Colony
Good Templars
Spum
Wilber
Fuller & Co
Payton and Burdett
Rivkates
Frenchman's Fork
Hanna
Charles
Garden of
A. E. Gipson
J. B. Flower
Gipson
Leger
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Cyrizex
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