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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1884
Page
2
The Greeley Tribune notes editorial opinions defending Mayor Routt against Denver attacks over street watering. It argues city funds should not be used for sprinkling, citing Ark and Rio Grande areas water by private subscriptions or contracts, and urges Denver to fund dust control themselves.
The veteran editor Sam Medill, long associated with Ohio and the Chicago Tribune, toured Greeley to push Blaineismmn while Colorado residents favor protection. The piece emphasizes opposition to free trade and a call for a strong high tariff to win reader support.
A weeklong tour of Boulder Longmont and area around Highland Lake shows strong prosperity. Water works in Longmont stretch from St Vrain canyon at nearly $100 000 and pipe in. Farms along base of the Rockies seen as intelligent and modern with good schools and agriculture. Fort Collins Loveland Eaton brush area reported growing resources irrigation canals under J Max Clark will transform region into farms and gardens. A proposal notes need for a Jewish newspaper and potential patronage from stockholders Platte and Beaver ditch.
The city rigorously enforces the liquor sale ban for non medical use as druggists faced prosecutions and fines. The Colorado Springs Company threatens forfeiture actions if violations continue while four new cases were reported and sanctions levied against one pharmacist.
Special correspondence reports Eaton residents who paused papers over political independence and a Fourth in Denver with visits to Georgetown and Silver Plume. It notes local milling interest, new brick housing plans, crop prospects, and a schoolhouse project. Also from Fort Collins, a boycott clash shows subscribers flocking to the Tribune as rival papers face political pressure.
The Fort Collins Courier reports a major change in Larimer County journalism with H A Crafts relocating the Fort Collins Express to Denver to launch an afternoon Republican paper called the Benign Post. His brother N P Crafts will continue the Loveland Leader and move offices to join the effort.
News items report Czar aid of 100000 for Polish flood sufferers, a 100000 loss at Golden Age Flouring Mill, cholera cures in Toulon via oxygen, and counterfeit ticket seizures on the Manhattan Elevated Railway. Also covered are Panama court action, Oklahoma land warnings, and Denver mint and building funding boosts.
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