Greeley News Highlights Local Business and Personal Notes
Greeley sees activity from wells and drilling to building works and new hires. Market prices for oats corn and wheat are listed alongside community events, visits, and social gatherings.
15 Jul 1885
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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1885
Page
1
Greeley sees activity from wells and drilling to building works and new hires. Market prices for oats corn and wheat are listed alongside community events, visits, and social gatherings.
Special Correspondent reports Otis Hill and Volney Terrill left for Northwark with a mower and rake to cut hay and return in about two weeks. Hill owns a ranch there and Terrill plans to acquire one. A Cemetery Association named Mount Olivet Cemetery Association of Windsor was formed at a Saturday meeting. A second meeting is set in two weeks as Windsor prospers, having more than doubled in value in the last year.
Special correspondence from Platteville recounts a calm Fourth of July and a weather aided harvest. Crops look strong with heavy rainfall preserving grain and boosting corn and grass yields. State Engineer Nettleton inspected head gate operations while Rev J B Fields spoke in Denver. Greeley’s festivities impressed visitors and locals alike with parades music and hospitality.
G. W. Warner will hold down the seat of a new Wood's binder this season while the other editor runs harvest on a last year's machine and laments the purchase that doomed him.
Major Frucauff of Leadville describes Grand Junction as already well built with solid brick and frame houses. He notes the town sits at the end of a railroad division with large shops and potential rail expansion to Glenwood Springs and Aspen, but growth hinges on irrigation and farming in a wide valley with three water-filled ditches enabling extensive crop yields once water is directed to the soil.
Union Pacific Railroad plans extend its line from Longmont to Lyons via St Vrain Canon. Orders for bridges have been issued and a large workforce is expected to rush the project to avoid falling behind the Denver Utah and Pacific Railroad which is rapidly completing its own extension to the same destination.
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