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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1872
Page
2
The article reports wheat yields averaging 20 bushels per acre overall, with old ground at 25 and some fields reaching 40. Oats are generally good except one poor sod field. corn looks profitable, with minimal hoeing needed and soils improving after harvest. Potatoes show trouble from hard ground but early sod plantings thrive, predicting a high overall yield near 150 bushels per acre.
The article notes Colorado’s bee pasturage is improving with improvised hives in Greeley and a few swarms near Thompson and Clear Creek. It cites 50 cent box honey with medicated taste, clover honey superior, and suggests climate plus irrigation can yield high quality honey. long season and better crops depend on moisture and cultivation.
The article argues bee keeping suits only a minority and highlights Mrs. Tupper and Miss Dunlap as examples of women who prosper in apiculture. It praises self‑supporting work, criticizes fashion as bondage, and notes the potential for women to gain education and writing opportunities through bees. It then shifts to Fort Morgan railroad politics, comparing Denver’s inducement offers to routes via Fort Morgan versus Greeley, and endorses Colorado Valley growth and fair development.
The Weld County vote on the Julesburg Greeley and Golden City Railroad bonds shows a handsome majority in favor. Returns incomplete but sufficient to indicate passage. road expected to be finished by November. Bay 148 majority reported. 184 anticipated. Also notes abundant shad in the Connecticut River country selling for 8.50 per 100 fish due to Seth Green fish propagation.
The correspondence from New York reports Horace Greeley’s rising popularity among a broad coalition as the Democrats nominate him, with a notable gathering at Chappaqua detailing his farm life and hospitality. Delegates from many states praise his honesty and call for harmony between North and South.
Speakers at a Boston gathering praise Horace Greeley and the Union, citing 8,000,000 Democrats reuniting with devotion. Abolitionist Charles Davis, Col. Chalmers, and others laud the candidate while urging prayer and support ahead of the November election.
Willard Teller resigns as Colorado Republican Central Committee chair. Secretary S. H. Elbert issues notice for a Territorial Convention in Denver on August 1 to nominate a Delegate to Congress and conduct other business. County conventions are set for July 27 in Greeley and July 25 primaries to elect delegates and county officers.
A Massachusetts reader commends the Tribune's Liquor Business article, cites local annual liquor expenditures of thirty thousand dollars, argues temperance boosts community wealth, and endorses continued sobriety as a path to future prosperity. The letter is dated July 16, 1872 from Stoughton, Mass.
The valley’s cheese factory and dairy rancho, established by Mr. R. E. Neave, are now in operation. With a 100-cow corral and calf pens, curing rooms store up to 40,000 lbs of cheese for one to three months, and the dairy room heats milk to required temps via steam. The plant uses six presses with Roe’s hoop system and a Blanchard churn for butter, producing 260 lbs daily from whole milk. Neave relies on his cows plus neighbors’ milk. a thousand acres are available for pasture in summer and winter.
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