Tribune Eldorado Springs Excursion Promises Comfort and Fun
The Tribune announces a Colorado day trip to Eldorado Springs tomorrow Friday July 27 leaving Greeley at 7 30 am on a Colorado Southern special train via Boulder and Marshall. Windsor and Timnath fare 2 25 round trip with grounds pools and attractions included lunch baskets advised. The piece extols the resort and notes no liquor sold on grounds. It also recounts local enthusiasm for Greeley branding and parades and suggests bands for better town promotion.
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Tribune
Eldorado Springs
Northern Colorado
Greeley
Colorado & Southern
Boulder
Marshall
South Boulder Canon
Canon
Windsor
Timnath
Colorado Mountains
Wood Pipe for Greeley Water System Construction
The new plant near the old water works is producing wood pipe for Greeley’s water system at a rate of half a mile per day. A total of 46 000 links will be made, each joint using twenty two wooden pieces bound tightly. The staves are curved and wound with wire, then ends are shaped to fit joints, completing the final process.
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Greeley
Old City
New City
Tribune
Pacific Coast Pipe Company
Seattle
Washington
Jacobson- Bade
Cootractors
Immense Settling Basin Near Filtration Plant Nears Completion
The city water system advances as the large settling basin nears completion and a two chamber design allows skimming and staged filtration. Groundwork has transformed rough terrain into a major works site with trenching underway to lay the main pipeline toward Greeley.
Greeley Attends Elks Reunion in Denver
Greeley people returned from the Denver Elks reunion with no prizes but with a good time. The writer suggests better town promotion if the Commercial Club and Elks Lodge had invested about $1,000 in Denver to publicize Greeley nationally. Visitors and rest show limited local impact.
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Greeley
Elks
Denver
Commercial Club
The
Elks, Lodge
New French Uruguayan Potato May Boost Farms
The department of commerce and labor reports a potato variety named solanum commersonii violet grown in France from Uruguay. It is frost resistant and disease resistant, thrives in damp swampy soil, and yields a nutritious taste equal to France’s best potatoes. Price is about 50 cents per pound, limiting widespread adoption.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
France
Uruguay
Report on Russia Grain Shortage Cites Vast Harvest Loss
Consul Lieffeld of Freiburg reports a severe grain shortage across 24 Russian provinces and 168 districts with 26 million people affected. The last harvest deficit reaches 347 million poods about 176 million bushels, versus the prior three years, and far above 1904 output, rivaling major U S crops in scale.
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Lieffeld
Freiburg
Russia
Nebraska
United States
Pipe Line Plant Expands for 37 Mile Water Works Project
The Pacific Coast Pipe company of Seattle builds a large creosote lined pipe line for Jacobson Bond firm contractors. About half a mile of pipe produced daily and completed pipe moves to ground. The plant operates day and night with twenty workers on day shift.
Ramsay Mead suit settles for seven thousand eighty five
The three year dispute ending with a Supreme Court decision ends when C H Ramsay pays David R Mead 7005 98 to settle damages from breach of contract. Mead, a traveling man with clothing store interests in Ohio, was hired as manager of the Golden Rule in Greeley and later exchanged stake in his own business for Golden Rule interests. Ramsay later claimed the bargain flawed and stopped further terms. Mead sued for damages, initial district court judgment was 5000, appeal added interest and costs to 8200.
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C. H. Ramsay
David R. Mead
Mr. Ramsay
Mead
Supreme Court
Ohio
Ramsay
Greeley
Beet Growers Organize Local Association in Greeley
The beet growers of the Greeley section met at the armory hall last Saturday to form a local association affiliated with the Northern Colorado Beet Growers' organization. HH Watson was elected president Knight vice president Chester Howard secretary and B C Reinks treasurer. A follow up meeting is set for next Saturday as committees report on the constitution and by laws.
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Greeley
Armory Hall
Northern Colorado Beet Growers’ Association
Basin for Greeley water supply described in detail
The article details a large nine acre settling basin near the Poudre river canyon nine miles above Fort Collins. It holds 31 million gallons for twelve days’ supply and is designed so water can bypass the basin when river water is muddy. Embankments are riprapped and a stone driveway surrounds the top. The intake pipe from upstream connects to a main line and can flow water either into the basin or bypass toward the downstream filtration basin.
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Greeley
Poudre
Canon
Fort Colins
Military Camp Near Greeley Heads to Medicine Bow
Two battalions of U S Infantry from Fort Russell Wyoming camped overnight at Island Grove Park as part of a 250 mile hike to toughen feet. They proceed to Fort Collins then into the Medicine Bow Forest reserve for a summer camp. A prior division from Fort Logan also passed through en route. at Pole mountain Colorado and Wyoming troops join forces with units from Fort Douglas near Salt Lake City.
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Greeley
U. S. Infantry
Fort Russell
Wyoming
Island Grove Park
Fort Collins
Medicine Bow Forest Reserve
U. S
Fort Logan
Pole Mountain
Colorado
Fort Douglas
Salt Lake City
Fuller Lochmont Man Arrested After Mead Party Brawl
Sheriff Florance sought Jack McKinney who tormented a Mead gathering the night before. A six foot four inch assailant, McKinney fought several men and battered Constable Lewis Coats with brass knuckles. He fled to Longmont, where Marshal Weidman captured him in a barber shop. he escaped detention by leaping through a window.
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Florance
Longmont
Jack McKinney
Mead
McKinney
Lewis Coats
Marshal Weidman
Elks Visit Greeley for Irrigation Tour
About 150 Elks from Denver on a special Union Pacific train visited Greeley for a five hour stop. They were hosted at the Greeley lodge club rooms and a luncheon at Lincoln Park. Visitors toured Pleasant Valley to view irrigation results by carriage and auto.
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Elks
Denver
Greeley
Union Pacific
Greeley Lodge
Commercial Club
Lincoln Park
Pleasant Valley
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