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Greeley Tribune in Greeley, Colorado

05 Jun 1878

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Greeley Tribune

Location

Greeley, Colorado, United States of America

Date

Jun 05, 1878

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Longmont and St Vrain area notes on farming and towns

In Weld and Boulder counties around St Vrain and Platteville, ranches and farms are described with crop and dairy details. Hodson, McKissick, Beech, and Bacon are profiled for hay, cows, and stock. Longmont boosters highlight trade, mills, ditches, and immigration schemes. A warning on water supply and suggests reservoirs.

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ST Vrain Platteville Bridge St. Vrain David Hodson Denver J. E. Godwin Platteville John McKissick Weld County Jersey McKissick Mchissic Scott N. Genson Wm. Cole T. T. Godding Elidha Duncan Stone School House R. A. Duncan J. W. Bacon Bacon Colorado Longmont Erie Longmont Supply Ditch Company Flory Greeley Rocky Mountain Home Mirror Standard Mills L. H. Dickson St. Vrain Mills Main Street Messrs. Fox Bros Longmont Mills J. W. Denio & Co TZ Longmont J.T. Stockdorf J. J. Dunagan M. A. Allen A.L. Williams & Co Williams C. W. Thornton Victor Thornton J. McHale Streeter & Turrell Burlington Newnam & Hunter Waller & Wood J. I. Case & Co Moore & Dell McCormick Thompson & Butler Mitchell Fish Bros Deere Hollingsworth Buckeye Gordon Howard's J. A. Buckley C. P. Howard Hubbard Highland Ditch Agricultural Board Lafayette Miller E.ie Bouder Arkansas Phillips Troy Boulder County Georgetown Silver World Ouray Lake City Pueblo Democrat Colorado Springs Omaha St. Louis Cafftrill Castle Rock Josiah Mann Pagosa Springs New Mexico White River Burt Hopkins Mike Hooley Steve Carter Equator Trans Journal Pyburn Popular Journal of Homeopathy George Pyburn Sacramento Cal Golden State Roergetown J. F. Stewart Evans Missouri Heans Journal Poverty Flats 15Th Street Deaver Times Arkansas Valley Sys Bent County K. P Carson Niih Gomes American Desert
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Water Scarcity Fears Amid Rain Deluges For Regional Irrigation

The article notes potential water shortages despite recent heavy rains. It cites limited snowpack at headwaters of the Bonfleur Big Thompson St Vrain and Cache la Poudre, warning that irrigation ditches may run short as the season progresses even as crops look healthy.

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Bonfler Big Thompson St. Vrain
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General Hatch's swift march against Utes and Navajos

Report from Santa Fe New Mexican praises General Hatch and five companies for rapid movement from El Paso Bayard and Wingate to posted positions above the Navajo reservation. Chiefs Ig Pacos and Cahezon seek peace. troops show discipline and readiness within twelve minutes on a bugle call.

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Hatch San Juan Rio Plata Colorado el Paso Texas Bayard Wingate Igpaco Cahezon Santa Fe Tierra Armarillo Pagosa Springs General Hatch Captain Kimball Big Bend The Dolores Bennett Merritt Santa Fe New Mexican
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Edison the magician at Menlo Park and the talking machine

A Cincinnati Commercial correspondent visits Thomas Edison at Menlo Park New Jersey. He describes the phonograph and the aerophone, their simple mechanisms, demonstrations of speaking and singing, and Edison’s plans to use the device for distant voice and sea signaling.

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Cincinnati Menlo Park New Jersey Thomas A. Edison Monte Clirieto Edison Nick von Snigglefritz Confucius Philadelphia Edson Tie Ohio Milan Erie County Haman Scotland Jack Gill Crow Strummer Hiccough Paris Exposition Grounds United States of America Sam Columbus
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Flooded Streets Describe Historic Crossing Over Denver Valleys

An eyewitness recalls a river flood where the junction of the South Platte and Cherry Creeks overflowed from Holladay street to Highland. The speaker, two years later, described crossing in a canoe to Highland and estimated waters near Larimer street.

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Golden Transcript Cherry Creek New Biscay New Mexico Platte Arkansas Pike’s Peak Arapahoes South Platte Denver South Park Rocky Mountains Divide Park
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Rain and wedding tale from Greeley 1873 and Cincinnati uproar

A Greeley letter reports near two weeks of almost daily rain with hail and a promising crop, noting emigration through the valley and a new two-mail-a-week route starting July. Separate Cincinnati note recounts a wedding halted when the bride refused after detecting the bridegroom’s liquor pledge breach.

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Lodgepole Station Sidney Passi É Denver Boulder States Julesburg Sterling G. Sterling
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Wwy Bennett Onice Freeman Buckley Hh. Marsh M.D Homeopathic FO. W. Fisk Salomon’s Exchange Hotel Hotel DE Main and Jefferson Streets S. Graham K. Thompson, S M. Freeman I. D. Buckley Eec Union Colony Freeman & Buckley Hlave Denver Pacific Railway Union Bank Masonic Block Creeley, Colorado Greeley House Greeley, Weld County D. L. Dawley F. L. Childs H. N. Rogerson Sale House Belvidere House Hulder, Colo Bottons Boulder House Wm. A. Keller Prop’r. Cor Pearl 11Th Sts Boulder, Colo WELD Boulder County Notes the Tribune Longmont Warehouse & Transfer Company E. White Longmont Transfer Company Estes Water Supply Edison, the Magician Rom Sterling Greeley Tribune Needle Boen Ocean State News
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