Dividing the State and Fruit Culture Notes
The piece discusses Southern Colorado's push to form a separate San Juan Territory and critiques from Pueblo Chieftain and regional editors, plus agricultural notes on strawberries and small fruits in Boulder and Denver. It covers political grievances, potential statehood outcomes, canal and railroad discussions, and commentary on fruit growing costs and planting practices.
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Tur
Colorado
San Juan
United States
Congress
Pueblo
South
Utah
Nevada
Lincoln
Black Hills
Denver
Butler
Pitkin
Abraham
Isaac
Innae
Perrins
Ben Butler's Madrigal in Colorado Pastoral Vision
A poem printed in the Greeley Tribune imagines Gen Butler settling in Colorado after buying 70 000 acres. The speaker invites a beloved to a rustic life on the ranch with beds of roses and cattle, referencing figures Pitkin McVeigh Hayes and distant big cities.
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Greeley Tribune
Butler
Colorado
Pueblo Land Office
Plains
Jong
Pitkin
McVeigh
Boston
New York
Hayes
National and local events marked June with speeches and celebrations
Entries note J Tilden urging the presidency before the Manhattan Club, Tweed’s confession rejected, flag day observances, a U S tax suit, a bridge collapse in Northampton, West Point graduation with a first time diploma for a colored student, silver currency circulation, locust plague reports in Barbary, Grant’s London welcome, Conkling and Lowell sailing, and Tweed confession press date.
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J. Tilden
Manhattan Club
Hayes
Tweed
U. S
Union
United States
Connecticut
Northampton
Mass
West Point
Tripoli
Barbary
Grant
England
London
Senator Conkling
Europe
Jas
Russell Lowell
Spain
Strawberry festival to be held at Baptist Church next week
A notice lists a strawberry festival at the Baptist Church on Thursday evening June 23 with a follow up notice promised for next week. It notes local trade in strawberries, large berry yields from Mr. Mansfield, and rising town activity including wool, flour pricing, and agricultural equipment arrivals.
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Baptist Church
Black Hills
Greeley
Nebraska
Ladies’ Literary Society
Samuel Wright
Cheyenne
Mt. Carroll
Mirror
Mt. Carroll Seminary
Miss Backer
Lecture on Domestic Infelicity of Great Man at School
Capt. Boyd will lecture Friday evening in the school principal's room with a 26 coin admission to fund an organ for the School Lyceum. The note also covers fruit crops in Colorado, strawberry pickers, pirates damaging a local plantation, library celebration planning, canal watchfulness, and detailed farming reports around Greeley and Abbott Eaton ditch. A marriage notice closes the snippet.
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Capt. Boyd
Colorado
Greeley
B. Wright
Bavk
Emerson & West
Library Association
Island Grove Park
Denver
Cheyenne
Henderson
Platte
Williams map of Colorado noted as latest and best
The Boulder News reports on Williams map of San Juan country as the latest complete map. Snow reports show seven feet deep in Boulder Pass for three miles and two feet at Caribou eighteen miles from Boulder. By June 12, strawberries arrive while wheat and barley grow, but a late storm damages sheep, especially lambs.
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The
Boulder News
Boulder County
Williams
Colorado
San Juan
Boulder Pass
Middle Park
Caribou
Boulder
Bear Canon
Gold Hill
Ward
Storm devastation hits flocks and regional road talks emerge
The report notes 5 000 to 6 000 sheep killed by a severe storm, with losses up to 1 200 for a single owner. The event shocks sheep raisers, but protection was impossible as the season’s storm was unprecedented. Separate items mention Loveland’s remarks on the Longmont Cheyenne road and Black Hills links, and local ads for goods and services in Greeley.
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Huerfano
Pueblo Democrat
Loveland
Cheyenne
Omaha
Sun
Longmont
Union Pacific
Black Hills
Pine Bluffs
Colorado
Greeley
Boulder News
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Frotice
Eldridge
Michigan
Max Clark
Wisconsin
Fort Collings
Pole Creek
Julesburg
Denver Pacific
Canal No. 2
Boston School Board
Danube
Georgevich B. McClellaninski
California
New Mexico
Baltimore
Milwaukee
Revue de la Mode
Paris
Dessinateurs
Ben. Butler
Madrigal
Telegraph News
Home News
Abbott & Eaton
John Abbott
Kansas
Abbott
Abbott's
James Hill
B. H. Eaton
State News
Eport
Fence
Weld
State of
Co. Treas
Eagunasrega
L. Vor Gounex
Salomon
J. F. Sanborn
Orry Bakery
J. L. Ewing
Madison Street
Pronga’s Drug Store
L. Mansfield & Co
Te Ham Man’s
Starioneny
Frower’s
Farihers
Frep Frazer
Purr
Daves
Frowen’s
City Bakery
Lapis
R. D. McLucas
I, Mansingly & Co
Nrenor’s
Fezen
L. MaNstrenp’& Co
NEW Spring Goods
J. F. Frazer
Saun
Fezen's
Guenter
Tom
Dick and
Jerry
Mansfield’s
H. F. Flower
Havana
Prezen’s
Monk & Isgatsnr’s
Monk & Ingalsbe
Mosk & Ingatsnr’s
A. Z. Saromon
Przer’s
Monk & Ingatsne’s
Weld County Wool Grower’s Association
R. K. Smura
Sec'y
Renne
A. Z. Savomoy’s
Hamman’s
Satomon
Fezer's
Monk & Ingalsbe’s
L. Manshznp & Co
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