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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1871
Page
4
Union Colony adopts regulations to attract new settlers by offering homes for a small sum and farming lands at lower rates than Colorado elsewhere. The aim is to grow a large population of industrious people to develop the broad domain rather than profit through high land prices.
The Office of the Union Colony of Colorado issues terms dated April 11 1871. Entry tiers grant shares and land or water rights with specified dollar payments and lot selection. Limitations apply on multiple lots or water per certificate. Merxen and Post sign.
The Greeley Tribune announces its prospectus from Greenley Colorado outlining aims to publish full particulars about the Union Colony and Rocky Mountain resources. It emphasizes mental culture, industry, family prosperity, home ownership, and a metropolitan article quality for families students educators and leaders.
The Colony Fence is now completed to restrain stock and deter owners from turning horses cattle or other animals at large. Violators will be treated as trespassers. Feed and water are available outside the fence and stock must be confined now and forever.
The board resolves to keep city acequias clean for drinking and domestic use. No litter straw shavings or debris may be thrown into the acequia or on ground where wind could carry it there. It is the duty of adjacent property owners to maintain cleanliness of the waterway. April 4, 1871.
The Union Colony of Colorado will auction all remaining surveyed Lots and Lands not located by July 1 1871, on July 3 1871 at 10 o'clock at the Colony office in Greeley for cash. Town lots fund educational buildings, outlying lands 6 10 20 and 40 acre tracts with Canals, water rights, and enclosures. Purchasers gain by growth with expected 50 percent annual advance for years, all titles issued with a ban on intoxicating liquor. Also notices on preventing obstructions, flume attachments, and street rules per Water Commissioner and Engineer orders.
Northbound train closes at 10 a.m. and southbound at 4 p.m. Mail hours on Sundays run from 4:80 to 5:30 p.m., marked as R. A. time, which is 30 minutes ahead of local time. R. A. Camenon, P. M.
Denver to Greeley departures at 8.10 am for the north run reaching Cheyenne by 12.26 pm with freight at 7.15 am, 11.45 pm, and 4.30 pm. Southbound departures from Cheyenne at 1.46 pm, 6.40 am, and 4.50 pm with arrivals in Denver by 6.30 pm and 4.50 pm. Excursion tickets sold to Denver from Hughes Lupton Johnson Evans Mireslav as listed by agents.
A dense listing from the Greeley Meat and Vegetable Market details prices for canned fruits and vegetables, dairy, seafood, meats, oils, nails and various building materials. It covers staples like tea, sugar, flour and corn meal, plus farm products and lumber, with unit prices and bulk quantities.
A cluttered price list shows kip H D boots and various shoe types with prices from 1 to 75 cents, plus heavy calf boots, sewed C B pairs, mens and womens footwear, and children's shoes. Also included are dry goods like prints, delaines, muslins, calicoes, coal, wood, bricks, grindstones, wheelbarrows, wages, board, and farm tools with unit prices.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference shoes and brackets linked to a local item. Readable words show possible product or event context but lack clear details on people, organizations, dates, or locations. Further text needed for precise summary.
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