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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1871
Page
1
The article reviews weekly meetings at Colony Hall with Capt. Bory and J Mex as officers. It covers co operative farming advantages, team sharing, cost savings, and neighbor collaboration to run teams. It notes plans for a weekly market day and seed orders, plus discussions on soil, forests, and climate effects.
The article argues that planting forest trees on farms is a solid long term investment. It lists timber types such as chestnut, cottonwood, hickory, sugar maple, and black locust as valuable and easy to grow. It claims a ten acre grove can yield profits within five years, offsetting taxes and costs on a typical farm.
The writer urges action on high living costs in Greely including coal butter meat and lard. He warns the profit motive hurts producers and favors a cooperative meat and butter market with stock ownership to lower prices while criticizing the Stock Association for failing to start a cooperative shop. He cites Shylock and local price contrasts to rally readers to reform.
A letter from Greeley details Mr. Whittridge’s Colorado paintings, especially a Platte River scene near Long’s Peak. The Century Club purchased the three by four foot painting and plans to add more works from his Colorado easel, highlighting Greeley’s cultural vigor and the lyceum Debating Club.
Thos Garrett, noted philanthropist, died in Willington DT after amassing a large fortune from the iron business after age forty. He faced fierce competition when Ore ML began selling at cost to crush him but persisted. To support his family he worked as an edge tool maker and won.
In Pennsylvania on the 10th inst Mrs Rath Ross widow of Gen Wine Ross was unanimously chosen director of the Wyoming National Bank of Wilkes-Barre. The editor applauds the unanimous vote as a sign of growing belief in women’s capacity for leadership and calls for equal opportunity in public roles.
The Colorado Central Rail Road plans a Pine Bluff corridor from Golden to Pine Bluff and Greeley to unlock coal mines north to St Vrain River and open Weld, Larimer and Boulder counties. The through line would connect Ley to markets via a short trunk line, aiming to compete with other projected routes. Estimated cost to reach the mountains at Golden is $481,029.24.
The article extols Colorado rivers, highlighting the Cache la Poudre’s unique bright blue water and the Platte’s island-filled channel. It notes varying flows in Cherty Creek and suggests Colorado streams differ from eastern rivers in character and behavior.
Memphis Ledger quotes letters from young men in Denver describing Colorado as a barren desert and a hoax of silver mines. Agents lure emigration with false promises, leaving many starving, unemployed, and pennyless. The letters warn readers not to migrate and to avoid expeditions to the West.
An elderly patient in late life exhibits progressive imbecility with daily routines linking to past eras. She insists on her dead husband’s punctual return and demands meals at his expected hour, while memories of earlier married life resurface in vivid, real time.
A narrative recalls a woman frail from early childhood to old age, living among her sons and caring for daughters. In a near death episode she fainted, lay motionless, and later awakened to tell her family every detail of their actions and words during her absence.
The Akron Beacon details a tri Pie proceeding where a woman and her children received one hundred dollars damages due to her husband drinking. The piece notes an error in a prior report about a bill to limit owner liability. current law holds premises owners responsible for damages caused by intoxicated patrons, a key point emphasized.
The document outlines the Union Colony of Colorado governance with a five member Board of Trustees elected annually on the first Tuesday in May, plus an Executive Council of twelve, and elected President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Membership requires a payment of 155 dollars and offers land allotments up to forty acres, water rights, town lots, and residency options in Greeley. Land reservations support churches, schools, colleges, public buildings, parks, and irrigation canal projects funded by the colony.
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