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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1871
Page
3
The article lists community updates including advertising agents for em asst Tripuxe, the Tabernacle project, a furniture dealer's imports from Chicago, school vacation notes, Big Thompson Lyceum entertainment proceeds of 52, and insurance ads. It also covers farming activity, town improvements, sheep from Denver, rice heifers from Iowa, and miner disturbances with arrests in Greeley, plus courtroom notes and press presence.
The Union Colony of Colorado board meets February 24 1871 with trustees Meeker Cameron Holmes Fox Hollister and others. They instruct engineer to complete Owens contract on No 2 and order Hollister to finish. They deny relocation of rail allotment and land location requests. They set fees for increasing claim value and authorize lot subdivisions and exchanges while reappraising and reverting aggressively located lots to the colony.
The document lists land survey costs town improvements canal expenses school town hall and cemetery accounts and salaries for the Burlington wagon road survey and various balances. Reported balance on hand is 97 126 91 with subsequent entries totaling 108 102 82 submitted February 21 1871.
A gold pen described as CF Found is offered for pickup at this office upon payment of the notice fee.
An outspoken critic argues that the Engineer's transit differs from traditional surveying tools like the old compass and Vernier scale. He says it serves a distinct engineering purpose and condemns using it for surveying, suggesting public awareness would expose charlatans and remove foggy claims.
The seventeenth regular public meeting of the Greeley Lyceum will be in Colony Hall Thursday evening March 2. Programme features Inman Brothers music and a debate on whether Middle Men are a necessary class to producers and consumers. Tickets are available at the Post Office and W. H. Post Book Store. A business meeting follows the public exercises.
Conony Yano notes that buyers of Holliday lumber can count on Eastern lumber being priced as low as possible in Greeley Colony Yarn.
Arrivals listed at the New York Exchange Hotel include G Robison Cheyenne T Earnest Collins J M Sherwood J M White J 8 Stalls City FP Fancher South Bend G Xuigley CP McDivett Antelope Hill F H Thompson Big Thompson J M McCutchson Il A C Tood CF Hartman Rich View JC Smith wife Pierce station G Lewis Latham G H Miller M Gradstaff South Bend Robinson A W Mooney P Belt Jim Creek.
A listing of guests arriving at the Greeley House over the past week including John Weaver Denver Geo Goodwin La Pens Jas Barr GG Blake A Moore James Holm W H Hill J Johnson Lay Jamestown W Wulver Oakland J M Smith Fort Collins J Mason H Grosbury Col IL P Hu bb Middlebury VA U E Beach H Dresser Greeley G D Lamb Chicago T Burns Denver William Meade Louis Madin Big Bend Ed Huaif Chicago J Morris Hall H R Morgan Greeley H T Cowan Nevada A Taylor Tilton NY H B Fengman Minooka Ills J Lackey Evans J H Windsor U S Land Office Cheyenne
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