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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1873
Page
2
Editor questions protection and free trade as he discusses salt lake wheat imports, Colorado and Utah farming, and the golden rule. He argues against harming local farmers and suggests crossing wheat shipments between states would be fair if permitted, challenging current policy.
The piece cites Miss Dickinson and a reader in the Woman's Journal arguing women should be taught trades to compete with men. It notes women face social pressure, wages gaps, and the need for schooling in foundries, machine shops, and other skilled work. It also mentions examples of women in leadership roles and calls for broader female employment and independence.
Peter K. Deyo sends a dollar for a Greey Tribune copy with an editorial on Horace Greeley, money refunded. A Western agency invoiced fifty dollars of ads for six months and ten dollars collection. Denver papers copied the New York notice, Black Hawk Journal credited the Denver Times. Denver Weekly Times and Denver Tribune staff changes highlighted.
The Weld County Stock Growers Association held a full meeting in Nichols Hall with 55 members representing about 60 000 cattle. They approved round up procedures, estray receivers, and an estray brand, and discussed premiums, officer selection, a future county fair, and a proposed stock mart with delegates to a territorial meeting in Denver.
The excerpts recount P T Barnum’s Colorado trip with John Fish and a Bridgeport partner, a visit to Denver and Greeley, a temperance lecture, and remarks on Denver’s climate. A Dec 2 telegram from New York reports a boiler-room fire destroying the circus building except for two elephants and a camel, prompting cabled orders to replace losses with new animals and mechanical effects, plus an appeal to editors and European agents for vast extra attractions.
At a Denver Farmers Club session the debated topics included windbreaks and shade for fruit trees, fall irrigation, soil moisture, mulch practices, and sun exposure. General Bearce urged thorough ground saturation and May dressing removal while Governor Evans noted winter limb damage and questioned peach viability in Denver area. Grape culture received favorable views, with optimism for future prolific crops.
The Georgetown Miner describes Colorado miners living in the Rocky Mountains. Richard C. Jones, David Harris and Evan Jones crossed from Montezuma to Georgetown on Norwegian snow shoes in eight hours. They report little snow near Argentine Pass and 24 feet at Montezuma, with a winter camp at Montezuma and St. John housing 33 well provisioned residents.
In Summit county the mountaineer William A Davenport straps a mail sack and newspapers to Norwegian snowshoes eight to ten feet long and glides thirty six miles from Hamilton Park to Breckenridge. He delivers letters to miners in Montezuma and St John with vigor as mining prospers into 1873.
A Denver News correspondent details the Cache la Poudre valley in northern Colorado. He notes valley width two to four miles, two distinct bottoms, hay yields around two tons per acre, and strong stock ranching potential. Government land is scarce along the valley but uplands may offer some time. Railroad lands available for 3 to 6 dollars per acre with water privileges. A nine mile ditch and the Greeley ditch open up about twenty thousand acres for cultivation, with irrigation-ready soil and potential orchards and fruit culture for settlers.
Grace Greenwood protests a report alleging she profited from Colorado statehood politics and denies owning Denver town lots or railroad and mining stock. She offers to testify, cites a Pike's Peak acre and a half land purchase as legitimate, and rejects insinuations of bribery or subsidy motives.
The skating festival drew a large crowd amid wheat excitement and a Barnes Concert. Many dancers found skating immoral and stayed home, while a few joined the religious brethren who skated. The costumes were ludicrous and the floor peeled, prompting a closure until further notice. Sam Wright and John Abbott excelled on the hurricane deck. Mr. Collins, the manager, plans further entertainments with notice.
A Milwaukee Journal of Commerce note reports twenty five dollars paid for a single opera seat at Lucca and corn selling for twenty cents a bushel in many parts of the country.
The Georgetown Miner compares local ore yields with foreign mines and questions why rich ore often fails to yield profits. It warns of ore theft, calls for secure storage and vigilant mine superintendents, and urges railroad safeguards to prevent tampering in transit to Golden or Denver.
Flood losses reach 300000 dollars as wheat surpluses in Minnesota top ten to twelve million bushels. Erie Company close to taking control of the Columbus Cleveland Cincinnati Indianapolis line. Philadelphia bans steam whistles, installs gongs heard two miles. France endures heavy snow on February 28. Railways blockade and mail delays. Question about grape country. Philadelphia Hospital reports 297 seamstresses among 2,987 admitted. Vermont temperance figures show 16000 drunkards 4000 hard drinkers 20000 young starters. Richard Yates tapped for Union Pacific director role. Lake Shore Michigan Southern may halt freight trains on Sundays. Pope cautions against material excess corrupting virtue. New York City weekly totals show 1504 arrests 3750 in stations 551 deaths 468 births 159 marriages.
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