29 Mar 1871
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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1871
Page
1
F C Beckwith of Bursington Con offers to buy and sell real estate and locate land warrants. He lists farms in Northern Colorado for sale at low rates and invites buyers or sellers of improved or unimproved farms, town or mining property to call. Abstracts of titles provided when required. Jan 26.
Paniel Witter advertises at the Colony Market offering fat beef veal mutton pork venison buffalo steak and poultry with wild game. oysters fresh from Baltimore and other goods. Goods sold cheap for cash in a world renowned market presence.
Judge Osborn speaks on irrigation methods and farming in Colorado, recounting his journey from Western Kansas to the Big Thompson valley. He shares experiences with rain, snow, and water management, recommends fall plowing, early sowing, rolling ground, and subsoil flooding for different soils, notes crop yields for wheat oats barley corn and potatoes, and closes with praise for local beekeeping and fruits. He is named an honorary club member.
The article argues Colorado’s placer focus shifts from shallow gulches to large pay gravel deposits in rivers like the Blue, Swan, Platte, Arkansas, and their tributaries. It notes river mining will require substantial capital but promises high profits as main streams offer richer, well-diluted gravel and easier gold separation than tributaries.
The article details Sister Irena and the Haun ching Hospital at 17 East Twelfth Street, caring for about sixteen hundred infants since opening. It notes secrecy, foster nurses, donations from wealthy women, and the contrast of poverty and charity, with infants found abandoned in baskets at night and cases of infanticide in police records.
A Chattanooga Times correspondent reports at Hoxie's Hall where the Davenport Brothers faced sharp audience scrutiny. The act involved ropes, a sealed cabinet, a masked hand, and phosphorus effects, with a dark cabinet scene leading to accusations of trickery. The audience applauded the committee. the brothers faced skepticism and likely cancellation of future bookings.
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