Gilcrest Emerges as a Rapidly Growing Townsite in Weld County
Gilcrest, a townsite created in early 1907, expands rapidly with a post office, bank, hotel, livery, blacksmiths, and a cement brick factory. A Wild Cat mountain reservoir project plans to irrigate 150000 acres, support a two-year build, and sustain a weekly payroll of 2000 to 3000 dollars. The town centers around a school system, Modern Woodmen lodge, and a developing telephone exchange, rail spur, and commercial district led by F S Miller and local businessmen.
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Gilcrest
Nantes
Union Pacific
Greeley
W. F. Hines
Gilcrest Townsite Company
Rockies
Wild Cat Mountain
Platte
Wild Cat
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Grandview
West Side
Barger
Miss Tison
Colorado
Modern Woodmen of America
Telephone Company
Weld County
Gilrest
Steve Mapes
Manna
Hanna
Longmont
Frank C Mapes
The
Ditch Company
Peckham
Western Ditch Company
Wm. Motheral
Mapes
J. E. Wolf
Wolf & Shhuller
Binford
Binford & Willburt
A. H. Miner
A. H. Fairchild
Farmers’ & Merchants’ Bank of Gilcrest
F. J. Macarthy
EB. W. Rogers
Tuck
Hull
Jull
Cash Rogers
U. P
Phelan & Ross
Crete
Gilcrest area ranches and irrigation growth reported
The Greeley Tribune describes Gilcrest and surrounding farms with extensive notes on ranchers, crops, and improvements. It highlights W. L. Carroll and J. Oster ventures, alfalfa, beets, wheat, and corn, plus a major irrigation system under city pumps and a reservoir with two miles of mains. Plans for new homes, fences, and road work are also described.
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Priziel
Starbird Ranch
Frank Weaver
Eastern Capital
W. L. Carroll
Peckham
L. S. Barger
Grandview School
Oster
Pumphrey
Larger
Alex. Hill
Tl. Wheeler
Gilcrest
Hugh W. McKay
Cripple Creek
Denver
Frank Smylzer
Evans water system praised as top in state
Evans has completed a water system funded by bonds of 217 000 with a pumping plant two large 13 000 gallon reservoirs a 20 horsepower engine and new wells. The town cites health convenience fire protection and long term savings as reasons for the project and notes the wells sit close together supplying soft water to the system.
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L. F. Minns
G C. Vanderlip
Colorado
Evans
Vans
Lalence
Great Western Chautauqua Opens on Colorado Grounds
The Boulder assembly opens July 4 1907 as the tenth on its grounds. It mirrors New York’s chautauqua with long sessions, a summer school of thirteen regular schools, and a lyceum with noted educators. The tenth anniversary program offers excursions and scenic views of Colorado, and 20000 copies of the annual are distributed for free.
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Boulder
Colo
West
Chautauqua of
New York
Lyceum
Colorado
Chicago Targets Harvester Ties. New Jersey Firm Faces Sherman Probe
Chicago becomes the hub of a government push against vested interests as a New Jersey corporation capitalized at 120 million faces Sherman anti trust action. Meanwhile a Moore ditching outfit near LaSalle operates with forty eight oxen and three men to reclaim boggy land by cutting a roadside ditch to drain seepage into a southern reservoir. The oxen team moves a staggering two and a half miles southeast for the same work, offering 1.50 per rod. The oxen powered method is favored in boggy soils where wheels fail.
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Gilcrest
Weld County
Geo. A. Wack
F. J. Macarthy
EE. Pritchard
P. Zehr
W. F. Hines
Littleton
Denver
Deering Harvester Company
Fort Lupton
Greeley
Hines
F. Hudson
Mrs. Flynn
Hudson
Knox County
Thomas Warden
Warden Place
Joly Larson
John Craven
LaSalle
Vo I. D. Hull
Iowa
Chicago
International Harvester Company
Standard Oil Company
School Desk Trust
New Jersey
Moore
Court commission hears condemnation case over irrigation ditch
A three member commission heard testimony last Friday in the district court condemnation action brought by Dennis Sullivan against James G Tidball John Wolf and others. Sullivan seeks a right of way for an irrigation ditch across coal bearing land in the county with coal men opposing claiming flood risks to mines under the ditch.
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PW. Allen
S J. Peery
August Anderson
District Court
Dennis Sullivan
James G. Tidball
John Wolf
Sullivan
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Greeley Tribune
F. 8. Miller
Mapes Livery
J. K. Gilcrest
Des Moines
Hermosa Ranch
Burlington
Rogers
Buies & Tucker
J. 8. Boies
G. W. Tucker
Tucker
Gilcrest Lumber Company
M. A. Sprinkle
Grand Island
Neb
Miner & Fairchild
Susil
Fremont
Kans
M. Miler
J. D. Gresler
Utry
G. W. Gillespie
Bancroft
Gillespie
C. E. Brockway
L. T. Jacobs
Frank Allen
A. W. Jacobs
Jacob Oster, Jr
Butler
Gree
Henry Smith
Jack Wylie
Dr. Conway
Osters
J. M. Bainbridge
H. S. Zilar
Starbird
Zilar
A. J. Burk
Cojorac
Kansas
Chris Boblender
Wheeler
N. Shurtleff
Illinois
Georgetown
Platte Canon
Boulder Canon
Falls
Arapahoe Glacier
Silver Lake
Flagstaff Road
America
Wester Company of America
Deering, McCormick, Plano
Milwaukee
Champion
Cyrus H. McCormick
J. Pierpont Morgan
F. C. Mapes
Harvester Combine
Department of Justice
Bureau of Corporations
International Har
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