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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1873
Page
2
A prospectus notice warns readers that ads from the Sinise will not be inserted without payment accompanying the order. The wrapper of the tax Gnee.ey Trinune shows an expiry encoded with a number, signaling subscribers to renew before the paper ceases publication.
The piece dismisses postal cards as inferior to ordinary paper for filing and business letters. It mocks sending business correspondence on paste board and warns that personal letters deserve proper envelopes. It contrasts with British practice and notes American reception may be cool.
The Denver News urged a 100 mile canal from Platte Canyon to water up to a million acres at a cost near one million dollars. It argued reservoirs are essential to store flood water, making irrigation viable year round. It claimed $2 per acre cost with $5 per acre land value gain and potential population growth to push Colorado toward statehood.
The Greeley Tribune editor reviews How I Fowl Livingstone with enthusiasm, praising Stanley as a reportorial genius whose vivid detail outshines Bayard Taylor. Readers in Illinois and Colorado weigh in on railroad bonds, Evans, Greeley, and track plans, while the Golden Age is lauded as a bright, spicy paper.
Miss Midy Morgan livestock editor of the New York Times visited Colorado as a guest of the Stock Growers Association. She examined Denver area grazing districts and stock facilities from Park to Villa Park, toured Coronel Archer's farm, and pledged to return in August for further inspection of the Territory.
The Colorado Central Railroad Company directors decided to accelerate work on the Julesburg road. Initial efforts will clean and improve the operating section for twenty or thirty days, then a large force will begin work, aiming to have the line in running order by early fall. The Nebraska soil froze eight feet deep and the pointy bug is emerging again.
The piece argues Colorado offers strong health benefits and grand Rocky Mountain scenery, compares health appeal to Wyoming and New Mexico, and urges building a first class hotel in Greeley to attract wealthy visitors seeking refined accommodations and temperance values. It notes notable figures expressing health migration interest and highlights near-term opportunities for local hotel investment to boost the community.
A grand Union Pacific delegation led by Horace Clarke and John Duff toured Colorado cities from Omaha to Golden and Denver, visiting Longmont and the Colorado Central lines. The group, including Blaine aides and railroad executives, traveled by private train and discussed local conditions, with Gail Hamilton noted for her interest in the region. They depart for the Pacific today.
The excerpt notes long canals built in California for mining and irrigation. It discusses 400 mile canals to Manure and broader industrial progress, referencing civilized people and Columbus era. It presents evolving waterways as solutions to agrarian needs and development.
The Colorado Springs Gagette advocates a temperance town and recounts how the colony, like its own, included a prohibitory clause. It urges citizens to enforce it, noting public opinion as a powerful check on whisky sales and citing Greeley’s temperance example as a model.
Stockholders of the Tribune met last Tuesday to compare competing designs by premier New York architects. The collection promises a striking structure with a compact city within its nine stories. Horace Greeley is to have a monument worthy of the greatest of American journalists.
In Greeley, at the bride Linneat West’s house on Monroe Street, Albert Gipson wed her with Rev. Woods officiating. Attendants included Gipson’s brother A H Gipson and friends Caffield Canfield Mosier Buckingham and West’s partner, amid a small gathering of relatives. The couple later toured Garden of the Gods. Gipson, former president of the Young Men's Literary Association, is praised for embracing new paths and the bride is lauded for her virtuous character.
A Tribune reader recalls Oakes Ames as a modest powerful figure who worked among his many workers and spoke with all, from boys to millionaires. He praises Ames as a practical, unpretentious leader with a tough stance on defective wagons and a strong sense of duty and patriotism. The memory also touches on Ames’s wrestling reputation and early political service, ending with a brief scene of a flood rescue near Binghamton.
A girl living far away stood vigil beside a lonely grav e marked by stone. When questioned she feared floodwaters would wash her mother's grave. She kept watch over the grave until kindly cared for and returned to her motherless home.
A visit to a lake seven miles from Greeley reveals a growing development with a new house and barn, planned trees and a possible lakeside drive. Canals supply nearby farms and the area under Canal No 2 shows rising prosperity with additional crops, schools, and summer resort chatter. Merino sheep from Vermont pass through Colorado en route to a Pueblo area ranch, with Child Brothers showing favorable wool yields from crossbreeding with native sheep and projecting higher market value.
Denver & Rio Grande Railway weekly earnings reach 12158.71. Denver hosts irrigation convention June 11 for two days led by Geo F Packard of Jefferson county. Boulder reports horse colt losses from a winter epizootic. Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad work to resume toward Pueblo. Sierra Madre Tunnel proposed from near Black Hawk to Middle Park, funded by English capital, twelve miles long. Griffith Mountain mines open near Highland Park with rich ore. Stedefeldt process yields high precious metal percentages. Robertson of Royal Prussian and Saxon Smelting Works halts ore purchases due to overstock. Seventy-two passengers ride Denver to C train. colony membership 485. thirty-six freight cars received. Boulder to host smelting works and new planing mill machinery. Colorado Springs to install new machinery.
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