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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1874
Page
1
Business Garis, A M Moss, Carpenter and Builder announce shop on Maple Street beside the Tribune Office. Henry, Contractor and Builder, listed along with J Percival, Carpenter Builder and Contractor. Wording urges prompt dispatch and directs readers to the correct locations.
A narrator and companion descend from a hilltop to explore the Newgate prison ruins near Copper Hill in Connecticut. They traverse a guarded fortress with tunnels, water-filled galleries, and bone-laden shafts, encountering danger and darkness as they seek an exit back to the surface.
A survivor recounts a subterranean tour of the Simsbury mine range once used as a state prison site. He notes shafts, a subterranean lake, and a gallery ending at a drain near Turkey and Copper hills, with history from 1774 to 1826 including Tory prison use and later abandonment.
The article reports severe grasshopper devastation in Nebraska causing destitution in western counties within 60 miles of the Missouri. Gen Ord cites child deaths and widespread hunger as families abandon homes, prompting a relief effort organized by a committee including Armour and Fairbank to provide flour meat shoes and blankets to 7 000 affected residents.
Dr Law describes surface assays near Pingree’s showing silver values but no gold. The party climbs to a pine plateau above the Cache la Poudre, discovers beaver-dammed lakes, ancient dams, and broad river deltas. They sketch Chamber’s Lake, its deep blue waters, glacial deltas, and looming snow peaks as they camp amid a June snowstorm and rugged terrain.
The Golden Transcript discusses pulverized coal for reverberatory furnaces used in ore smelting and iron work. It compares drying methods and grinding mills, noting the Lightning Mill as especially effective and asserting pulverizing costs are minimal per ton. The article emphasizes better combustion and higher calorie impact outweighing prep costs.
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