Jim Creek Gold Vein Reigns as New Colorado Bonanza
The Boulder County Jim Creek district rises as the latest mining sensation after a reporter details the John J vein near Jamestown and Gold Lake. Telluride-rich ore yields extraordinary assays, with miners predicting high fortunes as strikes multiply. Local figures like Fuller and Van Deren recount providential finds guiding yields and future shipments to Hill for assay results.
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Gilpin County
Jim Creek
Jamestown
Boulder County
Henry Niekirk
J. Alden’ Smith
Gold Hill
Golconda
Boulder Newe
James Creek
Gold Lake
J. G. Foster
O. H. Harkner
Mr. Marr
Hill
Fu. Fuller
Denver in Early Days and Rise of the City
In early Denver the interlinked streetcars and railroads connected the city. The piece traces 1858 to 1861 events, Auraria and East Denver growth, and initial real estate speculation, noting notable figures like J. J. Riethmann and Luther Kountze, whose bold moves shaped the frontier metropolis.
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Russell
Platte
North Park
Cherry Creek
Lawrence Or
Kangas Company
Taos
Montana
Auraria
Denver
Kansas
East Denver
J. J. Riethmann
Central Park
St. Charles
Council Bluffs
Larimer Street
McClintock
Broadwell
Dicker
Louis
Riethmanns
Barnes
Claytons
Warren Hussy
Utah
Iowa
Blake Street
Luther Kountze
New York
D. D. White
Frank Palwer
City National
Colwell & Bauer
Goldrick
Atchison
Rocky Mountain Herald
Feminine Duplicity and the South Hill Garden Trick
In a South Hill tale a charming young man admires a girl who feigns flower knowledge. She wheatfully fills a bay window with weeds gathered from the street and under the bridge. He praises the plants and she misleads him with fanciful names to feign erudition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Hill
Dowers
Bogarduss
Buddha Leaves Palace to Seek Enlightenment
The tale recounts Prince Siddhartha’s discovery of life’s suffering after encounters with old age and death. His royal handlers fail to deter him as he rides away with Kantaka to seek spiritual enlightenment and end worldly desire.
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Buddha
Devaputra T
T’so Ping
Kantaka
Women Receive Premiums at Paton County Fair
At the Paton County Fair the premiums awarded included a $5 prize to Miss Emma Robb for the best sample of mend ing by a girl under twenty and recognition for the woman with similar workmanship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Paton County Fair
Emma Robb
Centennial Exposition Opens May 10 1876
The act of Congress provides for a United States Centennial Commission to manage the international exhibition of arts manufactures and products of the soil and mine. Two commissioners from each state and territory are named by governors and commissioned by the President. The fair runs May 10 to November 10 with a fifty cent admission. The grounds lie along the Schuylkill in Fairmount Park, a vast 1100 acre site with 460 acres enclosed for the exhibition. Access is via eight avenues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Centennial Commission
United States
Schoylkill River
Fairmount Park
English Feeling About Our War Then and Now
In a London Academy notice on General Sherman and his Memoirs Col Chesney argues that the Civil War ended a cycle of European warfare. He praises Sherman as a patriot who turned away from peace to end fighting, contrasting the United States with Europe and urging gratitude for lasting peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Academy
General Sherman
Col. Chesney
South
England
Europe
United States
Sherman
Ancient San Juan ruins reveal vanished South West civilizations
The author argues that durable traces of a former civilization once thrived along the San Juan river in Southern Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. He contends these people, possibly Aztecs or their successors, left no written records and were displaced by unknown catastrophes, leaving only stone remnants of a once industrious society.
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Nineveh
Troy
Pompeii
Tigris
Jerusalem
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
San Juan River
Debria
Reporters and captains cautioned by accidents
A defense of even tempered reporting notes that a rushed account of a man breaking his leg with a wooden leg reveals the risks of recklessness for captains and reporters alike. It laments wrecks caused by haste and urges steadier conduct.
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N.B
R. E. Hart
OLD Colony
Orricgs
Main St
Greeley
Boughton
Collins
Conona Do
Fort Omadale
Ianmer County
A. Haynes, A
Gtraon
Flaynes & Gipson
Guexony
O Leavitt
Mia
Viola Fema
Alice Fuller
Alice Roflet
CoLoRapo
Ie Sanborn
J B. Suckley
Weld County
Stein
Kalsomining
Shep Majle Street
Tribune Ofice
KFL
Justice OF the Peace
The
Barneny
Greeley Weld Co
J Leavy
Grant and
Sherman Sts
Lormeyal
Seman & Shattuck
Mgau Betartr
Jeoel
Masonic
Aes Colon
H. N. Rogerson
Darvin
Watertown
G. Stinson & CO
Portland
Maine
Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Park Row
Ibjeeet
A. K. Packard
Park Churchi
Christ
Lord Jesus Christ
Jesus
Hell
Jurlington Hawk Eye
van Deren
Telluride Mineo
Providence
Central
Fuller
HM Post Office
John J
Central Register
Pennsylvania Sod Reading
Vienna
SproracLes
Mozelie
France
Andy Tifke Moen
Agent Law Druggiste
Opticat
Jer
Ivanese
MES & Clapp
Wow Sakya Muni
San Juan
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