Ranching It From the Colorado Springs Gazette
A Colorado Springs Gazette report details a ranching itinerary near El Paso and Bracket creeks. It hosts W H Reed J G Moore and Mrs Adams with 2700 head sheep, 640 acres, 75 80 tons hay, wool sales to Lewis Tuttle, and Gates ranch 6600 sheep five years growth and sheds snow breaks.
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Bijou Basin
O. Z. Ranch
Big Sandy
Ivory Phillips
W. H. Reed
Lewis & Tuttle
Chicago
Phillips
Adams
el Paso
Waters
Min
Gates’ Ranch
Gates Ranch
Russell Gates
Bracket Creek
Colorado Springs
Gates
H.C. Judd & Root
Hartford
Ile
Russia Iron and the Polish Polish? Russia sheet iron process detailed
Prof S Jordan reports from the Paris Exposition on 1867 detailing the manufacture of Russia sheet iron. He describes blooms of charcoal iron rolled into leaves then stacked and hammered under heavy anvils to produce polished sheets. A cementing layer of powdered charcoal between sheets gives mirror like polish and dust resistance. The piece notes questions about surface carburation and the potential for American imitation to reach Russian quality with better manufacture.
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S. Jordan
Ecole Centrale
Paris
Institution of Civil Engineers
France
Russia
M. Koulibine
Indian Trouble in Middle Park Reported by Byers
Mr. Byers presents Denver News with a scouting party of ten pursuing Indians who killed Elliott in Middle Park on September 8. The group reached the Agency on September 10 and compelled the return of stolen ponies and whites’ guns after a council with chiefs. The Meeker administration is described, with agency life, crops, cattle, and weekly rations for 97 families.
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Mr. Byers
Denver News
Elliott
Middle Park
Sheriff Cook
Mr. Phelps
Piah
N. C. Meeker
Pinery
Father Meeker
Colorado
Town Strikes, Mines Open as Boulder Valley Labor Impacts Local Trade
The piece notes four months of mine shutdowns due to strikes and a dull local economy. It describes visiting a Boulder Valley coal mine via air shaft ventilation demonstrations and comments from Mr Grubb and Mr Southard about economic impact and political sentiment. It mentions a meat market run by Ko nanz and asserts the town’s broader hardships amid the labor disruption.
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Boulder Valley
Mr. Grubb
Sugar industry notes seek cheaper beet and sorgo routes
The article reviews 1877 sugar consumption and imports in the United States, outlines declining cane yields and high foreign purchases, and discusses new avenues such as sorgo sugar and beet processing. It highlights Nineteenth Century trials in Louisiana, West Indies crops, and French beet sugar methods. It cites F S Stewart’s cornstalk sugar process and calls for improved farming practices and machinery to raise yields.
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United States
West India Islands
Portland
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Pacific States
San Francisco
Manilla
Batavia
China
Central America
Peru
Calcutta
Brazil
Demerara
Java
East Indies
Trinidad
Jamaica
British West Indies
Cuba
Europe
Mississippi
Louis Bouchereau
Louisiana
F. 8. Stewart
Westmoreland County
Pennsylvania
Agricultural Department
Washington
LeDuc
Minnesota
Messrs. C. F. Miller
Dundas, Minn
Seth H. Kenney
Morristown
Sarge
France
California
Why is it that people are tired by sermons yet energized by dramas
A Burlington Hawkeye reflection muses on human quirks and misplaced pretensions. It questions why twenty minutes of sermon drain energy while a two hour society drama excites some. It ponders pride in horsestepping, hunting parties, watch chains, cigars, and small town knowledge.
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Burlington Hawkeye
English Farming Burden in England Compared with Western Farms
The Spirit of Lawrence Kansas notes English farm rent runs 10 to 50 dollars per acre plus taxes and 5 to 10 dollars per acre for manure. With such costs every acre must yield at least 30 dollars rent, about 3 000 dollars per 100 acres. English efficiency, thrift and dissemination of crop value explain how they bear rents while Western farms struggle under taxation.
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Lawrence, Kan
England
Word From Lothrop The Denver Nurse At Memphis
Denver, Sept. 25, 1879. Lothrop, a Denver nurse in Memphis aiding yellow fever sufferers, reports extreme deaths and exhausting work. He cautions Colorado nurses against coming, notes two hundred thirty seven deaths in forty eight hours, and praises fellow nurses while seeking remittances forHoward Association work. He is reachable through Memphis care of the Howard Association.
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Denver
Memphis
Lothrop
Prof. Slaskell
Peabody Hotel
Galloway
Colorado
M. Lorurer
Mr. Lothrop
O. O. Troward
Hamlin
South
Tennessee
Greenback beliefs and financial views from Cincinnati Commercial
A Cincinnati Commercial extract discusses money in gold and greenbacks, arguing the government cannot create money and that credit depends on gold backing. The speaker favors a greenback standard and resumption as prosperity, noting political stakes for the Republicans. The piece shifts to report a Hunter shooting an elk near Hat Creek and a rancher’s horse being killed.
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United States
Republican Party
Greenback Party
Cincinnati
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Kalsominer
P. O
Exchange Hotel
Hotel DE Comfort
Main and
Jefferson Streets
Greeley
Craham
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Ccichado
J. M. Foreman
Attorney At Law
UV. Buexter, Sevy
Union Colony
Jpvreeman & Buckley
Canor City and
Maple Street
Joseph Moore
W WH. Bennett
Freeman & Buckley
E. Marsh, M.D Dees
Colorads House
H. N. Rogerson
J. M. Freeman
J. D. Buckley
Sec’'y
Denver Pacific Railway
Union Bank
Masonic Block Greeley
R. Bennett
Greeley House
Greeley, Weld County
D. L. Dawley
F. L. Childs
The
Colorado Springs Gazette
IRON
Neer
Erie
Col. Ingersoll
Hunter
Hat Creek
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