Colorado school building dazzles plains with eighty foot tower
Boston last Friday arrangements were made for the Julesburg branch to move to a newly built Colorado school. The structure is praised as the finest of its kind outside Denver with bright quarters and ample light. A tower eight story: the building looms fifty feet higher than surrounding.
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Plains
Rocky Mountain Country
Distilling Debate Reflects Moral Crisis and Irrigation Claims
The piece criticizes a semi government proposal to ship whisky abroad to aid corn markets, calling it a degradation of other nations and a failure of genuine statesmanship. It condemns alcohol's social harms, questions water rights and irrigation claims, notes Colorado and Utah farming contrasts, and references local meat prices and regional economic prospects.
Prohibition Alarms as Liquor Flows Across State Lines
An Ohio prohibition critique argues that banning retail sales fails to stop liquor crime. It condemns distilleries allowed to ship liquor to other states, likening it to fighting a fever while allowing the source of illness. The call urges temperance supporters to strike at the source.
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Ohio
Miamis
Temperance Men
New Butcher Shop Adverts in Exchange Rear
An advertisement notes a new butcher shop in the rear of the New York Exchange Colony Hall run by Russell Fisk. It claims prices are reduced by fifty percent enabling shoppers to save over 100 percent a month and urges public patronage at rates Fisk can sustain.
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Colorado
New York Exchange
Colony Hall
Russell Fisk
Mr. Fisk
Trade hopes for Pacific codfish and rail support
The message argues for Pacific coast codfish to be cheaper than Atlantic due to shorter distance. It notes other goods could come by rail if interest exists and criticizes the Denver Land Office for claiming massive land entries and seeking a congressional grant to fund irrigation on lands it allegedly seized from the public.
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Pacific Coast
Atlantic Coast
Max Clark Water Estimate for Cache la Poudre
The text argues Max Clark underestimates irrigation potential, predicting 100000 acres for the Cache la Poudre and up to a million acres for Colorado. It asserts watered land is highly valuable, claiming an well watered acre is worth at least thirty dollars due to crop yields.
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Max Clark
Cache-la- Poudre
Max
Colorado
Phrenological Journal praised for aiding readers
The Denver News correspondent misreads Max Clark while noting the outfit pursues money. The Phrenological Journal for November is welcomed, as it has done much good and is likely to do more in the future with its constructive work as a basis.
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Colorado
The
Denver .News
Max Clark
Bishop Musser Address At Denver Convention
The Bishop stated that irrigating lands in Utah cost the people from 38 to 16 dollars per acre and that millions were spent on irrigation works, a remark not included in the Denver News summary.
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Rand
Gallup Ditch
Denver News
Musser
Denver
Carr Named President of Missouri Pacific and West Manager
Robert E. Carr, head of the Kansas Pacific railway, is reported to have accepted the presidency of the Missouri Pacific and to hold the post of General Western Manager of the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Kansas Pacific Railway
West
Missouri Pacific
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Atlantic and Pacific
Irrigation Debate: Projections for Colorado Ditching Reach
In a Denver News letter from October 24 the writer disputes Mr. Clark's irrigation figures. He argues one cubic foot per second irrigates far more land than claimed and that seasonal water use should be stored in reservoirs to maximize flow. He asserts irrigation could cover arid lands from the Missouri to the Pacific with proper funding.
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Denver
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Pacific Ocean
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Larimer Express
Hayden
Opensheim
Clark and Stanton At Irrigation Convention In Miner Summary
In Georgetown, Mr. Clark of Greeley argues water limits cap irrigation to about one million acres. He cites Cache la Poudre and northern streams, urging reservoirs to use surplus water and a land taxed system with public water ownership. F. J. Stanton counters with optimism, declaring water could irrigate 25 million acres.
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Clark
Greeley
Poudre
Platte
F. J. Stanton
Absent Chaffee at Irrigation Convention Noted by Newspapers
The Greeley Tribune and Denver papers comment on Delegate Chaffee’s absence. Chaffee was in New York handling financial ties amid a panic, lacking a letter or mention at the meeting. The report notes his plans to present a memorial to Congress and urges hearing, while praising his potential diligence once informed.
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Greeley Tribune
Congress
Fort Collins Area Coal Bed Near Cache la Poudre
A report notes a coal bed within six miles of Fort Collins above Laporte on the Cache la Poudre. The find promises personal fortune and a boost to Larimer County's industries.
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Larimer County
Fort Collins
Laporte
Cache la Poudre
Colorado Farmers Union Meeting in Denver 1873
The annual Colorado Farmers Union meeting will be in Denver on Thursday November 20 1873 at 10 o clock a m. Officers for the year will be elected and topics from subordinate clubs discussed. Representatives from farm clubs granges and joint clubs attend with one delegate per ten members attach crop reports from their jurisdiction. Geo F Packam President W Hour Secretary.
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Colorado Farmers’ Union
Denver
Farmers’ Clubs
Geo. F. Packam
W. Hour
No More Spirits in Nichols Hall Letter to the Editor
A Tribune letter complains about spiritual lectures and various freedoms in the town. The writer rejects spirits, Free Churches, Free Love, and Free Masons and warns of financial consequences if neighbors clash over fences and livestock.
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