Colorado colony seizes chance to settle near Denver Pacific
A Colorado colony report extols fertile Platte Valley land near the Denver Pacific Railroad from Omaha to Denver. It notes a growing town of nearly 2,000 with churches schools and hotels, under contract land sells for six dollars an acre with three-year terms. Irrigation canals boost crops and prospects for cheap homes, while urging Eastern settlers to buy before prices rise next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Denver
Cheyenne
Omaha
Great Platte Valley
Julesburgh
Cache la Poudre
Thompson
St. Vrain
Boulder, &c
Colorado
Illinois
Cavour Canal and Italian Irrigation Venture Collapse
The article details the Cavour Canal project funded by English capitalists under Italian government guarantees that failed amid insolvency claims and unfinished work. It notes miscalculations of Po river flow, canal specifications, aqueducts, and the complex cooperative irrigation system west of Sesia, including water pricing and administration by consortia and the General Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cavour
Pannum
Chivaasso
Dora Baliea
Vercelli
General Association of Irrigation
Sesia
Council of Arbitration
General Association
Dora Balten
Union Colony Officers and Trustees Page Summary
Union Colony lists officers including N C Merxer as President and J C Shattuck as Vice President, with David Born as Superintendent and Dr Cons Emerson as Treasurer. Trustees named include N C Meeker and H V Martin, plus school directors such as A Hotchkiss and W H Post. The fragmentary text shows several missing names and roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. C. Merxer
J. C. Shattuck
David Born
Cons. Emerson
H. Post
J. D. Buextry
N. C. Meeker
J. ©. Shattuck
H. V. Martin
David Boyd
Kennedy
Retail prices on tools and hardware from Lippincott's catalog
The listing details broad ranges of hardware items including augers, bits, kettles, carriages bolts, chisels, saws, grain cradles, planes, pumps, pipe, rakes, saws, scoop shovels, washing machines, and wringers with varying price points and maker names such as Disston Ames Gould's Doty and Reliance. The catalog advertises steel, brass, and iron goods across dozens of categories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PRI
Hunt's
Lippincott’s
Yankee Crown
Cook's
Ohio
Dusky Tool Co
Disston
Ames
Gould
Nuine Uee
Doty’s
Reliance
Universal
Agricultural Implements and Household Goods Price List
Wholesale prices for plows breakers cultivators mowers rakes and seeding tools list John Deere and Wapgood brands with varied tooth counts and sizes. Retail boots shoes hats lumbers and leather goods, followed by dry hides furs and domestic calf skins, then joists timber flooring and carpentry supplies with meat vegetables and miscellaneous items including coal, wood, and wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Deere
Wapgood's
Nemya
Er- Kin
Taylor's
Esterly
H. D
Do. C
Oxford
Kip Brogans
Greeley
Graham
Primas
Atlantic
Bedford
Arnold
American
Dunnell
Clyde
Spring
Cocmace
Delaines
Hamilton
Pacific
Manchester
Scarlet
Bedford R
Mystic River
Do. Do
Lyman E
Continental
Constitutional A
Ellerton W
Hill
Great Falls
Warren FF
Wamsutta
Lonsdale Cambric
California
Chicago
Quincy
Adobe
Also Mentioned on This Page
Greeley and the Union Colony
Joaquin Miller
Grace Greenwood
Josh Billings
Union Colony
Evan Rea
Jas
G. Coorgn
Samouen
B. Wahiur
O. W. Suarrock
Joseph Moore
V. BR. Spencer
A. Hotchkiss
Pres’t
J. ©. Abbott
Treas’r
W. H. Post
Tees
N. M. Boynton, H.,t. West
Territorial
Territory
Edwin McCook
Frank Hall
Supreme Court
Moses Hallet
Pueblo
E. T. Wells
Mr.Belford
Central
L. C. Rockwell
A. S. Marshall
M. A. Shaffenburg
H. W. Lessig
Denver District Land Office
Louis Dugal
J. A. Titus
Eric
W. J. Kram
Evans
J. L. Brush
J. C. Bailey
J. C. Higley
W. H. McDonald
O. P. Baaset
Hillaboro
D. J. Hopkins
Board of Commissioners
B. H. Raton
W. G. Winburn
Fort Lupton
Bruce F. Johnson
Totich
Board of Trustees
Superintendent of Water Commissioners
Daied
Thomas
Farmers’ Club
N. Y
Hebsore
J. J. Thomas & Co
Geneva
United States Mail
Mountains
Cache la Poudre Valley
Fort Collins
la Porte
Shinn
B. Bassett
Denver Transfer CO
MR. Halstead
McClure & Sanborn
Denver, Colorado
General Agents
Reeley
Denver Pacific Railway
Cheyesnel
AIN
Arriv
eDenver
Boulder Valley
Erie
Junction
Hughes
Janet
W. Fisher
E. M. Asnorr
Westinghouse
Pullman's Palace
Ali
Atlantic Express
Burlington
Galesburg
C.B
Tad’plis
Cinennati
Cara
Missouri River
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Logansport
Columbus
Union Colony of
M. H. Post
Seo’y
N.C. Meek
ATER
WM. Hi. Post
Remington & Sons
Military and Sporting Arms
Remington
New York National Guard
United States
Army
Navy
E. Remington & Sons
Ilion
S. B
Poudre Valley Lodge No
Nichols’ Hall
Main Street
Jainting
R. Burchill
Walnut Street
Washington and
Chestnut Streets
Spencer's
Loomington Nursery
FPE
Phoenix
Bloomington
OTTG
Reeley Pioneer Saddle A
Sam
Greerey Cole
Daniel Witter
Arapahoe County
Denver City
Washington
Narpenter
Maple and
Jackson Sts
Arthur Hotchkiss
P. S
TP EK
WM. H. Post
Maple St
Jefferson and
Madison Sts
Lating Library
The
Greeley Tribune
Colo: Jon
Rocky Mountain Country
N. C. Mexxur
Osess Crnerpes Sre
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