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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1873
Page
1
The item lists town property in Fort Collins for sale and for rent, also stock ranches and agricultural farms in Larimer county for sale. Rents collected and taxes paid for non-residents, correspondence solicited. includes business cards and poetry fragments from Joyce boot maker and others.
The narrator describes the Utah plains after a canyon road to Salt Lake City, noting mining activity near Cottonwood, American, and Bingham mines, irrigation projects, and a growing co operative store. He praises Mormon leadership, warns of economic policy, and highlights the Zion Cooperative Mercantile Institute as a price regulator and boost to local farming and trade. He contrasts Gentile mining with Mormon agriculture and commerce, and cites population, land use, and rainfall impacts. He also profiles Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper, a pioneering bee keeper and educator from Iowa, detailing her rise from hardship to prominence in apiculture and public work.
J. M. Moss George Pyburn and G E C F Inman appear in a brief local mention, listing individuals connected to a civil matter or organization. The snippet notes their initials and surnames without detailing actions, dates, or roles.
Displays list of vendors and services including a florist offering bedding pants and plant roots, a boundary surveyor and ditch engineer, a new milk wagon starting May 19 1873, a bakery specializing in Boston brown bread, and local builders and contractors with masonry plastering carpentry and estimates.
Patetine R. Burchille will personally attend to all orders for painting Quartini Graining paper hanging and whiting shop on Walnut street.
M L Dunlap reports from Greeley Colorado describing a strong irrigation base supporting colonization. He notes doubled canal capacity, new milling and manufacturing, grasshopper control, wheat and potato prospects, and predicts the South Platte Valley and Julesburg Road will boost Chicago trade while warning about the Great Lara mie plains as grazing country.
The Boulder County News reports Webster and Harp tested 32 apple varieties and narrowed the list to hardy options for summer fall and winter. Red Astrachan tops summer, followed by Early Red Sweet Bough and Golden Sweeting. Maiden's Blush Limber Twig for fall, Roxbury Russet Geniten Duchess of Oldenburg Baldwin White Winter Pearmain Green Newton Pippin for winter. Pears show strong success across Scotch and American varieties. Dwarfs should be planted deep. Peach growing not yet successful. Ten cherry varieties tested with Early Richmond as the sole success. Concord grape dominates Colorado climate and Hartford Prolific and Clinton are noted. Sixteen varieties overall doubtful.
General Custer recounts six Sioux vaunting an ambush near Tongue River on August 4 and a later encounter on August 11. His mounted troops, forced to dismount, repelled bold charges and used fire tactics to break the enemy, who fled across the river. Garry Owen music failed to steady their defense before pursuit.
The Russian ladies, late students in Zurich, decided not to return to Russia with two exceptions. They aim to finish studies at another college outside Switzerland. Some sought admission at Strasbourg but were refused.
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