Rocky Mountains Dreaming and Local Canal Talk
The Denver News excerpt reflects on Rocky Mountain exploration with five thousand summer visitors failing to truly see the range and notes vast untapped resources. It also discusses canal enlargement for irrigation, bee keeping, and a mountain ascent by Hayden expedition members led by Miss Anna F. Dickinson with a follow-up ascent by a party including three ladies.
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Rocky Mountains
Denver
Colorado Springs
Golden
Central
Idaho
Georgetown
Pennsylvania
Anna FE. Dickinson
Mr. Dickinson
Ralph Meeker
W. N. Byers
Mews
Denver News
Miss Ella Dunlap on Bee Keeping in Colorado
The Chicago Tribune bee correspondent says Colorado is too dry and flowers scarce, with no basswood trees. She notes farmers fear dry conditions, irrigation, and lack of markets, and critiques timorous thinking resisting new ideas.
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Ella Dunlap
Bee
Chicago Tribune
Colorado
Miss Dickinson Delivers Exquisite Lecture in Denver
The audience stayed breathless as Miss Dickinson spoke with flawless rhetoric and precise historical facts. Acoustic issues marred the talk though her gestures and delivery were near perfect. Tomorrow’s lecture by the same speaker promises strong crowds. early seatings advised.
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Denver
Miss Dickinson
Rise of New Political Party Movements Across Five States
An impartial observer notes a growing movement toward forming a new party to address current issues. In Iowa Ohio Minnesota Wisconsin and Illinois this movement shows health and energy with the Democratic party largely sidelined. The Opposition is labeled differently by state: People's party in Ohio Anti Monopoly in Iowa and Minnesota State Reform in Wisconsin and Anti Monopolists organizing by counties in Illinois.
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Iowa
Ohio
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Democratic Party
Republican Party
People's Party
Ilinois
Chicago Tribune
Irrigation Debate Voices Farmer Experience and Canal Limits
J Max Clark argues against outsider tax theories and praises practical farming insight as Union Colony debates Canal Number Two capacity. He contrasts Utah and Italian canals, cites wheat yields on sod land, and warns against overestimating irrigation without enlarging the canal and gates to water twenty thousand acres. He urges collective action to expand irrigation and curb speculative interference.
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J. Max Clark
Italy
France
Clark
the Tribune
Brother West
Mr. West
Thor Wintec
Yher
Tribune
Green
Ncre
Union Colony
Captain Martin
Colorado
Utah
Salt Lake
Oreo River
Piedmont
Roggia and Mora
H. T. West
Canary
J Max Clark
Going a Fishing in the Colorado Front Range Tour
The writer narrates a Greeley to Col lina to Laporte and Livermore trip via Elkhorn and Poudre rivers. They describe timber scarcity at Opensheim mills, farming at Fisk and Woods Brothers, river crossings, trout fishing attempts, a rattlesnake encounter, a boatless supper, and a waterlogged return, with reflections on improvements for future trips.
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The
Tribune
Sun
Greeley
Collina
Laporte
Opensheim
Elkhorn
Collins
Livermore
Russell Pisk Om
Fisk
Mir
Woods
Cheyenne
Gordon's
Poudre
Dale
Jordan
Indies
Silver, Sioux, and coal: Rocky Mountain notes
The Central Register reports 4400 ounces of silver extracted at Denver smelting works. Sioux numbers loom 200 miles from town, while surveys map coal beds spanning 250000 square miles with strata 5 to 30 feet thick. Regional farming, berries, rail freight, and education themes fill the Colorado notes.
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Denver
Platte
Republican
Rocky Mountain
Central Register
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Moses Willet
Clear Creek
Colorado Agriculturist
Flurter
Seh Creek
Pall Creek
Leavenworth Mountain
Georgetown
Dickinson
Parker
Denver Pacific R. R
Greeley
Pike's Peak
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Mr. Kaufman
Judea
Mount Lebanon
Naples
Jerusalem
Mr. Greeley
Higley
Foster
New York
Ben Butler
Massachusetts
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