Life on a Sheep Ranch in Dawn to Dusk
A first person journal from a spring camp describes waking before dawn, managing 8,000 sheep with Romeo and Rover, feeding, watering, and guarding lambs. Francisco the Mexican herder assists, mail arrives, and evening songs mix cow camp routines with ballads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romeo
Khorassan
Wohden
Heaven
Brigid
Francisco
el Rancho
Chuck
Squatarous
Sol
Rover
Fruit raising in Colorado offers rich returns for farmers
Colorado Farmer notes that any landowner with irrigation can profit from grapes and berries. A well tended acre of grapes could yield up to two thousand dollars yearly, strawberries offer profits at ten cents a quart, and orchards with careful care provide long lasting fruit. The piece urges irrigation, proper cultivation, and a strong nursery industry to boost local fruit production.
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Colorado
Scott
Greeley
Everett
Wheat Ridge
Jesse Frazier
Canon City
Arkansas Valley
Salt Lake Valley
Cliss
Texas Stock cattle profits in four years claim
A Chicago Tribune correspondent reports on Texas cattle grazing profits with a group that fenced 230000 acres and built a stock cattle account showing 410000 dollars paid for stock cattle and 520000 dollars in sales, leaving 110000 head valued at six dollars each and 770000 dollars in profits after four years, with minimal cash input.
Counterfeit Jewels and Machines Turning Waste into Power
A essay traces counterfeit jewels back to chemical imitation of natural gems and notes Paris chemists Fremy and Feil producing synthetic rubies sapphires and emeralds. It discusses crystal growth from alumina and carbon and reflects on the affect on jewelers and the promise of industrial use of waste heat and other byproducts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben. Butler
Paris
Mm.e, Fremy and
Feil
Pound
Nature
Messrs
Remy
Cincinnati
Waste to Wealth in Industrial Byproducts Transformation
The article outlines how waste byproducts from glycerite production, coal tar refining, abattoir blood, leather waste, sawdust, tanneries, oyster shells, linseed oil, wood ash, and river mud are repurposed into valuable goods. It highlights a shift from nuisance to essential raw materials across multiple industries.
Opium Den Visit Described by Cheyenne Leader
A Cheyenne Leader recounts an opium den visit detailing the lamp piped apparatus, the smoking process, and the effect on the user. The report notes city council action to close such dens. It then shifts to cattle market guidance urging Colorado cattle shipments to Kansas City and prudent fall loading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elysium
Colorado
Kansad City
Democra
Texas Loses Cattle Trade Leadership to Western States
The article notes Texas ceding dominance in cattle production as Western ranges expand into eastern markets. Montana and Utah drive more cattle east, while Texas improves stock through crossbreeding, lifting prices in Chicago and other big markets. Western graziers credit better care and breed upgrades for continued gains.
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Texas
Lone Star
Rocky Mountains
Saga
Salt Lake
Utah
Safire
Wyoming
Nevada
Idaho
Montana
Washington Territory
Oreg
West
Postal Savings Banks Growin g Favor Across Nations
TheBritish postal deposit system, adopted in Canada Belgium and Italy and partly in Prussia, shows strong public favor and potential U.S. adoption. It offers safety and security, with Britain paying 2.5 percent interest. In 1878 post office savings banks cost $72,870 in expenses, deposits rose from $10.6 million to $44.9 million by 1876, and losses from fraud remained remarkably low, signaling merit for government operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Belgium
Italy
Prussia
United States
England
Great Britain
Post Office
Central London
City gold mine hoard turns up in Bond Street ruin
After a devastating fire in Bond street the Appleton building ruins yielded over 60 thousand dollars in precious metals to two western miners Pier and Roberts. They claim the find produced more than twenty thousand dollars net, averaging above a thousand dollars daily with several days reaching seventeen hundred. The venture attracted crowds and proved a curious city spectacle.
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Appleton
Bond Street
Atention
Pier and Roberts
Onatinan, i
From Deadwood to Cheyenne and other 19th century notes
A dense recap of frontier items includes a coach carrying $250000 in bullion from Deadwood to Cheyenne, deaths from lye poisoning in Canyon City, fundraising for yellow fever relief, a peach crop forecast in Utah, a benefit baseball match bringing in $191.25, and details on cattle drives, mining cleanups, a Jones Gould Utah line, rattlesnake kills, freemason officers, vigilante killings near Spearfish, and bee farming profits totaling millions in the United States.
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Deadwood
Cheyenne
Hills
Josie Ennor
Canyon City
Salt Lake
Howard Association
Rawlins
Widdowfield
Vincent
Colorado
Leadville
James McPhilemr
Thomas Starr
Jay Gould
Helena
Montana
Utah
Montans
Heivus
Bulte
Boulder News
Porter
Gregory Canyon
Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Colorado
Roger VV. Woodbury
Denver
Spearfish
Keating
Davis
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I Marsh
W C. Brous
Kalsominer
Exchange Hotel
Stebte
Main and
Jefferson Streets
Graham
K. Thompson, S
Main Street
J. M. Freeman
Attorney At Law
Ww. Buekey
Sec
Union Colony
Jwreeman & Buckley
Cann City and
Boulder Valley
Maple Street
Joseph Moore
W H. Bennett E
Freeman & Buckley
Colorade House
H. N. Rogerson
J. M. Preeman
J. D. Buckley
Sec'y
Denver Pacific Railway
Union Bank
Masonic Block Creeley
R. Bennett
Buffalo
Greeley House
Greeley, Weld County
L. Dawley
The
Colorado Mountaineer
South
Maine
Mexico
Southwest
Polytechnic Review
Postal Savings Banks
France
Philadelphia
New York City
Colorado and Vicinity
Naushon
Boston Advertiser
Orson Brooks
California
Judge Brooks
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