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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1871
Page
2
The Colorado Fair in Denver demonstrates strong local support and a thriving display of crops, stock, and mining. Greeley’s colony voice criticizes a Chicago Times article while highlighting rail prospects, irrigation debates, and upcoming railroad activity shaping Colorado’s growth.
Hon. C. D. Poston allegedly induced the French government to ship 40 000 French Communist prisoners to Arizona as an outift. Doubts arise over organization and route with hints of Denver and California paths. The piece questions land availability, costs, and the feasibility of long supply runs for two years.
The graded schools in Greeley opened Monday with about 150 scholars. J C Shattuck leads the High School, Miss Washburn the Intermediate, and Miss Davis the Primary. Desks and cast iron supports from Chicago, hard maple woodwork, and labeled books at cost mark the setup. The Tabernacle houses three rooms until the new brick building by the Park is finished later in fall. Families in Colorado may send children here and find low board costs, while healthful air and a strong moral atmosphere attract guardians from the States. Contact W H Post, Secretary of the School Board, for a ten page pamphlet and further details.
Mrs Kinison of Salt Lake sends back a large quantity of dried fruit. Salt Lake peaches are praised as unexcelled and apricots excellent. The Salt Lake valley shares elevation and latitude with Greeley, with trials in flux growing showing it has become a climate for prized fruit.
Five Kansas Pacific directors file articles of corporation to build a narrow gauge line from Fort Lyon on the Arkansas to Pueblo on the same stream. The venture, unclear in purpose, could enhance eastern Colorado connections or be a speculative charter. Also notes Denver’s unease about eastern links and mentions a Pueblo to Kansas City line idea. The Laramie Sentinel reports Mrs. N. T. Plummer on a jury. Lyceum opens with full house. Hand Book of Colorado second edition released. W. We Post sells in Greeley area. copies by mail 20 cents.
A Colorado writer urges women to work part time in gardening and to start a local clothing cooperative. He argues five hundred women could sew for five hours daily, creating home produced garments to save costs and keep profits local, with shares suggested at $20 each to raise $10,000.
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