Government dry farming station opened at Eads Colorado
Elwood Mead chief of the Irrigation Bureau arrives in Lenver to open a government dry farming experiment near Eads. 160 acres leased adjoining the town will host pumping irrigation tests and moisture conserving methods under F. W. Roeding and P. Lauch with aims to show water needs and best application for arid soils. Also notes missing local man F. L. Looney and new electric theater sign in Greeley.
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Elwood Mead
Irrigation Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Lenver
Eads
Colo
Mr. Mead
Kads
Oboe
F. W. Roeding
Colorado
P. Lauch
Canon City
Mead
Wyoming
D A Carfield Eyes Riverside Reservoir Project
D A Carfield shifts focus from Jackson Lake and Oasis hotel projects in Morgan county to the Riverside reservoir opposite New Empire. Plans include transferring crews from New Empire to Riverside, constructing a 62 mile canal with 700 cubic feet per second capacity to irrigate about 60 000 acres and forming a new irrigation district.
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Jackson Lake
New Empire
Morgan County
D. A. Carfield
Riverside
Harvest Day Celebration Sparks Ault Pride
Ault residents prepare for a major Harvest Day event with strong turnout expected from Weld County and several political candidates. The festive mood centers on community spirit led by Tilly Rowe as visitors arrive for a lively celebration tomorrow.
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Nothig
Tomorow
Weldounty
Tilly Rowe
Greeley Spud Special Begins Denver to Texas Service
The Colorado and Southern railroad launched the Greeley Spud Special a daily Denver to Texas fast freight train to move Colorado potatoes quickly before frost. The service aims to cut frost losses and shorten dealer lead times, aiding merchants and growers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado & Southern Railroad
Denver
Texas
Greeley
Colorado
Workers Tour Greeley Water System Progress
The Tribune sponsored excursion carried 200 passengers to inspect the new water works in Greeley. Delays occurred when a special train failed to arrive, but officials and residents praised the project showing how the 350,000 city funds create a nine acre settling basin with 31,000,000 gallons capacity and a major filtration basins to deliver clear water. The system will feed a future reservoir and aims for completion by January 1, 1907.
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Tribune
Fort Collins
The
Greeley
Fitch explains kerosene traction engine in prairie land project
Colorado representative C. L. Fitch of Hart-Parr in Charles City Iowa visits Greeley to outline a kerosene driven traction engine for breaking up 1000 acres near Nunn on the Union Pacific. The device uses kerosene or denatured alcohol with explosive power, promising about 50 percent fuel savings over gasoline. Additionally A C Kuneth was jailed thirty days after pleading guilty to bad-check charges.
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C. L. Fitch
Colorado
Hart-Parr Company
Charles City
Iowa
Greeley
Nunn Station
Union Pacific
Mr. Fitch
Mrs Rebecca Eaton gifts 33000 pipe organ to Park Congregational
Mrs Rebecca Eaton announced plans to donate a 33000 pipe organ to Park Congregational as a memorial for her late daughter Mrs Jennie V Petrikin. The gift eases financial strain after higher-than-expected bids delayed the church’s new building and organ project.
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Rebecca Eaton
New Park Congregational Church
Jennie V. Petrikin
M. B. Petrikin
Eaton
North Poudre plans vast new reservoir on North Fork
The North Poudre Irrigation Company proposes a grand masonry dam across the North Fork to form a large storage lake. The 130 foot high dam would be 500 feet long atop, holding about 901,708,000 cubic feet of water at the 10 foot contour and benefiting farmers with irrigation water throughout the season. The project would flood portions of the Milne Derby and Jack Bell ranches and create a lake up to thirteen miles around, with substantial associated costs and engineering notes.
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North Poudre Irrigation Company
Poudre River
Milne- Derby
Jack
Beets Haul With New Kerosene Engine Train
Thomas Keeben of Platteville buys a kerosene engine traction machine recently sold in Weld county. He plans to haul his 80 acres of beets five miles to the beet damp using the engine to pull a four-wagon beet train. A four-horse team will also haul an additional wagon load to the dump where the engine cannot work.
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Thomas Keeben
Platteville
Weld County
Keeben
Mass meeting on county local option law in court house
Citizens desiring good government and a pure temperate county are invited to a mass meeting at the court house on Thursday evening September 27 at o'clock. Local prohibition speakers will address the gathering and KE EB McLaughlin of Denver is invited to speak.
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Court House
KE. EB. McLaughlin
Denver
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Uncle Sam
Senator Warren
Congressman Bonynge
Prof
Olin
State Agricultural College
Ault Farmer
F. L. Looney
Ault
Looney
Fred Davis
Shoshoni
Shoshont
Tooney
Greeley Opera House
Theater
Main Street
Riverside Reservoir
Commercial Club
Miss Miller
W. L. Clayton
I. Rothschild
F. P. Frost
Edwin Starkey
F. Bell
H.C. Canser
J. March
W. B. Kinsella
F. Tewand BE
J Decker
J. M. B. Petrikin
C. A. Granger
Robert Bates
Windsor
Mr. Bates
Columbus Junction
Town
Mrs. Bates
A. C. Kuneth
Willard
W. M. Brown
W. A. McCave
Kuneth
B. H. Eaton
Auspece
Weld
North Fork
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