Colorado Prosperous in 1902 with Record Outputs
Denver reports a strong 1902 across Colorado led by Cripple Creek ore valued at over $21 million and Beets, sugar, coal, and iron production reaching new highs. Pueblo, Denver, and county outputs show large payrolls, new homes, and expanding infrastructure with rail, telephone, and streetcar growth boosting the state’s economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colorado
Denver Republican
Cripple Creek
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Leadville
Pueblo
Camp Bird
Ouray
Minnequa
Rio Grande Railroad
Delta
Somerset
Denver Union Stock Yards
Gilpin County
Golden
Denver & Northwestern Railroad
Moffat
Pacific Coast
Northwestern
Colorado Telephone Company
Grand Junction
Tom Boy
Telluride
Otero
la Junta
Gunnison County
Summit County
Gold Pan Mining Company
Oro Grande Placer Company
American Gold Dredging Company
Taylor Park District
Lower Clear Creek
Park County
Mosquito Range
Aspen
Boulder County
Livingston
Creede District
Hinsdale County
Burrows Park
Lake City
Florence
Western Packing Company
Denver Stock Yards
Eagle County
Rio Blanco County
San Juan County
Gold King
Boulder
Rio Grande Consolidation Ends era for Rio Grande Western
At midnight on December 31 the Rio Grande Western ceased to exist. From January 1 the Gould property between Denver and Salt Lake, including the Rio Grande Western, will be called the Denver and Rio Grande railroad. The lines had effectively consolidated a year earlier when Rio Grande Western HQ moved to Denver, and with the year’s end the name disappears, forming the western division of the D. and R. G. system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake
Rio Grande Western Railroad
Gould
Denver
Rio Grande Western
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Squiers
State Department
Senate
Congress
United States
Cuba
Havana
Cheyenne Marriage Mill and Colorado Widows
Cheyenne is reported to have licensed 323 marriages in 1902, over 200 to Coloradans. Most brides from Colorado were widows by court decree and had to leave Colorado to marry or wait a year. Justice of the Peace Samuel Becker officiated 103 weddings. Jumping Wyoming oil claims spark clashes as locators rush to stake claims in Uintah fields. a dozen cowboys led by Colonel Ketchum push forward, exchange gunfire, and stake every section amid a vast bivouac atmosphere.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Laramie County
Colorado
Justice of the Peace
Samuel Becker
Wyoming
Salt Lake
the Tribune
Uintah
Ketchum
Colorado Briefs Spark Denver Expansion and Local Events
Colorado notes track work for a Boulder sanitarium extension and new city buildings, Denver permits rise by 500000, the Western Surgical and Gynecological Association schedules a 1903 Denver move, and local railroad work begins west of the D&NW line. Also reported are charity medals, school funding woes, labor union unification, and various civic stories across Denver and surrounding counties.
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Boulder
Denver
Western Surgical and Gynecological Association
St. Joseph
Missouri
Moffat Road
Denver & Northwestern
Orman & Crook
Charity Organization Society
Bennett
Arapahoe
Adams
Trades Assemblies
American Federation of Labor
Colorado State Federation of Labor
Huer 10
Ralph Hartzell
Canton
Ohio
Mary Barber
William McKinley
J. A. Jackson
Colorado Springs
Crossland
Liberia
Mr. Jackson
Western Enterprise
Colorado Ings Mining Exchange
Treasury
G. H. Parker
Cunningham
Minturn
Natale Molinaro
Dan Wright
Denver & Rio Grande
Molinaro
Redcliff
Herman Hertzel
Brown Palace
Orman
James B. Orman
James H. Peabody
Cecil A. Deane
Capitol Building
New Mexico
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Colorado Pioneers
William N. Byers
A. G. Rhoads
Levi Booth
Andrew D. Wilson
Harry T. Sales
Birks Cornforth
Fannie D. Hardin
Sam
Denver Markets Price Ranges for Beef Steers and Hogs
The market quotes show ranges for beef steers from 1,000 to 1,250 pounds and 1,000 to 1,100 pounds, with common grades around 3.50 to 3.75. cow and calf groups and stockers appear with varied figures, plus feeder and packer listings. Also listed are egg prices for fresh eggs and loss-on-off eggs in per dozen terms, with April storage quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. P. R. Aders
BF. P. R
Colorado
Eastern
Steel Trust Offers Workers Stock Ownership Plan
United States Steel Corporation announces a two part program enabling employees to become permanent stockholders. From 1902 earnings at least 2 million dollars will fund purchase of 25,000 shares of preferred stock for 168,000 workers, divided into six classes with salary based purchase options and free stock after five years of service.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Cable Open to Hawaii Signals Clear Across Pacific
Honolulu sent the first message over the Pacific cable to San Francisco, received at 11:03 p m with perfect signals at both ends indicating a successful early test of the new link between Hawaii and the mainland.
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San Francisco
Jan
Honolulu
Washington News and Naval and Political Moves
Formal orders name Rear Admiral Glass as commander in chief of the Pacific station succeeding Read Admiral Casey on waiting orders. Cuba sugar crop for 1908 is estimated at 45,000 bags, up 72,215 from last year. Mint reports a small drop in silver value per ounce for the three months to Jan 1 1908. Squires begins talks in Havana for a U S coaling station on the Isle of Pines, seeking one naval and three coaling stations.
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Navy Department
Glass
Pacific Station
Casey
Santiago
Cuba
State Department
Holaday
Mint
United States
Squires
Havana
Isle of Pines
Commissioner of Patents
Watson
Dewey
Manila
Germany
Congress
Chief of Ordnance
Army
Board of Ordnance and Fortification
Shiras
Supreme Court of the United States
William H. Taft
Philippines
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Rio Grande
Colorado Briefs
Oxnard
Rocky Ford
Atlantic
Pacific
Order of Foresters
Utah
J. H. Smith
Capitol
World's Fair Board
State Engineer's
Boar. of Health
A. E. Messinger
Longmont
Walter Hall
Bartlett Richards
DeForrest Richards
Hall
Messingers
Messinger
Chadron
Nebraska
Choice
The
Steel Trust
Hawaii
Washington News and
Congressional Proceedings
Merriam
Permanent Census
Geological Survey
Evans
Cooper
Wilde
Yates Stirling
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Rainbow
Cavite
Wiley
Agricultural Department
Wilson
M Grant
National Museum
Siam
Grant
Great Britain
Venezuela
Hague Tribunal For Arbitration
Bowen
Caracas
Interior Department
C. W. Garbutt
Sheridan
Hitchcock
California
Garbutt
Forestry Service
W. A. Richards
Hermann
General Land Office
Richards
John H. Fimple
Carrollton
Iena
Roosevelt
Washington
White House
John Adams
Convention of Scientists
Ellis H. Roberts
France
South Africa
Europe
Gibraltar
Senate Committee On
West Point
Businss
Committee On Military Affairs
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