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Tut I* coneeqocoea of tb*|cron lei elate of oar column* I ail week lt;we «er« ambit to r*f«r to Uit eoiupletion t of the Monument in the I’laia,*! *»e other- I ■ »*e thoold bavodone.Tbit work wee begon Uat year under i •ootrwt bj the Moire McGee In pureaan * o« of »o act of ibt Legislature of that » y»a: authorising ih« eonitruJtiosi of » * monument anil miking an appropriation i oflfutn boadrtd dalUre for the work ' Tbi centractore faithfully proerculcd 1 tb«ir wark und«r lb* gr*ste*l d*l£:oll»«» | ind moitdidjnuragiog ctrctimdanci*, tb« * cub nlut of lb* Territorial warrant*, in lt;which they wort paid, not Lain; morlt; « than fifty crntt on the dollar. At tba i lilt icmon of tbo l.-gielature there «• i «a additional appropriation of ligbt-rn hun Ircl Juilari miJe which enabled tbt -nntrartnr* to Gnuh tho monument which will for ail lltai to come comracmamte I be ' memory of the dead in whose honor it wo* creeled, b« an oroainint to the city and a •radii 10 it* builder*.in* Idea of erecting tbt monument originated with tba late Chief Jdlticfl John I’ Slough, who wa* chiefly Imtruatanial in hating tba first appropriation inado by th l.cgielllur®. Ilo wa*, n* Colonel of iho lit Colorado Volunteer*, mainly In*-trumrntai in bolding the Tcmury agsiuet thoTaiana at the time of tbo Imaaioo. rbey had pneeeiiiao of tho Territory touib of Santa Fc, cicept Fort Craig, and were marching on Fort I nion, which waigar riioneJ by a foro* wholly Inadequate to raiiit tb*m. Col. Slough bj unprcccdent-ml inarnbe* in the mod intikmant aentoo of th? year, threw his regiment into Fort I'nlon in lime to preecnt iU destruction a* v*ii contemplated by Col. Pail, and *oee tl* immeoee eupply of atcree that '**• tbrr-, by marching with the regular* land tolunlaor* to moot the enemy andI. ,1 I. -k .. II.
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Santa Fe Weekly Gazette
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Sat, Jun 13, 1868
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