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The Daily Express from Fort Collins, Colorado • 1

The Daily Express from Fort Collins, Colorado • 1

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The Daily Expressi
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Fort Collins, Colorado
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FORT COLLINS COLO FRIDAYDECFMRFr NO 383 CRYSTAL MOrSTAIX CARHONATES i Li OUR RAILROAD BOOM A Leibey Brown WELCH dealers IN -DEALER IN DRY GOODS CARPETS GROCERIES HATS CAPS BOOTS AND SHOES CROCKERY and GLASSWARE Cigars Tobaccos Pipes WHOLESALE and RETAIL JEFFERSON STREET COLLINS COLORADO FORT I I i COAL YARD Our Dry Goods Department is now full ami complete consisting of the latest novelties in- Dress Goods anil Trimmings Our Cloak Department complete bought of one of the largest manufacturers in the -United States and we at'C prepared to save our patrons the discount Having in connection a Dressmaking Department we are prepared to furnish the best ami most Stylish Suits made in town and guarantee all work to give satisfaction The undersigned has opened a coal yard at the Railroad Depot Fort Collius for the sale of the Celebrated BLACK BIAHOKD COAX arranted to be the BEST in market Gii it a trial Leave orders at the Post Office News Room ROBERT MILNE Trimmed Hats and Bonnets which we he gotten up: also a full line of a 3 We have added a stock of are selling less than any that Feathers can Our Furnishing Goods than ever Department is larger and move coinplete Bargains Bargains Bargains AT TIIE RAILROAD STORE! In Boots and Shoes we have all the novelties of and high and low cut goods both in machine and hand-made goods and guarantee the saftie Our Grocery Department is more complete than ever and are prepared to give the lowest rates on goods at all times Our motto is Goods and Full Call and examine before buying elsewhere PLEASE EXAM GOODS AM) PRICES Many goods are I)lofr- of a II it'll Ilr poult Twenty Kight Mile Writ of Urtltuil rtfr Never liefore since its first settlement has Loveland been so shaken up by excitement as on last Tuesday when Tom Johnson and Newt French drove Jheir jaded team into tow nTiind" reported the wonderful and at first much doubted story of the rich find of carbonates made by Brown Casey two hardy prospectors who have been digging for months in the side ef Crystal mountain twenty-eight miles due west of Loveland in the vicinity of Geo old mill site During the past few months many of our old and most experienced miners have visited the vicinity of the late strike and after denouncing the two overconfident prospectors with being either crazy or very foolish have retraced their steps and reported nothing there but piles of country rock and dirt Messrs Brown Casey labored on unceasingly le-i lieving that their fortunes lay hidden in their to all out ward appearances barren prospect holes and not until Mr French happened in their vicinity and examined some ore they lmd sacked did the two men ever dream that they had already encoun-' tered a carbonate deposit After a careful examination Mr French induced the two men to try a mill run which they at last consented to do and scut a wagon load of the ore to the two mills in Boulder one of the owners accompanying it Judge of his surprKowlien they were pro-" nounced carbonates and a return of $31808 handed to him Immediately upon ascertaining its true value one iof the mill owners put his (rusted man In a buggy and started him for the find to stake territory Tom Johnson being in Boulder nt the time was also watching the result with some interest and wind of the departure of the buggy lie consulted with landlord Brainard who tokl him to get the best team in Boulder and beat the party to the camp or kill the horses but 'lorn knowing the country boarded the freight and came to Loveland where procuring a team he and French struck out for the new find reaching there some hours liefore the Boulder party they having mistaken the road in the darkness of the nigiit We are informed by French and Johnson that the camp is already full of pmsjK'ctors and that the whole country is being staked ofT The prospeets were these carbonates have been found is down but fourteen feet anil our informants sav that the workmen have just come upon what promises to lie an immense deposit Eight hundred dollars has been offered Brown Casey for a one-fourth interest in their mine hut they ask $3000 This is good news for Loveland and will add inestimable value to her importance as she i'- by many miles the nearest point to the camp and will of course la its present base of supplies Many of our citizens left town immediately upon receipt of the good news and ere this have claims staked ami nre digging away for dear life We have been promised constant communication from the scone of excitement and will no doubt he able next week to give a much more authentic report This is the first paying mine ever found ithin the bounderies of Larmier county ami we hope it will prove a mammoth New Transfer Jones has started a general transfer iu Fort Collins ami would respectfully solicit orders Leave orders at Avenue groce-y Hones Tor Sale horses and mules at Bill 1 mile east from Laporte for sale cheap Chas II Tfkk A JACKSON PLASTERING And Plain and Ornamental Country olw promptly attended to Satisfaction guaranteed FORT COLLI COL JAMES NORWCLI Htl tlARk NORVELL CLARK Attorney! and Counselors-at-Law Will practice in 11 lie courts of the flute ltral Kulutc lunijtht und arid Iumuh wtoouusl Office over Reed's store Linden street BELOW COST! GRAND Christmas Broken Suits Odd Coats Pants and Vests Below Cost Overcoats Cheap CAlL AND there being sokl at the FORT COLLINS MONDAY DEC 4th 1883 Consi-ting CHEAPEST CAPS IN THE CITY And a great many other goods are found at the Railroad Store Furnishing Goods BOOTS and i ILVEHE 4 'flit freight ever the will leave Vrt Collins at 7:13 a ni 'and run to oulder arriving there at 11:20 a nt will then pa'S to Denver over the guilder Valley road arriving in Den-at 4:30 o'clock The freight will leave Denver at 9:10 a the same line and arrive in Col-s nt 6:35 As the freight trains ll also carry passengers the travcl- public will have another ndvant- great advantage to he derived the change by the inhabitants of Collins is in the new schedule as plied to the Greeley Salt Lake and I ilie A passenger train will leave fit Collins over this line at 8:45 flock a arriving in Greeley at and in Denver at 12:30 It will eonnect'with the east Imund train the Omaha short line at Laselle 10:20 Returning it will leuve Donat 2:45 connecting at Laselle the Omaha train west at 4:40 ar-mg at Greeley at 5:05 and Fort Col-i at 6:10 I lie freight train over this line will 'e Fort Collins at 9 a I arrive in Greeley at 11 a It will go as far as Laselle Rolling it will leave Greeley nt 4 lock arriving in Fort Collins The end of the freight isinnwiU he at Stout The train i leave Stout at 7 o'clock a and iKirte at 8:10 Returning it will ive at Laporte at 6:50 and Stout 8 far: 1'asscugers wishing to go to Oliey-ne or the west or points east of yenne hut west of Julesburg can I1' the morning passenger to Gree-md connect there with the train ng north Mail will he despatched the east over the Greely Salt Lake 1 St is probable that a mute win be put on that all mail jjlnvl for Fort Collins and vicinity f0iio directly from the east giv-f u' an eastern mail nearly one day than before new passenger train pulled out Denver over the on The conductor of the train is Atwood who has run on the Colo-1 Central for several months past email Frank 'Wilson formerly of Collins express agent 'I The train was made up of I roach a smoker and baggage and gross car For the present no mail will be employed but we under-r'l that the express agent will take of letters for those wishing to them and will transfer them to I east-bound passenger nt Laselle those taking passage by the this morning we noticed the persons: Messrs Carter-tou William Brown Emigh and James Burke who go Denver John Duvall of Rustle to Evans to visit his family Ki Hebrew and child of Greeley Cheap A-InTH) WELCH Opening! of the State as low as the lowest I invite the be convinced that I have a stuck of COLORADO RAILROAB STORE JEFFERSON STREET FANCY GOODS! Of all useful as well as ornamental COMROT I CO STAPLE: FANGY GROCERIES ftueensware Glassware Wooden Ware Willow Ware LJLIMIIPS JL2STD FITTINGS Cigirs Pipes WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CLOTHING BOOTS and SHOES DRESS GOODS and MILLINERYi Our prices Collins people to goods not equalled by any other in guaranteed come down and to be A I SOLOMON FOHSYTIPS SCALES (U Standard) of all descriptions consisting of Counter Platform Warehouse Stock Hay and Railway Track Scales Prices at Bed Rock Brinkerhoff Burnell and Joliet Barb Fence Wire Bob Sleds and Sleighs Dederick Hay Presses Steel Wire Bale Ties Largest Stock of Agricultural Implements in the State ef roloraitn GREELEY.

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Pages Available:
2,594
Years Available:
1882-1884