TXT | |
 | [...]^B^H[...]*"•"* H SHBi[...]33^S[...]K%MJiSySbSz '1tf^^^^p*i*^?**M-y*yi?t*i^ ^V3H4«*'3V*S _BM_ |
| jjfc' -:-'-'miA ^~: 's'jA •W^k ''J / ' *( |
| [...]* > * t 5St^ |
| [...]PUBLIC LIBRARY OF T H E |! CITY OF DENVER j[...] |
| L% COPYRIGHT, igoi, All Rights Reserved. PRESS OF T H E BLAKELY PRINTING CO. CHICAGO |
| [...]CONTENTS. C H A P T E R I. Signs, Signals and[...]Spanish Dominion in the Southwest—Guzman's |
| [...]—Placer Camp— Pioneer Americans in the Pike's Peak Country Movements of the Lawrence P a r t y and Founding —Lieutenant Pike's Exploring Expedition—His of "Monta[...]y—Advent of George A. Jackson—Other Set- Pike's Impressions of the Western Country—His tlements in the Pike's Peak Country. Soldier's Death.[...]Organized Beginnings of Denver—Pioneer "St. Long's Exploring Expedition—Its Arrival at the Mountai[...]Charles Town Association"—Operations of I t s P r o - "Grand Peak"—Return Homeward—Adverse Im- moters—Story of the "St. Charles" Record—First pressions Arising from R[...]e of "Arapahoe County" in Local An- —Bonneville's Expedition—Fremont's Celebrated nals—Town Companies "Squa[...]the Fourth— Land—Organization of t h e Auraria City Town Subsequent Military and Other[...]Company—Its "Constitution"—List of I t s Share- the Rocky Mountains—Frontier Military Po[...]rency—Genesis of the Town's Name. Development of the F u r Trade—Early T[...]e Trail—Extinction of the F u r T r a d e ^ " T h e Lost Trappers," a Remarkable Story Denver C[...]providence of the Trappers—Death of "St. Charles" Town Site—Proceedings of the Com- Esp[...]CHAPTER XVI. "St. Charles" Men—Nichols' Fate—Lot Donations[...]r Company—Incorporation of the "St. Charles" Com- —"Bill" Williams—John S. Smith—August Clay- pany—Final Proceedings of the "St. Charles" Men more—James P . Beckwourth—Avers[...]uipment of Trappers—Remarkable Gaa's Prominence and Death—"City of Highland" Recuperative Powers. —Marcy's Theory—Decimation of Timber—Disap-[...]Awful Tales of Travelers— " F i r s t " House-Building—Some of the "Early Effect of Reports of Long's Expedition—Webster's Settlers"—Pioneer Street Names—First[...]in- veys—Persistence of the Delusions—Greeley's Im- nings of "Denver City"—Its Eirst C[...]e "Dogs"— Effect in the East of "Pike's Peak Stories" in Bears—Mountain "Lion"—Elk, D[...]ion of the Russell P a r t y in Win- ing Colorado's Settlement. ter of 1857-58—Its Progress Across[...]ming of the Lawrence Party—First Ascent of Pike's Peak—Effect of These Western Move-[...] |
| [...]f the Town Com- liam McGaa—Last Echo from "St. Charles"— panies—Homicide—First Stages to[...]to the People—Delegate Elections— —Gregory's History and that of His Discovery— Convent[...]son," of Which Denver Was the Mountains—Jackson's Subsequent Career and Capital. Death—N[...]ap Provisions and ments on Cherry Creek—S. W. Beall's Mission— Other Supplies—Mining Progress—Miners' Bill-of- S. S. Curtis' Reminiscences—Second Duel—Broad- Fare—W. Green Russell'ss First Visit—A. D. Richardson Building Operati[...]lture—Women and and Henry Villard—Mr. Greeley's Adventures— Children—Pioneer Bankers—Crowded Street's— Impressions of Denver—Excitement Over Clear[...]w City Government—Outcasts, Saloons and Greeley's Speech at Gregory, and Lecture in Den- Gambling[...]icture. ver—His Theories of Mining—Richardson's Com- ments on Conditions in Denver—Greeley's Depar- ture^—Influence of His Writings in His T[...]R XXX. Methods of the People's Courts—Homicides in 1859 New Towns in Denver[...]rkey Gold Discoveries—Founding of Golden—Wall's War"—Series of Wanton Homicides in 1860[...]res—Miner Killed by Indians—Lingering ple's Courts—Not the Work of Mobs. Frontiersmen—Flo[...]pments—Attacks by Indians—Tragedy of Dead Men's Gulch—General Notes—Mining Commer[...]omment— Overland, California and Pike's Peak Express Com- Denver's First Fourth of July Celebration—Births[...] |
| [...]ssing Influences—Effect of Impending W a r Price of Labor—Development of Agriculture— —Prope[...]s—Last Appearance of Hostile In- tions—Denver's Appearance—Great Eire—City's dians Near Denver—Encouraging Conditions at Extent—Cherry Creek Flood—Henry C. Brown's Close of 1868. Land Entry—Reynolds Gang of Outlaws—Den- ver's Dreary Aspects—Windstorm of Christmas,[...]iod—Conditions in enne^—Governor Gilpin's Memorable Address— Winter of 1860-61—Divided Sentiment of the Peo- City's Improved Appearance—Revival of Mining— ple—[...]tions—First Colorado Regiment—Governor Gilpin's Drafts— Difficulties Growing Out of Isolation—Sibley's CHAPTER XLIV. Confederate[...]ndaries—Territorial Defeat—Colonel Chivington'ss Land Organizations—Their Gallant Services Throu[...]slation Threatened in C H A P T E R XLV. Congress—Continuation of "Speculative Mining," Colorado's Pioneer Captains—Additional Per- I t s Consequences and Collapse—Conditions in Cen-[...]Problem. tion of Gas Works—First Water Works System—[...]Colorado; Greeley, Longmont, C H A P T E R XL. Colorado Springs, and F o r t Collins—Denver's Sub-[...]ce of the Civil War—Attempted In- Greeley's Last Coming — Famous "Diamond dian Confederation—Denver'ss Surveys—• P a n i c in Denver—Massacre of Hs Clouded Declin- CHAPTER X[...]Close of the Territorial E r a — " H a r d " Winters— City's Purchase of Capitol Hill Ditch—Grasshop-[...]ert Creek—Effect of Bloody Indian War—Forsyth's Heroic Defense at Leadville "Boom"—Ac[...]ty—Indian Cruel- Mail Delivery—City's Extent—Outbreak of Ute ties—Western Views of[...]ast ticulars of that Tragedy. Stand of t h e Arapahoes and Cheyennes—Indian Chieftains—P[...]es—Denver Architecture— Pioneer Gas Companies—Incorporation of Electric Limi[...] |
| [...]al Metropoles in the Ear- C H A P T E R LILT. lier Times—Conceptions of Easte[...]melting—Period of Their Great ginning of Denver's Great Development. Development—Beg[...]Processes—Colorado's Output of Precious Metals— Great Speculative[...]C H A P T E R LIV. CHAPTER XLIX. Denver's Pioneer Railroads—Earlier Discussions Territ[...]the Colorado Bill in February, 1861— Denver's Disappointment—Golden's Priority in Names Proposed for the Territory—Ap[...]rapa- State Government—Some Causes of Statehood's hoe County—Effect of Railroad Connectio[...]High Rates. C H A P T E R L. C H A P T E R LV. Colorado Bill of Rights—Govern[...]& Utah Rail- Providing a Capitol—Henry C. Brown's Gift— way—Union Pacific and Kansas P[...]With Capitol Building Authorized—History of I t s Con- Disruption of Consolidation—Subsequent H[...]—Denver & Rio Grande Railroad—History of I t s[...]r With the Santa Fe Road, Re- C H A P T E R LI. organization, and S[...]y and Its Succes- atory—Penitentiary—Colorado's Vast Domain— sor—Denver, Texas & F o[...]thern andTts Con- CHAPTER LII. p S 7 J ] stituent Former Companies—Col[...]ts in Our Pioneer Times— sions—Denver's Railway Facilities—Character- Multiplicity of E[...]za- istics of Colorado Mountain Roads—Denver's Rail- tion Under Colorado Territory—Transition[...]ment—City's First Legal Government and I t s |
| [...]CHAPTER LXIII. ver's Mayors—Eire Department—Police Depart- ment—[...]ise, and Improvements—Vital Statistics—Denver's Subur- Present Magnitude—Denominational Schools—St. ban Towns. Mary's Academy—Loretto Academy—College of[...]High School Library—Mercantile Library— E i r s t Typographical Union—Pioneer Conditions—[...]ublications—Denver Tribune—Later History of t h e Rocky Mountain News—History of[...]—First Masonic Or- Our Bench and Bar—Denver's Eirst Lawyer— ganization—Peak Lo[...]orial Courts—Denver C H A P T E R LXY. Bar in 1861—Complexities of Colo[...]the Successful Denver Law- Their F i r s t Organization in Denver—Pioneer yer—Strength[...]Colorado Federation of Women's Clubs—Club I n -[...]Eirst Church Organization— Denver's Water Supply—Pioneer "Franchises" E i r s t Sunday School—Town Companies' Lot Dona-[...]Disastrous Competi- zations in Denver—Young Men's Christian Asso- tion—Bankruptcy of Ol[...]Huge Reservoir in the Mountains—Out- Denver's Pioneer Schools—O. J. Goldrick, the lines of One of the World'ss t Organization of School Districts—First Pub-[...]ounty tutions—Clark, Gruber & Company's Mint and its School Organization—Period of Indifference— Coinage—Parson's Coins—Scrip Issues—History First Building Own[...]of Various Banking Organizations—Erlanger's School for Colored Children—First Building[...]CHAPTER LXVIII. Officers—"East Denver" H i g h School—Manual Denver's First Telegraph Line—History of I t s Training School—History of District No.[...] |
| [...]the System— graceful Episode in City's History—Denver on Street Railways—Pioneer Den[...]—Evils of Political Iniquities. Company and I t s Successors—Denver City Cable Railway Company—[...]ent—Its Services in the Board of Trade—Denver's F u t u r e as a Commer- Philippines—Regimen[...]ment's Mortalities—Colorado Cavalry Organiza-[...]ount Cemetery—Mt. Olivet Denver's Prominent Buildings—Dates and Cir- Cemetery—Fort Logan and I t s Origin—Military cumstances of Their Erect[...]t—Prominent Denver C H A P T E R LXXV. Clubs. Denver's Bright Prospects—Old-Time Views of Its Destiny—Orton's Prediction—The City's His- CHAPTER LXXI.[...]-94—Withered Bank ous Elevations—City's Altitude—Inspiration to Assets—Government by Folly—Waite's Adminis- Municipal Ideals—Needed Municipal Improve- tration and I t s Evils—Special Session of Legis- ments—Denver Architecture and Denver Homes— lature—Waite's "War on the City Hall"—Dis- Cli[...] |
| [...]day after flood of May, '64. . . 371 Academy, St. Mary's 762 Cherry Creek[...]465 Cheesman, Walter S., portrait of 797[...]court house, present 547 Women's[...]Presbyterian, at Seven- Auraria T o w n Company's share certificate 271 teenth and Sher[...]ongregational, at Fifteenth and Cur- Barker, A. H., portrait of 228 ti[...]730 Battle at Beecher's Island 422 Church, old[...]eet M. E 721 Bennet, H i r a m P., portrait of 497 Ch[...]720 Bent's Fort 151 Church, pioneer First Presbyterian, Fifteenth St. . 723 Bird Chief, portrait of 72 Church, St. John's, in the Wilderness 725 Blake, Charles H., portrait of 231 Church, Trin[...]of 161 Clark, Gruber & Co.'s bank and mint 810 Br[...]showing old cable Clark, Gruber & Co.'s "gold note" 811 "b[...]...589 Clark, Gruber & Co.'s Five Dollar "Pike's Peak Brown, Abner R., portrait of[...]814 Brown, H e n r y C , portrait of 957 Clark, Gruber & Co.'s Ten Dollar "Pike's Peak Brown, James H., portrait of 709 Gold[...]811 Brown, J. S. & Bro.'s, pioneer business house 871 Clark, Gruber & Co.'s T w o and one-half gold coin, Brown, the J. S., & Bro. Mercantile Company's of 1861[...]875 Clark, Gruber & Co.'s Five Dollar gold coin, 1 8 6 1 . . 817 Brown Pa[...]955 Clark, Gruber & Co.'s T e n Dollar gold coin, 1 8 6 1 . . 818 Buckski[...]of 75 Clark, Gruber & Co.'s Twenty Dollar gold coin, ' 6 1 . 819 Buffalo, h[...]—"Gibraltar House," Mancos valley. 57 Butler, H u g h , portrait of 691 Cliff Dwelle[...]Tree House," Mancos val- "Cabin, Jacob Adriance's pioneer 718 ley[...]53 Qtbin, A. H . Barker's pioneer 228 Cobb, Charles D., p[...]893 iCabin, Judson H . Dudley's pioneer 227 Cobb, F r a n k M.,[...].893 /Cabin, Hutchins' and Easter's pioneer 226 Coe, Earl B., portrai[...]669 Cabin, William McGaa's pioneer 225 Colfax Avenue, view on, in 1889, upon completion Cabin, Nichol's unfinished pioneer 220 of ca[...]ding of 758 Cabin, Sagendorf's and Lehow's pioneer 227 College of the Sacred H e a r t 762 Cabin, E. P . Stout's pioneer 230 Continental Oil Co.'s tank station and storage yard. 816 Cabin, a pion[...]on Market street 968 Cook, C. A., & Co.'s bank, interior of 816 Cable[...]of 940 Coronado's march, ideal sketch of[...]ortrait of 157 Curtis, S. S., portrait of 388 Cathedral, St. John's 726 Dailey, John[...]of 659' Cathedral. St. Mary's _. 727 Dam at[...] |
| [...]f 200 Decker, Westbrooke S., portrait of 695 Dino[...]617 Denver City Town Company's share certificate.... 273 Doherty, H[...]468 Denver Fire Clay Company's manufactory 884 Downing, M[...]f 408 Denver Fire Clay Company's store 892 Dry creek,[...]of 192 Denver Fire Clay Company's store, interior o f . . . . 894 Dudley, Charles R., portrait of 767 Denver Gas & Electric Company's office building. . 895 Dudley, Judson H., portrait of 208 Denver H[...]d for, at Dwelling, old-time, of H. Burton 965 Denver[...]970 Dwelling, old-time, of David H. Moffat 964 Denver, view, morning[...]rry creek flood. .. 373 Elbert, Samuel H., portrait of 681 Denver,[...]58 Electric station, east side, Denver Gas & Electric Denver, view in, in 1864[...]Electric station, west side, Denver Gas & Electric streets, about 1865[...]771 Electric Tram-car, Short's 856 Denver, view in, f[...]Fifteenth street, view on in 1887, showing Short's Denver, view in, south from Eighteenth and Grant[...]teenth and First National Bank's place of business in 1865. .. . 820 Grant Avenu[...]780 Ford. Gen. James H., portrait of 387 Denver, v[...]hwest from roof of court Fort St. Vrain 15[...]790 Four-log improvement, St. Charles town-site 202 Denver, view of[...]iew of, from dome of Canitol 844 Gas works, old. at Eighteenth and Wewatta streets, De[...]rom dome of C a n i t o l . . . . 845 Denver Gas & Electric Company 455 Den[...]tward in, from roof of Equitable Gas works. Twentieth street district, Denver Gas building, in 1901[...]thward in, from roof of Equitable Gas works, at Seventh and Wewatta streets, Den- bui[...]934 ver Gas & Electric Company 475[...]977 Denver Wire & Iron Works Company's factory... 888 |
| [...]of 736 Long, Stephen H., portrait of 142 Goode, Rev. William H., portrait of 717 Loveland, W. A. H., portrait of 601 "Gra[...]., portrait of 885 Greeley's mishap 277[...]trait of 245 Gruber, E. H., portrait of 817[...]of 573 Manitou & Pike's Peak Railway, view on 628 Gul[...]287 Manitou & Pike's Peak R'y, summit of Pike's Peak. 630 Gumry Hotel, the[...]age 38 Hitchings, Rev. Hs . . . . 44 Holladay stage office 364 Map—Franquelin's, of North America, 1684 105 Hor[...]34 Map—La Hontan's, showing waterways to Rocky Hospital, St. Anthony's 775 Mountains[...]107 Hospital, St. Joseph's 774 Map—Moll's, of North America, 1710 112 Hospital, St. Luke's 774 Map—La Potherie's, of New France, 1722 108 Hosp[...]776 Map—DeLisle's, of part of Mississippi valley, 1722. 91 Hover, W[...]t of 887 Map—DeLisle's, of Louisiana, 1740 116 Hover, W . A., & Co.'s building 894 Map—DeLisle's, showing Quivira, and "Sea of the Hughes, Bela M[...]689 Map—showing Escalante's route 102 Hunt, A. C[...]5 399 Map—showing Pike's route in Colorado 136 Ignac[...]Map—indicating territorial growth of the U. S. . . . 127 Jackson's discovery, locality of 266[...]•.•••.••• 5 2 2 James, William H., portrait of 841 Map-[...]188 Kehler, Rev. J. H., portrait of 719 Map of St. Charles town-site, 1858[...]nt 773 Map of Denver's boundaries, 1864 449 La[...]778 Larimer, W . H . H., portrait of 221 Medici[...]n 1865 416 Moffat, David H , portrait of 833 La[...]n, in later "Sixties" 430 Morey, C. S., portrait of 88[...]n 1875 462 Morey, the C. S., Mercantile Company's building. . 889 Larimer street, view on, prior to[...]347 National Park, "Billy" Wise's 457 Larimer street, s[...]ortrait of 891 Logan, S. M., portrait of[...] |
| [...]469 Stewart, John S., portrait of 947[...]trait of 315 "Pike'sSt. Charles Town Company's share certificate 204 Planters[...]359 Stratton, W. S., portrait of 5[...]-foot, Denver Con- Post Office, at stage company's, in 1860 334 solidated T[...]167 Street railway—Fifteenth street "loop" s t a t i o n . . . . 870 Prairie schooner at anc[...]864 Proclamation, "Governor" Steele's last 321 Street car, interio[...]865 Reddin, John H., portrait of 711[...]tion, south Broadway.. 863 Richardson's, A. D., house, I860 336 Street car—rolling stock of Cherrelyn St. railway. 869 Richardson's, A. D., sketch of himself 282 St. Vrain, Ceran, portrait of[...]ew in 901 Tabor, H . A. W., portrait of[...]main station, Colo- Rocky Mountain News, New Year's (1901) issue.. 673 rado Telephon[...]851 Rocky Mountain Paper Company's paper mill 883 Telephone excha[...]r of operating room, Rocky Mountain Paper Company's paper mill, in- Denver main[...]distance operating room, Rocky Mountain Paper Co.'s sulphite fiber m i l l . . . . 886 Denver M[...]210 Thomas, Charles S., portrait of 505[...]667 Russell, William H., portrait of 354 Tit[...]753 University of Denver—Conservatory of M u s i c . . . 759 School building, "North D[...]northward from Arap- Waite, Davis H., portrait of 9[...]952 "Waite's W a r on the City Hall"—assemblage of peo- Seve[...]1 967 "Waite's W a r on the City Hall"—State artillery on Shee[...]in, in 1901 976 "Waite's W a r on the City Hall"—State infantry Sioux na[...]treets, northwest corner of, "Waite's W a r on the City Hall"—infantry and ar- in l[...]874 Smelter, old Boston & Colorado, at Black H a w k . . 550 Western Chemical Company, p[...]763 Stage office, Leavenworth & Pike's Peak, in 1859.. 251 Wolfe Hall, present[...]ortrait of 733 Wooton's building, 1859[...] |
| [...]Institution, Peet's "Cliff Dwellers and Pueblos," Chapin's "Land of the Cliff Dwellers," and, with[...]ment, Catlin's "Indians of N o r t h America," Schoolcraft's "Memoirs" and his "Indian Tribes," Eastman's "Sioux," Dorman's "Primitive Supersti- tions," and Brownell's "Indian Races of America."[...]pend upon Winsor's "Narrative and Critical His-[...]Lummis' "Spanish Pioneers," Bandelier's "Gilded Man" (El Dorado), Ladd's "Story of New Mexico," Greenhow's "History of Oregon and California," Sanland's "Missions of California," Prince's "His- torical Sketches of New Mexico," Inman's "Old Santa F e Trail," and Dumont's "Memoires Histo-[...]( X l X t h Congress), Waite's "American State Pa- pers," Stoddard's "History of Louisiana," Guy- This volume, the contents of which historically arre's "History of Louisiana," Barbe-Marbois' "round out[...]several recent years by my friend, N o r t h America," Winsor's 'two works above men- Hon. E a r l B. Coe; and at whose instance its tioned, Herman's "Louisiana Purchase," and the preparation was und[...]Missouri Historical Society's Tracts. The geological and palaeontological hi[...]ined in Chapters I and I I is based upon Le Conte's from the purchase of Louisiana to the founding of "Elements of Geology," Lyall's "Principles of Denver in 1858, the sources of information were, Geology," Winchell's "Sketches of Creation," aside from some of the works already named and Dana's "Manual of Geology," Hutchinson's "Ex- some traditions and reminiscences orally trans- tinct Monsters," Marsh's "Jurassic and Cretaceous mitted, Pike's "Account of an Exploring Expedi- Reptiles and Bir[...]ican Journal of Science), Reports [Long's] to the Rocky Mountains" (etc.), Farn- by Prof. Cope of the University of Pennsylvania, ham's "Travels in the Great Western Prairies," Reports of the University of Wyoming, Wright's Reports of Fremont's Exploring Expeditions, Fre- "Ice Age in North America," Hayden's "United mont's "Memoirs," Peters' "Life of Christopher States Ge[...]rson," United States Reports of Surveys for a ell's "Exploration of Colorado River," Reports of Pacific Railroad, Parkman's "Discovery of the the Smithsonian Institution, and reports of United Great West," Marcy's "Army Life on the Border," States aljd other geological surveys. What is said Barber's "History of the Western States," Inman's concerning ancient man and pre-historic races, "Old Santa Fe Trail," Bancroft's "History of the chiefly in Chapters I I I and IV, mainly rests upon United States," Bancroft's (H. H.) "History of Lyall's "Antiquity of Man," Foster's "Pre-Historic Colorado" and his "History of Wyoming," Hay- Races," Baldwin's "Ancient America," Short's den's "Great West," the Missouri Historical So- "North Americans of Antiquity," Blacket's "Lost ciety's Tracts, and various reports and documents Histories of America," Bancroft's "Native Races," issued by the War a[...] |
| [...]Marshall, of Briartown, and incidents in Denver's pioneer era, I found help Ind. Ter.; Mrs. Nina Jackson Atkins, of Bonham, in Greeley's "An Overland Journey," Richardson's Tex.; Dr. R. J. Pierce, of George's Creek, Ark.; "Beyond the Mississippi," Hollister's "Mines of Mr. Elam French, of Brandon, Vt.; Mr. John Colorado," McClure's "Three Thousand Miles in Easter, of G[...]George W. Weidler, the Rocky Mountains," Eosset's "Colorado," Hall's of Portland, Ore.; Mr. William Denver McGaa, of "History of Colorado," and Bancroft's (LI. H.) Pennington county, S. D . ; and Mr. George R. "History of Colorado."[...]Brown, Indian Trader at Rosebud Agency, S. D. I n dealing with the history of Denver's founding I desire to make special acknowle[...], as- original records, or "minute" books, of the St. sistance and co-operation of Mr. Will[...]rian of the Denver Public Library; Judge Society's keeping, afforded much of great histori- H[...]Shat- been utterly beyond recovery. For the city's sub- tuck, Secretary of the University o[...]the later files of ing, to the late Judson H. Dudley. the News, the files of the former Denver[...]ome part of its history. Like the State, of K a n s a s ; Mr. George W. Martin, Secretary others, Denve[...]these would have required Historical Society, at St. Louis: Mr. J a y A. Bar- an additional lon[...]re the "Dr. Graves case," as it is eral of Denver's conspicuous pioneers residing else- commonly[...]f Cheyenne; Mr. E. P . ciated with Denver's history, the shocking tragedy Stout, of Cincinnati; Col. S. S. Curtis, of Omaha; of November, 1900, in which the negro, Preston Mr. W. H . H. Larimer, of Kansas City; the late[...] |
| [...]al subject. Therefore, and be- doubt t h a t some of our surviving pioneers will en- cause[...]this volume more than one statement in large city's history, I decided to exclude that sub- c[...]sas Territory with respect to our county's early his- they were made were obtained in p a r[...]ty, Black Hawk, Central City, the city's history has never lagged, were followed. and seve[...]nor details, and in such in- views in Denver at t h a t time, are from sketches stances "th[...]was ac- by Albert E. Matthews, published in 1866. H e was cepted as more probably r[...] |
| [...]HR OH^APTErr-r— OUTLINES OF GEOLOGICAL HISTORY—BEG[...]e m i n e n c e s of appeared; and when the dreary loneliness of the |
| [...]n the beginning of animate ways of peace. Nature's tremendous forces were life. While this[...]qualifications necessary. We quote from Fiske's thrust upward, giving vent to the imprisoned fie[...]ly shoved up above water level, with all By v s/uch ways, and means as these, in the flood tr[...]ea bottom at one time, where, then, was the earth's strata. H e r e in this region of the west, an[...] |
| [...]regarded as having been in the dawn of the earth's like character, but of far smaller dimens[...], Region of Colorado ranges.) or was, the earth's primitive crust-film research has been made in va[...]ut together. The period west of Denver's longitude. The accompanying of time they r[...] |
| [...]th fins enlarged to rudi- Mesozoic Epoch. The sun's rays had early begun mentary wings or[...]vision, of more ages, and the e a r t h presented fairer aspects. I n definite individual[...]vadas, and the short, narrow strip, lying n o r t h ent by millions in the sedimentary rocks every-[...]rising further out of the t i d e ; and the sun's heat multitudes of lowly beings brought into exis[...]was still more effective on the surfaces. But t h e through its eras, began their exit from the sta[...]The continent was still slowly rising, and t h e The Devonian was the prolific age of[...] |
| [...]ries trooped by while all of this manent land. T h a t great area which was later to was goin[...]e and bituminous became the summit of Pike's Peak. coal in Colorado are nothing but swamp muck[...]till greater marvels, now dawned upon the e a r t h ; only was there never another period in the world's that long span of ages distinguished[...] |
| [...]flourished and culminated his career. H e was the pany with the ancient Laurentian Hills[...]ecome a connecting type, and I t is believed t h a t these mountain-lifting proc- was now t[...]r begin- had been so long associated. H e frequented the nings far back in the earlier ag[...]was now in a most agreeable abode. H e had escaped- from the first period of the long[...]t. and an ugly object. I t is well t h a t we do not have New and strange forms h[...] |
| [...]in freight cars if he were here to try it. H e sub- the preceding eras, that they did not exis[...]hippopotamus. and dry areas of the earth's leveler surfaces, had With this pleasa[...]her in the water or upon the land. pounds. H a d he stepped on an animal the size With his leg[...], though prob- to hip joint sixteen feet. H e was exclusively herbiv- ably not a frien[...] |
| [...]form in the summer of 1899. creature, and more t h a n sixty head of large horses The oth[...]e Of the living creature, Mr. W. H . Reed of the Geo- of this beast's neck were broken, and bear the[...]say that the animal now being brought larger one's death. How many meals the victim[...]in length. H i s ribs are about nine feet in length, it is quite c[...]tween his front weighs forty thousand pounds! I t s remains were and hind legs,[...] |
| [...]ant the belief that that organ and bat. H e had not reached the dignity of a bird weighed t[...]scape. H i s wings were like those of a bat, and sil re[...] |
| [...]retired the other advanced, so, t h a t as this period region, and all that rested up[...]body of nearly west, and N o r t h America was still divided into two fresh water, s[...]y gigantic size compared with t h a t of their present thick off-shore rocky masses[...]w pass from our narrative, and with them we all t h a t constitutes the grand scenery of our[...] |
| [...]l feature of this Epoch was its agreeable, and t h a t led to his extinction; but he extraordinar[...]ir size, abnormally long and powerful world's history. jaws or bills, in which a great[...] |
| [...]quently found in ancient river-drift, showing t h a t the bone-forms of these ancient creatures. Th[...]a later time sheets—the great leaves of Nature's record book. they lie where they fell, a[...]nt ero- the Arctic ocean, dividing N o r t h America into two sion by the elements has thus br[...]ng the tribu- hills and the plains from Pike's Peak northward taries of the Green river, there a[...]the upheaval of the Alleghany ranges, its J u r a s - cutting and polishing the material. The[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER II. O U T L I N E S OF GEOLOGICAL H I S T O R Y , C O N T I N U E D — T E R T I A R Y[...]CONDITIONS— |
| [...]than brack- end of Hudson's Bay. The Big Trees of Cali- ish, and the climate[...]be a the same in its principal physical aspects. H e stranger in a strange land[...], these developments, and confirmations of Nature's wide expanse of land, lake and stream,[...] |
| [...]keys, but lemurs, which are held to have been t h e quent revolutions of life-systems.[...]was probably are found here along t h e eastern slope of the Rocky n.^t completed until[...]Mountains and in other parts of Colorado. I n t h e tiary times. The presence of fragments of Ter-[...]River, P r o - tiary rocks on the summit of Long's Peak seems fessor Cope found eighty[...]es of to testify that the front range of Colorado's moun- vertebrates, two-thirds of[...] |
| [...]arts were also prolific. I n the Gulf States H e had two huge ugly strong horns on his snout a m[...]twelve inches in diameter, are so Elephant's, short legs, and a brain no larger than numerous in the soil that planters have used them a Dog's. His career was brief and he early be- for making[...]rers. Among the earlier of the Ter- there's front legs, and which were the ancestral tiary ma[...]und the remains of the Elephant, of a Mas- tains. H e was herbivorous, twelve feet high at the[...] |
| [...]nd with them those of reptile birds; t h a t is, they were dominated in Moles, Squirrels,[...]different species of mammals of the closing H e r e there were Eagles, Hawks, Woodpeckers and T[...]eathered friends. Hyena, Wolf, Tiger, and P a n t h e r ; and of the There were also birds of wh[...]zontal contraction of the earth's crust aided by[...]f the continent was practically finished in all t h e of the Mesozoic period—that they popul[...] |
| [...]35 cene depression of t h a t section probably checked w[...] |
| [...]This great moving mantle of ice strewed all t h e When its front had retired to the northern lat[...]banks and bars by the torrents flowing from t h e We shall not attempt to enter upon any detailed glacier's melting front, when its recession set in. consid[...]b- over the region hundreds of miles from t h e i r lems with which they have to deal; and they[...]e country rock on which it rested is found pol- t h e circumstances of the situation. They know ished, planed, plowed and scratched, the m a r k i n g s t h a t an Arctic terrestrial upheaval of from one[...]two thousand feet occurred, and that cier's movement. Modern glaciers leave, on a this would[...]of ice. This renders it expedient to consider t h e acceptable to those especially qualified to jud[...]eriods, in what m a y be further said about it. A s was subsequent subsidence of the Arctic area, and stated, in preceding stages the continent and i t s that in the interval between elevation and sub-[...]t they were before m a n began his work upon t h e m ; to cause what followed. Another is that the[...]s they now exist; mammalian life was in a t r a n s i - vanced by Croll, has received much consideration, tion s t a g e ; and over all man was about to assume an[...]n. Wright also regards B u t the e a r t h was not yet to be at rest. A f t e r it worthy of[...]butes the phenomenon to "the development t h r o u g h which the world had come combined influences of t[...]from chaos to seeming completeness; after it h a d noxes and secular changes in the eccentricity[...]become a place of grandeur and beauty, the earth's orbit;" and therefore provides for a ther[...]At the culmination of the Glacial period, t h e twenty-one thousand years, just as it has occur[...]in Europe as well as in N o r t h America. T h e[...]. they did to the eastward of the mountains. S a l t The details of this theory involve astronomical Lake, however, was nine hundred feet higher t h a n problems to which extended reference h[...] |
| [...]ts beginnings in the far-off limitations by t h e standard of years. There was Silurian ages, sin[...]death. So slowly has this river's work been done that The Mammals of the Quaternary Epoch were a man's life-span of three score years and ten, ve[...]r Epochs, which sealed up the skeletons mile. I t s progress through the lower granites was, in the[...]ll fall unobstmcted to the surface of the i t s ; in bogs and marshes where the creatures sky-li[...]the atmosphere; and frozen in cliffs and soils t h a t stone. Farther up the stream the chasms in t[...]Their remains have been thus found in all t h e which the elements have wrought on their exten[...]rd. Africa. N o r t h America was their prolific home These[...] |
| [...]but generally speaking it belongs the museum at St. Petersburg. I n March, 1899, to our o[...]eneral orders survive in the modified forms bers. H e enjoyed life on these western plains and[...]n geological history of the earth. I t s termination the next succeeding chapter. H e was a monster, marked the beginning o[...]orms as we have his tusks, twenty-five feet long. H e was an Ele- them now. phant, with but t[...]the preceding Epoch. Like the Croll's theory of the cause of the Glacial phenome- bison[...]milar relics ferent from that of Croll's original theory which have been discovered in man[...]tly ing intensity provided for by Croll's original plentiful animal of the plains. The larg[...]d to deal with them and tell us the t r u t h whenever twenty inches around the base. Ho[...] |
| [...]ngs. world. But we are told that this was not so. H e Man must be set off not only against t[...]"So in the history of the e a r t h : from our point taken to fix the locality of his[...]are questions t h a t open to the imagination a field Of the leng[...]e of changes still in progress, evidence of man's presence on this hemisphere. we are naturally led[...]y great in comparison with that recorded H e may have been here before this icy period; he i[...]the prodigious alter- no certain knowledge of man's time on the earth. nations going forward[...]combat with hostile neighbors of his kind. H e has been diligently searched for but never foun[...]y structural and animal point of view, H e and his fate are shut in behind a wall of man i[...]arkness and forever buried there. Through an dom. H e has no department of his own, but be-[...]ngs to the class Mam- the story of man's existence on this great conti- malia, alon[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER III. P R E - H I S T O R I C M A N — S T R A N G E R A C E OF M O U N D - B U I L D E R S — E X T E N T OF THEIR EMPIRE—COLO[...]THWESTERN BORDERLAND—CHARACTER OF T H E I R M O N U M E N T S AND R E L I C S Of the vast antiquity of t[...]ng before us the primitive race of man |
| [...]o the his scholarly work, "The Ice Age in N o r t h Amer- Rocky Mountains on the west; and from[...]the southeast, and occupied the western end of H e left little material for his historian. His[...]t may have inter- and with the city of St. Louis as its focus, would vened—and who can te[...]familiar appellation "Mound City," applied to St. ple who flocked in and occupied the land. Whethe[...]formidable than the wild control. Above St. Louis on the east side of the animals of the reg[...]at mound of Cahokia, which may be taken know is t h a t an apparently intelligent race of peo- as[...]estion a race of tire- be offered—so vague that s-ilence might seem less worker[...] |
| [...]V*?s .-; F.V-: J - ,'/..,->,-n-•, •• **[...] |
| [...]pened to be in the ley, hints at knowledge of Eve's unfortunate trans- region he claimed,[...] |
| [...]ple with whom we associate them. But this dence t h a t the Indians probably followed long th[...]nent habitations, but no evi- ing to show t h a t the Mound Builders were either dence of it is[...]ey lived in community ern times preserve t h e slightest traditional knowl- houses like those[...]des where winter cold is between them and t h e Indians of the Mississippi extreme would lead s[...]is edifices. no sense probable t h a t a people of direct or indi- A remote antiq[...]ight snuffed it had become as we know it now. I t s wild orig- out, leaving not a vestige of w[...]evements, so far as the Indian of historic times. H e knew it only in known, is one of the pro[...]he obtained it. The cial period left n o t h i n g of the sort, but he should earthworks raise[...]vanced in knowledge, and measuring them by t h e i r good reason why their builders should have[...]lusive evidence, and mainly because it is about t h e formed since the works were built, and that gre[...]country ? Or was there a long interval of tion. T h a t they feared grave danger from the years between t h e going of the one and the com- east is sh[...] |
| [...]AREA AND C O N D I T I O N OF T H E REGION THEY OCCUPIED— M A G N I T U D E A N D E X T E N T OF R U I N S — V A R I E T Y AND CHARACTER OF HANDIWORK—PROBABLE G R E A T A N T I Q U I T Y — T H E O R I E S OF O R I G I N AND F A T E . Turning to the[...]the open represent the work of another, |
| 4S HISTORY[...]as beautiful as any in the world. more t h a n five hundred rooms. The Mancos valley or cano[...]mesa harmonizes with our conceptions of what t h e[...]through long ages, exhausted by the weary s t r u g -[...]le, its strife-worn aspects leave in the beholder's[...]s but fifty years ago that this region of r u i n s[...]tenant J . H . Simpson of the United States a r m y ,[...]ruins in t h a t country. I n 1859 a United S t a t e s[...]Verde and in t h e canons of the Mancos. Some of the wreckage of t h e district was carefully observed, eral canons br[...]sketched, and noted, but as the party's visit was the northern opening of this gorge it s[...]hree miles; intermediately the Dr. J . S. Newberry, containing only passing allu- gorge na[...]the ruins which, therefore, did not become less t h a n a half-mile. Through this gulf the River[...]winds its way down to the the canons. H e discovered the structure known River San Juan.[...]at- as the "Brownstone Front." The United S t a t e s eral canons all have streams flowing through t h e m ; surveys under Hayden in 1874-76, gave th[...]counts of these antiquities commensurate w i t h east to southwest, ten or twelve miles in width b[...]Since then the public has been advised of t h e i r and seamed by these gorges, is a plateau ri[...]on the subject, of consider- so named by Dr. J . S. Newberry, of the Macomb able volume. I n one of his reports Mr. H o l m e s exploring party of 1S59; and at that time grass said: was gro[...]" I n a number of ways the valley of the Rio S a n sides. A large portion of it lies within what[...]he canons' walls are the cliff dwellings, t h a t no foreign hand has influenced the a r t of t h i s proper, many of great size, that bear testimony t[...]but dilapidated structures are astounding. S o m e were much larger than those in the c[...] |
| [...]78, he gave the dimensions of two. I t s surroundings show that originally it was a One is[...]hundred feet long, the arch rising in fied; and t h e ruins indicate that the building orig- the c[...]effect is indescribably fine when ble. I t s standing walls in many places are still se[...] |
| [...]These ancient people were not tall, but r a t h e r evidence of their great antiquity in the care[...]a distinguish- near their abandoned habitations. H a d they, it is ing mark reser[...] |
| [...]ce and tireless industry. that appear to defy man's invasion of their sum- That they were[...]plands, identical in struc- the eaves of a farmer's storehouse. tural cha[...] |
| [...]few years ago, a strand or small skein of soft, t h e wind keeping eddies of sand grinding them out.[...]hey knew or practiced the principle of the potter's stage of dilapidation, are found in the hous[...]duced in that section In our Historical Society's collection of pottery of the country[...] |
| [...]little Everything connected with these people's relics shelled corn have been found, indica[...]This suggests t h a t obtain fire by friction. There are stone-tipp[...]their fastness h o m e s skins; bone awls and shuttles; and wooden needles[...]aborious t h e i r dwellings may whetting appear.[...] |
| [...]rse willow matting. The number of observed of man's handiwork, resembling each other so hum[...]soil, but these places of sepulture Assuming t h a t climatic conditions there were hav[...] |
| [...]57 redeemer, and dim recollections of Coronado's events appear to have taken place, and[...]w many pueblos, and which, concede |
| [...]ious fetiches, which was assisted by lieved t h a t the Moquis had the Cliff Dwellers for a great[...]Indians, if they are In- vivors of the foe's final onslaught, and that these, dians, in the so[...]etely wrecked they built their homes, t h a t process was one cov- by time, we might[...] |
| [...]1898 by the Federation of the Women's Clubs of age and are cut in, not painted, as is s[...]umbers and physical achievements as the Mound sor's "Narrative and Critical History of America"[...]found in the hundreds of the other people's mounds I t is wiser, perhaps, to wait an[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER V. T H E I N D I A N OF H I S T O R I C T I M E S — T H E O R I E S OF O R I G I N — F A M I L I E S AND T R I B E S — F O R M E R TERRI- The copper-colored man, the ancestor of ou[...]ns, but none |
| [...]folks, the New England extermination of Israel's those of an isolated clan in Spain, there was not[...]i- Theoretical association with the white man's re- ties of these Indians that requires us to ass[...]ign origin. They were certainly white man's practical plans and purposes. These free from eve[...]e United States into two distinct types. H e was practically destitute of art, and his me-[...]visit the father in the Indian Territory. By man's lineage could be considered of much im-[...] |
| [...]families, separated along linguistic rather t h a n[...]cupied a region t h a t may be outlined in a general[...]New England up to the St. Lawrence river and its following the turtle's wife, with a crooked line[...] |
| [...]dian speech is to a great degree, a jargon t h a t head" family, in the northwestern part of the[...]its hints and learn a word of the other's speech, but habitually suggestions of consanguini[...]t convenient and probably the stitution's Bureau of Ethnology, in a paper on far more certa[...]"Indian Linguistic Families of America, N o r t h to regard it as conclusive would lead to error.[...]nce, which does not con- evolution of the red men's languages. As the tain words si[...] |
| [...]ed and incorporated in our language. B u t T h a t which practically all of the eastern tribes[...]rally exact. I n the form of a t i c influence, t h a t is both confusing and contradic- ru[...] |
| [...]r ings-lots-of-horses. Spotted-skunk. S t anding-buff alo. Kills-in-lodge.[...]Bear-paw. troubles in this region in Denver's early history. Knock - a - hole - in - the[...]Shot-close. Eagle-bird. Red Cloud's partisans demonstrated their alle- Blu[...]r. Black-horse. against the agent's conduct, which was forwarded Cut-through[...]Red-owl. Wolf-ear. Cloud's direction, and the name-pictographs were[...] |
| [...]resents, and the several are of interest in t h a t Shot. Fighting-cus[...] |
| [...]in whether within historic times, Colorado's ratable life. Red Cloud is said to have re[...] |
| [...]e bearer encountered trouble was the Indian's inability to define and ob- other white men with whom he desired to estab- serve boundaries. H e was accustomed to going lish some social standi[...]le advance; and the progress white men, t h a t they were menaced; they adopted attain[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER VI. I N D I A N T R I B E S OF T H E W E S T E R N R E G I O N — C H A R A C T E R AND H A B I T S OF T H E ARAPAHOES—INDIAN When the city of Denver was founded its[...]favorite camping grounds, and in the city's early |
| [...]They cative, and at last familiar. H e studies one of my have not readily adapted them[...]Over in the me on personal m a t t e r s : " mountains at a point about fifty miles west,[...]grazing on the adjacent prairie. As one's wealth author appears to have esteemed highly. We[...]"Lie shrugs his shoulders—a pantomimic cipher. H e had a fine, manly form and a human, trusty I produce Colt's new patent which he examines face. To spen[...] |
| [...]n. The people slept Little Raven in Greeley's and Richardson's cabin. on buffalo and other skins on which the[...]The imperfect curing of these hides made "Left H a n d " was another noted Arapahoe chief- t[...]r the fire was made out- much under the white men's influence, and his side at the front[...]self. These with his horses were the master's evi- unhappy circumstances. One day in the summer[...]sical labor except responsibility for it except t h a t which rested on that which was necessar[...]anything like drudgery—all that was squaw's As a tribe the Arapahoes did not rank a[...] |
| [...]believed to have little, pointed to the white man's practice of leav- been an independent people[...]constituted an independent family. of the Indian's .body had become inured to cold. I n ear[...]of the Arkansas when not menaced or driven ing t h e ways of civilization, their intellectual[...]they were of the lat- was t h a t which involved the destruction of General[...]had not Custer and his command on the Little Big H o r n[...] |
| [...]the most prominent of the from an unknown warrior's features. Roman Nose was a big, sul- source. They[...]an- neighbors. They were on terms of amity with t h e sas by the Sioux who long cherished a g[...] |
| [...]keenperceptions. H e bloody chapters in the history of Colorado, but[...]s which in t h e whites, and his t u r n were reduced in area or[...]were for peace. H e dispossessed Utes were transferred to the large[...]in direct opposition to everything he had vided t h a t reservation for the Southern Utes, the end[...]tes," now number every man who knew him. H e was born in 18?>9 about three thousand persons.[...]rac- tribe of Southern Utes. He became Ouray's suc- tices and customs. They have not taken kindl[...]y and money have been expended pounds. H e agreed with Ouray that whatever upon them. Pers[...]tly in agriculture and make it far worse. H e has been steadfast for stock-raising. The gover[...]and civilizing the people who rose munity. H e was born in 1844, is still living, and a[...] |
| [...]c T H E HISTORY[...]This was the last conflict wifn~Tntlfers~rn t h e Stftte- years a great drunkard, who resisted a[...]p at the to improve the condition of his people. H e de- mouth of the White river in Utah[...]and his own people agreed with the opinions man's civilization and would have none of i t ; and[...]of the Moache Southern ambushed Major Thornburg's command, and in six Utes, would rank a[...]at officer and a large propor- chief without t h e tion of his men. This was one of the tragedies[...]ite River Utes, in which Agent A p a c h e a n d his Meeker and his unfortunate men were m[...]85. of personal acquaintances. H e and some of his Another Ute chief, on[...] |
| [...]tending from central Texas west to the Colo- man's fashion.[...]che country all these people that the government's annuity southwest to the Rio Grande. They, with t[...]ing the old mode of his chieftains being taken to St. Augustine, life all of them loved so well.[...]and confined in the old fort, "San Marco," T h e Comanches[...]Fort Sill in the Indian Territory, and was re- S h o s h o n e tribes.[...] |
| [...]s when they were subject to attack. I n work, are h i g h l y prized throughout the southwest, the primi[...]n ago J. W. Powell of the Smithsonian Institution's the dreary solitudes of northeaste[...] |
| [...]sions that almost force him to the conclusion t h a t in remote desolate localities, and who presen[...]and glory established itself on this side west, t h a t the intelligent traveler—for it take[...] |
| [...]L A T I O N — M E D I C A L SORCERIES AND C O N S E Q U E N C E S — I N D I A N S E L F - E S - TEEM—GENERAL CHARACTE[...]C O M M U N I C A T I O N — R E L I G I O U S B E L I E F S AND R I T E S — S U P E R S T I T I O N S , TRADITIONS AND LE- GENDS.[...], and depended largely upon It was a swift doom t h a t came upon him here, as[...]by sorcery, medicine, or people. I t is certain t h a t after the advent of the[...]larger stock of self-esteem than the Indian. H e[...] |
| [...]pathetic prophecies of the fate the white man's and practically inexhaustible so far as savage de[...]scalps of enemies were trophies of almost price- drawn lines was, in the great majority of cases,[...]tically destitute of all fear of it, in itself. H e was aggressiveness to the highest pitch. The ho[...]r con- met it unflinchingly when it came. H e avoided flicts much more destructive.[...] |
| [...]ile. When they reached his to go on the war-path. H e would fix the day for halting place, he told th[...]ey ance, or to offer a sacrifice upon his return. H e might find an abundance of game, that de[...] |
| [...]ISTORY OF DENVER. enemies and kill t h e m ; and that they might be whereupon bot[...]season to devote regard it for the occasion. H e would then make |
| [...]ling by smoke was another practice. Mak- of Long's expedition to the Rocky Mountains in in[...]traced on the painted skull indi- the enemy's camp. cated the number of the party to have bee[...]rmation to distant asso- and an aptitude for h u n t i n g ; the chief attributes ciates. |
| [...]g to say terprise in hand. to their daughter's lord. The reasons for this They belie[...]were much feared and their departure out of t h e dian mother. The birth of a child to those hardy, sick person's body was a cause for thanksgiving. storm-beaten a[...]but patient by howling over him. A squad of t h e m it was swaddled in a mass of ridiculous super[...]heads, and liever in the present—in the to-day. H e regarded armed with such effective bows a[...]claimed to have seen these in some later period. H e had little conception of dangerous little folks come out to the foot-hills. the soul's survival in a purely spiritual form; his[...] |
| [...]85 that Pike's Peak was the favorite meeting place no so[...]unusually shaped or colored stone, an animal's |
| [...]t they first ac- wrapped in the dead person's blanket with a sup- quired fire through the effor[...]speed-trial with white men's horses. ture. Sometimes they would hide th[...] |
| [...]with many taken in his estimate of the white man's abilities of our practical politicians, to[...]that of his family trace of the white man's influence, is found in the or clan, of his tribe,[...]great Dakota na- report of Lewis and Clark's exploring expedition tion. Totems had no connecti[...]or any people family and all the animals. H e floated thus for[...] |
| [...]a landing place for their the white people's heads were under his feet; t h a t big canoe on a mountain eminence near Palmer[...]the women were under the white people's feet." so much trouble that they got angry, and[...]Indian came in contact with the white man's whis-[...]I t s work was as effective at one stage as at the othe[...]ition of the Dead. that matter. I t s career among t h e red men afford-[...]I t is, fur- improbable that the white man's influence had thermore, the only instance[...] |
| [...]VIII. SPANISH DOMINION IN THE S O U T H W E S T — G U Z M A N ' S A T T E M P T E D E X P L O R A T I O N OF N E W[...]— R E M A R K A B L E A D V E N T U R E S OF CABEZA D E VACA—DE NIZA'S ADVANCE TO THE PUEBLO |
| [...]ith the expectation of reaching Spanish I n t h e meantime those on land had been flounder-[...]ors, and their fame spread in advance of their t h a t their vessels had either wilfully deserted th[...]seas. voked God's blessing upon them and after doing so De Narv[...]e accom- sels equipped with sails made of the men's clothing, panied by three or four thousa[...]tle—presumably buffalo—possessed by them. H e Narvaez's expedition, and was cast upon an island,[...] |
| [...]in constant conversation; cause of De Vaca's long wanderings and his ref- he informed himself[...]we them. We questioned them, site of Bent's Fort, where he turned southwest- and received the[...]To my judgment the flesh is finer and fat- earth. H i m we worshiped, and had for our mas- te[...]ountry. The Indians make t e r ; that we did what H e commanded, and from blankets of the hide[...]DeLisle's Map, 1722, locating " Q u i v i r a " near the la[...]536. From aroused in Mexico by De Vaca's accounts, and that Mexico at his first opportunity he returned to Spain the object of Guzman's brief foray in 1530 had not where he wrote his "N[...]ng was done toward further stories led to De Soto's second and most disas- exploration[...] |
| [...]ting land, Estevanico ords of the expedition's marches, and from his as- started on ahead of the[...]oronado, before his departure, excited by De Vaca's accounts, and the exagger- organized a se[...]ions for it to follow within the pueblos of Zuni. H e had sent back tidings a month and join[...]hall hereafter know them. ous tales of Estevanico's gross licentiousness, and To this day[...] |
| [...]d all his company come and spend nearer the river's source, and in which he lost his the appro[...]resistance. Indeed, rado, according to Castenado's account: he was received every[...]strict in which was a group of While Coronado's lieutenants were ranging eight large[...]as defenses." Coronado's March—Ideal Sketch[...] |
| [...]Coronado and his little company reached El Turco's others a vast, populous region containing many[...]nd in than the country of that tribe. Coronado's his- preparations for it.[...]lorations, or had under- and if Castenada's account of the long distance taken to do so. Upon[...]urco may Omaha. Jaramillo, one of Coronado's officers, have done and been, he shed luster on h[...]h experience, and says of rascal, and the t r u t h was not in him. H e told them: Coronado that he was a native of[...]e ever known to have been listen to him. El Turco's story was the kind of built by them by the[...]er he gives this account of the While El Turco's stories were not very definite,[...]De Soto discovered in Florida, takes its r i s e ; it the banks of the Rio Grande and started af[...]rd passes through a province called Arache. Turco's jack-'o-lantern. Routes are not given in It[...]this long wild-goose chase, though he did not de- St. Peter and St. Paul. These are supposed to sert his du[...]eturn to New Spain; while Coronado Marco's accounts of the Seven Cities of Cibola, |
| [...]ins, and sandy heaths so more be seen again by t h e southwestern people,[...]g, for want of stones and vaders and to dread t h e future consequences of[...]orts to escape from the hunters, and so DeLisle's Hap, 1752, showing the great i l Sea of the West.[...]The Spanish accounts of Coronado's expedition, the way at the Indian town which l[...]appear in such an indefinite and confused way t h a t sulted in his death before the year (1542)[...]ch now The following quotation from Coronado's his- unkno[...] |
| [...]o have Others say that some of Coronado's men after- been a name sometimes given to a vast,[...]Greenhow, in his "History have held that Coronado's route took him so far of Oregon and Cali[...]while nothing Utah country. These quote Jaramillo's descrip- positive can be said of its wh[...]is tion of the Quivira habitations, and Castenada's little or no reason for doubting that Coronado's statement that Quivira was "in the midst of the[...]Colorado, which the confused Coronado's sorry experience with the region, that Spa[...] |
| [...]OF SPANISH SETTLEMENTS I N T H E SOUTHWEST—Moscosos EX[...]EXPLORATIONS—SPAN- ISH S E T T L E M E N T S O N A N D N E A R T H E A R K A N S A S — E S C A L A N T E ' S C O L O R A D O EXPLORATIONS— L A S T S P A N I S H M I L I T A R Y E X P E D I T I O N N O R T H E A S T FROM N E W M E X I C O . We have been so lo[...]they made rapid progress after |
| [...]of the equipment of Dismayed by the prospect t h a t lay before him one of Moscoso's men, or of one of Coronado's. to the west, Moscoso decided in the a u t u m n[...]or the presence ward he discovered the well-known H o t Springs of there of those relics, obl[...]that they had scarcely anything with which to H i s chronicler says: cover their nakedness, according to De Vaca's[...]veral companions to re-visit the F r o m the H o t Springs Moscoso proceeded di- Quivira c[...]blo country seeking to establish dating La Salle's discovery of that river's entrance missions, most of them losing their[...]t year two others of the devoted Franciscan is t h a t he expected to discover much gold and sil-[...]es are not retained, in company ver ; another, t h a t he expected to reach the Spanish with one Ch[...]y, also soon he heard reports from the Indians t h a t far in the after met their death. Chamusc[...]egion without imperiling themselves. concluded t h a t these strangers must be Spaniards I n[...]ese friars, to see what could be done of Coronado's operations in the pueblo country toward[...]to find and join his countrymen, though he H e proceeded to Zuni and from there to the Moqui g[...]ueblos, which he estimated to a few weeks' march. H e did not know who they have had a pop[...]ch he was, of course, vastly mis- is not likely t h a t after so long an absence from taken. H e then made his way to Santa Fe, where communicat[...]edge of that ex- the Pecos valley. plorer's recent presence on the plains. I t would In the years immediately following Espejo's en- seem probable, however, that the route[...] |
| [...]ule in the of the concluding incidents of Borilla's ill-starred new country; and he was also a seeker for the undertaking. precious metals. H e established several settle- I n 1601 Onat[...]g his instructions, knowledge he gained of Humano's fate. started toward the Missouri river to see ab[...]n up this way along the the direction of Coronado's Quivira; or rather, El eastern base of the mountains, which is said to Turco's Quivira. The Spanish Governor of Viz- have[...] |
| [...]hed the quarter grew out of La Salle's operations, the par- Platte river near Denver, th[...]in another chapter. came to the vicinity of Pike's Peak, and that lofty I n 1719 Valverde, a[...]war upon the Comanche and Ute of the Holy F a i t h of St. Francis—is probably the Indians who had be[...]do was twenty-three years before the founding of St. up here in this region. I n carryi[...] |
| [...]01 his very circumstantial narrative of each day's a certainly known date. From Nieves t[...]calante stated, were evidences of Rivera's pioneer |
| [...]able character of the undertaking. Escalante's. ica. This was probably the north branch of the[...]s are very circumstantial—much more so Gunnison's north fork. Following this stream than[...]Map showing Escalante's Route. men who visited that remarkable body of wa[...]tude, which is the perated by rumors of Burr's conspiracy, and re- south line of our Stat[...] |
| [...]of the Comanche heard through their emissaries at St. Louis of country. No American invaders were encoun- Lieutenant Pike's proposed expedition into the tered, b[...]nd his disabled horses, he crossed the river Pike's or any other American force approaching[...]Pike'sH e did not visit and other Indian tribes, and make[...]owing to the dis- friendship and alliance with t h e m : and, under posi- content of many[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER X. PIONEER F R E N C H INCURSIONS TOWARD T H E DENVER REGION—UNCERTAINT[...]BOUNDARIES— |
| [...]pedition into the country to the northwest. H e Indians, and from Spanish sources by way of Mex[...]nd short-lived in that part of the country. H e gave glowing efforts came to naught. I t is not[...]as gone, are not definitely stated, the " P a n i s " (Pawnees) and their kindred in the but this[...]Valverde's expedition northeastward from New[...]es. But the Spaniards marched Franquelin's Map of North America, 1684 from San[...] |
| [...]barbarians saved because of his dress; at times. H e served in Louisiana and accompanied t[...]river and attacked two villages of the Octoyas H e dissimulated and thanked the Spaniard fo[...] |
| [...]ascended the Mis- LaHontan's Map, 1706, showing great waterways east and west[...]Mississippi and thence to New Orleans. |
| [...]ch excursion from New Orleans in this direction. H i s report probably convinced Bienville that there w[...]he buffalo for many LaPotherie's Map of Xew France,1722. years. The French bel[...]arer in large, connected lakes in British N o r t h America, possession of it than the French ever[...]ally located it in the latitude of North Spain's northern boundary here in eastern Col- Dakota, al[...]me for more than two hundred years after Coronado's of the brave. long and fruitless march in[...]of The first Commandant, or Governor, at St. Louis, their old maps of the west down to[...] |
| [...]hose years of theoretical Spanish ever about it. H e wTas Captain St. Ange of the rule over this land Avhere Denver stands, it did not French army, who went to St. Louis in 1765, soon make the slightest differenc[...]ing buffalo and each other. of the old Province. St. Ange was succeeded on While Ave are o[...]ed to his porary command of General William Henry H a r r i - old position. Cruzat Avas a sensible ma[...]z, another Spanish officer Avho and Commandant at St. Louis. On October 1, made a good record, succeed[...]gh Span- arrangement which ended General Harrison's con- iard and a good executive. Trudeau held the[...]ere was no progress. What the conse- floated over St. Louis, and theoretically over the quences[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XI. T H E P R O V I N C E O F L O U I S I A N A — D E SOTO'S E X P E D I T I O N W E S T OF T H E M I S S I S S I P P I — L A S A L L E ' S R E - |
| [...]Ill Leaving St. Ignace, on the Strait of Mackinac, aut[...]ng. Marquette pro- One of La Salle's chroniclers says he proclaimed |
| [...]fully maintained by F r a n c e that the Province St. Louis, or St. Bernard Bay—an indentation of[...]La Salle's enterprise was beset by many difii-[...]ence. I t Avas not until 1699 t h a t the next organiza- tion of his force set out[...]ch—peaceful and fairly honest col- tain relief. H e was a harsh, arbitrary man, and on[...]Biloxi Bay, at Bay St. Louis—the second one of |
| [...]he IICAV Province of Louisiana. Law's company occurred, and the Louisiana col- These[...]nd until published, in 1837, in the ap- the River St. Louis heretofore called the Missis- pendix to Gales & Seaton's Reports of Debates, sippi, from the edge of the s[...]ogether Avith lic men in the time of Jefferson's administration, the RiATer St. Phillips heretofore called the Mis- souri, and the River St. Jerome heretofore called as to the exact[...]district on the east side of the river. This New St. Louis. Our pleasure is that all of the aforesaid[...]from the Mississippi a feAV miles above Crozat's management brought no improvement, New[...]in 1763, Avhich formally unhalloAved memory. LaAv's charter made him an ended the Av[...] |
| [...]to all the land he could find; with Pike's Peak ornamenting Virginia territory. the next to[...]ause of some random least, in N o r t h American real estate, gave little attempts to occ[...]on Easter Sunday in 1512. Its sissippi river. I t s northerly boundary was about western bou[...]Spain claimed "West Florida" on two grounds: St. Claire river, Lake St. Claire and the Detroit one, that it wa[...]ce of Louisiana which she had to the Mississippi. H a d Massachusetts held on, acquired f[...]settlement Spain ceded to England "all N o r t h Carolina assumed that by virtue of her that Spain possesses on the continent of N o r t h charter from King Charles I I , in 1663, her doma[...]under La Salle's broad claim, that lay east of the South Caroli[...]r it on a west corner, along under North Carolina's district, line drawn eastward from[...] |
| [...]south line of the State of Tennessee. N o r t h Caro- De Galvaez, Spanish Governor of Louisiana,[...]6. South on behalf of the K i n g of Spain. I n 17S1, he went Carolina had given up her lane t[...]Spain gave it up. By the treaty of St. Ildef onso, By the peace treaty of that year[...]England from F r a n c e in 1763, from the river's re- domain she had secretly transferred to S[...]sland of New Orleans," elsewhere. Those of St. Genevieve and New Bour- the two Floridas, with t[...]parallel as the bon on the Mississippi beloAv St. Louis had been northern boundary of West Florida[...]pioneer settlements in what is now the the river's windings. State of Missouri. St. Louis' site was decided on But Spain now clai[...], and that that was the north then F i r s t Consul of the French Republic, antici- boundary[...]the thirty-first parallel, and this left land's possession, sold it to the United States for the[...]fifteen millions of dollars. of the Yazoo's mouth, to be wrangled over by the T[...]ys slow, by President Thomas Jefferson. H e was most vigor- freaty of October 27, 17[...] |
| [...]by DeLisle's Map of "Louisiana," about 1740. son's chief object in making the purchase was to[...]of the Revolution, Avas the vast domain e i s t of the |
| [...]the France had acquired by the treaty of St. Ildefonso, district she claimed. HoAvever, they had ceded that the American envoys at P a r i s thought the their interests in the region to the[...]the tAAro Floridas, with boundaries as the Span- S t a t e s : Ohio, 1802-03; Indiana, 1816; Illinois, is[...]ng to the territory of the two nations, Virginia's connection with the Kentucky region b[...]ritory down there had been made of North Carolina's claims upon east of the Miss[...] |
| [...]ion delivered by that Court, Chief Justice J o h n war with England was showing itself above the[...]s of sovereign power over the ter- the Union. I t s limits definitely comprised all of ritory in[...]end of it adjacent to NeAV Orleans, which t h a t this construction is to be denied. A question[...]again, buying, selling, cap- and the remnant of t h a t Territory of Orleans with turing, g[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XII. O U T L I N E S O F N E G O T I A T I O N S FOR L O U I S I A N A — O P P O S I T I O N TO T H E PURCHASE—TRANSFER OF THE At the outset Presiden[...]and his coun- Floridas at a price not exceeding two million dol- |
| [...]at such times, cording to Livingston's account: said to Livingstone and Monroe: "He told me he would answer my note, but t h a t "We should not hesitate to make a sacrifice[...]t are the eastern bounds of Although the F i r s t Consul's preliminary "asking Louisiana?" asked Livingston. " I do not know," price" was one hundred million francs, as he earlier[...]." "But what did you mean to take ?" an even less price than was eventually agreed upon. asked L[...]construe that just prior to the arrival of James Monroe in it our own Avay?" suggested Livings[...]make the most of out any reservation. I know the price of what it," I abandon, and have s[...]this affair Avith the Envoys clause in the St, Ildefonso treaty subjecting the of the United St[...]to treaties she had made with "other rival of Mr. Monroe; have an interview this \ r ery day with the Envo[...]any point. From this view of the matter, Spain's the Treasury, haAre been lent to companies and to[...]t Florida" would seem to have agriculturists. The price of all these things is been clouded.[...]s [francs] and for Treaty concluded at St. Ildefonso, the 9th Vende- less than that sum I will not t r e a t ; I Avould rather miaire, An:9 (1st Oct., 1800) between the First make a desperate at[...]Spain and other States; * * * * France, and James Monroe, Avho Avas appointed by The First Con[...]in the same France, and by Mr. Livingston and Mr. Monroe on manner, as they have been[...] |
| [...]cutive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence The price paid for Louisiana is usually, but er- whi[...]acting French spoliations in 1797-98. Napoleon's first proposition wTas that the United Sta[...] |
| [...]upon our citizens who should migrate thither. H e generally opposed the incorporation of Louisian[...]h milk and honey) that this Eden of the clared t h a t the accession of so large a territory in[...]transaction Avith the gloomiest forebodings. H e I n a speech opposing the treaty, Representa[...]y ever feel the rays of the principles on which t h a t compact was formed." general gover[...]gradually begin to view us as lican government t hs history: jority of t[...]specting the detail of the negotiations? H a s any Senator Tracy, of Connecticut, thus expres[...]after ratification of the the treaty's ratification, a bill was enacted author- t[...] |
| [...]Commissioners the order of the King of Spain, St. Ildefonso, of October 1, 1800, though three[...]l Gov- The existence of the Spanish King's old order and ernment to suspend 'the ratificatio[...]eech, filled Avith patriotic fervor, in the Spain's contentions, he said that "France and Spain[...]difficulties in their own way themselves," and t h a t he had, four days before, "This cess[...]as with an armed force, take structions f o r - t h e transfer, which reached there possession of[...]tablish a new republic in the southwest. Burr's ar- the French and Spanish officials at NeAV Orle[...], the Province of Louisiana." On Tues- St. Louis and upper Louisiana formally passed day, D[...], of the United States army, and dated "St. Louis de Illinois, 9th March, 1804," and Governo[...]ted States army, who also acted as com- France's second period of actual authority over[...] |
| [...]of the main area), on the French side are now in St. Louis. In one 1889; and Wyoming, (about[...]slavery in the first year of our second noAV in St. Louis, and in possession of this Society Ava[...]romise" prohibited slavery in NeAV Orleans. W i t h six thousand Tennessee and any of the Lo[...]General Pakenham Avas killed and State's southern boundary line. Under this ar- his army h[...]uri. 1820; Ar- and sorroAv, the cause of all t h a t untold misery to kansas, 1836; IoAva,[...] |
| [...]made to get there. The commission of Virginia's plished for a long time after. I n all the geogra[...]ific ocean. This view into the St. Lawrence they felt confident that of its limits[...]many preparations were France's original title to "Louisiana" Avas founded. |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. on La Salle's exploration of the Mississippi, his an e[...]y disseminated by the Missouri Historical tion t h a t for the K i n g of France he took posses-[...]"It is with some diffidence t h a t I shall undertake northwestern boundaries we[...]One result of Colonel Broadhead's services and acquired and held under La Salle's discovery and researches is that the I[...]Avrong, for so many years. Unless Napoleon's sug- States." This last reference has already be[...]practically unknown country. in the northwest t h a t had attached to it from La Mr. Jefferson's foremost purpose was to get full Salle's time, without any attempt or pretense of[...]ations with Great Britain OA'er the interna- leon's attention to the great obscurity of the bound-[...]established her false be good policy to put it t h e r e ; " an opinion char- theories, and they[...]nearly a hundred acteristic of the great Corsican's methods. years. Barbe-Marbois,[...]"New Albion" as occu- onel James O. Broadhead, of St. Louis. A few pying a large[...] |
| [...]ana, a conclusion altogether ganized at St. Louis in 1804, to explore the new erroneous, for[...]they built other boats and proceeded to the river's sions. I t is true that Spanish explorers went[...]Pacific coast, but routes, reaching St. Louis September 23,1806, after there Avere never[...]extended their voy- river near its mouth. H e dispatched two expedi- ages as far north as fif[...]alleged later occupation of the region. She 1792. H e named it after his vessel whose keel was[...] |
| [...]he Pacific coast north of latitude forty- tween t h e United States and the remaining Span- t[...]Indies Avould be in- and insisted that the region's northern limit was sufficient ! What use[...]le our popu- ferred to the United States by Spain's treaty of lation to go there. I th[...] |
| [...]nation's wheat yield of 530,000,000 bushels in 1897, the[...]re than seven times the size of Hermann's statement in detail. Italy, and twice that of Egy[...]s also larger than out of Mr. Jefferson's purchase of the Province of Great Britain,[...] |
| [...]XIII. PIONEER AMERICANS IN THE PIKE'S PEAK COUNTRY—LIEUTENANT PIKE'S EXPLORING EXPEDI- Previous to the dawn of the Nineteenth Ce[...]he United States government |
| [...]he name of James little or nothing. H e was a man of strong natural Pursley, the first[...]hem from of the Spanish government. H e was once nearly the habitable world, nor the je[...]ablishments in the these provinces. H e still retained his gun, which New World. Pursley was from near Baird's Town he had with him during his w[...]t, not all I n 1802, with two companions, he left St. Louis and the province could take him. H e was forbidden traveled west on the head of the[...]ut was assured he should have a pass- they made a h u n t ; from thence they struck for the p[...]the Indians refused We have copied Pike's account of Pursley at to give them u p ; Pursley[...]the circumstances that brought Pursley here town. H e pursued him, and with his knife ripped at that time, and partly to show the venturesome open the horse's boAvels. The Indian returned to the village, got[...]place where they had buried their departure from St. Louis and his arrival at Santa land to St. Louis; but some persons stole their . ,Baptiste[...]hey overset their canoe and lost their whole year's then remote region. H e had another white man |
| [...]f the Columbia river and back, in 1804-05- ployer's venture, and remained in the New Mexican 0[...]i river going and returning, and was tion of Pike's western expedition he thought his at no t[...]e goods he had sold. Montgomery Pike, in 1806. H e had been along the Of this Pike says :[...]erious aspect. In 1806 troops of the tAvo to Pike's narrative, "informed me that he had made go[...]eans, and war was expected to occur between but t h a t at some future period he would secure[...]e prominent causes of the According to Pursley's statement to Pike that trouble. I t was i[...]base of the mountains far beyond mun, citizens of St. Louis, Avith twenty other men the site of Denver. in their party, made an expedition from St. Louis The United States expected to ma[...]Red river by one of Several years before Long's expedition other the Spanish commands th[...]e latter to t u r n back. on between merchants of St. Louis and the inhab- Because of these[...]sequence of the desire to avoid imperilling Pike's the larger part of what is now Colorado, t[...] |
| [...]133 undertaking before Pike left St. Louis. Of this After the conspiracy[...]many of the American people associated Pike's |
| [...]refore it will be territory and N o r t h Mexico," Pike recorded in his necessary you shoul[...]rs of his party when it started on the " I n t h e course of your tour you are to remark particula[...]uld advise you, when circum- Doctor John H . Robinson, stances permit, to protract and lay d[...]separate book the march of a day at every evening's andt William E. Meek; halt."[...]'ing the eclipses John Brown, of Jupiter's satellites, having previously regulated tJacob[...]ot now furnish you, to ascertain the t J o h n Mountjoy, longitude. I t is an object of much i[...]e to ascertain the direction, extent, t J o h n Sparks, and navigation of the Arkansaw and Red[...]d and at Nachitoches on or about the 1st of July 1807;. equipped to take the courses and d[...]river, accompanied by a party Pike left St. Louis on July 11, 1806, and went of the m[...] |
| [...]coun- of a small tributary of the Arkansas—the St. try. The incidents of his journey there and his[...]fication or log breast- and will be passed over. H e met with no resist- work which he says was "fiv[...]pon the river." adventures of great importance. H e describes This was undoubtedly the first struct[...]5, he recorded: the southern bank of the stream. H e was on terri- "Marched early with expectat[...]of ad- with cedars and pitch pines." vices from St. Louis, the Spanish authorities had a detachment[...]great peak, they were ing upon them in every day's march, the com- at the base of Cheyenne mountain[...]y being but a few days ahead of and that mountain's base was about thirty-five him. But the Spaniards[...]ains of the west, still on the Peak." Of this day's experience Pike says: south side of the river, no[...]that small cloud. I n his "Account" he says of t h i s : that lofty elevation was still some di[...] |
| [...]AVestern l'art of Pike's Map. (Dotted line indicates his wandering in th[...]s, Avhich the summit of this chain. H e r e Ave found SUOAV |
| [...]races of the Spanish force Avhich was a whole day's march to arm^e at its base, where, looking[...]ith the discovery of the under dates of December 1st and 3d, respectively: sources of the Red riv[...]aw. The difficulty of procuring food it Avas. H e crossed it on December 13th and went rendered these birds so bold as to light on our men's arms, and eat out of their hands."[...]iver. 3d of December and measured the "Grand Peak's" altitude. Of this he says:[...] |
| [...]angre De able to bear than any man's in the p a r t y ; when Christo range where the S[...]ression escape which was indicative of discon- H e descended to the valley and proceeded along[...]rewards of our government and on J a n u a r y 31st, most of the men in bad condi- the gratitu[...]tired with assurances of perseverance in their h u n g e r ; for, while the place was alive[...] |
| [...]oop of one hundred supposed the Rio Grande to be. H e describes it Spanish cavalry made its[...]art against small arms, to where i t ' i s sometimes navigable, is eight days' three or four[...]ation in putting the traders to conduct u s . ' " hundred Spanish horse at defiance until the[...]in entering their territory, and was conscious t h a t force."[...]through Mexico—with assurances all the time t h a t semi-prisoner at Santa Fe. On this same day[...]ave them to perish far from the civilized Avorld. Oh! little did they know my heart Th[...] |
| [...]f to Pike while he was in it, fore and after Pike's time on their visits to the and he gave[...]ieroglyphics," of which Pike m a t t e r s ; nor does he seem to have regarded P u r s - speaks, were to be seen cut in the trees. But as ley's story afterw r ard told him as of any great sig- Pike, after reaching t h a San Luis valley, went for nificance or consequence. H e mentions it more some distance between the mountains and the sand as an incident of his journey t h a n as a discovery dunes on his march southward,[...]public comment. ing p a r t y understood t h a t Pike crossed by what For its time Pike's expedition was a great under- is now known as the[...]and called for intrepidity and endurance. Pike's report on the physical character of the W[...]vides the chain of mountains, pro- father's company. H e was afterward, at the age ceeds down the prairi[...]view General Wilkinson, with headquarters at St. Louis. combined the sublime and beautiful. The g[...]"Pike's Peak." When Fremont came to the moun- ions :[...]ins he found the frontier people calling it "Pike's " I n the western traverse of Louisiana the fo[...]saAV, and adier General, March 12, 1813. H e was with Gen- their various branches, it appear[...](noAv Toronto,) Upper Canada, in that year; and H e then recounts most intelligently the val[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XIV. L O N G ' S E X P L O R I N G E X P E D I T I O N — I T S ARRIVAL AT T H E M O U N T A I N S — P A S S I N G T H E S I T E OF D E N V E R After the[...]geologists, pieced out started across the plains. H e proceeded to the |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. to Long's Peak, but noAv Dr. James and several of[...]a point on the Fontaine- Stephen H. Long. (Photographed in 1862.) qui-Bouille, tw[...]the broad belt between the thirty-ninth the peak's height eleATen thousand, five hundred and and[...]i to the camp, search was made for traces of Pike's visit Rockies, appeared on the maps and i[...]e their way to the believed that Major Long's scientific expedition, end of their long a[...] |
| [...]which, after the traders came to the son's Bay Company, and to encourage American country,[...]it to do, for the whole region in later y e a r s ; and that of Lieutenant Graham, of had previ[...]de of this and that afflicted it for many years. H e died in Wash- another of Fremont's undertakings, had, as had ington in September, 1[...]s that should have been avoided. for exploration's sake, though its commander was Each of[...]iberal ap- lieved the western country possessed. H e crossed propriation could make it. This[...]ne three years, Fremont departed from St. Louis, going up the he and his party were suppo[...]extin- Missouri river by boat, to Choteau's Landing, near guished by the Indians, and his na[...]d nortlrwestAvard to the gether. From Bonneville's account of his expedi- Platte, which he[...]a large party of hunters about the 1st of July. which went to F o r t Gibson, then a re[...]built in 1834 by William Sublette After Long's, the United States government and Rob[...]exploring expeditions to the Rocky Fort St. John. With the remainder of his com- Mountains[...]emont proceeded up the South Platte, made by J o h n C. Fremont entered this Avestern coming within sight of Long's Peak on July 8th, country. Fremont's brilliant career covers many when he wa[...]. At this time he was a mountains' base. H e continued up the South Lieutenant of Engineers in the United States Platte to St. Vrain's trading post, which was as army, having b[...] |
| [...]f serious trouble with the Indians, and St. Vrain and started up the South Platte, observ- a[...]e company; but there was no ing Pike's Peak, covered with new-fallen snow, on trouble.[...]g of the 10th. When they came to the On Fremont's operations in the Laramie region mouth[...]nited States flag. This mountain he named Fremont's P e a k ; and considering that the government pai[...]erpetuate such achievements." Old Senator J o h n W. Ncsmith, one of Oregon's first pair of United States Senators, in speaking of Fremont's "discovery" of the South Pass to some friends in[...]through the Pass at the time of the "Pathfinder's" first visit Avas a roadway as plain and Avell-d[...]rson. Fremont returned by Avay of the N o r t h Platte to the P l a t t e , down Avhich he went to the Missouri, and thence to St. Louis, and on to Washington, AAdiere he made his[...]blo he returned northward along der was issued at St. Louis, recalling him; but his the Fontaine and f[...]s river valley and that of the Republican down to St. Yrain. Leaving St. Yrain he pro- fork, and thence almost directly west to Fort St. ceeded northward to the N o r t h Platte, thence Vrain, along the Avell-Avorn trail[...]ins, on to Salt Lake and from panies, arriving at St. Yrain on July 4, 1843. there to the Col[...]Colorado, who as Fremont for some traces of Pike's expedition but saAV noth- states, "intendi[...] |
| [...]lt through the Rocky proceeded eastward, reaching St. Louis in the au- Mountains, an undertaking[...]edition, Pres- mont crossed the plains to Bent's Fort on the Ar- ident Tyler advanced him to the r[...]ns, to be eleven thousand, time the people of St. Louis were intensely inter- two hundred feet. H e also measured the height of ested in the probability of a railroad being built Pike's Peak, making its altitude fourteen thousand,[...]epted altitude of fourteen account. Fremont's services as leader were en- thousand, one hundred[...]do mountains on this expedition butions from St. Louis merchants and business were the few remain[...]g with their This fated expedition left St. Louis about the Mexican or Indian "wives" and mo[...]which they proudly called "forts." mont's previous enterprises, and- which brought it I n this undertaking, and in those which he after- to Bent's Fort on the 17th of November. Fremont ward set on[...]oss- Indians then at Fort William—"Bent's Fort." But ing achievement of Fremont's well-found expedi- Fremont determined to[...]passage a carrying supplies and equipage. H e moved up little to the south of Fremont's route, the circum- the Arkansas river into th[...]that river [the Rio Grande] issues from the St. and most of them were of the same class a[...] |
| [...]ndered aimlessly of those of the Nation. H e died in Washington around whenever they could[...]Avere badly frozen, pack ani- Fremont's route after crossing the divide has mals died, a[...]Monte Yista, in which this obscurity of Fremont's bargo creek, an affluent of the Rio Grande a feAV[...]arch 1,1899, brought certainly known that Fremont's "Camp Starva- the following interest[...]arest Mexican settlement " P O S S I B L Y F R E M O N T ' S CAMP." for assistance, and started down the valle[...]een days and Times:—The statement of H . W. Green, quarter- not hearing from them, Fremo[...]h for them. Six March 1, that Fremont's route, or camping place days later he came up wit[...]ed party such for several days after their leader's arrival there, as Fremont's. I n the mouth of Coal creek we hungry, frost-bit[...]nd J O H N BUCKLEY." the trail was littered with the wreck[...]t expedition across the mountains, indi- Ceran St. Yrain, the frontier trader, was then cate[...]other party, though river, and bore away Fremont's famous letter to the wagon relics might[...]y, which is some dis- told the story of the party's frightful experience tance to the west of W[...]e became identified with political Simpson's expedition. I n the years 1846-47-48, at a[...] |
| [...]the Kansas river, proceeding Avestward to Bent's command of Colonel Sanborn was sent to their[...]Buffalo Hunt by Fremont's Party. (Fremont's Memoirs.) a great extent, upon other tribes. Col[...]ts junction Avith the Grand, and thence |
| [...]the plains travel American F u r Company's old Fort Laramie, far and enterprises, as the cit[...]of little importance to any one in the Pike's Peak frontiersmen went ahead on their own[...] |
| [...]ER XV. D E V E L O P M E N T O F T H E F U R T R A D E — E A R L Y TRADERS A N D T R A D I N G P O S T S — E S T A B L I S H M E N T S N E A R While it is true that white me[...]hat others approached it on several occasions ley's retirement, the business was carried on by |
| [...]ong themselves, the Messrs. the Bent brothers, of St. Louis; and Ceran St. Bent feel comparatively safe in the[...]x ress. But if they spare each other's property and[...]up F o r t William, in the west, but remained at St. Louis most of the completely wrecking i[...]bout forty miles to the I n 1826 the Bents and St. Vrain built a primitiA'e westAvard of the d[...]nine miles east of the present town four y e a r s in Charles Uent.[...]old business had long since vanished, F o r t . " H e r e the OAvners carried on a large trade the[...]liam Avas a most pretentious estab- lishment. I t s dimensions Avere one hundred by Rob[...]ace of great activity. American Governor. H e perished in the massacre I n Farnham's "TraA-els in the Great Western P r a i - at[...]ready and panting for plun- ment freighter. H e survived, the last of the noted der and[...] |
| [...]rick, an old and experienced fron- try. I n 1840, St. Vrain, the Bents, Maxwell and tiersman, Avho was one of William H . Ashley's men others started a settlement on Adobe creek, i[...]e), Chinock (from the mouth of the BeckAvourth's reputation for telling the t r u t h was Columbia), Mexicans and Americans.[...] |
| [...]er was in error in locating the two vil- St. Louis, who spent most of his life among the lage[...]His post was not so important as that of Vasquez's. county, at the mouth of the creek now bearing th[...]the Pueblo" appear to Following Sarpey's establishment, "Fort Lancas- have had a varied as[...]whites, and soon all hands were "fight- St. Yrain built the famous old station, F o r t St. ing drunk." I n the free fight between Avhite an[...]a mile below (north) of the mouth of St. Vrain killed. A teamster who had left the place[...]to ruin. Hardscrabble had disap- St. Vrain was French Canadian, a large, power- peare[...], it Avas well that it did so. life. H e was a prominent figure in southwestern I t Av[...]here on the South Platte in of men. H e came up from New Mexico to build Denver's vicinity. I n that year Louis Vasquez, a[...]exhaustion of the way of the P l a t t e Vasquez's post Avas about six fur business he retu[...]dy mentioned in connection with Fort St. Vrain and F o r t Bent, the route being "the Pue[...]ver, about five miles farther prior to Fremont's first expedition, this country doAvn-strea[...] |
| [...]s how near complete extinction the Ceran St. Vrain the remains of old fur bu[...]of the Nineteenth Century, and named Robedeau, of St. Louis, who wandered out reflect so muc[...]Fort St. \ r rain. During those years the old Santa F[...]d and forgotten town of took with them to St. Louis, as guests, a small Franklin, Missouri, o[...]one of their one hundred and sixty miles west of St. Louis, to chieftains, with the unde[...] |
| [...]OF DENVER. I n 1807 these Indians left St. Louis on their re- once crossed, Avould pu[...]Williams. Williams and sight of Pike's Peak, which they afterwards said |
| [...]as a v e r y which he took out of the bandit's belt after he[...]t beaver s k i n s off the robber's head that could not be found. Trapper Read[...]'State House.' " the proceeds of an entire season's peril, hardships I t may be worth while to state that Espinoza's and labor.[...]ch other in these Tobin, the bandit's slayer, who is now eighty-eight periods of[...] |
| [...]I. HUNTERS, TRAPPERS, AND TRADERS—"KIT" C A R S O N — " D I C K " W O O T O N — " J I M " BRIDGER—"JIM" |
| [...]issouri state, and a credit "Kit Carson's death Avas hastened, it was gen- to the diggins t[...]ers of these intrepid men, we can further Mexico. H i s wife was a comely Mexican woman refe[...]al days at the Plant- lude to him hereafter. H e Avas born in Mecklen- e r s ' House which then stood at the corner of Six-[...]St. Vrain's about to start across the plains. Join-[...]H e was a contemporary of Carson, and a com-[...]and exposure when Wooton encountered her. H e[...]1868. His death was settlement that year. H e established himself in ascribed to a complicati[...]which ended August 21, 1893. of Trinidad, wrote u s : In m[...] |
| [...]OF DENVER. an associate of the Bents and St. Vrain, and un- room hamlet, they became s[...]was then visiting in St. Louis. A pass, via the H e Avas one of the bravest of men, and his un-[...]en began to explain their di- I n 1890 Wooton's recollections of his long and lemma. The old[...]" T could a told you fellers all that in St. Louis, the frontier is[...]handed a sheet of manilla paper, used commands t h e for dr[...]finder spread it on the ground before him, reader's interest. to[...]" 'There's Avhere you fellers can cross with your c o m p e[...]of a refuge in his old age, Bridger traversing t h e in 1857 p[...](Photographed 1889.) tains Avas t h e after his[...]was buried in 1881. when a mere boy Avith Ashley's company of trap- James Baker, another "Old Jim," Avas a con- pers. H e spent his Avhole life as a frontiersman, t[...]f his adA-entures would make an- ing days. H e was, also, familiar to many Denver other large volume. H e discovered the Avay through people of the p[...]he was frequently the mountains, known as Bridger's Pass, and later here through the closing ye[...]ois and came to the mountain country when Johnson's army during the "Mormon War," and he[...]ghter, until between the ad- road to the Pacific. H e served the government for vance of civiliz[...]ho saw the Great Salt Lake. use together. H e was frequently in Denver in the pioneer times.[...]lessly improvident. H e Avould throw away a sea- "At one time early in the 60's, while the en- son's proceeds in the carousal of a day or two.[...] |
| [...]VER. 159 H e announced his determination to abandon his[...]h-place, buy a farm contemporary fellow-beings. H e was almost the and settle down for the remainde[...]d the present Jesuit College, where the road mont's most trusted scout and guide, and served[...]ring expeditions still being known as "Baker's bridge." I t was a through the Rocky Mountains. H e was in the serv- toll-bridge in the "Six[...]vernment in many other undertakings, Baker's. and was noted for his trustworthiness in every-[...]fighter. H e knew all the passes and every part of- common[...]the mountains thoroughly. H e was a guide for type when in[...]the old man's advice been followed, the explorer crude element[...]e kept out of a trap he fell into civilization t h e and which[...]from the trap. H e was folloAved by the Indians, Early in his fr[...]ker married some food over a camp-fire. H e had been a friend an Indian squaw. She Avas of[...]om Williams had previously given a fine a people. H e is quoted as having said to General Hawk[...]arter you'd fed and treated him to the best fixin's in your lodge, jes tion with the rifle at i[...]et in his lodge, ef you ever come John S. Smith, "Uncle J o h n " as his frontier his way. But the Injun don't[...]h exterior, his rough leaving his home in St. Louis when a boy, in the life, and his frequently rougher manners, Baker American F u r Company's service, and falling in was a most generous, nobl[...]example of a brave, hardy, extinct type of H e finally attached himself to the Cheyenne tribe |
| [...], of her race, in the pioneer towns. among them. H e subsequently abandoned his In- Bec[...]ptive faculties; long black inoffensive old man. H e was noted for his re- hair, comple[...]insisted that he remain with them, but Avourth. H e was a familiar figure in and around[...]pers Avho early faced the perils of this region. H e "good medicine" to their tribe, and th[...]ins tribes. among them. H e Avas born in Virginia of a slave mother, his[...]f the Nine- tive plantation. Following his mother's condition teenth Century. Parkman gav[...]the following attests: and made his way to St. Louis, and from there to[...]. Avith that trader came as an employe to Vasquez's Yet in his case the standard r[...] |
| [...]such men were of saintly character, or that they H e is represented to have said while sojourning in[...]d into t h e individuals. by man. Let the most casual thinke[...]other s e a s o n ' s abused and killed them when he had. Six thousand[...]of room and breathing space, and I might have to St. Louis and educated, became the crafty leader be[...]ficulties in the Avay of white During Bridger's first Ansit back to St. Louis,[...] |
| [...]beast he has some of the same instincts in trade. H e failed to reach the other side, and h[...]the Indians came up and peered into the gorge, price on buffalo robes, and as fast as they were[...]her country in the world af- man attached to Bent's F o r t in the early days. fords an[...] |
| [...]ES OF TRAVELERS—EFFECT OF REPORTS OF LONG'S EXPEDITION—WEBSTER'S VIEWS—PUBLIC O P I N I O N OF PAC[...]SURVEYS—PERSISTENCE OF THE DELUSIONS—GREELEY'S IMPRESSIONS—SLOW DEATH OF THE "DESERT" FI[...]ed ferocity, ended in a mountain region the one t h a t for so many years attached to the[...]forever bleAV over the frozen desolation ports, t h a t here in the west lay one of the two great[...]y drove along desert regions of the world. Africa's Sahara was wailed out the warning to[...]all hope, ye who enter here." presented horrors t h a t entitled it to precedence. I t is[...]ana Territory the many distorted versions of Long's accounts. was acquired, the expeditions of LeAvis and Clarke When the report of Long's expedition obtained through the northwe[...]proportion cited to competitive efforts by Long's report, and of the people ever learned t[...]vn for having braved such and Clarke's and of Pike's reports. Of those Avho dangers and come out aliv[...]ing account in diary form, of Lewis and Clarke's stituting the "Great American Desert." Ensuing[...]things, said: dream of the present population's older members.[...] |
| [...]be considered val- ments growing out of Long's Avell-organized, well- uable. * * * I t will not[...]vastating storms By the time the report of Long's expedition was[...]report of Long's expedition. "north" of that day. If the new regio[...]States, anti-slavery men were When Fremont's first expedition was organized ready and willing[...]o the west in 1842, it Avas com- thing about it t h a t was bad. At this juncture the monly looked[...]n the west were people of his day and generation. H e started the coming into circulation, and[...]inions. The several expeditions under Fremont son's purchase was probably the most extraordinary[...]remembered, however, that the reports of Fre- H e made it the subject of a speech on the floor of mont's expeditions did much toward dispelling the the Se[...]time. He, along concluded that the Nation's legislation had passed |
| [...]that of animals flourishing on the herbage t h e r e ; their even finding out whether a railroad[...]ar trip— foolery too outrageous to put up with. H a d not if there were room enough to make[...], nor had they encoun- ing one cent of the public's money to bring the tered any grave peril;[...]tion to the North Pole, and requiring quite "Pike's Peak gold region," hundreds of the multi- a[...]etch of country lay before them. As Denver's early days, rendered greater service to th[...] |
| [...]ount of that so-called desolate, foodless region, h o I n his letter from Denver, dated J u n e 15th[...]were grazing, flourishing a n d told about them. H i s guileless, confiding char- growing fat on his Sahara land. H e states that acter is well shown by some of the statements in one day's journeying he believed that he saAv he transmitt[...]s now traversed by many railroads, and P l a i n s ; and, hard to swallow as t h a t may seem, I the traveler gliding along at[...]eary, dust-laden, creeping pil- the wreck, but t h r e e decent Avagons could be grims[...]eady nar- Many readers of Mr. Greeley's letters, and they rated, one of the wheel-[...] |
| [...]ins were known writing men came to the Pike's Peak re- in the main beautiful in the far-spreadi[...]midsummer OArer the long reaches paper. H e came to Denver in the spring of 1867 of country[...]to N o r t h Platte, and the flood of immigration was to thei[...]about Fort Kearney, there seems to be little t h a t est, sweetest water, their pure, elast[...] |
| [...]forded shel- and makes no sign of life along i t s borders. I t is ter and protection to the ca[...]a favorite juvenile belief of the Avriter's vanished north and south and east and Aves[...] |
| [...]V >% °.s °[...]~g o " P 5 4> s® difficulty in keeping ahead, or getting out of[...]>> s^3[...]•a <=>. <s - f e[...]6 s0[...]0. H s 3 o[...]alleged to have been frozen, January 9, 1S75, has[...]zero, which, also, is not confirmed by Mr. F . H. Brandenburg, local forecast official at[...]Denver stands in the midst of Mr. Webster's "re- Weather Bureau of the Department' of[...] |
| [...]TAIN " L I O N " — E L K , DEER, AND MOUNTAIN " S H E E P " —INSECT PESTS—APPROACHING EXT[...]ne could, walk all central portion of the N o r t h American continent, day on the dead bodies of the[...]ere the latitude of the loAver confines of Hudson's clumsy, lumbering creatures, but when wounded Bay[...]they became dangerous cus- ments of the white men's settlements, and the last tomers. Many a h[...] |
| [...]would put that marked the era dating from Denver's birth, off on a SIOAV, bumping sort of gallop, bu[...]Herd of Buffalo—The Superintendent's Peril. passing drove. Many a man so lost his life[...]it made the herds keep farther Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Stage company is a away from the OArerland p[...]ing excel- peared, bearing swiftly down upon him. H e was rid- lent steaks. But Avhen the white "hide[...]. The hides dead in a motionless heap. The animal's body pro- were removed and later became the comfo[...]ke caused the herd to divide and slaughter of God's creatures was ever known in the |
| [...]wantonly killed for the Colonel Inman's estimate of the weight of the brutal love of killing, leaving the carcasses of buffalo's skeleton is probably a serious error in their vic[...]ions, resulting in a greatly magnified the latter's satisfaction and bloody profit. So concl[...]show for the shameful annihila- a t t a c h , a handkerchief or bit of colored cloth to tion[...]deported from that section of try, principally in St. Louis. I t required about the United Stat[...]of the past century a considerable number of the price paid averaging eight dollars a ton; so[...] |
| [...]not any to their boyish readers. When Fremont's expedi- sort of dogs, at all, but resemble[...] |
| [...]to courts encounter with a man. t h a t of a good-sized horse, a vitality capable of[...]mountain parks, in the days of Denver's founding, combative disposition, he is hard to ki[...]that they almost trod upon each other's heels; and Probably he survives in distant and un[...]untain sheep in large numbers looked down p a r t s in the mountains, but it is several years since[...]these animals that the pioneers of the Pike's Peak same may be said of the cinnamon bear, which[...]held in less esteem. some of the mountain parts. H e is more easily This queer[...]eek in January, 1859, a tent in Auraria one r i g h t , late in the autumn he found[...] |
| [...]end- some of his companions, as they claimed. H i s ency believed to be toward increase. recital is not without evidence that the good man's Some of the pioneer white men in this Rocky[...]erted that the carrion fly, counsellors. H e said: the common house-fly, the chincha, the mo[...]great, it was not like the wholesale butchery t h a t teresting wild animals of its territory. Unde[...]of food. species existing in the State. H e requires large Their experienc[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XIX. E A R L Y R U M O R S A N D DISCOVERIES OF G O L D — O L D - T I M E STORIES AND T R A D I T I O N S — C I R C U M S T A N C E S |
| [...]and who taries of the South P l a t t e ; and t h a t when he was besought Duchet to identify[...]he general mineral character of this region, " H e assured me that he had found gold on the[...]and had car- from those commonly entertained. H e was a man ried some of the virgin mineral in hi[...]his class, and kept a record of for months, but t h a t being in doubt whether he should ever again b[...]d. Hollister says "he was some- have stamped on t h a t metal, he threw his sample what[...]with the vast quantities of min- numerous company's previous visit, which had at- erals[...]d in its hills and valleys." tracted the explorer's attention when he was there. Later[...]discovery, nor acter of the country. H e had established his camp is anything further kn[...]f them, gave thing for men to bring in to Vasquez's trading rise in recent years to t[...]ere is nothing to show these incidents at Vasquez's t h a t they occasioned that those stone-ag[...]tury, the Spaniards made slaves of many of t h e I t appears that he picked up in Horse creek—[...]t of disintegrating rock that was rich in gold; t h a t all particulars of these anci[...] |
| [...]ce of gold, silver and precious stones iards of t h a t time were but little in advance of in th[...]f lead were the only ores panied Fremont's expedition in 1843, which crossed they well under[...]o manage. Shallow the plains to Fort St. Vrain and from there pro- shafts and other indic[...]ceeded up the South Platte. One of the party's tions were observed between the Culebra and the camping places after leaving St. Vrain was here Trinchera in what is now Costillo[...]the streams in this region. During the were in t h a t country in 1595, were responsible for war[...]t the trapper knoAvn tion wintered near Pike's Peak in 1847-48. Colonel as "old Bill Williams" claimed to have found gold Gilpin's renewed researches at that time, follow- in the S[...]ld and silver. His con- Judge Wilbur F . Stone's historical sketch of clusions were embodi[...]his personal obserA-ations may be Bridger to Bent's Fort, are said to have gathered said to ha[...]eld ports of gold existing in the Pike's Peak country. county tributary of the South Platt[...]cene of great activity in the search for a season's hunt for big game. These people came gold, found some of the yelloAV metal in the creek's out here and had their sport, and while encamped[...]Parks, but gives this version of a have related t h e character and circumstances of Ra[...] |
| [...]have seen, about the presence of gold in the Pike's Squirrel Creek divide to the head of Cherry Creek[...]events that eventuated in the settlements at t h e western expeditions, and goes even further, by[...]Dr. Russell. H e was a physician in these early beyond the Missi[...]ah- have passed here earlier than 1835; for, in t h a t lonega, Lumpkin county, t h a t State. This p a r t y year, to say nothing of[...]the confusion in the creek. After leaving t h e Fontaine they did some various traditional acco[...], and portions of Clear creek basis for "the Pike's Peak excitement." —but h[...] |
| [...]the contagion, winter to the northward of Denver's site. While they was coming on, and so t h a t year closed without were here they gave one of the branches of Clear inaugurating the westAvard h u n t for the precious creek the name it still b[...]his visit Through the winter of 1857-5S, the newspapers of of t h e Cherokees, and to those attending their the Sta[...]the Oregon country he stopped at called "the Pike's Peak Gold Region," and so called old F o r t Lar[...]s of California had waxed and waned, and country. H e was also told that there were three the public[...]ts the western borders of Missouri and Iowa. of t h a t Sjtate, t h a t were enormously rich in silver. Among the[...]e ever over this region in the "Fifties" was John S. been located by miners^and made to give up their[...]f gold which he stated he had found "down at Pike's 1857, discovered and taken out considerable gold[...]latte river, about three miles above tention at t h a t time, further t h a n to become an the mouth of Cherry creek. The s[...]s no authentic confirmation of the vague rumors t h a t there was gold in the Rocky story, by Smith,[...]in the summer and autumn of 1858, and in the Pike's P e a k country, growing more and more some more[...]t we were compelled to encamp here attention of t h e people along the Missouri river for four days a[...]present city of that name. tales of gold at Pike's Peak, or the old ones re-told, I n 1[...] |
| [...]183 prospectors up on St. Vrain creek. At a place well of gold in the Pike's Peak country nor had either |
| [...]had little difficulty in recruiting his Pierce's recollections free from the element of ro- co[...]d; but before going far the party got into Pike's Peak in 1857, he evidently did not consider[...]was actually decided to go ahead, knowing t h a t when they joined known—of the alleged "new gold-fields at Pike's their expected white associates under Rus[...]e Avith the Indians. Although Preacher J o h n Beck was what Indian Territory people it was d[...]company. H e was gold in this Rocky Mountain country. Of th[...]sion, had served on Russell's statement made for this History:[...]notable man in Solomon Roe, Samuel Bates and J o h n Hampton.[...]onspicu- northeast corner of the Cherokee Nation's terri- tory. When Ave reached Maysville we found[...]to Rock Creek, Kansas, where Beck's contingent had been joined by several W. G. Russe[...]ite people after it started. These were George J. H. and R. J. Pierce joined us at Rock Creek,[...]ife Avith him, and her sister also or three days. H e r e Ave were joined by William accompani[...]on the Arkansas, reaching it near the Great Bend. H e r e we came up Philander Simmons Avas a[...]ther Cherokees, man of some experience. H e had been attached on J u n e 3d; they having arrived somewhat in ad- to Bent's F o r t as early as 1842, and was familiar vance[...]their pres- Avith all the region hereabouts. H e had left this ence ahead of us for a cou[...] |
| [...]ors of gold being in plenty at the any of Russell's mining undertakings. The later Peak, or[...]and guide; that mentioned, were destined for Bent's Fort, a few for while in the explorer's service had discovered gold the mountains, and on[...]g to existed in the streams of the Pike's Peak country; the mouth of the Fontaine-qui-Bouil[...]here the previous sum- made the following autumn. H e was an eccentric, mer and autumn. diss[...]the South Platte-Arkansas divide. Beck claimed t h a t the Cherokee party of 1850 had found gold in[...]John Faster. party which came to the Pike's Peak region to per- (From a r[...]turous younger citizens was held, ing here; and t h a t it was in consequence of the and a com[...]of its members that the first once to Pike's Peak. These Lawrence men AVIIO permanent settleme[...]known in the early annals of ver. R. J . and J . H. Pierce, members of the party, Denver as "th[...]y completed their arrangements, got cences of J . H . Pierce, long a resident of Idaho their A[...]visions, supplies and tools for a season's operations, the party went into camp here on the[...]ey, organized company of gold-seekers in the Pike's Cross, John Easter, Adnah French[...] |
| [...]he Russell and the Lawrence parties were the only H u n t , Roswell Hutchins, " P a p " Maywood, Will[...]rthermore, the first overland stage line was J . H . Tierney, J a c k Turner, Augustua Voorhees, making its occasional trips between the Missouri J a m e s H . White, A. C. Wright and Jason T. rive[...]by way of F o r t Laramie, and Younker; with J . H . Tierney, as the guide, or at longer in[...]ch the Lawrence people knew nothing about Russell's from force of habit as for any great amou[...]ve been folloAving, Avere not entirely alone sell's large caravan before they came to Bent's in the country. Fort, which was a haltin[...]gerated reports of Avhat was going on out at Pike's Peak, which they fondly believed marked[...]other parties in the border towns to follow to t h e top of the Peak. They looked for signs o[...] |
| [...]1858—DISMEMBERMENT OF T H E RUSSELL PARTY—SUBSE- QUENT OP[...]" M O N T A N A C I T Y " — O ' D O N N E L L ' S COMPANY AND " E L P A S O " — C I R C U M S T A N C E S L E A D I N G TO T H E B E G I N N I N G OF D E N V E R — F I R S T BUILDING—AU- T U M N IMMIGRANTS OF 1858—PIONEER BUSINESS M E N — T H E LEAVENWORTH P A R T Y — A D V E N T O F GEORGE A. JACKSON—OTHER S E T T L E M E N T S I N T H E P I K E ' S P E A K COUNTRY. The pilgrimage of Russell a[...]Indian kansas river. While on the way, below Pike's Peak, |
| [...]e creek, but not much scribed as having been at t h a t time a shalloAV more than was obtained by Captain Marcy's team-[...]mining begun, the first day's work yielding between[...]de of the river, are The Russell Party's "Diggings" on the Platte. (Star near top of m[...]the early reports among Denver's pioneers stated Avidth, and with banks from two to three feet high. that Trader John S. Smith and his Mexicans dis- This is still[...] |
| [...]port, Missouri, (Kansas City), diverging from men's operations includes only a small part of it,[...]about the Pike's Peak country, that were making The small creek[...]on their way from Utah to ber 1st he and his brother set out on horseback on |
| [...]858 an occasional shadow of Pike's Peak they camped near a little trader, or a moun[...]n the rains descended, the floods ter class were S. M. Rooker, his wife and daughter, came[...]pass, but found nothing. H e r e they fell in with[...]a mountain-man who told them of Russell's discov-[...]South P l a t t e river. They prospected along t h a t[...]at and below Pike's P e a k ; and finally pulled into[...]comers in the autumn of t h a t year. Many men[...]e enterprise, and by the mid- I t is now time t h a t we give further consideration dle of Sep[...]ave it the pretty and appropriate ganized party t h a t crossed the plains to hunt for name of "Montana City." While "Montana" did gold in the Pike's Peak region; the company or- not sur[...]at Lawrence, Kansas, tion of white men's dwellings in all this Colorado by J o h n Easter, and which we left encamped at region along the eastern base of the Rocky Moun- Pike's Peak. Mr. Easter still survives, a hale and[...]orderly town fashion. However, "Montana's" debted for verification of many facts and cir- career was cut short, and in less t h a n twelve cumstantial incidents connected[...] |
| [...]pass through the mountains, they town in the Pike's Peak country was located on named it[...]mits of Denver. reality, but, as "El P a s o " never deAreloped anything The land on which i[...]; on the east by not disturb "Montana's" title to I m d n g been the South Tremont street[...]men left the Missouri river for the Pike's Peak liam J. Boyer, of the Lawrence party, later[...]the stories that had arisen from Russell's midsum- they got to Lawrence, ragged and unkempt[...]ut some of them the wear and tear of their season's experience, they had, under the advice of f[...]Placer Camp or at "Montana," and pointed out t h a t at the mouth of Cherry creek soon after "Mon-[...]the old plainsman and trader, John Smith—or J o h n O'Donnell. These men appear to have come to th[...]ith engage in gold mining. They headed in to Pike's him, though they had heard that[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. near old F o r t St. V r a i n ; but they did not see Mc- they[...]back from F o r t Garland—having |
| [...]ttled there, Avhile the re- drew Sagendorf, J. S. Sanders, George C. Schleier, mainder stayed here[...]nver. That evening these ware and tinner's goods. Early in December, J. D. two traders invit[...]re to slaughter one another; and with their Colt's revolvers commenced a rapid fusillade upon each o[...]d platters of toAAms had not been idle. December 1st the second large party from LaAV- Sev[...]s of all Avho came here through that "St. Charles" City had risen and fallen; and A[...] |
| [...]al party from I t is to be remembered, here, t h a t all of the Lecompton, both going by Av[...]vember, and going reputed new gold fields began t h a t year, he com- into camp in Auraria Cit[...]hese from Leavenworth were conspicuously so. Pike's Peak, and among its members Avere Hickory They lost no time in demonstrating it, nor did Rogers, H. P . A. Smith, and E. W. Wyncoop, men[...]Governor, been disposed to groAv at t h a t season of the year— in all probability misl[...]ory. The western end of "cities." Pike's Peak had been discarded as the the Territory had,[...]tuted for i t ; the cumstances of Arapahoe county's creation in 1855, Peak remaining as the[...]old of what the Russells had done there had great H . P . A. Smith, Probate J u d g e ; Hickory Roger[...]ed people. While this was going on another Pike's Peak Several of the men—a dozen[...]ther fortune- William Larimer and his son William H. H . Lari- winning enterprises they[...] |
| [...]rom the Mis- ers were also encamped t h e r e ; and James Sanders, souri river to Cherry[...]fifty and three hundred people here, son's party. The second stock of goods were soon or sca[...]George then called the Benito Fork of St. Vrain creek. A.[...]r- Camp where they found W. Green Russell's party ical in the[...]ent back to d o e s not appear Janise's camp on the Cache-a-la-Poudre, and from[...]ters D. C. Oakes (Deceased). of gold in t h a t (From a photograph made about[...]d 1865.) c o u n t r y . H e re- continued their prospecting operations up[...]858 he than the conviction in Jackson's mind that he was crossed the plains with a small[...]founded, and named for Tom Golden of Jackson's Laramie with a party conveying goods Avith which[...]ents in the in- tiersman; Chief Chaka, Swift Bird's lieutenant; definitely defined "Pike's Peak country" in the John Gardner, Oliver Schofie[...]d his family—a Snake squaw and "El P a s o " in the afternoon shadow of the Peak, her chil[...]I n the autumn of 1858 a small party from St. them. The party stopped there, traded off all th[...]strag- village of La Porte-—they found N i Wot's band of gling wayfarers, when it Avas decided to lay out a Arapahoes and Big Mouth's band of Cheyennes en- town. Two[...] |
| [...]ge came on to Cherry creek from Fort St. Vrain and cattle corrall there.[...]t h e presence of gold-seekers in the coun- First str[...]e village of Laporte, near F o r t Collins. Gerry's P l a t t e valley, arrived at F o r t St. Vrain. I t con- connection with the toAvn was sp[...]Brookfield, John Brown, to much. Silas D. Burns, H . Childs, Charles Clouser, C. Dav- Winte[...]those who had come to make the best of things J o h n Hall, Thaddeus Hamilton, W. W. Jones,[...] |
| [...]upon were great offenders in this way at t h a t time. them, was writing letters—to be dispa[...]alleged advantages of their respective the region's richness in gold; a metal Avhich, except[...] |
| [...]ED BEGINNINGS OF DENVER—PIONEER " S T . CHARLES T O W N ASSOCIATION"—OPERATIONS OF I T S P R O M O T E R S — S T O R Y OF T H E " S T . C H A R L E S " R E C O R D — F I R S T A P P E A R A N C E OF " A R A P - AHOE C O U N T Y " I N LOCAL A N N A L S — T O W N C O M P A N I E S " S Q U A T T E R S " ON I N D I A N L A N D — O R - GANIZATION O F T H E A U R A R I A C I T Y T O W N COMPANY—[...]MADE C U R R E N C Y — G E N E S I S OF T H E T O W N ' S N A M E . I t is to be considered that the[...]enera- was not so. There were but few Georgia men h e r e |
| [...]s Smith was connected, we will now ask the reader's then in the Indians, and not subject to oc[...]paired to McGaa's lodge where they held their first[...]hey had been joined by T. C. Dickson, who S. Smith Frank M Cobb and Charles Nichols, have[...]ors Exe- had, as we ha\Te told, gone down to Pike's Peak and cutors, Assignees &e. forever to We[...]kson came with them to Article F i r s t : Whereas, the aforesaid Parties, "Montana" and[...]ecesary expences Shall be equaly near old F o r t St. Vrain, put in an appearance at borne by eac[...]mpson Smith and Article F o u r t h : it is further a greed by John William McGaa. Both had Indian wives, and con- S. Smith and William McGaa that they will ta[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. Company t h a t . fraction or quarter sectn as the[...]Board and Signed by the president and Secre- |
| [...]are mile of land, of which become a member of the St Charles Town Com- that[...]additional member "St. Charles" men, excepting Traders Smith and[...]rn to eastern Kansas to re- no one member of .the St Charles Town Company mai[...]agreed to look after the company's interests here; and it Shall be Signed by a major[...]platting their land at Cherry creek, terprising "St. Charles" men surveyed around their[...]company's record shows that there had been some[...]"Oct the 9 1S58 At a meeting on the platte their[...]usly agreed to Change the name of the Outlines of St. Charles Town site with reference to present streets. toAvn from Golden City to St. Charles Avhich was[...]to take pos- Avriter that "St. Charles" was the name agreed session and to "use[...]by Nichols who had once lived at St. Charles, common property of said Company." The "[...]ry creek. The river has it. H e further explained that the entry should changed[...]company, that the name should "remain St. tersected the mouth of the creek. Mr. Dickson re[...]ssisted in the survey, City to St. Charles." H e also added that their and Avent over near the r[...]es and drove ceedings of the "St. Charles Town Company," as it down deep to mark t[...]ater held in Lawrence, Kansas Terri- Town Company's platting. Then they wrote with[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. The "St. Charles" enterprise when it was organ- mer, and of which the "St. Charles" promoters had |
| [...]land that Smith and McGaa was made, and the "St. Charles" men finally be- Avere to secure for th[...]first and early part of theanxiety to obtain the "St. Charles" record, and second week of November. T[...]id might prematurely pass into the other company's and comfort given the "St. Charles" custodian possession, tore out a[...]n; that he then carefully made copies of Colonel's contributions, "unceremoniously kicked all th[...]e into existence across the creek. But, before H e carefully wrapped up the removed leaA^es and p[...]also held many City" came in, swooped down upon "St. Charles," of his personal belongings. Short[...]ent town or- "St. Charles" record had vanished; and from that gan[...]-paged, narroAV "day-book," and containing all t h e y were "St. the minutes of the proceedings of the "St. Charles" Charles," Auraria[...]e successor of that organization, these min- and H i g h l a n d . utes, bei[...]d Denver City companies; nearly the whole pany's relics, he declared that the missing link of the original record of the "St. Charles" company, had been supplied, and related[...]he lat- have taken all of the entries in that of "S t. Charles." ter extend, proved the copies to be exact. H e was The extracts from them are distributed thro[...]iced that the minutes ing a complete copy of the "St. Charles" record of the first meeting of the "St. Charles" town pro- while the original had never passed from the p o s - moters, that of September 24, 1858, set forth t h a t session of T. C. Dickson, the Secretary of th[...]1859, found the Denver Town Company sponsor for "St. Charles," stated to the writer that in fu[...] |
| [...]those associated nor that such a county existed. H e said that his with the founding of D[...]record, and Frank M. Cobb, of the "St. Charles" Town Com- but little paper of any kind:[...]was with as Secretary while at Cherry creek at t h a t time. the Union army until its close. I n later years H e carried his documents and memoranda back to[...]ansas Territory "either had been the "St. Charles" Town Company, he prepared for or was to[...]y as possible my experi- to make the location of "St. Charles" more definite ence, and knowle[...]Kansas, party. company, as will be seen, placed "St. Charles" in We arrived in this vicini[...]G O L D REGIONS, K ^ N S ^ S T E R R I T O R Y .[...]T A St. Charles Town-lot Certificate—Size of Original.[...]. Green Russell had |
| [...]ide of Cherry creek lands "in the Pike's Peak region" to the United and surveyed around 6[...]o f Indian title of we Lawrence men in the St. Charles company, and Dickson, started from "Mon[...]p o s s ession and about the change of name from 'Golden[...]improvement of 'St. Charles,' but think Charles Nichols wanted to call it 'St. Charles' when we drew up our com-[...]n our way I suggested to the other members of the St. Charles Town Company that we ought to[...]e law to induce people to locate and build on the St. o[...]sional grant," that these de- time after New Year's, Charles Nichols got back to Lawrence and informe[...]nd McGaa, made some claims to general charter for St. Charles right away. We did so right[...]located in this order; first, 'Montana;' second, 'St. Charles;' third, 'Auraria City;' fourth, th[...]from F o r t Garland it was decided made at Bent's F o r t pursuant to a resolution of[...] |
| [...]re. Notwithstanding the pref- Gaw and J o h n S. Smith the privilege of a ferry erences and operations of the "St. Charles" men all landing within the river b[...]hen Here we have two members of the "St. Charles" here an opportunity to unite in common action. Company—McGaa and John S. Smith—identifying I n these features there is[...]so- some of those appearing in the record of the "St. ciates were far out of sight on their hom[...]committee's report state in the preamble that they memoranda,[...]were agreed to at a meeting held November 1st. cate, the first entry being as follows:[...]The Secretary's record states that they were Copy.[...], 1858. adopted at the meeting of October 31st; however, At a meeting of the Citizens of the[...]we hold ourselves liable Dudley, Dr. Russell, J . S. Smith and Rooker. to sue and be sued,[...]meeting and asked further time. Article 1st. Permission being granted.[...]rs of poined the following, viz: A. J. Smith, J . H . Dud- said Company a President, Vice President, Secre- ley, Wm. McGaw, L. J. Russell, and S. M. Rooker. tary, Treasurer, and One Dire[...]ct a meet- Copy. October 31st, 1859. ing of the Stockholders to[...] |
| [...]e revised and amended at any general Article 1st. meeting o[...]ckholder shall be entitled to one vote at J. H . Dudley received 84 votes for Vice Presi- the fi[...]f stock as originally issued, provided John S. Smith received 84 votes for Treasurer. all arrea[...]J o h n J days additional, and if not paid within said[...]The name of the company's first President ap- Article 5th. The[...] |
| [...]e title line of the constitution and W. H . Clarke, H a y m a n Chapman, by-laws. Dr. L. J. Russell was[...]son, committee w h i c h James C. Sanders, Fred Grider,[...]y him at were held, nor on November 1st as set forth in[...]G. and J . O. 31st adopted the Russell, were, of course[...]whose names appear above did not arrive Judson H. Dudlsy (Deceased). Immediately suc-[...]Colonel S. S. Curtis tried to line himself up with[...]of the Stockholders of the Auraria T. Co., Nov. 1st, A. D. 1858.[...]I attended a meeting for the organization of John S. Smith, W. H. Longsdorf, the Auraria Town Company on October 31st. Andrew J. Smith, Phillip E. Peers,[...]The first hundred men whose names were entered H i r a m J. Graham, A. H. Ramsdale, on the paper of or[...]ourtright, one of my associates; of William Cole, S. M. Rooker, Giles Blood,[...]Charles Nichols for an interest in 'St. Charles.'" John J. Shanley, A. Sagendo[...]corpo- J. D. O'Connell, D. D. Hoag, Wm. S. Foster, G. W. Coffman,[...]t, at least, during my connection with the Judson H . Dudley, John D. Baker, company. We did not consider it of very much E. H . Conart, Mathew Teed,[...]"Jefferson Territory" enacted a consolidating J. H . Clarke, James B. Reed,[...]e, on streets and alleys, on claims, on inter- J. H. Pierce, H . Earl, A. C. Wright, A. Viele,[...]les and order of busi- J. W. Reed, H. B. Chubbuck, ness "for council" were appointed. On motion of J o h n Pander, James Lee, Director H e n r y Allen it was John F . Palmer, W[...]Geo. Fuller, W. A. Smith, H . Tozier, The boundaries of the Auraria City town-site, A. H. Barker, John GraAes,[...] |
| [...]rectors resolved "that W. S. Foster be required "Beginning at a point in th[...]survey of the On motion of Vice President J . H . Dudley it City of Auraria." Surveyor M[...]eem necessary." toAvns shows the ri\*er's former devious course. As there were no claims "a[...]eting of record, held Novem- except those of the "St. Charles" people, this indi- ber 15, 1858, th[...]This appears first surveyor employed was William S. Foster, to have been the first lot-don[...]eived the plat. At this meeting the payable July 1st, A. D. 1859." After this the work Di[...] |
| [...]iness was to provide a circulating Russell's Georgia party, as we have seen, was re- medium of home production. On motion of P r e s - cruited in that county, and his brother,[...]rs ago, it is not much of a town bind the f a i t h of said City to redeem the said at this t i[...]med: had contracted with William McGaa and John S. "There must have been some classical[...]in, the Avord "aura" the said Wm. McGaa and J o h n S. Smith a ferry meaning a gentle breeze. I s[...]eting held December 24th it Dr. Russell's Auraria was the first duly located was resolved[...]inted. The lots." A meeting was held December 31st, but pioneer church, and Sunday s[...] |
| S I O N OF T H E " S T . CHARLES'"' T O W N S I T E — P R O C E E D I N G S OF THE COMPANY—LISTS OF SHARE- H O L D E R S — P R O V I S I O N FOR T H E " S T . CHARLES" M E N — N I C H O L S ' FATE—LOT DONATIONS— DENVER CITY AND GOVERNOR D E N V E R — S U R V E Y I N G THE TOWN—ATTEMPT[...]C O M P A N Y — I N C O R P O R A T I O N OF T H E "ST. CHARLES" COMPANY—FINAL PROCEEDINGS OF T H E " S T . C H A R L E S " M E N — C O L L A P S E OF T H E E N T E R P R I S E — A D N A H F R E N C H —MCGAA's PROMINENCE AND D E A T H — " C I T Y OF H I G H L A N D " — M A R C Y ' S THEORY—DECI- MATION OF T I M B E R — D I S A P P E A R A N C E OF " M O N T A N A C I T Y .[...]npike and terminated the brief career of unhappy "St. about two miles from a station AA'[...]s name, on the Pennsylvania Railroad. H i s ances- had no more than ended their homeward jour[...]officers" commissioned by Governor Den- H i s boyhood was spent on a farm, but he soon ver arri[...]having been engaged in the banking business. H e this combined party Avere General William Larim[...]projector of the Pittsburgh and Connells- Jr., W. H . H. Larimer, Richard E. Whitsitt, Charles ville[...]st President. I n the Leavenworth contingent; and H . P . A. Smith, the spring of 1855 he came[...]the trio of settlement of the country. H e Avas in the Nebraska "county officials." On the[...]Denver Territorial Legislature, of 1855-56. H e first set- Town Company's record book General Larimer sub- tled at[...]3d day of Octo- were as follows: My brother, J o h n M. M. Lari- ber, 1858, and arriA'ed at the head[...]giving his name as King, and claiming to son, Wm. H . H., accompanied me through the long have been one of W. Green Russell's party, came and tedious journey wdth a 4-yoke ox-[...]ial, now living in a house built for a blacksmith's shop. and wanted it tested; he said it came from[...]uri riA^er." The house "built for a blacksmith's shop," in "A company of about sixty wa[...]was the ganized at Leavenworth to go to the Pike's Peak Nichols cabin which had been built up for Ni[...]ing time, only six of us made the s t a r t ; my father,. in place of the "four-log improvement," by S. S. C. A. Lawrence, Folsom Dorsett, M. M. Jewett, R.[...]e called him, 'Dick'—Whitsitt, and my- Mr. W. H . LI. Larimer, now and for some years self; I bei[...]ponies the following brief account of his father's life, and for each member of the party. We arriA'ed at t h e of the circumstances under which the Leavenwort[...]k on the 16th of November, party came to the Pike's Peak country: and camped[...] |
| [...]m to the daytime. Some of the members of the "St. land. We camped near where Blake street crosses[...]ith Avhich to build the first cabin on the John S. Smith, its Treasurer, were here; but they town-s[...]ation of Auraria, consid- "The interests of St. Charles were left in the[...]of "St. Charles" interests it is more than probable[...]tiations with Nichols for interests in 'St. Charles,' agreeing to make it the county seat, etc. H e had a[...]the control of the 'St. Charles' toAvn-site. I was[...]John's cabin that night with his half-breed son, ment wh[...]pany organized. I drew the first plat of site of "St. Charles," which they alleged was de- the Ci[...]k, and among them E. P . Stout, P . T. "Hank" Way's blacksmith shop. The Leavenworth Bassett, Judson H . Dudley, Charles H . Blake, A. J. men claimed that there Avas no evi[...]the prior survey which T. C. Dickson John S. Smith. Mr. Stout, a man of energy and and his as[...]er; but ability, and Avho became the company's first Presi- it is not at all probable that the L[...]t in continued rived here on October 26th. H e now lives in Wy- |
| [...]innati, and is the Presi- Secty.—H. P . A. Smith. dent of the Cincinnati Savings Soc[...], Wm. Larimer, Jr., J . William McGaa and John S. Smith did not be- McGaa, C. A. Law[...]hey secured the services of Curtis pioneer "St. Charles" municipality, they willingly[...]Wm Larimer J r Avas held in McGaa's cabin in Auraria on the even- 22 N[...]So, in less t h a n a Aveek after their arrival these Under the[...]Leavenworth men had taken possession of the "St. and powerful frontier Avhiskey punch provided an[...]retary H . P . A. Smith, of the Town Company,[...]payments as follows fifty dollars on the 1st of E. P. Stout.[...]a n y next one hundred and fifty dollars on the 1st of Feby next and the remainder on the 1st of July freely shared by the host, the strangers[...]list of shareholders in the Town Company, of the "St. Charles" Town Company.[...]Adam French Judson H . Dudley the organizers of that vigorous associat[...]Geo. W. Fuller first record of the company's proceedings is as fol- T. C. Dickson[...]F r a n k M. Cobb Charles H . Blake[...]Company adopted the Constitution J o h n S. Smith Wm. Clancey on the 22[...] |
| [...]215 Curtis and Lowry W. H . H . Larimer pany in full possession of t[...]eavored to save something from the wrreck for |
| [...]and Avas not the William Smith of the "St. Charles" it is in a badly kept condition; a faul[...]D Street South side and to also give him cember 1st; the others are of men who appear to[...]. Karczewsky, on or before the 1st day of April next, and further N. H. Rice, P . McPherson,[...]nd D. streets, according to the plat finished F . H . Crouse, S. B. Stagg, late in 1859, did[...]ing in the Denver ToAvn Company's record up to Capt. W. G. Preston, C. M. Gi[...]editorially criticised the GoA^ernor's preliminary sketch lived the life of a country bo[...]pedition, and General Den- attained his majority. H e then went to Missouri, Arer became i[...]l a victim to his wounded pride. war with Mexico. H e recruited Company H , of Public opinion unanimously[...]47; and served Avith distinction in General Scott's of the emigrants, and in the spring of 185[...]ed to P l a t t e City, til the autumn of 1S55. I n the autumn of 1854 he where he boug[...] |
| [...]enterprise in real Williams, and William I I . H . Larimer, carried the estate, and was the first[...]were reserved by the Denver Town company's chief binding claim upon the land, and Company as gifts to the city's namesake, but it which, in connection w[...]mean- defensible title to it than any the "St. Charles" time he had given them no thought if, i[...]Stout Avrote u s : Avhich occurred in the "Sixties" the lots inten[...]original " I arrived in Denver, or at t h a t time the mouth[...]have had upon them. were John S. Smith and William McGaa, Indian ' As with Aur[...]- tation, President Lincoln on August 14, 1S61, ap- tion of three trans-continental lines; but[...]Kansas to preserve peace on the border. H e was Denver did not seek a re-nomination for[...]command of the Third Brigade of Sherman's Di- Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a position he[...]making men his loyal and enduring friends. H e peace to the distracted Territory.[...]ed the Union cause. Without solici- rado's pioneers in 1858. J. C. S. |
| [...]219 made for utilizing the site of "St. Charles" before "jumped" the town-site. When Wynkoop saw that |
| [...]had left they saw a busy town crowded with S. MEDARY,[...]rence and Wynkoop, he the fact that "St. Charles" had disappeared could said that if he a[...]uation and had fully known edy. But the "St. Charles" people did not imme- the Denver City Town Company's plans and pur- diately abandon their[...]ing it. I t appears that they kept it alive until H e also said that it was the understanding with[...]hat nothing of consequence was to be done on the "St. Charles" town-site until after the return of the "St. Charles" men to Cherry creek late in the spring of t h a t year. Wynkoop started back to Cherry creek soon after the enactment of the "St. Charles" incorporation, and the "St. Charles" men did not see him again until after t[...]e incorporators, was not at Cherry creek in 1858. H e Avas a brother of Charles Nichols, and Avas in eastern Kansas in the winter of 1858-59. After the "St. Charles" promoters returned to Lawrence[...]the last en- for its presence in the copy of the "St. Charles" try in their record book, and t[...]Historical Society. corded history of "St. Charles," read as follows: They also made him, as stated in the act, one of the "St. Charles" incorporators. H e did not figure[...]the "Sixties" he "At a meeting of the St. Charles Company held[...]ded to As the reader will have learned, Wynkoop's fail- ballot for President Mr. Churchill h[...]g presented Company from the Kansas Legislature t h a t winter the meeting adjourned." did not[...]ure, but when the time sent promoters of "St. Charles," and these were came nothing was[...] |
| [...]Charles G. Chever, June, 1859. The members of the St. Charles Town who knew him well, said McG[...]e Pacific coast. George R. their charter, and the St. Charles Town Company Brown, a son of McGaa's widow by her second soon ceased to exist, nearly[...]is father thought he had by his conduct dis- the "St. Charles" men after their return to Law- g[...]them to prepare for him as a shareholder in the "St. Charles" Town Company, certificate Number One, d[...]s, according to a plat they had made from Hartley's survey; thus giving him the honor of first place[...]cords of their corporation. The projectors of "St. Charles" have been un- justly accused of having[...]ended. Their out- William H. H. Larimer.[...]is paternal relation to the first child born on t h e enterprise to the welfare of which they[...] |
| [...]ge of Highlands which was subse- ing, the street's name was changed to that of quently[...]rebuke implied by Highland Town Company's records, if there ever the change; and this, it[...]attempt to incorporate it. Some portion, time, t h a t McGaa died from suffocation in the lit-[...]ed, or was to be filed, in the the life of Denver's most picturesque pioneer. Kansas La[...]s quaintances h e r e . not matter, as we are now dealing with pioneer Mr. B r o w n h a s[...]ng ago. o f t h e surviving Henry Allen was elected Presiden[...]production of h e r e as " J a c k the Fosdick and Tappan map[...]untains camped came a reply from England from J o h n McGaa urging 'Jack Jones' to persuade the young[...]ment. [Rosebud, S. D.] read 'Jack J o n e s " letter and John McGaa's reply to it, Bray having been in[...]r Highland there was no such competi- Denver at t h a t time."[...] |
| [...]evelopment. "Simpson's Rest."[...]6, E. P Stout. Figure 7 marks the spot where the St. Charles men started their survey where comparati[...]sary for the fuel onel in the United States army. H e was then in- supply, made large openings in the[...]winter set in about half of them had moved them- St. Louis, and in a short time the miners com- selve[...]es here. I n the following discharged teamster in St. Louis and other places, spring the rest of the M[...]wn of some seven Unfortunately for the Colonel's theory, the pio- months' antiquity to beco[...] |
| [...]MENTS—MERCANTILE PIO- N E E R S — F I R S T C H R I S T M A S CELEBRATION AT C HH E I R C O M M O N H E R I T A G E . Over the question of who wa[...]there is when our pioneers first encountered him. H e was |
| [...]er of Den- somewhere down about St. Vrain's," with his wife, ver had been in the Rocky Mounta[...]constituted part of "Indian Row." H e[...]e question William McGaa's Cabin. of Denver's "first settler," it is to be said (From a sketch by the late Judson H. Dudley.) that there is no defini[...]to move on when spring opened. While the way is "St. Charles" company McGaa retired from the[...] |
| [...]wagons made fair from Georgia to the Pike's Peak country in 1858!. shift to live in the open,[...]e the worse for it. The founders of Den- son's [Hutchins'] and Easter's, and after that were ver had choice of these three ways until they had Rooker's, Barker's, Henry Allen's, Sagendorf's,[...]reek, Avhich are stated in the folloAving: Old 1st street is now Wewatta. Old 2nd street is now Wy[...](From a drawing by J o h n Easter.) Old Ferry street is noAv Eleventh. Old St. Louis street is now Tenth.[...]e street is noAv Eighth. "Smith's ranche." But as the Russell-Smith double Old Wa[...]s of pioneer tory is unquestionable; for the "St. Charles" prop- structures we will assume[...] |
| [...]might accrue to the builder of Auraria City's is now covered by railroad tracks. The formal[...]presence in the town company's record, if he could[...]ing made the entry. In re- Judson H. Dudley's Cabin. ply he stated that he rec[...]anything been decided on—the first of the town's builders. else but a rascal; that he man[...]ompleted structure on the ground. The late Judson H . Dud- ley, who was at that time Vice President o[...]ished several years ago containing some of Denver's pioneer historical data, says Hutchins and Easter[...]0th. Hutchins, who is now living in Mercur, U t a h ; and Easter, who is living in Goldfield, Colo-[...]ciates. Hooker's was the "first" one. Dr. Russell adds that[...] |
| [...]watta street is ob- Company by J. H . Dudley, Vice President, and scured. J u s t back L. J. Russell, Secretary, to Rebecca Rooker, (John's of the site[...]may still be seen the extent of John Rooker's reward. Another en- traces of the river's try records the sale of several lots by John, the[...]provements in "Au- but Auraria's long since disappeared. When R. E.[...]and of one in 1859. company's affairs in the spring of 1859, he insti- The late A. H . tuted systematic records of real estate for all the A. H. Barker (Deceased). Barker Avas one of towns, but[...]manu- Book E, above mentioned is one of Whitsitt's script account which he prepared be[...]the son in the Mormon family vember 1st began cutting and hauling logs for of that name Avhich, as we have stated, came to i t ; that W. S. Foster had then begun the Au- the South P l a t[...]st plat of a block, having his immigrant family t h a t located on the site of Den- logs on the[...]A. H. Barker's Cabin.[...]ouble log-cabin, and upon the town-site. H e confirms the priority of the its occupancy Mrs. Rooker, John's mother, became Hutchins and Easter cabin, and of Rooker's, which the first white woman housekeeper i[...] |
| [...]h or 7th, must have been finished after Sur- imer's on the southwest corner of Fifteenth and veyor Fo[...]Larimer streets, Moyne and Rice's on the southeast Our engraving of the Barker c[...]ng he had made from mem- and Lawrence and Dorsett's on the northeast cor- ory several years ago. The[...]Wynkoop streets, . excepting that Moyne and Rice's and Lawrence and but the picture does not exactly conform to the Dorsett's were double ones. survey, nor to the locality's topography at that With respect to "firs[...]s have generally dent of the Town Company; Judson H . Dudley, stated that the first cabin was built b[...]ader among the "Auraria City" pioneers, built mer's temporary occupation of the Nichols cabin on the[...]koop while his own was building. His son, William H . streets. E. A. Willoughby and M. A. Avery built[...]e northwest corner of Wynkoop and that his father's cabin was the first one built under Thirteenth st[...]he "Denver City" jurisdiction. But E. A. Wil- ker's. A. C. Wright was assigned a lot by the loughby,[...]completed and occupied by mer and Tenth streets. H e cut and hauled logs "Denver City" men Avas the[...]noted as of special interest to any except their H . Larimer recalls that Moyne and Rice whip- owner[...]r shop purposes. William ful rank of a blacksmith's shop, was the cabin Graham, the pioneer druggist of Denver, shared which S. S. Curtis and his comrades built for the cabin of M[...]chols, the poverty-stricken custodian of winter. "St. Charles," early in November, 1858. But, as General Larimer's cabin stood well back on the "St. Charles" went no further than that, the h[...] |
| [...]mall, glazed me of a trader at O'Fallon's Bluffs, and they cost sash, which they used in th[...]ing, as it was in the other end. General Larimer's The "dirt roofs" with which nearly all of[...]not certainly known. I t had a door, says, Mr. W. H. H . Larimer, made of boards sawed out with a whipsa[...]f the cabin was made from a drawing sent us by W. H . H . Larimer, who says: "The original picture of the[...]site of the E. P. Stout's Cabin.[...]time that The right of General Larimer's cabin to t h e it would have been difficult to decide at the t[...]own Com- for the statement. Collier, as W. H . H. Larimer pany, built a cabin at the northwest cor[...]Larimer's cabin, and therefore did help to build[...]able that the story had its origin. H e and William[...]side of Larimer street between Stout's cabin and[...]H e drove an ox-team across the plains at a most[...]City until December 1st. It would not seem prob-[...]y," who, as orig- General Larimer's Cabin. inal shareholders, had ple[...]immediately. " F i r s t " things, as we have already Fourteenth and Lar[...]this instance there is no support. Collier was t h e first of December. Of it he has giA;en u[...] |
| [...]any serious consideration as a pioneer mer- pany's works about October 27th or 28th, 1858; our c[...]int e n t i o n a l The distance of Riethmann's first cabin from the business men, the Cherry creek settlements Avas almost as great as first w h o came that of the pioneer toAvn of "Montana[...]tt, the Rogers, and the Stout buildings 1 i s hing themselves were not alone in taking form and[...]Charles H. Blake (Deceased). The most pretentious domici[...]uring that winter of 1858-59 was the log "St. Charles." They dwelling of H . P . A. Smith, Governor Denver's Avere Charles H. Blake and Andrew J. Williams— "Probate J u d g[...]and other frontier ninety days after the companj^'s organization, and customers. There Avas then[...]l who had decided to stay, and made ber 1st. They lost no time in building a large ready for[...]se promoters saw that the enterprising busi- Pike's Peak country, but a few months after n[...]until the following has been set forth as "Denver's pioneer business spring. man," and has been[...]self here as a mer- sheet-iron, and tinner's goods. I t was in charge chant, nor did he[...] |
| [...]r the northwest very early in the spring of 1S59. I n his story he corner of Market and that st[...]moved the business of Richens Wooton's advent in Auraria that were[...]attaining both ends, than the one he adopted. ' H e Early in[...]invited ber, t h e exact date his callers to help themselves in[...]safe to say they tried. of two of Denver's pioneers do not agree. I n an Their policy was t[...]ed in, every one helped himself freely, joys of t h a t holiday. Richens L. Wooton, with a usi[...]yards. I t is needless to say t h a t the whole camp arrived in Auraria early in the morning of that got hilarious." day. H e had come hither from F o r t Union, New Mexico,[...]he goods tier trader, Colonel Ceran St. Vrain, had located being placed on sale, the thi[...]building a small distillery at the little Wooton's narrative of his life and adventures, says[...]pioneer began business; and that after NeAV Year's times lost his balance and bearin[...] |
| [...]ds his opinion of the con- of 1858. Russell's cabin stood on the east side tents of his barrel[...]Map showing locations of Auraria City's Pioneer Cabins. (1, Jack O'Neill's; 2, Russells' and Trader Smith's; 3, McGaa's- " I t may be of interest to some to note that the 4, J o h n Rooker's; 5, Judson H. Dudley's; 6, Blake and Williams'- 7, A. H. Barker's; 8. Willoughby and Avery's; 9, Henrv Allen's- first Masonic meeting was held in a log cabin 10, Dr. L. J. Russell's; 11, Blood, Brown, et al.; 12, Hutchins' owned by Sagendorf & Lehow, December 10, 1858. and Easter's; 13, Kinna and Nye; 14. Wooton's Building- 15 Sagendorf and Lehow's; 16, J. D. Ramage's. Numbers do not I n the same place a banquet was[...]m- indicate order of erection.) memorate St. John's day. There were present at this meeting An[...] |
| [...]Leavenworth proceedings and de- Methodist church. H e reached here early in De- clared that[...]ies of town on that side of the creek; t h a t it stood to meetings in the little hamlets, t[...]majority of the incoming people had located Mrs. H . Murat, wife of the "Count;" Mrs. Smoke,[...]ly cheerful places that winter, though Pike's Peak region. the weather at times was exceptionally mild and After Denver's usurpation of the site of ill- pleasant. Christmas, of 1858, was like a day in fated "St. Charles," Auraria Avas also disposed to June.[...]eceding chapter, specifically charge of her rival's destinies, and anxiously accounted for[...]o do so. honor of having chosen our city's name has been That autumn was a fine one, and sma[...]d did is told by E. P . Stout, the company's first Presi- not subside until toward the close of the next year, dent ; confirmed by S. S. Curtis; and the fact is of when the more conserv[...]d the Constitution," and elected officers on the "St. Charles" enterprise, and cared less. Smith,[...]ade fair beginnings, though as to which were the "St. Charles" land the Aurarians had affected[...] |
| [...]the imme- "All the region from Long's Peak around by diate future.[...]tious frontier hamlets, the spectator's from Placer Camp, and intermediate camps[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XXIV. E F F E C T I N T H E E A S T OF " P I K E ' S P E A K S T O R I E S " I N W I N T E R OF 1858-59;—GREAT I N V A S I O N I N T H E Through the winter of 1858-59 the "Pike's Peak of promise, and in the spr[...]l of excitement, and then Pike's Peak in the hazy distance, gladdened their |
| [...]rest, and in its impotency people—every mother's son of them—were com- was unable to[...]hat year by the masses of the people. and Jackson's work had been done, no gold had Signs o[...]marvellously rich discoveries of gold at Pike's and probably two-thirds of them were actua[...] |
| 23S HISTORY[...]leans, St. Louis were among[...]tunity offered, and more pany on the plains t h a t year or in the next one. than one isolated unfortunate had his dreams of H e could hardly get out of sight of others bound[...]of this hegira ery. Their supplies gave out, t h e new ways led was ever seen before, nor w[...] |
| [...]journey was half com- announcement "Pike's P e a k ; " that conspicuous pleted. Others set o[...]d by that time learned this the words, "or B u s t ; " and one whose cattle had _that the great, s[...]his proclamation so that it read in full: "Pike's a most dangerous thing to them, and were inclined[...]y out of reach. "What we saw at Pike's Peak." Some emigrants who came by Avay of the[...]und in great great purpose—digging gold at Pike's Peak. On abundance in the "buffa[...] |
| [...]hile on their journey across by these accidents t h a n were saved by possession of the firearms. B u[...]bed by a writer who saw it encamped for the n i g h t : " I t comprised six or seven heavy wagons,[...]rriage and pair of horses conveying the patriarch's family; some two or three hundred head of cows, s[...]yet, it applies with almost equal force to t h a t of blesome fashion of suddenly rising to floo[...]ame follies after they got here—Fortune driA^er's worldly possessions. But the streams out[...] |
| [...]irly be said that as a rule those brought in by t h e great tidal waA^e of 1859 Avere led on by motiv[...]ars. These 1859 and 1860, in the Pike's Peak region, were men had no such purposes[...] |
| [...]ity, or even an important town. B u t the t r u t hH e r founding was none for personal adornment, eve[...]became fixed in the minds tion is intended for t h e great mass of the multi- of the pe[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XXV. PROGRESS O F C H E R R Y C R E E K T O W N S — N E W B U S I N E S S ENTERPRISES—FIRST[...]IRST FERRY—FIRST B I R T H I N T H E S E T T L E M E N T S — C A R E E R OF T H E FIRST-BORN That winter of 1858-59 had[...]genius, a Frenchman named H . Murat, who was |
| [...]7th—William Mc- this period of Denver's development; one which Gaa, Charles Nichols, L. W[...]ress, and which, because of its occurrence on t h e the Kansas Territorial Legislature a "charter"[...]by the partisans of "Denver City." I t Avas t h e having procured the "charter" upon his return t[...]mouth of Cherry creek aside the "benefit" of J o h n S. Smith and McGaa the from what may have[...]tion of this interesting event accords to it t h e organization was effected. John Smith gave it n[...]the editor of Thomas Warren, a Kentuckian, a t t h a t time began this work, that the date was[...]Mrs. McGaa, a few years after William's death,[...]McGaa, and George R. BroAvn, the latter of t h e (From a recent photograph.)[...]William Denver McGaa, Denver's first born,, venience, had originally been named[...]from the time he was old enough to ride until h e by stretching a heavy rope across the stream an[...]was twenty-one. H e then entered the government making it securely[...]or cattle. I n 1894 he became I n d i a n angle t h a t the current impacting upon its sides,[...] |
| [...]northeast corner of that blasts of the Frost King's icy breath than they had street and Fifteen[...]them close by in the west. I t was fear of winter's rigors that had prompted some who had come out th[...]pring, rather than brave the conditions of winter's sojourn here—con- ditions which many imaginatio[...]and for sending their letters away. & Pike's Peak—Avas given 1,460 town lots by the T[...] |
| [...]n the mountains had on the shareholders. William H . Russell, President of two communities.[...]the corner of Fifteenth express company, Colonel S. S. Curtis has Avell street. Constructed by[...]son's sketches does not show the building as large[...]City in population, notAvithstanding the latter's encroachments upon her business circles. Many o[...]1859. of a business house in Auraria, that toAvn's first it Avith their stock, and the remainde[...]tAveen Market and Wazee, on Denver City's first hotel. I t was commonly known the ground n[...]ecame the first planking, according to its OAvner's story, used "Elephant Corral!" headquarters, fo[...]ing public meetings. Elbridge Gerry, a but Wooton's account says it was the first build-[...] |
| [...]ong these would-be State-founders were am- it—a price that was most encouraging to the en- bit[...]ee from the Missouri river; one was brought by N. S. years could pass there would be in the Rocky Wyatt and H i r a m P . Bennet, and the other by Moun[...]of law the country might as well have from Cooper's mill and was delivered on April been under the nominal jurisdiction of Massachu- 21st to R. L. Wooton and Thomas Pollock, Avho built[...]o their prophecy, frame houses in Auraria; Wooton's a small dwell- for within a year after their first convention met ing, and Pollock's a two-story building at the there were[...]lly fulfilled. first frame dwelling, with Pollock's hotel as the On April 13th J o h n L. Merrick arrived in Den- second frame buildin[...]leted my log store-building, I Merrick's material reached here on April 13th he built a fr[...]the fourth ment, and upon coming to F o r t St. Vrain, Dailey one. The demand for lumber[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. fact t h a t she had been chosen by its proprietors as[...]of the people who Avere going ond story of Wooton's "business block"—and this, ba[...]ied Avith them samples of gold by the way, made t h a t structure the first "office- dus[...]t h a t my party might object to crossing the stream[...]dings. The heaviest wagon got into a sink- Wooton's Building: first of two stories at the mouth of Ch[...]Aveek. establishment of a P r i n t i n g P r e s s ; also that there "We located a camp at St. Vrain so as to give be donated to Messrs. R. L.[...]wspaper than had been re- I n the meantime J o h n L. Merrick had estab- ported. li[...]y creek—at Blake street, so we did not get neer's issue of April 23, was its first and last[...] |
| [...]ed E. named Merrick had preceded us by some days. H e did nothing until we arrived and then he became[...]t for the pur- very anxious to print a paper too. H e got a log pose of building an ice hous[...]ity did not end with this, for, at the of Merrick's was issued only once. The next day same[...]cky Mountain News' office, second story of Wooton's Building,[...]the Sev- the single flooring of the room. Wooton's estab-[...]arians made a sort Knight, and Daniel K n i g h t ; tAvo lots to H. Murat of "lot dividend," as provided for[...] |
| [...]forty by eighty, and the others Bassett's death. H e had been a Missouri river twenty by thirty fe[...]Captain, and was of an arbitrary dis- fith, W. H . Bassett, and R. H. Lusby, one share position. As was aft[...]Winchester, P . Llalsey, W. J. Bassett's cabin, on the south side of Larimer street Boyer, H . E. Hunt, and J. T. Younker; to D. D.[...]eports circulated by Bas- each; and to Governor S. W. Beall four shares. set ensued. B[...]ay gaging in the meantime with William H. Russell in making improvements. Indeed, the re[...]ng for and outfitting the Pony Express. shows t h a t through that Avinter and spring the[...]ple's Court was organized with Charles A. LaAv- haran[...]H. P. Bennet, and John C. Moore; while the prose- Company's approval," is one recorded fiat of this[...]e hands of W. P . McClure. Scud- period. Judson H . Dudley sold a lot to a new-[...]with William H . Russell, with whom he was asso- nied his righ[...]esolved that "we hereby ciated many years. H e is still interested in mining cancel said sal[...]own Company Then they had a rumpus with John S. Smith were also employed during t[...]are concerning " g r a n t s " and "donations" of lots; to the adoption of the following on April 1st:[...]nd the donations for the ordinary McGaa and John S. Smith for their claims it was distinctly unders[...]ecipi- pany that the said William McGaa and John S. ents. As in Auraria, many donati[...]non-pro- Platte river; commencing at the N o r t h East cor- gressive citizens. I t is plai[...]ouses This was f olloAved on April 8th by Smith's resig- not less than 16 feet square, to[...]declaration that he or before the 1st of J u n e next; the buildings to would have noth[...]dwelling Directors elected as his successor, J o h n Scudder houses, or stores, or[...] |
| [...]e poor men were of the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Com- getting in driblets only a litt[...]ith their neighbor officials on the company's coaches swung gaily up to the previously west sid[...]onating Agent, and general manager of the company's affairs. The duties of this first-named position,[...]when conditions Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Stage office, 1859. were complied with saw that the company's "regu-[...]across Beaver, Bijou, and Kiowa Creeks, through H e had operated in real estate at Leavenworth[...]e been a tically full control of the Town Company's af- special price for the regular fare was soon fixed fairs.[...] |
| [...]of the tained the distinction of Pollock's new hotel built newest ones were of hewn t[...] |
| [...]XXVI. DEPRESSED C O N D I T I O N S I N T H E S P R I N G OF 1859—'THEIR C A U S E S — S L O W PROGRESS OF PROSPECTORS |
| [...]s, washed out several dollars' ciated with Pike's Peak by the swarm of immi- worth of dust each day[...]r sufficient to creek, this point had become t h e objective for the buy their daily beans and por[...]en daily starting back to the east, cost of a man's food for a day was about one dollar, warning[...]ithout seriously alarming many in the entire Pike's Peak region, up to May 1st of the sanguine west-bound host.[...] |
| [...]sing number phlet under the title "Pike's Peak Guide and Jour- was made to share in the pan[...]winter he, too, had published a "Guide to Pike's Avas estimated that one hundred and fifty thousan[...]emi- persons left the Missouri river for the Pike's Peak grants. I t was a compilation of curren[...]ndred miles to been first to represent "Pike's Peak" as a mining the river. The trail was strewn[...]Killed for aiding the Pike's Peak hoax." autumn to remain through the winter.[...]sell boys" all particulars of the Russell company's would kill both Oakes and Byers if they coul[...]on them, but the gentlemen escaped destruc- sell's intention to return with a large company i[...] |
| [...]ven if they A few weeks after Langley's Deadwood discovery were failures in everything el[...]Avas a mighty river with Capitol the Pike's Peak region, and Avhich had been the Hill as its[...]ains, with its advance columns some time before t h e Leavenworth men jumped the already at the mouth of Cherry creek vainly and town-site of "St. Charles," and re-laid part of the indig[...]heir search. I n J a n u a r y , James Aikins, I. S. scribed as flattened shot, or a kind of scale[...]by tumbling around in the found, on the 15th of t h a t month, some gold depos- creek am[...] |
| [...]its grim aspects; or that the sickening t r u t h should that can be said of what had- been done up[...]er- where they might alight Avithin sight of Pike's taking, made so to a great degree by their igno- Peak, and t h a t their labors would be limited to[...] |
| [...]ing sylvania, not knowing it to be "fool's gold," care- the veins from which the vagrant met[...]thing else beside "fool's gold" to be revealed in one day would be exhausted at a moment's notice[...] |
| [...]m if they continued to be foolish Jackson's Diggings immediately revealed great enough to rem[...]epression gave way place Chicago Bar, or "Jackson's Diggings;" and to unbounded enthusia[...] |
| [...]S OF DISCOVERIES BY GREGORY AND JACKSON—GREGORY'S HISTORY AND THAT OF H I S D I S - COVERY—GEORGE A. JACKSON—-PARTICULARS OF H I S DISCOVERY—ROUGH CONDITIONS OF PIONEER M I N I N G I N THE MOUNTAINS—JACKSON'S SUBSEQUENT CAREER AND D E A T H — N o MEMORIAL TO EITHER DISCOVERER.[...]year. fitful, tantalizing revelations here and t h e r e ; the H e told Horace Greeley that he was "detained" lift[...]nursed their faith through the Laramie. H e was unable to find opportunity to tedious months t h a t had passed, and also set the continue[...]nthusiasm. pacity as t h a t which had taken him across the Tidings of Gregory's discoveries and of those of plains, and lik[...]t, to a considerable gold discoveries at Pike's Peak, and determined extent. Though these reports[...]prospectors then in the Denver region. H e related as they had started. The discoveries came at a t h a t he left F o r t Laramie immediately after New[...]moment, for the dismayed stam- Year's day, 1859, for, as he expressed it, "a pros- pede[...]ess, except in the moun- fact, as stated above, t h a t he was from Gordon t a i n districts[...]he often told it, he began prospecting the F r a s e r river of the Pacific slope, in Avhat is th[...]self up in miles distant from his starting point. H e made the mountains, on Clear creek,[...]s discovered some gold on the N o r t h Fork of t h a t at Leavenworth, Kansas. After remainin[...] |
| [...]take the South Bend boys with him and some gold. H e was almost upon the lode the dis- make a[...]just a little distance southeast of the main lode's of the best, if not the best, gold leads that[...]d was done by the Avestern eloquence outcropping. H e found small quantities of gold that I ga[...]iculty, though they tioned, had been projected by S. S. Curtis about encountered some bedded snow-[...]he became acquainted with Mr. David ory's winter operations. They arrived there on K. Wall,[...]e encouraged to go on with their excavating. Wall's party were two brothers named Defrees,[...]at Arapahoe several weeks, and said: "Here's a good-looking spot; stick your in the meantime t[...]Gregory again, and Defrees filled the in Gregory's account, and being impressed with the pan half full of dirt, which his companion pro- man's despondent earnestness, agreed to supply[...]see me. I n our conversation Poor Gregory's good fortune unnerved him and he told me t[...] |
| [...]duly organize a mining dis- the metal from t h e earth. They appear not t o trict and to immedia[...]us took the precaution, Their first day's labor, with one sluice, was re- before making the[...]gh men in the Gregory party to own the whole t h a t summer's work, twenty-four thousand dollars. lode, divided[...]that he "prospected almost every valley from t h e Poudre to Pike's P e a k ; " yet there are no details,[...]H e certainly did not have time to work down t o -[...]ward Pike's Peak.[...]two hundred dollars a day" for his services. H e is[...]ing the thing Avas done. Dr. Casto was an Gridley's quartz and tailings for seven thousand Iowa man a[...]ned and prevented sold it for six times its cost. H e r e he disappears active operations on the disc[...]or ten from view and definite chronicle. How long h e days. Gregory started a sluice on the morning o[...]bler and finally enty-two dollars' worth of gold. H i s two claims brought up in Montana, where he died p[...]lars. The deal Avas altogether a credit one, as t h a t in the winter of 1861-62 he disappeare[...] |
| [...]263 Fossett's statement Avould seem the more probable, dia[...]ate, which Ave copy several of the discoverer's entries |
| [...]ted these particulars, he was startled the 1st of January. by seeing what seemed to be smoke asc[...]gone into camp in the evening. H e had two dogs[...]and the dogs; mountain lion killed one within H e went ahead, descending the mountain, which[...]ed than this One." to his camp supplies. H e remained there the en- He h[...] |
| [...]4—Pleasant day; made a long tramp Jackson's account is clear in details and conclu- : to-day;[...]y 8—Pleasant day. Well, Tom, old boy, Jackson's philosophical indifference for things[...]nk last of my coffee; after yet Jackson's California experience and his well- breakfast mov[...]east. The early rising time to this. H e had no mining tools with him— and the friendl[...]neither pick, nor shoA'el, nor pan. H e used his stocked his ravaged larder, and in mov[...]killed him after I broke his back with belt-axe; h—1 of a fight."[...]s, from "January 10—Storming like h—1; high wind and a historical point of v[...] |
| [...]ive miles and camped; got balsam and put on 'Drum's' wounds to-night. He others who had b[...]creek. The exact date of the party's a r m ' a l there[...]ns, and Recent view of locality of Jackson's discovery. (White x in middle distance indi[...]Jackson's discovery proved to be a rich one. H e Jackson immediately told Golden of his disco[...]associate, guide this gold-dust with him. H e then took Henry and counsellor on a prospecting[...]rageously unsatisfactory sojourn. Allen associate's secret. Jackson suggested to Golden[...] |
| [...]267 where been made, and Jackson's association with discovery, indicate far[...]the real character of many features of pioneer |
| [...], and incidentally the historic personage Jackson's death, and they are buried side by side[...]e, and the beginning journ in it, Captain Jackson's daughter, Mrs. Mark made for permanently[...]r Jackson or teen years of age—just a mere lad. H e joined a Gregory, not even the begi[...]at they did not pick up the first gold afterward. H e had the gold fever, so to speak, and fo[...]t t r u e discoveries of learned to love so well. H i s life from t h a t time on gold, from a correct historical po[...]for having thawed the gravel and found gold in t h a t midwin- done so—a distinctio[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XXVIII. R A C E TO T H E N E W D I G G I N G S — S W A R M I N G M I N E R S — C O N D I T I O N S I N M I N I N G CAMPS—WEARY AND |
| [...]ughest kind; and were glad of a teen, named N a t h a n B. Scott, who, after he reached chance to[...]and anxious to sell their surplus for the best price raria, and when gentlemen from the country[...] |
| [...]g tle became thin before they reached t h e mountains, to r e t u r n after reaching here,[...]would be a waste of time, The miner's bill-of-fare, therefore, was not an energy and su[...]"The miner's life is a hard and laborious one; the first week[...]AURARIA TOWN COMPANY. ORIGINAL S H A R E , N O ^ CERTIFICATE,[...]ginal. lars' worth of gold at the end of one day's work. on a frame of poles; cooking his me[...]after their discoverers This is the miner's meal for the day, and notwith- |
| [...]that the pioneers were min- men of the first week's influx, now an event a gling in the ass[...]mmer had done so, without a suspicion t h a t they had been of 1858, had returned to Georgi[...]hich he could work or not, as men taking the lion's share, but leaving a few he chose; prop[...]Greg- to be settled by arbitration. ory's and Jackson's, the gulch yielded a large On the 9t[...]ce which was afterward known as "Gam- witted. I t s members controlled the meeting, and bell's Gulch" and from which much gold was taken, electe[...]y, taking was proposed, to draft a code of laws t h a t should eight dollars' worth of gol[...] |
| [...]lding a of H a r r y Gunnell, a young man who had been a cabin[...]11 »k\ks tomtit J s (|<m) ^«eiy»»»^LQUEL ^ j ^ ^ T ^ J ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ f ^ L w L -*ffe:#*T 5, S | i u jy ^k/*c~.^§i£>[...]gold-hunters to follow the paths of t r u t h and right- |
| [...]perfect there immediately after Jackson's discovery. The methods and appliances used, were[...]posed quartz of that region in those son's Bar was exceedingly rich in gold. A little exciti[...]ery, LIol- but as a mining proposition t h a t kind of work lister gives these details:[...]the vicinity of the mouth of Chi- tail, Mammoth, H u n t e r , and many other lodes, then cago cre[...]two miles farther up the creek. their highest day's work yielding four hundred and The facilities at Jackson's were inadequate and the ninety-five dollars, thei[...]as rapid in a narrow rough and sixty dollars; J o h n H . Gregory, five days, nine hundred and forty-two[...]ied in the bed of the creek, twenty-five dollars; S. C. Jones & Co., two and the pits w[...]in one day five hundred and Jackson's Chicago company organized the first ten dollars.[...]April, 1859, as hitherto stated; their first day's sluicing from the Brown Lode in bu[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XXIX. HORACE GREELEY'S FIRST V I S I T — A . D. R I C H A R D S O N AND H E N R Y V I L L A R D — M R . G R E E L E Y ' SS — M I S H A P S TO G R E E L E Y A N D R I C H A R D S O N — F A M O U S REPORT OF One morning in J u n e , 1859,[...]ht as a passenger gers in those days, including t h a t of a stampeded |
| [...]dging at the Denver House. True to une's editor had a hard time of it. At their occa- nati[...]gambling saloon demanded a speech. On one side, t h e tipplers at the bar silently sipped their hi[...]ed without definite action, to meet again on the 1st of August. I t was to many of these State-builder[...]xalted to the summit of glory. The stories of day's work and rich leads that have been told me to-day[...]Mr. Greeley's Mishap, "Thus far no gold had been discovered within (From Richardson's sketch.) sixty miles of Pike's Peak, but the first reports located the diggings[...]k and his mule, and made the trip both ways 'Pike's Peak,'—one of those happy alliterations[...]with dan- color'—infinitesimal quantities of t h e shining dust —and nothing more, chiefly in th[...]ned facts of the condi- before our arrival—John H . Gregory, an old tions, prospec[...]and was the first definite, authentic and of Pike's Peak as an ascertained gold region."[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. about the Pike's Peak gold discoveries. I t un- washe[...]ut a little over |
| [...]result of but the Cache de Poudre creek, to Pike's Peak, tracing five week's labor. many streams to their sources. Earl[...] |
| [...]rails, crossing countless un- reached 'Pike's peak/ we concluded to do as he re- bridged water-[...]er—this whole Alpine region dead, A. H . Richardson is dead, Bill Sommers and will be sn[...]s Avho were intimately the birth of Denver's pioneer newspaper. H e died associated with the early history of newsp[...]1900. prietor of the Golden Transcript. H e was one Some incredulous people in t h e east and other of the printers who put this one[...]ory's Avas unheralded. had just arrived from across the[...]- " I told him there were tAvo or three of us. H e then asked us to go into camp and come up and set ing condensed report of Mr. Greeley's remarks up an extra for him. As we were un[...] |
| [...]low-moving teams, may received with three cheers. H e alluded to the they be enabled to do[...]vier purses." in examining the mines and sluices. H e had al- The great editor would prob[...]egion. resources were buried far under ground. H e Avas I t was by no means probable that all the[...]akin to fishing and hunting, torial organization. H e spoke at length of the pe- and, like them,[...]others, sisters, fathers, ers, that the Pike's Peak humbug has exploded, and mothers, wives and[...]e should in a feAV ravine known as Gregory's, running to Clear Creek, days go hence to Salt La[...]ic white which ought to have been built long ago. H e was population. Not gold alone, but lea[...]er City After their return from Gregory's, the visiting and Auraria City; pointing out that[...]ho were lowing extracts from Mr. Richardson's "Beyond here and those who were coming in droves,[...]o say in one of his letters from Den- ley's wounded limb, which had enjoyed no rest si[...] |
| [...], constituted man who took aim at him. H e was not troubled the furniture. The roof was of[...]boxes did duty as bureaus and cupboards. H e a r t h s of his non-paying[...]piled up like children's cob-houses, and plastered at the next world's with m[...]their superfluous nutritive and stim- Richardson's Sketch of himself upon[...]olen shirt and more tasteless than the flesh of t h e deer, it is jockey cap, drove a th[...]misfortune. by its little shooting match. While t h e great gam- Some were gentlema[...] |
| [...]he chief thoroughfares, Mr. Greeley's letters to the Tribune, and his sub- Blake street[...]sions at the time he first visited the west. H i s dollar."[...]le on this noted pilgrimage were Of Mr. Greeley's further movements the author repub[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XXX. N E W T O W N S I N D E N V E R R E G I O N — E X T E N S I O N OF GOLD DISCOVERIES—FOUNDING OF GOLDEN— |
| [...]nd was laid out in May, immediately after Gregory's receiving some two thousand dollars for the crop.[...]rop realized near eight thousand dollars, with J. H. Gest, was operating the Mammoth so fruitful was[...]d by the Boston Company in July, 1859. Mr. Wall's California experience had Structure, slightl[...]ed thirty digging it out of the gulches and bars. H e had claims on that lode within so short a time[...]al operations in the spring to Mountain City. J u s t beyond it, to the north- of 1859 he says:[...]ober, following, bringing glass not ory's discovery party. I t appears that honors[...] |
| [...]ter Kendall, and the hill, or point, after t h a t it was the only toAvn in the country that wou[...]gold on that mem- Auraria went down to Pike's Peak to lay out a orable 6th of May, and he shoul[...]ed when names were being affixed to the S. Beach, W. P . McClure, E. P . Stout, Lewis N . h[...]and creeks in the locality of his Tappan, T. H . Warren, S. W. Wagoner, R. E. profitable shoveling. Other me[...]xicans, came in and staked out November 1st of that year. The few of the people claims on par[...]Creek Pioneer. Gibson, who marked the city's beginning, for it was not until had bought Merrick's outfit, had taken it to its new then that anyt[...]were never at any time seriously threatened Arer's first daily paper, the history of which is in-[...]their prestige by places which had volved with t h a t of other Denver newspapers given sprung up around them. in a succeeding chapter. Gibson's pioneer paper at Prospecting the creeks a[...]ad con- Mountain City was published in George Aux's log tinued with great energy, and[...] |
| [...]d dollars a Aveek. By the and that summer's ending brought with it the con- close of Septembe[...]exhausted to the last dollar's worth this first sea- Elsewhere in that genera[...]together must have to permit working in the creek's bed, and fair re- found many hundreds of th[...]e r s ; the other, mills not[...]material for one that was r u n by water current's power to a level whence it could AOAV to[...] |
| [...]gulches had been Avorked out, By October 1st there were five arastras running the ditch passed into the hands of alien stockhold- on N o r t h Clear creek and two small Avooden stamp- ers,[...]s, such quartz as Avas too coarse to Gregory's to one about an equal distance south, the pass[...]ascending, at times, a hundred feet Fevre & Co's. steam mill, when it finally got above[...]d. There was none to make inquiry or nity, or t h a t part of which had workable claims,[...]an in that throng Immediately after Gregory's discovery and the[...]ide after scalps Green Russell as President; A. H . Owens, Secre- and plunder. t a[...] |
| [...]"Gunnell," by H a r r y Gunnell; were many more who still could f[...]"Mack," by W. Mack; were willing to work for day's wages, and for hun- "Missouri,"[...]"Rhoderick Dhu," by SteA'.ens and H a l l ; dreds this had become the sole dependence[...]"St. Louis," "Topeka," by Joseph H u n t ;[...]can Arastra. following Gregory's and Jackson's discoveries, it find t h a t kind of employment. The construction[...] |
| [...]P a r k county. There are alleged authority. The St. Vrain, Golden City and several other stor[...]J. Holman, dis- covered gold in fine quantities. H e called the place "Pound Diggings," so named for[...]en a large por- place Avas called Dead Men's Gulch, a gruesome |
| [...]m his descriptive appellation. Dead Men's Gulch afterward. The Buckskin Joe Mining District[...]and show the results of their labor in the Pike's the mining region, living in shacks, tents, wagon[...]he South Park, and several for a winter's visit, with the intention of coming hundred men w[...]s, thousands, who vowed they would the only one t h a t survived. n[...] |
| [...]tion of water, was about the only thing t h a t could pan. The sluice, for the operations of[...]r to I t was with such appliances as these t h a t most catch and hold the gold by its af[...] |
| [...]U A L I T Y O F P I O N E E R L I Q U O R AND I T S C O N S E Q U E N C E S — R U F F I A N S , GAMBLERS, A N D T H I E V E S — ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS—EASTERN NEWSPAPER COMMENT—DENVER'S FI[...]CELEBRATION—BIRTHS OF W H I T E CHILDREN—FURTHER TRANS[...]OF THE TOWN C O M P A N I E S — T E R M I N A T I O N OF THEIR RECORDS[...]E WITH WILLIAM M C G A A — L A S T E C H O FROM " S T . C H A R L E S " — O T H E R " F I R S T - B O R N " CHILDREN—BRIDGE[...]FIRST SCHOOL—FIRST D U E L — A N O T H E R PROPOSED—FIRST MARRIA[...]PROFITS—CLOSE OF 1 8 5 9 — " T H E COLD C H R I S T M A S / ' ' All the early theorists, and the pract[...]resist flagrant encroachments upon |
| [...]was raised against them before the People's Courts efits, as we grow thoughtless of those of[...]han those of the mines, and pointed out the en- " H u r r a h for the land Avhere the moor and the dowm[...]the settlements only twelve, the News, in Where t h e wave of the riA^er and spray of the foun-[...]to our vegetable market." judge of the t r u t h or falsity of the testimony daily presented in re[...]and all the News was publishing about t h e m : necessary fixtures over 500 miles at[...] |
| [...]his arrival engaged with LIumbell as a baker. H e the States and entertained many readers.[...]with him until the first of the following like t h i s : August, and boarded at Humbell's cabin; the birth " I t is said that a man take[...]The frame-work cause of Mr. Milheim's departure. H e quit Hum- is hoisted to the top of Pike's Peak, and a man bell on August 1st to go into partnership in "Den- gets on and slide[...]three more to her parents. The deed for Auraria's Auraria side the celebration was held. The Declar[...]ved to be appropriate to a celebration of Freedom's birth-day. Henry Hum[...]had come here Auraria Humbell's, deeds were filed for record on from Utah, by way[...]the "first white child," and that had been Smoke's "El Dorado Hotel," where the "first[...]employed as baker John John Milheim's employment in the house in Avhich Milheim,[...] |
| [...]east with his wife and babe in the autumn of t h a t of the "first girl" have ranged all the way f[...]A man and and who was one of Denver's prominent pioneers, wife named Hummell lived in A[...]Richard Sopris, a feAV years before the latter's heim says, greatly prided themselves upon being death. Captain Sopris related t h a t in the summer the parents of the first white[...]halt in their journey from U t a h to the east. Cap-[...]J . H. Dudley, L. J. Russell, H . Allen, and. Thomas the new city. Mrs. H . Murat, now at Palmer Lake, Pollock. On July 31 st H . Allen was donated four and who was familiar wit[...]pensation for general services orates Mr. Milheim's statements. We were unable he had render[...]ittle younger, wards, Mrs. Richards, Judge S. W. Wagoner and when their daughter was born.[...]ears, D. C. Oakes four shares; to J. K. Elder, S. L. In- beyond reasonable doubt, to have been the[...]these morning," and was named John Denver Stout. H e lots, and Fred Z. Salomon was given u[...]is known riAral two lots "on condition t h a t he locate his store as Denver Stout. The fath[...]in Auraria." boarding house" in E. P . Stout's cabin that stood On July 8, 1859,[...] |
| [...]at Avas the had failed to comply with the company's require- last of the matter. President McFadding died in m e n t s ; and on July 81st appointed a committee of January, 1860, and on[...]harles L. three to sell such lots for the Company's benefit, Dahler was elected his successor. b[...]id not make many assessments m a t t e r s ; and dissension and loss of interest in the on l[...]860, relative to rewarding E. Karc- tary, and J o h n J. Shanley was appointed, pro tern, zewsky fo[...]South Platte. in his place. On October 12, Judson H . Dud- ley resigned as Vice President and was suc[...]Vice President but two cr three weeks when A. C. H u n t AAras chosen in his stead, though the record contains no direct mention of this change. H u n t , as our reader will have seen, was another[...]in 1867 was appointed Governor of the Territory. H e participated in the conception "and constructio[...]nd Charles Johnson Director; there being no H . Dudley. Nearly all the "warrants" issued were t[...]dred and thirty dollars, were issued to F o s t e r ; was called for December 28th "to c[...] |
| [...]urarians, and the record October 4th, Stout's resignation, was accepted, and extends over a p[...]d Treasurer, and Whitsitt was elected his suc- 1st of May.[...]ound correct in every particular. January, 1852. H e Avas faring well in donations, Of G[...]ty Directors with already been given. H e was a leader among Den- Surveyors Curtis & LoAvrey having become quite ver's pioneers, and is a commanding figure in Col- exh[...]t it was resolved "to invite proposals orado's early history. H e Avas a frank, considerate, from the different[...]," and the very popular here with every one. H e actively par- Secretary was instructed to "iss[...]Gilpin. General Larimer bore An example of t h e way they dealt with neglectful an active pa[...]s." Brindle and him into active serAdce. H e and his son William Hemingway were later reinstated but, not behaving H . H., went back to eastern Kansas in 1864, ter- well,[...]e purchased a farm Jr., and William Smith, of the St. Charles Town near Leavenworth on Avhic[...]olloAving someAvhat ambiguous Colorado's agricultural counties. action of the Denve[...] |
| [...]rs for merely "certified" by the ToAAm Company's officers her to sign," promising her considerable[...]ld not do. However, these matters are McGaa's child." There are many entries in the old not ver[...]resent titles. records of William McGaa's real estate transac- At this juncture was hear[...]rtifications" of been the last echo from the old "St. Charles" un- McGaa's ownership, and among these may have dertaking. So[...]citate given directly to her. that company's "rights," and were talking about The[...]s" in "Denver City" lot titles. There- man's child" and those of the son of D. D. Stout, fore, on October 17th the Denver Town Company's as to priority of appearance at Cherry c[...]he action of the Denver Town Com- "Resolved, t h a t no more certificates of Stock be pany, was[...]settlement; the file of the Rocky Mountain of the St. Charles Town Company, said agreement Ne[...]tion by request of the Board shall be drawn up by H . P . haAdng failed to be of assistance. Mr.[...]y that John Denver Stout, born J u d g e Smith's agreement appears to have made August 30, 18[...]rst white boy born in things satisfactory to the "St. Charles" men, for Denver, and the first w[...]ver City" side of Cherry creek; and t h a t the date, with the foregoing entry all record[...]t h e r e ; so, the Dolman child was the "first" whit[...]ate- Dolman & also 2 select lots to William McGaa's ments, and some written evidence of the[...]oncluded further evi- The donation to "Mr. Dolman's child" raised the dence would be unneces[...]fore, with a few words more we are done of Denver's pioneers, but had left the city many with[...]icuous "first-born" white claimant on the N o r t h Topeka, Kansas, and received from him a[...]s born in December, house built in that locality. H e was named for 1859; and says he was gi[...]ants of both sexes, the birth-dates as given u s living in Topeka."[...] |
| [...]other times a bridge was needed. The Auraria pany's Directors; and asserts, on the other hand,[...]e Cherry creek toAvns into one munic- C. H . Blake were appointed a committee "to see ipalit[...]we will presently owned by the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express[...]vas "on all donated lots inside A. C. H u n t sixteen lots "for building a bridge the 320[...]ade. The first was that of General 21st, giving them "60 lots at $10 each," for it. On La[...]full double- hold water for running a grist mill. H i s propo- track bridge across the S. P . River at the foot of sition in full, and the fate of the enterprise, are St. Louis street, on condition t h a t the bridge be stated in the chapter of[...] |
| [...]* CITY OF D H N V l f 1 ; "On motion of A. C. Hunt, Resolved,[...]ne bridge across the Platte river St. Louis, O. J . Goldrick, who came to Denver at th[...]ses to recognize this act Doyle's home ranche in New Mexico, which had of the board[...]F o r t Barclay, to act as tutor for the trader's chil- provisional clause at the end, is the last[...]ivide his train of the A u r a r i a Town Company's old minute book; so goods and send[...]y frame building on Eleventh street bridge. W i t h that entry the history of the Auraria[...]The other establishment was that of St. Vrain & men, dry goods, miners' tools and supplies, and St. James, who also came from NeAV Mexico, al- so fo[...]they reaped a harvest. Ceran St. Vrain was, as charge of Salomon Avho had[...] |
| [...]in this region, and one of the builders of Fort St. in a log cabin in Auraria. Some further par[...]t there were entirely new kind of sensation t h a t stirred Cherry not a great many customers her[...]a duel between R. E. Whitsitt and W. P . I n t h a t summer and autumn an active rivalry McC[...]brethren. gency as promptly as he had in t h a t of establishing I n the autumn of 1859 flour sold in Denver at Denver City on the site of "St. Charles," forty dollars a barrel of one hundred[...]acco two dollars a pound; whis- were Colt's revolvers at ten paces and at the first key, with[...]lure soon recovered from his injury, and most any price asked if the prospective customer the nex[...]s. During those times William N. Byers was more t h a n thirty years. H e was J o h n McBroom, an oft-threatened man, and upon more t h a n one who accompanied Captain Marcy's command in occasion had been promis[...]for the old fron- of that method of attack. H e said: tiersmen who were then left in the countr[...]name of Broom came to the frontier with Doniphan's com- a duel." mand during the war with M[...]Cherry creek towns, and the first in the Pike's Peak on his ranche near his old cabin, and in whi[...]aria City. The wedding took place at the Goldrick's arrival—he having been a school-teacher home of the bride's parents in Auraria on October in Ohio—he[...] |
| [...]pleasant social side to it, eA'en if Hospitality's kiln burned and ready for delivery. His exampl[...]," there were many social able things in price that the local markets af- gatherings of bright a[...]cal performance Avas the mines of the Pike's Peak region to be incon- given. The event occurre[...]orne management collapsed. Madame year's summer that most of them had lost their Wakely th[...]ting was afterward enlarged and named the "People's thirty huge freight wagons carrying an i[...], the "Denver City" partisans were exult- or Reed's Theater, in Auraria City. That noted ant[...]"Denver City's" salvation, if she really stood in to erec[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. cent; t h a t had to Avait aA\7hile before it became an[...]heit zero, the reader will conclude that t h a t was many to the pioneer merchants; the[...] |
| [...]XXXII. " T E R R I T O R Y OF J E F F E R S O N " — T H E P O L I T I C A L R O M A N C E I N T H E H I S T O R Y OF SELF-GOVERNMENT— I n the autumn of 1858 a f[...]d a part of western |
| [...]ions which then journey to the National Capital. H e bore with confronted the country it n[...]ensation for his services, and per- the Pike's Peak region, by an impotent act ap- sonally bore[...]unty." We could not ascertain sults of Mr. Graham's efforts at Washington, noth- what part, if[...]it leged benefit of the people in the Pike's Peak coun- became known that Congress had done no[...]of 1858-59. At this juncture and for the reader's would do something on their own account, and see[...]rn sections of the country. The county's primitive affairs. irrepressible conflict between[...]e between the Denver City held at Wooton's Hall on the evening[...]ry; when the purposes of the pioneers in the Pike's Peak coun- object of the meeting was stated by H. McCoy, try. Some people, however, raised a diffe[...]would be remarks, Mr. Collier introduced t h e following reso- absurd for Congress to c[...] |
| [...]The convention met on April 15th in "Wooton's propriety of organizing a new State or Territory. Hall"—the second story of Wooton's "business Which was carried unanimously. On mot[...]e second of the foregoing resolu- tions. P u r s u a n t to Mr. Stout's resolution, a meeting of the Auraria citizens was[...]"Auraria, K. T., April 14. " P u r s u a n t to call, a number of the citizens of IBS WKIE8H TEBBITOBIEJ Auraria, K. T., met in the store-room[...]AFTER THtPASSAdE Of Wooton. H e n r y Allen was called to the chair, and THKKANSA6-KEBRA6KA BILL M S X.I C O stated that the object of the meeting was[...]to act as delegates to the con- gall, H . Rogers, J. R. Shaffer, A. Thomas, and vention. The chair appointed R. L. Wooton, S. W. Wagoner. Thomas Pollock, and D. D. Cook. Afte[...]G. W. P u t - names of those to act as delegates: H . Allen, L. J. nam, and T. Edwards. Russ[...]fered the following Denver City—H. P . A. Smith, J. T. Lowrie, C. H . resolution:[...]ough they were H. Allen, President. W. D. McLain, Secret[...] |
| [...]amie, Colona, Cache-a-la-Poudre, Arrap- electing S. W. Wagoner, President; General Will- ahoe City, Boulder City, Lupton's Fort, Cheyenne iam Larimer, Jr., George McDougal[...]Huerfano, Russellville, E l Paso, Canon City, C. H . Blake, Josiah H i n m a n and —. Fisk, Secre- and Junction C[...]o notify all requirements. I t may be said here t h a t the Terri- precincts of the action of this[...]definitions were believed to be inadequate to t h e journed until seven o'clock in the evening:[...]west longitude from Greenwich, Eng., with t h e recital of the motives inspiring the people to[...]on the said parallel to its intersection with t h e independent action to establish a State Govern-[...]nce organiz- north to the beginning; and t h a t the name thereof ing here a new State of the[...]the 102nd meridian and the 37th parallel, were t h e City on the first Monday in June—the 6th day of same as those of our S t a t e ; the west boundary the month—to draft[...]went one degree of longitude farther into U t a h further arrangements to execute the purpose of than that of our S t a t e ; the north boundary, t h e the State movement thus instituted by these pre- 43rd parallel, which is the north line of the S t a t e liminary meetings; they fixed the second[...]Another resolution appointed L. J. Russell, H . P . the delegate election they established "precincts" A. Smith, L. J . Winchester, H e n r y McCoy, and D. as follows:[...] |
| [...]tible, and both roads will become not directing t h a t these proceedings of the meeting a disput[...]with a population hardy as the hills they case t h a t it may almost be called an immutable tra[...]e but nominal with each, H. P . A. Smith, Denver; and we at the mercy of men[...]l Dorado. Again, if crime be committed, the U. S. Courts The second Monday in May, named a[...]ntains, and the fertile valleys of the son's and Gregory's good fortune had not yet be- Arkansas and Plattes[...]selected William Larimer, Jr., J. M. Fox, H. P . A. |
| [...]DENVER. Smith, William Clancey, R. E. Whitsitt, S. M. Wag- Schedule—L. J . Winchester, H . P . A. Smith, and |
| [...]311 The first day's session was held at Blake & Wil- on the con[...]he proposed neAV com- |
| [...]Blake & stitution and would-be founders of a new S t a t e ; Williams' "Denver House" that even[...]cter it was much like that of constitution of the S t a t e of Colorado. Its fate the one sent[...]s also pointed out that The people of the Pike's Peak country having the jurisdiction o[...]dians here had not done; and they cited t h a t pro- law, and that kind of existence had beco[...]action they proposed. They also stated t h a t by delay. This enterprise has been stigmatize[...]diction, the Clure, a committee consisting of J o h n C. Moore, title to the region here was, under the common and S. W. Wagoner of Denver; H e n r y Allen, of practice of the gover[...]u r a r i a ; L. W. Bliss, of Golden City; and J. H . them. So, under that practice, and in the ab[...]tion whether an address to the people of the Pike's Peak country, Kansas jurisdiction, under an[...]r immediate action, tended over the Pike's Peak country. and recommending t h a t the several precincts hold The day[...]itorial Government." " S t a t e " constitutional convention of August 1st, The meeting then resolved "to report i[...] |
| [...]rried thither what was re- the people in the Pike's Peak country, was to take garded as the[...]psed before the prayer of the Memorial was Graham's task where he had been forced to leave[...]on as ambassador at Washington Delegate. H e thus served capably, loyally and there were sev[...]ithfully during the two sessions of that Congress H i r a m J. Graham, C. A. Roberts, R. W. Steele,[...]-61—and was instrumental in securing the J. II. St. Matthew, Beverly D. Williams, and George[...]ballot-box ular way in February, 1861. H e is now a citizen of stuffing." This may have be[...]ia and Denver meetings of Sep- Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express, came out of tember 24t[...]onday. v o t e s , and re- These, however, were not the on[...]ontana v o t e s , he was county," as well as the others, of[...]Mon- Willing t h a t the tana or Arapahoe, existed here, it w[...]worst of t h e Kansas Territory; and they decided that it[...]l political agent therefor the people in the Pike's[...] |
| [...]at we are that day. cut off from K a n s a s ; the next, we have cut our- On Tuesday, H . P . A. Smith, who had objected selves off, and[...]d the very next, Avhen there bombshell. H e had actively participated in all the is a chanc[...]a Provisional Government, for the following " H e r e we go, a regular triple-headed government[...]all the laws that exist in East- skirts of K a n s a s ; north of 40 on those of Nebraska. ern Kansas[...]nd swal- necessary or proper. low up t h e delectable uncertainty of law now exist-[...]Notwithstanding that most of Smith's proposi- The "Montana" mentioned by the News w[...]"State" convention of August 1st, it was an ex- practical effect.[...]some of its defects and omissions. Still net, J o h n C. Moore, P . Talbott, A. G. Baber, S. W. it was a fair document, and its cruditi[...]remedied afterward if need be. Dowell, and C. H . Blake; from Auraria, W. M. Th[...]d the bound- Allen, R. L. Wooton, Thomas Pollock, H . R. H u n t , aries of the Territory exactly as they had been John M. Clark, W. H . Middaugh, M. D. Hickman, outlined[...]was made temporary President, and " S t a t e " except as to details arising from the d[...]or legislative purposes was into eight President; H. P . A. Smith, J. W. Farrell, Henry[...] |
| [...]l trouble in creating a new For Governor—J. H . St. Matthew; Territory here in th[...]ssment in selecting from his For Auditor—R. S. P a r k s ; hangers-on the usual comp[...]misgovern, it. The "Ter- For Chief Justice—S. J . Johnson; ritory of Jeffers[...]e constitution and 11 against i t ; Auraria day's notice. As the convention had named the 31[...] |
| [...]limits of the proposed State of Kan- places in t h a t body there had been a fine scramble. sas.[...]very well knew the illegal character of t h e "Jef- stances; and by the great majority of tho[...]the whole Kan- ministered some of his oaths to t h e election sas jurisdiction and the e[...]d re- under i t : ceive the votes of t h e settlement, amounting to about seventy-five, al[...]con- glorious boon of the ballot-box in the Pike's Peak sidered its jurisdiction and the "l[...]nd was the first positive asser- derson's Island Township," "Beaver Creek Town- tion of Kan[...]een fixed on the 102nd merid- showed that S. W. Johnson had received thirty- ian, and that pa[...]pro- tory lying west of that meridian—the Pike's Peak posed State of Kansas, and[...] |
| [...]age full of good advice other candidates. F u r t h e r particulars of this and worthy suggesti[...]e-made establishment. firming the election of J . H . Kehler, Sheriff," who From its "mast-head"[...]its first issue after the "Legislature" met: Pike's P e a k country were hopelessly bewildered[...]was a variety of Territory of Kansas in the Pike's Peak country. opinion as to the name th[...]son Legislature" met in Denver Denver's prophetic suggestion that a new Terri- City in it[...]cil (or Sen- tory would be needed in the Pike's Peak country, ate) H e n r y Allen represented the Auraria district,[...]es M. Wood. I n the House of "Pike's Peak" would be a suitable name, and cited Represe[...]urged that it be called "Platte." But man, and t h a t of Denver by John C. Moore and all[...]osed baptismal names at that and a later time, J. S. Allen, William Davidson, A. J. Edwards, Mr. William N. Byers, in a recent reminiscent Thomas S. Golden, James A. Gray, C. P . Hall,[...](February J. N. Hallock, Z. Jackson, Edwin James, S. B. Kel- 23, 1899,) said: logg, A. McFadden, Miles Patton, C. C. Post, Asa Smith, J. S. Stone, and David K. Wall. There[...] |
| [...]60, as provided for in the "act" creating the no S t a t e should be named after a man, Washing-[...]hland, under which an election of movement for a S t a t e in 1859, and were discussing[...]was one of the earliest of 'the moun- taineers. H e seemed to be ubiquitous, for there[...]ree days after the diligence «t Cj>..t./NL,..^/h^tt^id^i£r..... } by virtue of the authorit[...]y aforesaid^ comprehensive, but were, after t h e usual practice[...]and Territories. One of the factional BY I t S COT1MO*.[...]mplified this ATTUT •• _ J£,/&>,&S<1*[...]construed to mean, " K a n s a s ; " leaving the named after him. H e seemed to be worshipped[...]statutes. "Governor" Steele's "Legislature" did laughed at the idea of calling[...]mbly of the Territory by the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express, and[...] |
| [...]urt; defining the duties pany, with S. B. Allen, C. R. H a r r i s , and H. H . of the District Court; regulating and authorizi[...]ppointing No- Jones & Cartwright, H u n t & Clark, M. D. Hick- taries Public and defining their powers and duties; man, and H. H . McAfee. Approved December 7th. for establishing[...]repairing county This was Denver's first fire insurance company. roads and highways;[...]ning irrigation; for a Golden, J. S. Rogers, Charles Fletcher, H . S. Haw- general incorporation law; to provide for t[...]s; regu- An Act to incorporate the St. Vrain, Golden lating licenses; establishing Cour[...]ain offi- John W. Mclntyre, J. M. Ferrell, H a r r y Gunnell cers, and regulating fees; to giv[...]for other toll wagon-road from F o r t St. Vrain by way of purposes; to provide a docket fe[...]imes of holding Courts; confirming election of J. H . Kehler as Sheriff, and fixing the limit of his[...]towns into one mu- Hill and Left H a n d Creek Wagon Road Company, nicipality, the p[...]ohn Easter, as incorpora- Park, with J. H. Cochran,-Samuel Brown, and J o - tors. Approved[...]. Company with William H . Green "and associates" An Act to incorporate[...]to incorporate the Clear Creek Lumber- Frees, A. H . Owens, Henry Allen, W. M. Slaugh- ing Company with J o h n C. Wall, J o h n E. Carter ter, and G. W. Cleveland. Appr[...] |
| [...]tains, but here in the "valley" there was a So, t h a t was practically the last of "Mountain[...]fleeced, at least." ceived t h e moral, and in most respects the unre- served,[...]til its inherent impo- as defined by t h e county-making "act" of the "Jef- tency became t[...]d been held on the day ap- partisans to deny. I t s "laws" could not acquire pointed, J a n[...]Recorder, Treasurer, and Attorney illegitimacy t h a t gradually lowered upon them. were e[...]on to accommodate both preferences "authority" at h a n d ; and made a promising be- as to jurisdiction. H e could prosecute under that ginning under[...] |
| [...]both in itself and in t h e estimation of the people; The last act of the[...]mation concluded with t h e following[...]me, and unto "Caesar the things that aro Caesar's" and I hereby conmand and direct that all ffEcers[...]At t h e election on October 22nd covering t h e foreground of the same, on which "Governor" Ste[...]y General; J . B . Smith, Chief ferson;' and in t h e upper side of said circle to ap- pear the words, 'The people are the government.'" J u s t i c e ; William Brackett and C. C. Post, Associ[...]te was very The twelve counties into which t h e "Legisla-[...]ernor" having been the larger t u r e " divided t h e enormous area of "Jefferson[...]g in Denver in conse- Park, Saratoga, Steele, and St. Vrain. Some of[...]cently come into conflict with the city's new "Pro- counties, b u t the boundaries of t h e old divisions[...] |
| [...]embly" commanded 1861. On the 6th day of t h a t month "Governor" little public attention. I t[...]my office to 'yield into Caesar the things t h a t are the remainder of the forty days' session with Caesar's,' and I hereby command and direct that barely a q[...]surrender the same, and from and after this by t h a t time become mere playing at law-making.[...]settle the mat- sible. The old Tennessee " S t a t e of Franklin" bore ter of a government for[...]an at- rather pathetic endeavor to make the Pike's Peak tempt in the old Territory of Dakota had some- country the " S t a t e of Jefferson." thing sim[...]ce. Steele was cumstances and conditions t h a t had brought "Jef- a pioneer of the spring of 1859, and a man of abil- ferson" into existence, and t h a t had afterward sur- ity and strong forc[...] |
| [...]HAPTER XXXIII. CONSOLIDATION OF T H E C H E R R Y C R E E K T O W N S BY T H E "JEFFERSON LEGISLATURE"[...]TIZENS—ENCROACHMENTS ON The second winter at[...]er the forms of "law." So far as the |
| [...]election judges were S. B. Allen, J. N. Bradley and[...]April 6th, a public meeting of the citizens of t h e[...]interesting memory. "Resolved, T h a t from this time, Auraria proper, shall be know[...]of directors to structed in the creek's bed, and within the next change the name on the p[...]s many more were built there, and Mr. Sagendorf's proposition further provided the strea[...]gaged in stock-raising in Douglas county. H e caught the "Pike's Peak fever" early in the au- then removed to Colorado Springs where he estab- t u m n of 1858. H i s journey across the plains ter- lished himself[...]ten years. Returning to Denver in 1884, he year. H e engaged in placer mining along the became Registrar of the S t a t e Board of Land Com- P l a t t e and on upp[...]the ample took possession of Clark, Gruber & Co.'s premises land-area claimed by the Auraria[...]rnal Revenue. I n December, 1865, —J. C. S. |
| [...]s and washed out, in a had in the country's future, and was the most whirl of watery wrath, t[...]nd important The energy and ambition of Denver's pioneers in impressing upon Congressmen[...]the necessity for government at- ver Town Company's Directors late in December, tention to[...]were present: one of the results of Beall's mission, his services at Williams, Lawrence, Blak[...]d Whitsitt. When the President read a letter from S. W. Beall in relation to our interests in[...]the first Republican Postmaster of Denver, S. S. "When after a lengthy discussion the following Curtis relates: Resolution was offered by C. H. Blake. Resolved, by the Denver City Board of Dir[...]ccupied as a be and is hereby donated to the Hon. S. W. Beall store the half of the first flo[...]ring the en- N. G. Wyatt who was the Town Company's attor- suing summer to pay out for my[...]myself the Consolidated Ditch was finished and I S. W. Beall in relation to his agency in represent-[...]ame down to Denver that fall very much On the 1st of J a n u a r y he had prepared a memo- discou[...]the north side of Larimer street be- against him. H e reported progress within a couple tween E[...]Moffat, George Kassler, J o h n Ming, Clarence Clark One of Beall's propositions to Congress was that and myself[...]passed au- Case had the Surveyor-General's office. I had at thorizing the people here to organize a State gov- different times John S. Filmore, I. W. Stanton, ernment; but in the event of such an act not be- S. I. Lorah, and George Billings in the Post Of- ing passed, to provide that if the Pike's Peak fice, all of whom rank among the p[...]Territorial government should be es- David H. Moffat and Clarence Clarke had ar- tablis[...] |
| [...]l was town. This was the beginning of Mr. Moffat's busi- long the principal one in town. I t wa[...]. M. Broad- for which it was torn down by H. A. W. Tabor. well, related to us that on the eve[...]t James Broadwell was told more than which Dr. J. S. Stone construed and believed to be once whi[...]e streets of Denver within three years. Dr. Stone's face. D r . Stone was Judge of the Min- O[...]hundreds of good men sacrificed Company's Directors after 1859 were of noteworthy their liv[...]mportance. Accounts of some of them appear Bliss. H e named shotguns loaded with ball, which el[...]ries in the old record, in March, 1861, we groin. H e lingered in great suffering until the wi[...]J a n u a r y 2, 1860, the Directors resolved " T h a t 10th. This tragedy which reveals so much of t[...]sorrow for the man whose 9th "Mayor" J o h n C. Moore and Sam D. H u n t e r life had been stricken down in the so-c[...]ng final had been done." Whitsitt was then au- W. H . Bates for Stone. A great crowd witnessed[...] |
| [...]came apparent, and Mr. W. N. Byers came near the 1st of May.[...]Auraria Town Company, under date J a n u - bridge S. S. Curtis relates for us the following:[...]H u n t and Pollock were appointed a committee N[...]rought com- ance with the Board's action. However, other mat- paratively high price[...]of Messrs. Fosdick sion between town and country. H e afterward sold and Cheever presenting the Company one of their them to J. H . Filmore for a spring-wagon, two[...] |
| [...]real estate transactions into still more the "St. Charles" bill and secure the passage of systema[...]did the work, and in the Denver Company's bill. The offer was accepted, payment for it the[...]the share but the labor was in vain. The "St. Charles" bill of the unhappy Brindle which they[...]t expense of time and Richard E. Whitsitt, Samuel S. Curtis, Charles H . money in endeavoring to forward the inter[...]ectors made A. J. the Denver Town Company. H e was given a judg- Williams President, and re-el[...]The last meeting of the Denver Town Company's 1860." I t was under this census—an elastic one[...]count, was held on March 11, 1861. After s t a t i n g inhabitants were counted in Denver Ci[...]enver in permitting Democratic newspaper. After t h a t no meetings Genl L Bowen to occupy t h a t portion of E Street were held until the follo[...]arge sum against the com- pany which on February 1st was compromised by 1860 was the sec[...]usand a day for a while. taken possession of the "St. Charles" town site, Dr. C. M. Clark, o[...]y incor- book entitled "A Trip to Pike's Peak," thus records porated. Such things then had[...]n the highland [Capitol Hill] just of the company's business at the Territorial capi- above the[...]amid which with a bill before it to charter the "St. Charles" could be seen the dusky fo[...] |
| [...]came in May. H e tried to become a great poli- town. One of the[...]ugh the many years in which he was widely F o r t St. Vrain to[...]Central Overland California & Pike's Peak Ex- time had been put[...]worth & Pike's Peak Company, were important bridge to Boulder.[...]pany's office to await their arrival or witness their pl[...]and all permanently situated at last. pany's Denver officers, or vouched for by some A conside[...]violence which was passengers. death's active assistant in those years. Some of[...]ng it, and its officers were quick to tims of man's iniquity—of those who were stricken[...] |
| [...]e Governor of the Keystone State. When I company's postal annex to its building on the south- ne[...]and Blake streets. I t was duroys, in a Pike's Peak cabin, cooking flap-jacks[...]for his own breakfast. H e is now a candidate for a large two-story frame[...]rs is the famous 'wheel-barrow man,' who Hinckley's Express, which, by an arrangement, tr[...]ach always attracted a tion of the F o u r t h of July. Preparations for it motley crowd in whic[...]their fellow-citizens. The pioneer women the e a s t : h[...]ty to be kept until Colorado should be ad- " T h a t symmetrical dark man of thirty, a swarthy Ado[...]the flag to Governor P i t k i n roads for more t h a n a year, a surveyor of the and it is[...]." State's other historic banners. |
| [...]CHAPTER XXXIV. Z E N I T H O F P L A C E R M I N I N G — T H R O N G E D D E N V E R — G E N E R A L N O T E S — F U R T H E R PROGRESS OF M I N - While the year 1859 had[...]e crime had been committed and the offender |
| [...]of them were of brick and some of adobe; Gregory's original discovery claims there were[...]curate picture drawn from a rude sketch in Barber's " Western States and Territories.") related tha[...]nsas, who was also, or had J. H . Kehler on the site of the Windsor Hotel, |
| [...]isfaction, in the business center had advanced in price, and of the element which had to give way.[...], sold readily one of the honored of Denver's citizens. Late in for twenty-five cents. A[...] |
| [...]be for other matter. When the Leavenworth & Pike's carefully weighed out. Peak Express Comp[...]at ington to deliver all mail matter for the Pike's appears to have been chiefly due to their[...]ress Company was addressed simply "Pike's Peak" without the and its successor organization[...]tended, was the adoption of t h e same name by sev-[...]some common, simple one, and therefore " J o h n[...]nearest might be distant more than a day's hard[...]in P a r k county in 1860. H e had received no tid-[...]walk over the mountains to t h a t place, and poor At the Stage Company's Post Office, 1860.[...]-four miles only to find that some other man pany's office in turn. This resulted in the spec-[...]in the adjacent office. illustration. By t h a t time the Leavenworth and I t was not until the summer of 1860 that the Pike's Express Company had been succeeded by[...]nd from the Central Overland, California and Pike's Peak Denver was regularly and permanently[...]erate the old and costly methods, and therefore H i s proficiency in his work and his familiarit[...] |
| [...]t 27th the pioneer of the Denver news- rates. I t s business was relatively a very large one pape[...]Lincoln's election, left St. Joseph on the afternoon I n August of 1860 an[...]of the News of the 13th of that month. This serv- H e n r y Murphy, Frank Amsden, Alvin McCune and[...]in it, and gave it the name "Denver Theater." I t s opening under his management, on November 30th, w[...]envelope containing message .with news of Lincoln's tion of the first railway to Denver was discussed[...]ents that came within his own knowledge, re- of t h a t year the theater had passed into the hands[...]fter the first murder- three hundred persons, the price of admission was ous assault was a[...] |
| [...]ion of a Territorial government, anyway; for in t h a t autumn it had been determined to again appeal[...]eded. The meeting decided to organize "The People's Government of the City of Denver," and ap- pointe[...]1860-61 than in any other period in the city's his- for almost every purpose were erected[...] |
| [...]an endless variety, a perpetual delight." see man's eagerness for gain leading him along[...]childhood at your mother's knee."[...]erfected herald of joy,' until the last fold Pike's Peak, like an old castle, 'majestic, though of night's curtain has fallen and shut out the in ruin,' lie[...]and poet, Seventy miles to the north stands Long's Peak earthly ambitions, human[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XXXV. R E I G N OF T H E L A W L E S S — O U T R A G E S BY R U F F I A N S — M E T H O D S OF T H E P E O P L E ' S C O U R T S — H O M I C I D E S I n the reminiscences of Denver's pioneers none murderous homi[...]there, and which suddenly did follow them h e r e ; |
| [...]r Biencroff and his son, after they had found ple's Courts "Vigilance Committees," because the[...]take and sent out of the world ple's Court was organized with S. W. Wagoner pre-[...]Stoefel's confession left little for his attorney to[...]to such enemies of the murderer's neck and thrown over a limb of the community, wer[...]e 7th instant four Germans, an old man, named J o h n Stoefel, who was a Hungarian, were[...]its mouth. On the on Vasquez's fork to look for cattle. But one, the |
| [...]t conciliatory strangely as to arouse suspicion t h a t all was not resolutions against "claim-j[...]r members insisted on immediately charging t h e occasioned but little excitement in the communi[...]of the 31st some parties went to the " j u m p e r s ' " On J a n u a r y 30, 1860, a party of men[...]early finished building, tore it down and William H. Parkinson and two of his close friends c[...]me but few improvements had Whitsitt's friends, from shooting. Other armed been made in[...]property of the Denver Town Com- ruary 1st, but no definite course of action was pany, which[...]t by William these attempts were made, for no man's title to H. Parkinson, who was heavily armed and in com- gro[...]atements Therefore, a public meeting of Denver's citizens in the meeting, which the latter denied and pro- was held in the forenoon of J a n u a r y 31st, with ceeded to sustain his denial by testim[...]some bystanders. Parkinson refused to hear them S. Curtis, Secretary, to take action and to provide[...]the community. adopted rules and regulations to t h a t end. I t can- On Friday afternoo[...] |
| [...]. They The citizens of t h a t town, determined to end proposed that if the[...]evening, W. H . Middaugh, who had been[...]active in that day's movement against the[...]es Harvey, came to one of the windows Auraria's contemporary turmoil grew out of through which he[...]mill. Of the last-named en- and news of the night's condition of affairs was |
| [...]last hours and moments he was given by " F a t h e r " town, using violent and threatening languag[...]learning of On Friday, March 30th, J o h n Rooker shot Jack his presence, started out to d[...]trial" and discharged, but does not state lodge. H e begged for his life and promised to wh[...]hat a difficulty leave at once if it were spared. H e was given five had arisen between the two m[...]ged with having said evil things about of McCarty's head and the banishment of the other Rooker's relatives, which led to the encounter. This leade[...]an end for a time to the "Mountain B o y s ' " saloon in a scuffle with its more flagrant de[...]illiam West, using a ately tried by a People's Court which met in shot-gun loaded with fifteen buck-shot, all of which "Apollo H a l l " and was presided over by William entered West's body from a distance of less than M. Slaug[...]men were from Leavenworth, Kan- Gredler's favor on which he could make defense, sas, and we[...]be hanged The shooting occurred in front of West's cabin on the following day—June 15th.[...]e presence of mediately attempted to escape. H e eluded his between three thousand and four[...]id the penalty. next day he was tried by a People's Court which On J u n e 20th Wil[...] |
| [...]was playing cards in the "Cibola Hall" sa- People's Court, presided over by William Person,[...]by a "nigger," and told Stark he would give him H . R. H u n t and John H . Sherman, while the pris- about as[...]sed upon him. To wounds on the 21st. H e had bought his freedom this Hadley replied: " I[...]in set out on a murderous foray. Entering cision. H e was sentenced to be hanged on the[...]ing in the saloon was a young German named J o h n this case, and bitterly reproached thems[...] |
| [...]itting on the pros- tember 28th. Gordon's hands and feet were mana- t r a t e man, held hi[...]corner of Wazee and Sixteenth streets, for t h a t whizzed about him but he made his escape to[...]ng distance. They fired and disabled the murderer's horse, but Gordon es- caped on foot, secreted him[...]ing and capturing Gordon wherever he might be. W. H . Middaugh volun- teered to follow and capture th[...]h, after learning purpose. The People's Court assembled the next the atrocious character of Gordon's crime and the day with A. C. H u n t as Presiding Judge, and identity and nation[...]e murderer and three times had a Gordon's counsel were S. W. Wagoner, J . H . Sher- rope around his neck, in frantic determination to man, H . R. H u n t , W. P . McClure and J o h n C. hang him then and there. B u t his Denver pursuer Moore. The people were represented by H i r a m P . assisted by the Leavenworth officers,[...]w Wazee street, between Fifteenth and Six- fling. H e begged his protectors to give him up or[...]s at Leaven- in front of Nelson Sargent's Tremont House in worth refused to allow Middaugh[...]ich was almost unanimously affirmative, Judge don's atrocious crime were prepared, and Middaugh H u n t sentenced Gordon, who stood in the street |
| [...]epare for death, in the mean- saw Babcock's party and comprehended what it time being care[...]unn daugh acting as executioner at the prisoner's re- collapsed under the first dozen lashes[...]were not inflicted. H e then eagerly left town and Gordon was inte[...]5th vigorously denounced the murderous deeds of H e was only twenty-three years old, and when sober[...]of the Considered in all its aspects Gordon's case was ground now occupied by the Railroa[...]itself more admirably, or executed its 31st, a horde of them were congregated there drink- s[...]se scoundrels headed by Carroll geance by Gordon's criminal associates and des- Wood and in[...]office which was then located Pending Gordon's execution his friends had[...]s standing as a citizen, was active in the outlaw's[...]ice Captain George L. Sanborn, then work- behalf. H e quarrelled with R. E. Whitsitt who was[...]and after roughly ordering Steele and Wood to don's friends, several of whom had vowed to avenge[...]the first man who molested him. While Gordon's first pursuers were tracking that Harrison at[...]ntered down on the South the desperado's action, whatever the motive may |
| [...]ch case, and Wood was defended by John H . Sherman, he presented to Mr. Byers and which th[...]on the News office. ishment. Wood's friends had packed the room, and Mr. Byers in the[...]hment. Wood and he, with the others employed in t h e office, bar- had previously begged that[...]the majority was agreed to by the others. H e was terion" and went down on Market street wher[...]presenting itself, but did not reform. H e turned up early in the Steele, growing impatient, mounted Wood's horse civil war as a Confederate gu[...]in the saddle and fired two souri. H e survived the war to be killed in 1865 by shots[...]a comrade in a drunken brawl in Texas. Wood's and J o h n L. Merrick who, also, was then one of the[...]ere News' compositors, returned the fire. Merrick's ordered out of the city and country by the People's shot caught Steele under the arm and passed[...]k mounted a horse and the latter's weapon was leveled. With r a r e mag- started eas[...]n told his adversary to Steele, which he did at t h e corner of Sixteenth, and' pass, but held[...]his horse, there he met the same fate t h a t befell his relative and was later taken to th[...]he aroused we are considering; and as t h e offenses charged and outraged people. All of th[...]oxen in and near Den- A court was organized with S. W. Beall as P r e - ver, and[...] |
| [...]was never publicly known. As the reader will ley's ranche, thirty-three from Mallory's, and forty- have learned, Ford was a rather prominent lawyer seven from Kershaw's. here. H e came to Denver in 1859, was a man of The des[...]by his acquaintances frequently urday, September 1st, near the headwaters of called "Judge." Whatever of t r u t h there may Cherry creek, captured a man with several stolen have been in "Black Hawk's" confession, it was horses in his possession. Thi[...]a position he still nominally held. H e[...]associate—a sort of factotum—of Ford's.[...]to Denver; that the organization was divided Hawk's" execution, he at once began preparations into districts with a leader or Captain at the head for flight. H e engaged passage to the Missouri of each; t h a t Denver was the headquarters of the river on t[...]t his intentions were soon known to that grim J o h n Shear as his lieutenant; that stock stolen in C[...]passed along through the others termed, and Ford's willingness to leave town, and until it could be[...]t nothing he could do should avert "Black Hawk's" confession was believed to have the tragi[...] |
| [...]suburban validity. The correspondent of the St. Louis Dem town of Montclair, and about seven miles from the ocrat excited the ire of one of Buchanan's shining Denver of those days. There they awaited[...]pelled him to write and sign a statement t h a t he to do s o ; and the driver was then ordered to pro- k[...]armed dividual had left town the day after Ford's death, friends, and defied the officers who[...]put on his Goldrick with intent to kill. H e practically dic- trail and tracked him all the[...]rvice will presently be related. livered to Ford's widow who had come here from On Novem[...]"Free Will Baptist" preacher in Iowa man's body, and taking the horses escaped to Ne- before he came to Denver. braska. H e was followed by W. T. Shortridge who Who co[...]captured him and brought him back to Denver. H e demned and executed these three alleged members was tried by a People's Court which, with grim of the alleged great west[...]horse- significance, assembled in "Criterion H a l l " and thieves, no one undertook to inquire[...]was presided over by William Person, with E . H . have closely guessed; while, of course, some cer- H a r t and General F . J. Marshall as associates. H . tainly knew. However, it was then sharply unde[...]ll-known and much esteemed citizen December 21st. A gallows was set up on the north of Denver, and is the only one of Ford's four exe- bank of the South P l a t t e rive[...]rs," was sometimes encountered in Denver's history by mandate of a People's Court, |
| [...]later, that would seem to Sterling Price's army then organizing in Arkansas. have afforded c[...]ation of the I n 1862 they persuaded Price that they could easily extreme penalty by the peo[...]cers, and Greenleaf, John Herman, M. A. Hines, C. H. Mc- the party started for Color[...]ederal authorities heard of the move- Stewart, J. S. Travilla, and George Wakely.[...]nfederate officers. The party who was of Harrison's kind, died the next day. His was int[...]the fight that ensued its every man was killed, H a r - to which he pleaded not guilty, and was acq[...]Of the people's methods during those trying[...]ritory" Appellate Court, of yesterday's comrade in deeds of crime, hunted charged with mu[...]and no doubt justly, condemned to death, and t h a t |
| [...]ur- forbearance of the people of those times t h a t t h e derous foray, were public. Aside from these cas[...]I t is not to be understood that the People's selves and strictly within the bounds of truth we[...]forms of crime in Denver. or four years of Denver's history, and have created They did, however,[...]taneous action of the people as crystallized in t h e distance, pure fiction. But it was a tribute to the People's Courts. |
| [...]CHAPTER XXXVI. COMMERCE OF T H E PLAINS—ITS M A G N I T U D E — O V E R L A N D S T A G E L I N E S — F I R S T L I N E TO D E N V E R The "commerce of the plains" began at an e[...]urther says: |
| [...]he persistent stories of gold dis- route was from St. Louis to San Francisco, by way coveries in the Pike's Peak region and the excite- of El Paso, Texas, wh[...]d to the eastward, had made it apparent that from St. Louis to El Paso and thence to San t[...]sas, across the corner of the Indian & Pike's Peak Express, a line of stage-coaches to Territor[...]working order, the regular fare from Leavenworth St. Louis, Mo., to San Francisco, Cal., 3,203 miles[...]season for a period of two months, the coach from St. Louis met the The distance t[...] |
| [...]important. After the enterprise of its own. I t s stations along the way change the two[...]rth & by way of F o r t Laramie. Pike's Peak Express reached Leavenworth from[...]cky Mountain Leavenworth & Pike's P e a k coaches early in May, gold dust, and its[...]le of weeks the novelty of regularly receiving T h e presence of[...]Jones & Company's alleged extortionate charges. though compara-[...]ective possible on the frontier, alded o v e r t h e and[...]one of the two towns at the mouth of Cherry m u s t be (a great[...]was made a Post Office town with H e n r y Allen as t h a t had b e e n William H. Russell, deceased. Postmaster. Allen had been[...]re than a year, and was appointed within the Pike's Peak region, some versions of which had[...]ell, Jones & Com- Railway was finished to N o r t h Platte, about half- pany were so confide[...]failure of these negotiations occurred about Pike's Peak line from the Republican river route[...] |
| [...]ations at Washington reached Denver, U. S. Mail bags which will be opened only by the[...]ed cents for each paper, in addition to the U. S. post- up in Pollock's hotel building. Many of the people age—t[...]same rates as formerly, they paying the U. S. "Mail Notice"[...]y 11th], and continue to depart every Pike's Peak Express Company, in which position Monday mo[...]year later. The July 8th, 1859. H . Allen, P . M. stage company's express mail matter was the source[...]raria Town Company's old record book, placed United States Express Com[...]ent in Auraria, and which States Post Office in t h e entire Pike's Peak region.[...]pany's letter-carrying business; as it covers only the N[...]one legally appointed Post Of- that Allen's commission of five cents on each letter fice with[...]had he continued survive. The Leavenworth & Pike's Peak stages as United States Postmast[...]r three weeks' I n acct with H . Allen. service, Postmaster Allen's mail carrier abandoned 1859.[...]ole No. Letters Rec. taken by him to carry the U. S. Mail from this from Aug. 3d to Sept[...]Deduct Free 52 last week's issue, written by Mr. Sydenham, had referr[...] |
| [...]owners at Washington, t h e Western Company se-[...]F o r t Kearney and Denver. I t s first mail coach ar- The stage company conti[...]eing so. After the inauguration of the government's assumed by t h e Overland Company. The Western new fiscal year,[...]then entered the Denver local field as will i n s i s t e n c e of later[...]between the old-time heavy, lumbering, l a t e r s e e , the English[...]h, itself a load for a fair team, Leaven w o r t h & and a good, big, covered spring-wagon; and was Pike's Peak Ex- v[...]e the passengers. There were seats with the Pike's Peak Ex- dr[...]eeded all others ever introduced Postmaster Allen's commission was not revived, as in the west. Drawn[...]five miles an hour, though in emergencies double H e fitted up an office in a little building on the[...]only it was accessible to them when needed. W i t h a one then spanning Cherry creek. On August 10, f[...]d States mails, and on pitched and plunged more t h a n a solitary passenger that day the "express ma[...]ing in the overland stages, especially over Clure's appointment and the location of the office the pl[...]y and the Denver Town trying and fatiguing than t h a t of the first day and Company; the inte[...] |
| [...]ered. But our modern passenger t r a i n s ; and his position, no- the bones and muscles of[...]of their journey far the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express, and later more comfortable than the[...]rst the Central Overland, California & Pike's Peak Ex- day or two. When opportunity offered the[...]entures that would thrill the folks back Pike's Peak stage and express line, and recent pur- home[...]ers the "Central Overland, California & Pike's Peak to an incompetent, reckless, foolhardy drive[...]e power at the head of one of worth & Pike's Peak line was merged into the new |
| [...]Other mail matter especially contracted for at t h e coaching and continued in their other business[...]York City." W. H . Russell. freighting and merchandising. At one[...]t courier of the Pony Ex- Steamship Company. I t s then current contract press will leave[...]"Telegraphic messages from all parts of t h e the Southern Overland Company—the Butterfield United States and Canada in connection with t h e line, in which the express company was interest[...]cerville & Sts Kearney, Laramie, as the railroads do among thems[...]Bridger, Great Salt Lake City, Camp Floyd, T h e beat the ocean route in delivering eastern mail[...]e steamship company nor the Southern 10th St., Washington City, up to 2:45 p. m. of F r i - Ov[...]the new corporation or did not ing, Nassan St., up to 6:50 p. m. of 31st March." regard them as of any importance. At that[...]x-Mail Line." The Denver fornia & Pike's Peak Express Company was organ- line was the prid[...]ulous and i t Central Overland, California & Pike's Peak Ex- could not be done; it was a s[...]ed securing for their contem- arrived at St. Joseph, Missouri, over the Hannibal plated through line of coaches the contract, which & St. Joseph railroad, then the pioneer railway t o wo[...]ollowing ad- pony from the Patee House in St. Joseph, crossed vertisement appeared in the New[...]p. m. on April 12th; at Sacramento at 5:30 p. m. St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento, Cal., April 3[...] |
| [...]ss than ten miles, to enable the April 14th. I t s arrival at Sacramento and San ponies to g[...]peed. The ponies were The time was scheduled from St. Joseph at one hun- changed at every stati[...]nge horses and to hurriedly eat his from there to St. Joseph on time. Denver was also meals. Th[...]ely heavy ex- and the rest of the Union, and t h a t need had ex- pense in the maintenance[...] |
| [...]or mochila, of heavy leather. These had holes t h a t would be profitable, in t h a t it would demon- cut in them so that they would fit over the horn s t r a t e the superiority of the central route as[...]his having been transmission of President Lincoln's inaugural ad- surrounded. This occurr[...]continent in March, P l a t t e river. H e was shot, and several days later 1861. I t was[...]pains were taken to avoid everything that would St. Joseph to Sacramento was covered in seven days[...]Indians. I n those days it was shoot tween Smith's Creek and F o r t Churchill, a distance f[...]and saw the daring riders fly past, without from St. Joseph, six hundred and sixty-five miles by[...]inancially the Pony Express was an unfortu- u t e s ; the fastest time any of them ever made.[...]turn it got for that was the government's sanction to the least possible number of seconds.[...]proximately : the Colorado Midland Railway. H i s subject was[...]ations, 200 station- tion to a pair of army (Colt's) revolvers in their keepers and the sa[...]rses was cover the 1950 miles from St. Joseph to Sacra- a light riding saddle an[...] |
| [...]otorious, of them was sand, faster than Thor's Thialfi; away they g o ! Jack Slade, of unenviabl[...]and messages from the eastern States "only H e has put a girdle round the earth in forty min-[...]ng. and the Central Overland, California & Pike's Peak Though the stage lines were making their reg[...]he contract a trans-continental railroad. The old St. Joseph therefor should arrange for carryin[...]the compensation therefor to be at the rate from St. Joseph on the Missouri, to San Francisco of[...]through the canyons, along the steep from St. Louis, Missouri, to Placerville, California, |
| [...]General supplied us land Mail Company's line, as such, still terminated with the followin[...]. So, there was not, strictly speaking, a 10,773, St. Louis, Mo., to Placerville, Cal., six times t[...]d Mail Company then took over the former company's mail contract for the unex- pired months of its[...]pment what had been left of the Southern company's prop- erty after the Confederates had confiscate[...]ngs that the Central Overland, California & Pike's Peak Ex- press Company, as such, passed out of e[...]the C. O., C. & P . P., the old Southern company's interests having been those of a minority. The C.[...]stage company into bad shape ter to be added to t h e letter mail to make an aggre- in the autumn[...]to five pounds of government quarter's transportation of the California mails un- matter[...]great through an enormous sacrifice to t h e former owners. The mails to California under th[...]yers, and Holladay took it at been transmitted to St. Joseph from St. Louis by the valuation of $700,000, th[...]bal & sented but a part of the company's indebtedness. •St. Joseph railroad. So, the old Hockaday "ox[...] |
| [...]ovember, 1866, he sold the entire es- appraisers. H e had been Paymaster of the C. 0., tabl[...]ddell in many of their in that company's stock. Soon afterward there other enterprises. No[...]purchased the stage com- Holladay's Overland Mail Stage line, including pany's property, had been engaged in many large[...]ly the best equipped and most efficiently managed H e had at times been associated with William H. ever operated in this or any other cou[...]sent management of a successful railroad. Russell's ability to conceive great undertakings[...]lieved the Rocky Mountain to be the "impassable H e had advanced large sums of money to the C. 0.,[...]oute by way of the isthmus, and several William H . Russell, projector of the Leavenworth days quicker than the best that had ever been done & Pike's Peak Express Company, of the Pony Ex-[...]over the plains and mountains ing it in another. H e personally became a large removed the[...]nstruction of such after by agents and employees. H e died Septem- a road. I n the midst o[...]aday changed the associates by a number of years. H e died in Chi- route of the overland lin[...]arose for a further change that would place t h e did, and was not generally known here. H e died in city directly on it. This was d[...]hence northwest by way of Virginia Dale. Company's property he obtained from the Colorado[...]ation escape the same competi- M. Hughes, then of St. Joseph, but now and for tion.[...] |
| [...]stage operations extended across the of Iowa. I t s career as a competing through line to[...]a relatively large tide of travel the old Planter's House. Butterfield afterward se[...]of them had brought enough supplies with William H . Fogg, William H . Gale, George A. Hins- them to last through the season. I t was well that dale, W. A. H . Loveland, and J. H . Messinger were they did so, for th[...]o get much dead weight into ter, President; W. A. H . Loveland, Vice President; t[...] |
| [...]Santa Fe. I n the summer of that year Hinckley's Through the following winter some succes[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XXXVII. D E P R E S S I N G I N F L U E N C E S — E F F E C T OF I M P E N D I N G W A R — P R O P E R T Y V A L U E S — P I O N E E R P U G I L I S T S — |
| [...]also demonstrated how sequently known as McNassar's, near the present little headway the gr[...]vast army of fortune-seekers had part of Denver's population was treated to the first gone when[...]bruisers William M. Mc- have had in t h a t summer a population, other than Donough and J[...]five thousand, three hun- pavilion near Parkinson's ranche about one and dred and thirty-o[...]been founded the metropolis of the region. Denver's possession it was in direct telegra[...] |
| [...], the trying hard-ships from the days of the city's set- late George W. Clayton, a pionee[...]time. ton nine dollars and twenty-five cents; to St. Louis some building was done and a con[...]nger but little hint of adverse |
| [...]restless, was a good place to get away from. That's where worthy, hopeful, despairing, reckle[...]ong Wazee, Blake and At this period in Denver's career the town in Market streets, outside the ol[...]ory high— a fire which became known in the city's annals as or, to make the best of them, one and o[...]rokee House which stood on the south- lower, in t h a t their loftiness made their frightful west cor[...]cuous. The accompanying which, after the fire, J. H. Fillmore built the build- illustrations give the[...]s a blackened waste, the flames hav- narrative, t h a t can be done to a limited extent by ing[...] |
| [...]gave the town a far more presentable aspect t h a n The burnt-over district was principally wi[...]9, Victor had a like visitation. While A. E. & C. H . Tilton, P . S. Pfouts, and part of in each instance the flames brought ruinous losses H . J. Brendlinger's. Fear of the fire reaching the to individuals[...]proved appearances and conditions. <fe Company's magazine building had caused the I n[...], and the same so far as it extended Brendlinger, H . J., Merfield, M., beyond t[...]rket), the Broadwell & Cook, Mickley, H. J., Campbell & Jones, Moore, —,[...]n the order in which they are named. Cheesman, W. S., Nye & Co., I n a ge[...]; and on Cook, C. A., & Co., Poznanski, H., & Co. Cook, J. A., Pyles, —,[...]nteenth and Crawford, —, Rice, S. O., Wazee streets. On the west the[...]ese "business houses" was transacted Fillmore, J. S., Sanders, —, over s[...]umble place in the public esteem for Gurnhart, J. H., Ullman, D., Heatley & Chase,[...]ime afterward. Fifteenth fared better, and Hiney, H , Walker, M., la[...]rival of Larimer as a business thor- Hodges, J . H., Whitsitt, R, E.,[...] |
| [...]any time. As building went were no indications t h a t it would become the large on up t[...]y thought community from center to circumference. H e was much about that, and the[...]its course, it tore its way, and daylight on men. H e left town on horseback, and was soon the mornin[...]all its outfit of presses, type and mis- Clarke's escape had been opened after the slight[...] |
| [...]mmer, greatly augmented normal values by rea- I t s real and personal property was worth between[...]f the office em- away; so, it is probable t h a t the estimate of a quar- ployees, were sleepin[...]Clark, of Larimer street and partly in the creek's bed, on General Bowen, August Mertz, J. Q. C[...]of the old sectional feeling between the towns, t h a t of Fifteenth.[...]buildings swept away. F r o m Captain James Reed's for the first waterworks, his workmen struc[...]n Cherry creek some dis- torical Society's collection, and they, with the tance above the to[...]young city, was principally the that paper's name, resumed publication of the value of[...] |
| [...]dollars and never would be. I t later be- stood. H e entered a claim for the one hundred and came "Brown's Addition" to the city of Denver, sixty acres, con[...]homestead house first stood at or near government price of two dollars and fifty cents per the present intersection of Sherman and Twelfth acre. H e had previously utilized in eastern Ne-[...]seem to be build- that quarter section. Mr. Brown's donation in- ing a little[...] |
| [...]ed in the direc- was the last of the Town Company's protest against tion of Canon City, and on the way fell in with a Brown's right to his quarter-section.[...]ado Cavalry, under Cap- I n June, 1864, Alfred H . Clements pre-empted tain George L. Shoup who was also hunting the the quarter-section next to Brown's, on the north, outlaws. With Shoup were Judg[...]now of Denver; United States Marshal A. C. H u n t , ing on it a small frame pre-emption house[...]led the was put up on the ground now occupied by St. united parties to a point near Canon City where John's Cathedral. Late in 1864 Dr. Cunningham[...]red, the rest managing to escape. The pris- Brown's were far outside the very liberal nominal o[...]whom it was color of authority, was t h a t part of the command, in no way responsible. R[...]d fired on and all killed; still another, t h a t the out- desperado. The band came up the Arka[...]r dep- ments, notwithstanding Captain Cree's warning redations. F o r t Lyon was avoide[...] |
| [...]ort. Many During the first six years of Denver's existence people believed their lives to be i[...]d of ver- first day of the storm, Major J. H . Fillmore, a man dure, besides being beset by du[...]ls, or hauled by cart or wagon pied by J. H . Kehler, who was a son of the church from the ri[...]had been made good. The new and uni- ness. W i t h 1865 a change greatly for the better, formly[...]laced "East Denver" still fur- which our "Capitol H i l l " is a part, was completed ther i[...] |
| [...]HAPTER XXXVIII. D E N V E R I N T H E C I V I L W A R P E R I O D — C O N D I T I O N S I N W I N T E R OF 1 8 6 0 - 6 1 — D I V I D E D S E N T I M E N T OF |
| [...]377 try t h a t is now Colorado, though several such flags[...]in Denver. With some- ward from that S t a t e ; and that the task to be as- |
| [...]ISTORY OF DENVER. Purchasing Agent. H i s government then took on could not b[...]from which to draw |
| [...]379 Hambleton; H—George L. Sanborn; I—Charles[...]afts were willingly accepted by those to whom |
| [...]Face of one of Govenor .Gilpin's Drafts. (Near exact size.)[...]"*S[...]he Confederate General Sibley was Governor Gilpin's integrity, the purity of his[...]Grande, had captured F o r t s Fillmore and Bliss cerity of his zeal to protect[...]expectation of taking it and then marching upon H e was in many ways a visionary man whose mind[...]and other places down t h a t way. When General active service. On J[...] |
| [...]itory, in which the Union sentiment strongly H . H. Sibley, a distinguished officer of the old regu-[...]commanded by commanding it in the field. H e established his Colonel Ceran St. Vrain, with Kit Carson as Lieu- headquarters[...]g and or- But these additions to General Canby's availa- ganizing his regiments. But he, also,[...]its invading I n those dark days in the Nation's history the march, the year drew toward the cl[...]capital in the presence of the grim Mexico. H i s little army consisted of a thousand fact that the[...]at, what difference would it make if the Dodd's company of Colorado volunteers that had southerne[...]e of limited powers, and in those paroled. H e then advanced up the Rio Grande and days here i[...]overlooking and to some extent commanding t h e the indebtedness; although our Governor acted[...]portance happened that day, but on the next, t h e nearest telegraph wire was more than a hundred 20th, a collision occurred between part of Sibley's miles away. The transmission of orders, communi-[...]nd tion, which resulted in Canby withdrawing t h e no one could tell how much the situation had[...]such tedious intervals By this time Sibley's men were sorely troubled of anxious waitin[...] |
| [...]brought from Texas. Early in the morning of the 21st, General Canby But, if the Mexicans h[...]fighting to get i t ; a condition the river at t h a t place. The Confederates, just precedent[...]ht. great quantities of quartermaster's and commis- Compared with the great battles of the civil war, sary's stores, against the close-coming day when it was[...]herefore, and regardless of the the currents of t h e Rio Grande, but he took a bat- fact t h a t General tery of guns from Roberts and added t[...]ain S o u t h , General McRae. When h e was ordered to take it across[...]tes t h a t he would were approaching he pointed* out to[...]receipt f o r t h e the guns he and most of his men were killed. Ca[...]abundant supplies tain Dodd's company of Colorado men bravely sup-[...]stored there Encouraged by the success t h a t had attended[...]nd F o r t Craig in his rear. Captain S. M. Logan.[...]st certain to receive a the war time, Pigeon's R a n c h e ; and here termi- visit from him. nated General. Sibley's excursion toward F o r t The American residen[...]d taking tions that ended General Sibley's northward march places in the Texan ranks were no[...]t. A large proportion of the fight- from Hall's History of Colorado. After referring ing m[...] |
| [...]Mexico, and report to General Canby for Kosloskie's Ranch, where Major Chivington was service."[...]informed that the enemy's pickets were in the "Two days thereafter the command marched out vicinity. H e went into camp at once, and about of Camp Weld[...]t Valverde, ten miles north of Fort Craig, Pigeon's Ranch, and before daylight on the morn- but, owin[...]xans under Sibley marched up the Rio of the enemy's whereabouts, proceeded cautiously, Grande, levyin[...]aton Pass was reached, of half a mile, Chivington's force observed the ap- another courier from Canby[...]forced they were above the elevation of the enemy's artil- march at night to step two paces to the fr[...]eated, without further orders to charge with well's Ranch on the Cimarron, having made sixty- the cav[...]command consisted of the First Colorado the enemy's supports, drove them pell-mell down Volunteers; t[...]ny F , First Colorado, having been sig- lin; Ford's Company of Colorado Volunteers un- nalled[...] |
| [...]latter having left in killed, Pigeon's Ranch, being entirely off their guard, wounded[...]ut before the order could be fell back to Pigeon's Ranch, where a courier was obeyed the[...]anced and fought desperately, River at Kosloskie's Ranch and encamped. On meeting a l[...]joined Chivington at pany G of the F i r s t Colorado, with a detachment Kosloskie's." of[...]ous of capturing his composed of Companies A, B, H , and E of the battery, when they were surprised by a detachment F i r s t Colorado, and Captain Ford's Company un- which was concealed in an arr[...]being wounded, fell back. tains to gain the enemy's rear, if possible, at the I n the meantim[...]capture them as they had captured Canby's at the same t i m e ; thus devising an attack in[...]yards of Slough's batteries, their slouch hats "About ten o'clo[...]deafening yells. I t seemed inevitable t h a t they mountains, Major Chivington and his comm[...]ets, and on the double-quick overlooked the enemy's supply wagons, which had put the rebel[...]ng except to fall back and keep out of dan- W i t h great difficulty Chivington descended the ger, with the exception of Captain Cook's men, precipitous mountains, charged, took, and sp[...]as infantry. From the gun, ran together the enemy's supply wagons the opening of the battl[...]bornly contested. I n no instance did Slough's de-camp on Colonel Slough's staff, with the in- forces fall back u[...]hours, defeated and had fallen back to Kosloskie's. Upon without rest or refreshment, the battle raged inces- the supposition t h a t this information was correct, santly. At[...]it and saved it from falling into the enemy's ment had left in the morning, Colonel Slough with[...]n compelled to give ground all day, ing at Pigeon's Ranch, gave orders for the troops[...] |
| [...]riod of civil war. until he arrived at Kosloskie's. A truce was en- Under orders from Ge[...]supply his forces." Canby's forces at Carnuel Pass, on the 13th. On "The[...]State of Colorado by the United States, in 1S98. anxious to get out of the country as he had th[...]n a rest, although they ran very Canon, of Pigeon's Ranche, and of La Glorieta. sh[...] |
| [...]his condition the regiment served there after t h a t most active and extraordinary until it was mu[...]dinate officers great embar- Texas was Chivington's victory. H e had no mili- rassment was entailed by their di[...]whirlwind in strife, he had that other ton. Of t h e latter, in the report of the Congres- faculty t[...]this Department, and after Chiv- t a n t General's department for the last year to communicate in a[...]nt of New Mexico, or to regiment transferred to t h e east, he was placed in answer his urgent appea[...]gements had been made for the dimmed the lustre t h a t his courage, ability and F i r s t Colorado to proceed to F o r t Union, Colonel s[...]the choice to rest t a i n ; John A. Latta, F i r s t Lieutenant; Adam- with Governor Evans. The Gove[...]d been broken into detachments which had been I t s nucleus was the two companies recruited under stationed at several places in New Mexico and Governor Gilpin's administration nearly a year be- southern Colorad[...]ce to they had served gallantly under Captains T. H . Denver where they arrived on the 13th of that Dodd and James H . F o r d in the New Mexico month and received an[...]ainst Sibley, without having been per- their year's absence and hard and gallant service. mane[...] |
| [...]emaining On February 12, 1862, Colonel Jesse H. Leaven- at Fort Lyon for such duty in[...]then immediately re- worth was delayed on duty at St. Louis and did signed; Lieutenant-C[...]cal martinet, Leavenworth, passing out of by W i s c o n s i n view.[...]r instructions from Washington, and which were T. H . Dodd,[...]Lieutenant - Col- Brigadier General James H. Ford. complete the Third was undertaken in ea[...]er enough men Green, George West, E. D. Boyd, and S. W. Wag- had been enlisted to establish a camp at old Camp oner for Companies E, F , G, H, I, and K, respec- Weld which, for this occasion, was re-named Camp tively. Later, James H . Ford, Captain of the other Elbert, in honor of S. H. Elbert, then Territorial veteran company, was ma[...]recruiting persisted in sticking. S. S. Curtis had been ap- proceeded slowly. Large numb[...]ory Indians roaming be filled, James H . Ford, then Major of the Second the country, con[...]onel, with ing, and several parties of the Second's recruits Jesse L. Pritchard as Major.[...]panies were was not filled. By the 1st of February, 1863, fully organized.[...]regi- Company A under Captain R. R. H a r b o u r ; B, un- ment left Camp Weld o[...] |
| [...]the First Regiment by being absent, and t h a t I Leavenworth without delay; but there was de[...]ation for supplies and equipage. I t was not H e immediately offered and made me an appoint-[...]Second Colorado, which ap- until March 3rd that t h e five companies left camp pointment I hel[...]ter. I went 26th they embarked on a steamboat for St. Louis to Washington and splurged in t[...]in the Governor's mind. I n the fall of 1862 I gave twenty miles so[...]s where I se- into camp for instruction. On May 21st they were cured an appointment as Lieut[...]ll the way, with a loss of but a single Through t h a t sum- ma[...]and ordered the detachments of the B a r r a c k s , St. Second tha[...]do to Louis, to be con- Lieutenant Colonel Samuel S. Curtis. go to Kansas City, together with ab[...]ized as the Second Colorado Cavalry. Companies H , I, K, L, and M, of the Second Colo- James H . Ford who had become Major of the rado Cavalry,[...]the new regiment; T. H . Dodd, Lieutenant-Colonel; Of the circumstances leading up to his appoint- and S. S. Curtis, J. Nelson Smith, and Jesse L. ment as Li[...]the poll-books to fested with Quantrell's, Hickman's, and Todd's Fairplay, Buckskin Joe, California Gulch and Span[...]ts being ernor Gilpin promised me a field officer's commis- added to his own, and all distributed in detach- sion in the F i r s t Colorado Regiment, but having ments over the district. Through t h a t spring and gone to F o r t Laramie to get arm[...]dence, he I told him I had lost the field officer's position in and nine of the men kille[...] |
| [...]losses. In the autumn, when General Sterling H e and his men were buried in the cemetery at In- Price at the head of sixteen thousand Confederate depen[...]ing waste its towns and cities, including St. Louis, known by the people of Denver in the pioneer days, the Second Colorado Cavalry and McLain's First Judge Wagoner, was only thirty-three years[...]killed, not one surrendering, nor driving Price out of Missouri after having lost asking for quar[...]f his army. The details of that memo- ceived in t h a t kind of warfare. Of it, Captain rable[...]the Union cause, E. L. Berthoud, of Colonel Ford's staff, from whose belong to histories of br[...]Blue river near Inde- an address at the regiment's re-union at Golden in pendence the Second[...]n not do justice to the horrors of such til Price was pursued into Arkansas these Colorado warfare;[...]t passions of civil war At Newtonia, where Price made his last stand, the evoked in partisa[...] |
| [...]point to another army of General Sterling Price, and in the reports while these preparations were[...]ered aban- Battery compelled the retreat of Price's m e n ; " doned just when all preparations had been com- "McLain's Colorado Battery hammered away;" " t h e pleted. Colonel Ford had been made a Brigadier[...]and was to have had command of the battle was h e r e ; " "The First Colorado pitched i n contemp[...]- tery was to have been in General Ford's expected ment was ordered abandoned he became so[...]twenty- cent mfore than the population's mere quota would one months. These figures are fa[...]have been under the several calls for troops. T h e than mere words in what they tell of the charac[...]Second Colorado Volun- was also exceptionally h i g h ; the deaths in action teer Cavalry.[...]and armies. proudly known as "McLain's Battery." At that To their memory, a[...]s and achieve- man them had been provided. McLain's battery ments. The State and the[...] |
| [...]OF DEPRESSION IN M I N I N G — C H A N G E D CHARACTER OF T H E W O R K — H E G I R A OF A U T U M N OF i860—1861 A N UNSATISFACTORY P E R I O D — A D V E R S E C O N D I T I O N S T H R O U G H SEVERAL EN- SUING YEAR[...]OF "SPECULATIVE M I N I N G " — F R A U D S AND ABUSES ATTENDING IT—[...]OF "SPECULATIVE M I N I N G / ' I T S CONSEQUENCES AND C O L L A P S E — C O N D I T I O N S I N C E N T R A L C I T Y AND OTHER[...]VE M A N I A ON COLORADO AND D E N V E R — S O L U T I O N OF THE REFRACTO[...]what cold toward the immigrants. They felt t h a t enumerated here.[...] |
| [...]s the very unusual dimensions of a hen's egg—a if by magic, and operations were extending; 'big rare discovery in the miner's career. t h i n g s ' there were, too, in old and new discover-[...]erable appliances the water t h a t[...]lch, in 1865 edge and means at h a n d ; and this conducted in many places on a sc[...]for washing down the gold-bearing dirt, con- day's profitable work, for they could do nothing stitut[...]as necessary, and a large thumping away through t h a t summer for the sake stream of it was kept flo[...]e had to had left the Missouri river for the Pike's Peak |
| [...]loaded with a stamp-mill and bacon, and On July 1st sixty of them were in operation, or to ec[...]as, the grease and amalgamation do not agree. H e started[...]well set out in the story yet told of D. D. White's experience. When he came in from the entir[...] |
| [...]learn to wash out some of the placer dled more t h a n seven dollars a ton, which was gold; b[...]came a tidier town. I t s society[...]ods of the People's Courts, and[...]sticking to affairs was reflected in the low price of supplies. whatever they may have found. I t is doubtful if The best St. Louis flour sold—at a heavy loss—in a[...] |
| [...]dirt, gossan; now they had sunk further t h a n water 200 feet. The mills which had previousl[...]consequently which should have rewarded the miner's toil; some they failed to make their paym[...]of its mills and engine houses. ter Lull. H e soon found that he had bought an At this junctu[...]Consolidated Gregory Company, for the cash price[...]the min- ing people. The following from Hollister's "Mines The miner, Pullman, mentioned b[...]name, and which brought him greater Claims of J o h n H . Gregory: riches than[...]ining, even on the rich Gregory Lode. Pullman ory's] was leased to an association called 'The[...]ng speaking, was a narrowing of the vein, and not s*. experiences that demonstrated the[...] |
| [...]H i r a m P . Bennet then repre-[...]Wood's plans for the government[...]the city and in the mining dis- do not propose t h a t he shall involve himself in any tricts, ad[...]deprive the States of the exclusive mum price to be fixed by the United States. This rig[...] |
| [...]between claim-owners who "inspected" each other's claims, "salted" lodes, bogus or* misleading cer[...]it. Ore of such diggings from the time of Gregory's discovery to values would quickly make a miner rich nowadays. the 1st of July, 1866, when the end of the specula[...] |
| [...]ul, eral prostration and r u i n which surround t h e and fruitless expenditure went, apply t[...]dead cor- was General Fitz-John Porter. H e received a sal- porations shall be decently bur[...]al freight warehouse of the Colo- "Think not t h a t this gloomy picture is to be per- ra[...] |
| [...], as a permanent, conservative business. I n t h e meantime many people came to Denver, stayed a w[...]he mines was to continue, the prospect for Denver's future was not, and could not be made, an attrac[...]d the few at the expense of the many, and I t s history, as it should be recorded, remains un- at the expense of Colorado's reputation. Work- written, and awai[...] |
| H O S T I L I T I E S — I N F L U E N C E OF T H E CIVIL WAR— ATTEMPTED INDIAN CONFEDERATION—DENVER'S DANGER—PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENSE— FIRST BATTLE W I T H INDIANS—PANIC IN DENVER—'MASS[...]L E A D I N G TO BATTLE OF S A N D CREEK—OUTLINES AND C O N S E Q U E N C E S OF T H A T FRIGHTFUL AFFAIR— C O L O N E L C H I V I N G T O N ' S CLOUDED D E C L I N I N G Y E A R S — H I S S U B S E Q U E N T CAREER A N D D E A T H . The pioneers of Denver and those of the co[...]60, the Arapahoes and |
| [...]cing, and in September, stated: Secretary S. H . Elbert, then acting Governor, by " I he[...]hey would take a great many of the stage company's employees. After this white women and c[...]1863 wherever there was a chance General S. R. Curtis, of the United States army, |
| [...]mmanding this department, was asked H e n r y M. Teller had been put at the head of t[...]orm broke early in May, 1864, over the H u n g a t e had a ranche on Running creek, about[...]an Nose for years and almost up to Denver. W i t h a company of the First Colorado the ou[...]wn the Platte from Den- Governor Evans t h a t he was and always would be ver he came upon[...]and Texas to British Columbia, and from t h e all able-bodied men to assemble daily at Larim[...]the country. For three hundred miles west of t h e night. Women and children to the number of five[...]could only say to the people of the F a r W e s t : panic was groundless.[...]be re- vised companies of citizens, the Governor's Guards corded that in the midst of these d[...]that ensued were partly due to this clique's opera- attack.[...] |
| [...]against all to Black Kettle's camp and arranged with that hostile bands. But th[...]of Left Hand's band of Arapahoes; came to Den-[...]Denver, and interpreter John S. Smith, our old[...] |
| 406 HISTORY OF DENVER. J o h n M. Chivington. |
| [...]p Weld waiting for equipments and dians. H e then ordered an attack by his entire horses. Ge[...]r, the further details of which that Black Kettle's band of Oheyennes, and Left are too revolting to be narrated here, were at- Hand's band of Arapahoes, were camped on Sand t[...]ostile and treated accordingly. Chivington's loss was eight killed and forty On Nove[...] |
| [...], there- running short, and the time of the Third's enlist- fore, they were, practically, under[...]t of savages; as reproaches to Chivington's command seemed to indicate that civilization and[...]ciated with ment of the Indian tribes in t h a t part of the the defense of pioneer Colorado a[...]ater oper- General of the Department. H e next became ations against the Indians on these[...]Downing re- columns of Colonel Chivington's expedition moved to Denver, and has been a citize[...]h but 150 men at his tionary family—J. C. S. |
| [...]tification on one and as Chivington's upholders were of the faction hand and denunciati[...]er, of this the favoring Colorado's immediate admission as a most shocking event in t[...]were the accumulations of more than a year. H e putants about where they were when they began.[...]had been appointed commander of the Colorado H e r e in Denver Colonel Chivington and his men[...]lcome upon two years previous. H e was thoroughly familiar their return. The gener[...]l its attendant horrors emergency. H e then had but a small force at his had appeared[...]gnation in the States swept across H u n g a t e family, and soon thereafter th[...] |
| [...]he east. The Denver the village was in Chivington's possession, unhurt people did assemble and c[...]Colonel Chivington's return.[...]squaws in consequence of deference to the latter's found in a frightfully mutilated condition,[...]eek affair, was to the effect of the Indian's practices in dealing with the per- that up[...] |
| [...]whom he made successful responsibility. H e believed t h a t the Indians were attacks in his warfare.[...]al responsi- devastating war was imminent. H e also believed bility for the "battle" of Sand c[...]zens so long as he lived. H e had many warm[...]to Denver; con- was in no way responsible for it. H e was in tinuing his residence here until his death. H e en- Washington when it occurred, and had[...] |
| [...]IN DENVER— D E P R E D A T I O N S AND MASSACRES A L O N G T H E PLATTE—LONG AND BLOODY INDTAN WAR— F O R S Y T H ' S H E R O I C D E F E N S E AT B E E C H E R ISLAND, A R A P A H O E C O U N T Y — I N D I A N CRUELTIES — W E S T E R N V I E W S OF T H E " I N D I A N Q U E S T I O N " — E X P E N S I V E WARFARE—INDIAN -GRIEV- A N C E S — L A S T S T A N D OF T H E A R A P A H O E S AND CHEYENNES—INDIAN CHIEFTAINS—POWER OF I N D I A N S B R O K E N . P u t t i n g aside all ques[...]ing savagery, the Sand creek affair was an Elbert's call for a service likely to involve some |
| [...]within after they had disposed of Godfrey's. Some ac- sight of Fort Sedgwick where a consider[...]nded by him and his associates. Jim Baker. H e was a native of Oswego county, The place was at[...]Blair, Daniels, and tion of Independence. H e was a trader among Perkins. Four women were the[...]e. The Indians were held off early times. H e has been dead many years. all day, the women wa[...]ns objected to that, insisting that he should go. H e rode like the wind and found the troops. The of[...]in between it and him. H e started at full speed perate and deadly charact[...]ch he returned east reached his home unhurt. H e immediately set out and settled in Wisconsin. H e came to Colorado in with several ranchmen[...]ning, Godfrey fortified lieved that Godfrey's connection with this tragedy his place by constru[...]subsequent attack feet high around the buildings. H e lived on the upon his ranche. "Wisconsin[...]ued to reside until his east of Godfrey's, was invested by a band of Chey- death which occu[...]y 11, 1899. ennes and Arapahoes. I t s inmates consisted of Elbridge Gerry had[...] |
| [...]therwise mutilated, the build- ernor Elbert's militia during that campaign. ings burned, and tr[...]lonel Moonlight had a some- Colonel Moonligrit's drastic methods had quickly what ridiculous experience in Indian warfare. H e brought about the desired result. Secretary Elb[...]ther way, the little army was speedily enemy's country. Fortunately, the Indians were and volunt[...]in large caravans set out to cross the and David H . Moffat was appointed Adjutant-Gen- plain[...]ut eloquent monuments of savage warfare. I n t h e meantime General Grenville M. Dodge But[...]iving the ghastly remains of their dead predeces- H e had promptly ordered Colonel Moonlight t[...] |
| [...](One of Matthew's sketches.) how many unknown instances of the sa[...]g corrals of their Then, on December 21st occurred the frightful |
| [...]in the hostilities, though other affairs. H e was a member of the T e r r i t o r i a l some[...]the conven- tions in 1865 and 1867. K i t Carson's last public tion t h a t framed our S t a t e constitution; and be- service was rendere[...]came the first Lieutenant Governor of t h e S t a t e of affairs. I n the winter of 1867-68 he, former Dele- Colorado. H e died in Denver March 8, 1897, while gate H i r a m P . Bennet, D. C. Oakes, and Lafay-[...]on on a visit to the Presi- expedition to t h e Kansas-Colorado border t h a t re- dent. As related in an earlier chapter, Carson sulted in an engagement with the savages t h a t has[...]Arapahoe county, to a place among the world's his-[...]dan in the operations against the Indians. H e[...]n. Hiram P. Bennet. Lieutenant Frederick H . Beecher, a nephew of the[...]a. When organized, this group of four of Colorado's conspicuous pio- his force consisted of himself, F i r s t Lieutenant neers, Judge Bennet is the only survivor. Oakes, Frederick H . Beecher, of trie Triird Regiment born at Cartha[...]moved with his parents to Ohio, Indiana J. H . Mooers of the Medical Department United and, in[...]Burke, Martin, one of the U t e tribes. H e died in Denver March Chalmers, G. W.,[...]and a soldier in Davenport, Henry, H u r s t , John, the Mexican war. At the close of that conflict he Davis, T. K., Ketterer, J. H.,[...]ed, Entler, A. J., McCall, W. H . H., and as its leader established, a large colony of set- Farley, Hudson, McGrath, H . T., |
| [...]and cat- Morton, Howard, Stilwell, J. S., Nichols, C. B., Thyer, Isaac,[...]rn ruts in the O'Donnell, Thomas, Tucker, H. H., earth. These signs satisfied F[...]r 16th, when he came to a bend in a Scrilesinger, S., Ziegler, Eli. stream[...]awn next morning Indians were discovered F o r t H a r k e r in two days, when Colonel Forsyth on[...]stampede Forsyth's stock. They got four pack- On August 29th, fi[...]two horses, but fell back when the eral Sheridan's order, Colonel Forsyth's com- scouts opened fire on them. Oppos[...]in the sand with their knives and tin plates. J u s t received a message from General Sheridan direct[...]nsas urging him to go to the pro- head. H e lingered nearly three days before dying, tectio[...]and many of their horses were tacked a freighter's t r a i n near there and killed shot down, t[...]ow the band, which appeared to have syth's men caused the Indians to draw back out nu[...] |
| [...]good service in the work that trie savages were t h e word of command from Forsyth as he lay[...]his hand in our direction, he turned Iris horse's[...]animal's body, his horse's bridle grasped in his left[...]across the animal's neck, while its barrel, crossing[...]right free to direct the course of his men. H e[...]watching the fight from the crest of t h e low bluffs Nose, who went down at the fifth volley from the back from the river's bank, he raised his right arm[...]he and his men swept down upon u s ; and again, Such an attack was a departure fr[...]ndividually; and with even defiantly at u s ; then, throwing back his head and[...]gave tongue to a selves. I n the issue of Llarper's Magazine for war-cry that I have never[...]count of this remarkable conflict, river's bank when it was caught up by each and and from i[...]ng narrative says: er's bluffs, and by the Indians who lay in ambu[...] |
| [...]y eagerly watched the result of Roman Nose's des- that could only be equalled but not excelled[...]at ended the fighting for that day. To resist e r s ; and Colonel Forsyth had a bullet in his right[...]d on his head. The condition of long day's constant fighting in the blazing sun on the wound[...]ble and out of the administration of Grand County's af- the defenses strengthened as well as[...], half staggered, half dragged from the day's awful work. They succeeded in himself to where I[...]On the second day the Indians attempted a sur- "Oh, no Beecher—no! I t can't be as bad as[...] |
| [...]The Battle at Beecher's Island. one, especially that of the wounded. Whe[...]ls lying faint among those who later located in t h a t part |
| [...]by the death of the than -that number wounded. H e asked Forsyth savage—and the sooner[...]heir own strength, how it had been with himself. H e answered by and sanguine over the opp[...]in their move- sickening tragedy; while Sheridan's "Memoirs," ments and traveled long distances by night. They and Custer's "Life on the Plains" throw much were h[...]he spies and scouts would signal Denver as well a s , in other places, that the only their tribes[...]warrior bands. Therefore, the old statement t h a t all the Indians were killed off the be[...] |
| [...]and took to the open country. Many of them t h a t the Sand creek affair did more to command[...]ny conflicts—with a consider- others insisted t h a t the government should con- able number[...]y as the predatory bands. What was known as the " H a r - warriors, all of them preferring t[...]portion to the con- apart for them. Custer's negative victory was a sequences it entailed. A p[...]cape, and members of his band had actually stolen h e r ; but Custer was in no condition to follow them. I t was t h a t he was willing to pay for the cow in h[...] |
| [...]ity. campaigns practically ended savage warfare H e was the last of the chieftains to make peace.[...]terward remained friendly, or Little Big H o r n river in Montana, was the last ef- p[...] |
| [...]XLIL D E N V E R C O N D I T I O N S I N 1 8 6 5 — F I R S T GRASSHOPPER I N V A S I O N — H I G H PRICES—DENVER ARCHITEC- |
| [...]427 were published. Subscription price of the dailies: joyed a remarkable freedom f[...]some progress. The effect of the civil war's |
| [...]r- caped the conclusive attentions of the People's acters more dangerous to society tha[...]ysterious atmospheric forebod- they at one time t h a t they induced or persuaded ings; an[...]methods occurred exciting scenes of plundering t h a t were shading here, though they wer[...]flagrant in 1860. L a t e in December, 1S63, a Vigilance publicity was given it. I n[...] |
| [...]here all in the second story of Nye's store on Fifteenth his passengers, among them having been several street. H e was turned over to the Montana men[...]g, the other had on military pants and a civilian's began prodigally spending gold-dust. News of[...]: "Those who have left the house by the rear way. H e boarded the reason to fear the[...]Denver region. and overtook the coach at Godfrey's ranche down A few days lat[...] |
| [...]atively enjoyed, the tendency of the city's growth becom- few improvements between Stout street and the brow of Capitol H i l l ; beyond that, toward the east, where there[...]Sixties. portant stragglers appeared on the city's outskirts ing distinctively and unmistakabl[...]he land was undis- Nineteenth Avenues. With Brown's, and Clem- turbed by the bui[...] |
| [...]ard to Salt Lake, so he telegraphed imposed upon. H e made the acquaintance of General[...]tive reply by wire, tility equalled that of Dixon's for guileless recep- and included so many mil[...]drels to five men were gathered up as the morning's of all grades of villainy. The exigenc[...]e himself witnessed any of own; the town's history had been stained and blot- these alleged[...]ently wait for the statehood justly due it. Dixon's visit Denver was enjoying an era of quiet[...]and the new town of Cheyenne menaced Denver's his weird stories rested on the baseless fabric o[...]The gamblers who recently had occu- "Bob" Wilson's exuberant imagination, strength-[...]ity of trie people whose writings we have quoted. H e told of his had so steadily an[...] |
| [...]these high wages were not all of the householder's not be laid down by metes and bounds.[...]considering the unusual circum- stances of Denver's then remote situation and the general character o[...]of westward and in steamboating. A "Pike's Peaker" of the emigration and westward railroad b[...]eader has been told. Late in the greatly advanced price of labor. Instead of in 1859 he became a[...]his life was an active, prominent first year of t h a t decade, it was, in consequence of and useful man in city and county affairs. H e many workingmen having gone into the railroad-[...]very—and one that appears to have to get at any price, and still harder to keep. Com- bee[...] |
| [...]- McClure in October of that year standing in W. H. fore, was her elation when the Territorial Legis- Parkinson's house-lot. I n 1867-68 the general latu[...]nver. But the moral arations for building Denver's pioneer road to effect of Golden and no[...]s nominally begun in May, 1868; the city's importance and influence; and made an but two ye[...]dvantageous influ- promised improvement in Denver's prospects, stim- ences were far-reaching.[...]year closed with a brightening future for Denver's opportunity would arise. I t was evident[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. on the city's history. While no definite, categorical[...]depredations are near enough |
| [...]old carbines to arm Downing's men were in the As some account of the I[...] |
| [...]W O R K — C I T Y INFESTED BY DESPERADOES OF T H E RAILROAD B U I L D - I N G E R A — F I R S T OF STRICTLY L O C A L L Y N C H I N G — D E N V E R PACIFIC RAILWAY—[...]OF CHEYENNE—GOVERNOR GILPIN'S MEMORABLE ADDRESS—CITY'S IMPROVED A P P E A R A N C E — R E V I V A L OF M I N I N G — R E A L E S T A T E V A L U E S — C E N S U S OF 1 8 7 0 — C O M P L E T I O N OF D E N V E R P A C I F I C AND K A N S A S P A C I F I C RAILROADS. As we have previous[...]and in enabling |
| [...]away and buried. Later, mittee's leaders entered the prison he made fight the conv[...]fired at him but none took effect. H e appeared years old, and before entering upon hi[...]n a charge of cattle-stealing, but H e wrote without any sign of fear or nervousness,[...]d them to R. W. Woodbury for delivery. desperado. H e was of middle age and had been[...]he leader of a gang of thieves operating in grove's body was still swaying from the bridge the Jeffer[...]he city after twenty-four destruction behind him. H e had not long been out hours, or if they ever ca[...]place in the speaker's list of a dozen, were putting At three o'clock[...]tween themselves and 2nd, five hours after Dougan's body had been cut Denver as fast as they could. T[...]esence in the various temporary around the outlaw's neck, and ended his career terminal points[...] |
| [...]ween the hemispheres is bridged over for- enne. T h a t great undertaking had then crossed[...]ed form." builders from the Pacific coast. Denver's future[...] |
| [...], weight and celerity of motion. We no of p a r k s ; around, the radiating backs of primeval[...] |
| [...]response to a toast to the country's "manifest " 'The calm, wise man sets himself t[...]destiny," at some great banquet in the Nation's Providence, to scan the great volume of nature,[...]ning camps. The latter part of Governor Gilpin's address, with Good results were com[...] |
| [...]sus of that year. I t had appeared that the city's sources of mineral wealth that yielded so much i[...]rd from trie mountains. During trie autumn of 1S69 and under the in- fluence of the more active co[...]ought of before. I t was ap- parent that the city's future was now fairly as- sured, yet transactions[...]to survive the coming establishments between St. Louis and the Con- of the iron horse.[...] |
| [...]they thing else, that marked an epoch in the city's might never see one again. hi[...], B u t the arrival of the "D. H . Moffat" did not[...]in from Cheyenne, and t h e blasts of the engine's[...]he foot of Twenty-second street, then on the city's and the actual settlement of the Pike's Peak coun- outskirts, by the Maso[...]r- following, it, also, used t h a t building, which thus poses from the Union Pacific an engine that had became the city's first union passenger station. been simila[...] |
| [...]ESTATE TITLES—JUDGE HALL'S LAND ENTRY—ENTRIES OF A D J A C E N T L A N D S — O L D P L A T T I N G S AND S T R E E T NAMES—MEANING OF OLD STREET NAMES IN B U S I N E S S D I S T R I C T — C H A N G E OF N A M E S BY C I T Y C O U N C I L — S O M E PARTICULARS OF T H E " L O T Q U E S T I O N " — C O N F U S I O N OF CONTROVERSY AND W R A N G L I N G G R O[...]OF IT—EXAGGERATED LOSSES—POPULAR M Y T H OF " L O S T R E A L E S T A T E R E C O R D S / ' Important changes were made in the plats of the Brown's, Casement's, Clement's, Elmwood, Evans', |
| [...]designated by the Territorial act of March 1st, thus did not go beyond the limits established b[...]filings were of the town-site, at the established price of $1.25 made prior to its passage. F . J. Ebert's was of per acre, and to receive filings on all lots and date November 9, 1863; James McNassar's, Febru- parts of lots within the 960 acres, from rightful ary 24, 1864; H e n r y C. Brown's, April 15, 1864; and owners of such lots, as appeared by the records of L. B. France's, May 24, 1864. Many others fol- the Town Companie[...]herefore, the of that pioneer town's original street arrangements boundaries of the "[...]not until 1873 As our copy of the old map of 1S59 will indicate, that a general ove[...] |
| [...]=H[...]339-33333333 a a a s a a a B p p s S ™ 33133333333[...]ere passed which made a somewhat gen- abolished t h e alphabetical series and substituted[...] |
| [...]bears the were numbered; beginning with 1st street, near indorsement " H . M. Fosdick, Engineer, Dec. 1st, the Platte river, their numbers continue[...]he three towns; though a read- came Ferry, St. Louis, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Wash- ing glass will[...]nging out ington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy details. Fosdick and Tappan's maps are not abund- (John Quincy Adams),[...]ierce and Bucrianan streets. sites of buildings t h a t have succeeded them in the The reader wil[...]Across in Highland—which late in 1S59 and for they lie nearly to the forty-five degre[...]and given the same names. Cherry, Ferry, St. Louis, "south;" and the terms are not infrequen[...]and its have been continuations of Auraria's streets of the parallels are north and south stre[...]n our narrative. The •elsewhere within the city's limits range with the Highland streets at[...]being the great numbered, beginning with 1st street next to the east and west Avenue clear ac[...]street names left little or nothing of the town's fare. On the northward side of .the P l a[...] |
| [...]They designated their streets which we S. S. Curtis, who was one of the managing mem- now kno[...]California, Platte, rence ["St. Charles"] Company, were made mem- Wazee,[...]Company. Blake, McGaa, Clenam, St. Charles. The names were given to me[...]rtant, was named for A. J. Wil- street, named for H. P . A. Smith of the Denver liams, of the[...]or many years a prominent citizen ley, for Judson H . Dudley who was prominent in of Denver.[...]rs of both "Auraria" and "Denver the street's name was changed to the hackneyed City;" and St. Charles, which was all that was one it[...]e name is on the first map, but is not found with St. Charles intersecting the line of the present i[...]Mr. Curtis, bears the name of Trader Smith's names of local tribes of Indians, needs no[...] |
| [...]stinction. certain that our Champa is McGaa's version of one Mr. E. P . Stout says "the name w[...]n term for water; the prising organization. H e did not long remain first syllable being an Ind[...]of the fall of 1858, and a share- Governor Denver's pioneer "Sheriff" of this region, holder in[...]ompany. Blake street bears the name of Charles H . Blake, Clancey street, our present Tremo[...]McGaa, as- name to Tremont, as the street's namesake had for- sistant founder of "St. Charles," Auraria and saken Denver. B[...]r. la," and was the name of trader J o h n S. Smith's Lawrence street has the name of Charles A.[...]ta. The City Coun- Curtis street was named for S. S. Curtis, who cil was responsible for the[...]became iden- of the street. tified with t h e Denver Town Company immedi- Parki[...]merit of local historic associa- the time, but t h a t it is now forgotten. Boyd's tion, while the present one has no[...] |
| [...]them for they recall a rather dark page in Denver's history. the ultimate purposes had in view. As ti[...]y was situated, for record in a Denver's Boundaries, under Act of March, 1864. book[...] |
| [...]ls which, also, endured for many years. t h a t accompanied the accusations, would require[...]not it would right no wrongs and restore no r i g h t s ; be—or, at least, were not—definitely de[...]e fresh many years unpleasant episode in the city's history, the par- ago; and certainly it wo[...]pre-emptors secured the patents old Cole's Hall building on the south side of Lari- for thei[...]flood carried away records, grew out of after- t h a t its contents might still be in preservation.[...]ively, out of the later prospects for the town's the pre-emptors, who had fulfilled his obl[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XLV. COLORADO'S PIONEER CAPTAINS—ADDITIONAL P E R S O N A L H I S T O R Y OF T H E R U S S E L L B R O T H E R S — Denver's pioneer era had not been a long one in[...]t West, but for a winter's visit at their old homes. They re- |
| [...]rgia, intending to start as soon "W. G. Russell's wife whose maiden name was as the summe[...]ago, by the caving in of a mine; the young- H e did not seem very ill at times and would not es[...]ther was buried by friends and neighbors, Russell's later movements and of his death; but not[...]mily being able to attend his that of the latter's daughter, Mrs. Martha Mar- funeral. He was[...]ir was dark, his beard just a "Upon my father's return from Colorado in 1863 little gray, an[...]ay, my father going back there more for my mother's health and pleasure than anything May, 1863[...]from Colorado. This terminated Dr. Russell's res- settled, occasionally went away on hunting a[...]ysician in active practice. His place in our city's and we all started back to Georgia, arriving at m[...]is that of having been, more than any other uncle's—John R. Russell, of Indian Territory— near th[...]ati, Arkansas, on Decem- man, its founder. H e bore a conspicuous part in ber 10th. On learnin[...]son," participating as a leader in every step so. H e liked it so well that the return to Georgia[...]ric and was abandoned and we remained at my uncle's most interesting example of th[...] |
| [...]at Denver much, a peculiarly winning kind of man. H e was would go to decay and be aba[...]iking him better. I am sure by Denver's Captains while the community was that every one w[...]to than fulfilled. I n 1870 Golden's hopeful ambitions Denver did not immediately precipitate a great fell away and this city'sh e future vanished and a confidence val[...]les of real estate aggre- The stability of Denver's position as the metropo- gated nearly[...]t year, and upbuilding of a rival city, to Denver's detriment. estimates, made con[...] |
| [...]enough by several The construction of gas-works was not the only hundred.[...]een re-opened with new splendors inception of the gas-works, Colonel Archer pro- and was nightly filled[...]improvements made in 1870 was the construction of gas- works. On November 1, 1869, Colonel Jame[...]ecame and remained until his death, one of Denver's forceful and valued citi- zens, had proposed to the city the con- struction of gas-works. The people heart- ily approved his proposi[...]Old Gas Works at Eighteenth and Wewatta streets—now the[...]n Novem- plant of the Denver Gas & Electric Company. ber 13 of that year. H e appears to have[...]under entered into a contract with Colonel Archer's com-[...]rvice of the premises now occupied by the Pintsch-gas in buildings and, upon occasion, at far higher pres- plant of the present Denver Gas & Electric Com- sure for fire purposes. The syste[...]ready for service and began supplying water. the gas service was not satisfactorily ready until Furthe[...]s of illumination, for pre- development of Denver's great waterworks system viously the artificial li[...]a succeeding chapter. tallow candles. The maximum price of gas to pri- Until that time the peop[...] |
| [...]city from twelve Chicago, and to which t h e founding of Longmont to twenty feet below the s[...]was due. A tract of 55,000 acres of land was s t a n t flow of pure, cold, sparkling water which[...]W. N . Byers was resident agent here. The Colony s t r a t a that affords ready circulation for the[...]le—farmers, professional men, Denver's first Waterworks Pumping House—now dismantled.[...]d by along Monument creek, and on July 31st the first the South P l a t t e and the Cache-a-l[...]city, Was driven. Colorado City, dating from ony's location. The streams were fringed by cot-[...]tablished there. mated. H i s plan was to locate the contemplated[...]lt during the I n d i a n troubles in the "Six- t h a t by Mr. W. N . Byers, who visited New York,[...]comers had been added to the city's population; ing the city of Greeley.[...] |
| [...]ally to conduct researches in geology, the county's added, upward of twelve millions; zoology, botany[...]r Joseph E. Bates was the first in which the city's chief executive undertook to deal with the new conditions that had arisen. H e was a man of much ability and who saw the neces[...]created. The street grades Billy" Wise's "National P a r k " on Champa street near Twenty-[...]Richardson arrived in found the germ of the city's present park system[...]Mr. Colfax had near relatives among Denver's pio- excellent beginning toward that end.[...] |
| [...]rom Denver to the Clear creek mining districts H . Beard, who died in New York in February, 1900,[...]two or three times with the New York Tribune. H e re-visited Colo- in later years, re[...]hing in Colorado Republican, was with h i m ; both receiving a hearty literature t h a t gives greater pleasure to the reader welcome. The third visit of Mr. Colfax was in t h a n those old-time letters. On September 10,[...], 1869; and, of man came again on September 6, 1S68, and with course, received many a[...]s were given in their than eleven years. H e was astounded and de- honor. Albert Bierstadt,[...]lighted by the developments and progress t h a t had landscape pictures, was also a visitor i[...]ugh the local- "nothing is too good for h i m ; " but in Denver at ity pictured is near Co[...]that time the people thought there was nothing t h a t Mount Evans was then nameless, he modestly[...]de Men," in the Methodist church at resembles. T h a t name adhered until the Colorado Four[...]that literally packed the building. A t t h a t time that of Governor Evans upon i t ; a cha[...]d with "whiskers" under his jaw respondent of the St. Louis Democrat, with H a n - from ear to ear; wearing large "spectacles," a big, cock's expedition against the warring Indians.[...]own the P l a t t e to the Missouri and thence to St. greeted him without ceremony, and in his charac- Louis. H e had an adventurous journey, and was[...]red on by Indians; but lived to brave them. H e went from Denver to Greeley, founded greater da[...]n that year, which has developed into the William H . Seward with a large party of friends,[...]ter came his memorable and disastrous Presiden- t h a t month Professor F . V. Hayden of the U[...] |
| [...]cers and notables beside the As Denver's business increased and improve- Grand Duke, and e[...]name "Denver conspicuous event of the Grand Duke's sojourn City" began to graduall[...] |
| [...]politicians; there was no peace photographer, W. H. Jackson, whose name is fa- among the[...]not withstand the adverse public sentiment. H e titled "The Great West," containing ovet five[...]ed to derstanding here and at Washington t h a t it was to Colorado.[...]immediate and final movement for Colorado's ad- Iristorical horizon. I t was a period[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER XLVI. CLOSE OF T H E TERRITORIAL E R A — " H A R D " W I N T E R S — ' C I T Y ' S P U R C H A S E OF C A P I T O L H I L L D I T C H The plan of this volume provide[...]everything in sight at all the |
| [...]ecially in people manifested. I t s chief distinction appears 1875, when the creature[...]everywhere. Vegeta- Prayerless H o u s e / ' The proposed constitution tion vanished und[...]Springs s u l k e d[...]relatively h e a v y[...]equalled since. The F o u r t h of July was made the The losses of the[...] |
| [...]463 oratory. On August 1st came President Grant's tion of the creek's power for michief occurred, it |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. named J o h n Taylor had taken up his bed in an wa[...]partly in, the creek's bed as far up as Broadway,[...]eing lating effect on Denver. The city's commercial |
| [...]d- the American, the Wentwortri—now part of the St. ways; no street-cars; no indication[...]years later. The prominent and popular of Denver's hostelries. On only conspicuous bui[...]block, containing forty lots, to H. A. W. Tabor for[...]price. The dwelling was the only building on the[...]thoroughfares. A noteworthy addition to Denver's metropolitan This investment by[...]s in property out that way soon afterward. works, gas-works, telegraphs, telephones, street cars[...]ver's growth had been truly remarkable; and with[...] |
| [...]cent death of their comrade. Major Thornburg's command, in September, 1879, When news of these acts reached H o t Sulphur caused a profound excitement in Denve[...]one, was organized to pursue the city on October 1st, and, while it occasioned no the Utes.[...]it was definitely known that Washington and P i a h the town of Greeley, moved by a spirit of philan- had been the leaders. After a day's journey sixteen thropy and a sincere desire to be[...]the visit they demanded t h a t a[...]the horses and killed Elliott. P i a h[...]been h u r t by a fall and not by a View eastward from t[...]arbitrary reprisal killed by them in the N o r t h Park, and later one Mr. Byers had to content hims[...]under a sub-chief named "George Washing- back to H o t Sulphur Springs he camped on the ton," and a[...]y fell in with condition at that time, and Meeker's authority a settler named McLean whom they killed[...]ident in the council revealed formation of McLean's death did not reach Denver that. Meeker ar[...] |
| [...], for the arrest of two Ute ringleaders named t h a t perhaps his[...]in the white men's Courts, greatly excited and an- reservation, sta[...]lowed within a day or two by these laborers be- t h e Ninth cavalry (colored), under Captain Dodge,[...]had a wife and Utes had been clamoring for Meeker's removal.[...]pendent on his judgment and decision. H e was a party of lesser chieftains visited Denve[...]urged to do this by J o h n W. Steele, the mail con- manded of Governor Pit[...]tor, on September 10th. Steele was the last Agent's immediate removal, declaring that they[...]could civilize these U t e s ; that I could teach them hostility to him was ar[...]forts to this end, always treating them white man's civilization. So, this resulted in a[...] |
| [...]nting expedition. Later triese same to the Agent's orders to stop it and disperse. This[...]Joseph Rankin, the expedition's guide, this offer Steele reached Rawlins he tele[...]Indians he might meet. H e was almost surrounded them three cases of[...]the next night to find Captain Dodge's company stationed at White river at once. But, fo[...]the White river Agency, also. Dodge reached t h e Finally, after Governor P i t k i n had rec[...]drew, after six days of continuous fighting. burg's command consisted of Companies D and F[...]n to the wounded could be pany E of the F o u r t h I n f a n t r y ; his officers consist- given,[...]had quickly of the Third Cavalry, and Lieutenants Price and followed General Merritt[...]and after caring for the dead and sending t h e as Surgeon. Thornburg left Rawlins on September[...]I n the meantime nothing had been heard of t h e to proceed as quickly as possible. At Old Forti[...]ws reached Denver from Chief Ouray and Lieutenant Price, to protect passing supply trains[...] |
| [...], who had for several were Agent N. C. Meeker; W. H. Post, his assist- months been outspoken in his hostility to the whites a n t ; Henry Dresser, E. Price, Fred Sheppard, and to all the methods of the white men. George Eaton, W. H. Thompson and E. L. Mans- We can n[...]than to that of Colorado's chief city, that would comefrom Greeley[...]tive and urgent measures for the protection been s u d d e n l y o[...]e later sixties until his death. The uprising had H e was accompanied by two Utes, one of whom was[...]om their hiding Douglass and Captain Jack. H e had long before place. When the building[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. to accept t h e inevitable in peace; and none of the to plow[...]ended. When he heard of censed them. J u s t before the massacres Captain |
| [...]CHAPTER XLVIL THE " C H I N E S E R I O T " — C A U S E S LEADING T H E R E T O — A C T I O N OF A U T H O R I T I E S — R I O T SUPPRESSED Denver has enjoyed r[...]ns of the Flowery Kingdom. |
| [...]consisted of only twenty-five or thirty "pool;" t h a t t h e tipsy visitors interfered with the men who we[...]The awaiting investigation of charges t h a t had been Chinese then fled from the saloon an[...]man was hanged, David J. Cook, one of Denver's the wind over the lower part of the city that a[...]. his services to restore order. H e was a resolute Crowds gathered and, as usually[...]n from his own force, wretched objects of the mob's wrath, and they had all as courageous an[...]The Chaffee Light Artillery under Captain A. H. man was uncovered and broke away at the top of Jones, and the Governor's Guard under Captain his speed with a howling pack[...]ver, about was hanged opposite the Markham hotel. H e was fifty of the mob leaders were i[...]to aid him in dispersing the the Sheriff's office to decide upon further measures mob[...] |
| [...]. On the city had been fairly well lighted by the gas Monday evening a public meeting of citizens of a[...]st ever November, 1869, and which began supplying gas in assembled in the city, expressed the public s[...]election-day was a quiet one, and the ineffective gas enterprise, several gas companies Chinamen were not further molested. Th[...]e, and perhaps not expedient to undertake to do s o ; nor was the identity of those directly respo[...]th street ever ascertained. So ended Denver's first and only riot. Cook and Sheriff Spangler de[...]passion- crazed mob. The excitement throughout t h e city was intense and thousands of peo- ple wer[...]Gas & Electric Company. hers there made the situation[...]the task of dispers- poration of several abortive gas companies before ing them one calling for the highest courage and Colonel Archer incorporated his "Denver Gas Com- presenting the gravest dangers; for when a mob pany" on November 13, 1869. A "Denver Gas once tastes blood it is not particular as to whom[...]sh-tub. Upon one occa- citizens with illuminating gas. The city records sion in our Festivals of Mounta[...]t 1867, the Association was authorized to lay its gas pageant with a conception of their own which was[...]ea- tion laid no mains, nor did it ever reach the gas- tions that appear in our autumn seasons of holid[...]to commit suicide in been arranging to establish gas works in its Denver by hanging himself in an opiu[...]an event exceedingly rare among 1868, the "Denver Gas Company" was authorized |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. to lay its gas pipes in the streets under a provision proposed undertakings. I n later explanation of |
| [...]company, of which Charles H . Smith was[...]original gas company began business, a[...]privilege records to six or eight of the gas[...]eight or ten electric companies. Of these, Gas Works at Seventh and Wewatta streets—Denver Gas & Electric several of these were in the inde[...]them. The towers remained in use until about ten gas and electric—then doing business in the city, y[...]April 26th of that year this "Denver tion of the gas company's contract for street light- Gas & Electric Company" was incorporated by ing, it secured a contract for replacing gas by Elroy N. Clark, Herman H. Dunham, and Charles electricity. For this work t[...]a capital of system was employed, each of the old gas-lights up- $3,500,000. The certifi[...]n lamp-post being suc- Board of Directors William S. Van Soun, T. B. ceeded by twenty-candle-power incandescent lights, Liverman, S. W. Cantrell, Frank H . DuPuy, Guy which, also, were supported by posts[...]ctric light liam A. Burke, Elroy N. Clark, Herman H. Dun- posts, long disused, still remain on some o[...]light them on the approach of son, President; J. H. Poole, Vice President and lowering storms and on[...]d was for any practical utility. The F o u r t h of July, 1885, was uncom- monly well celebrated i[...]ric light company extremely popu- lar with Denver's citizens. The old street gas-lamp passed out of use when the electric street light came in in 1885. The electric company's contract was renewed for another five years, and[...]f the incandes- Gas & Electric Company. |
| [...]ss of this company is one of the im- 1st and to close on September 30th. portant industri[...]tion at Denver," the Directors stated: superseded gas for illuminating, a very large pro-[...]ipal cause which gave birth to the portion of the gas now made is used for fuel, heat- idea of[...]ying practically natural resources of t h a t portion of this nation all gas and electricity otherwise used in the city[...]tric Station, Sixth and Lawrence streets—Denver Gas & Electric Company. peting concern, obtained fro[...]South Denver district, just |
| [...]inery and an exposition in the autumn of t h a t year, and in general miscellaneous exhibits[...]als, mining ma- gers consisting of W. A. H . Loveland, President; chinery and other exhibit[...]of the preceding two, having been better than t h e than $150,000, and included thirty-seven silve[...]tions by Denver's manufacturers and others were tion of minerals th[...]years after the begin- became rivals of the "Argo's" bullion bricks in nings of settlem[...] |
| [...]e the wilderness and posed. The late H . A. W. Tabor was chiefly in- subordinate its res[...]monopolized the business of the city. Tabor's im- 1883. The railways made exceptionally favorab[...]m e ; the long-delayed beginning of work on the S t a t e though the attendance of Grand Army men a[...]d in honor of her foresight and enterprise of H . A. W. Tabor and guests the city put on her holi[...]I n the first twenty-five years of Denver's career if not the largest, demonstration that has[...]macy as it would 1901; but later the organization's Executive Com- be to give explicit reasons f[...]uth of Cherry creek than could this era in Denver's affairs. I n the first half of have been point[...]a House, the Court House, and the Pike's Peak country. many business structures had been e[...]not about Christmas time in 1858, was Denver's first |
| [...]enver in the early days, and turb Denver's supremacy. I n that year Pueblo possessed some de[...]Fontaine-qui- point of those times. Boulder's beautiful loca- Bouille, primarily as a rival[...]and "boomed" by to be menacing Denver's position. I n common some of the shrewdest and mo[...]ith several other Colorado towns, Pueblo as- rado's pioneers, and its situation at the gateway[...]pairment of this city's position by the ambitions[...]parts of the United advantages superior to Denver's. States had been slow to[...]o their conceptions of Denver and of worth & Pike's Peak Express. Colonel Curtis all her[...]o many visitors the ab- in making Denver the Pike's Peak metropolis in sence of care[...] |
| S U S OF 1880 — P H E N O M E N A L R A T I O OF P O P U L A T I O N I N C R E A S E — S L I G H T REACTION 1884-85—BEGINNING OF T H E G R E A T " B O O M " — R A P I D R I S E I N PROPERTY V A L U E S — P E R I O D OF A M A Z I N G A C T I V - I T Y — E N O R M O U S AGGREGATES OF R E A L E S T A T E T R A N S A C T I O N S — S K Y R O C K E T L A N D P R I C E S — V A S T O P E R A T I O N S I N B U I L D I N G — S P E C U L A T I V E F E V E R A M A N I A — S Q U A R E M I L E S OF T O W N LOTS—COLLAPSE IN 1893—DISASTROUS C O N S E Q U E N C E S . The reader will have observed that tran[...]esent the |
| [...]two or three years. Therefore, in 1875 Denver's through passengers. The fare to St. Louis was population probably[...] |
| [...]tive of forward at such a rapid pace; by the city's growth invested capital, and money[...] |
| [...]loans represented p a r t of the purchase price of with their possible instances of duplication o[...]in price is indicated by the figures in the sub- Prior[...]joined three columns, showing the cash price for regarded as a fair basis, but their aggregate[...]> 3,000 $25,000 $30,000 t h e thirteen years, 1880 to 1892, inclusive,[...] |
| [...]00 been reduced to a mere corporal's guard." Kittredge Building[...]50,000 Their fort th h ed fictitiou8 b the People's Bank Building 265,000 s t e r n lo[...]ilding. 570,000 t h e v ] 5 n e w t h e y w e r e o n dangerous ground. While[...] |
| [...]ny who had just long to the city's history and, practically, have made a beginning,[...]passed out of the present life of Denver. H e r e of speculators in real estate, and went to[...]in that period, part of the city's history. I n her activities here added to still u[...]e been the forward movement is t h a t which has brought a regarded as ominous by th[...]nclination to stand longer on solid ground, r a t h e r possessions; but outside a very small[...] |
| [...]in Colorado, the awakening of the new spirit t h a t as they did believe, that their equities in p[...]and other elements identified with the upbuilding price, were brought to a literal realization of what[...]tofore followed, and turn to consideration of t h e silver production, other avenues of actually pr[...]f the economic and political of Denver's history is included in these various horiz[...] |
| [...]OF OR- GANIC A C T — S T A T E A N D TERRITORIAL HS PROPOSED FOR T H E TERRITORY—APPOINTMENT OF[...]AL EXECUTIVE O F F I C E R S AND D E L E G A T E S I N CONGRESS—TERRITORIAL CAPITALS[...]ADMINISTRATIONS— SEVERAL M O V E M E N T S FOR STATEHOOD AND T H E I R F A I L U R E — N E G R O S U F F R A G E — P A S S A G E OF FINAL ENABLING A C T — C O N S T I T U T I O N F R A M E D AND ADOPTED—COLORADO A D M I T T E D T O T H E U N I O N — O R G A N I Z A T I O N OF S T A T E G O V E R N M E N T — S O M E C A U S E S OF STATEHOOD'S DE- LAY. When the Thirty-sixth Cong[...]use concerning |
| [...]t inde- ginning, had been "Jefferson's" chief supporters, pendent of Congressiona[...] |
| [...]d meridian to the forty-first parallel of n o r t h sert "Colorado" instead. This was agreed to and[...]efield in southeastern Pennsyl- (Doniphan's) Cavalry, and served with distinction vania. When[...]raduation there was ap- wintered near Pike's P e a k in 1847-48. At the pointed a Cadet at Wes[...]rse of this history. from the army and located at St. Louis, but in After retiring from th[...]th street. Up to that time his health had Fremont's expedition to the Oregon country, as bee[...]of his years, and there had elsewhere mentioned. H e went to the mouth of been no warning that his end was so near. H e the Columbia river with Fremont and there par-[...]pt to organize a new Terri- J anuary 20th. H e was a m a n of no ordinary type, tory in that r[...]inter- before that body after his return in 1844. H e course with his fellow-men. The deaths[...]when he Denver and of Colorado.—J. C. S. |
| [...]preme court, B. F . Hall, of New York; S. N . precipitating and consummating t[...]t will be observed that but two of the President's had left their seats in Congress to actively par[...]inted out that if a beginning of Denver s*oon afterward. The Governor made a that kind were[...]for our Territory were "Arapa- Gilpin's more important official acts was to direct hoe,"[...]bove fifteen years of Colorado Territory's somewhat mentioned. Governor Gilpin had been one[...]the inherent weakness and recog- Cook's with an interval of fifteen months between nized[...]d to quibble over the name given A. C. H u n t , May, 1867, to June, 1869. it.[...]that the Territory was created Samuel H. Elbert, April, 1873, to July, 1874. during the closing days of Buchanan's administra- Edward M. McCook, July, 187[...]J o h n L. Routt, March, 1875, to admission of t[...] |
| [...]ature did not always stay at the capital Samuel H . Elbert, April, 1862, to May, 1866. as[...]Governor; H . P . Parker, President of the Council;[...]J o h n Evans, Governor. H i r a m P . Bennet, elected December 2, 1861; re-[...]y, each, aspired to per- January 5, 1874. S. H. Elbert, Governor. manently become the seat of go[...]nd last Territorial Assembly con- one time Golden's prospects seemed fair and prom- vened at D[...]istration was subordinated to political ends. H i s shall appoint and direct; and at said firs[...] |
| [...]Statehood were put under way and in which t h e Of the Cummings administration there are few consummation was reached. H e served well and pleasant memories among the sur[...]thy of even a resigned; Cummings, H u n t , McCook in his first paragraph in the annals of that period." Hunt's term, and Elbert were removed; Mc[...]as. first Governor of the State. well-meaning as h e ; but most of them were not,[...]on the p a r t of the politicians t h a n[...]ministration in the great work it istration's identification with scandals associated had to do[...]t. October. This was not so much because State- T h a t such a m a n as Elbert was arbitrarily[...] |
| [...]h, and State. Thus ended Colorado's second effort at after a session of but four days[...]the House, both amended as to require the Legis- H . Gest, Republican,[...]islature" lost no time in for approval. H e promptly vetoed both of them. getting together.[...]ew State 4,192 to 476. President Johnson's alleged chief government anxiously and nervously[...]ongress refused to recognize Colorado's vote in 1865 indicated lack of sym- any product o[...]en inapplicable to reason for Johnson's vetoes was that he did not what was done i[...] |
| [...], 1868, a Senate bill for the admis- ride Johnson's veto. A Senate-bill was introduced sion of Colorado was introduced by Senator Yates, by Senator H a r l a n of Iowa. I t s provisions were of Illinois. I t provided for[...]onclusive further action that session on Colorado's admis- action at that session of Congress[...]al elements from a united support of the bill H i r a m P . Bennet was born in Carthage, Maine, from Arapahoe county, in the F i r s t General As- |
| [...]y-seventh and forty-first parallels. structure t h a t did not afford themselves a com- P u r s u a n t to triis enabling act thirty-seven mem-[...]ood would seem to indicate that as late as H . P . H . Bromwell, William Lee, 1868 the pe[...]t to man- Wm. E. Beck, S. J. Plumb, hood suffrage, the facts show that a l[...]Wm. H . Cushman, Lewis C. Rockwell, t[...]. Felton, P . P . Wilcox, it. At t h a t election negroes offered their ballots Jesu[...]ied Daniel Hurd, John S. Wheeler, to prevent them voting, or in any way i[...]The negroes were circumspect, went Wm. H . James, Abram Knox Yount.[...]the failure of 1868 to gain admission for 1st, issued his proclamation announcing the ad- Color[...]nd escape from the thralldom of a Terri- S t a t e ; " it having been first suggested by Gen[...]at in the interval be- again pressed for Colorado's recognition. He tween the State's admission and the inauguration procured th[...] |
| [...]be a citizen of an independent sovereign State t h a n Democratic, had been nominated, and the conte[...]liques; beggars, asking pit- the Democrats. Routt's majority was 837 in a tance at the gat[...]or less influential in delaying Colorado's admis- subsequent regular sessions beginning, und[...]eless machi- States District Judge, and Westbrook S. Decker nations of many of our politicia[...]tate would cover the pages stitutional convention's adjournment a committee[...]n address to the people, reviewing the convention's[...] |
| [...]TATES SENATORS— CONGRESSIONAL D I S T R I C T S AND REPRESENTATIVES—LEGISLATURE—'JUDICIARY—EXECUTIVES — S A L A R I E S — S U F F R A G E — D E L A Y I N PROVIDING A C A P I T O L — H E N R Y C. BROWN'S GIFT— F U T I L E E F F O R T S TO U T I L I Z E I T — L I T I G A T I O N O V E R T H E D O N A T E D S I T E — D E N V E R C H O S E N T H E STATE C A P I T A L — C A P I T O L BU[...]in actual service in time of war or Sec. 2. T h a t the people of the State have the[...]ding General Assembly; t h a t no conviction can work their lives and[...] |
| [...]uary 21, 1889, for full t e r m ; to succeed H i l l ; re- ninth man who served as Colorado's Chief Execu- elected J a n u a r y 21, 189[...]for the then unexpired part of Secretary Teller's 1885.[...]sisting of thirty-seven days), to succeed Benj. H . Eaton, January, 1885, to January, Chil[...]16, 1895, for full term. Davis H . Waite, January, 1893, to January, T[...]years beginning March 4, 1901. Charles S. Thomas, Januarys 1899, to January, Whe[...]rvice from the beginning, served four t e r m s ; Bell is now in his fourth and except the interv[...]epresenting the come a member of President Arthur's cabinet. The Denver district, is in[...] |
| [...]898; re-elected November 6, 1900. Governor's Private Secretary 1,500 T[...]e Governor. Members of both houses State Engineer's Assistants 2,700 recei[...]Boiler Inspector's Assistant 1,500 tices o[...] |
| [...]OF DENVER. The constitution provides t h a t the Legislature places the first laws of[...]l qualification, but enacted. Charles S. Thomas, ninth Governor of the State Democra[...]leader of his party in the State of Colorado. H e |
| HISTORY OF DENVER. 505 Charles S. Thomas. |
| [...]nable time missioners appointed by Governor H u n t was a after its acceptance by the Territori[...]take up the matter in earnest, perfect Territory's income and resources were so limited title[...]di- give, erect a Territorial Capitol on H e n r y C. t i o n ; Governor John. Evans and Simeon Whitely Brown's donated blocks, and have it finished by gave a half block in Whitely's addition; Caleb B. J a n u a r y 1, 1876. T[...]his addition; Daniel Benedict, of Denver; J. H . Blume, of Trinidad; Witter gave ten lots in his addition; Henry M. and J . H . Pinkerton, of Evans, as this Board of P o r t e[...]n, accepting the nomination, Governor or's majority 43,394. H e was not a candidate for Thomas said:[...]the con- nominated him. Owing to the State's inadequate ventions of the Populists and the Tell[...]s so called "fusion" character.—J. C. S. |
| [...]ke it untrammelled by the State's favor. Again it went back to the Su- any previous[...]or building on the site, Brown had been sioners t h a t he would revoke his gift unless at[...] |
| [...]This act of February 11, 1883, contemplated t h e decide i t ; and that Denver should in the mean[...]f the electors. time. The act also provided t h a t the Board should Therefore, and pursuant[...]The Board went to work at once, and in March S t a t e sixty sections of land for public buildin[...]ment of the Board that a "State House Kassler, E. S. Nettleton, John L. Routt, Dennis for Colo[...] |
| [...]specifications, which required purchased from W. S. Cheesman and George W. some modificat[...]ing were opened cated the value of Henry C. Brown's gift of twice February 20, 1886, but all of[...]in the cancellation of Richardson's contract, and the loss of another year's time. Cash in Treasury, December 1, 1884[...] |
| [...]r, six per' cent, additional Capitol building J o h n L. Routt. There had previously been a[...]after his election of English and Dutch descent. H i s father, Charles as Governor of Colorado in N[...]participation in business affairs. H e was one of Resuming his course at Knox Colle[...]county, the city, was one of his works. H e was also in- serving four years.[...]re insurance and real Governor Cooper's death at his home in Denver estate business in pa[...]three daughters, were born to them.—J. C. S. |
| [...]ro- torial days, and they terminated in the State's fa- vided, with allowance for travell[...] |
| [...]her. done so. Mr. H e r m a n Lueders, who, for so many years[...]so-called "freak legislation." The N i n t h General Total of warrants issued to December Assembly, "Governor Waite's Legislature," is pain- 1, 1900[...]State's history, opinions are at variance; but as[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LI. S T A T E I N S T I T U T I O N S — U N I V E R S I T Y — A G R I C U L T U R A L C O L L E G E — S C H O O L OF M I N E S — N O R M A L S C H O O L |
| [...]1899. Dur- lins, in one of the finest of Colorado's agricultural ing the biennial period, 1899-1900[...]exceedingly at- quently amended. I t s 120 acres of land was do- tractive by shade trees[...]until it reaches $25,000, admission. The Home's population varies between when it is to remain pe[...]d with a strong corps of instructors, for these t h a t Congress endowed the College with[...] |
| [...]neering Building. 6. President's House. 10. Hale Scientific Build[...]dings have been added from erected for the Asylum's purpose should be of mod- time to ti[...]its inmates numbered 182. Bert street, " N o r t h Denver"—in rented quarters,[...] |
| [...]Leg- of north latitude on the south and the 41st parallel islature approved J a n u a r y 7, 1868[...]the south by New Mexico, and Oklahoma Terri- on's gates. A t the close of 1899 the institution[...]—a great empire within itself. The State's area Unfortunately, under existing law limiting p[...]d of wonderful grandeur and beauty. The State's military establishment is, in propor- The v[...]ng the banks of it having been merged in Colorado's quota of of the streams. But the natural[...]and turned to a grayish-brown which gives to t h e[...]s of land can be tilled is limited only by master's staffs number, respectively, five and four[...] |
| [...]extremely fertile and produces of the city, Long's Peak being one of its conspicu- abundant cro[...]four years spent in the schools of city's present extended system of street-railways; Chicago, he returned to his father's farm, and participated in the organizati[...]d in farming and of several of Pueblo's financial institutions; an stock-raising.[...]nsive ranche properties first locating in Denver. H e r e he engaged in deal- there devoted to sto[...]rt of the State. t r a c t decided Governor Orman's future business I n politics a life-long[...]nor Orman ac- didate for Governor of the S t a t e ; his candidacy quired large real estate[...]t city, as it has ever since been, his People's parties, and in November of that year home. Incre[...]development C. Goudy, the Republican candidate. H e was in- of that city, which, with the results[...]for the term ending in January, 1903.—J. C. S. |
| [...]treams putting 5,000. The drainage of the N o r t h Park is to the out from the mountains are more consistent, being east by way of the N o r t h P l a t t e ; that of the Mid- maintained[...]fully odorous sulphates. While much Argentine P a s s . . .13,281 North P a r k 8,500[...]o develop them and to provide means- Berthoud P a s s . . . .11,350 Pagosa Springs.. . 7,100 Boulder Pa[...]20 Manitou springs at the base of Pike's Peak are the Fremont Pass 11,329 Steam[...]are Green Lake 10,400' Tennessee P a s s . . . 10,143 those of Idaho Springs, Glenwood on the west H o t Sulphur Sp'gs 7,715 %fwiri Lakes 9,333 Loveland P a s s . . . .11,876' Veta Pass 9,399[...]ajority are surrounded by Nature's grandest handiwork. of these minor streams[...] |
| [...]there are ures the values of all of Colorado's natural re- few of the personal discomforts here[...]rritory are still in a state of nature. A re- sun's direct rays streaming down from a cloudless[...]in a Denver garden, exaggerated views of Colorado's climate have been and later heard re[...] |
| [...]of superior quality; duced by it in the traveler's mind is one of dreari- fruit and vegetables a[...]0,000 that the annual value of Colorado's general agri- acres of irrigated land. The[...] |
| [...]ermination to establish the sugar Colorado's annual live-stock crop. The business of industry[...]judgment proved that the fertile soil gas and produces an excellent quality of coke. could[...]twenty years against it in their r a t e s ; but it does not appear ago. I n Colorado[...] |
| [...]iculties of access and consequent ex- field's development dates from 1887, in which year pense[...]te and yel- about ten per cent, of Colorado's consumption of low pine, and spruce. None of the[...]ey are The district affords some natural gas which is used of no value for commercial purpose[...]dded to the ness of color and texture of Colorado's gray gran- world's stock of gold an amount to the value of ite. The[...]including as a producer of that metal. H e r total con- hundreds of beautiful homes, is un[...]actual value of all products from Colorado's nat- hrick a warm and pleasant color that harmoni[...]ding material, and its reason- child in the S t a t e ; the market value of gold and abl[...] |
| [...]to predict the measures of her ation in the State's history. The maximum was growth[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LII. A R A P A H O E C O U N T Y — I T S H I SS — O R G A N I Z A T I O N U N D E R COLORADO T E R R I T O R Y — T R A N SS AND T A X L E V I E S — P O P U L A T I O N — C O U N T Y TOWNS—TOPOG- Much of the pi[...]and among the acts judge. Nebraska and north line[...] |
| [...]sembly of Kan- that law never entered the county's domain to es- sas Territory from Arapahoe C[...]robate Judge Allen P . Tibbitts, Clerk James H a r r i s for the same. John W. Whitfield Stringfellow, and[...]on of wood never started in the direction of Pike's Peak, the present Congress, and seven for F[...]days, and a few J . W. Harris, H. E. Hardy, of these who were either on the borderland of Arap- P . Z. Taylor, H. W. Wright, ahoe, or went there especially for the purpose, held Clerks. J. T. Price, an election in, or for, the county in 1856.[...]st one in all this Kansas Legislature as t h e member from Arapahoe Pike's Peak region. The following return by the[...]tificates and were duly sworn in by Judge S. G. district of Kansas Territory lying between Ma[...]tory, for Arapahoe County; for a F u r t h e r along the journal records Simmons as Member o[...]influence, a leader, among his associates. 1. H . W." Wright, 8. James Lenard, The records of Kansas Territory at Topeka 2. J. T. Price, 9. Patrick Welch, reveal[...]ers of the Legislative Assembly, or for county 4. H . E. Hardy, 11. Coote Lombard, 5. John Welch, 12. J o h n Reynolds, officers, having bee[...] |
| [...]had survival in the county's great area, was the absorbed the attention of its[...]N E B R. A S K >V .[...]O * THC ACT Or 1S5T. s[...]nominal eastern boundary of Utah. But this Pike's 2[...]X I C O . the Territory's jurisdiction was practically ex-[...]the government's established customs in dealing bordering on the M[...]ater to legally clear the decks for the white man's sufficient to dissuade such an attempt. After tha[...]utumn of 1860, no treaties of election by a baker's dozen of "voters" in 1856,[...]from the necessities of as having been the county's first permanent citi-[...]n the Legislative H . P . A. Smith, Hickory Rogers, and E. W.[...] |
| [...]OF DENVER. koop to go forth to the Pike's Peak region and that was put in motion[...]ers who did it were not much worse off |
| [...]izing the Counties Sec. 7. That J. H . Turney, Wm. H. Prentice of Montana, El Paso, Oro, Brode[...]ay deem advisable; and where Sec. 6. That Wm. H . Green, G. W. Allison and said[...] |
| [...]ver City, B. H i e a t t and H . Sweigert were elected Sec. 15. All acts and[...]act be and the same are hereby repealed. G. S. Abbie, Constables. I n Auraria, John Graves S[...]ffect and be in force and F . F . Brune, J u s t i c e s ; and S. M. Rooker and from and after the first day of Ma[...]d the Cherry creek towns were, under the act S. Medary, Governor.[...]of the Arapahoe county of the act of 1855, and t h a t this act of February 7, 1859, made no provis[...]e twenty miles east of the 105th meridian (Denver's longitude), on the south by an east-and-west line[...]ward putting official life into Those chosen were S. W. Wagoner, Probate J u d g e ; that ancient bai[...]ry of Jefferson," in which much has been said J . S. Lowrie, Register of Deeds; L. J. Winchest[...] |
| [...]ril 11, 1859, and at which the missioner's name. Commissioner Prentice appears movement for[...]discharge until early in J u n e , 1859. J. H. Tierney had gone of their respective duties wit[...]be elected in the new was his impression t h a t the March election was counties created by t[...]f August 25, 1855, and prior to the paper's first appearance, it does is silent as to the ter[...]as Bassett's administrator he had "made applica- The act of February 7, 1859, appointed J. H .[...]robate court for Arapahoe county" Turney, William H . Prentice, and A. D. Richard-[...]sett's estate. Various other "Legal Notices" and county. Richardson's name is already familiar to[...]rs in the our reader. Turney was certainly the J. H. Tier-[...]"Arapahoe" as the name of the county. of Pike's Peak gold hunters in the summer of 1858; his name[...]act, the first attempt to News, was that of " J . H . Turner," which was prob- provide a c[...] |
| [...]na and the other coun- boxes. However t h a t may have been, it does not ties provided for[...]ttempt to do so was never were much more t h a n nominal, the movement made. Colonel T. C. Dic[...]son" had begun. Though we have already informed t h e writer t h a t so far as he knew no at- and at some lengt[...]angled sponsible for this. The people of the Pike's Peak history of our county affairs in pio[...]s elsewhere mentioned, the But, as t h e independent movement through the March crop of[...]ers in that county equipment. The name "El P a s o " was given one of the "Jef- The rapidi[...]unty name were as ple in the autumn of t h a t year, they passed out of to a reminiscence of[...]spring, Kansas Territory, but from the "Pike's Peak coun- there were charges made in the[...] |
| [...]at which votes for county offi- J o h n H. Kehler, Sheriff; C. R. Bissell, Probate cers wer[...]A. Lawrence, Road Supervisors. having by t h a t time practically sunk into oblivion in public[...]e appears to have been a mere "dummy" set John H . Kehler, Sheriff; C. R. Bissell, Probate[...], the latter was held to have been the gion was t h a t of Kansas, and that the "Jefferson"[...]y had no legal existence, hoe county's first outfit of officers of whose pro- we[...] |
| [...]quired to reside in Arapahoe county, and is then H e was recognized and received by the Kansas[...]served through the session held in Sheriff's duties in person. How they expected the the wint[...]ts extent. There- tion by conceding Kehler's election as Sheriff, and fore, and to remedy the[...]ferson" juris- Confirming the Election of J . W. [H.] Kehler as diction, and so having harmo[...]the proposition did not work out very tion of J . H . Kehler to the office of Sheriff of the well.[...]appahoe, be and is hereby confirmed —provided t h a t the said Kehler shall not exercise Kansa[...]ed a call for his official services. Sec. 2. T h a t the jurisdiction of J . H . Kehler, The "Jefferson" "law" dividing th[...]lear creek; thence This "act" confirming Kehler's election and mak- up the main channel of Clear creek to the mouth ing it apply to "Jefferson's" Arapahoe county, and of Ralston's creek; thence in a straight line to a requ[...] |
| [...]lot certificate recorded by Whitsitt. H e signed all R. E. W h i t s i t t ; Treasurer, Philip E. Peers; Attor-[...]they were by law made part of the county's Records •^7% °t 'cfeff !rson TeR[...]ty officers; of a pioneer community. H e acquired a fortune and the Recorder, Treasurer[...]eriff of Arapahoe was succeeded by H. H . C. Harrison, who appears by the special "act" o[...]s we could find no record and it seems probable t h a t the omission of others of[...] |
| [...]M. McCook, afterward Governor Gilpin's attention was first given to twice Governor of Co[...]ring. Some account of Arapahoe county's The act authorized and directed the Governo[...]to prepare for admission to the Bar. Lindsey. H i s father located in Denver in 1878, Immed[...]y continued birth-place, lived on his grandfather's farm, and until, in January, 1901, Judge L[...]ith have been his since boyhood.—J. C. S. |
| [...]VER. George W. Clayton, E. W. Cobb, and Dr. J . H. to warrant us in devoting to it the s[...]lature had by law increased the num- |
| [...]ring the next four years valuations pany's affairs. On December 18th the Commis- increased i[...]side of Cherry creek, was converted into a county's valuation rose to $12,115,347. Under the ja[...]pany), and thus assured the road's construction. On December 13, 1861, a f[...] |
| [...]owned by the county. I n October, railway company's stock. The petition was with- 1866, a "poo[...]ne forty acres, then some distance south of t h e city 25th. The Commissioners ordered an electio[...]e sold until February 3, 1874. On the 14th of t h a t Denver Pacific for $100,000, and in the Denve[...]50,000. Governor A. C. H u n t the block of land bounded by The propos[...]s for the Criminal Division $75,000 to the county's cash resources. As the of our Dist[...] |
| [...]unsuitable, the premises too small, and the price 1875. Each proposed site was opposed by a strong[...]ncourage the (the City Hall site,) at a purchase price of $10,000, establishment of churches in the pi[...]chebeuf, clared was their lowest possible selling price. This of this Diocese. The unalterable price placed upon action and the proposed location of the Court it by the Bishop was $18,000; the price proposed House instantly caused howls of protest[...]before preparations B. Crocker, Joseph W. Bowles, H . D. Steele, A. J. were begun to put a building on the site. The Williams, I. H . Batchellor and A. M. Stanbury. county[...]f a quarter-million dollars in cash. now; but the price agreed upon for it was unde- Early in[...]ree voted against it. This adopted on March 31st. On August 30, 1880, a official deadlock c[...] |
| [...]Bates, funds derived from the sale of the county's rail- Joseph M. Brown, F . B . Crocke[...]income Wolfe Londoner, J. A. Shreve, H . D. Steele and sources, having constituted the b[...]imate other improvements on the ground, architect's fees erection of another and similar s[...]Colfax another story to the building, the county's busi- and Fourteenth Avenues,[...] |
| [...]third-class districts are those of Littleton, H a r - was completed in June, 1891, at a cost, in[...]y, female teachers, a total of ninety, in the H i g h including the towns, and the city of Denve[...] |
| [...]brick, sixty-six frame, mass of the county's population is concentrated twenty-seven of sod, a[...]and, of course, the great bulk of the county's tax- have school libraries aggregating 29,618 vol[...]n free to all unable to provide them. Trie county's of all property in the county, in 1899,[...]the larger item of 000,000; of which Denver's portion was about which respresented teachers' sa[...]ents, insurance and various mis- was t h a t immediately preceding "panic times," cellaneo[...]eight mills; to which is added the State's poll-tax interest thereon; and $40,527.76 for bon[...]1900, was 153,017, an . increase of had during t h a t year miscellaneous school-fund 15.8 per cent, over t h e enumeration of 1890, receipts aggregating $71,1[...]it is only eight and one-quarter miles south I t s area is nearly five times that of the S t a t e of of the State Capitol and three and[...]imes that of Dela- south of the city's south boundary. I t was founded ware, considerably more than that of Connecticut, by Richard S. Little, a native of New Hampshire and about two-[...]ittle platted the town in June, 1872, when it was S t a t e is one-sixth larger, but practically unde[...]rned. The nearly all the region in which Colorado's mining third structure was one[...] |
| [...]r the Aichele, Clerk and Recorder; C. S. Elder, Treas- immediate valley of the P l a t t[...]favor- u r e r ; Cass E. Herrington, Attorney; S. H . able for agriculture and is highly improved, be[...]intendent of Schools; H . C. Brown, Physician; river. All the coun[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LIII. M I N I N G AND S M E L T I N G — P E R I O D OF T H E I R GREAT D E V E L O P M E N T — B E G I N N[...]ER MINING |
| [...]half million dollars and in doubling the plant's ca- statement shows, the entire Colorado producti[...]*: - 3 H ties. The metal is known to exist in forty of the[...]s/ipE We have heretofore recounted at length the[...]profitably do treating the "matte" at Black H a w k ; and soon the work required. The crude sta[...]er especially, wore a of all the company's business; and also in larger rather darkis[...] |
| [...]to its capacity. The results of the first year's op- prices for treating it, they complained bitte[...]880 the com- The development of Professor Hill's processes pany again increased its capi[...]the city, and with which the late Senator H . A. W. Early in 1869, after the success of th[...]ne sense an Refining Works, with $50,000 capital. H e designed outgrowth of the Holden[...] |
| [...]abor and large lofty height a chimney t h a t ranks among the tall sums of moneyr were expe[...]The Globe Smelter, the younger of Denver's ore-producing camp of importance, and which was[...]American Monetary came a member of the University's faculty; in 1858 Commission, the object o[...]elopment. I n December, in detail on these pages. H i s solution of the then 1887, as related more p[...]ical services to that industry, Professor Hill's first home in Colorado was at that made S[...]ed work as a min- the upper branch of the N i n t h Legislative Assembly eralogist as exemplified[...]his friends, in 1876; and in January, 1879, H e was a good man in everything implied by that he[...]x years by the Second peacefully.—J. C. S. |
| [...]th, copper and antimony, lead, zinc, and many day's transactions. As this goes on every day, the[...]er intelligible description or outline of t h e varied pro- net returns than are receive[...] |
| [...]here. Silver found its lowest market price, a shade ern consumers. The Omaha & Grant Smelter[...], the cents. But in 1900 the price hovered around sixty- gold usually being sent bac[...]nt, two cents per ounce; t h e monthly average in 1900 and the silver and base[...]be refines all its highest price. Therefore, the market value of the product, the[...]proportion of Colorado silver mines t h a t ten years of the silver yield coming from ore[...]Yet, the Mint's official figures contradict the The following[...]ORADO. State's silver product reached its highest point; Year.[...]000.00 3,740,000.00 table of Colorado's precious metals output, the pro- 1873[...]But the most remarkable thing connected with 187S 3,240,384.36 6,041,807.81 9,25[...]1893 the importance and value of gold-mining was 1S83 4,100,000.00 17,370,000.00 21,[...]far more than one-half of all the gold t h a t has ever 1896 15,UO,960.00[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. period. I t s vast stores of the yellow metal were t[...]There 490.17. Grand total of the Mint's business for the[...]16,866,545.19. Miscella- The history of Denver's old Mint—a "mint" by neous gold,[...]m Clark, Gruber & total of the mint's business for the year $17,839,-[...]773.84. Company and, by additions to that firm's building, 1900—Colorado output, n[...]that it has stood Grand total of the Mint's business for the year,[...]of 1898 reflects an effect of the smeltermen's strike ago. I t s career has been uneventful, and for a[...]it was of com- paratively modest proportions. I t s principal deal- ings are with gold, but little si[...]-1900, inclusive, indicate the volume of the Mint's business—a business quite out of propor- tion t[...]ding was begun in 1897, and at the 1900, the Mint's business in bullion treated was as[...] |
| [...]aging from posit, by check upon the U. S. Assistant Treasurer .800 to over .900 fine, one[...]oid abrasion in transit. I t is shipped to the U. S. materials, and also saves the slag for the infor[...]dividual bar, after melting furnaces, operated by gas fuel, with a being so carefully teste[...]stamp mill prior to melting, tire year's business, between the two mints, was can t[...] |
| [...]be understood from the foregoing One dollar's worth of gold, United States stand- that in advan[...]shillings. receives the output of two of Colorado's large I n recent years the Cripple Cr[...]that Denver is the eastern Since Stratton's discovery there in 1891, the dis- gateway of the[...]Idaho, its history of twenty-two years t h a t district has Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, an[...]663,289.00 Stratton's "Independence" which, early in the sum- Denn[...]His father, witnessed and aided in an empire's development |
| [...]ed to have been comparable with this one's. Several accounts, most ten millions of dollars.[...]ie Cripple Creek district. In covered by W. S. S t r a t t o n in July, 1891—the first March, 1899, Mr. T. A. Rickard, of Denver, S t a t e mine in the Cripple Creek district. Up to[...]e. reports made late in 1900, the English company's H e was aided in his work by others, who incident-[...]ne had much reduced ally spoke to W. S. Stratton about the discovery. its known value, i[...]ity for the restored rate. This one of the world's great smelting establishments, is said[...]I n 1894 when the Denver Dry Goods Company tion. H e continued as the executive head of the[...]. Since tinues that relation to it. H e has been and is then he has been an officer of[...]the advancement of the city's interests, and a good After Mr. Sheedy became[...]On November 25, 1898, he married Mary with lead t h a t was unusual to a private citizen. Ter[...]hicago, and The tariff bill of President Harrison's administra- who is a niece of Bishop Burk[...]rt, and by some means the diocese of St. Joseph, Mo. Ways and Means Committee had been pe[...]started as a boy upon a pound. Through Mr. Sheedy's active and force- his own resources w[...]personal and business integrity, or repressing t h e advocate of practically "free lead," and who ha[...]sideration for his fellow-men.—J. C. S. |
| [...]ad been camping on the Cripple Creek side of Pike's put in 1899 the Cripple Creek district contribute[...]ee-fifths; of that of 1900 it contributed Womack's discovery, which, by the way, subse- considerably[...]the district are about 28 per cent, less granite. S t r a t t o n did as the others had done, of the[...]granite, and has a thickness crop must be a lode. H e had taken five samples to which has been proved[...]." I t happened to be the, tures of Cripple Creek's development. I t occurs in Fourth of July,[...] |
| [...]ER. to the shrinkage of the crust over the earth's cool- ores into two classes or grades, accord[...]Mine. The results of that discovery after those |
| HISTORY OF DENVER. 567 Winfleld S. Stratton. |
| [...]Colorado Com- nativity is in the midst of England's old and pro- pany's great establishment. When the smelter was lific[...]the Cornwall dis- dition of Colorado's mining interests reflects trie tricts. I n 1859 h[...]Philosophy in recognition, as career as Colorado's foremost metallurgist. stated by P[...]ld and silver metallurgists of the pres- Colorado's mineral resources that he decided to e[...]he took President of the American I n s t i t u t e of Mining charge of a small smelter n[...]his countrymen here in the west.—J. C. S. |
| [...]at the great discovery of gold hopes in its owner's mind that the smelters or mills in Colorado i[...]enwood Springs country has another. known as "Tom's Baby," and with several other With a s[...]h but smaller Ones, was sold to the Chicago World's it is not in Colorado, the late Senator H . A. W. Fair Commissioners for $15,000. Th[...] |
| [...]571 A curious fact is t h a t it was all found lying loose tical knowled[...]ances" reduced, and the occupation brought |
| [...]with sufficient capital, the rule is t h a t such opera- rule in the history of every mini[...]of 1898 a political distinction that Guggenheim. H e was educated at Philadelphia, ra[...]nominated him as that party's candidate for Gov- identified with the business l[...]Owing to the demands of his firm of M. Guggenheim's Sons, of New York, of personal and[...]terests of vast magnitude identL party's executive committee to subsitute another fied wit[...]stitutional age-limit, there can be no at P e r t h Amboy, N. J . ; the Great National Mexican d[...]H e n r y Hirsh, of the city of New York, were mar-[...]with the Philadelphia Rabbi William S. Friedman, of Denver. After a Smelting & Refining[...]I n his successful business ver.—J. C. S. |
| [...]Steck, C. B. Kountze, A. B. Bobbins, F i r s t Vice President; William D . J o h n W. Smith, L. C. Elsworth, R. R. McCormick, Todd, Second Vice President and "caller;" E . W. and H e n r y Crow were appointed a committee to Cobb, Secretary; George E. Snider, T r e a s u r e r ; confer with mining men and others and t[...]meeting then adjourned to tee. Walter S. Cheesman, Chairman Arbitration March 19th.[...]the new institution were secured Cooper and Winne's office; the attendance was in Henry C. Brown's building at the southeast cor- larger than at the[...]Exchange was formally opened on J u n e 1st. The mittee reported that the encouragement recei[...]ows: Daniel Witter, President; Dr. Denver's first Mining Exchange. The institution Samuel[...]ral north- |
| [...]isrepute, many persons terminating all one at t h a t time instituted hardly deserved the dis-[...]ut one until after in April. On May 1st the new corporation was the great "boom" had set[...]erning board consisting of John F . Campion, D. H . mining stocks was held for the purpose of orga[...]This re- Jefferey, John L. Jerome, H. M. Joralmon, H a r r y sulted in incorporating the Colorado Mining Stock LI. Lee, John C. Mitchell, D. H . Moffat, George E. Exchange, which was organize[...]Batchelder, President; C. E. Taylor, H. Toll, and Henry R. Wolcott. On July 1st this Vice President; W. C. Wynkoop Secretary; an[...]ampion, President; Henry John L. McNeil, T r e a s u r e r ; and which began busi- R. Wolcott, First Vice President; H . M. Joralmon, ness on July 18th, of that year. Second Vice President; D. H . Dougan, Treasurer; Quarters for the transac[...]entirely new corporation. The old prospects. I t s business developed with such rapid-[...] |
| [...]in price also.[...]maintaining a high standard would be mine's development; of the "Victor," at forty cen[...] |
| [...]the it is quite certain, however, t h a t applied science precious metals N a t u r e s[...]he deeper ore is richer, from Nature's treasure-house without encroaching prompted anyon[...]to the worth of a penny upon any other man's presumably still richer regions. Therefore[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LIV. DENVER'S PIONEER RAILROADS—EARLIER D I S C U S S I O N S OF A TRANS-CONTINENTAL ROAD—FIR[...]PACIFIC ROADS AUTHORIZED—DENVER'S DISAPPOINTMENT—GOLDEN'S PRIORITY I N RAIL- |
| [...]sing through the Cache-a- extending a finger to t h e West, .turned partially la-Poudre Pass o[...]words as though addressing through Bridger's P a s s ; or it may continue from the place indicated by[...]ers, like my- the Platte Canon, following up t h a t stream to t h e self, by the eye of faith, saw the blue waters of the junction of the North and South F o r k s ; thence u p Pacific and heard the m u r m u r of[...]onel the Colorado into the heart of t h e great basin. Alexander W. Doniphan of the First[...]ter entering the Platte Canon, and even tory of t h a t period, goes on to say: th[...]t known length, for a great national highway from St. Louis to the bay a distance not less tha[...]ized at St. Joseph, Missouri, the "Missouri River The reader will observe that the line of Senator & Pike's Peak Railroad Company," a corporation Benton's proposed great transcontinental highway that proposed to build a railroad from St. Joseph would have encountered the mountains not[...]re held to consider ways and means by ritory of t h e United States, and that eventually whi[...]that its route was definitely located, the fact t h a t there are now a half-dozen or more it[...]of the great civil war, the Missouri River & Pike's it did not seem possible that it would be built a[...]forgotten. This disappointment to Denver's early |
| [...]ppeared to be only a matter of speed in rail- was St. Joseph, the western terminus of the "Han- way building as to the day on which Denver would nibal & St. Joe Railroad," cutting across northern o[...]f the pioneer railway projects west of the Denver's pioneers to be not worth talking about.[...]e terprise in the interest of the city of St. Louis, when the first crash of the civil war had[...]ectors intended and expected to instance of W. A. H . Loveland of Golden, F . J. have that[...]f railroad to the Pa- west of Kansas, and t h a t if the main line did not cific, and when Con[...], sev- However, the equanimity of Denver's citizens e r a l preliminary field-surveys had th[...]railroad enterprise from ble that Denver's supremacy would yield, the rail- the Miss[...] |
| [...]0th meridian. The contemplated route lyzed Denver's railroad expectations for a season.[...] |
| [...]transcontinental line, on the route by way of A. H . Loveland was the tireless advocate and[...]he enterprise Jerome B. Chaffee, of Denver, 1861. H e was one of the founders of Golden in[...]life and soul of clined to look upon Loveland's project with much the town of Golden, and a man w[...]hird Legislative Assembly (session Loveland's railroad enterprise. I n the spring and of 1864)[...]rom Golden eastward to the east Loveland's next move was to procure the co-op- line of Color[...]ral tors named in the amended law were William A. H. Grenville M. Dodge in his report of Nove[...]and Jonathan Cox. proved General Dodge's recommendations, and in Loveland's plan was to make this proposed road a[...] |
| [...]Will- as Secretary. Mr. Carter's plan was to begin the iams to investigate the res[...]but which are not of interest now. H e was fol- the mining and other resources of the[...]lowed by General Bela M. Hughes, J o h n Evans and might require. I n the spring of 1867, in Boston, Governor H u n t in addresses in which the assem- Loveland e[...]Carter's plans and prepare to[...]e of 295 miles, and advance con- was held at Cole's Hall in the evening of t h a t day struction work was bearing in a direction[...]diversion to Denver. So it m i t ; Governor A. C. H u n t presiding, with Roger appeared that Mr. Carter's plans and Governor |
| [...]k as men and money could do i t ; and that Dr. J. H . Morrison, Bela M. Hughes, L. M. Koons[...]ngress. The work of locating Loveland's Colorado Cen- Considerable difficulty in financin[...]as J. Carter had carefully through J o h n D. Perry, then President of that done all they[...]tember a party of their engineers under W. H. a surprise to our people; and also something of[...]movement, and the fact that Loveland's surveyors public, Isaac E. Eaton, represen[...] |
| [...]now Vice President and General Manager of t h e tral scheme, and in favor of awaiting the reli[...]nd road was discarded and, it may Denver's career was then impending, and an inci- be stated[...]nce of On the day of Colonel Archer's arrival Colonel its officers. At that time Colone[...]ge had telegraphed General Grenville M. Dodge of St. Louis, was one of the leaders in Kansas Pa- apprising him of Archer's visit, of its purposes, and cific affairs, and on[...]the railroad and discussion of railroad matters. H e was hailed question with the people o[...]ance of such a guide and counsellor. J o h n Evans, M. M. DeLano, Bela M. LIughes, W.[...]his company ing of citizens at Cole's Hall for the evening of had found itself unable t[...]ence in his ment bond subsidy terminated in K a n s a s ; that the characteristic manner, urging the[...]tion with- to be maintained—if the city's very existence were out outside assistance; t h a t he had come here to to be continued.[...]at would soon be stalled in the prairie H e told of the condition of the Kansas Pacific, wi[...]eorge Francis Train had arrived in Denver in Cole's Hall on Larimer street, November 13th, at[...]organized; its Directors con- meeting. H e had busied himself through the day sisting of I[...], and when Colonel Archer ton, Henry C. Leach, D. H . Moffat, Jr., J . H . Mor- concluded his remarks, Train began his speech rison, F r a n k Palmer, J o h n Pierce, F . Z. Salomon, which proved so potent and notable in Denver's John W. Smith, J . M. Strickler, George Tritch and railroad annals. H e urged the people to no longer R. E. Whitsitt. T[...]er, Treasurer; and Henry Colonel Archer's road, and to let it end in Kansas C. Leach[...] |
| [...]That was the turning point. The erratic Train's with the road-bed thus prepared there wo[...]ened if Colonel Dodge by General J o h n Pierce, was unanimously adopted. had not sent h[...]lost no time in acting Secretary. J o h n Evans was the principal speaker. upon Train's suggestions and advice. A meeting Hi[...]it seldom wavered. At that meet- Governor J o h n Evans was a native of Ohio, and Dr. Eva[...]abroad, he was elected to a Professor's Chair in. |
| [...]order that the remainder of his possessions m i g h t then also be the center of precious metals prod[...]s a division ter- improbable, were fulfilled; and h e lived to see their minal on that road; it was to be the location of t h e consummation. Other speakers followed Governor company's great construction and repair shops; Evans, outli[...]evelopment of a sys- and under the company's fostering care it was to be tem of railroads in C[...]ver, and Joseph E. Bates, William M. Clayton, J o h n Evans, many others were considering the[...]new "city" was already receiving much busi- David H . Moffat, Jr., J o h n Pierce, and John W. ness that had forme[...]was one of those who selected the University's mental in obtaining right of way into Chicago for[...]d in his honor the new college-town was the road. H e was one of the men who early realized na[...]$50,000, to which he later added $50,000 more. H e the increment of which subsequently constituted[...]of a large fortune. His experience sity's first Board of Trustees, a position he with the C[...]est in the political affairs of that period. H e was railway connecting the isolated town with t[...]monious and effective organization in t h e Illinois State convention that indorsed and under a proper and responsible executive head. H e recommended Lincoln for the nomi[...] |
| [...]t over the country. I t is of in- d e n t ; David H . Moffat, Jr., Treasurer; W. F . John- teres[...]that map is now represented in Denver's railroad the Board of Directors consisting of Jos[...]the Hughes, W. F . Johnson, Luther Kountze, David H. sinews of railroad-building came from Arapahoe Moffat, Jr., John Pierce, and J o h n W. Smith. county. Acting upon a p[...]the Denver Pacific tions to the railroad company's stock witriin a day Railroad; the county to receive the company's stock or two. I n one day's work they secured about to an equ[...]to Denver, but had given the smaller town dence t h a t the people realized that the value of[...]viding for the troversy by J u d g e Scates of t h e Illinois Supreme boy; professional m a n[...]n he came here, direct from a relatively |
| [...]Pacific whenever Denver was prepared igable W. A. H . Loveland and the other citizens of to pr[...]lost none of its spirit and com- General J o h n Pierce went east to make arrange- bativeness. L[...]lt on a di- ical evidence of the Colorado Central's existence. rect line to Denver, following[...]e to induce the city of Chey- sas, representing t h e Kansas Pacific, came to enne to vote[...]ity to publicly pre- and work out the road's salvation with the means sent the purposes[...] |
| [...], but in reality it was in- Porter, J. S. Brown and F . Z. Salomon there to as- tended to[...]of the com- comotive would have to come in from t h a t point, pany's total capital stock. But, although the Union it w[...]place, it lateral expenses, would require t h a t the Denver can not now be precisely located.[...]nd J u n e 24, 1868, the Denver Pacific's stock was in- the present Fortieth Avenue. A larg[...]by the Directors to $4,000,000. This cut in city's population congregated there to see it, brass[...]sic, and former Gov- Arapahoe county's holdings; but Governor Evans ernor Gilpin[...] |
| [...]fic at That ended the Denver Pacific's relations with some point not farther west than f[...]d Cheyenne. The line was constructed in side of t h e roadway—turned over to another cor-[...]1869; being the first completed part of bill at t h a t session, but t h e measure brought about the Denver Pacific en[...]Pacific's troubles, and its passage was largely due session[...]e had still delayed action, and Pacific's route; but the latter was put out of the a[...] |
| [...]the Denver Pacific. A friendly but keen rivalry t h e lien covering 800,000 acres of land grant, as[...]the fastest railroad-building ever Evans, Walter S. Cheesman, David H . Moffat and seen in this[...]chapter we have told of the arrival of Denver's immediately located and surveyed, and grading[...]wo passenger and side, " J o h n Evans, President, J u n e 24, 1870."[...]resolved to close it in one day's work. Delay in[...]the town of Kit Carson. elected as Directors J o h n Evans, John Pierce, I t was a very busy place for a while, but now re- Walter S. Cheesman, William M. Clayton, David[...]Archer, who was the Kansas Pacific's official rep- ert E. Carr, William J. Palmer, and R. H . Lamborn resentative to Denv[...]itizen and resided here until rectors elected J o h n Evans, President; John[...]s and his associates were tary and Auditor; David H . Moffat, Treasurer; and struggling to get the Denver Pacific on its feet they L. H. Eicholtz, Chief Engineer.[...]ilt charge of Kansas Pacific construction, and W. H. within a few years[...] |
| [...]tion to rectify the shrinkage of Arapahoe county's interest in the stock of the Denver Pacific, caus[...]road was finished Governor Evans by increasing t h a t company's capital stock from found himself able to[...]ter reviewing the his- pletion of Denver's first railway connections tory of the road, then[...]really were the city's means of salvation. They "When, last summer,[...]transaction with either required t h e customer be " I took the contract, therefor[...]e to Omaha by the Union Pacific hand, at the best price that could be obtained had been $51.5[...]er to Cheyenne then made travelling ing and pay t h e pressing' indebtedness already[...] |
| C H A P T E R LV. COLORADO C E N T R A L R A I L R O A D — I T S C O M P L E T I O N B E T W E E N D E N V E R A N[...]OF 1873—DENVER, The Denver Pacific and th[...]G. Dexter, John Duff, |
| [...]it Another part of the Colorado Central's plans to was begun soon afterward. At the same t[...]used to recognize the Eastern occupied part of t h a t Golden-Julesburg route, and Division, and div[...]i n . aid of the McCormick, Secretary; and David H . Moffat, road on condition that it should be bui[...]it lost the bonds. A new over the range to U t a h ; with a branch to Central arrangement was[...] |
| [...]ed, the panic left the former tumn of 1872; and t h a t advance of the Central rather in the l[...]ler, who was President Prior to that time, J o h n Evans and his Denver of the Central at that[...]nd South held in Golden in December of t h a t year. Love- P a r k line, of which we will pr[...]end of some of its troubles. the range into U t a h ; or, that the Denver & South Park company might,[...]upsetting t h e arrangement. I n May, 1876, a meet- 1872 the ne[...]ing of the Central's stockholders was held at Gol- independent friendl[...]not holdings of that company in the Central's stock far ahead of it. But subsequent chan[...] |
| [...]599 company's Directors in the previous December,[...]and Boul- I n the meantime Judge Stone's captors had kept |
| [...]long intended to be—practically a part of t h e remarkable ability as a leader, they riad long[...]with reason regarded him as inimical to this city's the Denver Pacific division of the Kansas Paci[...]s, a system of still more but the operations in t h a t direction by the South outrageous extortio[...]cast missioners withheld $50,000 of their county's bond off by those who were most indebted to[...]zed he had in view had been constructed. H i s purchase to build the Wyoming mileage. This work[...]College at Lebanon, Of Mr. Loveland's career as a Colorado pioneer, 111., and Shurtleff[...]ardent Democrat, he was nominated as his party's leader of the community, and his store was its[...]which he kept there until the 1888.—J. C. S. |
| HISTORY OF DENVER. 601 W. A. H. Loveland. |
| [...]Criaffee was elected President; Walter S. Chees- tember, 1870[...]eek, narrow gauge, com- and David H . Moffat, Jr., Treasurer. The road was pleted i[...]narrow gauge, uary 24, 1871. I t s proprietary interests organized completed in Ma[...]nsion grade was transferred to the sisting of J o h n Evans, J . B. Chaffee, David H . Boulder Valley company in expectation of its im- Moffat, Jr., Walter S. Cheesman, P . M. Housel, mediate compl[...]Company, and Mr. Smith was appointed its Gen- H e is a native of New York State, riaving been[...]ational tendered the position to Mr. Smith. H e accepted, pursuits.[...]duties with the Rio Grande two days later. H e volunteers was made by the President, Mr. Smith[...]ssful career in rail- and General Manager. H e retained these rela- road management. On Februa[...]rief period of recently begun at its eastern end. H e remained in relaxation. that position un[...]e company, and so continued until Smith's long and active career, will suggest to the Octob[...]usual executive ability. been placed in charge of H e n r y Villard and Charles Entering t h e Union army as a private soldier in S. Greeley as Receivers. On November 1, 1878, the[...]position were transcontinental systems. H e has proved by his assumed by Mr. Smith in addit[...]ably able manager of railways.—J. C. S. |
| [...]mn of that year the "Denver Governor A. C. H u n t , and W. H . Greenwood. The & Rio Grande Railway Company"[...]of Denver men in 1868, before there R. H . Lamborn, of Philadelphia; and Thomas J . was a[...]ates & Mexico Chief Engineer; and W* H . Greenwood, Superin- Railway Company; and of th[...]tendent of Construction. The company's capital telegraph building and railroad planning[...]to do it with most of them thought Palmer's enterprise was private capital. General Palmer's plans were not rather outside the border[...]a few regarded it as a wild project t h a t would carried out by the Denver & Rio Grande[...]always would be. Nearer at last reached Denver'. H e also anticipated, and the plans of his company[...]and thence south to Colorado City the country was H e then believed that if the Kansas Pacific did no[...]ied. The Denver-Pueblo stage line build through t h a t country, some other road would co[...] |
| [...]m of roads here in the west; but that was H u n t presented the merits of their road and won[...]result had been so well assured public lands, t h e intermediary of a construction that con[...]Colorado City were completed on Oc- mer's administration came from that city. tober[...] |
| [...]en until the latter half of the year 1884, when t h e range to Durango, with a branch from Antonita t[...]1889, the latter-named company leased from t h e Alamosa to Del Norte, and extended to South For[...]eral years later, was finished eleven miles to t h a t long, extending from Texas creek station in F[...]ed in Sep- August, 1887, the Rio Grande's El Moro line was tember, 1881, with a branch to t[...]nating at Rock Creek, was north by way of Fremont's Pass to Dillon, on the hurriedly built[...]on Grand rivers to Glenwood, and up t h e Roaring extension west through Montrose, Delta,[...]built, and in July, 1889, a branch from Fork and Price River canons to a connection with[...] |
| [...]and remarkable development of General Palmer's dad had been made of standard gauge. As this[...]epresents a total construction then sent around t h a t way. On account of the[...]manufacturing establishment. The road's growth opened to give the southern part of the St[...]it serves so well; yet, it is to be remembered t h a t Crested Butte to Ruby, into the great anthrac[...]ession of the canon close of our record. The road's connection with of the Arkansas in[...] |
| [...]nver & Rio The road's extensions had been overbuilt, its con- Grande on[...]to proceed 1885, David H . Moffat, Jr., was elected President of with the work of constructing the Rio Grande's the company in place[...]enver & Rio F e took possession of the Rio Grande's 337 miles of Grande Railway Company, of which W. S. Jack- road in December, 1878. I n the spring of[...]Grande's memorable conflict with the IF"*-ss^ ^ss[...]nt for the fu- Walter S. Cheesman, F . A. Clark, Henry Crow, ture was mad[...]companies; and J o h n Evans, Bela M. Hughes, Charles B. Kountze, sinc[...]together in the David H . Moffat, Jr., and F . Z. Salomon, with a State i[...]incor- engaged in railroad enterprises in Mexico. H e was porators with L. H . Eicholtz and J o h n C. Reiff be- succeeded by Frederick Lovejoy who[...]estern company. J o h n Evans, President; David H . Moffat, Jr., Vice |
| [...]ry. Notwithstanding the well-known finan- Central's line up Clear creek, as a friendly western[...]rojected was practically un- to the road's stock from Denver business men, but inhabited. There were a few houses at Morrison's without much success. Then John W. Smit[...]f Fairplay, and the latter was to Bailey's Ranche. Smith's plan called for the or- not much more than a name[...], 1872, the "Morrison Stone, company's first mortgage bonds. The construction Lime and T[...]- tal of $350,000, with John Evans, W. S. Cheesman, viously built there at the quarry the place had been Charles B. Kountze, David H . Moffat, Jr., John W. called "Morrison" for some[...]Smith, William Barth, F . J. Ebert, J. S. Brown, I n June, 1873, the company was re-org[...]John Hughes pleted the road to Bailey's Ranche early in the took the place of Bates in t[...]Aid was Prior to that time the road's prospects had much asked from Arapahoe county, a[...]he County For constructing it beyond Bailey's Ranche, t h e Commissioners to issue $300,000 of county bond[...]anized in November, 1877, by practi- road company's stock; one of the conditions having cally[...]a route Sage, Cyrus W. Fisher, Walter S. Cheesman, John from what is now Sheridan Junction on the Morri- Evans, David H . Moffat, Jr., J . S. Brown, John W. son road was surveyed and[...] |
| [...]VER. elected were John Evans, President; Walter S. line of its own into Leadville, the extension to[...]3 miles, as |
| [...]FORT WORTH, AND F O R T W O R T H & D E N V E R C I T Y R O A D S — C O N S T R U C T I O N OF V A R I O U S L O C A L RAILWAYS—BUR- LINGTON,[...]I F I C , COLORADO M I D L A N D , AND R O C K I S L A N D R O A D S — H I S T O R Y OF T H E COLORADO & S O U T H E R N AND ITS CONSTITUENT[...]RN—OTHER LOCAL R A I L R O A D S — U N I O N P A C I F I C — D E N V E R U N I O N P A S S E N G E R S T A T I O N — C R I P P L E C R E E K D I S T R I C T RAILROADS—PROSPECTIVE T R U N K - L I N E EX- TENSIONS—DENVER'S RAILWAY FACILITIES—CHARACTERISTICS[...]OF COLORADO MOUNTAIN R O A D S — D E N V E R ' S R A I L W A Y BUILDERS. While the decade, 1[...]s on its line, |
| [...]New Orleans com- northwest corner of that State's "pan-handle." pany that very active[...]eted therefore the Denver, Texas & F o r t Worth's con- from Fort Worth to Texline, 454.49[...]acific road, and with all these amplifica- Grande's coal branches in southern Colorado.[...]story of Denver and of Colorado, Pacific, but J o h n Evans was its Second Vice Presi-[...] |
| [...]pteSQs £tr -^B*S ^C3PflG 1 -4^ -**9isfc&B5"*-- ***** -^m ^ M H ^ ^ -ypTr-[...]HP^**s_ |
| [...]not tainties, the haltings, that beset t h e earlier roads. get beyond the stage of "paper r[...]tions between sanguine hope and utter despair t h a t the city and the Missouri river. The origin o[...]d the Mississippi plains, entered the city's gates, and was ready for opposite Burlington, Iow[...]this road began in 1870, and on cific's LaSalle-Julesburg division, between Union Septemb[...]ings. This braska, on the Burlington's Montana division, a road had a land grant[...] |
| [...]615 Cheyenne, was built in 1885-87. I t s great north- The Denver extension had been[...]two or three years before it was built, but the S a n t a |
| [...]pened simulta- important factor in Denver's railway system than neously with the main line, a[...]cting the Midland Terminal trunk lines. I t s Colorado extension was begun late Railway, begun[...]em of railways. I n addition to his Quartermaster's Department at Memphis. Termi- services[...]ent of and advancement of the city.—J. C. S. |
| [...]d by published reports that the com- J u s t prior to 1890 the exceedingly "practical rail-[...]n their reach, some of which were, and had Island's extension of its proprietary line in Colo- be[...]vely employed when called, in December, Missouri. H e was born in the town of Arcadia, 1893[...]in a village book-store to that of Re- two years. H e was then made clerk in the Pleas- ceive[...]President of'the company, which now owns and op- 1st entered the service of the Missouri, Kansas &[...]ilway Texas Railway as a clerk in the comptroller's systems in the west. I n March, 1899, h[...]1900, upon the re- department of the comptroller's office and as trav- adjustment of proprietary[...]ri head of the three corporations. Pacific at St. Louis, where he remained a little This brief outline.of President Trumbull's unu- more than five years, filling, during the la[...]noon, renders almost superfluous everything t h a t I n January, 1886, he was called to Dallas, T[...]every other consideration.—J. C. S. |
| [...]aving obligations Denver, Texas & F t . W o r t h Railroad. on stocks, bonds and flo[...]fic, Denver & Gulf placed in the hands of S. H. II. Clark, Oliver W. Railway Company, with an au[...]se lines was President of all of them, and t h e others were and operate them as one dependent[...]nnual inter- Attorney General of the United S t a t e s ; Doane then est charges aggregated $1,213,010. U[...]being one of the Government Directors of t h a t rangements the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison r[...]old lines account for ing the Cheyenne & N o r t h e r n from Wendover to some discrepancies b[...]g the two allied roads in Texas, part of Loveland's old road from Golden to Long- was as follows: mont. I t s track between Ralston and Louisville[...] |
| [...]at Pueblo for $6,250,000 (the minimum price) to Lines operated under Contract and[...]14.54 porations. The new company's Board of Directors,[...]he Colorado & Southern Under Receiver Trumbull's management during Company in the re-[...]aluable railroad 810 miles. properties. H e had, as we have stated, added two[...] |
| [...]Como, "the Colorado road." I t sst, a complete system of large shops at branches[...]way. .1,141.55 important addition to Denver's industrial estab- Mileage, F o r t Worth & Denv[...]sion upon the Colorado & Southern's vacation, un- I n 1900 the Colorado & Northwes[...]the Missouri Valley Railroad, named road. at St. Joseph, Mo., and since that time has been[...]nd ticket department of the Kansas in 1887. H e is also a member of the Society of City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad; from th[...]sas City der of the last-named organization. H e is also a of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs, Royal Arch Mason[...]awrence & nal Union of America.—J. C. S. |
| [...]ver ; and W. B. Willard and J . P . Haynes of H a r t - railway shop arrangements will prove of[...]ord, Connecticut, with a capital of $600,000. I t s portance v to the business interests of Denver, both first Board of Directors consisted of W. A. H . Love- taking rank as great manufacturing estab[...]Welch, President; Newhouse, Vice P r e s i d e n t ; roads that constitute the system. The discourag- Hodges, Treasurer; and H. J. Hersey, Secretary. ing results that formerly[...]with a branch to pendent "local" roads in Denver's railway system, the suburban town of[...]team road. Like its small neighbor on the east E. H . Hallack, C. M. Wicker and others, of Denver,[...]rminal property. I t has been in a Re- built in t h a t year and opened September 1st. I n ceiver's hands since July 31,1896, but Samuel New- 1888 th[...]the corporation. which were E. H . Hallack, President; George C.[...]ter to the $300,000 capital; W. A. H . Loveland, who had be- Union Passenger Station,[...]time principal owner of the the eastern line of t h e S t a t e ; but did neither. I n Rocky Mountain[...]nized as leaders in the enterprise. I t s Board of Directors the Colorado & E a s t e r n Railroad Company, the consiste[...]he creek to about Four- Starkweather, R. Ryan and H. J. Hersey, of Den- teenth A[...] |
| [...]rd and another westward, the the company's affairs, of re-organizing and re- latter crossing[...]ompany, the affairs of that Receivership were I t s property passed to the Atchison, Topeka &[...]- ated, and the company had gone into a Receiver's hands. A similar fate had befallen the Den[...] |
| [...]tal for the use of the Union Passenger Station's site. station and for the e[...]the morning of Sunday, March 18, 1894, an W. A. H . Loveland, then at the head of the ele[...]e subdued the larger part of the structure's in- the Central's passenger station at the foot of terior wa[...]he Union Depot Company has company being Walter S. Cheesman, D. C. Dodge, usually had Denver[...]union passenger stations in the country, and W. S. Cheesman, S. H . H . Clark, D. C. it is doubtful if there i[...]nvenience of arrangement and location elected W. S. Cheesman President of the com- than ours. Its handsome aspect is heightened by pany; S. T. Smith, Vice President; George W. the[...]till more to the organization was completed. I t s capital make itself presentable, the agre[...]eat gateway to the city will be even more W. S. Cheesman negotiated for twelve acres of[...]n and none directly into Denver excepting t h a t the work was let by contract and begun about the Burlington's cut-off road to western Nebraska first of J u n e[...]a large area of park in Fuel & Iron Company's Crystal river road from front of it. The main, or[...]road between Colorado Springs and Cripple Company's stock i n the respective proportions of[...] |
| [...]immediate construction. Recently the company's est route affords a somewhat roundabout way of[...], but the early additions made to Denver's railroad sys- notwithstanding its name it[...] |
| [...]to have been satisfactorily demonstrated. T h e century.[...]dinary profiles of these mountain roads Denver's railway transportation facilities are[...]of the Central's Clear creek canon road some[...],* . row gauge railroads in the world, much t h e • '•• ' M. '[...]vast and tortuous chasms, • s ;•.;%- -• " \ a ' l ![...]orado. Phantom Curve—Manitou A Pike's Peak Railway.[...]ll their way through the mighty gorges, up into t h e not be many years in coming.[...]cating and building these roads would have Grande's existent narrow gauge lines, all of appear[...] |
| [...]nver & Rio the old Colorado Central's Clear creek canon Grande system.[...]nds its way The Colorado & Southern's line to Leadville down by grades of from t[...] |
| [...]uction road that climbs to the summit of Pike's Peak— as any of the others. I t is of the narrow gauge, the Manitou & Pike's Peak railway; and while it with a most irregular[...]twenty- here. Ascending to the summits of t h e lofty eight, degrees. I t enters the mountains[...]ll some day complete another of The Pike's Peak road was first projected in these remarkable[...]rack between On the summit of Pike's Peak. them made of sets of bars hav[...]far advanced the superstructure of Denver's nificent aspects.[...]ys, the names of five, as No line of Colorado's mountain railways is our reader wil[...] |
| [...]them. Mount of the Holy Cross, from Frenchman's Lakes. On a line of J o h n Evans, William A. H . Loveland, and Wil- |
| [...]CITY G O V E R N M E N T — C I T Y ' S F I R S T L E G A L G O V E R N M E N T AND I T S O R G A N I Z A T I O N — O U T L I N E OF T H E G O V E R N M E N T TO 1 8 8 5 — W A R D D I V I S I O N S A N D E X T E N S I O N OF C I T Y B O U N D A R I E S — E L E C T I O N TIMES—CHANGES[...]ING BOARDS— O B J E C T I O N S TO T H E M , A N D M O V E M E N T S FOR R E T U R N TO " H O M E RULE"—POLITICAL AS- PECTS—NAMES OF D E N V E R ' SS SUBURBAN T O W N S . P a r t of the story of Denver's pioneer "munici- P l a t t e R[...]City of Denver, Auraria and Highland, .and by t h a t |
| [...]had no election been held. J o h n C. Moore, the licing the city, for borrowing mo[...]rge majority of the people. The By virtue of t h a t "Jefferson Territory" "char-[...]encer; City Assessor, P . T a l b o t t ; T r e a s u r e r , S . S. impairing the usefulness of the organization,[...]ity into whicri it was sinking. lier; Councilmen, H . J. Rogers, Thomas Pirn, C.[...]nto utter Badolet, N. G. Wyatt, John W. Jones, J. H. Ger- impotency and was[...]lity and in self- sessor ; Amos Steck, Treasurer; H . M. Fosdick and defense. The "People's Courts" summarily called G. L. Moody, Engineer; W[...]s, from very good to B . Atkins, T. O. Duncan, J. H . Jack, and L. W. exceed[...]consisting of Hiram P. Bennet, A. C. H u n t , Wil- |
| [...]RY OF DENVER. liam Larimer, Jr., J o h n Hughes, C. A. Cook, and The machinery[...]oduced and passed was one prohibiting |
| [...]ssionership was again abolished. election under t h e "charter" was held on November But in place[...]and D. D. Palmer, Street Commissioner. Aldermen—H. J. Brendlin- ger and J o h n Nye, First W a r d ; L. Mayer and W. W. Barlow,[...]the meantime there were vari- City's old Seal, in use from 1861 to 1901. ous minor shi[...]or by the city "charter" of No- The city's boundaries remained as defined by the vember, 186[...]ty Clerk and Attor- lature approved March 1st, the area was enlarged ney, City Surveyor, City T[...]ioner I t was not until 1868 that the city's area was was suspended, and that of Treasurer and[...]Collector portant additions platted were Barth's, H . C. resumed duty. I n 1867 the Street Commissioner Brown's second, Case & Ebert's,Downing's, Ford's, was restored, and the office of Clerk and Assessor Horner's, Hyde Park, Kountze's, McMann's, Por- |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. ter's P a r k Avenue, Provident Park, Riverside, San[...]pril, 1883, when others for full |
| [...]may be The act of 1889 also re-defined the city's boundaries occupying the chair of the Chief E[...]st, and provided that the Board latter's theory, than in practical betterments to should e[...]embers of the first Fire and Police Board, Robert S. Roe, Egbert Johnson, and Robert W. Speer. The o[...]CALIFORNIA • I ST. I V by assessments on abutting pr[...]CHAMPA l I ! ST. other than those for school purposes, that may b[...]ftRAMiiae i :-ST The Fire and Police Board has exclusive jurisdic-[...]-.•.--—: l A W I E H g — . - :. -•;-—-••;.-3Tr-- the la[...]• • MARKET I I ST.[...]BLAKE ' ST. detectives. I t also has licensing jurisdiction[...]uors are sold. One • ••n WA»«S of its members acts as Excise Commissioner, wh[...]he public sentiment in favor of a |
| [...]g Denver.' » vigorously pressed upon t h e Thirteenth General As- Notwithstanding this, and t h a t considerable sembly at t h e close of our record. areas[...]ion we have specifically city lots, the city's west boundary has not yet been mentioned" in the[...]ch detail month. This is not stated in t h e sense of making the powers and duties of the v[...]Com- that year was seven mills. The city's entire income missioner and Street Commissioner w[...]an the receipts. Attorney, and Engineer; and at t h a t they now Quite different figure[...]receives $4,000; the ment in the city's history was that of 1893, $76,349,- other members[...]exceeding $3,000,000. The constitu- ties ; and t h a t the establishment is made top-heavy tional[...]During the first thirty-four years of Denver's ship is found to be structurally defective[...] |
| [...]iod the Republicans were suffi- affairs in Denver's history. While it is true that ciently successful[...]ult was a distinct victory for terruption, Mr. T. S. McMurray being elected t n a * party.[...]an, following is a list of Denver's Mayors from[...]ement and ticket which he headed that S g i n n i n g ^ 1861 to the present time,[...]g £ < £ £ . ^ j ^ ^ ; ; * - ^ ; K to I f f i I S sentiment rendered abnormally sensitive by the Am[...]j ^ \ ^£\\Y" — \\\\\\\\\\"i$k, S,' 8 April; K binary election result occurred. Four city tickets w. J. ^S^-;;;;;;;;;;--^^^; &£g£ S were before the people: the Straight Republican,[...]mes J 2 5 * V S g i " ( s e c o n d termi.W.WJgSi: S] S U S i mf. •fnr "VfnvoT" t r i p " q t r n i f f h t " D p r n n e r a t i c with H e n r v William Scott Lee[...], M. D. Van H o r n April, 1893, t o April, 1895. .good government and so on—with 1. S. McMurray T. S. McMurray April, 1895, to April, 1S99.[...] |
| [...]m a n ; C. C. Davis, second assistant foreman; H . of inflammable rubbish, and so forth. A. Jacobs, L. Rockwell, third assistant foreman; J o h n B . Samuel Howe, A. Fenton, J. S. Travilla, J . C. Lesaul, Secretary; and H y a t t Hussey, Treasurer. Bradford, and J. P . S[...]ar- From that small beginning Denver's present great dens, but there is no record that t[...]ished by the United States Quartermaster for u s e fire ought to be a lesson to us," but that was[...]property. I t would have the extent of the lesson's influence in the direction been hard to tel[...]t until The City Council had provided t h e company with late in the winter of 1865-66, whe[...]ne day. the city's expense. But the apparatus had to be A public[...]er, and did not arrive in Denver u n t i l People's Theater on Larimer street, on the evening[...]2, named in honor of the water company's Presi- met quietly at the grocery store of[...] |
| [...]ny moved into a building erected for Thomas S. Clayton who served until July, 1879. it by the c[...]fi- and Twenty-sixth streets. I n the autumn of t h a t ciency of the Department in that period w[...]5 the city built the Central Fire Station ton's successor was George Duggin, who served un- on th[...]ies depended wholly upon the fire hydrants Denver's beginning in modern fire department of[...]ght from a Brooklyn, N. Y., fire company; Company's old reel which had been displaced by a pro[...]February, 1885. most unique of all t h a t were tried. The foregoing accounts[...] |
| [...]ganized in 1881. One was the Broadway but paid t h e expenses of doing it. I n their organ- Hose[...]city of Denver." Council ordered Denver's first steam fire engine, a Duly considering the e[...]artment, whatever may be On September 1st Hose Company Number 1, suc- the merits or demerit[...]nd directing ceeding the volunteer Fisrier H o s e ; and Hook and it by an appointive Board[...] |
| [...]tation in March, 1894. At tending the fire in the St. James Hotel on no time since 1863 h[...]ecame a conflagration. The W. Hartwell, Frederick S. Brawley, Richard D. rule is, and with[...]lives; the last-named three Considering t h a t Denver has upward of 30,000 having been color[...]ildings at the following-named loca- The city's exacting regulations affecting buildings, tions:[...]teer to paid men, was succeeded by Thomas S. Clay- and a hook and ladder company at West Thir[...]y- generally regarded as the father. H e served one eighth street, a hose company[...] |
| [...]volume the equal of this one in size. P a r t s of the policing of the city was done by a City Ma[...]ice Marshal;" but there- regarding Denver's criminal annals as constitut- after the other tit[...]xty patrolmen on duty. As the first Chief. From t h a t time to this the increased period o[...] |
| [...]645 reorge B . T h o r n t o n November, 1861, to J vine,[...]and as it was for several years af- |
| [...]ond the magnificent view of the mountains sion, t h e first meeting of which was held April 20,[...]gress, nature had done little toward preparing t h e been by the Commission, the present members of[...]lmost no natural picturesqueness or I n Denver's park system there are now twelve othe[...]larger parks, it would seem that Denver's park sys-[...]Governor Charles S. Triomas, John F . Campion,[...]quently they purchased it from Carter's heirs, for P i a t t is but one city block each;[...]interesting and valuable Museum of N a t u r a l H i s - erected by him for some purpose connected with[...]0 acres; Congress, 40; Washington, t h e museum building. With the Carter collect[...] |
| [...]tute of attractive architectural elements. I t s loca- Prior to the erection of the present Cit[...]es there the permanent home of Denver's city government was a "City Hall" owned by the ci[...]northeast tures. How much of t r u t h and how much of corner of Blake street, wh[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. t h e approach to it at the "East Denver" end ex-[...]ediate additions to this paved mileage. |
| [...]ture of the city's vi,tal statistics is the fact that in The 25,46[...], the ratio is gener- annual increase of the city's population than the ally favorable to[...]population estimates to have The city's great corporate, area includes nearly all been mu[...]xcluding deaths of non-residents who city's jurisdiction—small wheels working indepe[...] |
| [...]enver in 1900. Reduced from the Rollandet Company's copyrighted map. instances the lines of demarcati[...]ey" was filed with the Secretary of side the city's eastern limits, was established in[...] |
| [...]is due. I t is not an incorporated village. city's rapid expansion in 1888-93.[...]ing by way of Colfax Avenue, and within the city's was platted in March, 1881, by A. C. Fisk, Presi-[...]F . Laimer, Secretary; of the Denver Denver's suburban towns. I t was founded and Land and Impr[...]unoccupied prairie, and his town government. I t s population is 1,384. had a hard[...]t, as it was then Fletcher, just beyond Denver's eastern boundary, far outside the city. I t n[...]lity, but fashion of a castle on the Rhine. H e was one of like Aurora, it is a hamlet in fact; the population Montclair's most active promoters, and died a few of that ent[...]in November, 1887. area included within the city's present boundary Its incorporation was aut[...]o Denver on February 20, 1895. Joseph H . Hodgson, Susan E. Poole, Theodore W. Highlan[...]roadway beyond Alameda Av- 1875, upon petition of H . B. Bearce, F . D. Hager, enue, and east of the Platte river. South Denver P . H . McGowan, Owen E. Le Fevre, John H . Ha- was not incorporated until August 14, 1886. I t ger, J. H . Newcomb, C. J. Wolff, T. R. Warner, remained under an independent village govern- S. Ferguson, H . A. Sleight, J . H . Morrison, W. H . ment until February 7, 1894, when it was anne[...], in the John Howland and A. P . Taylor; the town's area southwestern part of the city area,[...]July 24,1896, when it was annexed to Denver. I t s Villa Park, the last of the list,[...] |
| [...]HERALD— M O U N T A I N E E R — F I R S T TYPOGRAPHICAL U N I O N — P I O N E E R[...]SPAPER ENTERPRISES OF T H E M I D D L E P E R I O D — S P E C I A L AND M I S C E L - LANEOUS P U B L I C A T I O N S — D E N V E R T R I B U N E — L A T E R HI[...]OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN N E W S — H I S T O R Y OF T H E D E N V E R T I M E S , OF T H E D E N V E R R E P U B L I C A N , AND OF T H E D E N V E R P O S T — C H A R A C T E R OF D E N V E R D A I L Y N E W S P A P E R S — P R E S E N T S P E C I A L AND M I S C E L L A N E O U S PUBLICATIONS—"NEWSPAPER[...]d upon, ment is intentionally made for the reader's con- Richardson abandoned the enterprise, and the[...]poch in the moved from the second story of Wooton's building affairs not only of the pioneer c[...] |
| [...]his boyhood on his San Francisco. father's farm, attended the primitive district[...]e United as his home. I n 1851 he joined a United St?te> States. On this last-mentioned work h[...]ouri river slope of that State— ritory. H e was, also, elected a member of the first and wi[...]days' travel years served in that position. H e remained a citi- from the Missouri river, saw no white men's hab- zen of Omaha until early in 1859. H e had heard itations except those at Fort Kearney, Fort Lara- the reports from the Pike's Peak country in the mie, the fur-trading p[...] |
| [...]hey declined to give bond; and rendered pany's Directors held March 18, 1860, they one unnecess[...]"Resolved, That there be given to R. W. F u r n a s roomy frame building on stilts right over the be[...]The reader will recall our earlier statement t h a t sued from triat building the first number of[...]the sand until the build- terest in it to J o h n L. Dailey about three months ing and all it con[...]later, and, having previously traded for Merrick's flood of May, 1864. Among the equipment was the[...]is, and know the sterling worth of from the Pike's Peak region late in the autumn of our ranking pio[...]o know 1858, he prepared and published his "Pike's Peak riim, may see the man's nature revealed in the lines Guide" to which we[...]the people of a great toward the close of 1858 t h a t he would effect ar- community and a great Sta[...]uld take I t has been the fortune, or t h e opportunity, to the new gold region the equipme[...]of those arrangements, of the coming empire as t h a t which has come within the lifetime to Denver[...]f the participated in the causes that wrought it. H e appearance here of the Rocky Mountain News on h[...]ed in his news- commanding importance in the city's history had paper, nearly every part of th[...] |
| [...]1862, the name of the paper was changed to t h e "Daily Rocky Mountain Herald," the first daily[...]wealth then passing out of existence. Office of t h e Rocky Mountain News destroyed by the Cherry cre[...]and served ditions and advancement of the people's welfare. through a term of fo[...]attention to his accumulated interests in Denver S t a t e ; a position for which he was in every wa[...]awaited him at their home in t h a t town, and they the city, and of the Territory[...]r had so tire- dren; F r a n k S. Byers, of Grand county, Colorado; lessly labored[...]and Mrs. William F . Robinson, of Denver.—J. C. S. |
| [...]mely emaciated, became ;~T—— -'S»*Gr3fm ?*-* r • •[...]second story of William Graham's frame two-story[...], with an individuality, in an Illinois regiment. H e then became an officer int[...]t California & Pike's Peak Express Company for a 42 |
| [...]rteenth and Lawrence streets looking across ' W e s t Denver" the morning after the Cherry creek[...]r several years afterward. I n the autumn of pany's Pony Express from St. Joseph to Denver. 1859 he buil[...]and on The first report, that of Abraham Lincoln's election April 12, 1860, Denver Typo[...]though the pioneer era in Denver's history is con- progress of its development. The[...]ed railroad construction reached t h e city, the condi- from the rather common belief[...]and after 1865. Still later in t h a t decade the ad- it was exceedingly peppery in[...]ese condi- autumn of 1860 the yearly subscription price of tions and relieved newspaper[...]ins freighters who worked on the News was Charles S. Semper, a would make no[...] |
| [...]e au- I n 1868 O. J. Goldrick, Denver's pioneer school tumn of 1864 publishers were put t[...]aper was not available. Gibson's pioneer daily, the "Rocky Mountain Her- One o[...]r sold the establishment to George Barnett and E. H. Saltiel who had there- tofore been, respectivel[...]continued until 1865. H e then went to Salt Lake Mr. Stanton, who is[...]his weekly Herald at Denver banks in Des Moines. H e came from Dubuque, until his deat[...]of Seneca county, Ohio. Learning the printer's of Wyoming, has been identified with the city. As[...]to which he was re-elected in 1879. H e is still an city. The only newspaper event of t[...]for a long time, engaged in real estate trans- t h e founding of the Denver Tribune that appeared actions.—J. C. S. |
| [...]de their tinues it as a vigorous member of Denver's family appearance in the city. August Gue[...]ly World, a rick began issuing his Herald, Denver's journal- small sheet by the "World Publi[...]ad town. Stanley G. Fowler's Denver Mirror, published at[...](old) number 391 Lawrence street. This was t h e city's first Sunday newspaper, and was published by[...]1879. %^H The most important newspaper ente[...]Stanton's Gazette of the preceding decade had[...]been continued upward of four years. I n t h e[...]task of filling the apparent newspaper void in t h e[...]cupied Dailey and Smart's location. As proprietor tion, "Newspapers and Pub[...]number 322 Blake street. Colorado Monthly, J . H . Wilhelm, editor. N . side Holladay street, between F and G. However, Stanton's misfortune did not termin- Daily Denver Times, R. W. Woodbury, editor ate the Democrat's existence. The property im- and proprietor. E. si[...]tain Herald, weekly, O. J . Goldrick, paper's founder), Joseph Farmer and Benjamin D. editor and proprietor. Tappan's Block, Holladay Spencer, who cont[...] |
| [...]At the beginning of 1876, the year of Colorado's circumstances the particulars of which are part o[...]WM. N. B V S B f t[...]CIII'.RirV CREKK. K.. T.. SATURDAY. APRIL 24. 1S59. and proprietor, 322 Bla[...]ady launched the 1872 by W. Witteborg, was Denver's first German "C[...] |
| [...]1879, also, the Saturday Call made its J . S. Stanger became its editor and proprietor and app[...]d on several years; the paper having been con- W. H . Fisher, editor and proprietor. The Call[...]fore the close of 1880. Picott's publication, and the Colorado Farmer, The city[...]sented to have been the pioneers of their named t h e "Newspapers and Publications" then ex- ki[...]ner of Fifteenth & Colorado Farmer, weekly, J. S. Stanger, editor Blake streets, establishe[...]the weekly Colorado Mining Re- Denver Advocate, H . D. Calvin, propr, 367 Holla- day street.[...]se of 1880. I n Denver Daily Hotel Reporter, W. H . Farnham, 1879, also, the weekly Finan[...]tion, also.) Denver Tribune, daily and weekly, H e r m a n Beck- publication in the city. I t w[...]now sleep in the "news- The Saturday Call, W. H . Fisher, propr, 367 paper graveyard." H[...]"boom" they began to tread upon each other's papers, proper. An early special publication was[...]prosperity, several new ones have sought 1871 by S. Jackson, and that did not survive a an[...]pring of 1873 T. E. Picott estab- of those t h a t figure in annals of preceding lished h[...] |
| [...]mer street. The Great West lasted about two women's political eauality and individuality." Har- years, and was followed by Pomeroy's Democrat, monizing that name with the noble purpo[...]is now the Territory of Colorado. April 22,18S9. at[...]1882, also appeared Denver's[...]- Denver World was started on its orbit by George H . letin, a small daily sheet published by[...] |
| [...]the "Daily Colorado Tribune." I t occupied t h e editor and manager. This last attempt to have a[...]eriod of its exist- Woodbury and J o h n Walker acquired proprietary ence was measured b[...]on J u n e 7th was advanced to be associate pany, H . B . Jeffries, manager, at 1753 Lawrence[...]ers who at the close of 1870 removed the pub- J o h n C. Kennedy, proprietor, at the same place.[...]re the paper to E. P . Hollister, H . G. Bond and their not thought of very great imp[...]Tribune was removed to Henry C. Brown's building[...]until November 15,1875, when he sold it to H e r m a n[...]Beckurts by H e r m a n Silver, G. B . Robinson and[...]ent practical extinction of the Trib- them. W i t h the tidal wave of Populism in Colo- une's name is part of the history of the Republican. rado that lifted Davis H . Waite into the office of At one ti[...]reer or a more bril- Curtis street, and edited by H . E. H a r r i s . About liant future than awaited it. A[...]of management, its de- and general management of S. J. Shirley. After cline[...] |
| [...]il May 5, 1878, when he sold the entire ment from St. Joseph. Thomas Gibson, the active proper[...]organized the "Rocky from Fontanelle, Nebraska. T h e party which ac- Mountain News Printing C[...]r, permanently retired from ton, Henry Creighton, H a r r y Gibson, H. E. Turner and " P a p " Hoyt. The story of the j[...]d of the issue of the paper has been told. I t s career in the pioneer times was attended by many[...]ght greater responsibilities than interest to J o h n L. Dailey who had from the start it does now[...]yers & Company. on the summit of Long's P e a k ; as a guide to visit- This continued unt[...]had been the friend and associate ward Bliss and H . E. Rounds each acquired a pro- of Horace[...]News company was purchased by the late W. A. H. tention of establishing a new paper here. Gibson[...]ent into that of the News and Mr. Loveland's chief purpose in acquiring control thus ac[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. At t h a t time the News occupied its building on[...]th streets. I t was trien a Loveland's control and through several thereafter, |
| [...]667 addition to t h e theatrical programmes, the sheet[...]successive editions of t h e Times printed a t t h e |
| [...]with a Scott perfecting press, and remained i t s his interest in that paper in the previous December. owner until, J a n u a r y 1, 1891. H e then sold it t o D u r i n g the ensuing ten years General Wood- H . W. Hawley and W. E. Brownlee, who formed a bur[...]change, Hawley bought Brownlee's interest, became The paper was provided by him w[...]of stock holdings. Building property t h a t was part of the site of the[...]1891, there appeared on the streets of Denver t h e of the proprietors of the Tribune; the old buil[...]tion. it, as it ever since has been the newspaper's home.* I n July, 1894, Mr. Co[...]as a majority of when it was purchased by William H . Griffith. the stock and is, as he has been since the company's Griffith re-equipped it mechanically, provided^ i[...], and of the consolidation of public schools of t h a t city he entered the Univer- t[...]candidate for Congress in the F i r s t (Denver) Dis- removed to Denver, practiced alon[...]the common defeat that befell his party. H e was that continued until Mr. Freeman's death in 1891. chiefly instru[...]one of great magnitude in the State.—J. C. S. |
| [...]d, something beside that is necessary to a Cooper's general supervision the paper entered successful[...]luence. About midway of F a r m e r & Anderson's propri- On August 12, 1884, the Tribune, a[...]the .Republican under have seen, passed to W. A. H . Loveland, by him the name "Tribune-Republican,"[...]hing Company, proprietor. With t h a t and had soon become too strongly intrenched i[...]. C. Henry, of the Tribune, Denver Daily Democrat's fortunes. Secretary; an org[...]ll as Secretary, until prietary interests o f - t h e Democrat in his estate December, 1887. The dual[...]he Democrat, in J u n e , 1879, to Henry Ward, W. H . notice. However, the Republican, at the left of Price, and W. G. Brown. The new owners, being the first[...]onal purchases, become owner of four-fifths of of St. Joseph, Missouri. Although Wilkinson was the company's stock, and Mr. Cooper held the re- a man of much[...], the Republican did not have a full measure cott's retirement and by the election of Cooper a[...] |
| [...]NEW YEAR S[...]NUMBER, THE NATION'S LEADING MEN PAY TRIBUTE LEADING FEATURES OF THE NEW YEAR'S TIMES[...]i;SSi2ffia_ New Year's issue of the Denver Times, December 30, 19[...] |
| [...]J r . ; the certificate naming as the company's first Vice President and General Manager, with C[...]of ill health, actively participated in the paper's erick G. Bonfils and H . H . Tammen. Frederick G. management for several mo[...]anges. H . H . Tammen had long been a citizen of Denver;[...]spapers of creased), was incorporated by H . H . Tammen, the same political faith, it found itse[...]ates. tificate as constituting the company's first Board After t h a t year it favored the organization known o[...]r Republican" The new company, of which H . H . Tammen was party, and continued to do so until[...]vigor; the President, and the Secretary- the city's four newspaper dailies, began in 1892. T[...]ng, as they remain, its active On August 8th of t h a t year "The Post Publishing general man[...]ation office was re- Company" was incorporated by H u g h Butler, moved to its present locati[...]st had a new birth, and cate named as the company's first Board of Di- with them entered u[...]ily newspapers of Denver are metro- Mr. Cleveland's views extravagantly popular in politan[...]the west. Indeed, it may fairly be said t h a t there in its political aims some of its city[...]enterprise, greater energy, higher abil- I n t h a t season of general disaster the original it[...]wth of the stock of $100,000, was incorporated by H . Y. An- altitude, or the climate,[...] |
| [...]673 -"—""^ i f •"ST*?. » - H r » w * " _ _ - — = S = ^ /?0/P__ - - . e e » l l f » % f - ' i S New Year's issue of the Rocky Mountain News, January[...] |
| [...]women's clubs, aggregate t h i r t y ; those devoted to their apparent prefere[...]blications devoted to spe- lusion to Denver's "newspaper graveyard"—a pos- cial interests. F[...]To that silent place of buried hopes Merrick's hotel affairs. These now have an exponent in the[...]only the more important others now the "Colorado Price Current and Produce Record," slumbering w[...]anyone cared to recall and record ties, the women's clubs, and several other interests the[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LIX. O U R B E N C H AND B A R — D E N V E R ' S F I R S T L A W Y E R — U N P R O M I S I N G S I T U A T I O N FOR L A W Y E R S — G O V E R N - The first lawyer and jurist who c[...]ficient for the business there was to do. |
| [...]1860, when, having been exposed to the Pike's Peak country schools during vacations, in the goo[...]ler, and with the late George A. Hinsdale Senior. H e subsequently entered the law depart- formulated a code of laws for the first "People's ment of the University and was graduated therein[...]o Territory he was elected a Representative Stone's natural ability as a reasoner and a writer[...] |
| [...]six The legislation "enacted" by these People's meet- men may direct, and be banished from the[...]five Judges appointed from different States by t h e of the State in 1877. I n 1874 at Boston he ar- President. On J u n e 10, 1891, President H a r - ranged with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F[...]State in 1876, dicial position he yet fills. H i s intimate knowl- he served as chairman of the Comm[...]been ratified, Mr. Stone was unanimously H e was selected by the Court to visit Spain to in-[...]ation date for Associate Justice of the new State's Su- bearing on old Spanish grants in what i[...]fessional ability was unprece- newspapers. H e has written freely upon the his- dented, and of[...]ds of the United States Government Judge Stone's term expired in 1886, and in 1887 was prepar[...]eur Court was abolished by legislative enactment. H e and beauty of Nature's work in the Colorado moun- then engaged in the practice of law in Denver tains.—J. C. S. |
| [...]y-one heed to the "acts" of the latter's "Legislature." years of age, there was nothing in[...]ate authority, were general meetings. The Sheriff's duties were such usually plain[...] |
| [...]regularity" of the provisional governments t h a t grammatical eccentricity, the power t h a t formu- were organized here in 1859 and[...]ed; and by those of that class in Denver prior " s t a t u t e s " for help in a suspicious situation. to 1861 t[...]ment was not allowed to be forgotten. F u r t h e r - munities, and especially so in the Cherry c[...]wn-dwellers and a greater variety of character. T h e mining communities were composed almost[...]le of law and order, but the differences lihood t h a t did not involve manual labor. This w[...]g districts, and tions made by the community's parasites, and this was quick to point out the "i[...]consciousness reinforced by partisanship t h a t had Samuel H . Elbert was born in Logan county, M[...]d he then formed a law partnership |
| HISTORY OF DENVER. 681 Samuel H. Elbert. |
| [...]asura- tion of town-lot and country-land owners t h a t had bly better than none. They well should h[...]independent of all these,, in 1860, were sooner t h a n it did; in the remoteness of the Pike's the "People's Courts" that took the fla- Peak coun[...]icated political and legal conditions the "People's Courts," which uniformly commanded which surround[...]ho was an eminent years. Upon Colorado's admission to the Union in clergyman of the Unitar[...]hroughout fundamental law of our State. H e has also been that war. Commissioned a Lieutenant in the twice chosen as one of Colorado's Presidential Eighty-Ninth Regiment Illinois Volun[...]berland. party.—J. C. S. |
| [...]o and one-half years after the affairs at t h a t time, was made to harmonize things beginnings[...]opted a resolution introduced by the late J a m e s tion, and therefore, also, their decisions and ju[...]n in- the Court of Common Pleas [the city's new C o u r t ] , stead of a judicial determinati[...]the age of nine years Mr. Patterson's career in Denver and in Colo- he came with his pa[...]became a citizen here nearly fourteen years old. H e then entered a mercantile thirty years ago. H e had immediately engaged in house in which he wa[...]mself as a lawyer of commanding ability. There, t h e son entered the office of one of the A[...]party, he was at once the mechanical department. H e then engaged with received and made a[...]ore than home and resumed his place in his father's estab- 2,000; his Republican opponent having been H . P . lishment. H . Bromwell. Early in 1875, in the interval[...]ar he entered Asbury University F o u r t h Congress, he was influential and instrumen- at Gr[...]mitations attending in all the Courts of Indiana. H e then engaged in the position of[...] |
| [...]itory with the jurisdiction indicated by ver. I t s purpose was to protect its members its[...]iscovered in our researches into the affairs of t h a t members. The Club proclaimed its intention to[...]- But in its prime it was, aside from the "People's ever, that caused no embarrassments, as the[...]al con- party in the campaign of that year. H e did not vention; another providing for establis[...]his mission as a State. I n 1876, before Colorado's ad- election. I n January, 1901, the Thirteen[...]States Senator to succeed Edward O. Wolcott the St. Louis convention that nominated Samuel J.[...]had become, as he remains, a master. As a States. H e was then made the first Colorado cou[...]have brought more pro- elected a delegate to the St. Louis convention, and found legal learning,[...]sly and ably in October, 1876, he became Colorado's first mem- identified. H e stands today among the leaders of ber of the Ho[...]ople in the west who are not in harmony with ton. H e was then under thirty-six years of age[...]age a half dozen or tion to it.—J. C. S. |
| [...]cting "authority," and more end J. H . Kehler; L. L. Bowen, who was later or less imp[...]"Denver Dis- and Charles Lee Armour, of Ohio; and S. Newton trict," embraced the territory east of t h a t of the Pettis, of Pennsylvania; as Associate[...]north of the latitude of Bradford; and J u d g e H a l l was commissioned March 25, 1861, and[...]t," embraced the re- to Judges Hall and P e t t i s on July 8th. The Court mainder of the[...]in that arising from irrigation, and in t h a t between Kansas City, Mo. Educated in the publ[...]us; among the famous instances of the lat- father's office and then entered the Law Depart-[...]t a the Adams Express Co. vs. t h e Denver & Rio country school for a short time, t[...]enver in September, 1879, his party's command and have as freely been ef- Mr. Hughes th[...]gers. I n 1888 he was one of his party's candidates General Bela M. Hughes and so continue[...]stern country, and has been Colorado's four votes in the Electoral College. of counsel i[...]the choice of many Colorado Democrats for t h a t instances of the complicated litigation arisi[...]position, but did not become a candidate.—J. C. S. |
| [...]DENVER. total area—and to it Judge P e t t i s was assigned, his the Third District; and from that Court to t h e H u g h Butler, of Denver, was born near Airdrie,[...]of the Democratic State Central Committee, |
| [...]ither remove nor effec- F a r n e r , William H., Sherman, J . H., tively remedy. France, Lewis B., Slough, J o h n P., Still, they had their critics[...]ion in the autumn of 1860, one citizen, in an H u n t , H . R., Wanless, John, ar[...]to all the business and laboring men of t h a t meet-[...]for Representative in Congress from the F i r s t J u n e 12, 1856. H e attended the local public school District of Colorado, but again he with his party's near his birth-place until he was twelve years ol[...]mocratic National Convention at Chicago where sey's noted blind educator. After his course under[...]Grover Cleveland for President. After t h a t con- Princeton College, but later decided to[...]s action in the National campaign. H i s continued columns. I n 1875 he became a contribut[...]t in mously refused its support to t h e Chicago ticket, the office of Col. Frederick A.[...]e- vass of Colorado, with results t h a t are part of the Mott's death in 1878, when he continued his studies[...]ory of the State and Nation. Mr. in the office of H o n . George T. Werts, of Morris- O'Don[...]casion heard exciting and rancorous con- fession. H i s abilities soon won for him a promi- te[...]e two-thirds, exacting in its standards of merit. H e practiced which, under the rules of[...]is requisite to nominating a candidate for Presi- S. Decker resigned from the Bench, became asso-[...]ith his party ticket failed of elec- of St. Louis.—J. C. S. |
| [...]eaven,' and we think the good book is about r i g h t ; for if all lawyers are like ours in this com-[...]uld have been culties in legally determining "who's who and impotent before any Court competent to pass upon what's what" were very greatly simplified. The[...]was the temper of the noisy Judge Westbrooke S. Decker came to Colorado at Brownsv[...]5, when he resigned and returned to |
| HISTORY OF DENVER. 695 Westbrooke S. Decker. |
| [...]ble of assuming were strangers to nearly all t h e very probable combinations of then existing ci[...]new remedies had to be devised, Governor Gilpin's first exercise of the veto power new applic[...]ing Adams and new avenues opened for them. H. and Ellen C. Bateman. The Governor insisted[...]our people, lawyers included, unacquainted with t h e not in the halls of legislation; and they were[...]ked out in our Courts practically without As t h e years wore on our lawyers and judges[...]aced the our District Court, is a native of Ohio. H e was entire State administration in th[...]d one of the Judges of of Antioch (Ohio) College. H e was there a stu- the Second Judicial[...]e our Judges are, of neces- boy, he enlisted in t h a t regiment and shared its sity, busy, ha[...]On the higher bench, as on the lower, his record H e was engaged during the ensuing two years in[...]and fast, conservative Republican. H e is a believer in George W. Houck, two noted Ohi[...]ter, born in 1884. They continued their position. H e was next called to the office of At- res[...]nter of art, literature and music. Judge ice in t h a t important and arduous position. I n Le[...]hat the best in the city of Denver.—J. C. S. |
| [...]mentioned in the roster of Governor Gilpin's time, to many novel complications, and probably a[...]all their legal armor on, it would seem t h a t they precedent, previous decisions and the li[...]city. I n Governor Gilpin's time there was one for t h e m ; and between opposing counsel in such[...]of yet leaving a large share to be disposed of by H i s the city population. To apply the lawyer-rat[...]strength of about 900. So, it would seem t h a t in. They are properties peculiarly subject to[...]f a far higher cided to follow his father's profession, he studied average in character, in t[...]law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1874. H e interests involved, and in the difficulties pre[...]tice covers a"far wider President. range t h a n in other parts of the country and, as[...]dward O. Wolcott, and chair and recites a century's incrustations of cus- the legal firm of Wol[...]ial distinction in his pro- and settle his client's case. The Denver lawyer fession for his[...]ailroad Company, and is also the legal resources. H e must, furthermore, expect and pre- repr[...]ton & Quincy Railroad Company.—J. C. S. |
| [...]in direct to the higher tribunal. I t s Judges receive 1885 and effective November 2, 188[...]Court. serve, provided t h a t he be not holding his office by appointment[...]r diminish the number of Districts and of Under t h e Constitution no person is eligible to a Judges[...]ussex county, New Jersey, J a n u a r y 31, 1866. H e ceding his election.[...]Delta Phi fraternities, and was the former's chief[...]one being appointed by mitted to the bar in 1889. H e then came to Denver the Governor every two year[...]f the Legislature. The Court of litigation. H e is a member of the University and[...]f-way station to the Supreme Court for — J . C. S. |
| [...]al election held in November, 1900, Ouray, S a n Miguel, and Hinsdale counties; one[...]t, and Eagle counties; one hoe county's five District Judges are kept on duty Judge.[...]dery No. 2, time studied medicine. But the "Pike's Peak ex- he has filled every office in[...]Rocky Mountain coun- Grand Encampment. H e was the first Commander try. I n the spring of[...]r of Lincoln missioned by Governor. Evans a F i r s t Lieutenant Post upon his removal to this[...]d Wyoming, and in 1899 was elected mander until t h e organization was mustered out Departme[...]A member of the Military Order of the Loyal ment's service appears elsewhere in this volume.[...]med a partnership with Colonel Orahood's activities in these fraternal Senator Teller and[...]ty-one years of residence in Gilpin J. C. S. |
| [...]nty Criminal Court was first being three years. H e must be not less than established by[...]ethersfield, Conn., December and ends of humanity's contentions. Their crim- 18, 1862. His f[...]ment of his father's estate. necessary or expedient; such Magistrate,[...]and Overland P a r k Clubs, of Denver.—nj. C. S. |
| [...]s abolished by operation throughout the S t a t e ; and the organi- an act of the Seventh G[...]he election of Judges of sions and four J u d g e s ; and by an act of the Eighth the Supreme, Dist[...]rict Attorneys, or any of them, shall be on ernor's veto by a two-thirds vote and taking effect[...]se provisions hold their Upon Colorado's admission to the Union the offices only until the[...], Mr. Cranston was elected a Representa- 3, 1863. H i s father, the present Bishop E a r l tive[...]and adjusting, as receiver, I n the meantime t h e subject of this sketch had assignee and c[...]twice elected Governor of Colorado, in May, 1886. H e then returned to Denver, took and wh[...]t residence here, and began the J. C. S. practice of his profession in which he ha[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. and Westbrooke S. Decker District Attorney. of mediocre legal ability. H e was an upright |
| HISTORY OF DENVER. 709 James H. Brown. |
| [...]til the summer of 1866 the site of Central City. H e was proverbially and was followed by J[...]of Judge Bradford. Judge a seat on the Territory's Supreme Bench. Hallett remained, a[...]rding, who succeeded Hall as Chief tory's Chief Justice until it became a S t a t e ; but as Justice, early acquired and des[...]Arapahoe county was, Gorsline. Holly was a "Pike's Peaker," and had as already indicated, p[...]yster, ties in the first Territorial Legislature. H e left Wells, and Brazee successively occupi[...]entered Court, but not as Chief Justice; Harding's "res- upon their duties. I t s first Judge was J. N. Odell ignation" not taking[...]ng the early settlers of Colorado, John H . Reddin, lawyer, was born in Seneca and also one[...]Albany in 1880. I n April, the ranks of Colorado's pioneer citizens, there was 1881, he came to[...]not succeed to his profession.—J. C. S. |
| [...]A1 [q John H. Reddin |
| [...]January, 1895; but resigned on September 1, Hall's successor was Omer O. Kent who filled the[...], 1888, to December 4, 1888. years. Major Downing's successor was Henry A. To fill the remainder of Judge Elbert's term, Victor Clough whose t e r m extended from 1[...]A. Elliott, who had for twelve years been on t h e autumn of 1873, and who was followed by William[...]of Judge Helm's term and served until its expira- "The term of[...]in this article otherwise provided, Elliott's successor for the term from January, 1895, shall[...]04, and is now on the Bench. I n Section 8 of t h a t Article of the Constitution 1897, William H . Gabbert was elected Judge Hayt's reads as follows:[...]lot shall be drawn by the Judges, who shall for t h a t purpose assemble at the By the operatio[...]Young Stevenson attended t h e common schools At the first State election H e n r y C. Thatcher, there and the High School at Viroqua; and later Samuel H . Elbert, and Ebenezer T. Wells were Houghton's Private Academy. H e then studied elected Judges of the Supreme Cour[...]years old. Thatcher's term was decided by lot to be the short[...]a r y , 1886. since that time. H e was a Republican member Judge Wells resigned[...]f the term, to January, 1886. Convention at St. Louis, from which, in obedience Judge Thatcher w[...]of the anti- 1880, to January, 1889. Judge Elbert's successor silver plank of the National p[...], 1886, can National Committee.—J. C. S. |
| [...]udicial nell, Cass E. Herrington, W. H e n r y Smith, Charles District (Arapahoe county), Victor A. Elliott who D. Hayt, H . W. Bryant, and H u g h Butler. The was chosen at the first State electi[...]t of 1887, Denver, President; Charles H . Gast, of Pueblo, served from April, 1887, to J[...]Second Vice President, and Lucius W. Hoyt, brooke S. Decker, elected to succeed Judge Rogers,[...]abularies. M. Malone, Samuel L. Carpenter and J o h n I. Mul- No man is in the slightest[...]em and receiving their sanction is almost too F . H a r r i n g t o n succeeded him and was co[...] |
| [...]GIOUS INFLUENCES I N FRONTIER C O M M U N I T I E S — F I R S T RELIGIOUS M E E T - I N G AT D E N V E R — C H U R C H W O R K I N 1 8 5 9 — S U N D A Y I N M I N I N G C A M P S — T O W N C O M P A N I E S F R I E N D L Y TO C H U R C H E S — P I O N E E R C L E R G Y M E N — F I R S T CHURCH ORGANIZATION—FIRST S U N D A Y S C H O O L — T O W N C O M P A N I E S ' L O T D O N A T I O N S TO C H U R C H ORGANIZATIONS—ATTI- TUDE OF " B A D M E N " — O R G A N I Z A T I O N OF E P I S C O P A L C H U R C H — H I S T O R Y OF THE SEVERAL P I O[...]E N O M I N A T I O N A L O R G A N I Z A T I O N S — P R E S E N T N U M B E R OF C H U R C H ORGANIZATIONS IN DENVER—YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. The fron[...]e communities, and Denver's pioneer clergyman, for he came solely as |
| [...]ory. Mr. Hamilton also by the Denver Town Company's Directors for the preached in other pl[...]rganization neglected to accept them and H e continued his services through the summer and a[...]the prevailing spirit." "Resolved, T h a t there be and there is hereby Do-[...] |
| [...]On J u n e 29, 1859, soon after Mr. Hamilton's had placed Mr. Adriance in charge of this mis[...]established himself in creek. They were William H . Goode and Jacob Auraria. In a reminisc[...]rch work in Denver. preparations after Goode's departure, and of his The Kansas-Nebraska Confe[...]April, 1859, at Omaha, had established the 'Tike's Peak and Cherry[...]housekeeping, thanking God that there frontier t h r o u g h was one place tha[...]oom, and often more outside than held in Pollock's Hotel, Mr. Goode preaching in in, patientl[...]day, July 10th, they preached Mr. Adriance's cabin was of the then usual type at Mountain Cit[...]Twelfth streets. I t s July, and on the 31st held services in the house[...]luxuries here in ter, H . J . Graham, and Henry Reitze were elected[...]ted on his return to the Rev. William H. Goode.[...]The orig- the mountains and came to Denver. H e then inal field of the Pike's Peak and Cherry Creek shared Adriance's cabin, and thereafter preaching Mission ha[...] |
| [...]enver affairs in the early days day School's existence, Miss Indiana Sopris, who to suggest to[...]cords of the two meeting was held at Mr. Adriance's cabin at which companies quite a series of[...]er of lots to the Jacob Adriance's cabin.[...]the Rocky Mountain News of Novem- on t h e m ; and about the same time the Denver Di- ber[...]to have their children attend the " T h a t the trusteees of the Hebrew Synagogue school[...]ted ten lots to be selected by the Secretary dren's papers will soon be furnished to the scholars.[...]F u r t h e r along in the record of the proceedings The[...]14, Adriance" could no longer accommodate it. I t s 1860, the matter was remedied as[...] |
| [...]Board to the Catholic ver Town Company's record; and it would seem church was returned an[...]arrived Universalists was read when on motion of S. S. in Denver, from Sheperdstown, Virgini[...]copalian—the Reverend J. H. Kehler of the Dio- The second proposition to B[...]ppears to have also proved Of Mr. Kehler's first preaching services in Den- unsatisfactory for, on March 3, the following entry ver, Colonel S. S. Curtis sent us the following in- was made in the Denver Town Company's record: teresting reminiscence:[...]brought up the matter of recon- named J. H. Kehler ("Father" Kehler, he was fa- sidering the[...]proprietor of the 1875. The Catholic church's title to it primarily[...]saloon, and the pany's Directors but, after the enactment of the[...]chebeuf made filing Rev. J. H. Kehler. room on the sec-[...]proceeding has long been held there. H e consented, but on the first Sun- supposed to have been that by which the Bishop day t h e gambling was carried on on the first acquired t[...]of rought boards with The Denver Town Company's Directors made wide cracks between[...]by the congregation as the sermon. On t h e next say:[...] |
| [...]d zation, and later sold it to Father Kehler's congre- of superstitious veneration and awe. No class of gation of Episcopalians who made it St. John's men were more willing to contribute to the suppor[...]llowing-named ones—to assist in building Denver's first churches. denominations had organized c[...]ble buildings of their own; and the latter's barely came whether there was ever developed in a[...]days in the west. Immediately upon Mr. Kehler's arrival a move- ment for the organization of an E[...]ociety was begun, and on the evening of January 21st a meeting of Episcopalians, and others in- terested in the work, was held at Goldrick's school- house in Auraria. L. Badelot was made cha[...]ces regularly. At that meeting the foundations of St. John's church were laid. Pioneer Methodist church building in Denver—Henry C. Brown's[...]their first church building on December the city. H e came as the First Presiding Elder of 30th.[...]ir own over their heads. was appointed its Major. H e became as we have The pioneer period o[...]else in his military career, an outline with t h e primitive history of each t h a t are of the of which has been given in precedi[...]l have learned, the Methodist church connections. H e then secured ground on Episcopa[...] |
| [...]nsas Conference at Leaven- orado Territory." I t s old record is still in exist- worth, and did not return. H i s successor at Den- ence, and it states that Elder[...]A. P . Allen, Iowa, was elected Superintendent; H . Hamlin, As- of the Wisconsin Conference.[...]f sistant Superintendent; A. J. Gill, Secretary; H . 1861 Rev. W. A. Kenney took charge, and in No- Gibson, Librarian; H . B. Potter, Assistant Libra- vember of tha[...]y (which, as we have related, had re- son, Mr. A. H. Barker, Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Carter, Mr. Cound, and S. H a r t " was appointed to solicit scholars; Elder[...]e Methodist Episcopal-South church, in the People's Theater on the north side of Larimer street near Four- teenth, in Tom Anderson's carpenter shop at 1041 Larimer street, in Henry C. Brown's carpenter shop t h a t had been converted into a church as we will p[...]gregation was without a pastor, though Rev. W. S. Frank Church, J. S. Hayes, A. J. Sampson, Rev. Lloyd, who[...]n his way to his Earl Cranston, D. D., Rev. David H . Moore, D. D., appointment in the South Park, supplied the va- Peter Winne, A. L. Doud, George S. Van Law, cancy a short time. The death of Kenney had H. L. Shattuck, N. G. Tanquary, and J. P . Willard.[...]consin Conference to take charge owned by Charles S. Semper and that stood on the of the Den[...]ving been held wher- tofore been held at Adriance's cabin where the first ever opportunit[...] |
| [...]e made of card-board, and swept under Mr. Willard's pastorate, met in halls, or in a away by t[...]a place could be found. I n the F i r s t Methodist church was again homeless. February,[...]corner of Fourteenth and was using as a carpenter's shop. I t stood on the Lawrence streets[...]; in the I t was occupied and dedicated on March 1st, and Denver Theater, the Colorado Semi[...]gold watch in testimony of the people's apprecia-[...]P u r s u i n g the history of this pioneer church or-[...]ange was not generally considered until some and H i r a m Burton as Trustees; the certificate hav-[...]by Andrew Sagendorf. The new 1886, t h e movement for the erection of the present[...] |
| [...]723 Cranston, D. D., David H . Moore, D. D., R. W. General William La[...]ity churchy Under his vices, in Miss Ring's school-house on Market street |
| [...]terian pul- here in connection with a church. I t s meetings pits for nearly twenty years. were first held in Miss Ring's school-house. I n 1874 the na[...]r on December 8, 1860, for the F i r s t to the Central Presbyterian, and it was his hom[...]the "East Denver" H i g h school in the summer of[...]ught on the southeast corner of 1861, by Rev. A. S. Billingsley. But it was a year Seventeenth and S[...]e congregation went adrift. Upon Mr. Billingsley's arrival services were resumed, the meetings bein[...]s. Later the second story of Greenleaf <fe Brewer's building was again used. Mr. Billingsley's services terminated in April, 1862, and t h e congregation remained without a pastor until No[...]. A. R. Day came to Denver and took charge of it. H e at once declared his intention to build a church immediately. H e was a man of much energy and succeeded in building his church. Major John S. Fillmore donated a plot of ground, forty[...] |
| [...]Wardens, respectively. Goldrick's school-house tion held its last services in the[...]e completed church. I t is a aud, H . J. Bulkley, S. S. Curtis, O. P . Ingalls,[...]I n its infancy, St. John's Church in the[...]donation of six lots. The Town Company's Old 'St. John's Church in the Wilderness," as it stood at Fourtee[...]aracter of Mr. Keh- order, was the Episcopalian "St. John's Church in ler's work, it may be stated that the Parish records t[...]ucted and with is that of the Denver Town Company's Directors[...]five of the persons of Rev. J . H . Kehler, of the Diocese of Virginia.[...]had been shot, two On J a n u a r y 21st the meeting, previously men-[...]executed for mur- tioned, was held at Goldrick's school-house - in[...]holism ; leaving niscence of Colonel S. S. Curtis quoted on a pre-[...]"natural causes." vices at Goldrick's school-house, and on January[...]n the autumn of 1860 by Mr. Brad- Collier, Samuel S. Curtis, Charles A. Lawrence, ford's Methodist Episcopal-South congregation, Dr[...] |
| [...]is the action of the Denver Town Company's Direc- Arapahoe streets, and was the first edific[...]chant of French extraction, who had for some as St. John's Church in the Wilderness by the R t . years[...]and still earlier a trader in South Africa. H e was west. The church[...]pioneer times, and it appears to have been as St. John's through him[...]settled in the previous March. H i s first services charge of the P a r - were held at Mr. Guiraud's home on the southeast ish, and remained[...]that year, after which he visited several of the h e was succeeded mining and other towns near Denver. Upon his by Rev. H . B. return the Denver Town Company's Directors do- Tj'i !• -i Rev. H. B. Hitchings. nated him nearly the whole o[...]raised health-seeking tour around the world, Rev. H . Mar- that summer and work started on the church. But tyn H a r t of England, now Dean of St. John's Cathedral, visited Denver on his way, and in that[...]to which he has ministered so long and well. Dean H a r t and his family arrived in Denver from Londo[...]o financial stress nothing came of it. Later in t h a t decade the erection of a cathedral was de- termined and under the energetic influence of Dean H a r t the present St. John's Cathedral was built in 1880-81. The old church re[...]ion of the cathedral, the last services hav- St. John's Cathedral; old Jarvis Hall in rear at the left. F[...]town lots Catholic missions in the Pike's Peak country. in aid of churches, and the[...] |
| [...]filled the church. The building was larger than t h a t of the Methodist Episcopal- South congregatio[...], an organ, the first in Denver, was brought from St. Louis for the church, and with it came an 800-po[...]1% from St. Louis, weighi[...]St. Mary's Cathedral. (Torn down in 1900.)[...]tion citizens. T h o u g h in Denver. Rev. Walter McDowell Pott[...]Bishop J. P. Machebeuf. a n d finer c h u r c h e s[...]committee was ap- on the site of Denver's pioneer Catholic church[...]T. J. Bayaud's small Bishop Joseph P . Machebeuf was really t[...]organized a Sunday School which met in a room H i s pioneer associate, J o h n B. Raverdy, became his used[...] |
| [...]On May 2, 1864, it was organized as the " F i r s t church in Denver. Pastor Clark ha[...]come in Jan- ter, Miss Lucy K. Potter (the pastor's sister), uary, 1872, when the[...]ninety-four members. Under Mr. Scott's pastorate Mrs. L. Burdsall, Mrs. Lavinia Hall, Mr[...]The congregation used t h a t building until 1883.[...]le, and the congregation had to go to the People's Theater where it held its first meeting after th[...]venteen members. Necessity compelled it to use t h e old theater, and other tem- porary meeting pla[...]regation then held its meetings in George McClure's building on the north side of Larimer street betw[...]ere. As we have else- Potter's little group of nine persons who organized[...] |
| [...]Tolles, Mrs. S. M. Trumper, Miss Ellen Cooper,[...]Miss Isabella R. Glynn, H . A. Goodman, D. G.[...]a call had been extended. H e remained until 1870,[...]Salter, nearly two years; S. R. Dimmock, one year;[...]a n u a r y 29, 1899; the present Rabbi, William S. Friedman, conducting the serv- ices. The present F i r s t Congregational Church is the outgrowth o[...] |
| [...]he city the First Methodist Episcopal, the First St. Paul's church, at Curtis and Twentieth streets,[...], one German, and one Welsh. The Congrega- church's directory[...]one of the churches being German. The Episco- t h a t "the society[...]communicants in Denver being of t h a t faith. Of streets until 1881, when they moved[...]nish, one English, one Norwegian- the growth of t h e church, but notwithstanding ob- Dani[...]unts have ter Day Saints, the Salem's Church of the Evan- been given are those which we[...]under gelical Association of N o r t h America, the Seventh pioneer conditions, difficul[...]Day Adventists' Church, and the T r u t h Seekers' tween 1865 and 1870 several other[...] |
| [...]robably approximate The Young Men's Christian Association, organ- $3,500,000.[...]palian, 6,575; Congrega- the Young Women's Christian Association, first tional, 6,300; Luthe[...]Young Men's Christian Association was not, how- record, sever[...]the first one in Denver. In the winter of Uzzell's—or as he is more generally and very popu-[...]was larly known, "Parson Tom" Uzzell—new People's organized with Henry C. Leach as Presi[...]Wilbur C. Lothrop, Secretary, and continued sev- H e has long been a leader in Denver in char[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LXI. DENVER'S PIONEER SCHOOLS—O. J. GOLDRICK, T H E F I R S T P E D A G O G U E — O T H E R E A R L Y SCHOOLS Within six months after the fir[...]F r o m the day of Goldrick's arrival until his |
| [...]fied to some ex- contrary arises, Goldrick's school will retain its tent with early politica[...]sent to Pro- Dr. A. Steinberger, one of Denver's pioneer phy- fessor John D. Philbrick, the[...]tion, and in his report declared that Denver's pub- Dodson, John Dodson,[...]Miss Miller also began work as Mr. Goldrick's as- others. H e also stated that he still has his old si[...]r several years before her migration Steinberger's school having existed in 1859. The hither[...]l she succeeded, through the kindness Steinberger's school in that year. However, he of Mr[...]exact date not having been pre- subsequent years. H e went to Montana in 1862,[...]wenty-five dollars a month ord of Mr. Steinberger's reminiscences, but with[...] |
| [...]Pollock, Judson H . Dudley, and John J. Shanley common speech it[...]u i t y " side of Town Company's record with reference to schools. the creek, as w[...]ted on the eastward side of the pany's Directors, on motion of C. H . Blake, creek, and hers was the first school in[...]"Resolved, That Professor Goldrick be donated t h a t had formerly been the pioneer "Denver City."[...]oldrick neither built nor estab- toric interest t h a t attaches to those we have al- lished his[...]ates and a contributor to the Company's Directors of which their old record Rocky[...] |
| [...]inutes of this meeting of the Denver Town Company's Directors also I t does not appear[...]ory was cre- Further, the Denver Town Company's record ated about four months later. s[...]oors in front of a store on Eleventh reasons in t h e advancement of the towns. The s[...] |
| [...]ting the machinery the old "City Hall" t h a t was later washed away, of public schools in m[...]er" and Denver"—District No. 2—J. H . Noteware, pre- "West Denver" districts.[...]venue, but it Mr. Brown, "West Denver's" pioneer school Prin- proved a great disap[...] |
| [...]panse of unoccupied country—that Denver's mag-[...]as, in the autumn of 1865, reduced in "Mr. Bayaud's room," a small frame building to t h i s : which stood on Sixteenth street on part of the[...]nver—Miss Wall, teacher." also, was rented. Mr. H . H . Lamb was in charge as Principal, with Mi[...] |
| [...]est is of record subsequent to Curtice's administra- ambition and practically the chief in[...]" I would also state t h a t several counties have was to remain long enou[...]proceeds of the sale of those t h a t had been dis- writers in endeavoring to accou[...]properly accounted for." This velopment of Denver's school system during that[...]The burden of the few reports t h a t were made tained by the re-[...]neglected to levy a school tax, "My first day's brood hatched out[...]I t will be seen in the foregoing t h a t up to 1870 pearing healthy.[...]t pitiable exercised to get through with each day's duties." economy. Though Mr. Brown's estimate would seem to I t was[...]owned a school building, and that there was at t h a t time a considerable juvenile popu- Distr[...]been built in 1863, and was succeeded by William S. Walker 1861 and used as a genera[...]t Indian scare," elsewhere mentioned, it tendent. H e tried to bring order out of disorder[...]rightened people of but with indifferent success. H i s first report to Denver, and after it was converted to school pur- t h e Legislature was the only one worthy even the[...]had been made up to that time. Super- price paid for the property, and which is also a[...] |
| [...]is school was re-organized and taken mainder of t h a t decade of 1860-70, so far as the ac- u[...]arate school be estab- Nevertheless, the District's facilities and resources lished for colo[...]was transferred to the several years before by J. H . Kehler on the site of African[...] |
| [...]es. This change may be regarded as Denver's prospects, and her future often seemed terminatin[...]tisans. I t was not until the building of Denver's school structure were then under way; and to this[...]ve been positively discreditable. Territory's school system. F r o m the new legisla- Bu[...] |
| [...]XII. I N D E P E N D E N T INCORPORATION OF D I S T R I C T N O . I — S C H O O L D I S T R I C T S — D I S A D V A N T A G E S OF D I V I S I O N By a special act of the Territoria[...]ter Colorado became a State the sub- |
| [...]were the school interests half of the city's nominal, and near two-thirds of united, it would[...]valuation of taxable property. The city's area adjoining districts, and are required to pay[...]er city territory included in this district's limits ap- existing laws this cannot be remedied[...]western, C h e r r y The evils of the arrangement have mult[...]ated, the "Arapa- capita distribution of the city's school taxes.[...] |
| [...]e, was $51,695, was ac- The district's second building soon followed the cepted, and occ[...]urgent demand for more I t sheltered the district's first High School and buildings whic[...] |
| [...]se. The following is a Manual Training H i g h School—corner of Frank- list of those now in us[...], between Twen- "Swansea"—in Ernest's addition to Swansea; ty-eighth and Twenty-ninth A[...]urth and Market streets; erected in 1879. N i n t h Avenues; erected in 1890.[...]cated at Columbine street and Eleventh Avenues, s t r e e t s ; erected in 1881. and will be among the best of the grammar schools H i g h School—block bounded by Stout, Nine-[...] |
| [...]I n these, two pared by the District's Supervising Architect, but thousand little childr[...]hools, which are displaced by the succeeding year's reports, are especially undesirable here, be- yon[...]Old Stout street school-building. in the H i g h School and 381 in the Manual Training. When the d[...]Use. c l u s i v e of ments Buildings[...]H i g h , M.Train. 88.636 50 20,289 02[...]H y d e Park 73,544 79 15,023 29[...]III * m j Maria M i t c h e l l[...]robably worth The contributions to the county's general school from $1,500 to $2,000 per a[...] |
| [...]n Gove, L.L. D., the executive head of Number l ' s affairs Superintendent Gove, in his an- school supervision in the district. H e has been Su- nual report for 1899, outlined the[...]f the state to tax the property of the state must s t o p ; how tors were due annually in May, but no record could much of a man's income shall be taken from him by be fou[...]ought not to differ from the Monday the 1st day of May, A. D. 1865, at 2 o'clock finan[...] |
| [...]o members of the Board are now elected an- With t h e exception of the incumbent during the[...]owing is a list of the Presidents of the District's in 1874, the members of its[...]rganiza- Amos Steck . . . .1862-65 D. H u r d 1875-76 tion:[...].. .1876-77 W. F . McClelland H . K. S t e e l e . . . .1877-78 F . J. Bancroft .1874-[...]A. Bush- 1866-68 W. H . P i e r c e . . .1878-79 E. M. Ashley... .1[...]1874-76 J. B. Grant . . . .1890-99 J. S. M c C o o l . . . .1869-70 F . Steinhauer .[...]1890-93 ham 1S70-73 H . M. Orahood.. 1899-00 Albert B r o w[...]75 L. E. L e m e n . . . .1900- H . K. S t e e l e . . . .1876-78 (died J u n e 26,[...]. . . . 1876-78—1883-89 C. S. M o r e y . . . .1891-94 the President "must be" a member of the Board; W. H. P i e r c e . . . 1876-78 Oscar Reuter ..189[...]K. G. Cooper.. .1877-82 lone T. H a n n a . .1893-96 urer "shall not be." Usually i[...]1897-00 i i s ^.- i John S. Christen- Tyson S. Dines. 1898- i.. Sba[...]1862-63 A. Schinner . . . .1869-71 H . Carver was elected the first Superintendent. B.[...]1863-64 August Opitz . .1871-73 H e served one year and was succeeded by F. 0 . Cha[...]1865-66 W. D. Todd 1876-89 W. S. Walker . .1866-67 J. C. Dana . . .[...]that time. W. D. Anthony. 1867-68 S. Roy Wright. .1898- I n 1874 the necessity of organizing school grades H . T. Grill 1868-69[...]. .1890- the present H i g h School building was completed J. C . A n d e r s o n . . 1869-73[...]" in the earlier "Sixties," t o ' bury and David H . Moffat served terms as Board[...]government the block (143) on which the " E a s t of their names to the others on these pa[...] |
| [...]1, and are awarded annually. The first senting t h e Centennial State in the Forty-fifth of[...]. W. Congress (1877-79), and he came to the Board's Woodbury in 1875, for excellence in de[...]w giving and is open to the pupils of the H i g h School. At the entire "Government Square" to the[...]d the Board to plan established in 1879 by H e n r y R. Wolcott, is a hand- and eventually com[...]81, prize" established in 1878 by James H . Baker, then operations rested for awhile, and it was not, as Principal of the H i g h School, and now President we have stated, until 1[...]first and second classes of the H i g h School, but in The educational statistics of th[...]nd annually the evening before Washington's birth- the graduates go forth prepared for admiss[...]larly established literary societies of the other H i g h Schools are equally well equipped, as H i g h School, including the one named for Mr. C. S. the methods of each are practically alike and th[...]blic-spirited citizens, the Manual Training H i g h School of District Num- are now open to th[...] |
| [...]H a n d and tool work, as a separate department, is[...], applies to the several districts. There are, C. S. Morey when he was a member of the Board;[...]kind of training as of S$€ equal importance. The course throug[...] |
| [...]rea and still more trict alone through t h e previous decade. There limited resources, its[...]of bonds authorized of six mills was levied on t h e property in the dis- to pay for a new building. This was the district's trict which then had a taxation valuation[...] |
| [...]ing of five rooms erected in 1883-84 at a cost H . Hanus who had occupied the chair of Mathe- of[...],280 for land and more tions of the district's indebtedness is three and one- than $458,000 for[...]. As we have mentioned, the assessed val- The H i g h School of District Number 2 was or- uation of[...]cial executive positions they filled, which is as H i g h School. He organized it, prepared the cour[...] |
| [...]J u n e , 1867. I n Septem- October, 1862, J. H . Noteware, President; F . J. ber, 1867[...]in Scudder, Treasurer. but t h r e e ; W. A. Donaldson, 1871 to 1879; H. F . May, 1864, Daniel Witter, President; Omer[...]o April 1, 1891; and L. C. Greenlee, May, 1865, H. Prince, President; John E. Force, t[...]who succeeded Wegener. May, 1866, H. Prince, President; John E. Force,[...]urer. 1900-01. Mr. Nienhiser's tenure, among all those[...]J o h n L. Dailey 1895-96[...]ted annually for a as Secretary, until May, 1875. H a r t m a n was re- term of five years: elected e[...]Henry N i e n J o h n L. Dailey. .1888-96 seven years.[...]A. D. Shepard. .1879-88 C. T. Harkison .1888-99 H. P . H . Bromwell, who succeeded Strickler as G. W. Gilder T. S. McMurray. 1889-93[...].1882-85 nedy 1895-00 H a r t m a n as Treasurer.[...]I. N . R o g e r s . . . . 1899-[...]s V. Griffin was appointed, force to "West Denver's" schools. Through all the and served one y[...] |
| [...]frame building the appear- and the "West Denver" H i g h School Cadets do not ance of which is pres[...]As it was considered sufficient for the time, the S t a t e ; and the Castalian Literary Society, and[...]al building, and test is for a set of Shakespeare's works awarded an- at several elections held[...]in the district's March 28, 1872, under the directipn of Frank[...]of the present sisted of H . B. Bearce, J. E. Lanphere, and Dexter[...]H i g h School—was t a r y ; and Bearce, Treasurer. The[...]agreed upon as meeting was held at Mr. Bearce's home on the[...]h- nected with the district that the best price obtain- lands is now part of the city, its name c[...]ears which was named the "Ashland." I t s fine lo- the boundaries were enlarged, and otherwise cation, now occupied by the H i g h School, com- changed, until they assumed t[...] |
| [...]o the Denver" High School is one of the city's exception- future for its section of the district[...]ed, and the "North Side" had district's population was greatly stimulated by the a full s[...]ed to the two and the six- room building became t h e first "Bryant School." I n the same year anothe[...]ctober, 1883. The Board of Directors also added t h a t year to the school equipment an ugly l[...] |
| [...]which it was built; there was a janitor's home ceptions of the trials and troubles of his[...]ue; erected in 1890; premises part of Old Bryant's; cost of building, $34,277. fifteen pup[...]hree years, the later ones took corner of F i r t h Place. The Ashland was torn down four, the[...]899 further provision had to best. James H . Van Sickle, who became Superin- be made,[...] |
| [...]H . C. King . . . .1884-89[...]A. S. Whitaker.. 1889-93[...]Geo. F . L e w i s . . . 1893-97[...]O. E . D a t e s -[...]H . B . Bearce . . ,1872-73[...]Gilbert J o h n[...]C. I. H a y e s . . . .1891-92[...]S. S. Kennedy. .1892-93[...]H . F . Wegener. 1876-79 Charles V. Parks 1886-91 w[...]nusually so. Mr. G. F . A. C. Courtney. 1884-85 C h a r l e s E. Oppenlander,[...]Charles E. Chadsey of Durango, since the district's organization, one now being[...]and now including the suburbs of Barnum, Colfax, H. B . Bearce ...1872-73 (resigned) ..[...]Heights, in the west- J. E. Ayres ....1873-75 A. S. Whitaker. 1886-93 ern part of the city, was originally a "country dis- C. W. Wright . .1873-75 H . R. Foster, trict."[...]ide of P l a t t e river, to be known and des- W. H . Wight- buckle 1890-95 E. S. DeGraff. ..1891-96 ignated as District No[...]oters in the district was held on September 17th, S. H . H a s t i n g s . 1875-76 W. H . D a v i s . . . . 1893-99 at which a School Board of three members was James H . Por- O. E. D a t e s - ter 1876-81[...]. W. Weir, J. M. Clark 1881-84 R u t h E. F o o t e . . 1896- H . C. K i n g 1884-90 S. S. Kennedy.. 1898- Treasurer. Later in[...]G. W. Curf m a n . 1899- district's first school house, a small frame build- ley[...]tors as elected in that year consisting of Dexter S o g g s . . . 1872-73 W. H . Wight man 1875-85 O. E. Adamson, Samuel J. Youn[...]ray, C. G. Pitschke, and M. F . H a z e n ; with Adam- In every instance the Sec[...]as organized, namely: trict's present four school buildings, two of which[...]es, some particulars fol- J. E. Lanphere .1872-73 S. H. Hastings. 1875-76 C. W. Wright . .1873-75 J a m e s H . Porter. 1876-81 low: |
| [...]esent property valuation of Education consists of S. C. Hinsdale, President;[...]ity of its size in this country, and by cerning t h e m ; and for these reasons the names of t h e systems of few that rank among the great mu- th[...]the existing records in the County Superintendent's* more recent construction, dignity and beaut[...]of each class of Thomas Drake, President; Charles H . Peters, Sec- objectors are still with u[...]ict, and ment of instruction in Denver's schools, and of the Robert Lawrence; with[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LXIII. U N I V E R S I T Y OF D E N V E R — I T S O R I G I N , R I S E , A N D P R E S E N T M A G N I T U D E — D E N O M I N A T I O N A L SCHOOLS Next to the public school system in educat[...]in |
| [...]ley, Vice President; and Rev. J o h n A. Clough, Earl Cranston, and J. H. Merritt. Earl Cranston, Secretary. The first act[...]Early in 1880 Rev. David H. Moore, then of Cin-[...]nver." The articles of incorporation filed with t h e Secretary of State in that year provide: "Th[...]oard time in that period. I t s resources were limited, of Trustees, for t[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. orado. H i s recent (1900) elevation to the Episco-[...]1891. I n 1892 the |
| [...]beck, C. B. Spencer, John H. Merritt, Joseph W. Gilluly, William S. Iliff, William Lennox, A. E.[...]Reynolds, George Richardson and H. E. Warner.[...]t a r y ; and Robert H . Beggs, Treasurer.[...]eph C. Shattuck, Earl M. Cranston, John H. Mer-[...]airie back of it. Warren, George C. Manly, Robert H . Beggs,[...]school in Denver, which was called St. Mary's[...] |
| [...]to, having received opened in 1887. I t s large and massive building of additions to their[...]then on the outskirts of the town. I t s cost was de-[...]which came from J o h n D. Wolfe and his daughter[...]ool in the far west that Wolfe St. Mary's Academy. Hall received its na[...]"mansard" roof, as shown by t h e accompanying il- Platte, the city, and F o r t[...]rs of the Boston Building, and in 1889 the in the S t a t e affords a more attractive and desirable[...]autiful and purchased back on Capitol H i l l ; the entire block perfect structure, espec[...]contains 350 ive colleges in the west. As the old St. Mary's Academy in the city was to be continued, the new[...]e gentle and even tenor of their way. The old, St. Mary's Academy, is continued by the Sisters of Loretto a[...]of their educational work. The present methods at St. Mary's are an adaptation of those followed at Loretto.[...]of the Sacred Heart. The College of the Sacred H e a r t or, as it is more rooms which in[...] |
| [...]3 The present Jarvis Hall at Montclair, Denver's spect the school's standard of excellence is a high |
| [...]in 1898 by Miss Anna L. "West Denver." H e soon afterward established his Wolcott, the pre[...]n, and later in that General charge of the School's affairs and welfare year, having supplied h[...]community. H i s venture was the[...]I n t h e winter of 1859-60 some[...]ott School Associa- organization is now t h e valued possession of our tion of thirty-three m[...]e of three are though, for reasons t h a t will presently be stated, it chosen. Primaril[...]st meeting and as a preamble to further grades. T h e course of instruction includes all proc[...]midst; and, Whereas, experience has Miss Wolcott's home fronting on Fourteenth Av-[...] |
| [...]Kinna, Librarian; R. B. Bradford, Walter S. Cheesman and W. D. Todd who, on April O. J. Goldrick, C. H . Blake, Dr. G. W. Burck, T. H. 19th, presented the entire collection of b[...]The reply of Dr. H. K. Steele, the President of[...]d Stedman were appointed as an advisory sociation's collapse, the appalling shrinkage of board, and prepared rules for the library's regu- treasury receipts vividly tells the story. lation; and in this way.the gift from W. S. Chees- For more than a dozen years the[...] |
| [...]in that position until 1887, conceived the of the H i g h School Lyceum, the Board adding such plan of having attached to t h a t organization of small sums as it could spare.[...]of its Directors was held at Gen. Woodbury's office library was thrown open daily to the publi[...]hen construction of the classified as the "Denver H i g h School Library." Chamber of Commerce build[...]epartment, 1653 in the from members of t h e Chamber subscriptions to the general library, a[...]cured $15,000; H e n r y C. Brown having started the[...]120 feet) of the Chamber's new building had been[...]Public Library Building. ber's expense. The first list of books was prepared Sch[...]nd built on J u n e 19,1886. On November 1st, following, the for library purposes, and when it[...]enver High School I n his address upon t h a t occasion President Wood- Library was not a fr[...]he fact that a cor- it follows that t h e establishment of an institution[...]commercial, finan- ambition, appeals in t h e strongest manner to the cial and industr[...] |
| [...]quarters on the third floor of the Chamber's build- umes early in 1889.[...]e first free public library in Colorado. The city's need for it had long before been recognized, but[...]s of books and maga- zines in that year. I n t h e meantime the Denver High School Li- brary had b[...]main and second floors; the whole State. Mr. J o h n C. Dana was appointed Historical So[...]w Capitol Librarian at that time, and the Library's growth building. The City Library ended[...]ceptionally choice collection of books standing t h a t all expenses, including purchases of agg[...]ion, and it was deemed proper in 1901. H e has, also, long been identified with our conseq[...]had been which he is Secretary.—J. C. S. |
| [...]ganization was t h a t occasioned by Mayor Johnson I n recent yea[...]took any interruption of the Library's carefully nur- the necessary action. An ordinance[...]th, provided General Roger W. Woodbury. H e drew the bill for a public library to be establ[...]of the consolida- of Denver." Thereupon Mayor T. S. McMurray tion, and was the guide[...]decisions of many foreign countries. rian of the H i g h School Library, was chosen As- Ther[...] |
| [...]and kin- retary; W. D. Todd, Treasurer; and Dr. H . K. dred relics occupying commodious[...]e made Mr. ing in the autumn of 1886, the Society's growing Deane the custodian and he stil[...]tant contri- floor were set apart for the Society's use, and which bution and has since added others; and the war it now occupies. I t s exhibits are of great value with Spain ha[...]ide ments, manuscripts, records, and the like, of price- from the strictly military part of the exh[...]west. Altogether, and for variety and The Society's collection of objects recovered from[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LXIV. O U R C H A R I T A B L E AND B E N E V O L E N T I N S T I T U T I O N S — F I R S T H O S P I T A L — E A R L Y P U B L I C CHARITIES— The history of the charitable and benevolen[...]Dowell having been chosen its President. |
| [...]. full the resolution of the Denver Town Company's during the later years of its existenc[...]in different parts of the |
| [...]R. Hanna, C. B . Kountze, W. H . J. Nichols and[...]rhood of its unsightliness. Ladies Relief Society's old building at Logan and Eighth Avenues.[...], under the varied uses to which it had been Mary H e n r y and Lizzie A. Miller, organized in No-[...]streets, in Society of Denver"—the organization's present "North Denver," an[...]forty aged women, otherwise P. Belden, Mrs. R u t h H u r d and Mrs. lone Theresa alone[...]d, and whose closing years are Hanna. The Society's purposes were declared as[...] |
| [...]to do—several noble institutions. Of these, St. quired by the following schedule: Joseph's Hospital, the pioneer among the present From 65[...]rigi- Working Girls" was opened under the Society's nal building had accommodatio[...] |
| [...]treet and Seventh Ave- St. Joseph's Hospital. nues, is a city[...]n. All receive the same atten- the late Dr. H . K. Steele, then city Health Com- tion. As has b[...]Sand Creek Quarantine, or "pest house," as it St. Luke's Hospital is one of the noted institu- is comm[...]l. I n 1892 Dr. Steele undertook to With the city's rapid growth came increasing de- remedy th[...]he city, and were completed and occupied in 1891. St. Luke's is under the immediate control and direc- tion of[...]hich the Bishop of this Diocese is President. I t s auxiliary, the Ladies' Hospital Aid Society, does much charitable work St. Luke's Hospital. in connection with the institution and[...]Humboldt street is a recent addition to the city's labors for this special hospital. I n[...] |
| [...]775 Dr. Steele's great services to the community, the and sti[...]Oakes some years ago, and his thought of it |
| [...]some responsible per- property is held in t r u s t by Rt. Rev. John F . son or persons shall[...]rge upon the Denver com- Fisk, M. D., and David H . Moffat. The Board of munity after leavi[...]as completed in 1899 had accommo- Fisk and Dr. S. G. Bonney; Mr. Oakes also being dations[...],000, an addition that would increase W i t h the exception of one room provided with its c[...]y cases may now be re- it is anticipated t h a t after the enlargement of the ceived. Still,[...]for Consump- tives, the last addition to Denver's charitable in- stitutions, was opened December 1[...]Mrs. Frances Jacobs, the wife of one of the city's pio- neer merchants, and who died November 13, 1[...]National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives. H e r friends, desiring to make this hospital a me-[...]e furnished, opened and chosen President; S. W. Levy, of Cincinnati, and maintained at that[...]further prevented the fulfillment heimer, of St. Louis, Treasurer; L. A. Loeb, of of the benevol[...]to completion. agement of the hospital's local and internal affairs The property, includi[...]nd Vice Chairman; E. Monash, David May, L. H . only one of its kind in the world. I t is for c[...]. No pay- Friedman, Mrs. E. Pisko, Mrs. M. S. Appel, and ing patients are received; only those[...]d have a home provided with Levy and Dr. S. Simon. The physicians donate |
| [...]railroads were organized ble charity; the St. Clara's Orphan Asylum at as the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf system in 952 Tenth street, the Sisters of St. Francis in 1890, the "Union Pacific hospital" fo[...]em to be pro- the Mothers' and Children's Home at 1009 Thirty- vision for giving temporary[...]South Fifteenth street; the Young Women's victims of poverty and misfortune, though it may[...]re is no un- Flower Mission; the Children's Home Society; the avoidable reason. Common begging is seldom Women's Christian Temperance Union Mission; practiced, an[...]organizations, and those hav- dren, is the Mount St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum ing in charge the follo[...]Avenues in "North Denver." Children's Home Society, Colorado Humane So- I t , also, had[...]volent Society, Home for Mothers and Chil- orphan's home. Several Sisters of Charity came[...]Society, North Side Charity Organization, St. Vin- The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company gave cent's Orphan Asylum, Tabernacle Free Dispen- them several lots upon which they succeeded in sary, Women's Christian Temperance Union Mis-[...]has been the A large number of Denver's charitable people only home of many children from[...]ing upward five Sisters of the Good Shepherd from St. Louis of $23,000 were thus apportioned,[...]e ways of Nursery, and the Young Women's Friendly Club, civilization.[...] |
| [...]H . P . A. Smith authority to organize a lodge unde[...]W9m 21st of that year an organization was effected at[...]peared in the first issue of t h e Rocky Mountain[...]rs and societies, and fraternal benev- H . P . A. Smith, Sec'y. H . Allen, W. M. olent associations, flouris[...] |
| [...]Major Jacob Downing, Richard benefits an amount t h a t would make for an indi- Sopris and Lou[...]nces of Louis Dugal, Philip Troustine and den der H a r u g a r i ; nine of the Ancient Order of J[...]n A. Logan, Golden Eagle; seven of the Knights of St. J o h n ; then Commander-in-Chief of the Grand A[...]J. Bancroft Associations; four of the Knights of H o n o r ; three, having been appointed Commande[...]crystallized as it became Bnai Brith, the Sons of St. George, and the Inde- in later ye[...] |
| [...]Byers, Richard Sopris, Dr. L. J. Russell, J. H . ing in all forty-nine. Thereafter the growth of[...]No attempt to revive it or to form a new 1879; t h e Reno, No. 39, organized in 1883; the Vet- ass[...]ding officers went, they 85, in 1891; and the J . H . Piatt, No. 99, in 1896. did very well. Those[...]sent is about 800. The highest total mem- H . R. Hunt, John S. Jones, S. M. Logan, A. Mc- bership in Denver was 850 in 1897. Each of the Fadden, J. W. Mclntire, W. H. Morgan, Dr. J. H . Denver Posts, excepting the Lincoln and the Pia[...]county; C. L. Tourtelotte, of Boulder; John S. Harney Post, No. 50, was organized in the spring[...]Clear Creek; Lafayette Head, of Co- of 1884. I t s name was later changed to Broadway nejos; C[...]n 1885. Phil. Kearney Bute, of El P a s o ; William H. Green, of Fremont; Post, No. 19, was organized i[...]nded William M. Slaughter, of Gilpin; James S. Gray, in 1889. of Huerfano; W. A. H . Loveland, of Jefferson; Recently a propositi[...]s into one large, resourceful, and Larimer; H . A. W. Tabor, of P a r k ; R. B. Willis, of comp[...]ived with favor sufficient to se- Secretary, H . R. H u n t ; Corresponding Secretary, cure its adoptio[...]aken; but its prede- 16th, 1872, at Cutler's Hall on the south side of cessors can hard[...] |
| [...]ers elected: the bars have been let down. H i r a m P . Bennet, President; Dr. J . H . Morrison, Ever since its organization th[...]not a few provide for annual reunions of Colorado's pio- of his fellow-pioneers who[...] |
| [...]LXV. PIONEER W O M E N — L A D I E S ' UNION A I D SOCIETY T H E I R F I R S T ORGANIZATION IN DENVER—PIO- Few white women and[...]nts of the was included. |
| [...]the circle in 1859 had suggested to several of t h e pioneer which the Society was formed, t[...]the home of C. H . McLaughlin, Mrs. H . W. Michael, Mrs. D. William N . Byers[...]Augusta Tabor, and Mrs. J u s t i n a Trankle. Of Union Aid Society"[...]ectively first, second, third, and two towns. I t s pur- fourth Vice[...]retary; and Miss F . all the people. I t s expenditures are, of course, C. Miles (who later[...]w years more follow those for whose as- gations t h a t soon afterward came into being. sistan[...]l church societies; but nothing Of women's clubs and associations, under what of especial hi[...]a surprising and significant development of women's clubs. The change came slowly, after in re[...]ation at that time received an intelli- women's organizations and in aggregate member- gen[...] |
| [...]last decade, though some of the ex- Club's work. The Fortnightly has been a most in- isting[...]of this volume been termed "the woman's club movement in Col- to consider the origin and[...]iations of Federation, and the Woman's Club of Denver; and Denver women, but it is thoug[...]as included therein since among the present women's club organizations in 1881 many of Denver's most intellectual and be- the city. I t was forme[...]esident; Mrs. George L. Scott, Mrs. I t s programmes are adorned with an engraving of W. B.[...]he of the city the name of Colorado's Territorial Gov- 50 |
| [...]didates music, and for social purposes. This Club's for membership must pass a rathe[...]hree descendants. The original The Young Women's Christian Association, a Clio Club[...]1895 it estab- 1887 and incorporated as the Woman's Home Club, lished the Monday Evening[...]er of ence, and was the first girl's club admitted to the Sherman and Eighteenth Aven[...]children. These four Clio organi- $35,000 for the s t r u c t u r e ; its furnishings having zatio[...]ducted, and its records kept, in F r e n c h ; no Eng- While the fundamental purpose of the or[...]harity, it extends tempo- The Woman's Club of Denver is the great, po- rary relief in s[...]lish, French, Ger- plan of the Woman's Club of Chicago. This pro- |
| [...]or the agnostic the Pingree gardens, the children's park, the a Catholic; but each learns[...]ause they and philosophy department at the People's Taber- know each other in the Woman's Club. The Club nacle, the "travelling libraries"[...]AiSTLi.*"— much toward advancing women's clubs to the posi- £'-«. tion of comma[...]cter, the methods, and the influence of the Woman's Club, we quote the following from the pen of Miss[...]—•-"«•--<• a a s comes committed to any one object, however good[...]State, is to it if possible. I t is the President's idea that the eligible to membership. She must[...]is a great thing for so large a club as the Woman's to even exist so many years without wars[...]ules of the Society "alle- a quarrel in the Woman's Club. There are con- gations of facts[...]nd business-like considered." The Society's motto is "Liberty, manner. There have been hotly[...]ers know exactly partment of the Woman's Club undertook to re- |
| [...]of the hundreds she was broad lines, and t h a t it should be placed within instrumental in as[...]arships for musically educating ment of the Woman's Club. promising you[...]eting thereafter was held on April 8th. Woman's Club in the winter of 1895-96 on the The Society[...]for the family. I t took defi- ment of the Woman's Club, and while it is under nite form ear[...]direction of women, its membership Woman's Club, and was incorporated in 1898. I n includes[...]offi- as one of the auxiliaries of the Woman's club. cers, and to arouse public sentiment agains[...]l Association at weeds, seats, placards, children's societies, litera- Philadelphia in October of t[...], and social intercourse among its The N o r t h Side Woman's Club was organized members. in the spring of 1896 for "mutual improvement The Women's Press Club was organized March and co-operation in all t h a t pertains to the good 16, 1898, at a meetin[...]ong Hospital, Crittenton Home, and the Old People's women of literary tastes, to secure the benefits Relief Home. The N o r t h Side Charity Organiza- arising from organized effort, and to drive dull tion is one of the club's auxiliaries, and it also care away."[...] |
| [...]both sexes, but of its struggle; and the Society's insignia a wheel and present list of thir[...]-partisan association, but its work i n c l u d e s philanthropy, and the propagation of m u n i c i p a l economics through unselfish citi- zenship. I t s "Declara- tion of Principles" says: The object[...]d Home of the Young Woman's Christian Association. county affairs[...] |
| [...]uthwest from roof of Court House, 1884. the Woman's Club an alliance that is known as wh[...]rs. The Colorado Federation of Women's Clubs The Denver Poets' and Authors' Club orga[...]f The General Federation of Women's Clubs,—the Denver women organized in December,[...]most interesting assem- ing all such duties. I t s funds are derived from blage that has ye[...]con- That the influences of women's clubs in Denver tributions. The organizati[...] |
| [...]791 woman's club usually does not include considera-[...]ilds of these 6,612 were in favor of women's suffrage |
| [...]branch of the 1894, Clara Cressingham and Frances S. Klock of[...]ose who take the most Arapahoe county; and Carrie S. Holly, of Pueblo,[...]g enough bly, elected in November, 1898, Mrs. F . S. Lee, on trial to afford a basis for intelligently measur- Democrat; and Mrs. H . G. R. Wright, Populist; ing its general[...]iors, now our equals." However that may be, Sarah S. Platt-Decker having been for several on[...]n of county affairs women of women. Within t h a t time a disposition to re- have also be[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LXVI. D E N V E R ' S W A T E R S U P P L Y — P I O N E E R " F R A N C H I S E S " FOR " W A T E R W O R K S " — D I T C H E S O F T H E PRIMI- If the old r[...]ver, and now our Capitol Hill. A. C. H u n t was |
| [...]ost of the abandoned the work and the water r i g h t ; the gutters r a n with the clear, invi[...]tioned the inception and construction of Denver's[...]Colonel Archer as President; David H . Moffat,[...]S. Cheesman, and Daniel Witter, constituting the[...]subsequent years to procure and Daniel Witter, R. S. Little (later the founder of maintain an[...]of one, in the reservoir plan, went up to Little's ranche and these annals of Denver. there st[...]ish, the verdureless dreariness of pre- town's domestic water supply had been drawn from[...] |
| [...]ells population. Within two years the city's popula- in the more closely built-up parts above[...]Platte was a larger and most double the plant's pumping capacity; and quite different proposition[...]ced for public only a small quantity of the river's flow, which was needs until the year 1879. then[...]the river's channel, and the drainage from the[...]station. Then began the water company's long[...]creek, and more than a mile beyond the city's limits in t h a t direction at that time. The new lo-[...]not entail pollution of the river's flow. No antici- Rear view of the Lake Arch[...]f supply beyond the encroach* of the city's encroachment. ments of contamination, does not de[...]here within the next ten or fifteen the river's water-power for operating pumps, in- years. So, t[...]e small but substantial brick build- company's President, was constructed along the ing i[...] |
| [...]his machinery, a 350- The history of Denver's water-works corpora- horse power steam engine was[...]r City Water until the quality of t h e water procurable there Company were consolidate[...]village^—if it sustained itself at t h a t ; and that the Harbor, Long Island, New York,[...]way was prepared and opened for the city becom- H e was educated in the public and High Schools[...]ters so far into circumstantial details of Denver's tain in a New York State regiment. His grand-[...]e who laid and made secure the serving as a F i r s t Lieutenant in Colonel William foundations of this city and this Commonwealth. Malcom's New York regiment, and thereafter and Mr. Cheesman's active identification with the until the close of[...]1861. I n 1860 he sociation with the F i r s t National B a n k ; his promi- had established a[...]n this note. His personal history as a in Denver. H e continued in that business until citize[...]enterprises with which he had been identified. H e consummation of semi-public enterprises of com-[...]velopment and upbuild- pany; President of t h e South P l a t t e Canal & Res- ing of this city[...]ervoir Company; a Director of the F i r s t National Mr. Cheesman, as our reader will have learned Bank, of which he has long been F i r s t Vice-Presi- in this Story of Denver, was a cons[...]at Den- be its future, than he.—J. C. S. |
| HISTORY OF DENVER. 797 Walter S. Cheesman. |
| [...]ties of ex- the Lake Archer pumping station. At t h a t time cellent water, but, notwithstandi[...]ecame inadequate to any probability that the city's growth would en- meet the demands of the m[...]and machinery required for them, combined the old St. Luke's Hospital in Highlands. I n 1880 with[...] |
| [...]nsion breaking out a gravity one. I t s water supply came from under- among them early in[...]it was almost absolutely free from meet the city's fast-increasing demands for quan- all[...]five Its first Board of Directors consisted of D. H. miles of new distributing mains, wh[...]ed the entire city; the service being Clayton, W. S. Cheesman, Charles P . Allen, and in[...]October, 1889. The quality of the W. B. Mills. D. H . Moffat was elected President;[...] |
| [...]ve on. The demands "[HE S O U T H fr>rTES,ANAi>»FfeSERvoiRGo[...] |
| [...]was sold t<by. the Receiver to a committee repre- s e n t i n g d t s ' c r e d i t o r , interests. Arrangements had b[...]rties. Its Board of Directors consisted of Walter S. Cheesman, David H . Moffat, George W. Clayton, Moses) Hallett, James B. Grant, and Thomas S. Hayden, of Denver; Daniel Heald and George Coppe[...]Maine. The executive officers elected were Walter S. Cheesman, Presi- dent; David H. Moffat, Treasurer; and Walter P .[...]tensions of water mains in the city, that year's property and rights of the Citizens' and t[...] |
| [...]ow practically completed. This increases the lake's storage capacity to over eight billion gal[...] |
| [...]ter company. Of this dependent corporation Walter S. Cheesman is President; Thomas S. Hayden, Vice President; David H. Moffat, Treasurer; Walter P . Miller, Secretary;[...]h.^f-?' stream escapes through a narrow, winding go[...]onsideration, determined, however, by the company's Chief En- with probabilities that the addition would be made. gineer, t h a t the advantages of a structure of solid masonr[...]ranite subsequently on the government's reservoir system rock on which it is founded, or[...]utely safe and stable structure. —J. C. S. |
| [...]into the canon below, the waters taking the city's elevation at one mile; thus mak- cont[...]tion, and for maintaining the South Platte river's foot level is six feet wide an[...] |
| [...]per gineering achievement. I t s total cost will approxi- level of the rese[...] |
| [...]f conditions elsewhere any more favora- ble, or t h a t any other city of the semi-arid West[...]d, and a practically unlim- I n the vicinity of t h e city there are no large nat- ited supply of pur[...]was not all t h a t the circumstances[...]are greatest Nature's rain-fall[...]old the abundant waters of the spring the city, t h a t will meet every emergency likely to[...]of a city of five times Denver's present population. The landscape effects prod[...]e a "resort," but will be rigorously are H a r r i m a n and three or four other smal[...] |
| [...]f 400 miles of street-mains to which are at- in t h e northwestern part of the city. One of the[...]ntee sufficient for double Denver's present population; this city a bountiful[...] |
| S M I N T AND ITS COINAGE—PARSON'S C O I N S — S C R I P I S S U E S — H I S T O R Y OF VARIOUS B A N K I N G O R G A N - I Z A T I O N S — E R L A N G E R ' S " B A N K " — W A L T E R A. STUART—NATIONA[...]E F F E C T OF P A N I C OF 1 8 9 3 — E X I S T I N G N A T I O N A L AND O T H E R BANKS—DENVER CLEARING H O U S E — U N I T E D STATES M I N T — D E N V E R[...]RESOURCES OF D E N V E R N A T I O N A L B A N K S . The comparatively few pioneers who came to the Clear creek, yielded gold that was almost abso- |
| [...]t the outset, and it would seem that they 1865, t h a t National bank notes of local origin—[...]u n e of that year opened their Denver's great financial institution of pioneer[...]E. H . Gruber, a native of Hagerstown, Maryland,[...]had removed thither from St. Louis in the same[...]dust from the new gold region at Pike's Peak, and[...]s means they would save Clark, Gruber & Co.'s Bank and Mint, autumn of 1860. the excessive c[...]nto such coins by an establishment lo- Collector. H e was a citizen of Denver until his[...]a gen- late George W. Kassler as Cashier. William H. eral banking business in connect[...]the last-named year Austin M. Clark and E. H . nally, constituted the firm of Turner & Hobbs,[...]arations established themselves in Reed & Hiffner's build- for carrying it into ef[...] |
| [...]ts time— the figure of Pike's Peak the Liberty cap with the the "show-place" of[...]and the interior words "Pike's Peak" on it was substituted; and was handsomely f[...]Clark. Gruber & Co.'s "Gold Note. McClure, an expert assayer and mechan[...]The firm's perfect good faith, the honesty and over-[...]s mintage, and the freedom of Clark, Gruber & Co.'s Ten Dollar "Pike's Peak Gold" coin, 1860.[...]ns. For a short I n preparation for the next year's work new dies time they c[...] |
| [...]at Denver. The first Territorial convention firm's minting operations, was at a premium. In- o[...]f paper promises to pay here, and pledging t h e party's support in whatever issued by three private citiz[...]rations to a termination. its operations the firm's honor and integrity were H i r a m P . Bennet was elected in the autumn of n[...]in 1861, after the first Ter- 1861 as Colorado's first Delegate in Congress. ritorial administrati[...]B. Chaffee, who was chiefly instrumental rado's admittance as a State and in which he ac- in orga[...]e sev- in Michigan, but soon afterward removed to St. eral movements had met defeat, he was el[...]er in 1876, he was elected one of Colorado's first two he was one of the great mine operators[...]and in scores of lesser miners enacted at t h a t time originated with him, note elsewhere in t[...]little Pittsburgh railroad in that period. H e declined a re-election and other opulent mines[...]until his life to his private affairs. H e was one of the foun- death, yielded him a large[...]Bank of including the convention of 1884. H e was a great Denver when that institution was or[...]the Board of Directors of his son-in-law, U. S. Grant, Jr., at Salem Cen- of the Union Pacific r[...]e the way and of m e n ; and in Denver's history and Speaker of the House. We have already[...]between 1864 and 1869 to gain Colo- J. C. S. |
| [...]government acquired the prop- Clark, Gruber & Co.'s Five Dollar "Pike's Peak Gold" coin, 1860.[...]he corner, and which gave the building its United S t a t e s ; that a branch mint be established[...]eavenworth, with branches at Den- Mr. Bennet's first service in Congress was the[...]a bill to give effect 10, 1864, E. H Gruber withdrew, and Austin M. to the recommendat[...]Company t r a n s - went to Washington with a sack of Colorado gold[...]Bank in the combined influences of the Secretary's recom- t h e organization mendation, Mr. Bennet's persistent earnestness, the[...]time, Clark & by the President's approval April 21, 1862.[...]their branch bank Clark, Gruber & Co's. property; that transaction[...]inued the business and i t ; that having been the price for which Clark, later establis[...]Central City and took charge of his firm's business bidding private coinage was delay[...] |
| [...]the range to bers of that firm, of the same name. H e was a Breckenridge. H e coined only the two denomina- native of Massach[...]much Western Stage Company and of Hinckley & Co.'s like that of the United States gold c[...]firm name of Warren Hussey & Co. H e estab- he was again ap-[...]erri- ham's drug store, on the northwest corner of torial Tre[...]Fifteenth and Market ate. In February, 1883, he ^ s chosen Secretary of streets, and in the su[...]ver National until his death on November 6, 1888. H e was a Bank, was made Cashier and man[...]H.ussey's opera- Soon after disposing of their banks[...]regular d e p o s i t E. H . Gruber remained in Denver until 1864,[...]gers, Hussey now The firm's old minting machinery remained stored[...]ld his the government, and are now in the Society's col- interests to Hussey but continued as[...]eph Standley, organized the firm of Thatcher, J o h n Parsons, who came from Quincy, Illinois,[...] |
| [...]exclusively in banking. Early in 1865 they Palmer's management the parent house in Denver wou[...]rkansas, in March, 1878, and Mr at Spokane Falls. H e is now living in New York Sears in Denve[...]al business, de- Clark, Gruber & Co.'s Two and One-[...]profitable. H e first located in part of the room the difficult[...]occupied by Hinckley & Company's "mountain ex- demand for some kind of currency 6f[...]was joined by G. H . Wilcox, and by his brother, Jo- notes were comm[...]uables. When H e n r y C. Brown built his three-[...]and gold Interior of C. A. Cook & Co.'s Bank.[...]of dust a day. Frequently the advance in the price stopped, under circumstances that will presently[...]ising and en- the agents there for Holladay's Overland Mail |
| [...]d issue circulating notes whenever one half of t h e stock subscribed had been paid for in such coi[...]minations of its Clark, Gruber & Co.'s Five Dollar gold coin, 1861. condition. But the[...]s of the lot of cheap scrip made at Thomas Gibson's print- Central Overland, California, & Pike's Peak Ex- ing office, and in[...]gold-buying office in one corner of Walter S. Chees- used in its manu- man's drug store, then located on the southeast cor- fa[...]- Photographed 1880. At the time of Luther's coming here, two of them, of it survived to appea[...]. Luther had served the issue of C. A. Cook & Co.'s scrip to which we an apprenticeship[...] |
| [...]e serious rather than one of banking. H e gave his name as fire in the spring of 1863, an[...]side of quaintances he studiously sought. H e ambitiously Blake street, between Fifteenth and[...]went every dollar t h a t had been placed in his keep- s p r i n g — 1864 —[...]bly nearer the t r u e value. I n 1878, Dr. W. H. Wil- though at that time[...]charge of affairs here. I n 1868, after Luther's return, the four brothers established the great[...]Clark, Gruber & Co.'s Ten Dollar gold coin, 1861. across the country,[...]ap- National began business at Hussey's old location |
| [...]of its career. Its first Board of Brown's building, then the "Tribune Building," on Directo[...]e southeast corner of Sixteenth and Market Brown, H e n r y Crow, J o h n R. Hanna, and Frank streets; Mr. Brown[...]dent; Brown sold his interest to William H., J. H., and John R. Hanna, Cashier; and H y a t t Hussey, As- F . D. Hager, who,[...]oken down and who died at The bank's affairs were then honorably wound up, Herkimer, N[...]d William Barth became Vice Presi- J. H . Jones, Jacob F . L. Schirmer, Jacob Snider, den[...]mine claimants there with Clark, Gruber & Co.'s Twenty Dollar gold coin, 1861. whom Snider, al[...]ted by the First National Bank, President, and W. S. Iliff as Second Vice Presi- and in Ja[...]21, 1894, its business was was the People's Savings Bank. I t appears not to bought outright[...]d began Dr. R. G. Buckingham, Dr. H. K. Steele and H . C. business in a room in the American House bui[...]oprietors." I t began business in the ing, by J o h n W. Smith as "Principal and Mana- Eva[...]de public. was Cashier and Secretary; and Charles H . Smith, I n 1877 R. M. Purcells[...] |
| [...]surer and was suc- expense of winding up the bank's affairs. ceeded by David H . Moffat. There were no further I n 1874 General J o h n Pierce, who was then prom- changes i[...]lding on the southeast corner William B a r t h was born at Dietz, Nassau, Ger- I n M[...]others came to Denver and |
| [...]ing caused it to suspend payments. I t s failure en- presenting little of noteworthy impor[...]George Tritch, President; J o h n Good, Vice Presi-[...]in 1886 was succeeded by J o h n J. Riethmann. Im-[...]1890, was succeeded by J o h n J. Riethmann. Col- The Exchange Bank, an inc[...]cceed the pri- Cashier; the bank at t h a t time having about vate bank of Collins, Snide[...]e 1892 and was succeeded by J o h n J. Riethmann, J r . ; new organization was $200[...]e the bank had, according to its was paid in. I t s first Board of Directors con- stat[...]re than $380,000. The foregoing consti- Ebert, J. H . Jones, J. F . L. Schirmer, Rufus H . tutes the bank's history and that of its manage- Snider, and A. J[...]r. bank continued to occupy Collins, Snider & Co.'s On August 29th, following,[...] |
| [...]he remnants of its dilapidated resources. Herr's introductions and influence serving them Owing t[...]ext step was to se- larger stockholders, the bank's depositors had re- cure control and possessi[...]lity and sold it as fast as mined. However, H e r r fi- was paid by those who could. So, the Ge[...]without paying their miners, or any part of Herr's a forger and bank thief of international fame[...]n the Bank of Rosita. A short Walter C. Sheridan. H e appeared in Denver in time afterward[...]sita, which worthy citizen of considerable means. H e was he had made payable to himself. a[...]and dangerous forgers, swindlers and quaintances. H i sH e had served a couple ducts of his own genius and[...]apacity as a Director of the bank, had People's Savings Bank then located on Arapahoe become inti[...]he was captured by the bank people ver, and when H e r r next came to the city accom- before he[...]then released on a worth- a confederate of Stuart's, who professed to be less bond, a[...] |
| [...]pted and they had investigated Vanwoert's career and bank robbery at Montreal, Canada, wher[...]aimed to have a large amount of cles, that Stuart's Colorado operations were a dis- capital;[...]iting; he had opened a fraudu- tions, indicated t h a t some huge swindle or bank lent bank[...]rs, the results of the Rosita oper- Company's stock which he had engaged to "negoti- ations mus[...]eal estate man" of small lent bank. On February 21st of that year, there capital and good[...]his character; Denver by James L. Vanwoert, Pliny S. Rice, Hor- Rice was stated to have be[...]l stage of the pro- largest stockholder. H e had been a Denver pio- ceedings nothing connect[...]corner of Sixteenth and Curtis the bank's owners decided to discontinue its busi- streets w[...]he then given that the new bank would open April 1st, general drift of improvements and affai[...]. Therefore the bank The bank did not open April 1st, the failure having notified its d[...] |
| [...]President; Cyrus W. Fisher, Vice President; S. D. the corner room in the same building being th[...]r; W. D. Todd, Cashier; and occupied by the F i r s t National bank. In January, Charles' R. Pier[...]and Robert C. Lockwood became Assist- Kilham, J o h n L. McNeil, and Edward L. Raymond. ant Cashier. Under the new management the The bank's paid-up capital was increased to $300,- bus[...]the Union Safe-Deposit & Trust Company ments J o h n L. McNeil became President; Edward with[...]out six months later Assistant Cashier Lockwood 31st. I t managed to continue in business until[...]transferred its affairs to President Woodbury's general management; and the Union National and pa[...]g of 1887 arrangements were made of $100,000. I t s first Board of Directors consisted for the org[...]re attended some such Board organized by electing H e n r y R. Wolcott, enterprises in Denver.[...]man, John A. Clough, William G. Evans, C. S. ber 31, 1882, for economic reasons, its b[...] |
| [...]uly 2, 1887, The histories of the People's Savings and De- and was soon doing a flourishing business. In posit, the People's National, and the People's May, 1889, it removed across Larimer street to th[...]trous one. Early in ganizing the "People's Savings and Deposit Bank." 1892 Charles West succ[...]ty-four stock- was the last change in the concern's management. holders; the capital stock hav[...]taken by Lawrence. Edward F . Bishop, James H. People's Savings, and the Rocky Mountain Savings, Cl[...]ond, F . L. having been the first three of Denver's financial Rohlfing, E. L. Scholtz, George W. Skinner, and institutions t h a t suspended in that summer of Charles S. Thomas were chosen Directors, and they trouble.[...]d M. J. Lawrence, President; Charles A. Colorado's business had been largely in the hands Raymo[...]ess and in which he continued for ten years. H e life of the city of Denver. H e was a native of also served as Preside[...]town, but and served the term of two years. H e was always at the age of eleven as a clerk in a[...]d Bank as Assistant Cashier, his friend David H. until 1857, when he decided to locate in the wes[...]1882 the Merchant's National Bank was absorbed Mr. Kassler remained in Omaha until the spring by the F i r s t National, and Mr. Kassler availed of 1860, when[...]1883 Mr. Kassler was appointed one of the 1861. H e then became assistant to Major John S. State Board of Capitol Managers and conti[...]have been more sincerely be- on his own account. H e established a book and loved by their[...]a business to which he sub- than he.—J. C. S. |
| [...]the summer of 1889, succeeded by J o h n C. Mitchell. When the latter organized the "People's National Bank," with a resigned to beco[...]apital of $300,000, all of which was paid in. I t s Bank in 1891, F . C. Schroeder became Cashier[...]tional Bank, and C. W. Keith as C. A. Raymond, J. H . Clemes, C..S. Thomas, F . L. Assistant Cashier of the People's Savings Bank; Rohlfing, J. R. Hicks, W. W. Porter[...]tment of its affairs 1889, changed to the "People's Savings Bank," and enabled it to resume bu[...],000; Lawrence, President Muir, and with S. E. Darby as Cashier, Raymond, Skinner, Porter, J[...]ts seemed unprom- dent, and Cashier of the People's National had ising, but upon the later[...]t been elected to the same offices, in the People's Sav- of much litigation, that a large amount of[...]or to the panic of 1893, a judgment The People's Savings Bank was thus made for $475[...]ndered in a Colo- merely an adjunct of the People's National Bank, rado Court in general liti[...]en the and the two set out together on prosperity's high- Receiver against the stockholders of[...]ceiver, in 1900, to pay the Savings Bank's de- General Roger Williams Woodbury, descendant eral Butler's Army of the James, and was engaged |
| [...]full, and also to have within sight Amos H . Root, of Denver. C. F . Ray became at the close[...]Vice President; and E. W. Ray, value of the bank's stock to par or above par. Cashier. The[...]s suspension in 1893 it re- January, 1891, S. S. Kennedy became its President; opened its doors, and for two or three years there- W. H. Yankee, Vice President; and A. H . Root, after did some business; Lawrence, Muir a[...]ed on behalf of the Savings of 1889. I t s capital stock of $250,000 was all paid Bank. Unde[...]C. L. Burpee, W. F . Callaway, C. D. Cobb, C. H . what is left of its affairs. I t s depositors have Dow, S. H . Hastings, H . W. Hobson, C. M. Kit- been paid in full, but th[...]airs of these two banks in- zation was C. H . Dow, President; C. D. Cobb, Vice volved adjusti[...]culties, defined respon- President; and F . H . Dunleavy, Assistant Cashier. sibilities on line[...]capital of $50,000 I t could not resume. I t s failure was a bad one invested by sixteen stockholders. I t s certificate for the stockholders, who lost t[...]l liability to pay in bert E. Gipson, of Greeley; H i r a m G. Wolff, Silas full. Preferred depositors have been paid in full S. Kennedy, Edwin W. Ray, Adolph J . Zang, and[...]uty on the executive staff; Of General Woodbury's subsequent career as one a service which[...]and honorable citi- 1883 of the Governor's second term. Averse to the zens of Denver, as one[...]General and forceful in undertakings for the city's ad- Woodbury has never sought public off[...]zation Master of the Grand Lodge, Grand H i g h Priest of the Chamber of Commerce, and long its P[...], and Templar; and was long Chairman of t h e Com- a member of the latter's present Board of Di- mittees on Jurisp[...]civic un- resulting in the erection of t h a t fine edifice, the dertakings associated with[...]financial foundations of which he laid. H e long Denver. As we have said, the prominent par[...]erick W. Pitkin appointed country.—J. C. S. |
| [...]831 claims; the remnants of the bank's assets still that remaining[...]ady been outlined. The older institution had |
| [...]mstances with which it had nothing erick H . Hanchet. The bank did not acquire very to do an[...]law May signment to its Cashier. I t s affairs have been 7, 1891, with a capital of $50,[...]; though per- ity to increase it to $250,000. I t s certificate named haps not a satisfactory one to everybody who was as Directors, F r a n k S. Woodbury, R. W. Woou- concerned in its misfortunes. bury, K. G." Cooper, S. P . Rose, R. W. Steele, R. W. The East Denver Savings Bank was incorpo- Worcester, W. H . Montgomery, F . C. Vickers, and rated N[...]ge W. ident; K. G. Cooper, Vice President; and E. S. Williams, H . E.-Pack, F r a n k P . Miller, F . Horn- Thomps[...]ut six weeks the Union Pacific shops. I t s officers remained later and continued business un[...]too great, and it ended its career in 1894; bank's career was terminated August 6, 1895, when[...]ntile Bank" was incorporated Feb- assignment. I t s depositors suffered some loss, but ruary 14,[...]hristopher C. Gird, William F . McClel- Frederick H . Hanchet and others established the land, John A. Hall, James H . Nichols, George W. "Capital Bank" of deposit an[...]have been incorporated, as we found Samuel H . Elbert, W. G. Evans, C. E. Herrington, no recor[...]ident, and Lockwood, previously Assist- David H. Moffat, whose name and personality are Acc[...]tate, is a of 1856 was in charge of Allen's Omaha bank as native of the S t a t e of New York. Born in Orange Cashier[...]ed the life of a enteen years of age. H e remained as Cashier of country boy with the mea[...]ve elsewhere related, an he was twelve years old. H e then went to New enormous tide of emigration set out for the Pike's York city, and though but little more than a, child Peak country, and after the Omaha bank's business in years, found employment as messenger[...]education for Denver. Forming late in t h a t year a partnership the career for which he would seem to have been with C. C. Woolworth, of St. Joseph, Mo., as deal- predestined. H e remained with the New York ers in[...]5, in response to a request and the advice in St. Joseph and subsequently forwarding new of[...] |
| HISTORY OF DENVER. S33 David H. Moffat. 53 |
| [...]e exceptions that figure in the were Bela S. Buell and Jerome B. Chaffee; Austin history of s[...]of the old firm of C. A. history of all of Denver's pioneer banking estab- Cook & Company; H[...]ine holders also constituted the bank's first Board of sketches are now worth while. The[...]9, 1865, Clark & Company transferred cumstances t h a t laid them low, and of the results their[...]on of financial ness in Clark & Company's small room in the institutions associated with th[...]on completion of the building still stand- Denver's present financial institutions, having had[...]counts includes part of the reminiscences Colonel S. S. of our railway system from its beginni[...]nd State, the outlines his Post Office and Moffat's book store shared the also appear elsewhe[...]the ranks. In pioneer times in Denver. Mr. Moffat's interest 1874 at the request of Gover[...]tment, Mr. Moffat became Treasurer of Colo- F i r s t National Bank in 1867, and in 1868 Clarence[...]rom J . Clark entered it as a partner, Mr. Moffat's serving as a delegate in conventions,[...]ume to enter in this Until his father's death, Mr. Moffat appended note upon a further review in detail of Mr. Moffat's "Jr." to his name and which appears in conn[...]therewith in various chapters of this work. H e and Colorado. Of his appointment and services[...]ty and State. in our accounts of the Indian w a r s ; of his long The great extent to which he[...]fication with through to its close.—J. C. S. |
| [...]as Keely, present ier and was succeeded by David H . Moffat, Jr., incumbent, (promoted f[...]rge W. Wells, who served until his National Bank's career began, and which has con- death[...]in Denver 13, 1880. Then, after a year's vacancy, in suc- or in Colorado. I t was put int[...]d Cashier. I n January, 1901, pro- The F i r s t National remained at Fifteenth and visio[...]1889, and since then the incumbents street into t h e large corner-room of the Tabor have been as follows: H . N. Otis, March 26, 1889, building on the southe[...]nd to resignation October 1,1890; C. H . Rose, October Sixteenth, where it remained unti[...]Merchants' National Bank that had ceeded by David H . Moffat, present incumbent, on been or[...]us, and undivided 1874, to April 17, 1874; Walter S. Cheesman, April profits, $1,000,000. The statement of its condition, 17, 1874, to January, 1880; H . A. W. Tabor, Janu- December 13, 1900,[...]n u a r y 8, 1884, to September 26, 1891; Walter S. at the close of our record that sum had been[...]of The names and terms of the First National's the financial organizations in Denver[...]h of and May 10,1865, to September 4, 1866: David H. Mof- successor to the private[...] |
| [...]onal, I n 1885 the Colorado National's original cap- with a capital of $100,000, were ma[...]increased to $200,000; in of 1866, and on August 1st, of that year, the bank 1889 to $300,000;[...]93. By its last official statement of condi- seph H . Goodspeed, Joshua S. Raynolds, and Ed- tion available for[...],938.41. I t is a Uni- Kountze, President; Joseph H . Goodspeed, Vice ted States Deposito[...]Brothers in New eloquence. The bank's management is now vested York, retired from the Presidency of the Colorado in Charles B . Kountze, H e r m a n Kountze, Dennis National, a change whic[...]ional Bank is not the successor Berger, Cashier; S. N . Wood having previously nor the ou[...]reer. I t s organization was decided on and provided after w[...]$500,- Berger in April, 1890, after which Thomas H .[...]half being added soon afterward. I t s first Board advanced to the vacant place.[...]rger, sons of Eddy, James B. Grant, W. S. Jackson, Otto Sauer, the deceased Cashier, were[...]-Lewin, Vice President of the Heinz became F i r s t Assistant Cashier. Later, Wil- First Nation[...]desirable. The bank acquired the bank's two Vice Presidents; his daily duties[...]e building now standing President Cheesman. H e is also a Director and there, for its permanent home. On October 1st, of the Treasurer of the Tramway Company, a[...]organizations in the city and the State.—J. C. S. |
| [...]til, on December 13, 1900, they aggre- for more t h a n twenty years, is now the oldest gate[...]an resigned and States Depository. I t s present Board of Trustees was succeeded by J o h n C. Mitchell who had been consists of .[...]Carbonate National Bank of Thomas S. Hayden, William S. Jackson, William Leadville. W i t h Mr. Mitchell as Cashier, Edward H . James, John C. Mitchell, Henry M. Porter, Otto S. Irish became Assistant Cashier; and in 1893[...]only changes of place and of executive officers t h a t opened a bank of deposit and discount at No[...]l operation on a private basis, it was first year's business its deposits amounted to deci[...]to financial affairs, his means and services have H e went into the mountains and successfully en-[...]d until J a n u a r y , 1863, when he became H e participated in organizing and establishing Man[...]on Stock Yards, the Denver Elec- Hussey & Company's Denver banking house, of tric Compa[...]pany; and was connected with tht> water and gas responsible, position of manager Mr. Thatcher con[...]a n u a r y 1, 1874, became the First J. C. S. |
| [...]P . L. Bockfinger, Charles Chamberlin, D. H . Ferguson, J. A. Ferguson, J o - Boettcher, B e n n Brewer, Job A. Cooper, Phillip seph W. Gilluly, S. H . Hastings, C. Y. McClure, Feldhouser, F . C. Gou[...]Gra- John L. McNeil, I. B . Porter, Charles H . Smith, ham, L. L. Higgins, F r a n k B. Hill, J. F . Hopkins, and S. N . Wood. The Directors elected H . B. Charles L. Mcintosh, William R. Mygatt and D. D. Chamberlin, President; D. H . Ferguson, Vice Pres- Streeter. The Directors el[...]dent, and C. Y. McClure, Cashier. The bank's formerly been identified with the German Na-[...]Assistant Cashier. The January, 1891, D. H. Ferguson became President; new bank was quartered in the Ernest & Cranmer H . B . Chamberlin, First Vice President; and C. H. Building, southwest corner of Seventeenth and[...]ened for business on as Cashier. I n 1892 S. N . Wood succeeded Cham- J u l y 16, 1890, I n J[...]but was forced to suspend on September 1st; the southwest corner of Seventeenth and Arapahoe[...]zed with a capital of $250,000, and re- home in t h a t structure. The troubles of 1893 sumed business in. March, 1894, with Charles H. caused a brief interruption to its business (fro[...]t 17th), after which its capital President; D. H . Ferguson, Second Vice Presi- was reduced to $20[...]resident; Colonel D. C, Dodge, Vice pied t h e Union's former and its own present quar- President; and Dr. D. H . Dougan, Cashier; W.. B , ters on the nort[...]R. since then no changes have occurred. The bank's Swallow became President, and Carlos Woo[...]other banks in the city becoming stock- bank's business, which has reached large propor- holders[...],695. Bancroft, Isaac E. Blake, A. W, Chamberlin, H . B . The Western Bank (and Safe Deposit Company) William H . J a m e s is one of the forceful men I n t h a t year Mr. James was elected the represen- |
| HISTORY OF DENVER. 841 William H. James. |
| [...]ier. According to its statement in C. Kilham, J o h n L. McNeil, Robert D. Thompson, Dece[...]547,986 of Charles Hallack, Edward L. Raymond, E. S. Kass- deposits. ler, William R. Th[...]ng as Cashier. The William Light, David Brothers, H e n r i R. Foster, bank was then given its present name, and in 1899 Samuel E. Marshall, Henry H . Mills, William E . Yerkes was succ[...]ceeded by C. A. Root the present M. Marshall, and S. E. Howard. The bank was es- Cashie[...]for its loans, carried the accounts of " N o r t h Denver," with John A. Clough as Presi-[...]tal of $30,000, and immediately son as Vice P r e s i d e n t ; and at that time there were began b[...]ry. On J a n u a r y 15, and Directors David H . Moffat, President; S. G. 1896, it became by change of name the present[...]on identified with its management. H e then retired that has been a standard for those[...]from his long period of active work. H e was one lowed. During the great strike in that[...]with the takings in this country. H e was also one of the mining industry.[...]While not one of the first army of "Pike's Peak- Grant establishment here, and in which he w[...]held in store for the Colorado country.—J. C. S. |
| [...]statement December 31, 1900, it son, and O. H. P . Baxter. On January 29, 1892, had $134,925 de[...]n - caused no interruption to its business. I t s present uary, 1899, its name was changed to the o[...]ars, and its methods broadened to include S. Cheesman, Joseph Davis, Frank B. Gibson, J. A. t[...]n this department Hayes, E. T. Jeffery, D. H. Moffat, W. B. Page, at the close of 1900 about $100,000 of deposits were carried. I t s management is vested in T. J. Zollars, President;[...]- sociation organized in 1889, and of which James S. Wolfe was President when the change was made. Th[...]onal Trust Company, an important member of Denver's present family of financial New Mint of the United States, at Denver. From architect's institutions, and t h a t is handsomely quartered in[...]ec- general character. On J u n e 24, 1885, David H . retary. Moffat, Henry R. Wolcott, and S. N. Wood incor- There are at present i[...]ich be- The more prominent of these are E. H. Rollins & came an auxiliary of the First National Bank. Its Sons, R. H . McMann & Company, and Joralomon vaults and plac[...]founded in Jan- Company was incorporated by David H . Moffat, uary, 1886, under the name of McMann & Kit- H e n r y W. Hobson, Moses Hallett, Walter S. Chees- tredge, and has had an uninterrupted c[...]having been estab- known citizens of Denver. I t s capital was $500,- lished in March, 1894. 000, and the certificate named as the company's In preparing these historical accounts of banks first officers, D. H . Moffat, President; C. H . Dow, and banking in Denver, it was not thought worth F i r s t Vice President; Henry W. Hobson, Second w[...]instances by self- first Directors having been D. H . Moffat, Edward assertion, figured more or less transiently as L. Raymond, Walter S. Cheesman, W. S. Jackson, "bankers" in the past since pioneer times; nor to Moses Hallett, M. D. Thatcher, C. H. Dow, C. S. sundry vanished and relatively unimportant es- Morey, Anthony Sweeney, M. E. Smith, H . W. Hob- tablishments that really[...] |
| [...]and mingled in the consisting of S. N. Wood, William B. Berger, and throng were nume[...]ar- 1885, the report of the first day's work having been rant making record of them on th[...]ars has had "the National, Denver National, F i r s t National, and Mint," and the Uni[...]rom dome of Capitol, overlooking part of the city's business section. From a recent photograph by Jam[...]branch under the control and direction of the Di- H a n n a , of the City National; William B. Berger[...]ions of the Denman, of the Denver National; David H. Moffat law, and in the meantime circumstances and influ- and S. N. Wood, of the First National; George[...] |
| [...]capacity is recorded merce, People's, State, and Union; beside several in terms of mil[...]rom dome of Capitol, overlooking part of the city's business section. From a recent photograph by James B. Brown, Jr. April, 1900, the city's importance as a financial me- clearin[...]^Xt?™ |
| [...]surplus of the four existent National able one t h a t strikingly demonstrates the recupera-[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LXVIII. DENVER'S FIRST TELEGRAPH LINE—HISTORY[...]LOCAL TELEGRAPHS—COMING OF T H E TELEPHONE—EXTRAORDINARY |
| [...]way of Living Springs, to Denver, along the David H . Moffat was appointed the first agent, and[...]The wire was strung into Denver on October 1st number of messages. to the office over Warren Hussey & Company's The overland line was completed far within the[...]d congratulatory messages with the Mayor of t h a t lies between them shall belong to any other[...]father having been of an and of Mr. Woodward's other operations in tele- old and prominent New E[...]863 he was Director of the first Young Men's Christian Asso- compelled to resign his position[...]akings that have contributed to Telegraph Company's extension to Denver, and of the developm[...]be- of this builder and manager of Colorado's pioneer ginning his long citizenship in this city[...]elegraph lines are intimately associated.—J. C. S. |
| [...]th America, Alaska, and Be- egraph. The white man's "talking string," as they ring's, Strait. This line was located and partly called[...]to the southward. I t s title was the United[...]Byers, S. H . Elbert, General George P.[...]Ihrie, George W. Kassler, D. H . Moffat. H . M. Porter, F . Z. Salomon, and B. F.[...]ovements Byers. came to the line i|s,individuals accepted the poles[...] |
| [...]citizens as to the practical utility of Vaille's queer ver and Santa F e passed to the Western Uni[...]scribers. H e established his exchange in the sec- I n th[...]rganized, prin- and over Conrad Frick's boot and shoe store, where cipally by Denver men,[...]pany, 1447 Lawrence world. From Denver the Postal's lines, like those[...] |
| [...]old Broadwell Hotel company's Superintendent. I n 1884, in addition to building[...]the executive head of its affairs. Wolcott's con- out, as it always must from the nature of th[...]Clear creek points, constructed results for t h e people. The two rival systems in in 1879. Next[...]1884 the by the older1 one, and the Western Union's enter- company had about 2,000 miles of wire in p[...]s extended lines was controlled owned by the late H . A. W. Tabor. Since then the by the American Bel[...]tioned above, the wires came into existence, with H e n r y R. Wolcott, as now extend from Denver to[...], the Telephone headquarters were points in U t a h ; to Livermore, to Georgetown, and moved i[...] |
| [...]the costly evolution of the most remark- company's lines at the close of 1900 were about[...]extensions of. the company's network of[...]The nominal beginning of Denver's pres-[...]ts present average of Martin, C. H . McLaughlin, A. H . Miles, Amos about 45,000 daily calls represents[...]perating a horse railroad in the said city more t h a n 200 young women and of about the same[...] |
| [...]W i t h this addition the system embraced eight[...]> - - ^ . ST7-: Txt .cT. .^i — Champa, and[...]distance of about more extensions in t h a t decade, but in the mean- two and one-h[...] |
| [...]coming here with very vague impressions of Denver's status as a pany, though they had been[...]ew experimental The present managers of Denver's great street- electric railways. anywhere[...]Brown, W. N. Byers, Rodney Curtis, J o h n Evans, of the proceedings.[...]ating about ten miles of road. dent; J o h n J. Riethmann, Vice President; Wil- I n that yea[...]as it ap- streets, and concentrating the company's operations plied to unoccupied streets, was[...]which also brought in an era of the city's right to repeal, which was undetermined ex[...] |
| [...]I t was because the Electric and Cable Company's parent, the Electric and Cable Company.[...]me of sisted of Rodney Curtis, J o h n J . Riethmann, John t h e then embryotic systems of electrical propul- Evans, H e n r y C. Brown, C. W. Fisher, Scott J. sion of[...]ilege of using horses in the event James H . Nichols, G. C. Schleier, W. F . McClel- of elec[...]the use of electricity. P r i o r to the company's organization, Professor Sidney H . Short, then[...]ed elsewhere into a very satisfactory Short's Electric Tram Car—showing motor and conduit.[...]y Curtis, William F . McClelland, Short's system, and the success of this little road J o h n J . Riethmann, Frederick A. Keener, and encouraged the company to make more extended J o h n Evans, with $50,000 capital, to build, and to[...]this corporation his aid Mr. J o h n W. Nesmith then and since at should act under t[...]e with telephone or Chelsea, September 4th, 1850. H e received a com- electrical apparatu[...]phone work was very rapid. Upon Mr. Vaille's re- education, and eventually becoming a travelin[...]at organization, the history of cate in Colorado. H e came to Denver in Novem- which a[...]from that period has been Mr. Field's administration that the business of actively iden[...]1880 to one his name is so intimately associated. H e entered now extending over the enti[...]and into New Mexico and Wyoming.—J. C. S. |
| [...]ze and type, and quite small in com- October of t h a t year this track was completed pa[...]extended from a but were overcome by Mr. Nesmith's ingenuity, little east of Grant A[...]eenth and Lawrence streets in 1887, showing Short's Electric Cars in service. ized in August, 1885, b[...]The Tramway Company operated its electric ney H . Short, Electrician; and J o h n W. Nesmith, cars more or less regular[...]sing such power. The latter street, and on July 31st the first electric cars op- erated for bus[...] |
| [...]859 Tramway Company's operations to a standstill[...]operation of street-cars. |
| [...]in length; making in all about grid-ironing of t h a t street. seventeen and[...]old system, to these was the abnormally high price of both and extend its lines east on Colfax to th[...]n preparations for the change. A t was so. t h a t time there was not much of Colfax Avenue[...]poration were George H . Holt, President; H . M.[...]about to be, by the Tramway Com- tem instead of t h a t of San Francisco, and pushed pany's cable lines. A liberal franchise was also its con[...]d of twelve miles of road. I n the I n t h a t year this company built the Larimer sp[...] |
| [...]"North Denver," by come the city's property; this being its present way of N o r t h "Sixteenth to Sixteenth, and across stat[...]ned were opened for business. I n 1891 the near t h e City Park, requiring 51,800 feet of cable[...]on to Downing erations on December 1st. Early in 1892 work on Avenue at Twenty-eighth Av[...]Larimer street and the Sixteenth t h a t street and Colfax avenue to South Eleventh, s[...]and by South Eleventh out to West F o u r t h Ave- cable arrangements went; but the Welton was[...]s operating machinery. It was at t h a t time the largest single street-car cable plan[...]was the central point from which all this company's lines were operated. The company also built an additional power house in " N o r t h Denver," at Sixteenth and Platte streets, but it[...]he city. The hattan Beach and Elitch's Garden to Prospect ordinance of J u n e 4,[...] |
| [...]Avenue, to Marion street, to Twenty-fourth Ave- t h a t route to Argo and laid down a new one on the[...]he present "Base The total cost of the company's outfit was rather Ball P a r k " at t[...]er cable enter- creek. On February 1st it leased for twenty-four prise, the corporation[...]intention of extending the Tramway Company's that company was operating several cable l[...] |
| [...]n ordinance of the Board of by an ordinance of t h e South Denver Board of Trustees of the[...]ay companies, and a consolidated under t h e name of "The Denver Tram- sharp difference of[...]ded that the Denver" of the Tramway Company's cable line, to ordinance of 1885 was valid. Elitch's Garden, and to Berkeley and Rocky Moun-[...] |
| [...]one of the city of Denver adopted cable line of t h e Tramway Company, to University J[...]first instance in which the city exacted a price for ary 1, 1891; but its separate corporate exist[...]railway organization, " T h e Denver and Suburban[...]cepted. Park, connecting with the Tramway Company's The Tramway Company as a[...]ted the South Thirteenth street, the abandoned. T h a t part of it beyond the Park—the[...] |
| [...]al of $3,000,000, under a very broad charter. I t s[...]already mentioned the dates of opening many of t h e electric roads of the Tramway Com- pany and it[...]the South Tremont lines, Janu- ary 1, 1892; the H a r m a n extension of the Eighth Avenue, March 1[...]ent domain. I t took over all the Tramway Company's cable machinery had barely[...] |
| [...]pany stockholders, and of the 21st. On the morning of the 22nd the com- with the latter's old executive officers, became as pany's bond was approved, and work began. On it is at t[...]od of about nineteen owning and operating Denver's fine system of years. street rai[...]in a com- that he resigned from t h e Mint. I n 1867 he and[...]mporary "Capitol" of the State, having been Pike's Peak region, and decided that he Would go[...]nd far-sighted executive management. One of Mint's Chief Clerk. I n J a n u a r y , 1876, after nearly Denver's pioneers, he is still an active, energetic twelv[...]n with the old Mint that — J . C. S. |
| [...]ontinuous throughout the intervening years. I t 31st, the last cable car left the streets of Denver,[...]Denver City Cable Railway Company's property,[...]n the perma- Evans Avenue and on t h a t street eastward, in- nent utility of cable li[...]November 18, 1899, by W. C. Johnston, W. S. Iliff,[...]of the Tramway Company's system. The route Curtis, William N . Byers, Will[...]g of 1901 is stated in the following, ac- J a m e s H . Blood, Samuel M. Peary, Thomas Keely,[...]o the common designation of eaeh line, and George H . Holt, Directors; Rodney Curtis,[...] |
| [...]8.46 t h e largest, handsomest and most comfortable Larime[...]ordinary daily traffic. Avenue in Baker's Villa, one on Blake street be- The number[...] |
| [...]r t of the city, built a horse-car by Rev. Thomas H . Malone and associates, prima- lin[...]ademy, and with the Tramway Company's line on Williams otherwise as a transportation enterprise. I t s street, east to Colorado Boulevard[...]would seem t h a t no institution has done so much[...]uting Denver's population over the unusually large[...]in every direction have enabled men t o Chaffee, H . G. Bond and their associates were[...]for ground-room; to the great good of each and H . G. Bond, Miers Fisher and Charles Ruter were the common benefit and pleasure of all. Much h a s granted similar privileges for a steam ("dummy")[...]citizens even of limited means and income may t h e m ; the Denver, Globeville and Golden Ra[...] |
| [...]I N G INTERESTS—-PIONEER M E R C A N T I L E E S T A B L I S H M E N T S — V O L U M E OF T H E I R B U S I N E S S — B E G I N N I N G OF M A N U F A C T U R I N[...]V E R — E X T E N T AND CHARACTER OF T H E B U S I N E S S — I N F L U E N C E OF RAILROAD C O M M U N I C A T I O N S — D E V E L O P M E N T OF C O M M E R - CIAL AND M A N U F A C T U R I N G B U S I N E S S AT P R E S E N T T I M E — E A R L Y O R G A N I Z A T I O N S OF B U S I - N E S S M E N — H I S T O R Y OF T H E C H A M B E R OF C O M M E R C E AND BOARD OF T R A D E — D E N V E R ' S F U - T U R E AS A C O M M E R C I A L AN[...]much; St. Vrain & St. James also carried a large[...]firm of J. S. & J. F . Brown, that has had a contin-[...]ratio pioneer times, and the town's commercial business of increase in the wholesale branch of the city's was, in proportion to populatio[...]an mere figures the increasing volume of the city's commercial trade. But, considering all the cir[...]obsta- cles that have had to be overcome, Denver's commerce throughout her history has been of credi[...]n of less than five thousand people. While Denver's first mercantile house, that of Blake & Williams[...]but a small stock, and while "Uncle Dick" Wooton's merchandise that was unloaded on Christmas[...] |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. portance in all t h e region around it—it was the business[...]um. . |
| [...]ho building a grist-mill proves t h a t he then realized opened a shop in Auraria on[...]er manufacturers in business at Company's Directors agreed to his proposition and the mouth[...]most immediately engaged General Larimer's at- the conversion of raw material into marketabl[...]the Pike's Peak country, but they were set up near[...] |
| [...]or worthless mining from the Union Ditch Company's hydraulic canal and stamp-mill machinery had been[...]was em- ployed, and the bulk of the busi- The J. S. Brown & Bro. Mercantile Company's building at Eighteenth and Wynkoop ness was of re[...]- as water was turned into the ditch. That season's f a c t u r i n g that had an early beginning in[...]f transportation—getting materials into Endlich's little pioneer establishment, which later Denver,[...]icult of ac- The miller was also among Denver's pioneer cess. These circumstances naturally and n[...]tuation, but there was no W. Smith brought Denver's first flour-making ma- marked ex[...] |
| [...]d as having been the pioneer blankets and y a r n s ; their building having been on founders and ma[...]had established a roll- to the Southern Hotel at St. Louis. The hotel ing mill at Pueblo, but had become dissatisfied with turned it over to the St. Louis Board of Trade; the situation, fa[...]F . J . Ebert, W. G. the money to charities. The price it brought was Sprague and other citizens[...]rolling a large planing mill products, blacksmith's work, beer, part of the rails used in co[...]Pueblo, the company addition was made to the city's manufacturing in- owning them bought Faux's plant and moved the terests, in the removal hithe[...]which, so far as Denver A. G. Langford & Company's Colorado Iron was concerned, ende[...]The opening of the railroad era in Denver's his- establishment. Langford & Company, whom we[...]brought, of course, great relief to every J o h n W. Nesmith, descendant of an old Scotch P[...]dicious manhood as a machinist of the first rank. H e management, and to his knowledge and[...]ist. purpose of erecting and superintending for a St. Mr. Nesmith, as the reader will have[...]his great establishment have given both. to Black H a w k ; having then been named the Col- All[...]also been con- has few, if any, superiors. H e is a member of the tinuous until it has become[...]Colorado Scientific Society of Denver.—J. C. S. |
| [...]ing, the we find that in 1886 Denver's mercantile trade had majority of the manufacturin[...]strial establishments in and removed to St. Louis; the conditions in Miss- Denver, was born[...]usiness of a watchmaker; com- At St. Louis Mr. Kuner engaged in the manu- pleting his[...]time in 1878 the Globe Pickle Co., of St. Louis and Chi- military service, but "drawing lu[...]fortune later placed him on his J. C. S. |
| [...]ing some g e n e r a ! results in tions to Denver's manufacturing industries. A manufacturing in t h e State of Colorado in the large cotton-mill whic[...]essful census year that ended J u n e 1st. Our local Super- career, an extensive paper mill[...]ries, and therefore there will be some doubt at t h a t time. There was a rapid expansion in the[...]about the accuracy of census r e t u r n s when they business of all manufactories in Denver[...]g. Chester Stephen Morey, President of the C. S. of the ensuing engagements in front[...]His parents owned of camp illness. H e was sent to City Point |
| HISTORY OF DENVER. 881 C. S. Morey. 56 |
| [...]. 1900. 1890. port for t h e State, but as they include smelter sta-[...]$3,044,280 $629,759 38H[...]The relation t h a t manufacturing in Denver and number[...]$6,653,585 2 Pueblo bears to all t h a t is done in the State is Miscellaneous expense[...]10,926 4,^11 24,72'> ing, show t h a t a very large proportion of manufac-[...],572,199 $22,589,669 $66,886,016 turing in t h e S t a t e is centered in Denver and[...]As members of this committee t h e Board ap- entered upon his very, successful bu[...]pointed Mr. Morey and James B. Grant, and the H e remained with that firm until his health became[...]On J a n u a r y 1, Manual Training H i g h School became a part of 1881, he became a member of the firm; his accu- Denver's public school system. mulating resources having[...]teen organiza- when it was incorporated as the C. S. Morey Mer- tions. During the[...]now President of the Society's Board of Trustees, a is, President, manager and c[...]f the ing to $35,000 or $40,000. H i s services in this and Board of Education of Distri[...]ons for good constitute an important three years. H e had long been considering the[...]nevolences to victims of life's misfortunes, quietly matter before the Board in[...]hard to define. "Ordered, T h a t a special committee be appointed[...]Anna L. Clough, daughter of Mr. J o h n A. Clough ual Training H i g h School, with a view of adding wh[...]his dis- in 1870. Two children, J o h n W., and Mary L., were trict, and report to the[...]February 27, 1890.—J. C. S. |
| [...]Eocky Mountain Paper Company's Paper Mill. of forty per cent, of value of the to[...]stablishments in 1890, I n reviews of the year's business published by 1,518; in 1900, 3,559;[...]to the smelters among the industries of the city's manufacturing and commercial business[...] |
| [...]nery for other gestiveness lies in t h e fact that it has proved the purposes a r e amon[...]hose of the distant neighbors of t h e cotton mill, have had Pullman Company, of each[...]railroads. Employ- tion by a new and s t r o n g company, of which some- ing a relativel[...]Denver Fire Clay Company's manufactory at Blake and Tnirty-flrst streets. an[...]st suggestive, and being one of pany's and the "Milwaukee," ranking as establish- the more important, of the city's manufactories, is ments of the f[...] |
| [...]DENVER. S85 Recently this establish- |
| [...]Rocky Mountain Paper Company's Sulphite Fiber Mill. Treasurer, and Francis T. M.[...]aggregate annual business with them. The company's capital stock is fixed requires ten fig[...]rge proportion of all pe- make them the l a r g e s t . producers of papers be- troleum products[...]o, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Mon- action in Denver's .manufacturing circles is not only the most impor[...]arded as a Having been graduated in t h e local High School great commercial city, yet th[...]t Lake City where he engaged in jobbing center t h e city provides for all the ordi- assaying.[...]ver. A year later he purchased Bosworth's inter- ments are employed. Such houses as that of[...]ively known as "groceries," and — J . C. S. |
| [...]HISTORY OF DENVER. tana. Some of Denver's manufacturers, especially population, an a[...]ds Company—a name, by the way, not espe- able t h a t other commercial operations may be ex- ci[...]isher, and others on Sixteenth considering Denver's geographical situation, that street would b[...]the great region em- places of double Denver's population. About all braced in those States and[...]the needs and most of the fancies of men and T h e wholesale commercial interests have had[...]to attempt statistics of Denver's[...] |
| [...]that pioneer beginning and ending of com- 1899 t h a t reduced stocks on the ranges. The in-[...]undertaken by Denver men, one of the m a r k e t s ; though but a part of such stock comes to a[...]t a r y ; who, with William M. Clayton, J. H . Mor- with a stated market value of $3,146,000.[...]propor- tions in the State. But the dis- covery t h a t hogs eagerly devour t h e offal of the beet-sugar fac- tories with which[...]may lead to a large increase in pork pro- d u c t s ; barley being a grain to which the soil and clim[...]busi- ness rooms. But now the num- C. S. Morey Mercantile Company's building, northwest corner Sixteenth and Wynkoop[...]ness houses exceed anything previously Tritch, D. H . Moffat, Jr., R. E. Whitsitt and J. S. known in the city's history. Brown c[...]nized Lewis Matthews, Secretary; and A. W. Jones, h e r e ; but the history of the city includes in i[...]f a "Denver Chamber of quarters in Henry C. Brown's building at the Commerce" in the summer of[...] |
| [...]been one of t h e pioneer merchants in the great[...]short time. H e then became connected with[...]Company t h a t was practically the successor of[...]Denver Company's great establishment at Six- Continental Oil Company's Tank Station and Storage Yard, Twenty- teenth and California streets.—J. C. S. third street and South Pl[...] |
| [...]zations it was found t h a t they did not accomplish[...]business has engaged the Denver Fire Clay Company's retail store, 1742-46 Champa street. greater p[...]1885 when t h e Board of Supervisors was added to Rodney Curtis[...]wn, J. F . Mathews, M. J . the city's legislative department, he was elected McNamara, H . A. W. Tabor, C. B. Kountze, Nel-[...]arles F . Wil- in that position w$s nominated by the Democratic son. These Directors[...]tion of t h e Commercial National Bank and be- tively First a[...]and Horticulture, Lodge.—J. C. S. |
| [...]difice it is Interior Denver Fire Clay Company's store, 1742-46 Champa street without the a[...]ited pared in the summer of 1884, and on October 1st[...]Its last public service t h a t has rank among its con- ished in the destruct[...]thed with authoritv A. Hover & Company's building, southwest corner of Fourteenth a[...] |
| [...]Denver's business men, the more prominent of[...]emberships confined Office building of the Denver Gas & Electric Company, north- to those engaged ,i[...]taining sound and uniform business prin- proved t h a t the acreage yield of beets from Col-[...]e the safe investment of cultural industry in our S t a t e ; and in the autumn capital, and[...]gar beet might become a substitute for Colo- rado's lost silver, and I immediately set to work[...] |
| [...]e- its keeping. Every question affecting the city's gion within a radius .of three hundre[...]ead- manding force in Denver and in Colorado. I t s iness than the manufacturing. The p[...]respectively First encouragement. W i t h the enormous deposits of and Second Vice Presiden[...]in Colorado, in proximity to u r e r ; and A r t h u r Williams, Secretary. each qfche[...]they will do tive in the best sense, of the city's business com- so. While it will be at le[...]Pittsburgh of the West," there are no Denver's situation in the center of a vast em- n[...]the Henry L. Doherty, President of the Denver Gas H e is also President of the National Electric |
| [...]An iron and steel pro- Something of Denver's railways, that radiate ducing center in Colorado[...]ost of the iron used are naturally a the city's shipping facilities are too much in evi- thousan[...]om the various industries already in Denver's commercial and manufacturing future. operation,[...]f textile Francis W. Loveland, son of W. A. H. Love- fabrics of cotton and of wool and, as a lo[...]With his father's family he came to Colorado in sequence, that of c[...]Railroad Company and of the Denver Cir- future t h a t the commerce of the United States cle[...]tton into of the Rex Coal Mining Company. H e is also in- marketable commodities. The one ele[...]land P a r k Club. H e has never sought nor held homes of their own in[...]ed tenement houses as in the older J. C. S. |
| [...]CHAPTER LXlt. A C H A P T E R O F M I S C E L L A N Y — O L D C I T Y C E M E T E R Y — M A S O N I C AND O D D F E L L O W S ' C E M E T E R Y — R I V - |
| [...]oard of Directors consisted of Donald Fletcher, t h e original owner of the tract of land, and the William H . Bush, E. W. Rollins, Charles F . Wil- original[...]as the first son, Willard Teller, Thomas H . Potter, and F r a n k person to be interred the[...]ld Fletcher was elected Presi- fact, Dr. Morrison's was the fifth burial in the dent; Willard Teller, Vice President; James H. grounds, it having occurred on July 22, 1876. Th[...]D. Peirce, Secre- first burial was that of Henry H . Walton, on June tary. 1, 1876. There ar[...]f the results of the extraor- within the cemetery's hallowed bounds. There dinary growt[...]om the old City Cemetery of the city's area in that period, and was located to Riverside[...]park, it by future increases of the city's population or and which will be made one in reali[...]ing errors of location. A tract of 560 acres so t h a t one feels in the midst of it all, that[...] |
| [...]a result of that meeting. I t was of stone, in t h e Ecclesiastical French Gothic of the desi[...]beyond probable encroachments by the city's width by sixty-four in depth, surmounted by a[...]there. The sion of the Denver Union Water Company's supply Association was not organized for profit, and its pipes. I t s location is a most favorable one and its infl[...]on of in- The management of the Association's affairs is terests of the R i v e r a de and Fair[...]been re- direction of both cemeteries consists of H. M. Ora- duced to a minimum, the United States govern- hood, President; Thomas H . Potter, Vice Presi- ment adopted the policy of abandoning the small dent ; R. H . McMann, Treasurer; H . K. Brown, military posts scattered o[...]ss, was one of the causes which suggested between St. Louis and San Francisco.[...] |
| [...]T h a t no part of such money shall[...]to t h e government, and two com-[...]d other abandoned small posts, the War H . C. Merriam, (its first Commandant,) and the Dep[...]ce, in the winter of 1886-87, Nathaniel P . Hill, H e n r y R. Wolcott and several other wealthy and[...]on February 28, 1887, enacted as follows: " T h a t the Secretary of War be and is hereby authori[...]he Lieutenant-General of the Army and approved by h i m : Provided, T h a t a good and sufficient title, to be approved b[...]ated, the sum of $100,000, to be expended under t h e direction of the Secretary of War, in th[...] |
| [...]temporary command until Brigadier General E. S. and all the various structures required for an i[...]t military establishment. The location is a H e was temporarily succeeded by Colonel E. V. fine[...]o, and is accessible by sev- Brigadier General H e n r y C. Merriam, in charge eral lines of rail[...]lement and development of sortment of men t h a t constituted the audiences. the Colorado count[...]Military Department forts on the part of t h e "lady performers" in the of the Colorado was es[...]had all the musical qualities jolted April, 1895. H e was succeeded by Brigadier Gen- out of i[...]it until he was twenty-five years old. I n ing. H e staked them and they discovered the fa- 1855 h[...]ted a member of the Kan- million of dollars. H e invested, in other mines sas Free Soil Provisi[...]egislature and money poured into his coffers. H e acquired of 1857 which was dispersed by Federa[...]er in J u n e when the story, that of this man's unexampled success, and excitement over discover[...]all the others, and he worked I n Leadville's early years he was that city's most it profitably until 1865, and in the meanti[...]s' supply store. I n that served two terms. H e later built a fine opera house year he sold his[...]istrict had ulars have elsewhere been, related. H i s invest- lbeen exhausted, the population ha[...] |
| [...]t, the pioneer "theaters" were mere ad- bar, at t h e end of an a c t ; a hospitable manifesta- jun[...]scenes went on continuously, day and n i g h t ; and Sunday of the drama. However, t h e ability of the audi- was recognized onl[...]eceding chapter, the "Cibola Hall" t i m s ; though many of the new arrivals who had[...]The old "People's Theater," a frame building[...]red far by the storm, and the old and enthusiasm. H e was investing all of his great pioneer o[...]that hearty handshake, tered the political arena. H e was elected Lieuten- the friendly greetin[...]course with Teller was called to President Arthur's cabinet, his fellow-men. Governor P i t[...]98 President McKinley in response to the bor to t h e vacancy; b u t the choice fell upon Chil- unanimous desire of t h e people of Denver and to cott to serve until the[...]of his unexpected term that ended March 4, 1883. H e was a candi- death which occurred Apr[...]term but was defeated days' illness, and t h a t caused a painful shock to by Bowen by only on[...]ad come to sons of political strife. To his party's welfare he this valorous old Captain in Colorado's army of was generous with his means in the days of his pioneers. H e was a frank, honest, open-hearted prosperity, a[...]in his charity and benevolence he gave with Tabor's went down with the rest. H e manfully both hands as long as h e had aught to give. But braved the blast[...] |
| [...]than it and creditable to the city until H . A. W. Tabor had theretofore been operated,but w[...]Theater," a 1879, thus lamented the city's poverty in this re- brick building erected by Cha[...]teenth streets, built by the old military grishe's beginning here was, as we have stated, in company, the "Governor's Guards," in 1873. The connection with a less rep[...]Walhalla Hall some account is given left Denver. H e was an Irishman and had been elsewhe[...]n- was a conspicuous event in Denver's history, and grishe" having been an assume[...] |
| [...]just across t h e street from it, complete the[...]sent list of theaters. They are small and ir>s y t Iff; |
| [...]because of pecuniary embarrassment, and F o u r t h avenue in the southeastern section of the the o[...]recent addition to these summer places emy's" conductor. On July 6, 1886, fire destroyed of am[...]emy of mention has not been made of all of Denver's Music." places of amusement in compara[...]ear. I t was theater was owned by the late H . A. W. Tabor. in which he and his family lived.[...]fteenth near Wazee eager office-holder. H e was Captain of a company |
| [...]len M. Culver, Charles H. Toll, Charles R. Dudley,[...]to obtain which, in regular by James Duff, David H . Moffat, Jr., Moses Hal- course, at least two years' residence and study are let, A. H . Jones, Walter S. Cheesman, and H. R. required, or who shall have received a[...], or who Directors for the first year of the Club's existence, shall have graduated at the United States Military Walter S. Cheesman, James Archer, Hugh But- Ac[...]ed that a candidate who holds an honorary ler, A. H . Jones, J. W. Savin, G. W. Clayton, Rich- deg[...]be distinguished in art, litera- ard Pierce, J o h n L. Routt, Moses Hallet, James ture, scien[...]ice; and provided that Duff, E. W. Rollins, David H . Moffat, Jr., and professional degrees shall entitle to membership H . R. Wolcott—thirteen in all. The purposes for[...]County of Arapahoe, and State of Colorado, for t h e use of ourselves and associates, for the purpos[...]lub and club-house as usual thereto. The Club's first Board of Directors, as already named, elect[...]resi- d e n t ; James Duff, Vice President; David H. Mof- fat, Jr., Treasurer; and E. W. Rollins, Sec[...]and com- Denver Athletic Club's Building. |
| [...]the features of other J a n u a r y 1, 1896. I t s site cost $20,500, and the club-houses, is th[...]the causes and purposes of its year by F r a n k H . Wright, John Elitch, Jr., H a r r y existence. I t was in one sense an outg[...]was in vogue. The officers having been F r a n k H. Wright, President; Club's constitution says— William R. Rathvon, Vice President; J o h n T.[...]athletic sports letic Club," and the organization's objects were and social intercourse am[...]Club is associated with the League of Amer- " T h a t the particular business and objects for[...]nted building (which, confined solely to the Club's athletic departments. however, it does no[...]%~fy v>V A s\st> wwi^^^t^- " * ^ / 2 p[...] |
| [...]1 8 9 3 — G R E A T F I N A N C I A L C R I S I S — S E A S O N OF D I S - ASTER—EXODUS FROM THE[...]NT BY F O L L Y — W A I T E ' S ADMINISTRATION AND I T S E V I L S — S P E C I A L SESSION OF L E G I S L A T U R E — W A I T E ' S " W A R ON T H E C I T Y HALL"—• DISGRACEFUL EPISODE I N C I T Y ' S H I S T O R Y — D E N V E R ON V E R G E OF C I V I L W A R — H I S T O R Y OF T H E A F F A I R , AND I T S F I N A L S E T T L E M E N T — E V I L S OF P O L I T I C A L I N I Q U I T I E S . The year 1890, as heretofore stated and a[...]the United |
| [...]had been, as we have seen, comparatively blow; t h a t the foundations of Colorado prosperity little warning of the tempest's approach, and in as they then existed were to be[...]nection with the impending downfall of Colorado's lic apprehension, and drafts upon their resources[...]e made to do July 17th three of these, the People's, Colorado, justice to the subject. The surv[...]e exchanged for it, the German, State, and People's National banks though offered on a basis[...]t save something from the wreck for By September 1st two or three additional savings themselves[...]to Denver to give attention to graduated from the H i g h School at Hartford at his extensive posses[...]th one of the leaders in upbuilding it. Hav- tive's mining property. ing early foreseen the city's future eastward Therefore early in the autumn[...]in the young city and made it so—J. C. S. |
| [...]ity to do President and the Cashier of the People's National otherwise, to carry hundreds on thei[...]livion now closing upon division of Coxey's famous army of Commonweal- them. The line[...] |
| [...]became apparent, but upon the whole that Coxey's "army" came from all points of the com-[...]s were wrecked, dark days in the city's history. I n the elasticity of and it.was report[...]ears relief to our citizens, and it e/ided Denver's experi- so recent as 1893 and 1894. But notwi[...]ould come time was the spirit of Denver's enterprise sunk a revival of confidence and, to s[...]st prostrated; and the army over the bank's counter in the booming days of of speculat[...] |
| [...]the assets of all the banks, in consequence of t h a t ! ernment by Folly was and is capable. The[...]istration of Governor Davis H . Waite was in power The extent of the collaps[...]revealed in the records of the Building Inspector's the summer of 1893, Governor Waite was eag[...]ely, but it came later and the Building Inspector's records, having been constituted a g[...]n to a far higher point than it had P u r s u a n t to a proclamation by Governor Waite, ever[...]st a re- Hughes, a distinguished Kentucky jurist. H i s ser- count of the votes or to sanction a d[...]died a few years later, leaving two chil- souri. H e was long the law partner of Governor[...]Allen; and of this union four break of the "Pike's Peak excitement" was engaged children survive. in banking at St. Joseph. As m[...]arkable than those set forth in any product of H e was elected a member of the last Territorial the imagination.—J. C. S. Legislature of Colorado, and was the Democratic |
| [...]lver dollars. His plan was to pur- Governor Waite's message to it was the most ex- chase Colo[...]t in having the coinage done in Mexico hav- State's credit and good name, to suppress it by i[...]opposition had stupendous folly, and t h e "Fandango Dollars," as availed little. I t woul[...]four days should be t h e limit. Some of the mem-[...]Governor's message, and adjourn, on the same day,[...]that this was to relieve Davis H. Waite the distress of the u[...]s was bet- $130,000 of the impoverished people's money, for ter than those of all the others; and[...]reduced the State's resources to a low ebb. I t had One of Waite's ridiculous schemes was to have no fu[...] |
| [...]session, held a year be- in the city's service became the cause of an affray fore, had[...]portance, one to the personal will of the State's Chief Executive; way or another.[...] |
| [...]he declared per- demanded the Governor's attention at that junc- sisted in acting contrary[...]s to be recorded that he shameful affair. H e had decided to at once dis- was personally host[...]of the State Penitentiary Board. H e also decided leged indifference to or neglect of the Governor's to begin with Orr and Martin[...] |
| [...]ew appointments, was out of Horn's action in mustering a large force of special the[...]pend active hostilities for a few days, and on H a v i n g learned of the Governor's intentions, the the 10th the Governor anno[...]by force of abide by Judge Graham's order. arms, and to stand a siege if necessary. T[...]that time the City the Governor's movements, the City Hall people Hall had been mad[...]s iffs. Incensed by J u d g e Graham's refusal, Gov- in sympathy with the threatened Boa[...]Board members, in defiance of Judge Graham's ing Mullins and Barnes interfering with Orr and[...]othing like such This was in consequence of Waite's threats to call conditions ha[...] |
| [...]d- These proceedings added to the Governor's pre- ant at F o r t Logan for more troops "to aid[...]ted States troops was reassuring, Chairman; David H . Moffat, Walter S. Cheesman, for it was known that if they were use[...]rticipate in an attack on that building Lesem, J. S. Appel, Alfred Butters, E. Monash, or in any othe[...]lvray, J. J . Joslin, Donald Fletcher, his madman's work. William[...]precipitating civil war in the State's capital city;[...]back to the this week. Davis H Waite? effective pioneer remedy for anarc[...]a position ahoe county at the time of Gov. Waite's memorable in which he capably served a total[...]ty Sheriff was then attached to the Quartermaster's depart- of Arapahoe county; and in 1893 was[...]ductive mining properties in Colorado.—J. C. S. |
| [...]on the City Hall. Orr and Martin of Waite's authority to summarily On March[...]stitution or statute." have quoted. H i s private legal counsel had also T[...]e mean- called the insurrection at t h e City Hall but, in- time broken out at Cripple.[...]ent from Denver, and Judge Graham's stead, restraining the "old Board" over* Sunday t[...]o at once recruit pointed J. F . Stone to succeed h i m ; and the "new the two infantry re[...]ty a double-headed po- ing the State's entire military force at the City lice sup[...] |
| [...]arned, Kan., in 1876, he farmed, prac- B a r n e s at noon on April 18th, the opinion of the t[...]been his home. H e was a Republican until 1891, T h e change occurred quietly on the appointed[...]f the places in which he has lived day, and Waite's War on the City Hall became mixed[...]ned—he having that good quality com- f r u i t s of frenzied politics and correlated follies. m[...]rposes. His "blood to the bridles" speech, de- t h e city government was not put into effect.[...]y, 1893, at Coliseum Hall in Denver, D a v i s H . Waite was elected Governor of Colo- gave[...]general character of his administration, worked t h e office that year. In 1894, when there were[...]olitical affairs of Colorado, revealing the in- t h e g r e a t increase in the aggregate vote having[...]ear to the dullest understanding the afflic- in t h a t year. Their vote was heavily against[...]e im- W a i t e , and in Arapahoe county Mclntire's plural- posed upon the people. Both Colora[...]d and the garments of both have law in his father's office, but did not practice until been sta[...]he earlier times, and comparatively late in life. H e lived in western has been so in tim[...]Waite administration of State affairs. Through t h a t State. I n 1859 he removed to Missouri and[...]ious visitation, of all our political evils, came h e returned east and at intervals until 187[...] |
| [...]LXXII. PERIOD OF R E C O V E R Y — I N S T I T U T I O N OF FESTIVALS OF M O U N T A I N AND P L A I N — G U M R Y H O T E L H O R - The line of division betwe[...]olorado first among the gold- |
| [...]ect the advancement in material progress of the t h e Festival of Mountain and m Plain. The name[...]presented the magnitude of the mining, agricul- t h e common aspirations, the common gratitude, a n d[...]ng object-lesson. I n this, situated in the miner's home among the rugged and also in[...]structed. On maskers' day Nonsense and Tomfool- t h e appropriate name, "Festival of the Mountain[...]val of 1869. P i a t t Rogers, President; J. S. Appel, Vice Pres- luminated pageant, on the[...]ildren of both sexes and all ages appear on |
| [...]OF DENVER. said may not in the reader's judgment be entitled The fire and[...]dead. I t was several days before all the |
| [...]d been a citizen of Denver for about The hotel's register, which was found the morn- twenty years. H e was a contractor and builder, ing after the exp[...]h he had been engaged from the be- in the Coroner's report, was twenty-two, as stated ginning[...]ad no relatives; that his parents Blake, Albert S., Pueblo. had sail[...]settled in Denver early in the "Seventies." H e Monroe, A. M., Denver.[...]was a man of promi- The Coroner's inquest had continued several nence in Col[...] |
| [...]h water. The Americus gible account of the boiler's condition when he left[...]workings were deeper than it to go to the saloon. H i s ignorance of the du-[...]et deep and that of the Sleepy before the Coroner's jury. I t did not appear that[...]he Americus and Sleepy Hol- the dead, the Coroner's verdict could not have well[...] |
| [...]the mountain recesses, but here along The Midland's mountain division was blockaded[...]session of the country hereabouts. I n vain did t h e y open the cuts; the wind drove The[...]ilding. One of a series of views embracing Denver's horizon, from photographs, by H. C. Converse in 1901. lack of fuel, but there wer[...]The stalled quences from such causes. However, t h e snow trains in the Palmer Lake[...]drifts. The visitation was spring thaws set in t h a t the bodies of all of them wholly une[...]he weather had previously were revealed. During t h e mountain blockade been[...] |
| [...]enterprise, and one that public Auditorium. At t h a t election the aggre- would invol[...]ces City Council declaring the city's intention to were made, but the choice finally re[...]ere, of the validity of the issue, e r s ; and the election was a special one, held not an[...]d the unknown extent of ex- the City Treasurer, t h a t had accompanied their bid penditur[...]bonds were in- the city vote and t h a t of the county outside the vited by the[...] |
| [...]eceding April which, was shown that Denver's per cent, of gain in the as we have already stat[...]the city authorities accepted the the city's vote was cited as proof of a far larger result a[...]3 to 1895. Furthermore, and tire property t o . t h e city for $9,000,000; or at a[...]t is no cause for regret, the ratio of population price to be fixed by three competent appraisers.[...] |
| [...]verde an ag- The remarkable increase in Denver's population gregate population of about[...]ly included a large floating popula- ver's last census compares most favorably with tion.[...]the State at large, the regaining of what Denver's census-men were laggards in that con-[...]somewhat uncertain enumeration in the in the city's corporate limits, Denver will be de- "boo[...]rked her career since the unpromising begin- city's boundary line. In the case of most of them[...] |
| [...]. From 1894 to 1897, clearing away the juncture t h a t Denver began to discard some of wreckage engaged a large portion of Denver's en- her pioneer aspects. Through the middl[...] |
| [...]X C I T E D I N D E N V E R — C A L L TO A R M S — F I R S T COLORADO I N F A N T R Y — I T S O R G A N I Z A T I O N — C A M P A L V A A D A M S — D E P A R T U R E OF R E G I M E N T FOR T H E O R I E N T — I T S SERVICES I N T H E P H I L I P P I N E S — R E G I M E N T ORDERED H O M E — A R R I V A L AT S A N F R A N C I S C O — R E C E P T I O N A T D E N V E R — R E G I M E N T ' S MORTALITIES—COLORADO CAVALRY ORGANIZATIONS— COLORADO B A T T E R Y — S O C I E T Y OF T H E A R M Y OF T H E P H I L I P P I N E S — N A V A L V E S S E L S " D E N - VER" A N D "COLORADO." I n n[...]f necessary the land and the naval forces |
| [...]chipelago. battery of artillery—Colorado's full allotment— Yet, it was to that far-off qua[...]d, on the then Adjutant-General of the S t a t e ; Irving Hale, twenty-fourth day after th[...]eers. Guard of the S t a t e ; Henry B . McCoy, then Colonel The ev[...]had been as profound a sur- and Charles H . Anderson, then Colonel of the First prise to th[...]into the service of the United States on May 1st, there was but one sentiment—an enthusiastic de[...]ity to attempt to interfere in and Charles H . Anderson, of Denver, Majors; Dr. her behalf. P[...]ence of the patriotic spirit Major; Louis H . Kemble, of Denver, Surgeon with that ruled the[...], of Leadville, Chaplain with rank of Colorado's apportionment under the President's Captain. calls for volunteers was one reg[...]the cities the State. P r i o r to 1898 the State's military es- and towns, and the National Guar[...]mpanies were in a general day after the President's call for volunteers, and way representativ[...]say, telegram from Washington announcing Colorado's Companies A and C were from Pue[...] |
| [...]941 Company G from Cripple Creek; Company H from tion caused a change in the prog[...]the regiment marched into the |
| [...]wer, in one of his arms. During t h e interval in which and Loosa, were left behind i[...]China put out the night of August 1st, the regiment had one man to sea on her long voya[...]t 12th, Colonel Hale, being ican flag on July 4 t h ; thence by way of Guam notified b[...]Captain John S. Stewart and[...]trenches to clear t h e ground in[...]half-way between t h e American[...]cover during the advance. This interest to t h e Colorado boys. The death and work greatly facil[...]he capture of the city of First Colorado during t h e voyage. The regiment Manila occurred o[...]the ing a flag to Lieutenant Brooks, t h e Regimental regiment entered, with others[...] |
| [...]losses to the Filipinos. P a r t of the men in t h e trenches abandoned by the Spaniards Color[...]articipated in the capture of to repel the latter's counter-attack from the build- the Manila water[...]n the forenoon. A few min- enabled the city's water supply to be resumed. utes later, Color Ser[...]Charles H. Anderson was shot through the left by private F r a n k Smith of Company H , was the[...]and Corporal Charles W. Haskell through regiment's only casualty in the capture of Manila.[...]le part of which the regiment On March 31st, Companies C, D, E, and G of the furnished the gu[...]Mariquina. Early in the morning of March 31st naldo was inaugurated. At that time the First Col[...]e-pits. I t was on that march eral companies of t h e regiment were engaged, and that our men mad[...]a mile of San Mateo encountered a long line of an h o u r ; the two block-houses having been t[...] |
| [...]dispersed them, and recovered were wounded, two, H . E. Redmond of Company Doxsee's body which was buried in the National C, and John[...]gents. direction by General Wheaton's troops had been Sometimes the latter were encount[...]arch, but it had not times they were not. On May 1st Sergeant Clif- accomplished all that had been desired. In the ford H. Bowser, of Company K, walked into a[...]company he command of General Robert H . Hall started across had gone on a reconnoissanc[...]es A, C, F , G, K, and L. The what he could find. H e found five Filipinos, all mountains wer[...]was about three miles from Antipolo to hospital. H e did not survive the later ampu- when i[...]An- constituted the force. I n his zeal, private H a r r y tipolo by a different route, the plan[...]insurgents and mortally wounded. Hall's force advanced early on the morning of The others[...]tly alone, through what was then an almost Bunker H i l l ; and his father, whose life has been[...]ds, or trails. On those recently President of the S t a t e University of Col- trips he studied, w[...]lar Berthoud Pass road age across the plains from St. Joseph, Mo., to impassable, and neces[...]the public destroyed Boulder Pass road. H e won in the ex- school. In 1873 the family remov[...]he head of his class in 1884; his General Hale's earlier schooling was under his total sta[...]ahoe the Academy to the present time. H e was com- street building, and in 1877 was gradu[...]g, and engineering and torpedo service. H e was pro- "roughing it," suggested the i[...] |
| [...]ge body of insurgents were intrenched on a Lawton's force had captured a couple of other vil- t[...]J. Currier, both of Company had again fled. Hall's column moving down the E, were severel[...]te Morrill through the neck, noon of the 6th Hall's force took up the march private Henry i[...]Company companies at the head of General Wheaton's bri- M, was shot through one of his legs[...]ashington Aque- Colonel of the F i r s t Regiment Infantry, Colorado duct Bridge. While[...]ver. H e was honorably discharged from the vol- Havin[...]of electric street of Electrical Engineer. H e is a member of the railway which was completed[...]tional Society Army of the Philippines.—J. C. S. |
| [...]brigade (the Nebraskas; Major Grove's two com- that night, and on the 12th resumed thei[...]station seven Pate, of Company H , was wounded in one of his[...]cross-c o u n t r y General Hale's services in the Philippines were[...]i n s u r gents and ceeded General Greene September 7,[...]%' of Manila's water- First Nebraska, and First South Dakota Vol[...]St party of armed insurgents advanced on a Nebraska[...]m Captain John S. Stewart.[...]tion from that ing the night, returning the enemy's fire at inter- time until the regiment's departure for home. vals. The next morning the Utah Battery sta- When General MacArthur's northern campaign tioned with the Colorados at th[...], opened fire on taken from General Hale's brigade, to his and the Blockhouse No. 5 and trenches. After a lively men's great regret, as General Otis deemed it un- bomba[...]n the important posi- Filipinos were sufficiently s h a k e n to justify an as- tion at the waterwork[...]consisted of the First Nebraska, First South son's battalion of the F i r s t Colorado against Dakota, and Tenth Pe[...]e with the capture of Malolos on March 31st. The |
| [...]driven two days later by General Wheaton's bri- Aide to General Hale was slightly wounded; on the gade. 29th at Marilas where private H . B. K e r r of Com- On May 2nd General Hale took part of his bri- pany H , F i r s t Colorado, serving as Perry's orderly, gade back to Pulilan to support General Lawton's was dangerously wounded in the chest; on the[...]to Calumpit 30th north of Guiginto; and on the 31st in the cap- on May 3rd. ture of Malol[...]San Fernando, General MacArthur's Division Pennsylvania was relieved by the Fifty-f[...]Wheaton's brigade marching u p the railroad and On April 23rd General MacArthur's Division be- General Hale's along the wagon road farther east. gan the campai[...]under or- where Colonel Stotzenburg of the F i r s t Nebraska ders from General MacArthur[...]ril 24th at the cross- town. MacArthur's Division established head- ing of the Quin[...] |
| [...]e than a week in tached to General Hale's staff as Adjutant Gen- Manila the regiment boarde[...]e were several L, and Ivan Tinnerholm, of Company H. Frank promotions and changes. Second Lieutenant Al- Neptune, ,of Company H , died soon after reaching bert J. Luther, o[...]v- sixth; Captain E. E. Booth, and Lieutenants C. H. eral vacancies to be filled, and occupied u[...]. The During the sixteen months of the regiment's appointments to these, which were cabled[...]ll II. Inger- by the advancement of Captain Louis H . Kemble. soll, and Sergeants A. L. Bing,[...]t C. E. Locke moved into Captain Kem- and H. I. Lawrence. ble's place, and private David D. Thornton becam[...] |
| [...]irst welcome. Colorado were the F i r s t California, F i r s t Idaho, The regiment marched up Sixteenth[...]pitol through a mass of cheering Minnesota, F i r s t Montana, First Nebraska, First humanit[...]d torn colors of the itself superior to the F i r s t Colorado. After the regiment were deliv[...]Tramway Company's building at[...]of the First Colorado —Delivering the Regiment's walks of civil life, and within a Battl[...]subscriptions a fund was easily Governor Charles S. Thomas, Adjutant General raised to provide a sui[...]ho enlisted from the On the march from the Warren's dock to the Pre- State of Colorado in the[...] |
| [...]croggs, John A., Company A, acute malaria, more t h a n a year in a tropical country under cli-[...]by disease proves not 18, 1899. only t h e remarkable physical excellence of the men,[...]Stewart, Captain John S., Company A, killed in precautions and an unusual[...]mortality Sullivan, Neil C., Company H, spinal meningitis, list between muster-in and mu[...]Tinnerholm, Ivan, Company H, died at sea on Aldrich, Archie A., Company E[...]e W., Company F , July 8, 1899, Bell, William H., Company C, small-pox, Janu- of dysente[...]ny D, killed in action, Feb- Bowser, Clifford H , Company K, of wounds, ruary 5, 1899[...]er W., Company I, spinal meningitis, Bush, W. H., Company I, dysentery, March 24, at se[...]lter, Company L, acute dysentery, orado's apportionment of soldiers for the Spanish November 22, 1898. Doxsee, H a r r y L., Company C, killed in action, war[...], and B and C at Denver. As A and Falkenburg, H a r r y C , musician, small-pox, Jan- B were t[...]States service on May 6th, but Jefferson, W. S., Company G, typhoid fever, at the date w[...]ficially made as of May 1st; and they were the Lillie, Charles, Company I[...]hat was heard in every State of Loosa, August H , unassigned, septicaemia, at the Union.[...]dams on April 29th, and Troop B was McDowell, H a r r y A., Company M, suicide, De- first[...]be mustered cember 4, 1898. McMurray, William S., Company C , accidentally in, and was ac[...]United States for Neptune, Frank D., Company H , died in San the Spanish war; althou[...]received from various places in the S t a t e ; yet Reisig, H a r r y J., Company M, July 14, 1899, of d[...] |
| [...]scramble to get in. Trooper was killed at St. Louis by falling under The officers of Troop[...]he Colonel, whose feet G. Wheeler, Captain; A r t h u r L. B. Davies, First were crushed. But n[...]re the regiment left F o r t Russell, Captain rey's Rough Riders." Of the remainder of the[...]advanced to one each from Nevada, Utah, and I d a h o ; its the Captaincy; and Sergeant Cy[...]tity as soldiers bers of Troop B . Ralph S. Johnson died Septem- from our State.[...] |
| [...]n- Woodhall, of Denver, serving on Colonel Torrey's eral, on March 9, 1898, to enable him to[...]2nd. No deaths oc- commission as F i r s t Lieutenant in one of the curred in Troop A.[...]who served in the to Company I, F i r s t Regiment United States Vol- regiment remarked t[...]tracted fever which caused his death it was for t h e simple reason that the regiment in hos[...]F o r t Logan was forty or forty-two of the F i r s t Colorado in about the scene of much militar[...]out New Jersey, where it arrived August 16th. I t s eighteen months, at least one phase of War was officers were H a r r y J. Parks, Captain; John G. brought[...]l our Denver people. Locke, First Lieutenant; J o h n C. Exline, Second On August 13th, 14t[...]ed in Luzon in the designated as Battery A, F i r s t Colorado Volun- Eighth Army Corps, was h[...]n to form a permanent organization. the case of t h e two Troops of Cavalry, made no The "Society of the Army of the Philippines" was war record for t h e sole reason that it was given no organized[...]refer- completed the course in the "East Denver" H i g h ence to two fine war-ships now building f[...]regular) as a Sec- in naval classification. I t s construction was be- ond Lieutenant. H e served in Cuba with his regi- gun during the year of t h e Spanish war, and be- ment, and died at M[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LXXIV. D E N V E R ' S P R O M I N E N T B U I L D I N G S — D A T E S AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THEIR ERECTION[...]STRUCTURES PREVIOUSLY O C C U P Y I N G T H E I R S I T E S — C H A N G E S W I T H I N FORTY YEARS—COST |
| [...]teenth street. I t s site was previously a vacant[...]river and San Francisco. I t s site had previously[...]Brown's land e n t r y ; the remainder consisted of Dr. F. J. Bancroft's residence on site of Bancroft building.[...]lived in early times. The Barclay Building, t h e fine structure on the northwest corner of Eight[...]the late "Eighties" the enterprise The B a r t h Building on the northeast corner of was conceived by the late William H . Bush, of Sixteenth and Stout streets was built[...]ll portion of which they re- on which its builder's residence was built in 1869.[...] |
| [...]ISTORY OF DENVER. for the structure's foundations. The English sup- doors and[...]Building on the south side of Arap- |
| [...]on the southeast in 1881 by Walter S. Cheesman. Several small corner of Sixteenth and[...]rtis streets, one of the fine William Barth's residence on site of Barth Building.[...]those lots were occupied by small by the builder's frame residence. boxe[...]rality while days he arrived here on J u n e 9th. H e lost no time the city of Denver exists.[...]ade, and soon became Mr. Brown's long and interesting career has known as one of t[...]ed dollars; and that twenty are now worth ume. Hi's faith in the city was always strong;[...]fortune. But the consequences known addition to t h e - t o w n ; of his donation of of 1893 e[...], two-thirds of the magnificent site of the State's though they have not disturbed his be[...]is improvements elsewhere in is Denver's destiny to become a great mid-conti- the city mad[...]nent city of the United States.—J. C. S. |
| [...]on. On the Stout street side cottage home of Dr. S. W. Treat, a physician who stood the brick reside[...]The corner p a r t of the present large building's site was vacant prior to 1876, but an old and ec-[...]his fathers. The Denver D r y Goods Com- pany's Building on the northeast corner of Sixteenth and Cali- fornia streets was erected in 1888- 89 by J o h n J. Riethmann, who had owned the ground f[...] |
| [...]raud, put stands on the site of Judge Amos' Steck's old up a small frame building th[...]d the upper floor and occupied it for and William H . H . Cranmer. The first two of its lodg[...], inclusive, was the site of Stansbury's old "Tambien" saloon, one built by Charles G. Che[...]by John Good in the middle "Sixties" on ernor J o h n Evans in 1872. I t was one of the early[...]News' office lot Wallingford & Murphy's log store- The F i n k Building on the s[...] |
| [...]h side of Law- by a building in which Major John S. Fillmore rence street between Sixte[...]nth streets, built in 1887, occupies the site of St. John's Church in the Wilderness (Episcopalian), which w[...]to make place for the Training School. The " H . D. and F . Building" on the northeast corner of[...]nd steel, and cost $150,000. Before thi3 building's as it appeared in 1880. erection the home of General W. H . Lessig was on panion structure. Its s[...]Lawrence streets, in the corner of bois by George H . Estabrook who kept it a while,[...] |
| [...]orner lot was traded for a wagon-load and Charles S. Thomas who made extensive addi- of ba[...]pring of 1859 were refused Charles Lerchen and J. H . Eames. When General by the owner of[...]Masonic Temple—a room. Later in t h e "Sixties" Richard E. Whitsitt conspicuously fin[...]urtrie (unfinished) Building, one of the built by H e n r y Fuerstein in the "Seventies." co[...]73, and ground theretofore unoccupied. I n t h e spring of in 1881 by remodelling and additions[...]"""' still remain conspicuous among the city's fine[...]ood he voyaged- service as the county's first Recorder, and his later around the world on[...]f California and remained, real estate. H e was, also, one of t h e men who there ten years, engaging in mining dur[...]steadfastly held to their faith in the city's future greater part of that period. Late in the s[...]and in much of what was done by those in the Pike's Peak country, he decided to leave that steadfast men to remove the uncertainties, he bore S t a t e ; and doing so soon afterward, he reached a brave and useful leader's part in union of action Denver from Oroville, Cal., August 18, 1859. to t h a t end. One of the Old Guard, the services T[...]I n late years it had been Mr. Chever's custom to of the Territory of Colorado was instit[...]ant information that is em- his retirement from t h a t office he engaged in real bodied in this[...]on March 13, 1901, and was buried at Salem, Mass. H e was a leader in improving city property. I n —J. C. S. |
| [...]s oc- over the church site and to finish it for t h e pur- cupied by J. G. Hoffer's meat market. poses of a fine, uptown, office buil[...]s high, Thomas M. Patterson and Charles S. Thomas. I t of light-colored dressed sandstone,[...]grishe's theaters.[...]a theater and known as "Mozart H a l l ; " and under Charles McEwen's residence on site of McPhee building. that nam[...]skirts of the business section, and E. H . Kellogg & Co. When the Railroad Building its si[...]25 to 1533, in- clusive, was built in 1880, by D. H . Moffat and George W. Kassler. The westward part[...]several years after his mar- riage. The People's Bank" Building on the southwest corner of Sixteen[...]r fifty years longer. I t was built by the People's National Bank as an investment for part of that extinct corporation's capital, and its site was cleared of a motley col[...]David H. Moffat's residence on site of Moffat and Kassler building.[...]-88 by C. B . Pat- off to the street. H e was but little injured, and is terson. T[...] |
| [...]The St. James Hotel on the south side of Curtis[...]ted. That part of the St. James having the open[...]by A. H . Estes.[...]Dr. H. K. Steele, the premises having previously[...]Sixteenth and Champa streets was built in 1880 H. Burton's residence formerly on northwest corner Fifteenth[...], is one of the pioneers, and Senator H . A. W. Tabor in 1879. I t was the first was amon[...]was quarried, and cut to architect's drawings, at Sixteenth and Lawrence was or[...] |
| [...]nspicuous architectural conform with t h a t of the Tappan Building. The landmark. I t s site was that of the old Broadwell c[...]count of which has heretofore been H o u s e ; " and now the ground floor is used for busi-[...]f the architectural ornaments of the late Senator H . A. W. Tabor in 1880-81. The the[...]ern lot from L. S. Gutelius in 1874, it was occupied George T. Clark's residence formerly on southwest corner of by a[...]s in the city and was, also, one of the Territory's numerous Capitols. I t was built by Lewis N . Tap[...]located the offices of Territorial Governor A. C. H u n t , Ter- George W. McClure's residence on site of Post Office building.[...] |
| [...]et southward.from Lawrence street, in 1901. of W. S. Stratton, of the noted Independence Mine[...]ast 125 feet on and booths, and by T. G. Anderson's skating rink Sixteenth Street. On the s[...]eated tractors having been McGilvray & Hayes. I t s site by steam, and is provided with passe[...]al Building, or, as more commonly m e n t ; but t h a t was an error, the United States called,[...]to $575,000. The ap- Gottesleben, and J o h n J . Riethmann, who owned propriations we[...] |
| [...]f the pioneer brick build- 1900, was manager. I t s site had been occupied by ings erected on the east side of Cherry creek, and the residence of J. H . Kehler, pioneer Sheriff of which for a time w[...]of the Territory of Colorado on t h e second floor—[...]hewed-log afterward became the home of Major John S. Fill- buildings that was of unusual historical interest. more. Subsequent to Fillmore's death in 1864 it I t was about twentv feet of fro[...]el Witter, stands on -the site of the old Planter's sleeping place in the low attic. At the outbreak[...]ally a large frame structure members of the F i r s t Regiment Colorado Volun- with a one-story annex[...]sequently it became a Overland, California & Pike's Peak Express Com- military prison, the News havin[...]75, and variety of purposes, that of a blacksmith's shop was succeeded by the Witter building, which[...]nth streets stands another of the was built by W. S. Cheesman in 1897. I t occupies log relics[...] |
| [...]e Territorial Capitols. I n hidden by bill-poster's boards, is numbered 1426. 1865-66 the seco[...]y exander Cummings, and Territorial Secretary S. H . brick building with a plain old-fashione[...] |
| [...]CHAPTER LXXV. DENVER'S BRIGHT P R O S P E C T S — O L D - T I M E V I E W S OF ITS DESTINY—ORTON'S PREDICTION—THE With the close of the Nineteenth Cen[...]airer for their future ver's stout-hearted pioneers; and those who did so |
| [...]971 "Bird's-eye view" of Denver in 1874. From a lithographed[...]preparatory to reporting to -that |
| [...]oble one for a great city. The mag- changes and t h a t of other developments. They nificent[...]ivities to compre- oramas of nature's great work on this earth. I n hend at full value[...]d them and all that has forget the city's noble setting, or familiarity with been done. F r[...]From the breezy ridge, be- perspective of Denver's earlier years excluded from tween scattered[...]to to the spurs away toward ful picture of Denver's development in the prepa- Laramie. I n var[...]of the present day; to show, Mountains. Pike's Peak would then represent the[...]between Denver at the Monte Rosa; and Long's Peak, Mount Blanc. The close in 1870 of the pione[...]t is not at all improbable that some orado's mountains, and not far distant from Den- writer i[...]t. From its summit, times, in much the same way t h a t the present city the mountains seem a wil[...]nd fifty miles, with here and For proof of Denver's present great renewal of there l[...] |
| [...]ed; an action that was later con- of the observer's view. There are seven that are firmed b[...]al group are sev- nison county, 14,419 feet; Gray's Peak in Clear eral unnamed peaks betwe[...]ible from Denver. county, 14,375 feet; and Torrey's Peak in Clear Next in height among[...]; Mt. Wilson in Dolores historian of Long's exploring expedition after that county, 14,309; a[...]k" which 14,290 feet, are higher than either Pike's or Long's. Long named for James. The summit of James'[...]3 feet, and appears about eight Capitol dome Pike's Peak, reminding us of so degrees no[...]e is less than that of twenty-five of Long's Peak stands out with impressive dignity. other Co[...]south of due west from Den- its summit's distance would be about fifty-five ver, and thirt[...]far enough they would strike the peak's base near tween. As heretofore mentioned, Biersta[...]h their vistas. I t is extremely difficult of R o s a ; " but the name of Colorado's honored citi- ascent. Mr. W. N. Byers, in 1[...]eyond the power of words to de- pletion of Denver's first railroad—the Denver Pa- scribe. |
| [...]eet northward from Arapahoe street, in 1901. Long's Peak in distance. Sixteen miles south of Long's is Arapahoe Peak, now appreciates its[...]ling of surprise somewhat |
| [...]fficulties in the way of the municipal- Denver's noble surroundings should inspire a[...]be accomplished within two cupying one of Nature's most favored situations, deca[...]ings of sewer in the creek's bed, that sandy and miserable the past and[...] |
| [...]al plans for a system mously increased value of t h a t now more or less of permanent improvements that would also embel- blighted by the creek's presence probably would lish the c[...]the effect of other frame dwellings, as the city's building regulations works designed to add to the city's beauty and to forbid their erection; the f[...] |
| [...]ffect of quarantine against qualities of Colorado's climate and other posses- what are[...] |
| [...]later times the notes were fainter, among these t h e frowns of Fortune were attended but throug[...]able, like a refrain of the gentle melody t h a t follows an than those which had followed her[...]he Old Guard survive in affluence—a life's endeavors. |
| [...]o Indians, 62-63, Arapahoe County. Abbie, G. S. ·, 532 . 629, 820, 898[...]l Court, 678 Abby, George, 216 Alaska St., 868, 869 Ames, T.- P., 634[...]77 638, 866, 910 H., 940, 943, 947, 256, 261, 266, 267,[...]ia), 446 940, 943 Alexander, S. H., 548 Anderson, G., 721 962[...]932 Alexandria, Military Anderson, H. Y •• 672 Arapahoe County,[...]498, 502, 503, Bank Block on, 716 Adams St •• (Highland), 446 Allen, A. F., 756[...]527 et seq., Colo. Seminary on, Adams St .• (Sixth), 226, Allen, Rev. A. P., 721[...]Allen, Charles P., 752, Anderson's Guerrillas, 714, 737. 738, 746,[...]on, 343 Advocate, Denver, 662 Allen, J. S. , 317 517[...]427 par. 623 Allen, S. B., 319, 324 Antelope (Ute), 469[...]528 492 Agass1z, Lou1s, 458 Altheimer, Ben, 776[...]Antimony, 550, 556 confirms Kelher 1s 332, 393, 395 Agriculture, 277, 282,[...]illus .• 529 756 526, 546, S47, 548, illus., 465 6[...]819, 831, 845 Appel, J. S., 924, 929 530, 535, 536, Arge[...]American Smelting andRe- Appel, M;rs. M. S •• 776 school dis trict, 740 554[...]40, 541 Argo Junction, 613, Alamosa, 13S, 520, 605, Co., 800, 801,[...] |
| [...]785 Ashley, William H. , 720, 725, 733, 734, 370[...]1 Barth's Additiori, 635 556, 562, 570, 678,[...]Baltimore, Md., 680, Bartholomew's Show, Arkansas." 110, 124, 129, Assay Office, U.S.• 562 City Mission (Meth- 756[...]250, 295, 296, 297, Bancroft, Hubert H. , Bassett, "Hank, 11 l!:l2 96, 97, 1[...]Banker, , 288 Bassett, W. H .• 250 151, 153, 154, 155, Atchison &[...]Banking, 333, 459, 480, Batchellor, I. H., 540, 235, 238, 270, 286, Atchison, To[...]Bank of Colorado, 817 Bateman, Adams H., 696 Arkansas-Pl~tte Divide, Athabasca, 62[...]Barbour, Chauncey., 747 Bates, W. H., 326 District of. 390 Attorney* Cou[...]Bardstown (Ky. ), 130, Baxter, 0. H. P. , 843 Armour, Charles L., Audeby (A[...]l, Bad- Yellow-Hair (Indian), Barker, A. H., 192, 208, 955 645[...]8 Bayou Salado (South Park), Armstrong, S. T., 476 Augur, Gen., 417, 431 Bagl[...]illus. , 228, 233 Bay St. Louis. 112 Army, U. S., 344, 351, 918 Ba[...]Barley, 433, 889 Beach, M. S. , 286 418, 423, 424, 425, 203, 205,[...]1, Barnes, Rev. R. E., 510 Beall, Gov. S. W., 250, 594, 600, 616 223, 2[...]252, 253, 256, 257, Bailey's Ranche, 609 Barney, L. L., 633[...]303, 304, 305, 306, Baker, James H., 748 Barony, ,138 3[...]B., 690 370, 371, 372, 375, Baker's Bridge, 159 Ashland ~chool, 753, 754, 755[...]427. 430, 443, 444, Baker's Villa, 869 Barth Block, 820, 95[...] |
| [...]152, 154, 157, 158. Billingsley, Rev. A. S., b~siness district, 1875, Board of E[...]House on, Board of Public Works, Beara. H. B., 651, Bent. John. 150[...]471 Board of Trade, Denver, Beard, William H., 458 Bent, Silas, 150 Bird-[...]ail Lode, 274 4!9, 547 Bent 1 s Fort, 91, 145, 147, Bishop, Frank L. , 548[...]98 535, illus., 318 1st State Legislature Boggsville, 157 Beck, Wi[...]rexpiOrer), 161, 196, 325 Bering 1 s Strait, 850 Black-Bull (Indian), 66[...]0, 753, Blackburn, John W., 819 Lou1s1ana Saloon on, Bond County, Ill., 510 Bee[...]), 66 343 Bond, H. G., 664, 870 Beebee, F. W., 284 Berkel[...]Blackfeet (Indians), 63, People 1 s tabernacle on, Bond, William. 583 H., 418, 421 Bernal Springs, 383[...]00, 436, 520, 549, scene on in early 1 60s 604, 605, 608, 615 Beggs, Robert H., 761 389, 583[...]602, 629, 702, 704, views on, late '60s 513, 526 Belden, Mrs. D. D. , 785[...]), Blinn, Ellen T., 704, 914 Bonney, Dr. S. G., 776 Bell, Joseph B. , 722 Beverly,[...]ity Bell Telephone, 851 Befnd tfiel'iJII'S"Sissip~i Black-Horse (Indian), 65, Bliss,[...]Boone, Daniel, 302 Bell, William H., 951 276, 277, 281, 283, Blac[...]Biencroff, Thomas, 339 Blake,AlliOrt S. , 932 Blizzards, 521 Bor[...]218, 231, 246-247'·, Blood, James H., 868 Boston, 164, 165. 238, Belmont C[...]06, Big-Hand (Indian), 66 Blake, C. H., 734 Blow, A. A., 929[...]ers, 238 551, 568 Benito Fork (of St. Vrain Big-Mouth (lnmiiiJ:l95 Charles H.), 215 Blue-Cloud (Indian), 64 B[...]Big Nose (Roman Nose), Blake, Charles H., 213, Blue-Cloud-Man (Indian). S[...]c American house on, Blume •. J. H., 506 Boulder (town), 159, 196[...] |
| [...]855 main north- south st., 138[...]Brawley, Frederick S., real estate value on, Brown Lo[...]illus. , 484, 948, 955 Bulkley, H . J . , 725 Boulder County, 1 96, 331.[...]333, 810 Bull, I. S . , 256 549, 584. 585, 597,[...]n), 65 Boulder News , 393 Brendlinger, H. J., 370, Association, 730 Br[...]r, 153 Boulder Valley Herald, Brewster, J. H. , 215 Broadwell ~ 370 Browne's Addition, 406 Bunker Hill, 944 657[...]465, 781, 852, 966; Brown's Addition, 3 73, Burchinell, Wi lliam K.[...]25 illus. , 466 Brown's B l dg • • 574 biography, 924[...]33, Broadwell, James M. , Brown's, H. C. , second B u rck, Dr. G. W., 765 Bould[...]Brules, 4 17, 4 1 9, 422 (St. Joseph )~ Boundaries, state, 308, Bridger Pass, 153, 158, Bromwell, H. P. H., 498, B r umbaugh, Levi, 1 84 B u[...]0, Brook Farm, 470 Brunswick H otel, 96 5 (Sh eed y ), 564 Bourgmont, 105, 107 284[...]949 Bowen, Frank, 1 85 at Larimer St. , 356 Brooks, Alexander McD. ,[...]orado Bowen, Leavitt L., 348, duel at 15 St. b., 326 Brooks, George W., 832[...]lroad , 614 688, 690, illus., 321 15th St. , 348 Brooks, Judge Orson, 436 Bryant, H. W . , 714 Burlington & Missouri Bowen,[...]1 4, 615, Bowers ~90 Norton's at Ft. St. 866 Buchanan[...]Buchanan, Presi dent Bur nel l. Jame s M., 666 Bowles, J. C., 284 of iron,[...]Brighton, Colo., 545, partyy;-t'S4 Buchanan St. (Auraria), Burpee, C. L., 830 Bowling all[...]Burr, Aaron , 123 , 133 Bowser, Clifford H. , Brighton, ill. , 600, 898 735, 7[...]Bucks County. Pa., 432 Burton, H .• 758 Boyd, T . P., 284 Brings-Bac[...]Buckskin Charley, 75 Bush, W. H., 951 Boyer, A. J., 667 (Indian),[...]Buckskin Joe (Joseph Bush, Wi lli am H., 901, Boyer, William J., 185, Brinker, Isa[...]889 Brown, Dr. H. C., 548 Buckskin Joe (town), 291,[...], illus. , 720 Buell, Bela S. , 834 Bradford, R . B . , 319,[...]Brown, H. K. , 902 61 0[...], 83 , 86, 87, 90, 91 , Butler,. M r s . Fred, 788 720, 725 illu[...]Brown, J . S., 592, 609, 1 54, 1 56, 1 57, 1 61,[...]district, 1870-1 885 Brown, J. S. & Bro. 1 71 et seq. , 1 76, 236 , Bradley's ranche, 347 954[...]75 458 , 459, 517, 850 Brady, H. T. , 645 Denver, 651[...]Brown, J. S. & J. F. , illus., 147, 172, 1 75 Brandenburg, F. H., 169 cable car loop on[...]Brown, J. S i dney (J. S. ? ), 724 653 ci[...]Brown, James H., por. 709 71 Brannan & Mittnach[...] |
| [...]Canada Honda, 101 Carson St. (Highland), expositlon fountain on, By[...]3, Canby, Gen. Edward R. Carter, H. J., 284 Central City, 252, 273, Byers. Frank S.. 656 436, 437, 456, 522, s.. 377, 380, 381, Carter, J. B., 349[...]ohn E., 319 409, 437, 506, 520, Byers St., 750, 777 101[...]homas J .. 584, 529, 574, 581, 583, Byers St. (Highland), 446 Cactus, 517, 521[...], 769 Carver, H., 747 704, 708, 710, 717. 247[...]145, 150, 286, 290, Case & Ebert's addition. 848, 851, 852, 907, 664, 665[...]612, 620 Casement 1 s Addition. 443 facturing Co. , 605 652[...]Cass, 0. D. & Co., 372 ornia & Pike 1 s Pea...lt. appoints Warren (duel) Califo[...]to, Kendall & Co. , 848 climbs Long 1s Peak, California St. . 246, 44 7, Capitol Manage r s , Board 274, 278 Centra[...]ty, 502, Convention, 310 Calvin, H. D •. , 662 Carlson. Pvt. Charles,[...]n), 65 421 quoted on People 1s Camp Elbert, 387 Carpente[...]878, 889, 890, 892, By ers, W. H. & Co. , 665 383, 387. 388, 390,[...]540, Carries -the-Badger Cedar St., 777 917. 924, 926, 966, C St[...]Bldg. , 243, 576, 670, Cabins, first. 224 e t s e q., Camobell & Jones. 3"70[...] |
| [...]620 continued, 276, 278 Chamberlin, H. B., 760, 152, 153, 160, 175. Cherry (12th) St., 226, Chicosa Junction, 621 Cinc[...]199, 202, 203, 204, Cherry St. (Highland), Chief Justice, Territor-[...]Cinnabar:. 294 Chambonard, , 154 Champa St. , mentloned 2!2, 213, 218, 219, Chestnut St., 201. 209, Chihuahua, 103, 139, Circuit Court, U. S., 220, 221. 226[...]3. 540, 955, 960; Children's Home Society. 842 Church on, 724[...]70. por., 963 Childs, H. , 196 Commercial Bank, 842[...]n, 336, 680. 772. 958 bridP""!S over .. 300. 195, 308 Choteau's Landing, 143 634 Charles II, 114[...]4 building in. bed of, Cheyenne St. (now Place). Christian church, 730, 636 Charleston, S. C., 828 3~1c-325 , ~71[...]Cherokees find gold in, Cheyenne (9th) St. , 226, Christian Science church, 3[...]ty Circle Ry. along, 615, Cheyenne St. (Highland), Christensen, John S. , 540, 615, 624, 633, Charter[...]363, 409, 427, 456, Chubbuck, H. B. , 208, 933, 935 Chase. William,[...]Cibola, Seven Cities of, 638 Cheney's Billiard Room stage coach route along,[...]towns. established on. Ch1cago World's Fair, 570 Cimarron Cattle Co. , 369, 370[...]71, 179, 180, 182, 183, unsightly, 4H;j, 975-976 Chickahominy River, 125[...] |
| [...]ral & Pacific 776. 794, 860, 861, Clark, S. H. H., 620, Cleveland, G. W., 319 Cole[...]Railway, 638 Clarke,_ J. H., 208 935, 96~ Col[...]454, 583, City Pdlice Commissioner, Clarke, W. H., 208 naming of, 448[...]1, 593, 596 6n Clarkson St., 762 Clewell, E. F ••. 5 35[...]te, 154, 769 Cole's Hall, 450, 584, Colorado Central (Rail-[...]us., 494 Society, 778 Clayton, T. S., 641, 643 Clifton, Tenn., 215[...]544, 560, 572, 751, Colorado Coal & Gas 635, 636, 638, 815, 8~6 Clayton, William, 34[...]63, 366, 265, 266, 267, 269, Clough, H. A., il!us., 465 view of cable car on,[...]Samuel G., 819, shing Co. , 661 Clancy St. (Tremont Place), objective of miners in C[...]nk. 835, 968, Clements, Alfred H. , 374, 894, 895, 929 Colorado[...]road, 613 Clark, Gruber & Co., Clenam St. , 44 7, 448 Coffin-shape d papers,[...]ociety 817, 834, 844 Clemes, James H., 826, Coinage. 810 et seq. ,[...] |
| [...]everly Mine, Copper, 129, 179, 263 Colorado Price Current and Produce Record, 128[...]548, 916 Columbine St. , 807, 861 Company L, Second[...]396, 398 Cornforth, Mr s . Birks, Colorado Seminary. see Columb[...]Columbus Territory, 492 Conart, E. H., 208 Denver-Highland, 300,[...]Comanche Creek, 434 Concord, N. H., 356 Consolidation. City-[...]Constitution, City, 336, Corona St. , 91 0 (facing 605), 678, 789, 403[...]384, 385, 386, 389, Constitution, U. S., 121, Cortez, 57, 89, 99 Colorado State Univ[...]Commonwealth, 372, 674 Congress, U. S., 59, 113, illus., 890[...]122, 124, 128, 129, Converse, H. C., illus., 339, 344, 347, 429, 3[...]496, 498, 499, 502, r 472, 473, s4o, s99, Countie~rado[...]f, 377, 387 co::;~s~ 6;ark, 645, 646, 7 Co~~-4 s. H. ' 378 ' 383 ' 714[...]Colorado Regiment, from Pike's Peak Cooper,---274[...]250 532, 533, 534, 535, Co!rado, U. S. S. , 95 3 387 il[...]Company G, First Congressmen (U. S. 502, 510, 512, 513, Cou[...]6, 812 958, illus., 51! Colt 1s pistol.~.[...]19, 773, Company H, First Conklin, , 287-288[...]ion, 456 Columbia College School Company H, Second[...] |
| [...]and Cripple Creek, 190, Curtis St. , continued Daily Vidette. 659[...]g. Dakota City Herald, 659 Decatur St. , 775 342, 343, 344, 345, Crocker, Fr[...]akota Territory, 167, Decker, W estbrooke S. • 348, 349, 350, 409, 540, 543,[...]279 Cow-boys, 523 Crouse, F. H., 216 576[...]niels & Fisher. 888, De Fuca, 127 Coxey 1 s Army, 916, 917 Crow Creek, 179[...]5 Crow Indians. 73, 87, ~aul 1 s Church on, Daniels, William B.,[...]611, 959 De Graff, E. S., 756 Cram, Frank W., 640 Crowell, Ben[...]·105 Times on, 668 Darby, S. E., 828 Deitsch, Isadore, 729 Crand[...]453 De Kalb County. Ind .• Cranmer, William H. H .• Crystal Lode, 549 718[...]Crystal River, 626 Cushman, William H., Revolution, 789 De La M[...]Cumancias, see Comanche Cutler 1 s Hall, 781 Davenport (Iowa) Gazette,[...]3, Davis, (prize- Delgany St. , 44 7 ~29 Cummings,[...]297, Davis & Curtis (grocers), DeLisle's map, illus .• 84 7. 848, 850[...]34 Davis, C. C .• 640, 964 DeLisle's map of Creighton, James, 665 Cummings, G[...](of 660 Davis, W. H., 756 Viceroy. 89, 92 690, 72[...]Dawson, Thomas F., 668 Democrat, Pomeroy's. described by Dixon, 431 Curtis, C. M., 86[...]18, horse stealings, 346. Curtis, Samuel S. , 15, Daily Gazette, Denver, Dayton[...], Denver, see Denver Dead Men 1s Gulch, 290, 688, 690, 692, 700, kill[...]8, Da1ly Live Stock ecord, Deadwood, S. D •• 615 De Moscoso, Louis, 89 l[...]719, 725, 834 DaiiYIJ.ve St~cord Deadwood Gulch, 287 DeMot[...]ns~~~ reign of lawless in 1860, Curtis, Gen. S. R .• 403-[...]a, Pedro De 350, 633 Curtis St. , mentioned, Daily Stockman, Denver[...] |
| [...]284, Denver & Southwestern Denver Coal & Gas Light Co., 319 863,[...]Denver Union Depot and Dimmock, Rev. S . R., Denver Book Store ~,662[...], 856, Denver, Patrick, 216 Denver. U.S. S., 953 District Attorney, Denver , 235,[...]Railroad, 613, 614 District Attorney, U. S. 252, 253, 256, 257, Denver Electric Li[...]796, 798, 800 District Court, U. S. , 270, 271, 276, 277, Denver Eveninf.[...]3, 923,- 961 311. 312, 313, 314, Denver Gas & Electric Co. , Denver Railroad & Land D[...]District Judge, U. S., 455, 473, 475,[...]Denver Railway Assn .• illu s. , 874, 888 323, 324. 328, 329,[...]ns, city, 634 377. 443, 444, 445, Denver Gas & Water Co., Exchange, 8 95[...]786 Dodd, T. H., 379,381, Library Assn., 764, De[...] |
| [...]Eagle-Swallow (Indian), 66 Eighteenth St., continued Eleveilth (Ferry) St. , continued, 587, 616,[...]Doyle, Joseph B., 301, Eames, J. H., 961 on, 836[...]732, 7,58, 793, 794, Earl, H. , 208 Union Station on, 626[...]"Early Days in Denver" Eighteenth St. (Highland), bridge destroyed, 1864, il[...]372 Dodge, Capt. Francis S. , 301' 871 East Denver[...]East Denver High School, Eighth (Champa) St., 226, International Hall on, Dodson, Joh[...]Eight Mile Canon, 252 jail on S. 11th, 1874, Doe, , 273 Dreye[...]illus., 748, 787 Elbert County, 502, s·36, Masonic Hall on, 718, Dog-Eagle (Ind[...]Bank, 832 Elbert, Gov. Samuel H., Pollock Hotel on, 716 "<rndian), 66[...]751 702, 973 Dudley, Judson H. , 15, Eaton, Gov. Benjamin[...]see Rio 192, 206, 207, 208, H., 502, 509- 781[...]139, 348, 353, 604, Elitch's Gardens, 861, 788 2[...]town), 286 Dominguez, Fr. Atanacio, Dudley St., 447 822, 876[...]745 Elder, C. S., 548 Elk, 151, 173, 175, 176, Donal[...]313, 315, 316 772 Doniphan's Cavalry, 490 642, 643[...]Elections, 433, 461, Elkins, Ira S., 900 Doniphan's Command, 302 "Dummy" Lines, 863,[...]498, ProteC'tive Order of, 779 Donnell, H. C., 819 Dumont, Lt. _ __ 14,[...]tt~ Dorsett and Lawrence Dunham, Herman H. , Edwards, , 250[...], 672 Dunleavy, F. H., 830 Dunn, Samuel[...]Dunn, William, 634 Eicholtz, L. H. , oJ~'"'-- illus., 639 E[...], 633 Doud, A. L., 721, 761, DuPuy, Frank H., 475 Eighteenth Ave., mentioned Elecu :[...]~i~~-~~. jnY.~1~~1· .751~1. Dougan, Dr. D. H., (facing 605), 606, 607, 576,[...]. Thomas, Durbin, Charles K., 761 St. Joseph Hospital on, 865, 868, 869,[...]Emerson School. 744. ill.1s. , 537 Duval, Pvt. Frank A.,[...]370, 659 Emerson St •• 762 Douglas St. (Highland), 446 "Dwellers in the[...]lus., 401 Douglass , Frederick, 498 E (14th) St., 213, 325 Eighteenth Infantry, 903[...]4, 865, 869 Encampment. GAR, 478 Do)", C. H., 8~ Eagle- Bear (Indian), 65[...]boundary. of settlement, Eleventh (Ferry) St., 616, 659, 726, 840 772[...]8, 229, 232, English, 113-115, 117, Downing's addition, 635 66[...] |
| [...]Feather-on-His- Head Fifteenth (F) St., Fifth (Larimer) St., 226, English, continued Evans, G[...]761 Federation of Women 1 s Cherokee House on, U. ~. (l7R3[...]66, 67 Evans St., 545, 560, 771, 790[...]Fillmore, J. H., 369,[...]meets on, 498 Fillmore, John S., 370, Episcopal churc h, 71 8, 719, 720, 725, 726,[...]Davis & Curtis on, 640 Filmore, J. H., 327 977 Evening B[...]duel on, 326 Filmore, John S. , 325 Erie, 474, 481, 602, 875 Evemng P[...]treet cars on, Financial Era, The, 662 Erie St. , firehouse on, Evemng 1 ruth, 663[...]sec enver Evenmg Ferguson, S., 651 369[...]Extinct Monsters Ferry (llth) St., 226, 229, ~trial near, 344[...]spirita Santa, River of Eyster, Christian S. , 446, illus., 233[...]n, 455, Essex Bldg., 960, 962 F (15th) St., 213, 325, Ferry St. (Highland), 446 Hadley trial near, 343 465, 640 Estabrook, George H. , 328, 447, 660 Fes[...]541 240, 277, 282, 283, Estes, A. H •• 965 Fairgrounds, 854, 876[...]io::"':" . . ~.y, 8"56 scene on, early 160s , of Indians, 402 Evans' Addition, 4[...]Farley, John F. , 645, Fifteenth (F) St., Times on, 668[...]0, 302, 303, 325, views on in late '60s, 965, 966, 968 810, 855, 856, 890[...]teers, 584, 585, 586, 587, Farner, W. H., 634 910, 935, 954, 956,[...]0 Farner, William H., 692 958, 960, 961, 962,[...]tery, 593, 594, 595, 597, Farnham, W. H., 662 964, 965, 966, 968[...]bridge destroyed, 1864, Fifteenth St. LooP ~ 869, 388, 389, 404, 407,[...]First Colorado Volunteer p~~~os~s capitol delay, Feather - Necklace (In[...] |
| [...]Fort Sill, 76 Four.teenth St., continued Church, continued[...]Fort Union, 148, 229, New-s equipment found 467: 536, 702, 710[...]382, 383, 385 382, 383, 384, 3S5, Post office on. 334, pal Church,[...]480, 8~2; see also; 150; see also Bent•s 403 427, 480, 796, 799,[...]Forty-first Ave., 755 Fourth (Market) St. ,226 Volunteers, 950 Flower Mis[...]Colored Heavy .Artillery, First {Wewatta) St . • 226. Flushing, N. y_, 605[...]22 446, illus., 233 (facing 60S) Hayes), 171, 419, 435 Fos[...]seq. Fouts, William. 261, 279 First St. (Highland), 446 Fluxes (in gala refining)[...]61 First Washington Fogg, William H., 364 354, 355, 356, 358,[...]., 361, 364, 415, 653, Fosdick, H. M., 327, (also spelled Frazier),[...]o), Fort Keogh, Mont. , 780 Foster, H. R., 756 Fraternal Union of Firth P[...]lle 147, 148, 179, 180, Foster St. (Highland), 446 Fox (animal), 174 Fisher,[...]J. M., 295, 715, 716, 717, 718, Fool's gold, ::!58 653, 780, 847, 850[...]is., 890 Fisher, Miers, 870 Foote & S1mmons, 274 Fort Larned, 387, 405,[...]ows (Indian), 65 54'0, 692 Fisher, W. H., 662 Force, John E., 752[...]Fourier, 470 Francestown, N.H., 828 Fisher. Woodie, Hose Force, R.[...]776 Fisk, Dr. Samuel A., 776 Ford, James H .• 379, Fort Lupton, 141, 142,[...]344, 348, 429, 430 Fourteenth St., men- (Denver Town Co. ), 215 Fit[...]im, "69b Fitzpatrick,~ 284 Forct•s addition. 635 407. 409, 605, 903 i!lus., 223, 233, B88 Franquelin 1 s Map, Fitzpatrick, Maj. Thomas, Forest fire[...]Forrest, Gen-.--, 510 Fort St. John, 14·3 defense meeting on. 404[...]Forsyth, Capt:-Ge"Orge A •• Fort St. Vrain, 144, 152, Evans home on, 5 90[...]ntial Freighting (wagon), 237, Fle m ing S~hool, 757 422, 423[...]Fort Barclay. 301 Horton•s bridge at. near, 332[...]Fort Sheridan. 904 hospital on S. 14th, 545 illus, , 532[...] |
| [...]Gap (Indian). 65 Gerish, J. H. , continued, GlE>ncoe (town}. 613,. G[...]arbutt, F. C., 747 also Gerrish, J. H. 620, 621 nuggets[...]GarCia, Jesus JVIa., 498 Gerrish, J. H., 6 34; see 2i:~~: ~i~s 448 , 737 p~~~unce value of, 558, Fre:r[...]Garden of the Gods, 37. also Gerish, J. H. 140, 143 et seq., !52, 190, 783 Gerri sh, Mrs. (J. H. ), 784 Glenwood, ra.:T§2 • prin[...]2 production by areas, 562 illu s:, 144, 147 Garfield County, 75, Gest, J. H., 285, 312, Globe Smelter, 545, 551,[...]1, production 1 859 -1 870, Fremont's Peak, 144 James A., 471, 698[...]illus. , 55 9 550 Fremont St. , 448 Garfield School, 751[...]Glo~~~~fl~ 0 54s~ 5 ~54~ 64 French, 72, 88, 100, Garfield St. , 776 Gibson, Frank B. , 843 104[...]et Garos. 610 Gibson, H., 721[...]roduction of Globe 367, 384 , 715, 726, Gas, 455, 473, 474, Gila Cattle Co. , 8 72[...]roduction of Omaha French, Adnah, 185, Gas Company, 872 Gilbert, A ., 583 ·[...]Grant Smelter, 554 199, 200, 204, 212, Gas Works, 455, 465, Gilbert, Edward, 216[...]ies, illus., 199 Gast, Charles H., 714 3[...]t hoax, 295 French Louie, 192 Gaston's Addition, 443 Gill, A. J ., 721, 758[...]Mine, 570 605 (facing 6051 Gaylord St. , 861 Gilligan, H. M., 860 512 G[...]ly, Gilluly, Joseph W., 761, Godfrey's ranche, 429 Gold Hill Mining Co., 256 150, 152, 178 ---s5'9,660, 674 840[...]ont (Indian), Gold King Mine, 565 Frenchman's Lakes, Gebhard, Henry, 838[...]42 255, 256, 257, 267 , William S. , 572, 729 General Assembly, see[...]165, Gold Rush, Reverse, see Front (13th) St., 226, General Land Office, 129,[...]rstein, Henry, 960, Geological Survey. U. S. , 298, 322, 367, 377, 304, 309.[...], 620, 621, Fulton, Ill. , 848 George's Creek, Ark., 183 971[...]493 ducer of, 525 for St. Charles), 201, Furnas. R. W., 654 Ge[...]e government, 538 U.S. production, 565 Golden Gate, 285, 31 5. G (16th) St., 328, 447, 660 Railway, 613, 620[...]iscov'ery at Cripple 319 Gabbert, William H .• 712 Georgetown Loop, 613, s[...]distribution of. 550 319 Gale, William H., 364, Geo.rgia, !14, 115, 179 ,[...]extraction of, 395, Golden, Thomas S. , 317 Galesburg, 111., 510 262, 272,[...]German Bank, 510, 820, Glancy St. , 448 530[...]mining, 1869, 440 Goldsir, C. L., 314 Gambell's Gulch, 272, 916[...]7. Germans, 258, 339, 343, Glenarm St. , mentioned, 395[...]393, 394 Goode, Rev. William H .• 311 Gantz, John, 343 Gerish, J. H., 633; see naming of, 4~[...] |
| [...]INDEX (CONTIN UED) Goodman, H. A., 729 Grand juries, 690 Greeley (town), Gruber, E. H., 810, Hall, Mrs. Alice C •• 728 11 Governor Waite 1 s Legis- |
| [...]Hooper, W. W., 532 Harper's Ferry, 694 . Harper 1 s Magazine, 420[...]United Haz Cl St . ·, 75'1. Hickman, Charles T. ,[...]orse (Indian)~ Harrington, Frank, 418, H. D. and ·F. Bldg., 961 317, 319, 633[...]Head, Lafayette, 418, 498, Hickman's guerrillas, (Bancroft~ 14, 44[...]Horner's addition. 635[...]388 Hitchings. Rev. H. B., Harris •. C. R., 319[...]Hornung, F .• 832 Harris, H. E., 664 Heald, Daniel, 801[...]High-Cloud (Indian), 65 Hodges, J. H., 370 154, 168, 172, 17 3-[...]High-Eagle (Indian), 66 Hodgson, Joseph H., 651 174, 176, 229, 240, Harrison, Capt. H. H. C., Heffner, , 274 Highlan[...]403, 404, 407, 415, Harrison St. (Auraria), 446 274[...], 552, 346-347, 348, 428 Hart, E. H. , 348 Heidsick, Charles, 327[...]Horse-with-Horns Hart, Edward H. • 69 0 Heifman, , 250[...]illus. , 380 (Indian), 65 Hart, Rev. H. Martyn, Heine, cor.-r:::-474[...], 374 Horsfal Discovery, 256 Hart, S. , 721 Heismar, Jessey, 250 .[...], Hartman, C. R. , 752 Hemmenway, S. 0 . • 215, Highlands Street Railroad[...]n- Co., 863 Holladay St., 222, 448, Hot Springs, Ark., 98, Hartranft, Gen. _ __ way, S. 0. Highlands Town Hall, '[...]6 694 Hemmingway, S. 0., 215, High L ine Canal, 902[...], 520 694 way, S. 0. City, 638[...]Hill, James, 349 Holly, Carrie S. , 792 246, 247, 249, 295 , Has-[...]465, 478, 482, 53 7, Haskell, U. S. Dep. 319[...]672, 903, 965 Holman, William H., 48 737, 739, 781 , 783, / Haskel[...]30, Haskell, 0. L. , 476 - Henderson's Island, 540 illus., 553[...]Hastings, Colo • • 612, 621 Henderson 1 s Islaad Town- Hilli ard, B. F., 756[...]illus .• 464 , 465, 479 Hastings, S. H., 756, 830, Hendren, Capt. , .781[...]Hendricks, Bel~. Hilton, Charles H. Jr., Holmes, Charles, 186, . Hou[...]783 Hou ghton ' s Pri v ate Hatch,~. 752 Hen[...]Academy, 712 Haughwort, Charles S., He nnepin, Fr., 111 7[...]Hilton, Mrs. J. · V., 785 Holt, George H. , 86 0 , House, first. 224 et seq . •[...]Henry, Miss Mary, 772 Hinckl ey's Expr e ss, 330, Holy C r oss, Mount of,[...]Henson, Henry, 758 Hiney, H., 370 Children, 777[...]Hover, William A . , 842 , 894 Hawley, H. S., 319 Herald, RockJMMountain,[...]p.d Hospital, biography; 886 Hawley, H. W., 668 see Rocky ountain[...]Herald Hinsdale, S. C •• 757 Homeopathic HOspital, 774[...]Homer Blvd., 777 Howard, C. S .• 825 Hay, Edward, 215 Here[...]Hood, Gen. , 605 Howard, S. E. , 842 460 Her[...]Howe, Eva, 299 Hayden, Thomas S., 801, Herring, Theodore, 184,[...]Howland, Capt. _ _ _ • Hayes, J. s,, 721 Herrington, F., 832 (Barbe Marbo1s). 14, · Hooper, Charles E •• 941, 383, 384 Hayes, Pres. Rutherford Hersey, H. J., 624 126[...]935 Hibbard, _ _ _ 291 His{St:~d!!ci).uiilana Hooper, D. , 192[...]Hooper, S. K: • 92 9[...] |
| [...]s, 64-06, 67 Interior, Department of. H,;bbold, Fred, 932 Hyde Park add1tlon, 6[...]3 Monetary Commission, Hudson's Bay, 171 lberville River, 113, 114[...]popuJation 63, 67. 70, 552 Hudson's Bay Co., 143 Ibex. 607[...]66, 908, 932, 588, 590, 591, 608, Idaho St. , 750 and Fremont, 145[...]Ireland, 562, 664, 690, Hugn~s, Charles J. ,JJ-., 488. 562[...]torture, 82-83t. 411 Irish, Edward S., 838 688 Indians[...]ent, 81 Iron-Bird (Iridian), 65, 66 Hughes St. (Highland), 446 Iliff, John Wesley, 760[...]418 et seq. Irrigation, mentioned, Humboldt St., 773, 774, 510, 587, 588, 600,[...]420 794, 795, 804, 806, Humphrey St. , 861 820, 848, 898[...]Orman involved in, 518 Hunt, H. E. , 250 illinois Wesleyan Univ-[...]Schoolcraft), taught at Agricultural Hunt, H. R., 314, 343, ersity, 876[...]0, National Mining and Irving St. , 757 Hunter, Gen. , 383 see Stat[...]Infirmary farm, county, Italy, 521 Hunt's Addition, 443 Independent towns with-[...]159, 424 Ingersoll, Russell H. , Ivory.~ Hurst, John, 418[...]290, 949 Jack, J. H. , 633 Hussey, Hyatt, 640, 819 Indian agent[...]lnslee, s: L., 296 Hutchins and Easter cabin, 226[...] |
| [...]Jones, s. C., 274, 278 564, 581, 582. 586, c[...]conflict with Kansas Jones. s .. C. & Co., 274, 591. 593, 602, 604. Jackso[...], 674, 682, Kehler & Montgomery, Jackson, S .. 662 terr., 536[...]684. 717, 718, 721, 365 Jackson St., 776 contributes to laWless-[...]KehV::r, Sheriff J. HSt. (Auraria), 446[...]election of Oct. 1859, Joralmon, H. M. , 576 733, 734, 736, 773, Jackson St. (Highland),[...]Ford delegate to terr. Jordan, J. H., 929 927. 950 Jackscom, Tenn.. 538[...]Kehler, Rev. John H . • conventi[...]& Kansas City, 107, 144, Jackson, William H .• 460[...]3, 150, 153, 177. 189, Jackson, William S., 608,[...]633, 672, 688, 823, 274 Jackson's Bar, 274[...]Kehler School, 740 Jackson's Diggings, 259, 377[...]rado, 660, & Gulf Railroad, 622 Jackson's Hill. 263[...]Joy, Herman C., 911 Kansas City, St. Joseph Keller House. illus., 341[...], 904 Kellogg, E. H. , 540 776 Jacobson Bldg., 961 1[...], Kansas Indians, 73, 87, Kellogg, E. H. & Co., 964 Jacobson, Col. E. P., 177,[...]636, 103, 131, 133, 134, Kellogg, S. B., 317 956, 961 illus.,[...]orgia Jail, 429, 472, 541, 542, Jefferson, W. S.. 951 688, 694, 696, 702, Kansa[...]Kansas Military Depart- Kemble, Dr. Louis H., illus. , 544 Jeffery, Rev. Reu[...]261, Company No. 2, 640, Jeffries, H. B., 664 Judicial district, first, K[...]721 Kennedy. John C., 664, Jam'3's, Edwin (Dr.?), 317 Jennings, Thomas, 289[...]9, 441, 442. 454, 455. Kennedy, S. S. , 756 James, William H., 498, Jer-sey (town), 620 345[...]461, 481. 518, 541, Kennedy, Silas S., 830 838, por. 841,· 929 Jesuit Colle[...]605 (facing 6:05), 690, (Carson's wife), 157 730, 776[...]Jumps, Ned, 345, 719 124, 117, 182, 1H4, Kentucky Mine, 289 Jarvis Hall, 516, 763,[...]lJnited 208, 212, 216, 218, Kerr, H. B., m - Jeffards, , 314 Sidney,[...]aceous 323, 328, 331, 338, Kershaw's ranch, 347[...]344, 357, 490, 527, Ketterer, J . H., 418 Jefferson administration, 297, 537,[...]0 Johnson, Egbert, 637 (Mar sh, 14 536, 537, 538, 541. K[...]842 415, 437, 502, 536, Johnson, Ralph S .• 952 Justices of the peace, 527, Kans[...]ndian), 66 538, 584, 596, 598, Johnson, S. J., 315 532, 537, 540, 548,[...]254, 338, 599, 636, 638, 645, Johnson, S. W., 316 704[...]Johnson, W. F., 586, 587, K (Twentieth) St., 735, 243, 249; 297. 300, Kills-B[...]Kankakee, ill., 694 Kasserman's Addition, Kills-in-Lodge (Indian), 65 Jeff[...]5 97, 98, 99, 100, Kassler, E. S.• 842 (Indian), 65 313, 314, 31[...](Indian). 322, 534, illus., 310 Jones.~. H., 472 129, 132, 143, 148, Kassler, George W., 66, 67 Jeff..-son St., 226, 446 Jones, A. W .• 889[...]ndian), Jefferson terr .• Jones, A. H., 911 180, 183, 185, 187,[...]y 319, 320, 321, 322, Jones' & Russe11 1s Pikes 251, 278, 281, 283, Kavanaugh[...](Fremont 367. 391, 443, 453, Jones, J. H., 819, 822 309, 312, 314, 316, K[...]ce, 457 abdication; 322, Jones, John S. , 781 417, 418, 419, 424,[...]517, Keener, Frederick A . • King, H. C. , 756 city gove.1·ument weal! J[...] |
| [...]Laramie Plains, SBO P~~eGGf s Democrat 229, 230, 231, 964 Kingen,[...]212 street. 1867, 4.30 Lawrence, H. I. , 949 Kinna & Nye, 231. 247, 902, 92[...]Lachine, 125 Larimer St .• mentioned, Waddell warehouse[...]18, 226, 229, 230, scene on in early 1 60s, et seq., 190 et seq., '231-232, 872,[...]telephone exchange on, Lawrence St. , mentioned, 972 574[...]f business party/.Til4 Lafayette St ., 862, 961, 962, 964, 965,[...]Alvord House on, 465 in early 160s, ill us., district, 1870, 954 Kiskadden,[...]465 views on, l ate 160s, 1879, 465 526, 702[...]noon on, Kittredg€", C. M., 830, La Henton's Map, business center, 370,[...]Daily Colorado Tribune Klock, Fra nces S., 792 Laimer, C. F .• 651 bu[...]of Lake Cole's Hall on, 450, 87lt, 900, 961, ill us., 21[...], 586 Larimer, Wm. H. H., 15, 647 Knights of Honor, 779[...]Iddings property on, 738 Knights of St. John, 779 illus., 799, 800, 801,[...]612, 614, 620, 621 "P"eO"Ple's tabernacle on, Know-Nothing Party, 588 Lake[...]rd-Stockman on, Knox.ville, Ill., 510 Lake St. Claire, 114 Democrat on, 660, 670[...]664 LaLande, Baptiste. 130, Fifth st. m A uraria, 446 Las Animas (town}. 150,[...]robbery of judge on, 436 Koslaskic 1 s Ranch, 383, LaLoma Church,[...]851, 852 Kountze, Augustus, 817, Lamb, H. H., 737 Graham drug store on,[...]on, 576, 918, 836 Lambert, A. S.96 J[...], 287 488, 678, 679, 680 Kountze's addition, 635 Lane, Joseph, 418[...]Lavin, T . W., 370· 538, 6 75 et S<'t:.:. Kuner Pickle Co., 878, 885 Lanphere, J. E.[...]list of territorial Kunkel. Dr. A. S., 215 Lansing, Robert, 724 Mou[...]LaPlata Coonty, 502. 702 murder vtchm ' s cabin Law school, 759, 761 numb[...]222, 244 People 1 s Theater on, Lawrence and Dorsett[...] |
| [...]Lead, (metal). continued, Lessig, Gen. W, H •• 961 Little, , 247[...]Levy, Lesser, 776 Little, Richard S .• 546 Lone.:.Man (Indian), ·55 Lowrie, H. C .• 648 Leading (Indian), 65 Le\C[...]6 Lone-Woman (Indian), 64 L0wrie, J. S., 532 Leadville, 267, 331 , 365, Levy, '1.[...]Little-Bear (Indian), 65 Long 1 s Expedition, 83, Lowrie, J. T., 307 45[...]85 132, 141 et seq., 149, Lowry, James S .• 208, 481, 482, 502, 504, Lewis[...]696, Little-Dog (Indian), 65 Long 1 s Peak, 32, 141, 898 Leavenworth, Kan.,[...]Little-Elk (Indian), 66 Langsdorf, W. H. , 208 Lusby, R . H., 250 298, 334, 342, 343, Library, C[...]Little-Killer (Indian), 65 Long, Stephen ·H •• 130, Lutheran church, 730, 721[...]). Luttrell, James, 1 93 Leavenworth & Pike 1 s Law, 768 Little P[...]812, 904 Loosa, AtJ.gust H •• 942, Lyall, Slr Charles, 41 172[...]31 Little-Ring (Indian), 65. 66 Lorah, S. 1. , 325 Lyle, , 528 3[...]• 377 Lyon, Gen. 605 H. , 387, 388 Li.le'"Oiitli"e Plains[...]747, 757, 900, Mack Mine. 289 Lee, Mrs. F. S., 792 Lincoln, President[...]f, 484 Mackinac, Strait of, Lee, Harry H., 576 335, 360, 492, 510,[...]929 Lloyd, Rev. W. S. , 721 Louisiana Purchase, 102, Macom[...]al 620 Madison St. (Auraria), 446 Lehow, Oscar E . • 208,[...]626, 631, 665, 666, Maine, U. S. S., 939 Lesdiguieres, Duchess of.[...] |
| [...](CONTINUED) Majors~ Alexander~ 363 Market St. , continued, Marten, Pine, 174[...]ains), 167- 244, 295, 299, 300, |
| [...]ued McNeal, R. T., 672 Merriam. Col. H. C., 903, 904[...]964 McPhee Bldg., 964 Merritt, John H., 759, Miege, Bishop J. B . •[...]6, Miles, )\'!iss E. C., 784 danger's of, 570 Mississippi River, 80, 942,[...]59, 96 Military Academy, U. S., exchanges, 572 110, 111. 1[...]05, Messinger, J. H. , 364 377. 403, 404, 413,[...]398 (facing 605), 614, Me~~~; •2 ~~.v·s:i'2 ---· Metallic Ext[...]in 1860, 331 et seq. Mississippi St. , 798 Me~ucation, 759, 706[...]thodist Episcopal Church the Colorado, U. S., 1873, 549 115, 118,[...]556, 572, 600, 608, Mills, Henry H., 842 Mining laws, 272, 274, 132[...]93, 301-302, 303-304, Michael, Mrs. H. W., 320, 326, 338, 675-676 se[...]Middaugh, A sa F. , 541, Ming St. (Highland), 446 896. 908, 932, 950[...]871. Merino, 414 Middaugh, W. H., 314, 100, 129, 169-170,[...] |
| [...]INDEX (CONTINUED) Missouri River & Pike s1 Montclair, continued Morton, Capt[...]72 421 Murdock, H., 634 496, 847 Mitch[...]Myers, Julius A., 831 Fourth U.S. Colored |
| [...]nued, 101 Omaha, continued, Otis, H. N . , 835 New Mexico, continued Nineteenth St.,[...]Nye's Store, 429· 834, 842, 847. 848,[...]74, 418, 851 People's Tabernacle[...]e, 674 11J, 114, 115, 116, Nineteenth U.S. Colored[...]Cayalry, 467 Ninth St. (not Stout), Oakes Home, 775[...]376 O'Brien, W. H., 645 One Hundred and Twenty- Overl[...]409, 414, 456, 458, 492, Ninth (Stout) St., 226, 751 O'Brien, William J .• S[...], 694, 700, 710, 724, 763, 782, Nix, C. H., & Co. , 954 and Reading Rooms,[...]831, Orahood, Harper M. , Owens, A. H., 288, 319 692, 758, 762, 776, North C[...]704, 747, 902, par. Owens, C. S., 831 1qo, 796, 801, 803, North Creede[...]biography, 692 Orchard pl., 8S9 (Indian), 66 832 647, 648, 650, 651, O'Fallon's Bluffs, 230 Ord, Joseph P., 624 Ox[...]. 281, 974, 976 Ogden St. , 725 Oregon, 126, 127, 128,[...]322, 351, Pabor, W. E., 769 Newberry, Dr. J. S., 48 North Denver Bank, 830, 607,[...]154, 164, 179, 221, Newcomb, J. H., 651 753, 754, 755.[...], Newtonia, Mo. , 389 North Side Women's Club, 496, 680, 696 Orman, Go[...]1, 812 North Sixteenth St. , 861 Ojo De Lain, 101 biogra[...]lius F. , Oro City, 904 Pack, H. E. , 832 Nichol, Thomas, 636 659[...]Paine, W. J., 340 Nichols, James H., 832, Norton, , 182 Old-Me[...]76. Pakenham, Gen. Sir Nichols, W. H. J., 772 Norwood, Tallmadge, 822[...]907 Nienhiser, Henry, 752 nalssance (S1mpsonl, 48 Olympia, Wash. , 956 414[...], 907 Nil Sine Numine, 508 NoteWare, J. H., 736, 752 Omaha, 94, !67, 174, Oterm[...]305, 324, 354, 355, Otis, Brig. Gen. E. S., 815, 816, 818, 819. St. Luke's hospital, 774 Nuestra Senora Las Nieves[...] |
| [...]am, 319 .Phillips County,. 502, Pike's Peak guidebooks, (facing 605) Pa[...]Lafe, 503 Phillips. Thomas, 548 Pike's Peak Hoax , ' 255, Palmer, Jud, 949 '[...]Denver. 790 "Pike's Peak or Bust" 296, 520, 783, 934[...]sonS, John (mint Pennington County. S.D. , 951 illus.·, 2[...]Phonolite, 565-566 Pike's Peak region, Palmer. Matilda (Jackson), Parsons,[...]Pathfinder {Fremont), People's Bank Bldg., Picott, T. E. , 61>2[...]d, 292. Patrick, A. G., 531 People's Court, 250, 62, 65, 66, 102[...]53 Patterson, C. B., 310, People's National Bank, Piedra Pintado Creek, 59[...]mentioned, 748, 826, People~s Savings Bank, Pierce~ Arthur E., 193[...]830, 914 Pierce, Jame s H •• 183, Pike's Stockade, 138, 139 Panic of 1873, 459, 481, buys News, 666 People 1 s Savings and 184, 185. 187, 208, Pilc[...]84, gate, 'territorial, People's Tabernacle, Pierce, Gen. John, 586, Pi[...], elec ted senator by People's Theater, 303, 594, 735, 820, 889[...]22, 826, 828, 834, partner of Charles S. 906. 907 183, 184,[...]ine {tree~ 913 et seq. t:: S. representative, Perdido River, 114, 117, Pierce, W . H .• 747, 956 Pine Ridge Indian Agency, Panis I[...]., 487 Perez, Don Man:uel, 109 Pierce Sts Ranche, 382, Pinkerton, J. H .• 506 pines, 942., 946, 9.47 Paul, c;;[...]Espy. Perkins, W. L., 215 Pigeon's R_anch, Battle of, Pintsch gas plant. 455 Paris, Treaty of, 113 792[...]Paving, 375, 638, 648 Perry, H. D. , 4 76 177. 178 Pi[...]Arkansas Perry, William, 692 Pike's Map, illus., 136 Pioneer Ladies' Aid Park Boa[...]Perry. Mrs . . William, Pike's Peak, mentioned, _Society, 784 Park Commis[...]Payne, Capt. , 468 Peters. Charles H •• 757 279, 286, 295, 972, Pisko,[...]Pearce, Richard, 550, Pettis, S. N., 492 Colorado Springs at base[...]illus., 569 Pettis, S. Newton, 688. of, 605 (facing 605)[...]. G .• 756 Parkhill, Dr. Clayton, Pearl St. , mentioned. Pfeiffer, , 154[...]School on, 757 Pfouts, P. S., 370 Gilpin near, 1847-48, Pittsburgh & Connellsville 211. 215, 448, 533 St. Luke's Hospital Phelps, A. C., 748 490 Railroad, 212 Parkinson St. {Cleveland on, 774[...]191, 192, 194, 195, Parkinson, William H. , Pease, George E •• 498[...]llus. , 239 illus., 188 Parkinson 1 s Ranche, 36 7 Peavey, Angenette J •• 776, 785, 844, 886, Pike 1 s Peak and Cherry Placerville, Calif., 354, Park[...]725 Refining Co. , 5 72 ''Pike's Peak Excitement'', Planters' House, 157, Parks (m[...]947 et seq. Pike's Peak fever, 324, Sarah S., 792 Parks, E. R .• 314 Pecos Vall[...]186 440, 939, 941 et seq. Pike's Peak Guide and Platte (as name for Parks, l[...]Journal (D. C. Oakes), Colo.), 317 Parks, R. S., 315 325, 328, 535, 537[...] |
| [...]Police Commissioner, Porter, James H., "756 Press, printing, 209, P[...]644, 645 Porter's addition, 635-636 Pretty-Horse (Indian),[...]James K. , 429 Price, Lt. , 46-9 Platte City, Mo., 216[...]Porto Rico, 953 Price, E .•~ Pueblo Revolt, 77, 100 Platte County, Mo . • 820 Polk St. (A urari a), 446 Portuguese, 1 83 Price, J. T., 528 Pulilan, Philippines, 948[...]46 Post, , 311 Price, Jonathan U., 690 Pullman car, 396, 622 Pla[...]Pollard, L . C. , 583 Post, Chili'le's C., .317, Price River Canon, 606 Pullman Co., 622, 884 Pla[...], 284 321, 537, 6 33, 781 Price. Gen. Ster1ing, l"u1lman, George M., 396[...], 249, Post, Denver, see Denver Price, W. H., .670 Punnett Bros. Map of 107.[...]101 246 , 248, 253, 309, Pollock 1 s Hotel, 247, 252, 325, ~34, 348, 354,[...]355, 496, 656, 834, Prince, H., 752 346, 692. 726. 770 742, 794, 795 . 798, Pollock St. (Highland), 446 906[...]74. 975. 976, and Pony Express, ~~~h~o~::s~.eszorat. 663 Post Office Bldg., 485.[...]e Court, 710, 714 Q Street, 44 7 Coxey's army uses, 848 •[...]Post Printing Co. , 6 72 Prospect St. , 861 605), 730 Denver Circle R. R. Pony, Mont. , 1 91 Post Publi s hing Co., 6 72 Prosperity, 366, 435, Quantrell 's guerrillas, crosses, 625 Pool[...]40-441, 454, 457. 388 , 389 14th St. viaduct Poole, J;H~ Co., 851[...]Poor, Edward E . , 801 Potter, H. B., 721 287-288[...]Poor-Dog (Indian), 65· Potter, Thomas H., 901, Church, 778;. see also Qu[...].. 550, Quillian, Robert A., 498 23rd St. viaduct Poor-Skunk (Indian), 65[...]ident Park addition, illus. , 973 Platte St•• 447, 648, Population, mentioned.[...]Provisional government, Quincy St. (Auraria), 446 Platte Street School.[...]Jefferson, Territory; Q uitman St. , 755, 772, Platte Valley, 329, 352, 282, 304, 305, 307, Poznanski, H. & Co. , 370 Jefferson, State of;[...]35, 238, 239, 309, Territorial l egi s la- 99, \07, 108 P l atte Valley Theater,[...]Prowers County, 502, 702 Race St. , 751, 777 Plattsmouth, Nebr., 4[...]Public building, first, 542 Railey, M . H., 634 Pleasant Valley, 325 American[...]l ownership 171, 173, 176, 216- Plumb, S. J., 498 1900, 649[...]Popuhst Party, 506, 664, Prentice, William H. , 508, 515, 518, 520, 4[...]938 Poisel, , 15"4 Port Royal, S.C • • 97, Pref?b~enan, The, 66[...] |
| [...]Rankin, William, 692 Reed, W. H., 24 482, 612, 613, 614, organized. 583[...]gosa & Rariden, J.J., 310 Reed's Theater. 303 615, 626, 628 first[...], John C., 608 Cleveland, Columbus & 14th St. viaduct crosses 607, 624, 627, 628[...]585, 593, 609 Raynolds. Joshua S. , 836 Report on the Ruins of the Colorado &[...]Real estate values, 327, Seaton's, 113 628, 629, 631 illus. , 592[...]& Gulf 622 23rd St. viaduct crosses Stockman[...]., Railroad Co •• 620 Kansas City, St. Joseph tracks, 648 Record[...]way, 610, & Pacific Hailroad, 824 U.S. & Mexico Ra'il- Red-Eagle (Indian), 65[...]558 618, 620, 621 Manitou & Pike 1s Peak way, 6.04 Red-Eart[...]13, illus., 628 597 et s~q. > 607-608 Red-Elk (Indian), 65[...]Red Lion Inn, 472 Reynolds, Charles H •• 588 et seq. , 590, 593, road, 607 Raleigh St., 772, 775 Red Men, Improved Order[...], Ralston (town), 613, 620, Redmond, H. E. , 944 Reynolds, James, 528 Denver[...]ailway, 608-610, 618, Missouri RiVer & Pike's Ralston (Georgians), Red-Owl (India[...]621 Ramsdale, A. H., 208 66 R[...]Ranahan, 'fhopias, 419 Reddin, John H., Rice and Moyne cabin, Pac[...] |
| [...]tain· News, Rocky Mountain News. Rice, N.H., 216[...]continued, Rice, Pliny S., 824 continued, 138, 139, 6[...]trip out, 248, 665 Rice, S. 0 .• 370 ·380, 381. 383, 385,[...]arch 1859 52o, s22 & Pacific Railroad[...]665 Welton St. building, Company No. 7, 642[...]Railway, 55, 606, Rockwell, H. L., 640 Denver, 294[...]2 149 Market St. building Rocky Mountain region,[...]Riots. 471 et seq. Ro;r~.M333.taJ3s~e65J~· 647 Roc[...]917, 961, 971 on Larimer St., 660, 518, 531, 579, 581 Richmond, G[...], 215, 229, spelled Riethmann), Ft. St. Vt:ain-Boulder, 294[...]- notice, May 1859, 533 Rogers, J. S., 319 Ring (Indian), 66 Robbins, Capt[...]headed government, 314 reports fir.st effort at 704, 714, 768, 929, 735, 75[...]por. 687 por. 734 Roberts,~; S., 377, charges, 354[...]lante hangings, 429 Rollins, E. H. & Sons. 843 Rio De Los Mancos, see Robins[...]Rio Francisco, 101 Robinson, Dr. John H., illus., 661, 663 Richardson's description, 73, 404, 417' 419, Rio Grand[...]345 Rood's Gun Shop, Northern Railroad, Robinson,[...]statement on resources, Rooker, S.M., 190, 206, 678, 688, 698, 777, Rock[...]stuck in "Cherry Creek, Rooker, Mrs. S.M .• 24..3 950, 971 illus., 608 Rock C[...]Greeley speech .at Greg- subscription price, 658 Root, Amos~· 93, 94, 99, 100,[...] |
| [...]9 Russell Party, continued St. lldefonso, continued Salish, 63[...]586, 592, San Rafael addition, 636 Rose, C. H. , !1;j!> 224, 225, 226, 255, St. James Hotel, 465., 608, 729, 767, 78[...]715 St. John•s Church in the 871, 889, 966[...]221, Russell-Smith cabin, see St. John's College, 763 875[...]Smith-Russell cabin St. Jobn's Day, 233 Saloons, 243, 303, 335,[...], Russell, W. J., 208 St. John•s Episcopal 336, 338,. 342, 343,[...]345, 349, 370, 404, Sanborn, Walter H.. 708 Rosecrans, Miss Caroline, 183, 184[...]3, 824 194, 195, 198, 204, St. John•s River (Fla.), Salt, 291, 42£[...]272, 288, 311, 319, St. Johns Mountains (San 147, 151, · 158,[...]889 St. Joseph, Mo., 335, 281, 351, 352, 35[...]0 por. 837 Russell, William H., 215, 362, 363, 564, 579,[...]Salt Lake City, 170, 190, Sanders, ---:r.s:-;-193 153, 154 Russell, Mr[...]Flour Russellville, 308, 310, St. Joseph Gazette, 361 358, 359, 361, 36[...]315 St. Joseph's Hosp1tal, 416, 426, 428, 583, S[...]ing 605), 718, also Modena Pass Rounds, H. E., 653, 665 Ruxton, George F., 151, St. Lawrence River, 125 722, 734, 783, 81[...]86 156 St. Louis, 103, 108-109, 815, 847, 852; se[...]154, 158, 159, 160. Saltie'i, E. H. , 659 138, 139, 148, 190, 510, 513,[...]Sadler, Sarah, 676 St. Louis Bay, 112 San Antonio, Tex.; 3[...]Mines, 568 Safety, Committee on. St. Louis Democrat, The, 896[...]Sage, Rufus B., 145, 178, St. Louis Mine, 289 San Barnabe, 101[...]98 179 St. Louis River, 111. 113 San Bernardino, Cal~f[...]55 Sage. Russell, 609 St.· Louis (lOth) St., 226, 102 606, 6[...]300, 446 San Carlos River (St. 732, 850, 851, 872 Running-Eagle (Ind[...]227, 230, 233. 286, St. Louis St. (Highland), San Clemente River[...]186 310, 323, 324, 327, St. Luke 1S Hospital, 774, San Diego, Calif., 412, S[...]793 St.· Mary, Falls of, 110 San Fernando, Philip[...]Indian) .. illus., 189, 233, 324 St. Mary• s Academy, 761, 948[...]Saguache (town), 52 0 St. Mary's Catholic 459, 471, 562, 580,[...]702 St. Matthew, J. H., 313, 848, 860, 902, 914, Santa F[...].951, 403 Rushville, Ind... Academy St. Andrews House, 775 St. Paul, Minn. . 708. 956[...]e Trail, 147, 153, 676 St. Ange, Capt. , 109 896, ·goa[...]184, 351, 365, 387 Russell, Gen. , 605 St. Anthony's Hospt!a!, 775 St. Paul River, 94 Philippines, 948[...]__ illus. , 775 St. Paul•s Church, 730 San Javier River. 948 Russell District, 274, 289 St. Aupstme, Fla., 76. St. Peter River.. 94 (Gunnison), 102[...]72, 286, 97. 100 St. Phillips River San Juan Bridge, Philip- 947 325, 392, St. Bernard Bay, 112 (Missouri) .[...]Rosalia Creek, 102 illus., 395 St. Charles (town), 193, St. Vincent's Hospital, San Joaquin River, 101 San[...]r, 183, 209, 212, 213, 214, ·st. Vrain & St. James, 609 Sant[...]208, 224, 226, 229, 231. St. Vrain, Ceran, 146, 702[...]azin, Norbert, 951 Russell. Jones & Co., St. Charles, Mo. , 201 St .. Vrain County. 321 574 Sargent House. 430 353. 354, 355 St. Charles River (San St. Vrain Creek, 152, San Juan River, 4 7.[...]634, 690, 781 15, 180, 183, 184, St. Charles St., 447 St. Vrain, Golden City San Juan River, Phili[...]ey, Peter A., 152, 187, 191, 192, 205, St. Charles Town Assn.. and Colorago[...]226, 203, 204, 205, 213, St. Vrain 1s Trading Post, San Luis. 101 Sa[...]Savaro, 477 454, 778, 781 St. Claire River, 114 616, 962 607, 898 Savery, Thomas H., 885 illus., 210, 233, 271, St. Clairsville, Ohio, 956 Salem Center, N.Y[...]aville, J. J., 633 Russell, Majors & St. Cla:r!i' s Orphan Salem 1s Church, 7 30 943, 944[...]ls, 247, 252, 303, 353, 357, 360, 363, St. Genevieve, 115 629[...]336, 341 810 St, Ignace, 111 Saliedo, Gen.[...]r, Willian B . . Russell Party, 184 et seq .• St. lldefon.so, Treaty of, Saline lan[...] |
| [...]Seventh St. , continued Shield (Indian), 65, 66[...]Second Judicial District, gas works on. Shield-Boy (Indian), 64[...]S. district, 577-578[...]710, 714 Seventh (Curtis) ·St., 226 Shining Mountains[...]wire s .• 570 Schermerhorn, J. R., 929 950[...]72 Scherrer, Jacob, 825, Second (Wynkoop) St., 226,[...]Seward, William H. , 458 Shirley, S. J., 664 Silver glance (mining Schinn[...], 274 term), 549 Schinner's addition, 636 Second U. S. Volunteer Schirmer, Jacob F. L .• Cav[...]afer, D., 317 Short, Prof. Sidney H •• 629, 934 Schlesinger, S., 419[...]159 Simon, Dr. S., 776 882, 892 526. 702[...]124 Shattuck, H. L., 721 Shot (Indian), 66[...]65 Simpson, J. H., 48, 146- 753, 754, 755, 756 Semper. Charles S., 658, Shaw, Alexander, 949 Shot-C[...]Shot-His-Horse (Indian), Simpson's Rest, 223 756 Seneca Co[...]63, 6':1, ill us. , 741 Senate, U.S .• 205, 439. Shears & Co .• 274, 278[...]2, 403, 464, 465, 483, 485, Senators. U.S., 495, :199, biography, 562-564 Sh[...]Sheep, 129, 372, 523, Sibley, Gen. H. H., 380, Sioux (Eastman), 14 720, 723, 72[...]51, Sigi, Maurice, 752 St. Anthony Hospital 712[...]186 5, Scott, James D. , 256 Seventeenth St. , mentioned, 418, 423, 435, 459,[...]177, 178 et seq., 182, Sixteenth St. , mentioned, Scott, Mary, 733 83[...]955, 956, 958, 959, at Sloan's Lake, 645 457, 477, 483, 487,[...]548, 599, 782, 924, horn s., 570 459, 725 Scudder, Capt.[...]774 Sherman, J. H. , 692 Grant Smelter, 554[...]Seventh Cavalry, 383 Sherman, John H. , 343, production of, by years.[...]n boundary. 388, 389, 390 Seventh St•.• flHffitioned, 218, 423, 458, 605[...]854, 861 (facing so'S). 956 558[...] |
| [...]!NDEX (CONTINUED) Sixteenth St., continued Sleeper, continued S[...]confederate flag Sleepy Hollow Mine, S33 Smith Mine, 289 729.[...], 632 |
| [...]767. 769, 894. 900, Steele, H. D., '540; 543, Sto~t (town), 613, 620 S[...]972, 974, 976. Steele, Dr. H. K .• 747. illus., 231 275, 2[...]temporary, 866, 955, Steele, Mrs. H. K., 775 208, 213, 214, 215, Spani[...]!88-189 Spanish e xpeditions, 48, Pike's Peak, 329, 356 State Constitutional con-[...]prairie schooner, 351 Women's Clubs, 785, 489, 538, 548, 832(?)[...]drivers described, 357 tion of Women's Clubs Steele. Judge Robert W. , Stout St.. mentioned, 226, Spanish Peaks, 156[...]5 State government, 325, Steele's ranche, 540 954, 955, 959, 965,[...]s, Capt. , 132 Leavenworth & Pike 's School fo!" Girls, 777 Steinberg[...]· Girls, 516 St~vens,~, 289 illus . , 745[...]State Institute for the StevFn~, D. H., 2!5 Stout, Dr. W., 296 Spencer,[...]Stevens, A. J., & Co. , 832 Stove, fir s t, 247 Spencer, J. C., 633, 634 to So[...]Strahorn & Schlapp, 662 Spencer, S::omuel,_l54 Transcontinental, 357,[...]514, 515, 516, 517, Stevens, R. S. , 215 571, 967 Spokane Falls, Wash., Stagg, S. B. , 216 518, 540, 554, 636,[...]831, 844, 845, 914 Stewart, John S., 941, Street Cle aning, City Spotte[...]dian), 65 66 St<ite Penitentiary, 508, por. 947[...]922 Stewart .st., 757 Street lighting, 455, 473.[...]State salaries, 503 Stile's Addition, 443 Street names, 447 e t seq. Sprague, W. G. , 876 Stanger, J. S., 662 Sta te seal, illus. , 501[...]State Soldiers' and Sailors' Stilwell. Jack S. , 419, Superintende nt of, 638[...]Sta te Superintendent of Stingley, Ida H. , 574 Streets, 201, 205, 209, Sprin[...]792 Stocking, Mos e s , 208 365, 375, 440, 443, Springer[...]489, 494, 495, 496, Stock-ra1s111g, 521. 523, 586, 752, 822, 889[...]rst (Indian), 65 Sprmgf1eld nile, 421 St~nton, I. W., 325 540, 590[...]599, 708, 710 Stringfellow, John H. , 527 illus. , 53 Starring,[...]872 Stone, C. S. , 645 Strode, E. C. , 85 3 Squa[...]847 Stone, J. S., 317 Stuart, Thomas B .• 714[...]Steck, Amos, 319, 325, Stone, Dr. J. S., 326 Stuart, Walter A., 820, Squir[...]960, por. 742 l:Hograpny, 676-67H 149 429, 430, 479, 579, State Bureau of Mines, StecK's Addition, 443 Stone Calf (Indian), 86-8 7 Sublette's Cut-off, 183 809, 918[...] |
| [...]ONTINUED) Sullivan, A. B. , 830 Swigart, H., 215 Taxidermy, 646 Territorial Legislature, Thirteenth St•• continued Sullivan, Dennis, 508, Sw[...]. 931 Sydenham. • 3S~ Taylor. A. P •• 6S1 514. 51S. 517. 536. Th~rtieth Ave. , 755 biograp[...]Taylor, Bayard, 458, S37. 538. 540; SS2. Thirty-eighth Ave.· ,_[...]Symes. G. G •• 822 66S. 972 583. SB7. S91. 634. 861 Sullivan, Neil C., 941,[...]p. George C. , Taylor. Charles E_•• S76 644. 676. 682. 688, Thirty-first St•• illus.• 884 951[...]Taylor. J. M .• 634 690. 73S. 736. 740. Thirty-f6urth Ave., 870 Sulliva[...]Taylor. John, 464 741. 7SO. 7S8. 812. Thirty-second Ave .~ 755. Sully, Ge[...]Taylor. John A., 941 817. 8S3. BS4. 856. 77S Sulphur·. 5 5 s - ' Tabeguache Utes, 418[...]528 973 74S Summers & Dorsett livery 777 Taylor St. (Auraria-). 446 Territorial seal, 321 'fhirty-second St.~ 7~7. stable, 326 Table Mountain, 264, Taylor. W. G•• S32 Territorial secretary. 869[...]Territorial Treasury, Thirty-Sixth U. S. Summit·County, 290, 386, 784 Teed, Mathew. 208 43S. 81S. 834 Volunteers. 949 387. 393.[...]sin 538. 549. 566. 570. 465. 482. 82S. 83S. Telegraph. 280, "328. (map[...]852. 904. 965 333. 33S. 3S8. 361.- Terry, Gen. • 411. Thirty-third St .• 869 Sumner. E. C .• 248. 465, i11u[...]use on, 643 665 Tabor. H. A. w .• 326. 427. 429. 431. 43S. Tertiary Epoch, 30 et seq. Thomas. A .• 307 Sumner,. Col. E. V., 904 46S. 476. 478. 481. 465. S80. S93. 604. Texas. 76. 86, 90, 99, Thomas Brothers. 289 Sumner, Robert L., 248, S02. 5S1. S70. 641. 847 et seq• • 872[...]t & Lee, 665 781. 83S. BS2. 892. Telegraph Corps. Army.[...]180. 267. 297. 346. Thomas, Gov. Charles S., Colorado Sun 967. por. 905 Telephone, 465, 847, 348. 3S3. 374. 377. 502. S38. 646. 826. Sun Dance, 85, 419 bi[...]e Company il!us .• 8SO. 8Sl. 8S2, 383. 3BS. 386. 404. ill us., 50[...]643 BS3. 854. BSS 4S2. 4S3. S62. 604. biography. S04-S06 721. 732. 784 Tabor Opera Hous[...]611. 612. 616. 618. Thomas, Gen. George H. ~ Sunset (town). 613. 621. 482. 723. 85[...]Teller. Henry M., 404, 620. 622. 60S (facing 60S (facing 60S) 622. 907. 908. 966. 49S. 499. S02. sos. 605). 896. 898 Thom[...]ic illus •• 965, 973. 977 S83. S96. 598. 599. ''Texas'' (prize-fighter),[...]Thomas, 0. P., 634 County. S40. S48 Taft. J. B •• S96 Teller. Willard. 901. 902 T[...]9 Supervisors, City Board Tailings. 394. 39S Tellurium. 566 Texa[...]exline. 612. 621. 622 Thompson,~ tiJ~ 49S. 507. 538. 548. Tall-Panther (Indian), 66 124. 21S. 218. 322. Thanksgiving Day. first, Thompson, G. T .• 475 S54. 678. 680. 682. Tall-Pine (Indian). 66 3S3. S3B. 60S (facing 318 Thomps[...]Thatcher, Annie. 690 467 926. 93S 6S Tennessee Ave., 751[...]Levi, 214 686. 688. 690. 708. Tammen, H. H., 672 Tenth Army Corps, 828[...]Thompson, Robert D. , Supreme Court, U.S., Tampa Territory, 492 Ten[...]Thatcher, John Pemberton, 842 118. S07 Tangibao, ln..[...], 838 Thompson. W. H .• 469 Surrounds-Them (Indian), Tanquary.[...]os, F -ernando De, see Tenth lSt. Louis) St., S13. 576. 646. 81S. 842 Surveyor, county[...]ThOmson, Charles I., 714 (Arapahoe). 527, S3S, Taos (town), 100, 103, 24·3[...]phy. 838 Thomson, John Edgar. 540. S48 146, ISO, 1S2, IS3, 7Sl. Thatcher; M.D., 843 605 (fating 60S) Surveyor-General, Terri- 157. 158. 159.[...]ThorD.burg, Maj. T. T., torial. 230. 32S. 492 232. 247. 291. 302. boundary of business Co•• 81S. 838 75. 466. 468. 469. 470 Surve[...]. • 708 Thorne. C. R .• 303 201. 20S. 208-209. Taos Lightning. 152, 193,[...]on, -7 77 Theaters. 303, 321. 326, 63S. 64S 222. 226-227. 228. Taos Valley, 74 Turner & Hobbs on. 327. 33S. 34S. 455. Thoroughman, Mrs. Eliza, 229. 232[...]904. 906. 907. 908. 728 298. 300. 30S. 324. Tappan & Fosdick Ma:", T[...]209. 222 493. S04. 506. SB1. The-Bear-Spares-Him[...]450. 452. 460. 464. Tappan Bldg .• 4S8. 96_6 S90-591. 600 iJndian). 65[...]s·4[...]866 747. 770. 781. 8S3. 311. 313. 314. 31S. 6S Thurman St •• 751 Sutton. John , 193 966[...]r. Isaac, 419 Swallow, George R. , 840 38S Congress, see Cong-[...]rd Cavalry, 468 Tibbetts. Allen P .• S27. Swans. 174 il!us ••[...]delegates. Third Co_lorado Cavalry, S28 Swansea, Colo., 551. 870 Tappan's Block, 660, 661, Territorial 374. 702 Tierney, J. H., 186, 533 Swansea, Wales, 550, 662[...]do Regiment, Tierney. Luke D. , 184, SS1. S56. S68 Tariffs, 564[...]Tarr & Cushman, 875 314. 31S. 316. 320. 409 T[...]Tarryall. 286. 290. 321. 32S. 336, 338. Third Judicial District, T[...]ytown. N.Y.• 892 460. 504. 506. S14. Third Regi~ent, U.S. Tigre. Pelican, 184 Sweden. 932 Tarsney. Adj. Gen. _ _• S34. 710 Infantry. 418[...]Third New Hampshire Tilton. A. E. & C. H. 932 Tascher, , 262 U.S .• Map. illus .• 127 Volunteers, 828[...]Territorial Legislature. Third (Wazee) St•• 226, Timber. 140, 211. 223, 730[...]l!us •• 223. 233 226. 247. 524-52S Sweeney, Anthony, 843 318. 320. 321. 4SO. 31S. 316. 317. 318. Thirteenth Ave., 762 Times, Denver. see Sweeney. William H., 941 4S7 •· 459, SOB. 509. no. 321. 32[...]Denver T tmes Sweigart, Henry, 96 8 S14. S26. S40. S46. 324. 326 . 328. 363. Volunteers, 950 Times, Denver Daily, see Sweigert, H. , 532 638. 646. 735. '137, 364. 367. 403. 413. Thirteenth St• • 226. 229, Dati~ ftmes, Denver Swift, Cadet W. H.• 141 741. 742. 74S. 750. 418. 428. 430. 433. 56[...]Timesmldmg. 576, 664, Swift Bird (Indian). 19S 7S1. 7SS. 767. 768 441, 443.[...] |
| [...]Hidalgo. see Guadaloupe Turner, J. H .• 53-1 .. 533; see also Wootton. R. r....[...]Treaty of Paris, see 1--aris Turner, J. H., 310 gre?) River. 153[...]ndians Tin, 568 Treaty of St. lldefonso, Turner, U. , 794, 810[...]Co. , 872 Tinnerholm, Ivan, 949, see St. "lJ.defonso. Turtle- Following-His-[...]61 Uncompahgre River, 101, Ut&h, 73, 74, 96, 98, 951[...]uck-a- 65 Twelfth St., 226, 227, 820, 825, 830, 831[...]78, 780, 825. 844, 854, 892 Tremont St. (pl)., 191, illus., 233[...]and Railroad 852, 886, 892, 898, Todd's guerrillas, 388, 447, 448. 543, 751,[...]b, 959 Utah Junction. 613 Toll, Charles H., 576, illus .• 895 St. Luke's Hospital Union National Bink, 825,[...]631 Tribune, The Denver, Twentieth St. , Gulf Railway, 542,[...]101. 140, 148, !50, Tomheart, H. H., 319 819[...]Tribune-Republican, 670 People 1 s Tabernacle 158, 167, 353, 354. 425, 434, 435, 448, "Tom's Babi'. 570 Tribune Republican Corp.[...]), 65 664 St. PauPs Church on. 437. 438, 442, 468,[...]Trinidad (town), 94, 157, Twenty-eighth St. , 584, 585 ·, 586, 587,[...]Trimble, George W., .836 Twenty-first St .• .men- 609, '610, 612, 613,[...]628, 688, 812. 848 852, 856 Torrey's Peak, 973 ill us., 485, 722. firehouse on, 642 m;;s .• 1'75 ~ Valero, Stephen, 933 T[...]por. 909 Twenty- second St .• 628, 643, 646, 796,[...]Tritch, George, Hardware Twenty- second St. Union Stockyards,[...]Denver, 838, 842, 888 Van Buren St. (Auraria). Tozier. H .• 208 Troustine, Philip, 779 Twenty- seventh St. • 854, Union Stockyards Bank, 842[...]s, 658, 779 605 (facin~ Tracy St;. 861 - - - Trout Creek, 609, 610 Twenty- sixth St •• Unitarian Church, 682,[...]730, 731 Van Law, George S., 721 586-587, 966 421. 42[...]United Confedeiate Van Sickle, James H. , T r a mway Co. , 656, 836 Trudeau. Zeno[...]United Moderns, 779 Van Soun, William S., 784 Trumbull, Fran[...]ad, 620, 621, 622 Twenty-third St .• men- United States & Mexico[...]49 T rappers, 154-155, 156 et Trumper. Mrs. S. M. , 729 illus., 890 United States and Mexico Van woert, Ellen, 824 s e q. Truro Mining School, 56[...]Tu~~~·-~-· (Ga. party).• Twenty-third St. (Auraria), United States Bldg •• 96 7 Diego Trask, W. H., 831[...]776 Tucker, H. H., 419, 421[...]Vasquez Fork, 152, 179, Travilla, J. S., 349, 640 Tucker Mine, 289 Two[...]700, 704, 898, 911, Vasquez's Post, 152, 178 Treasury drafts, Civil T[...]}?, (New York Vassar School. 757 Treasury, U.S .• 379., 398, Turk, The, see Turco, El[...]University Hall, 760, Vaughan's guerrillas, 389 Treat, Dr; S. W., 959 377 ~U[...]N., 747 Treaty of Guadaloupe Turner, H. E., 665 Uncle Dick (Wootton), 1[...] |
| [...]526, 702 Weather Bureau, U.S. , Co •• 861, 866 904[...]Webster, Daniel, 128, West Larimer St., 860 ·Vice Mayor, 635 Walhalla Hall[...]608, 725, 880 Wegener, H. F., 752, 756 West Twenty-thifd Ave .• ~[...]West, William, 342 Vigilance Committe~s •. Wall, Davi~61, 267, 466[...]estcliffe. 606 429, 436, 437, 438 Wall St.• 398, 818, 860 Washington School, 750,[...]lling, Stuart D •• 646 Washington (7th) St.• 226~ Weld County, 152, 179, 8[...]76, Wallingford & Murphy, Washington St. (Highland), 594, 597, 702, 781.[...]legraph 722 Wallingford St. (Highland ), Washington 1 s birtl1day. 692[...]ley. Volksblaii, 663 · Walton. Henry H .• 901 636. 6~7[...]Wapola Territory, 492 Water St., 750 Wells, Fargo Express Co., Wewatta St. • mentioned, ill us .• 642 Wapoola St. (Court Pl.), Water works·. 455, 465,[...]Waterbury. E •• 725 Welton, N.H. , 215 first sermon delivered Vosbu[...]es W., 4.48 gas works on, · illus. • ~ 75 Voter qualifications[...], 475 Welton St •• mentioned, Whatcom River, 956 nvox[...]-barrow, 236 Wagon slogans, 239, 331, Warner, H. E., 761 Waynesville, Ohio, 587[...]Warner, T. R., 651 Wazee St., mentioned, 1899, 487[...]boundary of settlement. West Curtis St •• 869 Wheeler, William G., 520,[...]a. , 956 Wagoner P'OS"t.""G. A. R .• Warren, T. H •• 286 Chinatown boundary,[...]25, 640, Wheelwright, Samuel, 583 Wagoner, S. W •• 286, 302, 303, 307, 308,[...]3, 864, 866, 873, 472 Waite, Gov. Davis _H., 621 mob[...]West End Electric line, Wbitaker, A. S., 756 por. 920 Bri[...] |
| [...]White-Bear (Indian). Wilhelm, J. H •• 650 Winchester rifle, 468 Women's Christian Temp- Wright, C. W • •[...]Wind River Range. 144, Women's clubs, 784 et seq. Wright, Frank H. , 912 White-cow Man (Indian). Wilki[...]ames, 847 . Women's Press Club. 788 Wright. G. Frederick.[...]134. Window, first, 229-230, Women!s.rights,. 663 Wright. Mrs. H. G. R. , White- Eagle (Indian). 66[...]Wood, B .• ~ Wright, H. W. , 528 White, George G .• 498[...]Wood, Carlos. 840 Wright. S. Roy, 747 White-Hair (Indian). 65, Wi[...]11 633, 653, 5g2 White, James H., 186 Williams,---. 466[...]Wood, Robert, 289 Wyatt. N. S., 247 White, M.D.• 684 Will[...]75 Wood. Samuel N., 825, Wyatt St. (Highland), 446 White-Plume (Indian), 65[...], 215, Wisconsin, 110, 117, 273, Wood St. (Highland). 446 Wyman's addition, 636 Arkansaw. 131[...]ill us •• 516 Wynkoop St .. mentioned, White-Tail (Indian), 65, 66[...]. 832. 844. naming of. 448 Whitely's AdditiOn, 506 Williams. Foster & Co[...]- Williams, Katharine Witter's First Addition, Woodhall. Thomas A .•[...]20, Whitney, C. R .. 419 Williams St.• 447. 870 Witter's Second Woodie Fisher Hose[...]Wolcott, Miss Anna L . • Woodleton, Thomas H., 845, 852, 856, 886, Whitsitt Bldg.• 499 Williams, Dr. W. H., 818 764 836[...]Woolworth & MOI"l"ar, 832 Yankee. W. Hs Addition. 443 Willow (tree), 223[...](facing 6os-r--- Wolfe. James S., 843 247. 248, 249. 250.[...]233 Yellowstone River. 137, Wicks, H. S.• 476 Wilson Creek, Battle o[...]2 Wolverine. 174 Wooton's (Wootton's) Hall, Yerkes, J. E .• 842 ~tZ~in;: W.[...]Wooton St. (Highland), 446[...]Home. 777 see Toronto Wightman, W. H .• 756 Wilson. John, 419, 421(?)[...]York St., 696, 852,[...], 660 .Yost. • 296 Wilcox, G. H •• 816 Wilson. Robert, 431[...]Wilson, Col. Robert, 892 Woman's Club of Denver, see. Denver EVening[...]421 (? ). 532 Woman's Home Club, 786 WorraPFiJlting and Publi-[...]216 333, 367, 411. 414. World's Fair, Chicago. 570 Society, 772 Wilde[...]ortman, E .• 752 Young Men• s Christian[...] |
| [...]419 Zollars, Charles 0., 941, Young Women's Christian 250 School, P[...]egler, Squire & Co., Zoos, 646, 908 Young Women's Friendly Yuma County. 502. 526, Zang[...] |
Smiley, Jerome C. (Jerome Constant), 1858-1924, History of Denver, with outlines of the earlier history of the Rocky Mountain country (1901). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 22/06/2025, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/821260
