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Volume I

Colony Series
Volume I

The Union Colony

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Greeley, Colorado
1869-1871

Edited by
JAMES F. WILLARD, Ph.D.
Profeiior of History in the
University of Colorado

BOULDER 1918

Copyright 1918
BY
James F. Willard

The W. F. Robinson Printing Co.
Denver. Colorado

PREFACE
With the present volume the University of Colorado
begins the publication of documents and other material
primarily relating to the history of Colorado. It is pro
posed to issue similar volumes at frequent intervals in
the future. After the colony series is completed, other
subjects falling within the periqd befdre Colorado be^-
came a state will be dealt with. In every instance an
attempt will be made to publish all the pertinent histor
ical documents that can be found and that are not easily
accessible elsewhere.
The treatment of the records of the Union Colony is
in line with this general policy. As will be seen by refer
ence to the list of documents, several classes of records
are omitted from this volume. In the case of the news
papers a number of purely personal items have not been
reprinted; from The Greeley Tribune only such articles
have been selected as would seem to throw light upon the
ideals or development of the colony.
The spelling and punctuation of the writers of the
records and of the printers in the case of the newspapers,
have been reproduced as they were found. In one respect
only has the editor departed from this practice. When
the newspapers used larger or heavier type, not capitals,
for the headings of their articles, these have been trans
formed to capitals in the text in order to insure uniform
ity of emphasis.
All words and sentences in brackets have been sup
plied by the editor. Whenever a heading is followed by
a numeral referring to a note below, it is the original
heading. On the other hand, whenever a heading is not
so followed and the reference to the note appears at the

vi PREFACE
beginning of a paragraph of the body of the article, it has
been supplied by the editor.
In the preparation of this volume I have received the
assistance of many individuals in Greeley and elsewhere
to whom I take this opportunity of returning thanks.
Among these I owe much to Mr. Delph E. Carpenter, the
secretary of the Union Colony ; to Mr. Hotchkiss, the city
clerk of Greeley, and to Mr. J. Max Clark, a member of
the colony in its early days. Mr. Henry T. West, a mem
ber of the original locating committee, still lives in Cald
well, Idaho. Through the loan of manuscripts and by cor
respondence he has assisted me to understand the spirit
of the colonists. Dr. Thomas M. Marshall, my colleague,
has aided in the transcription and checking of the records
at Greeley and has done much to lighten the burden of
preparing this volume for the press. To my wife,
through her patient assistance in proof-reading, the text
owes much of its accuracy.
February 20, 1918 James F. Willabd.

CONTENTS Pages
Preface  v-vi
Introduction  ix-xxxii
Minutes  1-116
Financial Eecords  117-160
Circulars  161-170
Lists of Members  171-191
Miscellaneous Documents  193-207
Private Correspondence  209-228
Excerpts from Colorado Newspapers   229-396
List of Documents and Newspapers  397-399
Index  401-412

INTRODUCTION
In the development of the agricultural regions of
the West, group migration has ever held a prominent
place. This is true whether the Piedmont region, the
basin of the Mississippi, the Southwest, or the lands of
the Pacific slope be under consideration. One phase of
the settlement of each of these districts has been that by
more or less well-organized groups, companies or colonies.
The advantages of such a method of emigration and
settlement were numerous and fairly obvious. By adopt
ing this plan the men who made their living by the pur
suit of agriculture were able to secure many benefits that
they could not have gained if they had ventured alone.
If the new homes were in the Far West, traveling by com
panies was the safest and often the only practicable
method of reaching them. In almost any part of the
West the danger from the depredations of Indians or
outlaws was such that group settlement was desirable as
a means of protection. During the later days of the west
ward movement the railroads granted special rates of
transportation to colonists and land could be purchased to
better advantage from the railroads by associations than
by individuals. If a group remained together after the migration
many other advantages accrued. The social and economic
centres of the agricultural communities, the towns or vil
lages, with their stores, churches, schools, fraternal or
ders, farmers ' clubs and other societies, grew up rapidly,
far more rapidly than if the farmers had straggled into
the country one by one. In regions of abundant rainfall
a certain amount of co-operation was possible in break
ing the wilderness. In the semi-arid belt the task of dig-

x INTRODUCTION
ging irrigation ditches was lightened by joint labor.
Though it took time for the prospective western settlers
to become conscious of these advantages, this stage had
been reached when Colorado was opened for agricultural
settlement. Background of the Colony Movement in Colorado.
For many years after the explorations of Pike and
Long the resources of the western part of the Mississippi
basin and of the Bocky Mountains were unexploited ex
cept by the trapper and trader. Then, in 1858, and the
following years, Colorado became the home of thousands
of men who sought gold in her streams and mountains.
Of the many who entered the territory a few turned to
agricullurfii^Farming on a small scale developed in the
valleys of the South Platte and its tributaries and of the
Arkansas. A number of short irrigation ditches were
dug and a few of greater length. These small farming
districts supplied the mining camps and the towns with
a part of their food, but though prices were high, the dis
tance to these markets was so great that agriculture at
tracted but few votaries. In 1867 more is heard of farm
ing in the territory and during the next two years it took
a more important place in the economic life of Colorado.2
But the absence of railroads, with the resulting expensive
and time-consuming long hauls to the towns or camps, and
the inaccessibility of all markets outside of Colorado, was
a barrier in the way of further development.:/The migra-
i On the early development of agriculture and irrigation see : Smiley,
J. O, History of Colorado, I, pp. 551-552, 573; History of Clear Creek and
Boulder Valleys, pp. 53-54; Miss, E., A Brief History of the New Gold
Regions of Colorado Territory (1864), pp. 10-12; Bowles, S., Across the
Continent, pp. 62-65; Taylor, B., Colorado, pp. 41-46.
2 See the reports of the commissioners of the General Land Office and
of Agriculture for these years, and also: Colorado, a pamphlet issued by the
Denver Board of Trade in 1868; Farrell, N. E., Colorado, the Rocky Moun
tain Gem (1868), p. 30 et- seq.; Goddard, F. B., Where to Emigrate and
Why (1869), pp. 160-175; Bowles, S., Our New West (1869), pp. 189-191.

INTRODUCTION xi
tion of farmers was also hindered by the ignorance of the
methods of irrigation that prevailed in the eastern states
and by the survivals of the idea of the aridity of the/
"Great American Desert". /
The year 1869 witnessed the beginning of the removal
of the greatest obstacle, the lack of adequate means of
transportation. During the course of that year the con
struction of the Denver Pacific Bailway, designed to con
nect Denver with Cheyenne and thus with the Union
Pacific, was resumed. On December 13, it reached EvanB
from the north.1 It was completed June 22, 1870, and^
Denver gained an outlet to the outside world.2 In August
another connection was made with the East when the
Kansas Pacific Bailway was finished.3 It extended from
Kansas City to Denver. A part of the mining region
was opened on September 23, when the first train left
Denver for Golden City over the Colorado Central.4 The
following year a narrow gauge railroad was projected to
connect Denver with the southern part of the territory.
This railroad, the Denver and Bio Grande, was opened to
Colorado Springs for freight and passenger traffic on
October 23, 1871.5 The railroads afforded means of trans
portation from the mines and towns of eastern Colorado
to the markets of the Union. In addition they made
available a large area of farming land. In this latter re
spect the Denver Pacific was of special importance, since
it traversed the rich valleys of the South Platte and its
tributary streams.
Despite the solution of the problem of transporta
tion, it is hardly likely that any immediate emigration to
i The Daily Colorado Tribune, December 14, 1869, p. 1.
2 Daily Rocky Mountain News, June 23, 1870, p. 4. For a history of
the railroad see The Daily Colorado Tribune, June 22, 1870, p. 1.
s Daily Rocky Mountain News, August 18, 1870, p. 2.
* Daily Rocky Mountain News, September 24, 1870, p. 4.
&The Denver Tribune, October 26, 1871, p. 2.

xii INTRODUCTION
Colorado would have taken place had it not been for the
well organized effort put forth in the years 1869 to 1871.
The dread of the hardships of cultivating land in the
semi-arid region had to be overcome and some positive
benefits to result from migration had to be offered. Here
again the railroads were of great service. Both the Den
ver Pacific and the Kansas Pacific had received from the
government the grant of alternate sections of land for
twenty miles on both sides of their right of way. They
were, therefore, deeply interested in the problem of the
disposal of this land to settlers who would increase the
traffic over their lines. The Denver Pacific was first in
the field. On October 29, 1869, it entered into a contract
with the National Land Company of New York. The
latter company was to act as the land selling agent of the
railroad and was to receive in return ten per cent, of the
gross receipts from all sales made by it. The Kansas
Pacific later entered into a similar agreement with the
same company.1
In the subsequent opening up of Kansas and Colo
rado the National Land Company played an important
part. It not only sold land on the partial payment plan,
but was also prepared to arrange for the transportation
of the persons and possessions of the emigrants at re
duced rates and to map routes of travel to the West. It
had offices in Chicago, St. Louis, Topeka and by March,
1870, in Denver and also in London and other foreign cit
ies.2 It advertised extensively in the newspapers and
issued an advertising magazine, the Star of Empire, in
which were set forth the advantages of settlement in the
West, especially along the routes of the Denver Pacific
i These contracts are referred to in the Byers' Correspondence relat
ing to the National Land Company and in the advertisements of the com
pany. See The Daily Colorado Tribune, May 20, 1870, p. 1.
2 See its advertisement, Daily Rocky Mountain News, July 4, 1870,
p. 1, Cf, ibid., July 8, October 24, December 15.

INTRODUCTION xiii
and Kansas Pacific railways. The general agent of the
company, C. N. Pratt, had his headquarters at 111 Dear
born Street, Chicago. William N. Byers, general manager
for Colorado, was part owner of the Rocky Mountam
News, a paper of wide circulation and influence in the ter
ritory. Through these agencies the company set on foot
a vigorous campaign to induce migration, and its efforts
were ably seconded by the Colorado press and by inter
ested individuals.
Throughout this advertising campaign it is evident
that the promoters of emigration felt the difficulty of
overcoming a lack of knowledge of or aversion to the
methods of irrigation. Consequently there was devel
oped and spread through the land a highly idealized pic
ture of the advantages, even the pleasures, of irrigation.
In its most complete form, attained in 1870, this picture
was one of Arcadian simplicity and prosperity. When
irrigation was used water was always a certain quantity.
The labor and cost of digging ditches was no greater than
that of breaking and draining land in the eastern states.
Once the crops were planted and during the winter the
tasks of the farmer were less arduous and fewer than else
where. What is more, the land was being constantly en
riched by the silt brought in with the water from the
ditches. The crops that were raised on irrigated land
were truly marvelous in quantity and quality. There
were depicted yields of wheat as high as eighty bushels to
the acre in favored communities, cabbages weighing sixty
pounds each, potatoes five and six pounds, beets two feet
in length and sweet potatoes weighing fourteen pounds.
Some of these products were exhibited in Chicago and
elsewhere for the edification of prospective settlers.
Added to these attractions were those of a land where the
grass for the cattle was cured by the sun as it stood on
the plains and so could be used for winter pasture, where

xiv INTRODUCTION
the climate was sunny and healthful, where mud was
absent from the natural roads, and where little snow or
rain fell to impede the activities of the tiller of the soil.1
As a result of these many inducements many thou
sands of settlers bent upon the pursuit of agriculture came
to Colorado in 1870 and 1871. A considerable proportion
of the immigrants came in groups called colonies.
The Colorado Colonies.
A colony, strictly speaking, was an association of in
dividuals banded together for the purposes of migration
to Colorado, of settling together and of pursuing common
aims after their arrival. Some measure of organization
was necessary, though it need not bind the members very
strictly. Whatever benefits, financial or otherwise, were
gained by such an association were reaped by the mem
bers. They might travel to Colorado in a body, or they
might go separately; in either case they usually traveled
on special tickets and received special freight rates as
colonists. They settled in one locality. In the Union
Colony type a town with its community life was an essen
tial feature of the colony. After settling in the territory
the colonists pursued certain aims in common. The
amount of such united effort varied. The German Colo
nization Company was a communistic association, where
as the Union Colony and its imitators were semi-co-oper
ative. On the border land of the true colonies was the
Central Kentucky Emigration Society, known as the Ken
tucky Fountain Colony, which, while it possessed several
of the essential features of a colony, can hardly be said
to have had any plan of conscious co-operation after the
settlement was made in Colorado.
1 The paraphrase of the advertising of the colonies is based upon the
pamphlets of the Union and Chicago-Colorado colonies and upon numerous
articles in the newspapers.

INTRODUCTION xv
In addition to the more restricted use of term colony,
there was a loose application of it to cover any group,
large or small, organized or unorganized, that entered
the territory. This practice becomes rather absurd when
some ten families from Blinois, who seemingly had joined
forces to cross the plains, were called the Blinois Colony
when they entered Colorado in 1871.1 The Wyandotte
Colony was merely a group of emigrants from Wyan
dotte, Kansas.2 The misuse of the term entered upon
another phase in 1871 and 1872. It was then used by a
number of town-site companies with the aim of inducing
settlers to purchase town lots under the guise of admit
ting them to membership in a colony.
Within the narrow meaning of the term there were
only a few colonies that reached Colorado in 1870 and
1871. Of these the first, and in many respects the most
unique, was the German Colonization Company.3 Dur
ing the late summer of the year 1869, Carl Wulsten gath
ered about him a number of German artisans and labor
ers of Chicago for the purpose of discussing a plan of
emigration to the West. They early decided to go to
southern Colorado. On August 24, 1869, they adopted a
constitution and elected the officers of the German Colo
nization Company. The association was based upon a
plan of communism for a term of years. Each member
was to pay two hundred and fifty dollars. This money
was to be used by the society for the transportation of
the members ' ' to the place of settlement, for the purchase
1 The Colorado Chieftain, June 29, 1871, p. 3. For a similar use of
the term see: The Daily Colorado Tribune, September 6, 1870, p. 4; The
Colorado Chieftain, May 18, 1871, p. 3.
2 Watrous, A., History of Larimer County, Colorado, p. 188.
3 The following brief account of the organization of the German Colo
nization Company is largely based upon articles In the Illinois Stats-Zeit-
ung, weekly edition, August 24, 1869, p. 8; The Chicago Times, February 9,
1870, p. 5; The Chicago Tribune, February 9, 1870, p. 2; upon Sen. Misc.
Doc, 41 Cong. 2 Sess. Doc. 22; and upon Wulsten's own story in Southern
Colorado, pp. 106-108.

xvi INTRODUCTION
of provisions and land, for the development and cultiva
tion of such land which the society has taken possession
of, and for commercial or industrial enterprises." The
members were to work for the common benefit and not for
individual profit, and, after five years had elapsed, the
profits of their joint labor were to be distributed among
those who survived.
In November, 1869, three members of the company,
Carl Wulsten, Budolph Jeske and Theodore Heinlein,
went to Colorado and selected the Wet Mountain Valley,
now in Custer County, as the site of their settlement.1
On February 8, 1870, the members left Chicago in a body
for the West, under the auspices of the National Land
Company. C. N. Pratt, the general agent of the latter
company, was made the resident agent of the coloniza
tion company in Chicago. The Germans reached the Wet
Mountain Valley in March and started on their short
lived career as a Colorado colony. The story of their
attempt to practice communism in the mountains will be
told in the second volume of this series.
The second colony to reach the territory was the far
more famous and prosperous Union Colony. Organized
in New York in December, 1869, its members began to
arrive in Colorado in April and May, 1870, and founded
the settlement centering at Greeley. The consideration
of its early history is reserved for fuller treatment in
a later section of this introduction. The plan of the
Union Colony was the model for three colonies founded
during the latter part of the year 1870. These were the
Chicago-Colorado Colony with its community centre at
Longmont, the St. Louis-Western Colony at Evans, and
the South Western Colony at Green City.2
i The accounts in the Colorado newspapers of the progress of the
colony will be published in another volume of this series.
2 It is planned to print the material relating to all three of these
colonies in a later volume of this series.

INTRODUCTION xvii
The Chicago-Colorado Colony was organized in Chi
cago. In its formation C. N. Pratt, acting for the Na
tional Land Company, played the leading part. On
November 22, 1870, after a period of discussion of the
project, a constitution was adopted and officers elected.
The president of the colony was the famous Unitarian
preacher and lecturer, Bobert Collyer; its secretary, C.
N. Pratt. The constitution was modeled upon that of the
Union Colony. The locating committee arrived in Colo
rado in January, 1871, and with the assistance of Wil
liam N. Byers, selected a site with its centre the present
town of Longmont. Their selection was ratified in Feb
ruary and the colonists began to arrive in Colorado in
March. Though hardly so prosperous as the Union Col
ony, the Chicago-Colorado Colony was in its early days
a marked success.
The St. Louis-Western Colony owed its formation
to the activity of the Bev. A. C. Todd of Oakdale, Illinois.
The news of his interest in a project of emigration spread
and soon Pratt and Byers took a hand in the proceedings
in order to induce the proposed colony to go to Colorado.
In time they gained the assistance of James H. Pinkerton,
then of the Union Colony, and a former resident of south
ern Blinois; his influence seems to have been decisive.
On November 29, 1870, a meeting was held in Oakdale, at
which it was definitely decided to organize a colony.
Somewhat later a constitution was adopted. The first
name of the colony, Western Colony, was changed to the
St. Louis-Western Colony when the headquarters of the
association were removed to St. Louis. In March, 1871,
the locating committee selected the land lying in and
about Evans, some four miles south of Greeley on the
Denver Pacific Bailway, as the place of settlement. The
colonists began to arrive in April. The colony enjoyed
only a moderate measure of success and was never a

xviii INTRODUCTION
serious competitor of its near neighbor, the Union Col
ony. The South Western Colony was also known in the
territory as the Tennessee Colony, and as the Memphis
Colony. Its promoter was D. S. Green, formerly of Den
ver. It was organized in Memphis in either November
or December of the year 1870. Alone of the colonies of
its kind it was located outside of the railroad land grant.
Its locating committee reached Colorado in December,
1870, but it was not until February, 1871, that it was de
cided to settle on the South Platte about twenty-five miles
east of Evans. Before the arrival of the colonists in Col
orado it seems to have been intended that a part of their
time should be devoted to mining, but this plan was aban
doned. The colony town, Green City, was named after
the founder of the association. Owing to bad manage
ment neither the colony nor Green City prospered and
within a few years both had disappeared.
An interesting feature of the development of all four
of the colonies last mentioned was the attention given
to town building. Due to the desire to gain as rapidly
as possible the benefits of community life, schools,
churches, societies and the like, the farmers instead of
scattering, settled in a town and from it went to their
outlying land. This was an essential part of the colony
plan. The result was that during the early days of the
colonies the spectacular growth of Greeley and the other
towns overshadows the advances made in the construc
tion of ditches and the cultivation of the outlying farms.
The plan of organization of the Kentucky Fountain
Colony places it in the debatable region between colonies
and unorganized group migration.1 In November, 1870,
1 For brief accounts of this colony see : Daily Rocky Mountain News,
November 30, 1870, p. 4; The Colorado Chieftain, December 8, 1870, p. 1;
ibid., February 23, 1871, p. 3; May 4, 1871, p. 1; June 22, 1871, p. 2;
August 17, 1871, p. 1. ¦

INTRODUCTION xix
there was formed in Kentucky, probably at Cynthiana,
the Central Kentucky Emigration Society. The members
proposed to gain reduced rates of transportation to the
West, to employ a locating committee, and to settle in a
body, but no co-operative undertakings beyond these were
contemplated. The society purchased no land, laid out no
town and did not even construct an irrigation ditch.
The list of town development companies using the
name colony was fairly long. The first and most promi
nent of these was the Fountain Colony at Colorado
Springs. It was founded in the summer of 1871. Belong
ing to this class were the Independence Colony at New
Memphis, founded in 1871; the Agricultural Colony at
Fort Collins, and the Pueblo Colony at Pueblo both
founded in 1872 ; and the Monument Colony at Monument,
the Beaver Colony at Buffalo, and Corona on the site of
Green City, founded within the next year or so. All of
these alleged colonies were promoted by men who had
land to sell. If the towns prospered they reaped the
financial benefit. To call the purchasers of town lots
colonists and to paraphrase the colony circulars in adver
tising, shows the popularity of the colony plan, but could
not transform such companies into colonies.1
Beginnings of the Union Colony.
The story of the development of the Union Colony
during the first year and a half of its existence is best
told in the contemporary records printed in this volume.
The brief account of the early days of the colony which
follows is, therefore, but a summary of certain phases of
the activities of the association written in the belief that
1 The Fountain, Pueblo and Agricultural colonies published pam
phlets describing their organization. The others probably did the same, but
they have not been found by the writer. Brief notices of all these compa
nies may be found in the Hand Book of Colorado, published annually from
1871, by Blake and Willett, in Denver. See especially the volume for 1874.

xx INTRODUCTION
it will make easier the understanding of the documents
and excerpts from the newspapers.
Nathan C. Meeker, the agricultural editor of the New
York Tribune, visited Colorado and the West in the au
tumn of the year 1869. He then conceived of the plan of
founding a colony for settlement in Colorado. After his
return to New York he communicated his plan to Horace
Greeley and the distinguished editor of the Tribune gave
it his approval. Greeley's support in the columns of his
paper was thereafter of the greatest value to the enter
prise.1 The first public notice of the colony plan, signed by
Meeker, appeared in the Tribune on December 4, 1869. A
few days later a call was issued for a meeting of all in
terested persons to be held in the Cooper Institute Build
ing, New York, on December 23.2 At this meeting, after
a discussion of the proposal it was decided to organize.
The name Union Colony was adopted, officers elected and
the amount of the membership fees decided upon. Meeker
became the president of the association, General B. A.
Cameron its vice-president, and Horace Greeley its treas
urer. Five men were elected to serve with the three offi
cers as an executive committee. To this committee was
left the task of drawing up a constitution. It did so and
adopted the completed document on December 27 with
out submitting it to the colonists for their approval.
The organization of the colony, as outlined in the
constitution, was extremely simple.3 Membership was
i Boyd, D., A History of Greeley and The Union Colony, pp. 1-30.
Hereafter this book will be referred to as Boyd. Meeker's letters from the
west are reproduced in part by Boyd. On the inception of the colony plan
see also J. Max Clark, Colonial Days, pp. 131-133. The extracts from the
newspapers reprinted below give a bare outline of this visit.
2 The records of these notices and the subsequent meeting are found
in the Proceedings of the colony. See below.
s Hereafter, unless otherwise noted, the statements made in this in
troduction are based upon material contained in the text of this volume and
no direct references will be given.

INTRODUCTION xxi
open to men of good character, who were temperance men,
upon the payment of a $5 initiation fee and a membership
fee of $150. The money accruing from these fees was
to be used in defraying the expense of selecting and pur
chasing land for the colony. Each member was entitled
to a parcel of farming land lying outside of the town to be
established and the right to buy a town lot at from $25
to $50. This land was to be improved within one year
or title deeds would not be granted. It was provided that
the proceeds of the sale of town lots were to be applied
to the erection of a schoolhouse, town hall and other im
provements for the common good. The executive offices
were to be those for which incumbents had been elected
at the December meeting. The executive committee was
to select a secretary, an auditing committee and a locat
ing committee. After the meeting of December 23, this
executive committee took entire charge of the affairs of
the colony. It was an irresponsible governing body, for
there were no further meetings of the colonists in New
York. On January 3, 1870, a locating committee, Meeker,
Cameron and Fisk, was appointed with the duty of
selecting the place of settlement. The three men left for
the West on February 3, and were joined at Omaha by
H. T. West of Chicago.1 They made a fairly thorough
survey of the available lands in Colorado, but seem to
have been most favorably impressed by the valley of the
Cache a la Poudre and the land lying about Evans, the
county seat of Weld County and the temporary terminus
of the Denver Pacific Bailway.2 The latter site had the
advantage of having a town already established, but this
town possessed saloons, a great disadvantage. Both sites
lay within the land grant of the Denver Pacific, and a sub-
iBoyd, p. 39.
2 Boyd, pp. 39-40.

xxii INTRODUCTION
sidiary organization of that railroad, known as the Den
ver Land Association, had control of a large share of
the land in Evans and had set aside a part of the land
upon which Greeley now stands as a suitable town site.1
It appears that before the locating committee left Colo
rado it had decided in favor of the valley of the Cache a
la Poudre. On the return of the committee to New York it was
authorized by the executive committee to revisit Colorado
for the purpose of making a final location. During the
first three months of the year 1870, William N. Byers was
in New York, where he met the executive committee of the
Union Colony and was also selected as the Colorado man
ager of the National Land Company, the agent of the
Denver Pacific Bailway for the sale of its land.2 While
Byers was in the East the colony entered into negotia
tions with this company not only for the purchase of
land, but also for rates of transportation of the colonists
and their effects to Colorado. Before the locating com
mittee had made its second visit to the territory, Byers
left New York authorized to make proposals to the Den
ver Land Association and to G. W. Phelps for the pur
chase of their holdings in the Poudre Valley.
The final negotiations for the colony lands were
quickly carried through. Byers reached Denver on March
24 and on the following day obtained agreements from
both Phelps and the Denver Land Association to sell their
i For the control of the site of Evans see : The Daily Colorado Tribune,
October 19, 1869, p. 1 ; ibid., November 6, 1869, p. 1. There are a number of
deeds recorded in the office of the county clerk of Weld County which sub
stantiate this statement. For the later deed to the St. Louis-Western Col
ony of land in Evans see Mortgage Record, Weld County, I, pp. 398-400.
2 Diary of William N. Byers, to which access was kindly granted me
by Frank S. Byers, his son. Byers left Denver on January 3, 1870, and
returned on March 24. In an open letter of February 27, 1899, Byers states
that he was present at a meeting of the executive committee in New York
when the locating committee reported. This letter was loaned me by H. T.
West.

INTRODUCTION xxiii
lands to the colony. This he reported to Meeker and
Cameron who were then at St. Louis on their way to Colo
rado. They arrived in Denver on March 31. On April 4,
accompanied by Byers, they went to Evans and the next
day to the Poudre Valley.1 Their decision, made on
April 5, was a confirmation of the favorable impression
of the first visit, for the valley of the Cache a la Poudre
was chosen as the colony site. Acting through Meeker
and Cameron the colony agreed to purchase a large block
of railroad land and also a number of private holdings.
Within a few days the deeds were signed. The colony ac
quired by purchase, according to the statement of May
16, 9,324.29 acres from the railroad company, and 2,592.23
acres from private individuals. The alternate sections of
government land, not in private hands, were filed upon
by the locating committee in the names of the colonists,
not only to secure possession of the property, but also,
as H. T. West puts it, "to prevent uncongenial neigh
bors." Some 60,000 acres of such land were filed upon
and the preliminary fees paid.2
The official notification to the colonists of the selec
tion of the colony site was issued from the Tribune office
on April 12. The same circular contained instructions
concerning what the members should take with them to
the West. It was supplemented by a letter from the Na
tional Land Company, of April 14, in which the colonists
were told specifically how they were to go to Colorado.
It was planned to start the first groups late in April.
While these preparations were being made, Meeker,
Cameron and West, of the colonists, and William N.
- Diary of William N. Byers. Under dates of April 4, 1870, the entry
reads: "To Evans with Meeker & Cameron." Under April 5, 1870: "At
Cache-a-la-Poudre. Home at night."
2 Boyd, p. 41, states : "Pre-emption filings were made, I suppose in
fictitious names, on the government sections . . " H. T. West writes me,
under date of May 2, 1917, "To prevent uncongenial neighbors, we filed upon
any piece of government land contiguous to our selected town site in the
individual names of our colonists."

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Byers and Daniel Witter of Colorado drew up articles
of incorporation, under the territorial laws for The
Union Colony of Colorado. This was done in order to
protect the colony holdings of land. Byers and Witter
were not colonists at the time of the incorporation and
were only brought in because of the statutory provision
for at least five incorporators. The date of the certifi
cate was April 13, 1870, the same as that of the deed from
the Denver Pacific Bailway. The board of trustees of
the corporation thereupon assumed the management of
the affairs of the colony in the place of the New York
executive committee. The indignation with which this
move was regarded by some of the colonists still lives in
the pages of David Boyd's history of the Union Colony.1
Despite the criticism it is difficult to see anything repre
hensible in it.
The first meeting of the board of trustees was held
at Greeley, the colony town, on April 20, 1870, Meeker,
Cameron and West, the active members, being present.
Meeker was elected president and West secretary. It
adopted an extensive set of by-laws for the regulation of
colony affairs. Late in April and early in May the colo
nists began to arrive. The governing body, now termed
the executive committee, at once turned its attention to
providing for the accommodation of the incoming mem
bers. It was arranged to supply them with coal and lum
ber and to provide them with temporary lodgings. West
had purchased a building in Cheyenne which was now
taken over by the colony, moved to Greeley, fitted up as
a lodging house and called the Hotel de Comfort. Other
colonists were accommodated with tents by the colony, or
lived in houses moved over from Evans.2 The latter
i Boyd, pp. 45-48.
2 Most of these were one-story frame buildings. J. P. Maxwell, of
Boulder, who was then hauling lumber to Cheyenne, moved to Greeley a.
two-story house.

INTRODUCTION xxv
town was no longer the terminus of the railroad and was
rapidly disintegrating.
After a few weeks of confusion, during which some
few of the members left Greeley in disgust,both the colony
and the town grew rapidly in numbers and prosperity.
At this point the chronological method may be set aside
and the remaining sections of this introduction devoted
to a discussion of the organization and activities of the
colony. Organization and Activities of the Union Colony.
The terms upon which intending settlers in the West
were admitted to membership have been already, in part,
described. The possession of a good character and the
payment of the $5 and $150 fees were the requirements
set forth in the constitution. Soon after the colonists
arrived in Colorado the executive committee at Greeley
attempted to increase the amount of the fees. It was
voted May 27, 1870, that on and after June 6, new mem
bers were to pay $5 for contingent expenses and $200 for
membership. Seemingly it was found impossible to en
force the new rule. February 7, 1871, the board of trus
tees voted to return to the older standard, $155, for an
indefinite period. Soon after, on April 11, a further
change was made, it being enacted that any proper per
son might become a member upon the payment of either
$50, $100 or $155, the members receiving property or
rights proportionate to the amount they had paid in fees.
During the following month the town of Greeley was in
corporated and in June its officials assumed their duties.
Colony membership no longer meant what it had in the
past. In July the auction sale of land opened to every
one the opportunity of obtaining real estate in Greeley
without formal admission to membership. As a result of
these changes the board of trustees issued a circular in

xxvi INTRODUCTION
August 16 to the effect that no certificates to new mem
bers would thereafter be granted.
In return for their fees the colonists received the
services of their officers, land and the benefits of co
operation. The initiation fee was at the outset intended
to be used for the expenses of the locating committee and
for the incidental expenditures of the colony. After the
migration to Colorado, it was used for contingent ex
penses. The membership fee entitled the colonist to a
tract of farming land, varying in size according to its
distance from the town, and gave him the right to pur
chase a town lot at from $25 to $50, varying according
to location. The land had to be improved before deeds
would be granted, one year being given for improvements
to be made. No mention was made in the constitution
of any provision of water rights for the colonists ' lands,
yet immediately after the arrival of the members in the
West the construction of irrigation ditches was begun
under the direction of the colony officers. In the circular
of May 16, the officers directly assumed the obligation to
furnish the land sold or granted to the colonists with
water for irrigation. Through lack of knowledge of the
cost of digging ditches, they had promised more than they
could perform and within a short time holders of land
were charged for the enlargement of the existing canals.
The extensive program of ditch construction outlined in
the articles of incorporation was never carried out; only
two of the four ditches were dug by the colony.
Once the settlement in Colorado was fairly started
it was seen that there were so many undertakings to be
financed that it was inexpedient to purchase more land
for the purpose of satisfying the needs of future colo
nists. The colony, however, had options on much rail
road land and had filed upon a large amount of govern
ment land. An opportunity was thus afforded the execu-

INTRODUCTION xxvii
tive committee of avoiding further purchases and yet of
meeting the demands of the members. During the year
1870 the committee passed a series of resolutions affect
ing the return to be made the members, and on December
27 these were brought together under the title of ' ' laf or-
mation relative to Land and Membership.' ' The colonist
might now select a farming tract of 5, 10, 20 or 40 acres, u
with perpetual water right, and purchase a residence lot
in Greeley. The same man could also select 80 acres
of government land "on the payment of $75 for water
right" if the location had been made before December
15, 1870, or of $100, if made later. If a member desired
to take 80 acres of railroad land at the contract price, $3
an acre, he could not select one of the above small farm
ing tracts; but he would be allowed a credit of $75 for
water right if he had taken the railroad land before De
cember 15, or of $100 if taken later, and he could apply
the balance of his membership fee upon the cost of town
lots or demand this balance in cash. A third class of
members for which provision was made was that which
preferred government land. Such as should select a gov
ernment eighty and no other colony land, were to have
the government fees paid by the colony and were to be
furnished with a water right. If they also desired one of
the small plots of farming land, they could purchase the
same for $75 or $100 according to the time of application.
In 1871 other changes were made. By the resolution of
April 11, a member might select, in proportion to the
amount of his fee, a residence lot, water for 80 acres of
land or railroad land at the contract price. Then came
the final breaking up of the original plan when the right
to acquire land was no longer attached to membership.
The governing body of Union Colony, the association
formed in December, 1869, was an executive committee
of eight elected at the one general meeting of the colo-

xxviii INTRODUCTION
nists in New York. Under its direction the preliminary
work of the colony was accomplished. As has been
stated, after the land in Colorado had been purchased the
active management of colony affairs was taken over by
the board of trustees of the newly incorporated Union
Colony of Colorado. All possibilities of a conflict of au
thority were avoided by the virtual abdication of the New
York executive committee.
The three active members of the board of trustees,
Meeker, Cameron and West, met in Greeley on April 20,
1870, divided the offices among themselves and adopted
a set of by-laws. Meeker left town shortly afterwards
and did not return until June. During the early part of
his absence the direction of business fell upon Cameron
and West. At some time early in May, Nathaniel Paul,
a member of the New York executive committee, arrived
in Greeley and on May 9 Bichmond Fisk, another mem
ber, reached the town. The two committeemen met with
the two trustees on May 10 and transacted business as
an executive committee. Within the following week they
added four men to their number, thus forming with the
absent Meeker, an executive committee of nine. All this
was irregular and after Meeker's return it was agreed to
hold an election, in which the colonists present should
participate, of an executive committee of nine. This elec
tion was held on June 13.
The new executive committee governed the colony
until October. In July, Byers and Witter, the non-resi
dent members of the board of trustees, were asked to re
sign. When they had done so the executive committee
filled the places vacated and also re-elected the other
trustees. The committee was thus composed of five trus
tees and four other members. Lr September, so it is
stated, a movement was started to place the board in its

INTRODUCTION xxix
legal position as the governing body of the colony.1 The
agitation that ensued led to the unforeseen demand that
all the members of the executive committee should resign.
They did so. At the election, which followed early in
October, the colonists voted for five trustees and twelve
members of an executive council. Four of the latter
were thereafter to meet in joint session with the trustees
for the transaction of business. From this time the meet
ings of the governing body were entitled meetings of the
board of trustees. The situation was, however, despite
the alteration of title, essentially unchanged.
Early in 1871 a movement was initiated for the in
corporation of the town of Greeley. On the day of the
annual colony election, May 2, five town trustees were
voted for in addition to the colony officers. On May 29
the Weld County commissioners voted favorably upon
the petition for incorporation and on June 10 the town
trustees held their first meeting. With the advent of the
town of Greeley and with the attendant transfer of pub
lic property and rights of government, the ruling body of
the Union Colony soon became concerned almost solely
with matters relating to land. On this account the pub
lication of the proceedings of the trustees in this volume
has been brought to a close at this point.
At the outset, as already stated, the most pressing
matter calling for the attention of the executive commit
tee was that of providing for the immediate necessities
of the incoming colonists. When these had been satis
fied, the committee turned to the laying out and beauti
fying of the town and to the task of providing water for
the colony land. The town was Surveyed, streets were laid
out, and trees were brought in and planted. A colony
hall was built by contract and a public school was opened.
In 1871 part of the proceeds of the auction sale of land
i First Annual Report of the Union Colony of Colorado, p. 33.

xxx INTRODUCTION
was set aside for the construction of a large school build
ing. The other elements of community life, the library,
the lyceum, the farmers' club, the dramatic association
and the like grew up without direct support from the
colony organization. To the churches, however, land was
donated. With respect to the outlying land the activities of
the committee took three forms, the construction of irri
gation canals, the building of bridges across the canals
and the river, and the construction of a fence enclosing
the colony land. Two canals were dug by the colony,
Ditch No. 3 supplying the town with water and Ditch
No. 2 supplying the outlying land. Ditch No. 1, as de
scribed in the articles of incorporation, was later con
structed by B. H. Eaton and is known as.the Larimer and
Weld Canal.1 Ditch No. 4, now called the Greeley and
Loveland Canal, was constructed in later days and not
by the members. In 1871 the colony built a fence enclos
ing the farming lands of the colony and in 1870 and 1871
also built bridges over the Cache a la Poudre and the irri
gation canals.
The community that lived in Greeley was idealistic,
highly moral, largely religious, but far from austere. Ed
ucation occupied a large place in the early life of the
colonists, as evidenced by the schools, the library, the
lyceum and the farmers7 club. A high moral standard
prevailed. Land was donated upon which churches were
built and most of the colonists were church-goers, but
some non-churchmen were prominent in colony affairs.
The manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors was
absolutely forbidden, and this rule was enforced even to
the point of violence. The attempt to introduce a bil-
- For information concerning canals number 1 and number 4, I am
indebted to Mr. Delph E. Carpenter of Greeley. He has published the above
information in The Weld County News, July 4, 1917.

INTRODUCTION xxxi
Hard hall was frustrated. On the other hand, the dra
matic association prospered and dancing was not ex
cluded from Greeley. It may be noted, however, that the
dramatic association produced the edifying play, "Ten
Nights in a Bar-room," as well as the farce, "Jumbo
Jum." The pride of the colonists in their colony, their
town, and, it must be acknowledged, in their superior vir
tues, was great, but to a large extent this pride was justi
fiable. Histories of the Colony.
The first attempt to trace the history of the early
days of the Union Colony is found in the pamphlet enti
tled, "First Annual Beport of the Union Colony of Colo
rado, including a History of the Town of Greeley, ..."
It was published by the organization in New York in
1871, and was written by William E. Pabor. The account
of the history of the colony and town, though brief, is
valuable. The book of David Boyd, "A History of Greeley and
the Union Colony of Colorado, ' ' Greeley, 1890, is the re
pository of a large amount of very valuable information,
much of which cannot be found elsewhere. Captain Boyd,
an original colonist, was a student and a careful collector
of facts, and has produced a work which is above the
average pioneer history in value. Unfortunately it lacks
an adequate index and is consequently difficult to use for
reference purposes. As a natural result of having par
ticipated in many of the events described, the author has
personal likes and dislikes that mar his treatment of in
dividual colonists.
The small volume of reminiscences written by J. Max
Clark, entitled, "Colonial Days," was published in Den
ver in 1902. In it Mr. Clark has told of his journey to
Greeley, his impressions of the embryonic town, of the

xxxii INTRODUCTION
whiskey riot and of the hardships of the first years. The
section devoted to N. C. Meeker, the honored, founder of
the colony, is a fitting tribute to the blunt-spoken, cold-
mannered idealist who had so much to do with making
Greeley what it was and is.
In the histories of Colorado the Union Colony has re
ceived only brief mention. H. H. Bancroft's "History of
Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming," contains a meagre
note on the foundation and early history of the colony.
Jerome C. Smiley in his excellent ' ' Semi-Centennial His
tory of the State of Colorado, ' ' published in Chicago and
New York in 1913, devotes a scant page and a third to
the colony and to the town of Greeley. It is the same
elsewhere. For adequate discussions it is necessary to
turn to the works of David Boyd and J. Max Clark. The
records now published will enable the student to supple
ment these books written by pioneers.

MINUTES

PROCEEDINGS
OF THE UNION COLONY ASSOCIATION1
New York City December 24th 1869
Ralph Meeker Secy.

N. Y. City Dec 4th 1869
The following card appeared in the Tribune (Dec 4th
1869) on Mr Meekers return from the west.
[Clipping, inserted, pp. 2-4.]
A WESTERN COLONY.
I propose to unite with te proper persons in the establish
ment of a colony in Colorado Territory.
A location which I have seen is well watered with streams
and springs, tbere are beautiful pine groves, the soil is rich, the
climate is healthful, grass will keep stock the year round, coal
and stone are plentiful, and a well-traveled road runs through
the property. The land is either subject to entry under the
homestead law, or it has not yet been brought into market, but
it can be settled upon without other cost than $18 for 160 acres.
In addition, the Rocky Mountain scenery is the grandest and the
most enchanting in America. I have never seen a place which
presents so many advantages and opportunities.
The persons with whom I would be willing to associate
must be temperance men, and ambitious to establish good so
ciety, and among as many as fifty, ten should have as much as
$10,000 each, or twenty, $5,000 each, while others may have
$200 to $1,000, and upward. For many to go so far without
means, can only result in disaster. After a time, poorer people
can be received and have a chance.
My own plan would be to make the settlement almost
wholly in a village, and to divide the land into lots of 10 acres,
i In the colony safe at Greeley. 1

2 THE UNION COLONY
and to divide these into 8 lots for building purposes, and then
to apportion to each family from 40 to 80, even 160 acres, ad
joining the village. Northampton, Massachusetts, and several
other New-England towns and villages were settled in this
manner, but some improvements are suggested. Since some out
lying tracts will be more desirable than others, a preference may
be secured by selling them at auction, and the proceeds of such
appropriated to the use of the colony; and all the lots of the
village should be sold, that funds may be obtained for making
improvements for the common good — such as, the building of a
church, a town hall, a school-house, and for the establishment of
a library, by which means the lots will be worth five or ten
times more than they cost; and one of the very first public
institutions should be a firstclass school, in which not only com
mon but the higher branches should be taught, including music.
The town of Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska, adopted this plan
on a large scale, and several hundred thousand dollars have
already been obtained.
Some of the advantages of settling in a village will be:
easy access to schools and to public places, meetings, lectures,
and the like, and society can be had at once. In planting, in
fruit-growing, and in improving homes generally, the skill and
experience of a few will be common to all, and much greater
progress can be made than where each lives isolated. It seems to
me that a laundry and bakery could be established, and the wash
ing and baking could be done for all the community ; but other
household work should be done by the families. In all this, the
separate household, and the ownership of property, should be
without change; and I only propose that, if there are any ad
vantages in cooperation, they could be secured by a colony.
Cheap rates of passage and freight could be secured, while many
things, which all will want in the commencement, can be bought
at wholesale. There are some other advantages which I think
such a town will possess, and they are important; but in this
announcement I do not think proper to mention them, and, be
sides, there are of course disadvantages.
Farmers will be wanted, nurserymen, florists, and almost
all kinds of mechanics, as well as capitalists to use the coal and

MINUTES 3
water-power in running machinery. Inasmuch as millions of
acres of excellent grass are in the vicinity, and which for years
will lie open, stock can be kept by each family, and at a small
expense it can be cared for by herdsmen employed by the people.
The profit of stock-growing can be considered certain, for the
locality is not as far from the Missouri River as Texas, whence
immense numbers of cattle are driven. Besides, railroads are
nearly completed, and a railroad is almost certain to pass
through the land I refer to. The establishment of a colony
would hasten the day.
After the colony shall be organized, it will be proper to
appoint a committee of good men to visit the country and fix
on the location, for there are other places, and a choice is to
be made. The first settlers must of course be pioneers: for houses,
mills, and mechanic shops, are to be built, that families may
come with few privations, and as long as six months will be
required. Whatever professions and occupations enter into the forma
tion of an intelligent, educated, and thrifty community should
be embraced by this colony; and it should be the object to ex
hibit all that is best in modern civilization.
In particular should moral and religious sentiments pre
vail; for without these qualities man is nothing. At the same
time, tolerance and liberality should also prevail. One thing
more is equally important. Happiness, wealth, and the glory
of a State, spring from the family, and it should be an aim and
a high ambition to preserve the family pure in all its rela
tions, and to labor with the best efforts life and strength can
give to make the home comfortable, to beautify and to adorn it,
and to supply it with whatever will make it attractive and loved.
This is in the vicinity of the mining region, which is
destined to be developed more and more for years to come ; and,
besides silver and gold, there are all other kinds of metals ; and
the market for every kind of farm product is as good as in
New- York : perhaps better. It is a decidedly healthful region ;
the air is remarkably pure, Summer is pleasant, the Winter is
mild, with little snow, and agues are unknown. Already, con-

4 THE UNION COLONY
sumptives are going thither for their health, and tourists and
visitors will find great attractions during the Summer. Min
eral springs are near, and perhaps on the locality I have re
ferred to. Deer, antelope, wild turkeys, prairie chickens, and
speckled trout, abound ; but at present there are too many wolves
and bears. I make the point that two important objects will be gained
by such a colony. First, schools, refined society, and all the
advantages of an old country will be secured in a few years;
while, on the contrary, where settlements are made by the old
method, people are obliged to wait 20, 40, and more years;
second, with free homesteads as a basis, with the sale of re
served lots for the general good, the greatly increased value of
real estate will be for the benefit of all the people, not for
schemers and speculators. In the success of this colony, a
model will be presented for settling the remainder of the vast
territory of our country.
Persons wishing to unite in such a colony will please ad
dress me at The Tribune office, stating their occupation, and
the value of the property which they could take with them.
New-York, December, 1869. N. C. Meeker.
[p. 5 Accompanying the preceeding was the following Edi
torial by Mr Greeley.
[Clipping inserted.]
EMIGRATION TO THE WEST.
We are often tauntingly asked, "If you are so fond of
farming and country life, why don't you try them?" Our
answer is short and simple: We do. Every one of us who can
afford it has his home in the country, and spends there all the
time that he can snatch from pressing duties, and hopes for the
day when he can enjoy there more and more hours of each
week, and ultimately all of them. At present, the oldest of our
writers in wintering on his own place in Florida, as he has done
for several past Winters ; the rest of us would gladly do like
wise if we might. But Work has claims to which Comfort must
defer.

MINUTES 5
Mr. Nathan C. Meeker — for many years connected with
The Tribune, as he expects to be for many more — proposes to
plant a colony in an admirable location discovered by him dur
ing his recent trip to the Rocky Mountains. It combines re
markable healthfulness with decided fertility and facility of
cultivation, an abundance of serviceable timber with water in
plenty for irrigation as well as power, beauty of landscape and
scenery with exemption from disagreeable neighbors; and a
railroad will soon bring it within three days of St. Louis and
five of New- York. Knowing Mr. Meeker (who is a practical
farmer) to be eminently qualified for leading and founding a
colony, we advise temperate, moral, industrious, intelligent men
who would like to make homes in the Far West to read his letter
herewith published, and, should his plan suit them, write to
him (not us) on the subject.
[p. 6] The colony article and the Editorial were printed in the
Daily, Semi-Weekly, & weekly editions of the Tribune, the
circulation of which is about 300000 copies. Letters were im
mediately received from all parts of the country and before a
week had passed from 75 to 100 came in daily. Up to this date,
Dec 30th, more than 1200 have been received.
On Dec 6th this card appeared in The Tribune : —
[Clipping inserted.]
THE COLORADO COLONY.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: With reference to the colony proposed in last Sat
urday's Tribune, I would say, that a good many letters have
been received, apparently from the right kind of men, and that
the prospects are, in a high degree, favorable. Record will be
made of those offering themselves, without any reply being sent
at present ; and in a short time a meeting will be called, through
The Tribune, that acquaintances may be formed, and an or
ganization effected.
New-York, Dec. 6, 1869. N. C. Meeker.
[p. 7] A few days afterwards the following card was inserted —
[Clipping inserted.]

6 THE UNION COLONY
THE COLORADO COLONY.
A meeting will be held in the Cooper Institute Building
Thursday, December 23, at 1 o'clock p. m., to organize the
above-named colony. N. C. Meeker.
Accordingly a meeting was held at the time & place an
nounced with the following result as reported in the Tribune
Dec 23
[Clipping inserted.]
COLONIZATION.

THE ORGANIZATION OF A WESTERN COLONY.
Room No. 24 Cooper Institute was crowded to overflow
ing yesterday with gentlemen from all parts of the country, to
attend the colony meeting, which was announced in The
Tribune a few days ago. Horace Greeley was appointed
Chairman. He opened the meeting with a brief address, as
follows :
This is a meeting of persons who propose emigrating in a
colony to the West. The first thing to be done is to organize.
One man can do the work of 100 men. I believe that there
ought to be not only one, but 1,000 colonies. Still, I would
advise no one who is doing well to leave lus business and go
West, unless he is sure of bettering his condition. But there
are many men working for wages who ought to emigrate. I
dislike to see men in advanced life working for salaries in places
where perhaps they are ordered about by boys. I would like
to see them working for themselves.
I do not know whether emigration is the best remedy, but
I think so. New- York is filled with people, yet there are thou
sands who want to come hither, never thinking that the cost of
living eats up the greater part of their earnings. Mr. Meeker
does not wish to give the locality of the place where it is pro
posed to establish the colony, for speculators will flock in and
buy up all of the desirable land. That is the way things are
done now-a-days.

MINUTES 7
N. C. Meeker, the originator of the colony movement, said :
The number of persons expressing by letter a desire to join
the Colorado colony, so-called, is over 800, and it will un
doubtedly exceed 1,000, and according to the statement of the
writers they are worth considerably more than $1,000,000, per
haps near $2,000,000. I judge that one-half are worth $1,000
each, that a fair proportion are worth from $3,000 to $5,000,
while there is a fair representation of those worth $10,000, and
from this up to $50,000. There are a good many young men
unmarried, worth generally from $200 to $500, and some more.
All trades, professions, and pursuits are represented, many are
educated, and the majority are farmers. Fully one-half are
church members.
A great many inquiries have been made which I had no
time to answer, and if I had little could be said at this stage
of the movement. Of danger from the Indians it is to be said
that no fears need be entertained, and if they were troublesome
the young men men of the colony proposed alone would be glad
to settle with them. I will now state some of the difficulties
which are presented in the founding of the proposed colony.
Every enterprise will be opposed by difficulties, and if they are
not foreseen a failure may confidently be predicted. It is not
likely that more than half of those proposing to go will do so;
perhaps not more than 300. Now, if each is to have 160 acres
of land, this will make 48,000 acres, and the distance from the
proposed village to a large portion of the farms must be from 2
to 3% miles, and it will be seen at once that to accommodate
all with land near this town is impossible — in short, it will be
impossible to reside in town and at the same time have what is
called a Western farm near by. Some could do so, it is true;
but, so far as possible, a fair division should be made. It is a
question, then, whether the land adjoining the town should not
be divided in parcels of from 3 to 10 acres, for the growing of
grain and food for the family, which, in addition to the town
lot, would furnish ample support. Then larger tracts could be
owned further away. If the people are to live in a village, so
as to enjoy all the advantages of schools and the like, something
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near by, for to unite the two, however desirable, is impossible.
Such small parcels will be all that mechanics and professional
men can work, and farmers themselves can keep pretty busy on
ten acres. It is to be considered that in connection large quan
tities of land are open for the growing of stock, which should
be the leading pursuit of the colonists, and it is the only source
from which much money can be expected. I take it that if
men want to own large farms, the colonial plan is not one suited
to this object Still, upon the basis of small holdings, near the
town the increase in value will be fully equal to the increase in
value on isolated farms. I throw out these points that people
may see for themselves how matters must stand. It is to be
noted that lots and land were held in some of the best New-Eng
land towns in precisely this manner, not because land was dear,
but because there was no other way to accommodate the
majority. Another difficulty lies in undertaking to occupy all the
land under the Homestead. Land speculators are keen to per
ceive opportunities, and whenever they find great improvements
on foot they are ready to enter large tracts that, at a future day,
may sell at a high price. This they call making an investment.
I had thought of the probabilities in this case, but I was not
strongly impressed with it, because the low price at which land
can be bought of the Government made it evident that the diffi
culty would not be serious. The advantages of taking up land
under the Homestead, by which one is obliged to occupy the
ground five years before a title can be secured, over the buying
at $1[.]25 an acre,' are not great. I have now come to the con
clusion that it is not safe to establish a colony unless the land
is bought the first thing. When a location shall be decided
upon, funds should be on hand to enter the land in a solid block.
None of us would be willing to leave the comforts of home and
remove to the Far West, to be hampered by land monopolists.
Land can be bought with agricultural and other scrip, so that
it will cost not much more than 90 cents an acre. It would seem
from the great number of applications, that several colonies can
be formed, but let us have one first.
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generally crops cannot be grown in Colorado without irrigation.
A stream runs through the locality to which I have made ref
erence, but probably there is not water enough for more than 50
farms, some of which must be small. Still it is claimed that
there are limited districts where there is a sufficient fall of rain,
and this is said to be one. Whether this is true, is to be de
termined by a committee. There are places where water is
abundant, where the soil is rich, where a part of the land belongs
to Government and a part to a railroad, but neither timber,
stone, nor coal are near. There are other places beside, and I
have written to leading men in the Territory to have an investi
gation made.
It is needed now that a committee be appointed to go on
and search for a location that will be suited to the greatest
variety of pursuits. The plan is certainly an experiment, and
for a first colony more natural advantages will be required than
for other colonies having for a guide the experience of the
pioneer colony. I would name in the order of their importance
that which should be sought: First, healthf ulness ; second, a
varied and rich soil natural for grass ; third, timber and coal, or
both; fourth, iron ore; fifth, adaptation to fruit; sixth, water
power; seventh, beauty of scenery. The interests of so many
families with the earnings of their lives and the comforts of
home, the interests of so many industrious, skillful, intelligent,
and well-to-do people must not be put in jeopardy for want of
thorough investigation.
Mr. Greeley said that he was the descendant of ancestors
who were the founders of one of the most noted colonies in
the country — the Londonderry Colony in New Hampshire —
and to-day some of them own the land on which they live. Each
man had a few rods on the road, running back a mile, making
160 acres. The Salt Lake plan is good. The Mormons are a
clever people. Their plan is to put eight settlers on 10 acres,
allowing each man l1/^ acres. He agreed with the remarks
made by Mr. Meeker, and he believed in irrigation. A very
little water goes a great deal further than people generally sup
pose. In California they use much more than is necessary. In
regard to emigrating, he said that many persons would find that

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when they came to sell their places their funds would be smaller
than they anticipated. There are numbers of young men who
have little money, but they are just as good as those who have
more. He would get a deed of the land on which the colonists
propose to settle before the village was staked out. All of the
settlers will not have the same plans. Some will have children
to educate, and they will want to live near the schools. Others
who desire to raise stock had just as soon live two or three
miles out of town. It is impossible to make rules for all. The
small tract system will not succeed in a new country, for, when
people get out on the prairies a feeling of expansion takes hold
of them. He would not have less than 160 acres were he going
to emigrate, even if he did not want to use it for several years.
A working secretary should be appointed to answer letters, &c.
The man who wants information ought to be willing to pay for
it. A printed circular would answer nine-tenths of the corre
spondents. An Executive Committee, and a Committee on Lo
cation should be appointed.
Mr. Arthur Murphy of Brooklyn — This is a serious busi
ness. It is the beginning of not only one, but of twenty colonies.
The first must not be a failure, for the success of all the others
depend upon the success of the first. Each member must be
satisfied, and it is necessary that we get acquainted with one
another and then organize. There must be harmony.
[p. 10.] Gen. Cameron of Elmira, N. Y. — What we need is
an organization and money. I went to Indiana when it was
a wilderness, and to Chicago when it was a mudhole, and now
I want to go to Colorado. I will give $5 to begin with. Our
proposed location should not be known even to the members of
the colony. Nowhere in the globe is there another such a country
as at the West. The great mining region is to be developed,
and to do this will create a market that cannot be overstocked.
We don't want New- York for a market, we will have the con
tinent to supply. (Applause)
Mr. E. D. Carpenter of Putnam, Conn., said that he was
greatly interested in what had been said. He was in favor of
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Mr. Meeker signify nothing. I did not writel to him, yet I want
to go, and I know many more of the same mind.
Mr, Gregory of New- York City — The best colony I ever
saw was the New-Braunf els, Texas ; also, the one at Castorville.
They have not only a good colony, but a city. There are schools.
churches, manufactories, and, in fact, everything that tends to
civilize and refine the world. They commenced with 10 acres
outside of the town, and with half an acre for the dwelling.
Mr. Greeley asked if the railroad companies would make
a deduction when there were 200 or 300 families going?
N. C. Meeker — As to passengers, the fare from here to
Sheridan is too high. I have no doubt but that half -fare tickets
can be obtained. Some of the Western roads have already
promised this much, and I presume the others will also.
A Provisional Committee was then appointed to nominate
officers. The meeting was then adjourned until 3 o'clock, when
resolutions were adopted in substance as follows :
That the Colony be called the "Union Colony," the officers
of which were then elected, namely :
N. C. Meeker, President; Gen. Cameron, Vice-President;
Horace Greeley, Treasurer.
Executive Committee. — Richmond Fiske, Hoosack Falls,
Rensselaer County, N. Y. ; Arthur Murphy, No. 157 Adams-
st., Brooklyn ; Nathaniel Paul, Wakefield, N. H. ; C. O. Poole,
No. 125 East Seventeenth-st., N. Y. ; G. C. Shelton, Seymour,
Conn. That each member pay $5 for current expenses, and also
hold subject to the call of the Treasurer $150 for a purchase
fund for the land to be bought, and that no member can buy
more than 160 acres, and that said money shall be refunded if
the land is not settled within a reasonable period, to be pre
scribed by the Executive Committee.
The number of persons who paid their initiation fee ($5)
was 59. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed, and all agreed that
they had never attended a more harmonious meeting. Many
came without money, but they promised to send it by mail on
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plan of the Colony as has been stated, and to contribute to the
Locating Committee fund, may do so by forwarding their ad
dress and $5 to the Treasurer, Horace Greeley at the Tribune
office. This amount from each member is necessary to enable the
Committee to go West and select the desired location. Further
notice of future movements will be given through the columns
of The Tribune.
[p. 11. ] A meeting of the Executive Committee was then called
and a committee was appointed to draft a Constitution & by laws.
The Thursday following said Committee adopted the fol
lowing Constitution and by laws
Constitution —
[Not inserted here, 2% pages blank.]
[p. 14] SECOND MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
On Thursday, Jan 3d, 1870, Messrs Meeker, Poole, Fisk,
Cameron, Shelton and Murphy, of the Executive Committee,
met in the rooms of the American Institute at the Cooper Union,
with Mr N. C. Meeker in the chair. It was voted that N. C.
Meeker be paid $200. per month for his services as Secretary
until July lst 1870. He objected on the ground that the sum
was too large, but he finally accepted $125. a month. Ralph
Meeker was appointed Ass't Secretary at $50 a month. It
was also voted that all sums allowed by the Executive Com
mittee and the expenses of the locating Committee be paid by
order of the President on the Treasurer, also that the [p. 15]
Executive Committee invite friendly Capitalists to purchase
simultaneously for the Colony all of the desirable lands out
lying the proposed Colony in the name of the Treasurer, the
said land to be held and sold to actual settlers under the direc
tion of the Executive Committee at an advance of fifty per cent
only to the Capitalists, the time being limited to two years.
It was also voted that all persons not members, desiring
information, regarding the Colony, and its proceedings, shall pay
one dollar for such information.
The following named persons were elected to act as a Lo-

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eating Committee :— N. C. Meeker, W. C. Fisk Toledo Ohio,
and R A. Cameron, of Elmira N. Y.
Messrs Richmond Fisk and C. 0. Poole were appointed a
Committee [p. 16] to audit accounts.
The locating committee were instructed to go West and
select a suitable location for the Colony and report to the exe
cutive committee immediately on their return.
The committee then adjourned subject to the call of the
President. Afterwards the members came together and at the sug
gestion of the President N. C. Meeker, they voted to give J. L.
Gerow assist. Treasurer a Salary of $25 per month so long as
his Services may be required.
After adjournent the Auditing Committee certified bills
of expenses to the amount of $60.45
[p. 17] Tuesday March 15th 1870
The locating committee reported to day at the American
Institute Rooms, Cooper Institute. Members present, Messrs
Meeker, Cameron, Fiske Shelton and Murphy. Absent, Mr.
Poole It was voted that the Committee on Location be authorized
to complete the arrangements for location, and purchase of
lands for the Colony — that the locating committee be authorized
to expend a sum of money not exceeding $15000 in purchasing
land for a town Site; that the executive committee have power
to increase the number of members ; that the Committee be re
quired to plant trees in the village; that a Superintendant be
appointed to act under the direction of the Executive Committee,
and that Genl. R A. Cameron shall be the said Superintendent,
for which position he shall receive a Salary of $7.00 per day,
during the time he acts as Superintendant under the direction
of the Executive Committee.
It was also voted that the President's salary shall be in
creased to $40. per week, dating from the first '[p. 18] of Jan
uary 1870 ; that suitable land shall be granted to persons erecting
Steam-mills and factorys, and to any member who will erect
a stone, concrete or brick Hotel, containing not less than ninety
rooms ; also that the Locating Committee shall divide the land

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of the Colony according to rules laid down in the Constitution
and By-Laws, and that said land shall be appraised and appor
tioned to the members ; and in case of competition for the same
tract, such tract shall be sold to the highest bidder.
On the evening of the same day, the Committee met in Mr
Greeley's room in the Tribune Office, where, it was voted that
the name of the town of the Colony shall be Greeley; and that
the Superintendent shall act under the direction of the President.
[p. 19] Monday March 16th 1870
At a meeting of the Executive held this day, it was con
sidered necessary to reduce the expenses of the Locating Com
mittee, and it was voted as an amendment to the former resolu
tion, that the said Committee shall consist only of N. C. Meeker
and Genl. R. A. Cameron.

RECORD BOOK NO. I1.
OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
FROM APRIL 21 1870 TO OCTOBER 4 - 1870
[p. 1 blank]
[p. 2] Certificate of Organization of The Union Colony of
Colorado Whereas, we the undersigned, Nathan C. Meeker, Robert
A. Cameron Henry T. West, William N. Byers and Daniel
Witter, desire to form a Company for the purpose of carrying
on the business of Manufacturing and Mining, Constructing
Wagon Roads and Bridges, digging and maintaining Ditches,
aiding, encouraging and inducing emmigration to the Territory
of Colorado, building Churches Academies and School Houses
and carrying on other branches of business designed to aid in the
industrial and productive interests of the Country under the pro
visions of Chapter Eighteen of the Revised Statutes of Colo
rado and the Amendments thereto approved February 11th,
1870, Therefore, We do hereby Certify,
First: That the Corporate Name of said Company shall
be The Union Colony of Colorado. That said Company is
formed for the following purposes to Wit
i On the cover of the volume. In the colony safe at Greeley.

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1st For the purpose of manufacturing flow, lumber, brick,
furniture and all kinds of manufactured goods, wares and mer
chandise 
2d For the purpose of mining for Iron Coal and other min
erals 
3d For the purpose of Constructing Wagon Roads and Bridges
4th For the purpose of Constructing and Maintaining Ditches
and Canals 
5th For the purpose of Erecting, Maintaining, holding and
keeping in repair [p. 3] a house or houses of public worship. . .
6th For the purpose of providing, holding maintaining and
keeping in repair a place for the burial of the dead 
7th For the purpose of establishing and and maintaining
Academies and Schools for the Education of Youth 
8th For the purpose of aiding, encouraging and inducing im
migration to the Territory of Colorado, and
9th For the purpose of carrying on other branches of business
designed to aid the industrial and productive interests of the
country 
Second The amount of the Capital Stock of said Company shall
be Twenty five thousand dollars ($25000) which shall be divided
into Five thousand shares of Five dollars each 
Third The term of the Existence of said Company shall be for
Twenty Years 
Fourth The affairs of said Corporation shall be managed by
five trustees, and the following named persons shall be such
Trustees for the first year and until their successors are elected
to wit — : Nathan C. Meeker, Robert A, ¦ Cameron, Henry T.
West, William N. Byers and D aniel Witter 
Fifth. The principal business of said Company shall be car
ried on in the Town of Creeley, in the County of Weld, and
Territory of Colorado with the right to carry on a part of its
business at places outside of said Territory
Sixth The Trustees of said Company shall have power to
make such prudential by-laws as they may deem proper —
[p. 4] for the managment and disposition of the stock and busi
ness affairs of said Company — for prescribing the duties of
Officers Agents, Artificers and servants that may be employed,

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and for the appointment of all officers and Agents for carrying
on all kinds of business within the objects and purposes of said
Company 
Seventh. The wagon roads to be constructed by said Company
are to be from the Town of Greeley in the County of Weld afore
said, intersecting other roads, and the Bridges to be built are to
cross the Platte River and the Cacha La Poudre River, in Town
ships No 5 and 6 North of Range No 65 West
Eighth The said Company propose to take the water for thier
said Ditches or Canals from the Cache La Poudre River and
from Big Thompson River as follows, to wit — : First — on the
north side of said Cache La Poudre River at or near the foot
of the Canon above the Town of Laporte in the County of
Larimer Territory of Colorado, to be carried thence at a grade
not to exceed five feet fall to the mile along the most convenient
and practicable line easterly to Crow Creek in the County of
Weld aforesaid
2d On the north side of said Cache La Poudre River on or near
Section 11 in Township No 6 North of Range No 68 West, to
be carried thence at a grade not to exceed five feet fall to the
mile along the most convenient and I [p. 5] practicable line
easterly to Crow Creek in the County of Weld aforesaid
3d On the south side of said Cache La Poudre River at or near
a point seven miles above where the Denver Pacific Railway
crosses said stream to be carried thence at a grade not to exceed
five feet fall to the mile along the most convenient and prac
ticable line easterly and southerly to the South Platte or Cache
La Poudre River either or both —
4th From the Big Thompson River at a point on or near Sec
tion No 1 in Township No 4, North of Range No 66 West, to be
carried thence at a grade not to exceed five feet fall to the mile
north easterly along the most convenient and practicable line to
the South Platte or Cache La Poudre River, either or both, with
such branches, races, acqueducts flumes and embankments as
shall be necessary or convenient for the construction, main
tenance and use of each of said ditches . . . 
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the irrigation of lands and town lots, for Manufacturing, Me
chanical and Culinary purposes and for the conveyance through
said ditches of logs, lumber, wood, boats, goods, wares and mer
chandise In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and
seals at Denver in the Territory of Colorado this 13th day of
April in the year of our Lord One thousand [p. 6] eight hun
dred and seventy  Signed
Witness Edward P. Jones to sig
natures of N C Meeker R A
Cameron, Wm N. Byers and
Daniel Witer Witness. Edward
P House to signature of H. T.
West

N. C. Meeker
R. A. Cameron
Henry T. West
Wm N. Byeers
Daniel Witter

(SEAL) (SEAL)(SEAL)(SEAL)
(SEAL)

Territory of Colorado!
County of Arapahoe \
On this 13th day of April A D. 1870 personally came
Nathan C Meeker, Robert A Cameron, William N. Byers and
Daniel Witter to me well known to be four of the individuals
described in and who executed the foregoing instrument of writ
ing, and they severally, each for himself acknowledged that they
executed the same for the purposes and uses therein mentioned
Witness my hand and notarial seal the day and year last
above written Signed. Edward P Jones
(SEAL) Notary Public
Territory of Colorado}
County of Weld y
On this fifteenth day of April A D 1870 personally came
Henry T West to me well known to be one of the individuals
described in and who executed the foregoing instrument of writ
ing and acknowledged that he executed the same for the pur
poses and uses therein mentioned

>ss

18 THE UNION COLONY
Witness my hand and notarial seal this the day and year
last above written Signed Edward P House
(SEAL) Notary Public
[p. 7]
Territory of Colorado}
County of Weld J
This Certificate was filed for record at 3 Oclock P. M
April 15th A D 1870 and duly recorded in Book No 1 of
Mortgages at page 218 Signed F. E. Moyer, Recorder —
Greeley C. T. April 20th 1870
[p. 8] Meeting of the Trustees of The Union Colony of Colo
rado for organization, April 20th A D 1870
The following named persons, being a mojority of the
Trustees named in the Organic Act of said Colony viz Nathan C.
Meeker, Robert A. Cameron and Henry T. West met and pro
ceeded to the election of the officers of said Colony for the en-
sueing year, with the following result, viz Nathan C Meeker
was elected to be President, Robert A. Cameron to be Vice
President and Henry T. West to be Secretary.
The following By Laws were then unanimously adopted:
Article lst. The first Election for the Board of Trustees of
The Union Colony of Colorado shall be held at Greeley, Weld
County. Colorado Territory on the first (lst) Tuesday in May
A. D. 1871, and thereafter on the first (1st) Tuesday in said
month in each year
The Election shall be by ballot and each stock holder in
said Union Colony shall be entitled to one (1) vote, which may
be cast in person or by proxy duly appointed in writing, which
shall be filed with the secretary at least five (5) days before any
election, and a majority of the votes cast at such elections shall
elect. The Trustees shall hold their office for one year and until
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The Trustees and the officers elected or appointed by them.
shall, before entering upon the duties of their office take and
subscribe to the following Oath viz
I  do solemnly swear that I will support
the Constitution of the United States of America and the
Organic Act of the Territory of Colorado and will perform the
duties of the office of  conscientiously and
to the best of my ability. So help me God
Which Oath shall be filed with the Secretary.
Article 2d — Judges & Clerks of Elections
At all Elections for Trustees the Board shall appoint a
Juge or Judges and two (2) Clerks of saaid election who shall
keep a full and complete list or lists of the voters and the votes
cast, which lists shall be immediately deposited with the sec
retary of said Colony with the Certificate of the Judge and
Clerks stating the number of votes cast at such election and for
whom they were cast; and the Board of Trustees shall canvas
said votes at the first regular meeting after such election and
cause due record to be made of the same on the Record Book
of said Colony
Article 3d Vacancies
The Board of Trustees shall have power to fill all vacancies
in their body caused by resignation or death —
[p. 10] Article 4th Trustees Meetings
The regular business meetings of the Board of Trustees shall
be held on the evening of the second tuesday in each month;
and special meetings may be called by the President, and in his
absence by the Vice President, by notice in writing to all of the
Members of said Board; and all business done at such called
meetings shall be as legal as if done at the regular meetings
Article 5th Officers
The Officers of Union Colony shall consist of a President, Vice
President, Secretary, Treasurer and a Superintendant, who shall
be elected by the Trustees at the first regular meeting of the

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Board after the annual Election in each year and who shall
hold their offices for one (1) year and until their successors
are elected and qualified
Article 6th Duties of the President
The President shall preside at all meetings of the Board of
Trustees, he shall sign all contracts made by the Board in be
half of the Colony and certified to by the Secretary. He shall
also sign all orders drawn by the secretary by order of the
Trustees upon the Treasury
He shall be empowered to convey and perfect- all tittles of
lands to individuals or corporations Sold or granted by the
Board of Trustees
[p. 11] Article 7th Duties of the Vice President
In the absence of the President, the Vice President shall per
form all the duties pertaining to the office of President
Article 8th Duties of the Secretary —
The Secretary shall keep the Books and Records of the Colony.
He shall issue all checks and certificates ordered by the Board of
Trustees; which to be Valid shall be countersigned by the
President or, in his absence, by the Vice President
Article 9th. Duties of the Treasurer —
The Treasurer shall keep the monies of the Colony and shall
pay them out only by order of the Board of Trustees, which
orders shall be signed by the President, or, in his absence, by the
Vice President and certified to by the Secretary
He shall give Bonds for the faithful performance of his
duties, to be approved by the Board of Trustees, in twice the
amount he may be likely to hold of monies or property belonging
to the Colony
Article 10th Duties of the Superintendant
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structions given him by the Board of Trustees in relation to
Colony matters —
[p. 12] Article 11th Executive Council
The Trustees may select an Executive Council of twelve (12)
persons, members of said Union Colony who shall hold their
position during the pleasure of the Board of Trustees.
Article 12th Compensation of Officers
The compensation of the officers and employees of said Union
Colony shall be fixed by the Board of Trustees —
Article 13 Regarding lands —
The Board of Trustees shall make such sub divisions of the
lands of the Colony as may seem best for the interests of the
same, and they shall from time to time apprise such sub divi
sions, and except as hereinafter mentioned the land shall not
be disposed of or sold for less than the apprisement
The Trustees may donate limited portions of land, upon
which to erect houses of public worship, to religious organiza
tions and also for Government, State, or County public build
ings; also to individuals or corporations upon which to erect
Mills, Factories or other costly buildings of general public
benefit. Stock Book
The Secretary was then instructed to open a Book for sub
scriptions to the Stock of said Company, "The Union Colony
of Colorado," allowing each member of said Colony to sub
scribe for one share only of said stock
[p. 13] It was also agreed that we should proceed to Construc
tion of ditch number thre (3) on the south side of the Cache
La Poudre River, and the President instructed to contract
for the same, with the lowest responsible bidder, with-holding
twenty per cent of the price till the completion of the con
tract — as security for faithful performance of the same. —

22 THE UNION COLONY April 21, 1870
Amendment Art. lst By Laws
the Election for the Board of Trustees of UNION Colony
of Colorado shall be on the first Tuesday in February
Passed Dec 24—1872 
Amendment Article 1 By Laws Feb 13th 1877
That in case an election for the Board of Trustees of the
Union Colony of Colorado should not be held at the time
specified in by laws as amended Dec 24th 1872 the Trustees shall
have power to call an Election
[Two pages blank.]
[p. 16] Meeting of the Executive Committee Greeley May 10,
1870 Present, R. A. Cameron V. P., Richmond Fisk, Nathan
Paul and Henry T. West.
Mr. Levi Hanna was added to the Executive Committee.
and took part in the proceedings
The subject of providing some lumber for the immediate
wants of the Colonists, being under consideration, it was moved
That some good man be selected to obtain a supply,
Which was agreed to — ¦
Mr West stated that he had a building in Cheyenne which
was being pulled down and loaded on to the Cars. It contained
a large amount of lumber, and cost him $1000. That he had
contracted to have it loaded for one hundred and seventy five
dollars ($175.00) and had paid the man who was to do it fifty
dollars ($50.00). He offered it to the Colony at its cost to him
viz $1050.00 On Motion, his proposition was accepted, and Mr Russell
Fisk being mentioned as a proper person to procure lumber, he
was appointed; and instructed to proceed to Cheyenne and
hasten the sending of the building, and to procure at least fifty
thousand (50m) additional feet of lumber suitable for build
ings on the best possible terms and have it sent forward imme
diately. Also to purchase a car load of coal, to be sold to the
colonists at cost
Mr. Nathaniel Paul, was [p. 17] selected to dispose of the
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of it so as to cover expense of sale and save the Colony from
loss  On motion adjourned until 9 O'clock tomorrow morning —
H. T. West Secty
Greeley, C. T. May 12, 1870
The Committee met according to adjournment.
Present R. A Cameron, R. Fisk N. Paul Levi Hanna and
H. T. West.
Mr C. C. Monk was added to the Committee and took part
in the proceedings
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap
proved It was unanimously agreed that there should be laid out
six tiers of Five acre lots and Eight (8) tiers of ten (10) acre
lots on the west side of the town plot —
On Motion of Gen'l Cameron it was decided that the fol
lowing clause should be inserted in the Colony deeds, viz :
"That it is a part of the consideration in this deed that
intoxicating liquors shall not be manufactured; or sold as a
beverage nor shall gambling of any kind be permitted on the
premises conveyed —
Committee Adj' H. T. West Secty.
[p. 18] Greeley C. T. May 13. 1870
The Executive Committee met according to adjournment.
All of the members present
Mr Russell Fisk who was appointed to procure lumber,
reported that he had learned that Mr Thompson lumber dealer
at Cheyenne had joined the Colony, and would move his yard
to Greeley, and therefore did not purchase any Lumber. That
he had Contracted for a Car load of Coal Costing on the Car
$12.00 per ton, which would be shipped at once — He stated
that he had to pay this price, it being the only Car load to be
had in Cheyenne
He further stated that he had telegraphed to Genl Angur
asking him to' loan the Colony six (6) tents and rec'd word that

24 THE UNION COLONY
by giving proper bonds to the Commanding officer at Fort A D
Russell for their safe return, that could be had — He had
procured the bonds and the tents would be sent at once. The
report was accepted —
Mr Fisk then stated that he had a proposition to lay
before the Committee in relation to the erecting of a temporary
town hall, to be built jointly by himself and the Colony.
The Committee adjourned till One Oelock P. M to allow
Mr Fisk to make his proposition in writing H. T. West, Secty
[p. 19] Greeley May 13. 1870
The Committee met according to adjournment. All
the members present but Mr West and Mt Hanna
Mr Russell Fisk presented the following proposition
To the Executive Committee, Union Colony
Gentlemen I have the honor to present for your favorable Considera
tion the following proposition for the benefit of the Colony, and
that those passing us upon the Cars will be impressed that enter
prise and energy is a characteristic of the officers and business
men organizing and developing the interests of the Colony
I propose that the Executive Committee join me in the
erection of a suitable building 48 x 24 ft wide — to be erected
upon my lot and to cost not less than Five thousand dollars
($5000.00) The building to Contain an Office for the Executive Com
mittee of this Colony, and a public store room under charge of
the Gen'l Superintendant of the Colony and the second story
to contain a public hall for Colony Meetings, Religious Meet
ings, Singing Schools, Concerts &c.
The Executive Committee to advance in its construction
Two thousand and five hundred dollars ($2500.00) and the
balance to be paid by myself, not less than $2500 — The build
ing to be occupied jointly — and when the Exec [p. 20] utive
Committee cease to occupy the building — the time not to be
extended beyond two years the sum advanced by them to be

MINUTES 25
refunded without interest and their ownership in behalf of the
Colony cease.
The title to the lot on which the building is to be erected
is to be held by Union Colony until the final settlement between
the parties; and the money advanced by the Colony refunded
On motion Mr Fisks proposition was accepted, and a con
tract was orderd to be drawn
It was agreed that the School sections — number Sixteen in
Township number five (5) Range 65 west and 16 in Town 6
Range 65 west and 36 in Town 6 Range 66 west be surveyed
into 40 acre tracts and that we invite members1 of the Colony
to occupy the same, and if they do so they shall be guaranteed
the right to water for their share ($150.) and that we as a
Colony will, use our influence in their favor to have the lands
so improved apprised at, not over ten dollars ($10.00) per acre
which the parties occupying shall pay when the said school lands
are sold — And in case the said parties are distrained from said
land by reason of an injurious or exhorbitant apprisement, then
all of thier rights shall revert to them as land and water holders
in the Colony. Adj'd [In pencil.] R. A. C. Secty.
[p. 21] Greeley C T. May 16, 1870
The Excutive Committee upon call of the Vice President
Present Mess Cameron, Paul, Fisk, Hanna, Monk and West
Mess Plato and Woodworth were added to the Committee
Mr Hanna stated that Mr Higley was willing to take ten
dollars ($10.00) per acre for his one hundred and sixty (160)
acres of land and join the Colony — paying the same as others —
It was moved That the Colony purchase his land — which
was agreed to —
Mr Monk stated that he thought that there should be a
circular statement made to the members as to the following facts
viz The number of officers, their term of office and the amt of
salery paid.

26 THE UNION COLONY
The am't of land purchased, from whom, and the prices
paid The number of business lots, their size and the number of
resident lots and the size
The proposed division of famig [farming] lands into lots
— and the size and number of each
A copy of the charter under the laws of Colorado
The am't of land proposed to be homesteaded by the mem
bers and the cost of each tract
The estimated amt of land that can be irrigated and the
probable cost of the same —
[p. 22] The general powers of the Executive Committee
The Secretary was instructed to prepare such a statement
and to submit it as soon as possible to the Committee — •
The Committee adjourned for the Secty to make his
report. 3 Oclock P M.
The Committee were convened to hear the report as made
by the — Secretary, which was as follows) —
[The printed report inserted.]

CIRCULAR.
Greeley, Colorado May 16th, 1870.
The Executive Committee of Union Colony submit the following statement for the
benefit of its members, and those interested in the Colony :

LANDS PURCHASED.

Who From.
Denver Pacific Railway

John Gates,
A. J. Williams,
W. R. Williams,
David H. Williams,
For obtaining the last three
M. L. Smith,
David Barnes,
E. Williams,
L. F. Bartels,
G. W. Phelps,
D. H. Moffat, Jr.,
J. Quigley,
Bartels & Remick
Chas. B. Farwell,

When

Acres

Cost per Acre

Amount

April 11,

1870.

6,397, 66-100ths.

25 descriptions

$ 3.00

$19,192.98

i It

it

2,766, 40-100ths.

12

4.00

11,065.60

{ it

tt

160.

2

5.00

800.00

' 7,
1870.
326. 70-100ths.
about
10.00
3,200.00
' 22,
(t
80.
9.00
720.00
' 20,
tt
160.
2,000.00
" 20,
ft
160.
2,000.00
descriptions, we
paid Dr. Tuttie for services and traveling fees, as per
bill, 284.50
April 6th
1870.
160.
2,000.00
' 11,
tt
126. 98-100ths.
10.00
1,269.80
* 7,
ft
159. 18-100ths.
10.00
1,600.00
' 7,
tt
200.
8.00
1,600.00
' 9,
tt
378.56ths.
10.00
3,788.00
' 9,
tt
120.
10.00
1,200.00
' 7,
tt
160, and his homestead of 80 acres
with house
2,800.00
t it
it
160.
2,000.00
h .-(
tt
320.
8.00
2,560.00
May 10,
1870.
80.
Amount
12.00
paid,
960.00
ber of Acres 11,916. 29-100ths.
$59,040.88
Preliminary Fees for Occupancy of Government Lands,
930.00
$59,970.88
MaHCO
28 THE UNION COLONY
Recapitulation: — Purchased from the Railway Com
pany, 9,324, 6 lOOths acres, costing $31,058.58; purchased from
Individuals, 2,592, 23-100s acres, costing $27,982.30; pre
liminary Fees for Occupation of 60,000 acres, $930.00, making
a total of $59,970.88.
The money paid for the above lands was drawn by drafts
upon Horace Greeley, Treasurer of Union Colony, by N. C.
Meeker, President, and R. A. Cameron, Vice-President
The Colony has a contract with the Denver Pacific Rail
way Co., to withdraw from public entry and permit us to pur
chase at any time within three years from May lst 1870, Fifty
Thousand (50,000) acres' of land, which are to be selected by
the officers of the Colony as they wish, within certain bounds.
The prices to be paid for said lands are as follows viz: lands
selected between the lst of May 1870, and the lst of May 1871.
to be $3.00 per acre, with interest at six per cent, from May lst
Those selected between the lst of May 1871 and the lst of May
1872, to be $3.50 per acre, and interest at six per cent, from
May lst 1871. Those selected between the lst of May 1872 and
the 1st of May 1873, to be $4.00 per acre, and interest at six per
cent from the lst day of May 1872.
Members who are willing to take 80 acres of Government
land, commencing at a distance of about four (4) miles from
the Town site, for their membership will be allowed to take an
additional and adjoining 80 acres of Railroad land, by paying
to the Colony the cost of the same at the time of the purchase,
being $3. per acre, until May lst 1871. The water for irri
gation to go with the land in all cases.
PROPOSED DIVISION OF LANDS.
130 5-acre Lots,  650 acres, 70 80-acre Lots  5,600 acres,

120 10

ii

 1,200 "

20 100 "

....2,000

100 20

"

 2,000 "

10 120 "

....1,200

80 30

 2,400 "

10 140 "

. . . 1,400

80 40

 3,200 "

10 160 "

...1,600

70 60

tt

 4,200 "
 Total, 708 members. -

 25.450 acres. —

Included in this land is that purchased from the Railroad
Company, from former occupants, and the Government lands,

MINUTES 29
upon which we have a claim. A member is entitled to a lot of
land, as he may select, of five, ten, twenty, forty or more acres,
up to the largest number of acres the Colony can give anyone,
for his One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00) depending
upon the distance from the Town site. The nearer the Town
the less land, the farther off, the more. The five acre lots imme
diately adjoin the Town. Improrovements must be made upon
outlying lands within one year from the date of the location of
the Colony lands, viz: April 5th, 1870, to entitle a person to a
deed, unless the same person purchases a Town lot and improves
that to the satisfaction of the Executive Committee. This land
is to be furnished with water for irrigation. The Colony digs
the ditches, and each member of the Colony is liable to assess-
ment for cost of keeping the same in repair. It is estimated
that the ditches for irrigating the lands of the Colony, as stated,
will cost above $20,000, for which there is money in the Treas
ury. A member is also entitled to purchase Town lots for
residence and business purposes, either or both, at the minimum
price of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for corner, and Twenty-five
Dollars ($25.00) for inside lots, the deeds for which will be
given when members enter upon them in good faith, to the satis
faction of the Executive Committee. The money paid for Town
lots is to be expended for general Village improvements.
TOWN LOTS.
There are in all, 1,224 lots, which are divided as follows:
Residence Lots, 50x190 feet, 20 ft. alleys, 144.
" 100x190 " " 408.
" 200x190 " " 108
Business Lots, 25 x 115 feet, 20 ft. alleys, 328.
" 25x190 " " 236.
Reserved for Schools, Churches:, Town Hall,
Court House, Seminary, and other public
uses, 81 Lots.
Recapitulation: — Residence Lots, 660;
Business Lots, 483 ; Reserved, 81.

30 THE UNION COLONY
The organization of the "Union Colony of Colorado" was
a necessity to enable us to make contracts, binding upon the
Colony, without which we could not have done anything in re
gard to irrigation, and many other things necessary to be done
for the Colony. This organization is simply to do such things
as could not otherwise be done, but it is to be distinctly under
stood that the members' of the Colony are to control the munici
pal and all other matters relating to the Colony, according to
the terms of the original organization.
Regarding the salaries of officers, we would say that the
Executive Committee, in session in New York, determined that
Mr. Meeker, President, should receive the sum of One Hundred
and Sixty Dollars ($160.00) per month for his services while
actively engaged for the Colony, and that his son Ralph Meeker.
as assistant secretary, should receive Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per
month, until the business was closed in New York, which has
already been ordered done. It was also agreed that Mr. Cam
eron, Vice President, should act as superintendent, and after the
location of the lands, should remain on the ground to receive
the people and attend to their wants, and that for such actual
services as superintendent, he should be paid the sum of Seven
Dollars ($7.00) per day, until relieved by the Executive Com
mittee. Upon Mr. West's being appointed secretary, it was
agreed that he should be paid Six Dollars ($6.00) per day for
actual service, until relieved by the Executive Committee.
Lumber is still somewhat scarce, but a lumber yard has
been established, and it will be more plentiful soon. The Col
ony have two large buildings and nine tents, and there will be
no trouble about shelter, but we advise all to bring a good sup
ply of bed clothing and blankets with them, as the nights are
cool, and as some have come without any extra clothing, we de
sire that all hereafter shall come prepared.
The Auditing Committee of the Colony will soon make a
full report of the expenses attending the locating and purchase
of the Lands.
By order of the Executive Committee.
R. A. Cameron, Vice President.
H. T. West, Secretary. Cheyenne Leader Print.

MINUTES 31
[p. 23] The report was approved and ordered printed for gen
eral distribution It was agreed the alternate lots of outlying lands to the
East of the Village Plot be reserved until the first of September
Adj — till 9 oclock tomorrow H. T. West, Secty
Greeley May 17th 1870
The Committee met according to adjournment — All present
The secretary was instructed not to change the registry of
lots after they have been made
Adj till tomorrow at 9 Oclk A M H. T. West Secty
Greeley C.T. May 18. 70
The Executive Committee met
Present Cameron, Fisk, Paul, Hanna Monk, & West.
There being some apprehensions among the Colonists of
danger from the Indians, it was
Moved. That an application be made to the Secretary of
war for a detachment of Cavalry to be stationed on the Platte
River below the mouth of the Cache a La Poudre for the protec
tion of this Colony from Indians. Which was agreed to, and
the Secretary instructed to write to the Secty of war
[p. 24] The superintendant, Genl Cameron stated that he was
ready to place surveyors on the land east of the village plot and
suggested that the land be cut up into blocks the same size as in
the City; and that they be open for selection as the amount of
land to be given to members for their outlying land
Which was agreed to H. T. West Secty.
Greeley May 20th. 1870
The Committee met —
Present Cameron, Paul and Woodworth Hanna and Plato —
Mr Paul desired to be relieved from the care of the Coal, stating
that Mess Thompson & Brown were going to deal in the article.
He was desired to continue the care of it until it could be turned
over to Mess Thompson and Brown.

32 THE UNION COLONY
It was agreed that the trees received from Bloomington and
not sold, be transplanted on the River bank for the present
season. Which was agreed to, and Mr E. C. Monk to take charge
of the transplanting and employ the labor required
Judge Hanna moved, That a Committee be appointed to
arrange with Mr Russell Fisk for a relinquishment of the agree
ment to put up a town hall —
Judge Plato moved to substitute by giving the Committee
power [p. 25] to fulfill the Contract or Compromise with him
as they deem best
And the question being on the substitute It was agreed to
— and Mess Plato, Hanna and Monk were appointed as the
Committee Adj' H T West See'ty
Greeley, May 21st. 1870
The Executive Committee met
There were present Mess Cameron, Fisk, Paul Monk Hanna
Plato and West —
The Committee appointed to confer with Mr Russell Fisk
reported. That Mr Fisk had made such arrangements in re
gard to building as precluded any Compromise and that they
had drawn the Contract as agreed upon between Mr Fisk and
the Colony — as follows viz Greeley Colorado May 21. '70
Articles of agreement made the twenty first day of May
one thousand, eight hundred and seventy, between Russell Fisk
of Greeley in the County of Weld and Territory of Colorado of
the first part and the Executive Committee or Trustees for the
Union Colony in the town of Greeley Weld County and Terri
tory of Colorado of the second part
Witnesseth. That the said [p. 26] party of the first part,
Russell Fisk. agrees to erect a suitable building in a substantial
and workmanlike manner at a cost not less than Five Thousand
dollars ($5000.00) upon Main Street in said Town of Greeley;
said building to be two (2) Stories, with Hall in the seconed
story to be for the use of the Colony and the public, and under

MINUTES 33
the Exclusive management and Control of the Executive Com-
mitee for all purposes — . Also to occupy jointly office room on
the first floor with right to store personal baggage belonging to
members of said Colony.
Provided that the party of the seconed part furnish in three
(3) installments the total sum of twenty five hundred dollars
($2500.00) in payments as follows — Eight hundred dollars
($800.00) when the foundation is ready and the sills are laid,
Nine hundred dollars ($900.00) when the whole is under roof,
and the balance, Eight hundred ($800.00) when the building
is Completed and ready for use.
Said Fisk of the first part is to refund the above amount
of Twenty five hundred dollars ($2500.00) at the Expiration of
two years from the Completion of said building — without inter
est — at which time said Executive Committee or Trustees for
The Union Colony shall deliver a deed of the land or lot 25 by
115 feet upon the payment of Fifty dollars ($50.00) by said
Fisk and said Committee on behalf of said Colony shall relin
quish all Claim upon said building or [p. 27] property
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and
seals the day and year first written. Signed
Signed sealed and delivered Russell Fisk seal
in the presence of R. A. Cameron seal
H. T. West Vice Prest Union Colony —
L. Hanna
The report was accepted and the Committee discharged —
It was agreed that the trees to be set out along the streets,
be set twelve (12) feet from the front of the lots, and that the
water sects be made three (3) feet from the Trees, and that
grass plats be laid outside of the water sect
The Committee then adjourned H. T. West Secty
Greeley C. T. May 23d 1870
The Executive Committee met Present, Mess. Cameron.
Fisk, Paul, Hanna Woodworth and West.

34 THE UNION COLONY
It was ordered by vote of the Committee That those dig
ging Cellars should so dispose of the dirt under the direction of
the Superintendent as not to interfere with1 the Carrying of
water through the Streets for irrigation.
The Secretary was instructed [p. 28] to post a copy of the
above order on the office door
Mr Paul stated that he came here before he intended at
the request of Mr Meeker to assist Mr Cameron and Mr West.
That he had spent all the time he could without some pay
What he had done he did not charge for but if he staid
longer, he wished the matter settled in regard to future work.
Mr West, moved That the thanks of the Committee be re
turned to Mr Paul for what he had done — Agreed to.
Mr Paul then tendered his resignation as member of the
Executive Committee, which was accepted
The Committee then adjourned H. T. West, Secty
Greeley C. T. May 24th 1870
The Committee met, Present, Mess, Cameron, Monk, Han
na, Plato Woodworth and West
Mr Monk Moved
That the even numbered lots of the reserved Blocks on
the East of the Town Plot, be thrown open for selection, Except
ing those blocks through which the Rail Road runs, and fifty
(50) feet each side of the centre of the track
Which was agreed to
Mr West, Moved. That Mr Hanna be allowed to select
[p. 29] two lots under the direction of the Superintendant con
venient for him to erect a goods warehouse upon, [or] near the
Rail Road, and occupy them for such purpose as tenant of the
Colony without rent for one year and therafter till the land
be offerred for sale at such rental as he and the Executive Com
mittee may agree upon — Which was agreed to
The Committee then adjourned till tomorrow at 9 Oclock
AM H. T. West Secty

MINUTES 35
Greeley C T. May 25, 1870
The Committee met according to adjournment —
There were present Mess Cameron, Fisk, Woodworth,
Plato Monk West and Hanna
It was agreed that the blocks and 5.10 and 20 acre lots
surveyed and plotted on the East of the town be offerred on
Monday at One Oclock P. M, and that when offered those desir
ing them should state the fact, and that choice should be
made by placing as many numbered slips — beginning at num
ber one — as there are persons who desire said lots or Blocks,
and Each person should draw for a choice — Number one to
have the first choice, number two the second and so on — Notice
of the drawing to be duly made —
Mr. Cameron proposed That we let the Construction of
three (3) bridges or Crossings over the main ditch, to be built
[p. 30] according to the following specifications "Four String
ers to Each of 6 x 8 inches and sixteen (16) feet long, to be of
sound hewn or sawed timber ; The flooring to be of sound plank
two (2) inches thick and twelve (12) inches wide and twelve
(12) feet long. To be well fitted and securely spiked down
Each Bridge will require twelve (12) plank to cover it. and
Eart is to be used to fill up and grade to the road level on Each
end of the bridge.
Which was agreed to —
The Committee adj till to morrow at 9 Oclk A M
H. T. West Secty
Greeley, Col. May 26. 1870.
The Committee met according to adjournment. Present
Mess Cameron Fisk Hanna, Monk, Plato, Woodworth and West.
Mr Cameron stated that in plotting the lands to the East
of the town the house formerly occupied by A, D, Williams was
left in the street, and he proposed that it be sold on Saturday
Evening next to the highest bidder. The purchaser to pull it
down and remove it when required to do so by the Executive
Comt,ee Which was agreed to.

36 THE UNION COLONY
Mr Cameron also stated that on the land bought from E.
Williams there were two buildings which in plotting the Blocks
came on a part Block, the balance being in the [p. 31] river
He proposed that they be put up together at auction at the same
time with the A D Williams house, and that the person buying
be entitled to take the Block as plotted as his share of outlying
land — which was agreed to
The Superintendant stated that there were persons on the
ground who claimed the right to take and use any property be
longing to the Colony without pay — and desired an Expression
of the Executive Committee as to what he should do.
Mr Monk, Moved
That the Superintendant take charge of the personal
property of the Colony and dispose of it as he may deem best for
the interest of the Colony, but not to be given away —
Which was agreed to H. T. West Secty
Greeley C. T, May 27th, 1870
The Committee met. Present Mess Cameron, Fisk, Monk,
Woodworth, Plato, Hanna and West.
The minutes of the previous meetings were read and ap
proved. Mr J. H. Jones Appeared before the Committee and
stated that he had selected Lot 8. Blk 83 before the completion
of the Registry book and had put in some seeds, supposing he
had secured his lot, but he had lately found that Mr Wadling
[p. 32] claimed the lot as it did not appear to be registered.
On motion his Claim to Lot 8 Block 83 was affirmed, he how
ever to settle with Mr Wadling for any work done on the lot
Mr Monk. Moved
That improvements made in good faith on either a
business or a residence lot shall cover the rights to both —
Which on Motion was laid on the table —
The Secretary stated that there were persons who were pur
chasing receipts, and selecting lots upon them for the purpose of
selling them at a higher price, asking to have them registered
in their own names and asked for instructions.

MINUTES 37
Mr Cameron Moved
That no one be allowed to locate lands in the Colony
but once, either on his own or purchased receipt
Which was agreed to
Gen'l' Cameron then offered the following resolutions.
Resolved 1
That on the fourth (4th) day of June next the books
of Union Colony Number 1 at the price for membership of One
hundred and fifty dollars and five dollars for Contingent Ex
penses, be closed, and that between that time and the first day
of August thereafter the lands now purchased may be selected.
Resolved That on the sixth day of June A D 1870 books for
receiving new members be opened, and that the price [p. 33] of
membership shall be two hundred, dollars, and five dollars for
Contingent Expenses for the next six months dating from June
6th 1870 ; and those joining as new members shall be entitled ;
on and after the first day of August next, to select from the
lands previously purchased and from the new lands purchased.
Equally with the Old Members who have not located their
lands —
The members joining the Colony after the sixth (6th) day
June shall be allowed one year from August lst 1870 in which
to make the improvements required —
Members declining to select and improve their lands may
transfer their interests in the Colony by gift or sale but the
holder of the Certificate (receipt) will be required to take
possession of the lands to which the original purchaser was en
titled and improve the same — as no money invested in land by
new. Members will here after be refunded by the Colony.
And the question being upon the adoption of the Resolu
tions — they were adopted
The Committee then adjourned H. T. West Secty —

38 THE UNION COLONY
[p. 34] Greeley Colorado May 28, 1870
The Committee met, Present Mess Cameron, Fisk, Monk,
Hanna West & Woodworth
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap
proved, The Secretary stated that he had discovered that Block 26
was plotted on the map as being divided into 8 lots, while it was
staked by the surveyors, as intended, into sixteen Lots, and
moved That the map be corrected to conform to the Survey
Which was agreed to
The Committee then adjourned H. T. West Secty
Greeley C. T, May 30. 1870
The Executive Committee met,
Present Mess Cameron, Fisk, Monk, Hanna, Plato & West,
Gen'l Cameron offered the following Resolution
Resolved That no monopoly be granted or allowed in float
ing, booming, or taking out logs, posts, wood or other timber on
the Cache La Poudre River within the purvey of the Union
Colony, but that parties putting in a boom shall allow others to
take out timber of all kinds at their Boom for a reasonable Com
pensation — Which was adopted
Committee Adj H..T. West Secty
[p. 35] Greeley May 31, 1870
The Committee met. Present Mess Cameron West, Fisk,
Hanna, Plato, Monk & Woodworth
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap
proved —
Mr Hanna Moved
That the Contract for Extending the ditch, beyond the
present agreement with Sebree & Bishop be given to said Sebree
& Bishop if they will take it at 20 cts per Cubic Yard the size
to be only four (4) feet at the bottom.

MINUTES 39
Which was agreed to —
Mr Monk Moved
That the Executive Committee take a Conveyance and
pass over the ground of the proposed ditch on the north side of
the Cache La Poudrie River
Which was agreed to.
H. T. West Moved
That we partition off a portion of the "Lean To" of
the Hotel de Comfort and allow the Rail Road, Express and
Telegraph Companies the use of it jointly till they can put up
a building of thier own, Time not to Exceed three months
Which was not agreed to.
Mr Plato Moved
That a Committee be appointed to confer with the R
R authorities and see how soon they will furnish us with ac
commodations for passengers freight & telegraphing
Which was agreed to [p. 36] and Mess Plato, Monk &
Woodworth were appointed as the Committee
The Committee then adj till tomorrow morning
H. T. West Secty
Greeley June 1, 1870
The Committee met, Present Mess Cameron, Fisk, Hanna,
Plato Woodworth & West.
The minutes of the previous meetings were read and ap
proved The Committee to confer with the R R authorities reported
that they had seen Col. Fisher and could obtain no satisfaction.
That Gov Evans had gone to Chicago and could not be reached
for some time. — Report received
Mr Monk offered the following Resolution
Resolved : That the Superintendant be authorised to pro
cure a suitable building and a lady teacher and open a school
at once free to all children of the Colony. Which was adopted ;
Gen'l Cameron. Moved
That Mess — Woodworth, Fisk & Hanna be appointed
as a Committee to obtain funds to pay the teacher

40 THE UNION COLONY
Which was agreed to
The Committee then adjourned H. T. West, Secretary
[p. 37] Greeley C. T, June 2 1870
The Committee met. Present Mess Cameron, Fisk, Hanna,
Monk, Plato Woodworth & West,
The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap
proved There being no business the Committee adjourned till June
4th. H. T. West, Secty
June 4, 1870
The Committee met — Present Mess. Cameron, Fisk,
Hanna, Monk, Plato, Woodworth & West —
There being no business the Committee adjourned
H. T. West, Secty
Greeley June 7, 1870
The Committee met. Present Mess Cameron Fisk, Monk,
Hanna, Plato Woodworth & West.
Mr Woodworth moved : That the water for irrigation be
brought on to the public Square in the best and most Economical
manner under the direction of the Superintendant —
Which was agreed to.
Mr Hanna Moved
That Capt Boyd be em- [p. 38] ployed to take care
of the ditch as "Water Commissioner.", and that he be paid three
dollars ($3.00) per day when actually engaged.
Which was agreed to —
Gen'l Cameron Moved
That an assesment be made to pay the Expenses of the
care of ditch Number 3. as follows. Viz
On all lots irrigated of two hundred (200) foot front two
dollars per lot — lots one hundred (100) foot front one dollar
and fifty cents ($1.50). lots fifty feet front one dollar per lot.
and on outside Colony land irrigated fifty (50) cents per acre,

MINUTES 41
and that the water Commissioner Collect the assesment Which
was agreed to
Gen'l Cameron Moved
That Judge Plato, Mr Monk, and Mr Woodworth be a
Committee to take the necessary steps to incorporate the Town of
Greeley Which was agreed to.
The Committee then adjourned till Thursday Mornig at 9
Oclock H. T. West Secty
Greeley June 9, 1870
The Executive Committee met according to adjournment.
Present Mess Meeker, Cameron Fisk, Hanna, Plato,
Woodworth, Monk & West.
The minutes of the previous meetings [p. 39] were read
and approved. Mr Monk as one of the Committee appointed to take the
necessary steps to incorporate the Town of Greeley reported that
it would not be possible to do so as the laws of Colorado pro
vided that no one should hold office till they had resided in the
Territory one year and suggested
That an Election be held to add six additional to the
original members of the Executive Committee present, who were
Elected in New York: naming Mess. Meeker, Cameron & Fisk
Mr Cameron Moved
That there be no Exceptions made, but that the Elec
tion be held for the Entire Committee to consist of nine (9)
members, on Monday Morning next — the polls to be open from
9 Oclock A. M. till 12 Oclock M— That N. C. Meeker, Mr E. C.
Monk & John Leavey be Judges and Jno. F. Sanborn and John
Long be Clerks of said Election — The Election to be by ballot
Which was agreed to.
Mr Monk stated that cattle were injuring the trees set
out down by the river and suggested that they be fenced in —
Which was agreed to.
The Committee then adjourned till Saturday Morning 9
Oclk H. T. West, Secty

42 THE UNION COLONY
[p. 40] June 11, 1870
The Executive Committee met Present Mess Meeker,
Cameron, Fisk, Hanna, Monk Plato Woodworth & West
The minutes of the proceeding meeting were read and ap
proved Mr Meeker made statement of the condition of the finances
according to the books of the New York office which showed that
there had been received Ninety Six thousand, five hundred six
& 91/100 dollars — : that there had been Expended Seventy two
thousand, four hundred twenty one & 90/100 dollars, leaving
a balance in the treasury of Twenty four thousand, Eighty five
& 1/100 dollars subject to draft —
There being no further business the Committee adjourned
H. T. West Secty
Greeley June 14th. 1870
The Executive Committee met.
There were present. Mr Meeker Mr Cameron, Monk, Wil
cox, Holmes & West.
The returns of the Election held were made : Showing that
the following persons were elected as members of the Executive
Committee Viz
Nathan C. Meeker. R. A. Cameron W. B. Plato. E. C.
Monk W W Wilcox H T West N. Holmes and E Hollister
Mr Monk Moved
That N. C. Meeker [p. 41] be President of the Exe
cutive Committee: Which was agreed to
Mr West Moved, That R A. Cameron be Superintendant —
which was agreed to.
[Marginal note.] (On motion of Mr Monk, Mr West was ap
pointed temporary Secretary — )
Mr Monk, Moved,
That the Prest and Superintendant be authorised to
pass upon and pay current bills until an auditing Committee be
appointed or chosen
Which was agreed to

MINUTES 43
There being no further business Committee aj till tomorrow
morning at 9 Oclock. H. T. West. Secty
June 15, 1870
The Executive Committee met There were present Mess
N. C. Meeker Prest R A. Cameron Supt. Monk, Wilcox.
Homes & West
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap
proved Mr Cameron introduced the following
Resolution. Resolved, That except when Members desire
to keep such portions of their pre-emption Claims as they may
be entitled to : it is the opinion of the Executive, and they deem
it to be the duty of all who have preemptions filed for them, to
relinquish such preemption or [p. 42] part thereof as may be
necessary, at the request of the Superintendant : that an Equit
able division may be made and other members allowed to Home
stead or preempt them
And the question being upon the adoption of the resolution
It was adopted,
Mr Cameron. Moved
That when Members relinquish their Preemption
claim and another desires to file a Homestead upon the land, the
Prest be authorised to forward the proper fee to the Land office
to pay for the same —
Which was agreed to,
Mr Cameron Moved
That on Monday mornig June 29.th 1870 at 9 Oclock.
the lands surveyed and plotted on the north side of the river be
open for selection — being 20. 40 & 80 acre tracts
Which was agreed to —
Mr Monk. Moved
That the Superintendant be instructed to let the Con
tract by sections for Surveying the lands on the north side of
the river to the lowest bidder, on Monday Morning at 9 Oclock —
with power to reject all bids deemed unreasonable —
Which was agreed to

44 THE UNION COLONY
Mr Cameron Moved That we. proceed to Establish the grade on and
grade Main Street,
Which was agreed to —
Mr Cameron Moved
That Mr Holmes be allowed water according to the rules
which may [p. 43] be established by the Executive Committee
for 40 acres of land, which he proposes to buy from Mr Sam'l
Ashcraft, and which lies on this [side] of the Cache La Poudre
River and under the ditch constructed: he to surrender to the
Colony his claim for Outlying land for the privilige
Which was agreed to, and the Committee adjourned till
Saturday morning at 9 Oclock Greeley June 18. 1870
The Executive Committee met — Present, Mess Meeker,
Cameron, Monk, Plato, Wilcox, Hollister Holmes & West
The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and ap
proved, Mr Monk Moved:
That the four (4) who desire to purchase the One hundred
and sixty (160) acres of land belonging to Mr Farwell being the
N W % of Sec 14. Township Five (5) North of Range Sixty
five (65) West, be allowed to have water from ditch No. 3 for
40 acres Each, by their surrendering their several claims to out
lying land to which they are entitled as members — They to be
subject to all the rules and restrictions regarding the use of water
as other members —
Which was agreed to
Mr Cameron Moved
That the Colony Employ a herder who will keep stock
of all kinds from the cultivated grounds. The Contract to be
given to the lowest responsible bidder. He to furnish his own
horse —
Which was agreed to —
[p. 44] On Motion
It was ordered That all persons keeping stock within the
limits of the village shall picket or yard them at night,

MINUTES 45
Mr Cameron Moved
That we Employ Judge Plato to attend to the inter
ests of the Colony in regard to the Lemon — Hugh land, on the
north of the town being the other half of the 160 acres of land
purchased from Mr Farwell.
Which was agreed to
Mr West Proposed that he would act as Secretary of the
Colony and keep the records of the Executive Committee during
the year without any remuneration if the Committee would em
ploy an assistant to do the balance of the work. His present
salery to cease when the assistant is employed and ready to do
the work. Which proposition, on Motion of Mr Monk was accepted :
and the President Superintendant and Secretary authorised to
employ an Assistant secretary,
Mr Cameron, introduced the following
Resolution. Resolved That members who joined before
June 5th 1870 and who become actual settlers during the year
(dating from April 5th 1870) who take a 5, 10 or 20 Acre lot
or a block for their colonial share of Outlying land, be allowed
to purchase from the Colony Eighty (80) acres of Rail Road
land at the cost of the same ; or a member making a Homestead
on a 40 or 80 acre tract of Government land, and taking the
same as his share of Outlying [p. 45] land, may purchase a
block or a 5, 10 or 20 acre lot at the price of a membership;
but this privilige shall not be granted to members taking 160
acers of land; and provided further; that no member who has
selected a 5, 10 or 20 acre lot or a block shall be entitled to
select or purchase an 80 acre lot until the 15th day of July
1870— Which was adopted —
Mr Cameron Moved
That Mr Plato be requested to submit to the Execu
tive Committee a form for Colony Deeds, both for Village Lots
and Outlying lands —
Which was agreed to —
On Motion

46 THE UNION COLONY
The Superintendant was instructed to take charge of
the division of the lands to be selected Monday June 27.th
Which was agreed to and the Committee adjourned till
Tuesday morning at 9 Oclock h. t. West, Secty
rru T7 ,- ^ -^ - June 21> i870
Ine Executive Committee met
There were present Mess Meeker, Cameron, Plato Hol-
lister Holmes Wilcox & West
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap
proved, Mr Wilbur appeared before the Committee and stated that
his outlying [p. 46] lot had been damaged by running the ditch
through it, leading to the Reservoir on the Park. He thought
that the damages were about $200.00 and desired the Committee
to take some action in the matter.
Mr Cameron Moved That Mr Wilburs application be laid
over for further Consideration
Which was agreed to.
Mr Orr also appeared before the Committee and appealed
from the decission of the Prest and Supt in regard to his bill
for plowing streets — they having decided that he should only
be paid one half of the bill.
He stated that the work was not done satisfatorally to him<-
self ; but as well as he could do under the circumstances, That
he was willing to lose something, but not half
Mr Wilcox Moved
That the Committee affirm the decission of the Prest
& Superintendant in their allowance to Mr Orr as proper and
sufficient Which was agreed to —
The Superintendant stated that to give form and comliness
to the Park and complete the power of irrigation another small
Lake was needed
On motion the Supt was authorised to have one made
The Council then adjourned till Friday Morning at 9
0clock H. T. West Secty.

MINUTES 47
[p. 47] Greeley June 23d 1870
The Executive Committee met upon call of the President
to consider the matter of paying Mr Russel Fisk the amount
due him according to contract on the building. he is erecting for
Town Hall-
Mr Cameron Moved :
That the President be authorised to pay Mr Fisk
Eight hundred dollars ($800) from the Colony funds — the
money to be replaced from the first received from the sale of
Town Lots
Which was agreed to.
Mr Monk Moved
That as it was found to be impossible to survey the
lands across the river in time to be selected on Monday next;
the time of selection be extended two weeks; and that the time
when those who have selected 5, 10 or 20 acre lots or Blocks.
Can buy 80 acres of Rail Road land be postponed till August lst
next ensuing —
Which was agreed to —
Mr West Moved
That those members who have taken a 5, 10 or 20
acre lot or Block for their Outlying land, may be permitted in
addition to the privilige of buying an 80 acre of Rail Road
Land to Homestead a Government 80 acre lot by paying all the
Govt, fees and $75.00 to the Colony as the proportion of the
cost of the ditch for [p. 48] watering said land.
Which on motion was laid over for further Consideration
Mr Meeker proposed to Homestead the Higly land Con
taining 80 acres and pay the Govt fees — and pay $200, to the
Colony for 20 acres of it — the rest to be turned over to the
Colony —
Which proposition was also laid over for further Con
sideration There being no further business the Committee adjourned
until Monday morning at 9 Oclock H. T. West Secretary —

48 THE UNION COLONY
Greeley C T. June 2.7." 1870
The Exec Committee met
There were present Mess Meeker, Cameron, Plato, Hol-
lister Holmes, Pinkerton & West
The minutes of the previous meetings were read and ap
proved Mr Cameron. Moved That Mess Pinkerton. Whipple and J. B.
Flower be appointed a Committee to examine the building
being erected by Russell Fisk for the joint occupancy of him
self and the Colony with instructions to report to the Executive
Committee their opinion as to its being so [p. 49] Constructed
as to be safe for the purposes designed — Viz a Public Hall —
Which was agreed to —
On application of. W. E Pabor Clerk of the Board of
Church Trustees the Superintendant was instructed to provide
some plain seats for church purposes as in his judgment he
deemed best
On motion of Mr Plato the Superintendant was instructed
to cause the persons staying in the main part of the Hotel de
Comfort to vacate it by Saturday Morning next —
On motion of Mr Pinkerton the Superintendant was au
thorised to sell the Colony Horse & Wagon at auction to the
highest bidder
Judge Plato submitted a form for Colony Deed which
was examined and referred back to him with suggestions for
alterations —
On motion, Gen'l Cameron and Mr Pinkerton were ap
pointed a Committee to purchase the Charter and Stock of the
Eagle Ditch Company —
Gen'l Cameron & Mr West were authorised to Examine the
Deed to be submitted by Judge Plato, and if satisfactory have
the blanks printed at once
The Committee then adjourned till Thursday morning. 9
Oclock H. T. West Secty

MINUTES 49
[p. 50] Greeley June 30, 1870
The Executive Committee met Present Mess Meeker, Cam
eron, Holmes, Hollister & West
A Committee from those Occupying the Hotel de Comfort
appeared before the Board and protested against the order of
the Committee vacating that building. Wereupon Gen'l Cam
eron offered the following Resolution
Resolved, That on and after July 5th next members with
families be allowed to occupy the Hotel de Comfort thirty days
only, and those without families no longer than ten days —
Which was adopted
The Committee appointed to investigate the condition of
the building being erected by Russell Fisk. made the following
Report —
We, the Committee appointed by the Executive Committee
of Union Colony to Examine the building now in process of
Erection by Russell Fisk Esqr. a part of which is to be oc
cupied by the Union Colony, would respectfully report
That we have Examined said building, and that we con
sider it unsafe for the purposes for which the Colony disign
it Viz a Public Hall, and we would respectfully recommend the
Executive Committee not to accept said building unless the fol
lowing improvements and supports are provided Viz —
To have a timber 6x9 inches laid under the present joists
flat ways so that the shoulders of the floor joice [p. 51] may
rest on said timber — and have the timber supported at Each
End: and with two (2) Columns situated about one third of the
width of the room from Each side of the room, and another
timber 6x6 inches in the centre of the space between the pres
ent girders, so that there will be a support every six (6) feet
under the floor of the room intended for the public hall. The
6x6 timbers to be supported in the same way that the 6x9
are to be supported Viz by a support at Each end and two
Columns as aforesaid. Each of the above mentioned Columns
to stand on a good and substantial foundation on the bottom of
the Cellar — Signed J. H. Pinkerton]
W. L. Weed } Committee
J B. Flower J

50 THE UNION COLONY
Genl Cameron introduced the following resolution
Resolved. That the report of the Committee on Public
Hall be accepted and that a copy of the same be furnished Mr
Fisk, and that he be requested to add such necessary timbers as
will satisfy said Committee in regard to safety
Which was adopted —
The Committee then adj till Saturday Moring. at 9 Oclock
H. T. West Secty
[p. 52] Greeley July 2/70
The Executive met — Present Messrs Meeker, Cameron,
Monk, Hollister, Plato, Wilcox, Pinkerton, West & Holmes —
The Minutes of the preceeding meeting were read and ap
proved. Mr Monk moved
That all the Grass on lands under the control of the
Colony be sold to the highest bidder, in suitable lots, by the
Supt. next Saturday evening at seven o'clock
Which was agreed to —
On motion Messrs Pinkerton Wilcox & Holmess, were appointed
a committee to confer with with Messrs Gilchrist Hover & Co
in relation to land needed for a saw mill site —
Mr Monk moved
That the resolutions adopted by the members of the
Colony at the meeting held June 18th — be spread upon the
minutes, —
Which was agreed to —
Mr Plato moved
That a Committee be appointed to consider the reso
lutions adopted by the people & report to the executive com
mittee, what action, in their opinion should be taken by the
board. Which was agreed to —
On motion of Judge Plato
The officers of the Colony were instructed to make
full & immediate report of the financial condition of the same —

MINUTES 51
[p. 53] A. Gilchrist through Genl. Cameron stated that the
Hotel de Comfort building was on the business lot which he had
selected before the Registry book was started, and desired to
know what action the Committee would take in the matter —
Whereupon Messrs Pinkerton, Plato, & Wilcox were ap
pointed a Committee to investigate, and report to the executive
committee —
On motion of H. T. West
Messrs J. H. Pinkerton, T. B. Bishop, W. H. Mc
Donald, were appointed a committee to investigate the claim of
A. J. Wilber, for damages, caused by ditch running through his
outlying land, with instructions to report upon benefits as well
as damages. Mr Cameron moved —
That a suitable lot be donated to Mr Meeker, on which
to erect a building for a printing office, which, on motion, was
laid over until next meeting —
Mr Pinkerton moved
That all application to the Executive Committee, pre
sented hereafter, relating to real estate or improvements to be
made of a public character, be laid over one meeting for con
sideration —
Which was agreed to —
The Committee then adjourned till Tuesday Morning next
atlOO'clk H T. West Secty.
[Clipping inserted.]
[p. 54] The following resolutions have been adopted by the
members of the Union Colony as a line of policy for the govern
ment of the colony :
Resolved, That it is the duty of the executive committee to
see that proper titles with the right to water be properly con
veyed to each individual member; and that all the rights and
powers belonging to the trustees of the ditch company be handed
over and conveyed to the executive committee of the colony.
Resolved, That in the true spirit of colonization, any mem
ber entering upon his lands — a part or the whole — to build,

52 THE UNION COLONY
in good faith, shall be entitled, at once, to his deeds for his
business lot, his residence lot and his outlying land, upon re
spectively paying for the same.
Resolved, That in making the deeds for the members, a
clause shall be inserted, forever prohibiting the mauf acture or
sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, on the land so deeded.
Resolved, That the diffusion of knowledge, so essential to
good government, depends upon the opportunities and ad
vantages of education, therefore, we believe that at the earliest
practicable moment, a public school shall be opened, free to any
children in the colony.
Resolved, That until a municipal government can be or
ganized under the territorial laws of Colorado, the government
of the affairs of the colony shall be vested in the executive
committee of nine, who shall serve without compensation, ex
cept for actual service rendered by the president, superintendent
and secretary. Resolved, That the executive committee be requested to ap
point an auditing committee of three not of their own number,
sufficiently competent for the purpose of examining and audit
ing the colony accounts, and make a report to the colony
monthly. The above Resolutions were entered in accordance with in
structions given at a meeting of the Executive Committee of
July 2d Greeley July 5, 1870
The Executive Committee met —
There were Present —
Messrs Meeker, Cameron, Monk, Plato, Hollister Holmes,
Pinkerton, Wilcox, and, West —
The minutes of the preceeding meeting were read & ap
proved —
Mr Meeker read a communication from J. B. Pomeroy of
Boulder City, in relation to a bridge across the Thompson, &
other matters, which was laid over for consideration
The Committee appointed to [p. 55] confer with Messrs
Gilchrist, Hover & Co in relation to land for Saw Mill site —
Reported

MINUTES 53
That they were unable to find the survey stakes, at the
point desired, & could not tell what land there was there, under
the control of the Colony —
On motion Judge Plato
The Committee were given further time in which to make
full investigation — and Genl. Cameron was added thereto —
Mr Pinkerton moved
That a notice be posted, forbidding the firing of Guns
or Pistols within the village limits.
Which was agreed to
Genl. Cameron introduced the following resolutions
Resolved — That no person living on the Town plot proper
be allowed to keep horses or cattle running at large. Nor shall
any person occupying any Colonial subdivision of land, less than
forty acres, keep cattle running at large, unless they are prop
erly herded — and that this resolution be submitted to a vote
of the members of the Colony, on Saturday evening next. At
a meeting to be called at the Hotel de Comfort —
Which was adopted —
[Marginal note.] (At the meeting of the Colonists held, as
ordered, the Resolution was adopted — )
On motion of Genl. Cameron
Judge Plato was instructed to take such proceedings,
as in his judgment as a lawyer would be proper, to either eject.
from the Colony land or cause him to pay rent — the person oc
cupying [p. 56] the Lemon-Hughes land, to which the Colony
has a title, to one undivided half — Provided that it does not
interfere with the Colony interests, in regard to the purchase
of the other half —
Which was agreed to —
The Committee then adjourned 'till Saturday morning at 9
o'clock — H. T. West Secty
Greeley July 9th 1870 —
The Committee met at 9 o'clock A. M. All Present adjourned
'till one P. M.

54 THE UNION COLONY Greeley July 9th 1870
The Committee met according to adjournment
All were present —
The Committee appointed to investigate the claim of A. J.
Wilber — reported —
As follows
We your Committee appointed to examine & reporte upon
the damages if any, done to Mr A. Wilber> in consequence of the
ditch, for supplying the Park lake with Water, running through
his land Report as follows
That in the opinion of your Committee — there is no dam
age done to said land, but on the contrary, said water running
through said land is a benefit to it —
We think it a benefit from the fact, that he put a box or
flume, in the [p. 57] main ditch, at the same point, for the
purpose of irrigating the land in question, and for various other
reasons — Signed J. H. Pinkerton
Walter H. McDonald
T. B. Bishop Committee
Which report was on motion accepted & adopted
The Committee to investigate the claim of A. Gilchrist
for business lot on which the Hotel de Comfort stands — reported
adversely to his claim —
The Report accepted & adopted —
The President was instructed to draw a check for one hun
dred & sixty dollars, to pay Danl. Witter & Jno. Evans, for the
one half of Eagle Ditch Co. Stock
Genl. Cameron introduced the following resolution —
Resolved that the Secretary be required to arrange,
classify & present, the financial report of the Officers of the
Colony immediately, and that he be authorized to employ such
clerical assistance, as may be necessary —
Which was adopted

MINUTES 55
The President appointed —
Mess. Monk, Wilcox, and Hollister, as a committee to
propose names of persons to form an auditing committee
Mr Plato moved
That an order be passed [p. 58] to make a deed or
deeds of lot 4, Block 58. and lot 8. Block 47. & lot 3. in the
S.E. % of the SW. % of Sect. 31. & delivered to Edward G.
Dyer, & Horace P. Huley — upon their paying to the Treas
urer the sum of seventy five dollars.
Which under the rules was laid over 'till next meeting —
On motion The time for the selection of the lands across the
river, was postponed 'till a week from Monday next —
Judge Plato moved —
That an election be ordered to be held, for a Treas
urer — on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock P. M. — July 16th
1870— The Committee appointed
To suggest names for an auditing committee —
Reported the names of Mess. E. T. Nichols, Jno. F. San
born, & E. C. Alphonse — who were duly appointed by the
board —
Genl. Cameron moved —
That the Treasurer elected, be required to give bonds
to the Colony — double the amount, which he may be liable at
any time, to hold in his hands of Colony monies, or properties
The Committee adjourned 'till Monday morning at 9
o'clock A. M. H T. West Secty
[p. 59] Greeley July 11th 1870—
The executive Committee Met — All were Present — but Mr
Wilcox —
The Supt. presented an estimate of the Cost of the ditch
surveyed on the north side of the Chache la Poudre river, as
follows

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First five miles — one & l/2 ft deep 10 ft on bottom $4302.

2d 5 miles 9 ft on

bottom 1 & % ft deep

3913.

3d 5 "8 "

" i & y2

«

3521.

4th 5 " 7 "

" i & y2

«

3125.

5th 5 " 6 "

" i & %

«

2721.

6th 5 " 5 "

" i & %

a

2325.

30 miles total Cost $19,907
Which on motion of Genl. Cameron, was adopted as the
basis for constructing the ditch —
On motion —
It was ordered that the excavating of the ditch, be
let to the lowest bidder, on the lst day of August, and that
notice be given, of said letting, in the Denver Papers, with the
provision, that any all bids! not satisfactory, may be rejected —
Mr West offered his resignation as Secretary, to the Exe
cutive Committee
Which on motion of Mr Monk was accepted —
On motion of Mr Pinkerton Frank M. Babcock was elected,
as secretary of the executive board —
Judge Plato moved —
That Mr Pinkerton & Genl. Cameron be appointed
as a [p. 60] Committee to investigate the matter of location by
persons who either, have no certificates, or have only paid $5 —
Which was agreed to —
Mr Pinkerton moved
That no person be allowed hereafter, to make any loca
tions, without showing his receipt as a member of the Colony —
and having the same endorsed upon the back, on presenting
sufficient evidence of his membership to satisfy to Executive
Committee and that all persons who have made selections, with
out such endorsement being made, be required to present their
receipt to the Secy, within 60 days from this date, and have
their selections duly endorsed thereon —
Which was agreed to —
On motion it was ordered, That the Deeds to lot 4, Block
58, lot 8, Block 47, & lot 3, in the S. E. % of the S. W. y± of

MINUTES 57
Sect 31, be made and delivered to Edward G. Dyer, & Horace
P. Hulet on their paying to the Treasurer of Union Colony the
sum of $75.
Genl. Cameron presented the following resolution —
[which was adopted]1
Resolved — 'That at the drawing for lands, none but those
present, on the ground or those who have been present, and are
to return to live in good faith, should be entitled to draw, bu1
that those not present may be entitled to locate by their agent, or
attorney, when the lands are opened, after the drawings —
The motion of H. T. West, which was laid over for further
consideration at the meeting of June 23d 1870. [p. 61] was
taken up amended, so that it should read as follows —
That those members who have taken a 5, 10, or 20 Acre
lot, or a block, for their out lying land, may be permitted, to
Homestead a Govt. 80 acre lot (for which the colony will fur
nish water), by their paying the Govt, fees, & $75 to the Colony
for the proportion of the cost of the ditch to water said land,
instead of buying an 80 acre of R. R. land —
Which was adopted —
On motion The Supt. & Mr Pinkerton were appointed a Com
mittee to investigate the Petition of John Kimsey, with in
structions to report —
Mr Pinkerton was requested to inform the Supt. in re
gard to the location of the Peat Lands on Colonial grounds, &
it was ordered that such lands be reserved from sale —
On motion The Supt & Mr Pinkerton were appointed a com
mittee to investigate the matter of damages done to Frank
Marks land, by the ditch passing through it —
Mr Pinkerton moved
That all work to be done for the Colony hereafter, be
let to the lowest bidder, & that no contract be made except by
order of the executive committee
Which was agreed to
lAdded in pencil by the secretary.

58 THE UNION COLONY
[p. 62] Mr West moved
That the lands which are suitable & deemed neces
sary for lakes & reservoirs, with the approaches to them, on the
north side of the river, be reserved from sale
Which was agreed to —
On motion of Mr Pinkerton
The Supt was instructed to fit up the north room of
the office building for use of the Secy.
Adjourned 'till Thursday morning at 10 o'clock
H. T. West Secty
Greeley July 14 1870
The Executive Committee met —
Present — Mess. Meeker, Cameron, Plato Pinkerton, Hol-
lister West & Wilcox —
The minutes of the preceding meeting was read — & adopted
with the following exception —
Mr Pinkerton moved
That the Secy be requested to strike out the clause,
in the motion of the preceding meeting concerning the letting
by contract of the ditch1 — viz "that notice be given of said letting
in the Denver Papers"
Which was agreed to —
It being so amended will read as follows,
That the excavating & construction of the ditch, be let to
the lowest bidder, on the [p. 63] lst day of August next, with
the provision that any or all bids not satisfactory, may be re
jected —
The Committee on the investigation of the Petition of
John Kimsey reported unfavorably —
The matter of Mr Gilchrist was then called up.
Genl. Cameron moved —
That, if a business lot be found which has been fraud
ulently selected, between this date & the 5th of April next —
Mr Gilchrist shall be given the privilege, to locate the same, in
the place of any, which he may have selected —
Which was agreed to —

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Genl. Cameron submitted the opinions of Danl. Witter
Esq. & Alfred Sayre Esq. in relation to the Powers of the Union
Colony of Colorado to sell & convey lands &c — which was read
by the Secy. & placed on file —
Judge Plato offered following resolution
Resolved — That the Auditing Committee — report all ac
counts audited and allowed by them from the organization of
this committee up to the present time, and that hereafter said
auditing committee make weekly reports of their action as such
committee —
Which was laid over —
The question pf leasing the Hotel de Comfort to A. Z.
Salomon was introduced & the matter left with the President,
to investigate & report at next meeting —
Committee adjourned [p. 64] to Saturday morning at 8
o'clock F. M. Babcock Secy.
Greeley July 16th 1870
The Executive Committee met —
Present — Mess. Meeker, Cameron, Plato Holmes West
Hollister Wilcox Monk & Pinkerton —
The minutes of the preceding meeting was read &
adopted —
Genl. Cameron moved —
That lot 16 Block 62 be given Mr Gilchrist, to satisfy
his claim —
Which was lost —
Mr Wilcox moved
That the Supt — be requested, to establish the grade for
road, on Walnut & Maple Sts —
Which was agreed to —
The Prest. reported the proposition of Mr A. Z. Salomon
in regard to the leasing of the Hotel de Comfort — as follows —
Mr Salomon will fit it up for a store, for the rent of it for
one year— or if done by Colony, will pay $50 rent, per month—-

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Judge Plato moved
That a committee of 3 be appointed by the chair to
confer & agree with Mr. Salomon in relation to the leasing of
the Hotel de Comfort
Agreed to
[p. 65] The Chairman appointed — as such Committee
Mess Cameron, Holmes & Hollister —
Mr Monk moved —
That the bids for excavating & constructing the ditch
be received in miles & 5 miles sections, & the aggregate — sealed
proposals — to the lowest responsible bidder — & that the Com
mittee reserve the right to reject any or all bids —
Agreed to —
Genl. Cameron moved —
That Mr Hollister & Holmes be appointed to procure
the written consent of all the land owners, through whose lands
this ditch shall pass —
Agreed to —
Mr West moved
That the Colony allow Mr Stafford the use of water,
for his land, from ditch No 3, under all the restrictions made
for members of the Colony — Upon his granting to the Colony
full right of way for said ditch through his land — The matter
of obtaining the grant to be left to the Supt —
Agreed to —
The Prest appointed the following committees,
Committee on Deeds
Mess. Cameron Plato & Hollister —
Committee on Town Interests
Mess. West, Monk, & Wilcox —
[p. 66] Committee on Schools
Mess. Monk Holmes & Pinkerton —
Adjourned for Dinner —
Committee met at one o'clock P. M.
A letter from Mr J. V. Pomeroy — was read by the Secy.,
in relation to a road from Bowlder to Greeley, requesting that
the committee send some one to represent Greeley — at a meet
ing to be held at Bowlder next Friday evening.

MINUTES 61
Mr Pinkerton moved —
That the Prest. be requested to notify the Bowlder
people, to appoint a committee, to meet with a committee which
shall be appointed to represent Greeley to view the country &
determine the best possible route for such road —
Agreed to —
Genl. Cameron offered the following resolution
Resolved — That [Lot] 16 Block 38— be donated to
Mr N. C. Meeker, for the purpose of erecting a building, and,
establishing a News Paper & Printing Office — It being given
to encourage said pioneer Business —
Adopted —
[Marginal note.] (Nr West moved — an amendment to Nr Pin-
kertons motion of July 11th in relation to the drawing — which
motion as amended will read as follows — )
Mr Monk moved —
That those who may select a R. R. 80 acre lot, shall
either pay for, or enter upon & improve the same within 90
days after the selection thereof — which if not complied with,
the land shall [p. 67] be reopened for selection by other mem
bers — The financial report was then read by Mr West — to whom
a vote of thanks was rendered, for the preparation of said re
port — Judge Plato moved —
That a committee be appointed by the Chair — to ex
amine & classify the accounts, as prepared in said report &
make an abstract thereof —
Agreed to
The chairman appointed as such committee —
Mess. Wilcox, Hollister, & Monk —
The Committee adjourned to Monday at 8' o'clock A. M. —
F. M. Babcock Secy —
The following Resolution was introduced concerning the pro
cess for drawing the lands under the ditch "No 2" —

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Resolved — That the lands on the north side the River
Cache la Poudre & under Ditch "No 2" shall be distributed as
follows —
First — Members not having selected a small subdivision
(20 acres or less) may select a Homestead 80 acre lot, for their
membership interest in the Colony — the Colony paying all
fees for Homestead, & giving to said member a right to water
from the Ditch.
Second — Or a member may select a Rail Road 80 acre lot,
he paying the cost of said 80 acre lot — and being — [p. 68] fur
nished with water share for said 80 — at half the cost of the
membership, the remaing half of his membership he may invest
towards the purchase of a 5 or 10 acre lot, or hold for future
investment, as he may elect —
Third — Or a member may select an 80 acres in in Fee
Simple with water right by paying the additional sum of one
hundred & sixty five dollars —
Fourth — Or a member may select a 40 acre lot, or two 40'
acre lots as Homestead, and be furnished with a share of water
for both for his membership the member paying the Govt fees
for the Homestead —
Fifth — On the Wednesday following July 20 1870 — at 9
o'clock A. M. members having previously selected outside lands
of any size including 80 acres, may then have the further priv
ilege of purchasing a R. R. 80 by paying the cost of the same
Or — taking a Homestead 80 — a water share being furnished
to each for the sum of $75.00
Sixth — Or persons having selected an 80 acre lot before
the 20th July 1870 — may then or thereafter purchase a 5 or
10 acre lot at the price of his membership —
All previous orders conflicting with any part of this Reso
lution is hereby annulled —
Adopted — F. M. Babcock — Secy —

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[p- 69] Greeley— July 18th 1870
The Executive Committee met —
Present — Messrs — Meeker, Cameron, Monk, Hollis
ter Holmes Wilcox — & Pinkerton —
The committee proceeded to receive the names of mem
bers wishing to draw 80 acre lots — The names were examined
& passed upon — in accordance with a resolution adopted July
16th 1870.
Mr Monk moved —
That the Secy, make duplicate receipts for Genl Cam
eron & Mr Kram, in place of original receipts which were lost — •
& mark duplicate on the face of the same —
Carried —
The Prest introduced a letter from Saml. Sinclair Esq,
containing a proposition of the Tribune Association, to receive
the Colony funds, now in the hands of Horace Greeley — on Call
loan with 6 per cent interest —
Mr Monk moved
That the Executive Committee accept the proposition
of the Tribune Association contained in Mr Sinclairs letter —
and that the Secy, inform Mr Sinclair of the action of the
Committee. Carried —
Adjourned to Tuesday July 19th 9 A. M.
[p. 70] Greeley July 21 1870
The Executive Committee met —
Present — Messrs — Cameron, Monk, Wilcox, Pinkerton,
Hollister & Holmes —
Genl. Cameron introduced the following Resolution —
Resolved — That all members who have selected: Five,
Ten, or Twenty acre lots, since the Resolution of the Executive
Committee allowing such members to select an additional 80
acre peice — and who now desire to change their selection for
an 80 acre lot, may relinquish their 5 10 or 20 acre lot and
choose a Government 80, on presenting to the Board a written
statement that they desire to do so, for the purpose of actual
settlement & cultivation —

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Adopted —
Genl. Cameron introduced the following Resolution —
Resolved — That until members of the Colony have had an
opportunity of selecting lands — no member should make a dup
licate selection, and that the Drawings for such selections shall
be postponed — ¦
Adopted —
A letter from C. S. Nettleton, was read by the Secy, giv
ing an opinion of the extent of damages done by the ditch to
Frank Marks' —
Mr Pinkerton moved
That Judge Howes [p. 71] be selected & requested to act
as Arbitrator for the Colony — in relation to the damages done
Frank Marx — by said ditch —
Carried —
Mr Monk moved —
That Genl. Cameron — Mess. Pinkerton & Eaton, to
inspect & recommend proper alterations in Ditch No 3 —
Carried —
Adjourned for Dinner —
Genl. Cameron introduced the following resolution —
Resolved — That to encourage the occupation of Gov
ernment lands, members who have selected a Five, Ten or
Twenty acre lot, since the 15th day of June, under the appre
hension that they could draw an additional eighty, may now
draw a government 80, for their membership, and in case they
find the Government 80 occupied, they may fall back on their
subdivision, or if they hold the 80 they may pay if they elect
One hundred & fifty dollars for the 5, 10 or 20 acre lot —
Adopted —
Mr Monk moved —
That Lot 19 Blk 43 be allowed Mr J. H. Jones & that
Lot 20 Blk 58 be allowed Mr Gilchrist — & if he refuses to
select it that it shall be reserved by the Colony —
Carried
[p. 72] M Pinkerton moved —
That the Secy be requested to look into the matter of
Mr H. T. Pollock's receipt of $5—

MINUTES 65
Carried —
Mr Monk moved —
That the Secy, be instructed to inform Mr Byers &
Mr Witter of the Resolution passed by the members of the Col
ony — requesting the Excutive Committee to obtain the rights
& powers of the Ditch Co — from the Trustees & also requesting
them to resign —
Carried —
Committee adjourned to Friday July 22d — at 9 A. M. —
F. M. Babcock Secy —
Greeley July 27, 1870
Committee met — Present — Mess — Meeker, Cameron,
Holmes, & Hollister —
Genl. C — moved
That the Secy be requested to inquire into the Lemon mat
ter & demand rent for the use & occupation of one undivided
half interest, and to commence action for partition —
Carried
¦[p. 73] Genl. Cameron moved
That Nr Wests bill be allowed —
Carried —
Committee adjourned till Saturday morning 9 A. M. —
F. M. Babcock Secy
Greeley July 30/70
The Executive Committee met — Mess — Meeker, Cam
eron, Holmes, Wilcox & Hollister
Genl C offered the following Resolution —
Resolved — That 2 — 80 acre lots in sec. 25 T. 6. R.
67. be subdivided into 40 acre lots, to be allowed for member
ships Adopted
Genl. Cameron moved
That persons having drawn a 40 acre lot. — besides a 5,
10 or 20 acre lot, be allowed to select a Govt 80 acre lot, by
paying $75 for water —
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66 THE UNION COLONY
Carried —
Genl. Cameron offered the following Resolutions —
Resolved — That the Colony Ditch No 2 be let only in
small sections of half a mile, one mile, two miles, and three
miles, to members of the Colony only, and provided none but
members of the Colony be employed on the work, or the teams
of members of the Colony —
Sections not let under these restrictions shall be built by
the Colony [p. 74] or offered to members from time to time —
The Colony shall reserve the right toi take up and finish
or relet all contracts so let, if the work is not taken up and
pushed with reasonable energy, or not done in a proper man
ner, or, if it appears that said contracts shall not be completed
in time —
Payments for work done on any consecutive, part of the
job completed will be measured and paid every thirty days, 20
per cent being reserved for damages in case of failure to com
ply with contract —
Adopted Genl. Cameron moved —
That Mr Hollister & Mr Wilcox be appointed to call
on Mr Smith & confer with him about his cattle & about
vacating the premises — now occupied by him
Genl. Cameron moved
That for the Farwell % interest in the Eagle Ditch
Co. a reserve lot which he may select, be allowed him — for
the consideration of such interest — Carried
Genl. Cameron offered the following Resolution —
Resolved — That the remaining Colony lands be surveyed
and plotted, and that the surveying be let by sealed bids at a
price per chained mile
Adopted
[p. 75] The statement of Russell Fisk concerning the Ex
change Building — was then read — Payment of $900 — re
quired of the Colony, according to contract
Mr Wilcox moved —
That this matter be submitted to the old Committee,
Mr Pinkerton, Weed & Flower to inquire into the condition

MINUTES 67
of said building, & if complied with according to contract, to
report to Prest. who may draw check & allow the amount —
Carried —
Committee adjourned to Tuseday Morning at 9 A. M.
F. M. Babcock Secy
Greeley Aug 2 1870
Mess — Meeker — Cameron — Hollister & Holmes Present —
On motion it was ordered that the upper bridge on Main
St be repaired —
Committee, Adjourned to Monday Aug 8 —
F. M. Babcock Secy
Greeley August 14 — 1870 —
Mess Meeker, Cameron — Hollister and Holmes —
It was moved that the Association of Stock & Herders
shall have the privilege of herding on the 160 acres, now occu
pied by Smith on the north of the town
Carried
[p. 76] On motion it was resolved to suspend the office of Sper-
intendent, and place the business in the hands of the Secretary —
Mr Hollister proposed that lots reserved on Walnut St &
facing the Park be held for the purpose of erecting cottages
for invalids —
Laid over till next meeting — as relating to Real Estate —
It was ordered that the remaining 40 acre lots in Sec 1
T. 5. R 66 be allowed to parties, who will take up the R. R.
contracts therefor, and pay for the lands — their memberships
being allowed for water —
Committee adjourned to Saturday morning Aug 20 — at
9 A. M.— F. M. Babcock Secy
Greeley Aug 23d 1870—
The Executive Committee met
Present Mess. Meeker, Cameron, West, Holmes & Wil
cox —

68 THE UNION COLONY
Genl Cameron moved
That we encourage individuals to buy the Hughes 40 acre
interest in the Lemon estate on the north of the town — Laid
over — pertaining to Real Estate —
Genl. Cameron moved —
That The Union Colony of Colorado deed a right of
way to the D. P. RR Co. of fifty feet from the center of the
R.R. track on each side of the same — through the lands owned
by the Colony, and the R.R. shall erect, thereon only, [p. 77]
buildings necessary for the use & occupation of said R.R. —
Carried —
Specifications for flume — read by Secy —
Genl. Cameron moved —
That the specifications for flume for Ditch No 2 —
be adopted, and bids therefor be advertised & received —
Carried
Mr West moved —
That the Colony purchase 5 or 10 acres, at the head
of the Ditches No 2. & 3. for the use, & occupation of a gate
tender to take the charge of the Head Gates — and that Mr
Benj. Eaton be requested to make inquiries & obtain the price
of such lands & report to the Committee —
Carried —
Genl. Cameron moved
That we suspend the 27th & 28th miles of the Ditch
No 2— Carried —
Mr West — moved —
That all contractos on the Ditch No 2. who have not
executed the agreements, shall be notified by the Secy, to do
so, on or before Saturday Aug 27th and also notify them — that
the work be commenced on or before the lst of Sept next, un
less satisfactory evidence be given to the Committee, or such
bids shall be declared void —
Carried —
Genl. Cameron moved
That Mr Nettleton be ordered to make an examina-

MINUTES 69
tion of the Ditch No 3., & ascertain what changes are neces
sary to perfect the same —
Carried —
Genl. Cameron nominated Mr Holmes to take the place of
Mr Byers as Trustee of The Union Colony of Colorado
[p. 78] Carried
Mr West nominated Mr Monk to take the place of Danl.
Witter Esq. as Trustee of The Union Colony of Colorado —
Carried —
Mr. Wilcox nominated Mr R A. Cameron to take the
place of Mr R A. Cameron, as Trustee of The Union Colony
of Colorado — Carried —
Genl. Cameron nominated Mr N. C. Meeker to take the
place of Mr N. C. Meeker, as Trustee of The Union Colony of
Colorado — Carried —
Mr Holmes nominated Mr H. T. West, to take the place
of Mr H. T. West, as Trustee of The Union Colony of Colo
rado — Carried —
Genl Cameron moved
That a committee of three be appointed by the Chair,
to make investigation concerning a High School building &
report at next meeting —
Carried —
The Chair appointed Genl. Cameron, Mr Holmes & Wil
cox — Committee adjourned to Thursday Aug 25th/70 at 8 A.
M— F. M. Babcock Secy
[p. 79] Greeley Aug 25-/70
The Executive Committee met —
Present Mess. Cameron, Pinkerton, West, Hollister Holmes
& Wilcox —
Mr West moved
That the property owners on Main & Monroe Streets,
be assessed $5 for each lot, for grading the streets, in front
of such property — Carried
Mr Hollister moved —

70 THE UNION COLONY
That property owners shall pay 25 cents for each
tree, which has been set out, by the Colony, along the front
of such property — ¦
Carried —
Statement of Mr E. S. Nettleton, on the Condition of the
Ditch No 3. was submitted — Read by the Secy. & placed on
file- Mr Hollister reported — Mr Lovelands proposition in re
lation to right of way for Ditch No 2 &e — That he would grant
the same for $150 — & build a bridge over Ditch for $25
Mr West moved —
That the report of Mr Hollister be accepted —
Carried —
Genl Cameron offered the following Resolution —
Resolved — That a ballot be opened for the Election of a
Local Treasurer for the Union Colony, on Monday morning
Aug. 29 at 9 o'clock, and to remain open till 12 o'clock M. —
And that N. C. Meeker, J. Herbert Jones, & Dr Pyburn act
as judges, and C. W. Sanborn and E. D. Bouton act as [p. 80]
clerks of said Election — The person so elected shall give Bonds
in twice the amount he is liable to hold, and shall serve without
compensation — ¦
Adopted — ¦
Mr Hollister moved
That Mr B. S. La Grange be appointed water Com
missioner for the town & vicinity —
Carried —
Mr Pinkerton moved —
That the question, of the lots reserved for sanitary
purposes, pertaining to the erection of invalid cottages &c —
be indefinitely postponed —
Carried —
It was moved that the —
Committee adjourn till Tuesday morning Aug 30 — 9 A. M. —
And that thereafter, Monday morning of each week be the
time fixed for the meeting of the Executive Committee —
Carried — F. M. Babcock Secy —

MINUTES 71
Greeley Aug 30 — 1870
The Committee met —
Present — Mess. Genl. Cameron, West, Holmes, Hol
lister & Meeker —
Moved that, Dr Pyburn Pinkerton, & West — be allowed
to change their outlying, lands —
Carried —
Moved that —
Mr Happers application [p. 81] be received, and
Deeds granted —
Mr Bassett applied for 2 lots No 1 & 2 of Map E^NW V4
WW1/}; — they being divided by the river and equal to no morp.
than one lot —
Laid over —
Genl. Cameron Moved —
That Mr Abbots application be received and deeds
granted —
Carried —
Mr Holmes moved
That Mr Bardills application be received, and deeds
granted —
Carried —
Genl. Cameron moved —
That Mess. Wright & McWhorter who have Govt
80's — shall be allowed to select 5 acre lots — They are to return
the Govt fee & pay $75. each —
Carried —
It was agreed to charge each property owner $5 — for grad
ing — where such grading in done in front of such property —
& one dollar each for water for each city lot — the same to be
collected when deeds are given —
Resignation of Mr. West, as a member of the Executive
Committee, was offered, & read by Secy — Not accepted —
Genl Cameron moved
That Mr Wests resignation be laid on the tables —
Carried —
[p. 82] Amendment to flume, submitted by E. S. Nettleton
C. E. on Ditches No's 2 & 3. was accepted by Committee —

72 THE UNION COLONY
Genl. Cameron offered the following resolutions
Resolved — That the sum of three thousand dollars, be
raised by additions to' the price of the lots and lands under the
Ditch No 3. for the purpose of enlarging said Ditch —
And that said proposition be referred to the action of the
Colony at a Public Meeting to be held at the Town Hall on
Saturday Eve — Sept 3rd at 7% o'clock —
Adopted Letter received & read by Secy in relation to the Fields &
Wheeler lands —
Genl Cameron moved
That the Prest. be requested to draw a draft. & send
to 1st Natl Bank — to pay for said deeds
Carried —
Petition of Mr Knowles received, read, & laid over —
Petition of Mr Inman heard & laid over —
Resolved — That the residents who have govt 80's, can
select 5 acre lots — by returning Govt fees & $75 for water
Adopted
[p. 83] The Committee adjourned — to next regular meeting —
Monday Sept 5th F. M. Babcock Secy
Greeley Sept 5th 1870—
The Committee met —
and adjourned till evening at 7^ o'clock —
F. M. Babcock Secy —
Greeley Sept 5th 1870 —
Evening —
The Committee met — ¦ Present — Mess — Cameron, West,
Pinkerton, Holmes, & Wilcox —
Mr Pinkerton moved —
That the Secy be requested to demand the return of the
money obtained fraudulently by Woodworth & Haddix for shov
els, and if refused to sue him —
Carried —

MINUTES 73
Mr West moved —
That, Tuesday evenings at 7^2 o'clock R.R. time, be
hereafter the regular time for meetings —
CarriedGenl. Cameron offered the following resolution —
Resolved — That the sum of $2.50 be assessed on all
town lots & Five dollars on all outside lots under Ditch No. 3.
for the purpose of enlarging said ditch, and that, said amount
be added to the price of said lots —
Adopted —
[p. 84] Mr West moved —
That all the Colony fruit trees be advertised for sale
one week, the same to be sold at Auction on Monday Sept 12th
1870— Carried —
Mr Holmes moved
That a Committee be appointed to investigate a road
up the Poudre valley, & also a road to Boulder, and be allowed
a reasonable* compensation —
Carried —
The Chair appointed Mr Holmes & Mr Pinkerton —
Mr West moved —
That Mr Emerson be notified of his election as Treas
urer — Carried —
Committee adjourned till Tuesday evenings Sept 6th at
7% o'clock — F. M. Babcock Secy —
Greeley Sept 8, 1870
Committee met —
Present — Mess. Meeker, Cameron Holmes, and Pin
kerton —
Genl Cameron moved —
That any person taking the contract, according to the
specifications, to build the flumes on Ditches No's 2 & 3, shall
be paid & allowed, by the Colony, for any defficiency there may

74 THE UNION COLONY
be in the amount of lumber at Head of Ditch No 2. as removed
from the flume of said [p. 85] ditch No. 2 — Carried —
Genl. Cameron moved
That the proposal of Mr W. L. Weed, to contract the
flumes on Ditches No's 2 & 3 — according to the specifications —
be accepted — at the amount proposed, $450 —
Carried
Committee Adjourned till Monday evening September 12th 1870 —
F. M. Babcock Secy —
Greeley Sept 12— 1870—
The Committee met —
Present — Mess. Meeker, Cameron, Monk, Holmes, Wilcox,
Pinkerton & West —
The petition of Mr M. B. Knowles was called up, and on
motion laid on the table —
Mr O. N. McLain appeared before the Committee and
stated that a building which he had erected on Lot 13 Blk 26
had been pulled down, and asked that the committee grant him
a Deed for this lot and his other selections —
Genl. Cameron explained that this Block though surveyed
and staked as 50 feet lots, was accidentally mapped as 100 feet
lots in copying from an old map — and two persons had made
selections before the error was discovered, and that this lot 13
in Blk 26 was one of the lots so selected, but that the persons
who selected them were informed that they could not hold but
fifty feet lots —
[p. 86] Mr Ward the person who selected a lot under this mis
take^ — came before the committee and made a statement That
he selected the lot in May 14th Plowed May 25th That he
incidentally learned that the Committee had changed the map —
Moved on his building June 11th — commenced to Dig Well
June 27th
Genl. Cameron moved —

MINUTES 75
That we make a deed of lot 13 Blk 26 — to Mr McLain
upon his paying for the same —
Which was agreed to —
Committee adjourned — F. M. Babcock Secy.
Greeley Sept. 15th 1870—
The Committee met —
Present — Mess. Meeker, Cameron, Monk, Holmes, Pinker
ton & Wilcox —
Mr Nettleton appeared before the committee & made a
statement of the condition of first three miles of the Ditch No
3. — Contractor abandoned it Struck hard pan — had plowed
about 2000 feet—
J. C. Higley appeared as one of the Contractors, was re
quested by the Committee to see Mr Eaton & report at next
meeting; —
Application of Mr Pabor for the Office of Secretary of the
Colony [p. 87] was received & read —
Mr Monk moved —
That the application be laid over one week from the
next regular meeting
Genl Cameron offered the following resolution —
Resolved — That we consider the erection of a Blacksmith
shop on Main Street between the Depot and Park as highly
detrimental to the best interests of the Colony —
Adopted —
Genl. Cameron offered the following resolution
Resolved — That if Mr Chas. D' Martin gives a Quit
Claim Deed to Mr C Buckingham, it will be considered suffi
cient upon which the Colony can give a Deed — if improve
ments be made upon the said lot, or upon any of the lots under
the same claim —
Adopted Genl. Cameron offered the following resolution —
Resolved — That the water sects be kept cleaned out
by the parties owning lots opposite to their lands and that no
person, shall throw any garbage straw or other litter in said

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sects, nor shall any person wash their persons or any utensils
in said sects. But said sects shall be kept free for domestic use —
Adopted
[p. 88] Genl. Cameron moved
That the Secy be requested to notify the Water Com
missioner Mr La Grange, that his office is suspended —
Carried —
Committee adjourned — F. M. Babcock Secy —
Greeley Sept 20/70
Committee met —
Present — Mess. Cameron Pinkerton, Monk, Wilcox &
Holmes —
The minutes of the previous meeting was read — & ap
proved Mr Monk moved
That the minutes be amended^-to read as follows —
that Mr Meeker, Cameron. & Pinkerton — be appointed to con
fer with Mr Eaton & others, concerning the construction of the
first three miles of the Ditch No. 2. &. that the minutes be
adopted as so amended —
Carried —
Mr Beswick applied to have his Govt 80 acres exchanged
for a 10 acre lot —
Mr J. H. Foster applied to have one lot changed from one
certificate, for a lot of that of another certificate — He being the
owner of both certificates
Mr Monk moved
That Mr J. H. Foster be allowed to change the lots
as stated —
Carried
[p. 89] Mr Holmes moved —
That if Mr Beswick will locate some one on his Govt
80 — he will be allowed to do so, by paying the Homestead fee
$16 — & take a 10 acre lot instead — Carried —
The committee appointed to confer with Mr Eaton — con
cerning the construction of the first three miles of Ditch No 2 —

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Reported that they had let the said three miles to Mr Benj. H.
Eaton at 25 cents per cubic yard — less the 200 yards already
constructed —
Mrs Howe made an application to locate a 5 acre lot, in
connection with her R.R. 80 —
Mr Monk moved
That Mrs Howe be allowed to exchange the R.R. 80 — for
a 5 or 10 acre lot — Carried —
Mr V. A. Howe made an application for the Secretary
ship — of the Colony — which was read & received
Mr Pinkerton moved
That this application lie over with other matters of
this kind —
Carried —
Applications for Deeds read & considered by the Com
mittee Mr Bassetts application read & referred to Mr.. Wilcox
" Barnes " " " " " "
[p. 90]
J. H. Gordon's application read & referred to Mr Monk
O Eaton " " " " Genl Cameron
S. B. Wright " " " " Mr Holmes
C. D. Martin Laid over by consent
G. W. Perkins " read & referred to Mr. Pinkerton
W. J. Andrews " " to Mr Monk
Jessie Rapp " " to Mr Pinkerton
The Committee adjourned 'till Wednesday evening Sept 21
at 7.30 o'clock F. M. Babcock Secy
Greeley Sept 24, 1870—
The Committee met — ¦
Present. Mess. Cameron Pinkerton, Monk, West,
Holmes & Wilcox.
Committies on application for Deeds reported favorably,
with exception of O. Eatons application which was referred to
Genl. Cameron —

78 THE UNION COLONY
Applications accepted, by consent of Committee — & deeds
ordered to be granted.
Letter from Jno. Evans to Mr Meeker pertaining to Right
of Way & Depot was read & considered —
Mr Holmes moved
That a committee of three be appointed by the Chair.
to confer with Mr Evans upon the question of Depot & Right
of Way, together with all other unsettled matters existing be
tween the R.R. & Colony — and that Genl. Cameron, be the Chair
man of said Committee —
Carried —
[p. 91] The Chair appointed Messrs Pinkerton & Monk to be
associated with Genl. Cameron as such committee —
Mr West moved
That Mr Buckingham and Mr Dresser — be allowed to
exchange lots.
Carried —
Genl. Cameron offered the following Resolution — Which
was adopted —
Resolved —
That the water be shut off from the Ditch No. 3. on
and after October 10th And that the necessary enlargement of
said Ditch be let on said tenth of October at 9 o'clock A. M. in
half mile section, by the cubic yard, to the lowest responsible
bidder. The Committee adjourned F. M. Babcock Secy —
Greeley Sept. 29th 1870
The Committee met — Present Messrs Cameron, Pinkerton,
Monk, West, Holmes & Wilcox —
The minutes of the previous meeting was read and amended
as follows, That the building of the Main Street Ditch' under the
R.R. track was taken by consent — and as so amended were ap
proved by the Committe —
The question of lighting the Colony Hall was taken up &
considered —

MINUTES 79
It was proposed to use Kerosine lamps. & that they be pur
chased in Chicago by Genl. Cameron
[p. 92] Mr Wilcox moved
That the board accept Mr Meeker's proposition to take
charge of the Colony Trees and heal them in for the winter
Carried —
Time to be allowed for the enlargement of the Ditch No. 3.
was discussed, but no action taken —
The Committee adjourned F. M. Babcock Secy
Greeley Sept 27/70
The Committee met —
Present — Cameron, Pinkerton, Monk, West, Holmes &
Wilcox Minutes of previous meeting read & approved —
The question of lighting Colony Hall considered —
The question of Colony Trees also considered
Mr Wilcox moved
That the Board accept Mr Meekers proposition to heal
the Colony Trees in for the winter —
Carried
Minutes of previous meeting amended so as to read as fol
lows — That the carrying of the Main St Ditch under R.R. track
to the east side — was taken by consent —
Mr. Holmes moved
That the time for enlargement of Ditch No 3. be con
sidered Committee adjourned F. M. Babcock Secy
[p. 93] Greeley Oct 4. 1870—
The Committee met —
Present — Cameron, Monk, Pinkerton, Wilcox, West &
Meeker —

80 THE UNION COLONY
Application of Wm Sinclair received&Referred to Mr Pinkerton
" Kent Thing " " Mr Meeker
" J. C. Shattuck " " Mr Wilcox
" N. T. Plummer Jr " " Mr West
Mr Pinkerton reported concerning road to Big Thompson
its course &c —
Mr Pinkerton moved
That the certificate of W. W. Clay, which was lost,
be replaced by a duplicate certificate —
Carried
Genl. Cameron moved
That Robt Stewart be given a duplicate in place of
one lost Carried —
The Colony Cemetery — Its location &e — discussed —
Genl. Cameron moved
That 40 acres —
Sec 17 be dedicated & donated for a Cemetery & that it be
platted & plowed to define the streets & walks — that 5 or 10
acres be fenced in and that the same be surveyed into lots, and
that the said lots be appraised & sold for a sufficient amount to
pay for the land, platting, surveying & plowing —
CarriedGenl. Cameron moved
That Mr Beswick be allowed to relinquish his 80
acres & take a 10 acre by paying the $16 Homestead fee & al
lowing his [p. 94] name to remain on the books —
Carried
Committee adjourned F. M. Babcock
 Secy.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
UNION COLONY OF COLORADO.1
Greeley, Nov. 30, 1870.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron and Wilcox, trustees,
and Messrs. Holmes, La Grange, and Hollister, of the Executive
iThe Greeley Tribune, December 7, 1870, p. 3.

MINUTES 81
Council. Mr. Meeker, in the chair, Mr. Hollister, secretary
pro tem. The resignation of Mr Monk, Trustee, was presented and
accepted, and Mr Holmes was elected in his place.
Voted to allow Messrs. Nichols, Tuttie, and others, to re-
survey and report the block where their stores are located, and
to allow Messrs. Barnum and Nichols to exchange lots.
Resolved — That a former resolution of the Board of Trus
tees, relating to plowing land as an improvement to allow a
member a deed, be amended as follows:
Any member, actual resident of the colony, upon making it
satisfactorily appear that he is unable, for want of means, to
erect a building, may in lieu thereof, plow and fence five acres,
or plow twelve acres on his land, as an off-set to improvements
in building; or, if any such party as above described, as shall
expend the sum of one hundred dollars in the construction of
the fence of the colony, he shall be entitled to his deed, as if im
provements were made in building.
Resolved — That we proceed to fence the colony lands ac
cording to the plan reported by a committee of which Mr Wil
cox was chairman, subject to amendments by the Board of Trus
tees, and that the sum of sixteen thousand dollars be appropri
ated from the colony funds to accrue after Ditch No. 2 is fin
ished, and that Messrs. La Grange, Wilcox and Holmes be ap
pointed a committe to carry the said resolution into effect.
Adjourned.
ADJOURNED MEETING. Dec 2, 1870.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Wilcox, and Holmes, of
the Board of Trustees, and Messrs La Grange and Gurley of the
Executive Council. Mr Meeker in the chair; Mr Gurley secre
tary pro tem.
Minutes of previous meeting read and approved.
The following bills were presented and ordered paid :
Wm H Post, blank books and stationary, 20 85
W H MCDonald, surveying, 48 75
Bishop, moving building, 30 00

82 THE UNION COLONY
E C Monk, expenses to Boulder, 30 00
B S La Grange do do 20 00
W L Weed, lowering flume to ditch No 3 102 22
do Seats for School room 15 00
R A Cameron, expenses to Chicago, 30 50
N C Meeker, do do 43 50
W W Lansing, Janitor Colony Hall, &c. 30 40
W H McDonald, surveying wagon road to Burlington, 80 00
Voted, to have the Colony Building on Main street, put in
order for the use of the Reading Room Library.
Voted, that so much of the two 80 acre lots, in section 17,
township 5, range 65 west, as lies under the ditch, be sub
divided into 2y2 4% & 5 acre pieces; and that Mr Cameron be
appointed to attend to laying out the same.
On motion, Mr Holmes was directed to have the platform
in the Hall lowered.
Voted, that W P McKinney's application for deed be
granted. Adjourned to Tuesday evening, Dec. 6.

1 Greeley, Dec. 6, 1870.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Holmes, and Cameron, Trustees,
and Messrs. Holiister, La Grange, and Gurley, of the Execu
tive Committee. A bill of Mr Williams, of $50, for work on the ditch was
ordered paid.
A waste gate was ordered to be put in near the head of
ditch No. 2, under the direction of the Engineer.
The following proposal from Mr. La Grange was read, and
on motion, granted: Greeley, Dec 2d, 1870.
To the Board of Trustees : — Gentlemen : Appreciating the
importance to the colony of developing the resources of the Coal
Bank on the north side of the Cache la Poudre river, with a view
of obtaining cheap fuel on our own lands, I therefore, make this
proposal for your consideration and action :
iThe Greeley Tribune, December 14, 1870, p. 3.

MINUTES 83
I will agree to make a thorough investigation of the re
sources of said coal bank, in consideration that the colony will
allow me to purchase from the Railroad Company one half of
section 17, township 7, north range 67 W., embracing one con-
tinous tract upon one side, or in two separate quarters, in dif
ferent sections, as I may elect
In case the tests made by me, to develop the resources of
said territory, prove satisfactory, then it shall be understood
that in addition to the one half section, I shall have the privilege
of purchasing the balance of section 17 aforesaid, from the Den
ver Pacific Roilroad Company, by paying the Colony the sum
of one thousand dollars.
The necessity of securing this amount of territory is appar
ent from the fact, that it is impossible to determine, except by
actual experiment, on what part of said territory the best depos
its of coal are to be found; involving the necessity of making
explorations in many places widely separated from each other,
as it is not probable that a stratum of coal of a depth and qual
ity will be found that will pay from working continuously the
whole tract within a reasonable distance below the surface.
La Grange
A bill of C. J. Hanby, for $3, was ordered paid.
Adjourned Meeting. — Dec. 7.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Holmes, and Wilcox,
Trustees, and Messrs. Hollister, La Grange, and Gurley, of the
Executive Council.
Mr. Cameron reported that he had rented from Mr Fisk,
for school purposes, the small room now occupied by the colony,
at $5 per month. Report accepted.
The Secretary was directed to move the office of the colony
to the colony building on Main street. Adjourned to Friday
evening. Adjourned Meeting. — Dec. 9.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, and Holmes, Trustees,
and Messrs. Hollister and Gurley, of the Executive Council.
A bill of Schenck & Woodruff for $8[.]95, and a bill of
N. C. Meeker of $3, were ordered paid

84 THE UNION COLONY
Mr. Cameron moved that a committee of three be appointed
to revise the Constitution of the Colony, and report the same to
the Trustees at the next meeting. Messrs. Cameron, Hollister,
and Holmes, were appointed said committee. Adjourned.

Greeley, Dec. 13, 1870.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Holmes, and Cameron, Wilcox
and Pinkerton, Trustees, and Messrs Gurley, Hollister and La
Grange of Executive Council.
Mr. Cameron in the chair.
Mr. Pinkerton resigned his position as Trustee, and Mr.
Hollister was chosen in his place
The following bills were ordered paid: Stephen Spencer,
C. W. Russel, Walter McDonald, F. M. Babcock, Benjamin
Moore, S. F. French, Nelson Holmes, Flowers & Cameron, L.
Whipple, J. C. Shattuck, W. W. Wilcox, C. W. Sanborn.
On motion, Mr. B. H. Eaton was allowed $1500 on ac
count of his contract on Ditch No. 2. Adjourned.
Dec 16, 1870.
Present, Messrs. Cameron, Wilcox, Holmes, and Hollister,
Trustees, and Messrs. Gurley and La Grange, Executive Com
mittee. Mr. Meeker in the chair.
On motion, W. E. Pabor was appointed Secretary of the
Colony, in place of F. M. Babcock.
The following bills were ordered paid: S. Spencer,
$7[.]50. E. Wait, $2[.]50.
The following applications for deeds were granted. J. W.
G. Wadlin, John Glenny, V. De L. Mansfield, J. A. Wadlin, B.
W. Hilton, S. R. Ferris.
The Committee on revising the constitution of the Colony,
presented their report, which was adopted-
Voted that 2,000 copies be printed for circulation. Carried.
The Secretary was directed to prepare a statement of the
condition of the finances and report at the next regular meet
ing. Adjourned.
*The Greeley Tribune, December 21, 1870, p. 3.

MINUTES 85
1 Regular meeting, Tuesday evening, Dec 20, 1870.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Holmes, Cameron, Wilcox and
Hollister, Trustees ; and. Messrs. Gurley and La Grange of Ex
ecutive Council.
Mr. Meeker in the chair.
The following bills were ordered paid: R. Burchill, O.
Plumb, W. E. Pabor.
The following applications for deeds were granted. Jas.
Brown, F. M. Babcock, ag't, J. Max. Clark, W. D. Hartley.
The Secretary made the following statement of the condi
tion of the finances. Credit.
Dec. 20, 1870. Balance in bank in
Greeley,  $ 894.66
Dec. 20, 1870. " " " "
New York  455.82

$1350.48

Due on town lots    $31,175.00
Due for water rights  4,035.00
" Aset ditch No. 3 3,620.00
" on lots not yet located 1,575.00
40,405.00
less rec'd. for deeds gv'n. 1,728.75
Due for scrapers 123.50
Due adv. colony history 200.00

$38,676.25 $323.50

Total  $40,350.23

Debit.

Estimated amt due on ditch No. 2. $13,575.98
Bills payable " 165.12 $13,740.92
Estimated balance $26,609.31
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86 THE UNION COLONY
Adjourned.Adjourned Meeting, Dec 23, 1870.
Present Messrs. Cameron, Wilcox, Hollister and Holmes,
Trustees, and Messrs. Gurley and La Grange of Executive
Council. Vice President Cameron in the chair.
The following applications for deeds were granted : G. W.
Hancock, Jas. Cooper, Jas. Cooper, Jr., W. E. Pabor.
The following bills were ordered paid: E. B. Annis, H.
Boetcher, O. Eaton, A. J. Wilber, C. W. Sanborn, W. W. Lan
sing, B. S. La Grange.
Adjourned.

1 Regular meeting, Tuesday evening, Dec 20 [27 ?], 1870.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Holmes, Cameron, Wilcox and
Hollister, Trustees ; and Messrs. Gurley and La Grange of Ext
ecutive Council. Mr. Meeker, in the Chair.
Mr. Cameron moved that the warehouse of Judge Hanna
be accepted as an improvement on his certificate. Carried.
The following rulings of the Board of Trustees, in relation
to the division of lands, &c, were read by the Secretary, and
reaffirmed by the Board:
Information relative to Land & Membership
1. For certificate of membership, a person is entitled to
select a 5, 10, 20, or 40 acre plot in fee simple, with a perpetual
water right.
2. He also, has the privilege of selecting a town residence
lot, on payment of $50 for a corner, or $25 for an inside lot.
3. He also, has the privelege to choose a Government
Eighty, by pre-emption, or under the Homestead Act, on the
payment of $75 for water right ; if said location is made on or
before December 15, 1870; after that time $100.
4. A person may take a Rail Road 80 by paying the Rail
Road Company the contract price; such cannot take any other
land in fee simple, but are entitled on their certificate to a
''¦The Greeley Tribune, January 4, 1871, p. 3, with corrections added,
ibid., January 11, 1871, p. 3.

MINUTES 87
credit of $75 (if taken before December 15, 1870,) for water
right, or $100 if selected after December 15, 1870; the balance
due to be taken in payment for town lots, or returned in cash by
the colony. 5. A person making selection of a government 80, and
taking no other piece of Colony land will have the pre-emption
or homestead fees paid by the Colony, and be furnished a water
right for his certificate of membership. But in case such per
son desires a 5, 10, 20 or 40 acre plot in fee simple, he may
take such piece on payment of $75, if chosen before Dec. 15,
1870, or $100 if chosen thereafter.
6. There is an assessment of $2.50 on each town lot, and
$5 on each plot of land lying under Ditch No. 3, for enlarging
said ditch, payable when deeds are given.
7. Water rights for eighties must be paid for when deeds
are given. 8. Parties desiring water privileges for land purchased
from private parties under ditch No. 3 can obtain such by mak
ing special application to the Board of Trustees, who will fix
the amount of payment required.
Bills of G. W. Stotts, Henderson, Smith & Co., Solon
Martin, L. W. Weed, R. Fisk, Colony taxes, W. H. McDonald,
J. J. Armstrong, and H. Boetcher were ordered paid.
On motion, Mr. Eaton was allowed the 20 per cent which
had been withheld on J. H. Pinkerton's contract assigned to said
Eaton. Mr. Cameron was directed to purchase lamps for the Col
ony Hall and Reading Room.
The Secretary was directed to write the Assistant Treas
urer in New York for a financial statement to Dec. 31st, 1870.
Adjourned.

1 Regular meeting, Tuesday evening, Jan. 3, 1870. [sic]
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, and Hollister, Trus
tees; and Mr. Gurley of the Executive Council.
Mr. Meeker, in the Chair.
iThe Greeley Tribune, January 11, 1871, p. 3.

88 THE UNION COLONY
On motion, Mr. Cameron was instructed to offer Mr. C. W.
Sanborn a loan of four lots on the north side of Maple st, east
of the rail road, for five years, at fifty dollars per annum.
On motion, the Secretary was directed to notify Mr. W. F.
Thompson to vacate the land of the rail road Co., now occupied
by his lumber yard, east of the railroad, and that the colony
would lease him land on the south side of Walnut st, for a lum
ber yard. The following applications for deeds were granted; R
Hotohkiss, R. L. Kinison, F. G. Day, H. Dixon, Horace Greeley
Dixon, and C. W. Sanborn.
On motion of Mr. Cameron, the Secretary was directed to
settle up with the rail road compnny for all 40 acre lots, subdi
vided, and Mr. Blodget was allowed to change an 80 acre lot.
The following bills were ordered paid : G. S. Hill, Wells &
Fargo Co's. Express, Denver Pacific rail road company,
The Local Treasurer was directed to make a report of the
condition of the finances at the close of the year —
On motion, Mr. Whipple was directed to place the Town
Bell, on a suitable tower, in the rear of the colony office, and
Mr. Lansing was allowed 5 dollars per month for ringing the
bell. Adjourned Adjourned Meeting, Jan. 6.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Hollister and Holmes,
Trustees, and Messrs. Gurley, Shattuck, and Childs of Execu
tive Council. The following applications for deeds were granted: Bap
tist church, C. Buckingham, and A. H. Root.
On motion, 75 dollars was ordered to be re-funded to Mr.
S. R. Ferris, overpaid on town lols.
A Bill of L. Hanna's was ordered paid.
Gen Cameron moved that the colony legally defend, and
protect, Pre-emption and Homestead claims, belonging to mem
bers of the colony; which was carried.
Resolved, That the Secretary issue money orders, counter
signed by the President, on the Treasurer of the Union Colony,
in the payment of debts due to individuals, in sums to suit.

MINUTES 89
That such orders be drawn u'pon certain funds to be hereafter
provided for, and be presented to the Treasurer for acceptance.
If no money is in the Treasury to pay the same, the Treasurer
shall endorse the fact upon the back of said order, and from the
time of such endorsement, said order shall bear interest of one
per cent per month: Interest to cease when there is money
in the Treasury to pay the same; due notice of the fact to be
given by publication in the Greeley Tribune
On motion, the following funds were created :
lst, Contingent Expenses; to which shall be applied the
receipts from Rent of Colony Hall, Trees, and Main street grad
ing assessment, 2. Ditch No 2 ; to which shall be applied receipts from
Water Rights to Government 80's, and from new certificates.
3. Colony Fence ; to which shall be applied receipts from
town lots
4. Ditch No 3; to which shall be applied receipts from
assessments of same
On motion, one hundred dollars was ordered to be placed to
the credit of the Contingent Fund; and five hundred dollars
to the credit of the Colony Fence Fund, and the President was
directed to draw the balance in New York.
Adjourned

[January 10, 1871]
1 Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Holmes, and Hollis
ter, Trustees ; and Messrs. Gurley, and Childs, of the Executive
Council. A form of money order on tne Treasurer, submitted by the
Secretary, was approved, and ordered printed.
On motion, certain funds transferred to Colony Fence Fund
at last meeting, were transferred to fund of Ditch No. 2.
Deeds were granted to the following persons : Olin Win-
ship, J. L. Dunham, E. L. Dunham, D. B. Ranney, E, B. James,
Dr H B Tuttie.
The following bills were ordered paid: N. Holmes,
$1[.]50 for carpenter work; R L Kinnison, $1, for moving
iThe Greeley Tribune, January 18, 1871, p. 2.

90 THE UNION COLONY
office; H H Bailey, $1, for painting Black-board; H B Tuttie,
$22'[.]25, for Revenue Stamps.
An application of Evan Rae, for piece of land, on which
to manufacture brick, was referred to Messrs. Childs and Gur
ley ; as was, also, the matter of Mr. Jas. Brown, in relation to
brick making.
On motion, ordered that a charge of 25 cents per night be
made for the use of the School House and coal, on Walnut
street. The sum of $22[.]50 was ordered to be refunded to Mr.
Blodgett, over paid.
On motion, the services of the Assistant Secretary was dis
pensed with, after the 14th inst
Adjourned.

1 Regular Meeting, Jan. 17 1871.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Holmes, and Hollister,
Trustees ; and Messrs. Gurley, Childs, and Shattuck, of the Ex
ecutive Council.
The follwing applications for deeds were granted. Eu
gene L. Baker. D. Witter. C. L. Nettleton. A. N. Nettleton.
W. B. Woodruff. G. W. McCarty. Also an application of R.
Burchill. for a Duplicate Certificate.
The following bills were ordered paid. Daniel Witter, for
Legal services $25,00, B. H. Woodruff, for putting up lamps in
hall $1. E. B. Annies, for services as asst' secretary $52,50,
B. H. Eaton, on account contract Ditch number 2, $2213,80.
On motion, the secretary was direted to purchase six more
chairs for the office.
On motion, Mike. Owens, was allowed 20 per cent, with
held on his contract on 25-th mile of Ditch number 2.
On motion all bills allowed by the Board were ordered to
be paid on the lst, & 15th, of the month.
Mr Shattuck was allowed to relinquish his claim on Rail
*The Greeley Tribune, January 25, 1871, p. 3.

MINUTES 91
Road 80, and enter his name for the drawing of 2% and 5 acre
lots on the 21st inst.
On motion, a duplicate Certificate was ordered to be issued
to Horace Greeley. Esq, and that location be made for him
before the drawing. Adjourned to Friday Jan. 20th, at 1 P.M.

1 Regular Meeting, Jan. 17 [24?], 1871.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Holmes, and Wilcox,
Trustees; and Messrs. Gurley, Childs, and Shattuck, of the
Executive Council.
On motion, the Secretary was directed to examine the ac
count of Clark Wadlin, & Co., for contract on Ditch No 2, and
report the next meeting.
Permission was granted Messrs. Orr and Brown, to manu
facture brick the present year, on premises asked for.
The committee, on locating a Bridge across the Cache la
Poudre, reported in favor of locating it on the line of Jackson
street. Report adopted.
The Secretary was directed to draft a petition for a public
road, as follows : Running through Jackson street in the town
of Greeley, on the line between section 5 and 6, township 6,
N.R. 65 W., to the township line; thence north between sec
tions 31 and 32, township 6, N.R. 65 W., to the north-east cor
ner of section 31, T. 6, N. R 65 W. ; thence east one mile, thenc
one half mile north, to the centre line of section 25, T. 6, N. R.
66 W. ; thence westerly on said centre line for a distance of 9
miles; thence along the most practicable route in the direction
of Fort Collins, to the county line.
The Secretary was also, directed to draft a petition to the
County Commissioners, for the apointment of F. L. Childs and
C. F. Hanby, Justices of the Peace, and J. Max Clark, and W.
K. Lansing, Constables.
Mr. J. C. Shattuck was appointed a committee of one, to
draw up a proper form of Deed, and report at next meeting.
On motion the assessment on Railroad 80's, for Water, was
fixed at $1[.]25, on all lands hereafter located. Adjourned.
iThe Greeley Tribune, February 1, 1871, p. 3.

92 THE UNION COLONY
1 Regular Meeting, Jan. 31, 1871.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Holmes, and Hollister,
Trustees ; and Messrs. Gurley, Childs, and Shattuck, of the Ex
ecutive Council.
The following bills were ordered paid ; R. A. Cameron, ex
penses to Denver, $4[.]75, Wm. Hollister, do $4[.]75. Hollister
and DeWitt on account contract on ditch No. 2, $507[.]50. L.
Whipple, bell tower and closet doors in school room, $94[.]57.
A. S. Barns & Co one years interest on lithographic engraving
of Colony map $ll![.]75. W. E, Pabor stamps and expenses
$34[.]50. A. J. Wilber paper files, reading room, 4[.]10, J. C.
Higby horse hire, $3. C. <R. Welch, chairs $4![.]50. M. W.
Lansing, services for January, $59[.]40. W. E. Pabor, secre
tary, $114.
Mr. Cameron moved that the secretary prepare a petition
to the County Commissioners for a public road running through
Lincoln street, South to Evans. Carried.
Messrs. Cameron and Hollister were appointed a commit
tee to present to the County Commissioners the various peti
tions for roads, bridges, justices and constables, on Tuesday
next. Messrs Holmes and Whipple were appointed a committee
to prepare plans, specifications and estimates for a bridge over
the Cache la Poudre, on the line of Jackson street, and report
at the next meeting.
Messrs Holmes, LaGrange and Wilcox were directed to re
port on a line for a fence on the West and South side of the
town, and to correspond with parties in relation to lumber for
the same. The following applications for deeds were granted: Ste
phen Spencer, J C Avery, H I Pollock, L Whipple, Chas A
White, J C Higby, C S Brockway, M H Smith, M P Hender
son, Jas F Harris. P W Reed, I B Bishop, J H Pinkerton (for
Jos Betham), L W Keller, E B Annis, J F Sanborn, H G Bond.
The secretary reported that it appeared from the books that
a settlement had been made with Clark Wadlin & Co. on their
contract on ditch No 2. Accepted.
iThe Greeley Tribune, February 8, 1871, p. 3.

MINUTES 93
Mr. Holmes reported that he had purchased 766 pitch pine
posts at 25 cts each. Accepted.
The secretary was, on motion, directed to transfer $200
from ditch No 2 fund to fence fund.
Permission was granted to N. Devine to relinquish a 10
acre lot, also to S. Palmer, Jr., to exchange a lot drawn in the
last drawing, for a 5 acre lot in section 9.
A communication from Hon. Horace Greeley, tendering his
resignation as Treasurer, was laid over.
The Secretary reported having received during January,
the sum of $3,105.75, all of which had been deposited with the
Treasurer. Mr. Hollister moved that each member of Board be allowed
5 copies each of the Annual Report and Maps for distribution.
Carried. Adjourned to Friday evening, Feb. 3.
Present Messrs. Meeker, Cameron and Hollister, Trustees.
The following applications for deeds were granted : Ward
Bros., Dr. Scott, J. H. May, Chas. Buckingham, J. J. Justin.
A bill of Emerson, West & Buckingham, of $12 for letter
press was ordered paid.
Adjourned.

1 Regular Meeting, Feb. 7, 1871.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Holmes, and Wilcox,
Trustees; and Messrs. Gurley, Childs, and La Grange, of the
Executive Council.
Mr. Cameron moved that five or more blocks be laid off
on the north side of Vine street, between Jackson and Wash
ington streets and that they be cut up into lots of 100 feet front,
the price of corner lots to be fixed at $100 and inside lots $50
each. Adopted.
On motion, it was ordered that each active member of the
colony, on delivering his certificate, be given a new certificate
for 10 shares in the Union Colony of Colorado.
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94 THE UNION COLONY
On motion it was ordered that three copies of the First
Annual Report be issued to each member of the Colony, on the
ground, for distribution.
Mr. Cameron, moved that the price of membership be con
tinued at the sum of one hundred and fifty-five dollars, indefi
nitely. Carried.On motion, Messrs. Wilcox, Holmes and Shattuck were ap
pointed a committee to accompany the County Commissioners in
selecting a location for a Bridge over the Cache la Poudre at or
near the line of Jackson street.
Adjourned. Adjourned meeting, Feb. 10, 1871,
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Hollister, Holmes and
Wilcox, Trustees ; and Messrs. La Grange and Shattuck of the
Council. On motion, the Secretary was authorized to have a tracing
of the Town Plot and adjoining lands made for certain map pub
lishers in Denver.
Application was made by a certain party for extension of
time for making improvements, and not granted.
On motion, it was ordered that the Board of Trustees pro
ceed to fence the Colony Lands on the south side of the Cache
la Poudre river, commencing at a point near Boyd's Ranche, fol
lowing the line of Canal No. 3 down to the south line of section
16, T. 5 R. 65, W. thence running to the Platte river, and across
to the Poudre river, and thence along said river in a general
direction back to Boyd's Ranche. Such fence to be built as
may be deemed necessary, and that Messrs. Hollister, Holmes
and Wilcox be appointed a committee to carry the motion into
effect. On motion, Messrs. La Grange, Shattuck and Cameron
were appointed a committee on the enlargement of Canal No. 3.
On motion, the Fence Post Committee were authorized to
contract for posts at such rate and in such quantities as in their
judgment may be deemed necessary.

MINUTES 95
Gen. Cameron moved that "Hotel be Comfort" be repaired,
altered and transformed into a Wigwam or Tabemaole for pub
lic meetings, school and other purposes, and that a committee
be appointed to prepare specifications, and advertise for propos
als for the same. Adopted, and Messrs. Cameron, Childs and
Hollister were appointed said committee.
The following applications for deeds were granted : Waldo
N. Lee, N. W. Hall, Benj. Moore, N. W. Sanborn, Calvin
Thomas, J. M. Fisk, Richmond Fisk, G. W. McCarty. Ad
journed. 
1 Regular Meeting, Feb. 14, 1871.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Holmes, Wilcox and
Hollister, Trustees ; and Messrs. Childs, and La Grange, Gurley
and Shattuck of the Executive Council.
A report of the committee on repairing the Hotel de Com
fort, in favor of employing Mr. Whipple to do the work in ac
cordance with the plans &c, prepared by him, and under the
superintendence of the committee, was adopted.
Mr. Gurley moved that one thousand copies of the Greeley
"Tribune extra", containing an article on the colony, the con
stitution, &c, be printed and circulated for the good of the
colony. Carried.
The following reselution offered by Gen. Cameron was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we have seen no reason for changing the
original plan by which members holding a certificate were
obliged to make bona fide improvements in good faith, but that
we will insist upon all members making improvemedts, or their
selections, or they will be made void on the 5th of April next,
and the money for such certificate refunded.
The following applications for deeds were granted: J E
Billings, John Grant, Geo Fisk, George E Barker, Governor
Evans, Col Fisher, Frank Bryant.
In relation to E T Nichols application for deeds for P T
Barnum, it was moved and carried that if Mr. Barnum make
the improvements mentioned, his deeds will be granted.
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96 THE UNION COLONY
The following bills were ordered paid : Emerson, West &
Buckingham, W H Post, stationary, W H Post, stationary for
school, C R Welch & Co., R Burke, J S Titcomb. Aj'd.

1 Regular Meeting, Feb. 24, 1871.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Holmes, Wilcox and
Hollister, Trustees; and Messrs. Childs, and La Grange, and
Gurley of the Executive Council.
On motion, the engineer was instructed to accept Mr Owens
contract, as far as finished, on ditch No. 2, and Mr Hollister
was directed to complete the same.
On motion, the application of a member for permission to
locate an additional 80 of railroad land, respectfully declined.
On motion, the recomendation of the Executive Council, that
holders of Government 80's, be allowed to locate additional land,
respectfully declined.
The following resolution was unanimously adopted: Re
solved, that when any party holds more than one certificate by
purchase or otherwise, and desires to make extensive improve
ments, on one certificate to cover both, an improvement of the
value of $800 may be considered sufficient for one claim, $1,600,
addtional for the second claim, and $3,000 additional for the
third claim.
On motion, all the 10 and 20 acre lots on the Delta, were
ordered to be subdivided into 5, acre pieces.
Permission was given to Mr  to exchange a 40 acre lot,
fee simple, for a 5 acre lot. Moved and carried, that all lots
found to be bogusly located, revert to the Colony and be open
to location, after being reappraised,
The Secretary was directed to have letter sheets, and
envelopes printed for the use of the Colony.
On motion, the building of the bridge over the Big Thomp
son was put in charge of the Bridge Committee. On motion, all
fees received from new members, were directed to be applied to
the Fence Fund.
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MINUTES 97
Permission was granted Messrs Hart, and Severance to ex
change lots.
The following deeds were granted:
Joe I Welch, S M McDermott, Mr.  , Mr. Marshall,
B Bassett and Mr Keeler.
Adjourned to Friday evening, Feb 24.
Adjourned Meeting, Feb 15th, 1871
Members present, Messrs Meeker, Holmes, Wilcox and Hol
lister, Trustees, and Mr LaGrange of the Executive Council.
The following applications1 for deeds were granted;
S H Johnson, A Kendall, J L White, C W Howard, J
Betham, Mrs Howe. N W Reves, H H Bayley. J H Orr, Mr
Foote, R P Abbey,
The following bills were ordered paid: Calvin Thomas,
for team, $11[.]25; McDermott & Devine, ditch No 2,
$250[.]79; M Owens, ditch No 2 $253[.]23.
The Secretary presented a ballance sheet to Dec 31st, 1871.
Ordered to be printed.
Financial Statement of Union Colony of Colorado, to
December 31st, 1870.
By cash receipts in N. York $97,126.91
" Interest on cash on deposit 249.80
" cash for memberships rec'd. at Greeley 2,170.00
" " " trees sold 125.90
" " " colony property sold 784.96
" " " sale annual report 180.00
( town lots and property to date 2,465.25

Total  $103,102.82
To cost of land $65,315.07
" survey of land 1,930.35
" town improvements 3,807.52
" canal No. three expense 6,333.92
" general expense 6,353.33
" canal No. two expense 8,767.00
" tree expense 1,515.40

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To school expense 552.37
" town hall expense 2,703.49
" annual report expense 944.50
" Main street grading 583.39
" cemetery account 20.25
" salary account 2,628.00
" Burlington wagon road survey 213.75
" balance on hand 1,434.48

Total  $103,102.82
Submitted Feb. 21st, 1871. Wm. E. Pabor.
On motion the Secretary was directed to refund J F Har
ris, $42[.]50, overpaid.
Mr Wilcox move,d that the Executive Council be repre
sented on the Fence Committee, by one of the three members,
to act in connection with the Board of Trustees. Carried.
Mr Wilcox moved that the jurisdiction of the Ditch Com
mittee be extended to the laying out of lateral ditches, and that
they take such action in extending and improveing the ditches
as may be necessary. Carried. Adjourned.

1 Regular Meeting, Feb. 28, 1871.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Holmes, Wilcox and
Hollister, Trustees ; and Messrs. Shattuck, La Grange, and Gur
ley of the Executive Council.
Mr. Cameron moved that deeds be granted Jos Murray, in
consideration of the colony taking his lot for mill purposes. Car
ried. Moved and carried, that all persons holding unlocated cer
tificates, purchased before July 1, 1870, be allowed one year
beyond the time fixed, to locate and improve their claims Also,
that a copy of the above be forwarded to Mr. Greeley, at New
York. iThe Greeley Tribune, March 8, 1871, p. 2.

MINUTES 99
The President was instructed to write Mr. Greeley, request
ing him to continue to receive money for certificates, and for
ward the same to this office.
The following application for deeds were granted: W Mc
Allister, H H Bayley, O Eaton, H B Jordan, Thos Longstall, A
Ramsey, John Leavy, J H Jones, M Owen. Adjourned to Fri
day evening, March 3d.
Adjourned Meeting, March 3d.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Holmes, Hollister and Wilcox,
Trustees; and Messrs. Gurley La Grange and Shattuck, of the
Executive Council.
The following applications for deeds were granted : Chas
McKelvey, W H Brockway, Jos Moore, N Holmes, Sr., Chas
N Holmes, N Holmes, Jr, Aug Camp, Robt Stevens, L S Sprin
ger, C H Chapman, A Hotchkiss, A Gilchrist, P T Barnum,
H N Rogerson.
The Secretary reported having received the sum of
$2,062.05, during the month of February, for new certificates,
rent of Hall, &c^ ordered on file.
The following bills were ordered paid; N. Holmes, Mc-
Devitt & Devine, Russell Fisk, W W Lansing, C W Sanborn,
J D Buckley, Evan Rea, J L White, W E Pabor.
Moved and adopted, that the Secretary be instructed to
notify W H McDonald, that the colony have no further need
of his services.
Moved and adopted, that the Secretary notify lumber deal
ers and merchants, not to furnish any materials or articles to
any one on Colony account, without an order from the Secre
tary. The Bridge Committee presented a sketch of the bridge to
be built over the Cache la Poudre, on the line of Jackson street.
The committee were instructed to get proposals for piles for
the same. Adjourned.

1 Regular Meeting, March 7, 1871.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Holmes, Hollister, and Wilcox,
'The Greeley Tribune, March 15, 1871, p. 2.

100 THE UNION COLONY
Trustees; and Messrs. Gurley, La Grange, and Shattuck, of
the Executive Council.
The following applications for deeds were granted : E. T.
Nichols, J. S. Chapman, H. T. West, L. M. West, Geo. H.
West, Jacob Welch, and John Jones.
The Secretary was directed to notify M. W. Lansing, that
his services, in charge of Recitation Room, were no longer
needed. Mr. Hollister moved that the Secretary notify the Sup't
and Engineer to do specified work on ditches 1 and 4.
The Bridge Committee reported having made a contract
for piles for the Bridge, at $5[.]50 each, delivered at Depot
On motion of Mr. Wilcox, the Bridge Committee were di
rected to prepare plans and specifications, and procure materials,
Pile Drivers, &c, for the Bridges, and advertise for proposals
for building the same.
The Fence Committee reported, 3,376 Fence Posts on hand,
and four loads on the way.
On motion the application of R. J. Wilber, to locate two
40's, was refused. Adjourned.

1 Special Meeting March 15, 1871.
Present, Messrs Meeker; Cameron and Hollister, Trustees.
On motion, an order for two thousand dollars more on
ditch No. 2 was granted to B. H. Eaton.
On motion, the Water Rights on Government Eighties,
Rail Road Eighties, or land in fee simple selected after a Gov
ernment Eighty had been chosen, was fixed at One Hundred
and Fifty Dollars. Adjourned.
Regular Meeting, March 17, 1871.
Present, Messrs Meeker, Cameron, Hollister and Holmes
Trastees, and Messrs La Grange and* Shattuck of Executive
Council. The following Resolutions by Mr. Cameron were adopted.
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MINUTES 101
Resolved, That on and April 5 1871 parties who have im
proved on located Certificates and who have asked for and had
Deeds granted for the same, and have not paid for nor taken
up the same, Shall be assessed for each and every month that they
shall refuse [ ?] to take and pay for said titles, the sum of
twelve [ ?] per cent, as a penalty for non-payment.
Also the following.
Resolved, That on and after April 5th 1871 all Business
and Residence lots located and not improved, at the expiration
of the required time after location, be reappraised as follows.
Comer lots one hundred and fifty dollars, inside lots one
hundred dollars, pieces in fee simple to be subject
to special appraisement by the Board of Trustees, and Water
Shares to be subject to the new appraisment of $150 pro
vided, that at the new appraisement the parties having formerly
located said lots, may have sixty days additional time for im
proving the same and obtaining a title, and that on and after
the said sixty days, said lots, if not improved, shall be open for
selection at the appraisal; subject to the standing rules and
regulations of ths Colony.
The following applications for deeds were granted.
R. Rogerson, Geo. T. Dresser, Mr. Severance, J. D. Wher-
rin, Baptist Church, John Ranney, R. Barker, M. J. Roberts,
Stillman Washburn, Harvey Piatt, W. B. Plato', J. B. Plato,
Emerson & Buckingham, Henry Pierson, Geo. W. Ingram, L.
Von Gohren, J. B. Brownell, S. A. Atkinson, C. L. Tucker, R.
Fisk, Mr. Lounds, Ward Bros. Daniel Jones, G. H. Coursn,
J. A. Woodbury Chas. Brandigee, Virginia guinney, Eli Hall,
F. J. Percival, F. L. Childs, James Henry Le Bar, Alex
M'Whorter, M. W. Lansing, C. M. Russell, Geo. E. Parker,
J, G. Cooper, W. E. Pabor, Geo. Fletcher, H. M. Law, A. J.
Wadlia, E. D. BouEouton, Lydia Hart, O. N. M'Lain and W.
H. Post Duplicate Certificates were ordered to be issued to Gen.
Cameron and W. H. Post
Mr. Holmes, was instructed to contract for Fence Posts
to an amount not exceeding ten thousand. Adjourned.

102 THE UNION COLONY
1 Regular Meeting, March 21, 1871.
Present Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, and Holmes, Trastees,
and Messrs. La Grange Gurley Childs and Shattuck of the Ex
ecutive Council.
The following applications for Deeds were granted. Flow
ers & Cameron, John Stratton, Dr. Simpson, B. S. La Grange,
Chas. Heaton, S. K. Thompson, Thos. Stimson C. F. Hanby
Alex Moore, J. S. Seeley, R. S. Adams, Chas. A. Stevens, B. F.
Marsh, Martin H. Chase, W. H. Emerson, Jas. J. Armstrong,
Horace J. Fisher, Ralph Hilton, E. D. Holmes, J. F. Fezer,
S. C. Dunham.
Messrs. Gifford, and Foster, presented a petition, asking
for business lots which was respectfully declined.
Quincy A. Eaton's application for deeds was refused.
The application of L. Van Gohren, to locate a five acre lot
in fee simple, on his Certificate at the old price, was granted.
The following bills were ordered paid.
Flowers & Cameron, for Oil, Lamps, Paint, Stationery &c,
$92,00 N. Holmes, for team $15,37 N Holmes, unloading Fence
Post's $41[.]28 R. Burchell, for Glazing $1,00.
On Motion the rates for the use of the Tabernacle for Con
certs, Festivals &c, was fixed at double the rates charged for
Colony Hall.
The following Resolutions were, adopted.
Resolved; That the lands and lots to be irrigated, be di
vided into three districts, as follows.
District No 1. All the lands under canal No. 2
District No. 2. All the lands lying West of Main street,
and under Canal No. 3, District No. 3, All the lands lying East
of Munroe street, under canal No. 3.
Resolved that for every such district a superintendant be
appointed, by the Board of Trustees who shall have the superin
tendant under the control of the Board, and by the advice of
the engineer in putting in the flumes and water sects, and under
the control of the Board to so equitably divide the supply of
water to each individual as shall best accommodate the con,-
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MINUTES 103
sumers of water in each district, and also under the control of
the Board, to repair and construct all Bridges in said district
in which they may be appointed.
On Motion the following persons were appointed superin-
tendants. E. Hollister, District No. 1, B. S. La Grange Dis. No. 2
J. C. Shattuck Dist No. 3.
On Motion it was ordered the water to be let into canal
No. 2 on the 10th of April, and into canal No. 3 by the 5th
of April, or as soon thereafter as is practicable.
On Motion it was ordered that the workmen on Ditch No.
3 be paid every Saturday in cash.
Special Meeting, March 25, 1871.
Present Messrs Meeker, Cameron, Holmes and Hollister
Trastees, and Messrs. La Grange Gurley, Childs, and Shattuck
of the Executive Council.
Mr. Cameron moved that The Rev. Mr. Baxter have the
privilege of locating a fee simple 10 acres, at the original price
of $75, for the water, Carried :
On Motion the plan for the Bridge over the Cache La Pou
dre presented by Mr. Holmes, was adopted.
Mr. Cameron moved that Mr. Holmes be instructed to
push forward the building of the Fence without delay, and
that Messrs. Childs and. Wilbur be associated with him in locat
ing the same.
On Motion Messrs. Holmes and Whipple were authorized
to contract for and purchase materials &c for constituting a
Pile Driver, and have the same built at once.
Moved that in the future all bills for the use of the Colony
Hall and Tabernacle for transient use be paid in advance.
Deeds granted.
R. Burchell, J. C. Shattuck, L. P. Witham, J H Petti-
grew B C Young Alfred Baxter Chas. Piatt C F Brown E P
House S H Gransbury A Like Edward Atkinson H Marshall
Park Kitchell Saml Roberts Thos. Atkinson J H Payne A C
Wait John A Juckett Emerson West & Buckingham N Hol
brook A S Baker Helen E Martin H W Lee Anna E Plumb
C H Thomas. Adjourned.

104 THE UNION COLONY
1 Tuesday, March 28th 1871.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron and Hollister, of the
Board, and Messrs. La Grange, Childs and Shattuck of the
Council. Several Extensions of time were granted for good
sufficient reasons.
On motion of Gen. Cameron, it was voted that any three
persons who located on Government Eighties, prior to January
24th, 1871, and who surrendered a share for the same, less fees
and expenses of location, may unite together in the location of
a subdivision of land in fee simple. Also, that J. Max Clark,
and all others who have paid their own fees, be allowd the sum
of Twenty-five Dollars for fees thus paid, which, under rule
and regulations should have been paid by the Colony.
Deeds were granted as follows: Charles B. Gipson, M.
Wiley, E. M. Leonard, Arthur Taylor, R. Lynn, A. Ramsey,
C. W. DeVine, E. Pickett, A. Lichty, D. Cotton, J. C. Abbott
(3), G. M. Taylor, D. H. Carlton, T. F. French B. F. Shep
herd, M. W. Darling, A. M. Olds, S. A. Day, W. E. Pabor,
N. R Allen, Danl. Witter, E. C. Alphonse, H. McKnight, W.
P. McKinney. Mr. Hollister was added to' the Canal Committee. Mr.
Holmes was authorized to contract for a car load of three inch
plank for bridges. The following bills were ordered paid on
contracts: Brown & Orr, $520[.]37; F. G. Day, $80; J. R.
Thacker, $630[.]20; B. H. Eaton, $3666'[.]95; C. J. Mc-
Devitt, $33[.]99. Tabernacle bills: C. S. Brockway,
$43l[.]75; H. B. Tuttie, $15[.]05; W. F. Thompson,
$147[.]67; L. M. Condit, $53; W. R. Norcross, $59; E. B.
Annis, $55[.]62; T. H. Morgan, $48'[.]75; L. Whipple,
$119[.]57. For surveying: F. C. Avery, $35l[.]25 : W. W. Wil
cox, $15. School room work : L Whipple, $19 [.] 65.
Special Meeting — April 1st., 1871,
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Hollister, Holmes,
Trastees, and Messrs. Childs, Gurley, LaGrange and Shattuck,
of the Executive Council.
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MINUTES 105
The following bills ordered paid : W. E, Pabor, for stamps
and acknowledgments, $125|[.]25; W. E. Pabor, services as
Secretary for March, $81; J D, Buckley, surveying Cemetry,
$113[.]69; F. L. Childs, for work on Tabernacle, $7; J. S.
Titeomb, surveying, $12[.]25; M. Russell, on account contract,
Ditch No. 2, $875[.]02; C. R. Welch & Co. for hardware,
$87[.]50; N. Holmes, Fence account, $25[.]25.
Ordered, that all public buildings be closed for School pur
poses until May 1st
An extension of 60 days was allowed the following per
sons to make their improvements, viz : Mr. Higgins, Mr. Barnes,
Mrs. Decker, G. Hanna, Jos. Moore, G. W. Palmer, J. C.
Puckett, Mr. Reiff, J. H. Foster, B. C. Whitford.
Moved, that the salary of the Janitor for the month of
April, be fixed at forty dollars.
The monthly statement of the Secretary for March, show
ing receipts for Certificate, &c, amounting to $2000[.]09, was
ordered on file.
Ordered, that all bills for surveying, and other work, be en
dorsed by the Engineer or Superintendent, before being paid.
The following resolution, by Mr. Cameron, was adopted:
Resolved, that for the purpose of keeping the water in the vari
ous seques, running through the city, pure and clean for drink
ing, and all domestic purposes, no litter or garbage be allowed
to be thrown in the said seques, nor any straw, shavings, or
other litter thrown on the ground from whence it can be moved
by the wind into said seques. Resolved further, that it shall
be the duty of all parties to keep the water seques through, or
in front, or near their lots, clean of all litter or obstructions.
Resolved, that the foregoing resolutions be published in the
Greeley Tribune, as a standing advertisement, and that one
hundred small bills be printed containing said resolutions, and
well posted in prominent praces about the city.
Deeds were granted Mr. Weed, Hallett & Rea, D. Cotton,
Geo., Swan, J. Max Clark, E. W. Gurley, Mr. Law, N. Robert
son, Inman Brothers, Rev. Adams, Elihu Nye, D. B. Shaw,
Mary E. Tucker, Henry Stickney, S. G. Patten, C. J. Me-
Devitt, D. Stansbury, A. Plumb, S. M. Brown, Horace Gurley,

106 THE UNION COLONY
W. Williams, A. D. Preston, Mrs. Janet Jummell, N. D.
Wright, E. R. Ruthven, Mrs. Ruthven, T. Yates, J. Burrows,
J. Hardman, A. Boyd, W. W. Clay, S. B. Washburn, Alice
Washburn, R. Boyd, F. M. Babcock, H. C. Watson, and H. L.
Starkweather. Ajoumed to Monday evening, April 3.

1 Regular Meeting, April 4, 1871.
Present Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Hollister, and Holmes,
Trustees, and Messrs. La Grange, Childs, Shattuck and Gurley
of the Executive Council.
An extension of sixty days additional time for improving
their claims was granted the following persons, G. S. Hill, Geo.
Hamp, A. W. Seyman, Jas. Maxwell, L. W. Hilton, B. Eaton,
Rose Eaton, O. M. W. Lain. Rev. Mr. Adams, Emerson, West
& Buckingham, F. Faueher.
The applications of S. H. Birdsell, M. V. B. Gifford, J. H.
Foster, and Mrs. N. A. Foster, for deeds for business lots were
refused. The following applications for deeds were granted : M. N.
B. Gifford, J. H. Foster, Mrs. N. A. Foster, J. W. Dagger,
Rebecca Dickinson, B. O. Hale, Jerry Hanna, Frank Hanna,
— ' — Stickney, Thos. Hindle, Samuel Slone, H. L. Wyman,
John Merry, R. B. Wright, Joseph Joyce, J. C. Wiley, J.
Jones, G. Hatfield, — — ¦ Sheldon, L. S. Frisbee, Howard Mor
ris, C. J. Barnes, R W Cloud, Mary J Townsend, Irene S
Whipple, D S Henry, L Palmer, J Harris, Hannah Eaton,
John Ranney, Flower & Cameron.
Permission was granted A. S. Baker, and J. Max Clark,
to locate a fee simple piece jointly, on their certificates.
Daniel Witter's bill, to March 31, 1871, of $72[.]60, was
ordered paid.
On motion, the deeds of Mr. Morse, for town lots and a
subdivision of Colony land ; also the deed for water on a Gov
ernment 80, were ordered to be destroyed, and his location on
said Government 80 to be erased from the books.
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On motion, it was directed not to sell the water from the
Colony Canals to any person not a member of the Colony. Ad
journed.

1 Regular Meeting, April 11, 1871.
Present ; Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, and Holmes, Trustees,
and Messrs. La Grange, Childs, Shattuck and Gurley of the
Executive Council.
Deeds were granted to Mr. Bryant, E. G. Scott, and J. E.
Miller. The following resolution was adopted :
Resolved, That hereafter, any proper person may become
a member of the Union Colony of Colorado, by paying into the
Treasury the sum of Fifty Dollars, which will entitle him to a
Residence Lot and two shares of stock in said Colony ; or the
sum of One Hundred Dollars, which will entitle him to a Resi
dence Lot and four shares of stock ; or the sum of One Hundred
and Fifty-five Dollars, which shall entitle him to Seven shares,
and either the water for Eighty acres of land, and the right to
purchase a Rail Road Eighty acres, at contract price, ($3[.]50
per acre, and 6 per cent, interest up to May lst, 1872, and $4,
with like interest for one year thereafter,) or, he may take a
Residence Lot at the above named rate, $155.
Each certificate shall be subject to the improvements re
quired by the Board of Trustees, such improvements to be
made within one year from the purchase of said certificate.
Provided further, that on any certificate issued after this
date no person shall be allowed to take more than one Lot in
town and one piece of out lying land, or water for the same, if
it be Government or Railroad land.
One Thousand Dollars was ordered to be paid on account
of Fence Posts.
On motion, Mr. Childs was directed to procure assistance,
and lay out Washington Park, and set the same with cotton
wood trees ; and Mr Shattuck was directed to report a plan for
fencing the same.
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108 THE UNION COLONY
On motion, the Fruit Trees belonging to the Colony were
ordered to be sold; also, the Lumber in fence enclosing the
same. It was ordered that when a member has relinquished his
certificate and taken his deeds, he has no further claim for land,
except in the location of a Cemetry lot, or lots reserved for sale
for the benefit of the Colony.
On motion, the Superintendent was employed for the next
30 days, to attend to, and locate new members on their arrival.
The men employed in building the Bridge, were ordered to
be paid every Saturday.
The following bills were ordered paid : McDevitt, to bal
ance on contract Canal No. 2 ; J. Gonzoles, Canal No. 3,
$692[.]08; J. Higley, for horse and buggy, $2; Jacob Gano,
Canal No. 2, $241[.]82 ; H B Tuttie, for Revenue Stamps, $10 ;
Nettleton & Young, canal No. 2, $253![.]41.
Messrs. Cameron and Shattuck were appointed a commit
tee to draft a petition to County Commissioners, to locate a
Bridge over the Platte river, east of the town, and lay out a road
on the north side of the Cache la Poudre and Platte, runing
east, or down the river.
Adjourned to Saturday evening, April 15.

Adjourned Meeting. — April 15.
Present, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, Holmes, and Hollister,
Trastees, and Messrs LaGrange, Childs and Shattuck, of the
Executive Council.
On motion, lots 22, 23 and 24, block 62, were ordered to
be subdivided into 8 lots, to face Washington street. Lots 18,
19 and 20 block 17, to be subdivided into 8 lots each, and to
face Jefferson street. Lots 1. 2 and 3, in block 39, each to be
subdivided into 8 lots, and to front Washington street. Lots 4
and 5, block 39 to be subdivided into 25 feet lots, to face Spruce
street; and lot 8, block 39, to be a business lot, and to be dis
tributed by lot among those who have no business lots, on Sat
urday afternoon next, April 22.

MINUTES 109
On motion, the various funds in the hands of the Treas
urer, exclusive of the School Fund, were consolidated into one
fund. The officers of the Colony were empowered to distribute
copies of the First Annual Report on the trains passing through
the plains ; said Reports, also, to be placed on sale at 10 cents
each. The President and Secretary were directed to give notice
that the First Annual Election for Trustees of the Union Col
ony of Colorado, would take place on the first Tuesday of May,
next, at the Colony Office, from 10 A. M. to 4 P. M., and
Messrs. N. C. Meeker, D. B. Ranney and E. C. Alphonse were
appointed Judges, and Messrs. W. H. Post, W. E. Pabor and
J H. Foster, Clerks.
On motion, the Charter and By-Laws of the Colony were
ordered to be published in the next issue of the Greeley Tribune.
On motion the By-Laws were amended so as to entitle each
member to one vote for each share of stock held by him.
Deeds were granted to Ralph Hilton, E. B. Slater, and
Miss E. Abbott; and 60 days extension was granted to Messrs.
Meeker & Pabor to improve a claim.
Permission was granted to G. W. Taylor to exchange a Gov
ernment Eighty.
Mr. Kennison's application for permission to transfer a
water-right, was referred to Mr. Shattuck.
The following bills were ordered paid: Hall, Wright &
Co., work on Flume, $14[.]35; T. J. Stinson, for nails,
$1 [.] 19 ; J. C. Avery, surveys and maps, $46 ; F G Day, Canal
No. 2, $419[.]33; R A. Cameron, stove for Tabernacle, $28;
Flower & Cameron, oil &c, $39[.]80.
On motion, W. H. Post, was requested to consult with
property owners on Maple street, in reference to grading the
same, the expense not to' exceed $20 per hundred feet.
Adjourned.

110 THE UNION COLONY
RECORD BOOK NO. 3.1
MINUTES FROM JULY 5, 1871, TO OCTOBER 29, 1872.

[p. 1] Regular Meeting July 5th 1871
Members present.
N. C. Meeker Esq. President
Trastees
E. Hollister David Boyd. N. Holmes
F. L. Childs of the Council.
The minutes of the meetings of June 27th & July 3rd Were
read and approved.
The Committee to whom was referred the communication
of the Messrs Hills, reported progress —
The Committee appointed to confer with Mr. Brown in ref
erence to damage done to Flume on Canal No 2. reported in
favor of discontinuing any further prosecution of the same.
The President reported that suit had been commenced
against C. W. M'attison for interfering with Canal No. 2, and
that he had been held to bail in the sum of Five hundred dol
lars. The following Communication was presented from the
President of the Board of Town Trustees,
To the Board of Trastees of The Union Colony of Colorado,
Gentlemen,
As President of Board of Trustees of the Town of
Greeley, I would suggest that the Trastees of the Colony make
over to the Town of Greeley, the Parks and public grounds as
platted on the map, also that they Deed [p. 2] to the Town all
the Ditches for conveying Water from the Main Ditch through
the Town, and in some way guarantee, make over, or Deed to
the Town for all time to come, during the life of the Colony,
sufficient water for Town purposes. Also that they Quit Claim
to the Town all improvements made in. and about the Town,
such as planting trees, Establishing the grade of and grading
streets, laying out and beautifying the Parks &c I would also
iOn the cover of the volume. In the colony safe at Greeley.

MINUTES 111
respectfully ask that the Colony deed to the Town a suitable
lot or lots upon which to erect a Town Hall, and also a lot to
be used for the purpose of erecting a Pound, and making an
enclosure for confining stock.
Greeley, Colo. July 5/71 H. T. West
Prest. Bd. Town Trastees.
On motion the above communication was referred to the
following Committee.
J. C. Shattuck. David Boyd. E. Hollister
Mr. Hollister moved that the Town Board be authorized
to take charge of the streets and the Trees in the streets, also
the Ditches and water within the Town limits, as agents of the
Union Colony of Colorado, untill otherwise ordered
Which was carried.
The application of Mr. Graham to exchange his location
on a 40 a. in sec 1. for a 20a in section 9. was referred to
Messrs Childs & Shattuck.
[p. 3] Mr. Boyd moved that the Colony bear half the expense,
necessary to compel the Board of County Commissioners to
entertain a petition to order an election to change the County
seat. Carried The application of Julia B. Pettengill for Deeds was
granted. Mr. Holmes moved That the first monies received by the
Treasurer, be devoted to paying off the hands working on the
fence Carried.
Resolution by Mr. Boyd.
Resolved. That in order to make an equitable distribution
of the Water in Canal No. 2, all gates to the several flumes
West of the Denver Pacific Railway be closed at 7 o'clock P. M.
on each Week day and on Sunday throughout the day. All per
sons are forbade to open the same untill six Oclock A. M. under
forfeiture of Water for the succeeding forty eight hours.
A communication from Hon W. P. Murphy giving an'
opinion in relation to B. F. Whidbies claim for damages, was

112 THE UNION COLONY
read and ordered on file, and his charge of $10. for the same
ordered paid.
The following proposals for excavationg the Mill Power
Canal were read.
[p. 4] J. W. Orr. sec 1. 20 c pr Yd. Sec. 2. 24 c per Yard sec.
3. 24 c per Yd. Hauling Earth under 400 feet 8 c per Yd.
Hauling Earth over 400 feet 2 c for each additional 100 feet
Abbott & Eaton. Sees 1. 2. & 3 19 c per. Yard. Hauling
earth under 300 feet 5 c per Yd [Hauling earth] over 300 feet
1 c pr Yd. for each additional 100 ft.
C. M. Russell Sec 1. 19% c per Yd.
T. H. Abbott. Sec 2. 16 c per Yard. Moving earth under
300 feet 4 c per Yard. Hauling earth over 300 feet 1% c pr
Yd for each additional 100 feet.
M. Owens. Sec 1. 24 c pr Yd. for clay 30 c pr Yd for
Gravel. 50 c per Yd for Hardpan. 200 pr Yd for solid Rock.
Sec 2 24% c pr Yd for clay. 30 c pr Yd for Gravel 50 c pr Yd
for Hardpan. & 200 pr Yd for solid Rock. 16 c pr Yard for
hauling earth over 100 ft.
B. P. Harris Sec 1. 22 c pr Yd. Sec 2. 25. c pr Yd. Sec
3 25 c per Yd. Hauling earth under 400 feet 10 c pr Yd.
Hauling earth over 400 feet, 3 o for each additional 100 ft
J. S. Seeley Sec 1. 20 c per Yd. Sec 2. 21 c pr Yd.
Hauling earth over 100 ft & under 200 ft. 5 c per Yd. Haul
ing earth over 200 ft. 2 c per Yd for each additional 100 ft.
On motion the contract was awarded to Abbott & Eaton at
the prices above specified
The Board then adjourned W H Post Sec
[p. 5] Special Meeting July 10th, 1871.
Members present
N. C. Meeker Esq President
Trastees
David Boyd. E. Hollister
Mr. Boyd moved, That the lots on Spruce street, reserved
for the First Covenanters Church, and not taken by them, be
held for the Greeley Free Church.
Carried.

MINUTES 113
Mr. moved that the request of the Good
Templars, Odd Fellows and Grand Army of the Republic, for
a lot on which to build a hall be granted.
Carried
[p. 6] Regular Meeting July 11 — 1871
Present N. C. Meeker Esq President
Trastees.
E. Hollister J. C. Shattuck
Executive Council.
E. Rea. F. L. Childs, C. D. Farwell. G. W. Cooper.
The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap
proved. Mr. Hollister moved that as many copies of the First An
nual Report not needed by the Colony be sold to the Fountain
Colony for 5c each
Carried.
Mr. Shattuck moved That the Town Board be allowed to
locate on the lots reserved for a Town Hall, Deeds to be made
out, when improvements are made.
Carried.
Resolution by Mr. Boyd.
Resolved — 'That The Union Colony of Colorado, deed to
the Town of Greeley, all their Right, Title and interest in and
to the several Streets, Alleys, Avenues, lying within the Town
limits; Also Lincoln and Washington Parks, excepting and re
serving to the said "The Union Colony of Colorado", a right of
way in over and through said streets, alleys, avenues and Lin
coln & Washington Parks, for the purpose of distributing water
from the canals of the said Colony, for building the Mill Power
Canal, and for distributing surplus earth & gravel from said Mill
Power Canal, over the said streets, avenues, alleys & Lincoln &
Washington Parks. Said conveyance to contain the several re
stricting clauses contained in the Colony Deeds. Which was
adopted. [p. 7] The Committee to whom was referred the application of
Mr Graham to exchange a Forty a. fee simple in Sect. One for

114 THE UNION COLONY
a 20 a. in Sec. 15. reported favourably, and the application
was granted. The application of Geo W. Taylor, to exchange a Govern
ment 80 in sec 22, 6, 65 for an 80 in sec. 14. 6. 65 was granted.
Mr. Shattuck moved that the secretary be directed to at
tend to having, a proper map of the Colony lands within the
Town of Greeley, made and placed on file in the Recorders
office at Evans, and that the Mill Power Canal and Mill Dam
be indicated thereon,
Carried.
Mr. Boyd moved that an alteration in the course of the
Mill Power Canal thro. Block 3. and Olive St. be approved.
Carried.
The following bills were allowed and ordered paid
F. C. Avery surveys & maps $106.40
Denver Tribune advertising 35.00
E. Hollister Sundry bills Canal 3 &c 103.89
H. T. West Notary Public 7.60
C. H. Marsh Legal services 23.00
A. J. Wilber Canal No. 2, 126.95
Thos B Inman Engineers Corps 4.50
C W Sanborn lumber 36.72
J. Max Clerk Canal No 2 30.00
E. S. Nettleton Engineer 63.00
John Potter Engineers Corps 14 63
J. S. Titcomb Engineer 33 75
Jos Murray Canal No 2 5.00
[p. 8]
M. W. Lansing Janitor June $25.00
Watson & Von Gohren canvassing Co^ seat 7.00
W F. Thompson Lumber 146.48
W. H. Holliday & Co " 47.46
W. H. Post sec. & disburmnts 105.00
The Monthly Report of the Secretary was read and or
dered on file.
Mr. Shattuck moved that the President be authorized and
directed to proceed against Seth Ward, for damaging the Col
ony Fence on the East side of Town. Carried

MINUTES 115
[p. 9] Regular Meeting July 18. 1871.
Members present ,
N. 0- Meeker Esq. Prisedent
Trustees
J. C. Shattuck. Nelson Holmes David Boyd
Executive Council
J. G. Cooper F. L. Childs
Mr. Boyd moved That the secretary in making out deeds
for lands lying partly above and partly below the Ditch, No 3
be instructed to make the charge for enlarging Canal No. 3
at the rate of one dollar per acre
Which was carried.
A request of a committee of the Good Templars Odd Fel
lows, and G. A. R. for permission to exchange lots, was referred
back to said committee, to specify more particularly the size,
nature and class of building it was intended to put on said lot
The following bills were allowed and ordered paid
R. Burchill Glazing at Tabernacle $14.20
E. Nye Painting " " 32 50
Hall Wright & Co Carpenter bill " 24 60
N. C. Meeker. Printing and advertising 130.50
Mr. Boyd moved, That Wm. Foote Jr. be appointed as [p. 10]
agent of the Colony, in charge of the Vine St. Lateral.
Carried.
Mr. Boyd moved that all Water Rights for Rail Road and
Govt. 80s. be now put into the market for $150. each. Cash.
Carried The Board then adjourned W. H. Post Sec
[p. 11] Regular Meeting July 25th 1871.
Members present
N. C. Meeker Esq. President
N. Holmes. David Boyd. Trustees.
Executive Council
F. L. Childs. Evan Rea. J. G. Cooper.
The minutes of the meetings of July 11. 18. were read and
approved.

116 THE UNION COLONY
L. Hanna and G. W. Buell appeared before the Board in
relation to Lot 3, Block 105.
Laid over for a full Board.
Mr. Boyd moved to donate to the Town of Greeley for the
purpose of a Town Pound, Lot 7. in the NE%. NE14. See 6.
T 5 N. R 65 W. reserving to the Colony a right of way, fifty
feet in width on the West side of said lot for a street.
Carried.On Motion the application of the committee of the Good
Templars, G. A. R. & I. O. O. F. to exchange Lot 13 in Block
77 for 25 ft x 200 in the rear of Lots 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.
& 24 Block 36. was granted, and lot 13 in. Block 36. was or
dered sold for $200.
Adopted. The application of W. H. Garland to pay one half Cash, &
balance Jan 15 — ¦ 1873 for lots purchased at the auction sale,
was granted.
[p. 12] The application of L. B. Hanna L. B. Main & H.
Olds for an extension until Oct lst to make improvements &
obtain Deeds, was granted.
The application of H. C. Watson for Deeds was referred
back, for an explanation of the improvements.
The application of W. S. McElroy for Deeds was granted.
The following bills were allowed and ordered paid
W. N. Byers advertising $30.00
L. Hanna auctioneer (Refd to E. Hollister) 200.00
F. C. Avery maps 21.40
J. D. Buckleys Bill for Surveying &c was referred
to E. Hollister & E. S. Nettleton.
Mr. Childs Moved That J. G. Cooper be appointed to
collect the Water Tax for the present year, at a compensation
to be hereafter fixed Carried.
Mr Childs moved that Mr. Holmes be directed to build a
Bridge over the Mill Power Canal at Jackson street.
Mr. Holmes Moved That the entire charge of Canals No
2 and 3 be placed in the hands of Mr. La Grange
Which was carried
The Board then adjourned W. M. Post Secy.

FINANCIAL RECORDS

CASH BOOK.1

[p- 1] 1871.
January I
R. A. Cameron
To 200 copies Report @ $15 30 00
" 50 " Thin map @ $30 15 00
Paid " 20 " Thick " " $50 10 00

W. H. Post
To 50 copies Report 7 50
" 10 " Thin Map 3 00
" 10 " Thick " 5 00

Emerson West & Buckingham
Paid To one adv in Hist of Greeley 15 00

Wm. H Post
Paid To one adv in Hist of Greeley 25 00

E. C. Monk & Co
Paid To one adv in H of G 15 00

H Boettcher
Paid To one adv in Hist of Grely 15 00

F. M. Babcock
To one adv in Hist of G 15 00
1 In the colony safe at Greeley. The cash books of previous dates, if
such were kept, could not be found. 117

118 THE UNION COLONY

[p. 2] January

F. L. Childs
Dr
Cr
To 1 adv in H of G
15 00
W. F. Thompson
Paid To one adv in H of G 15 00
Russell Fisk & Co
To one adv in H of G f5 00
Flower & Cameron
Paid To one adv in H of G. 15 00
C. W. Sanborn
Paid To 1 adv in H of G 15 00
A. Z. Solomon
Paid To one Adv in H of G 15 00
Greeley Tribune
To 1 adv in H of G 25 00
By adv in Tribune
E. S. Nettleton & Co
Paid To 1 Adv in H of G 15 00
L Hanna (agent)
To 1 adv in H of G 15 00
[p. 3] January
Greeley Lyceum (Gurley)
To 6 nights use of Hall @ 1.50 9 00
Union Church Service (Cameron)
To 8 Days Use of Hall @ 1.50 12 00
" 5 Choir Meetings " 7 50
FINANCIAL RECORDS 119
Dr Or
Good Templars (Childs)
To 4 nights Use of Hall @ 1.50 6 00
" Festival & Chimney & Burner 45c 4 50

Band (Greeley Cornet Band) (Sanborn)
6 Rehearsals @ 1.50 9 00
2 Concerts @ $3 6 00

Cushman Concert
To two night 10 00

Christmas Tree (Sunday School)
Day & Evening (Mr J H Jones 6 00

Farmer's Club (Boyd)
To 2 nights @ 1.50 3 00

Dr C. Emerson
To Certificate No. 100 to — Thos Mimmack —
155 00

G S Hill
By Plowing Burlington Wagon Road 20 00

[p. 4] January 3d
D. P. R. Co (General Expense)
By Freight BiU for Bell 24 23

C Emerson Loan
By check No 22. Wells Lazo & Co— 77 10
" " " 23.DPRCo— 24 23

C Emerson Tras
To Receipt No 42 — Herbert Dixon 57 50

Henderson, Smith & Co (Ditch No 2).
To cash balance on bill Dec 23d 1871 100 39

120 THE UNION COLONY
4th Dr Cr
C Emerson treas
By Receipt No 43. F. G. Day. 80 00

W H Post
To 25 thin Maps @ $30 7 50

C. M. Smart
By Cash for Use of Colony Hall 5 00

[p. 5] Jany 5th.
F. G. Beagle & Co
By Cash on acct 75 00

Ditch No 2 S D Martin
To Cash on account 100 00

H Boettcher
To check No 2 on Treasurer 37 50

R Burchill
To check No 14 on Treasurer 1 00

Jany 9th
S. R Faris (Balance due on Certificate)
To check No 28 on Treasurer 75 00

C W Sanborn
To check No 5 — 9 10
" " " 11— Bridges— 60 77

[p. 6] Jany 9th
C. Emerson Treas Dr
To Receipt No. 44 — C Buckingham 85 00
" 45 AH Root 185 00

FINANCIAL RECORDS 121
10th
L Hanna Dr
To check No 29 on Contingent
Expense Fund 27 83
General Expenses

C. Emerson Treasr Dr
to receipt No. 46 R L. Kinneson
Ditch No. 3 fund 10 00
Colony Fund 75 00

History of Greeley
By cash

Cr
60 00

C Emerson

Dr

To balance to date

Contingent Ex Fund
To deposit by Sec to credit
Contingent Expense
" " " Ditch No. 2

122 36
60 00
75 00

Contingent Fund Cr
$1 $1 1.50 22.25
By checks 30 31 32 33

[p. 7]

11th

O Plumb
Dr
check No 10
12 80
Milton Herriek Cr
By Draft New Membership 1008 Certificate 155 00
12th
0 Emerson Treas
To report by Sec Ditch No 2 Fund 155 00
122 THE UNION COLONY
B. H Eaton Dr
To Draft on N York 200 00
" check No 35— Ditch No 2— 200 00

C Emerson (Ditch No 2 fund) Cr
by check No 35 200 00

W F Thompson (Histy of G ad) Cr
By Cash 0 15 00

W W Wilcox Dr
To check No 12 General account 9 50

C Emerson Treas
To Receipt No 47 D B Ranney 55 00
Ditch No 2 $50
" " " 5 80 00

[p. 8] 12th
Treasurer C. Emerson Dr
To receipt No. 48 J. L. Dunham
Ditch No 2. 75
" "3 5 80 00
" 49 E. L. Dunham
Water Rht 75
Ditch No 2 75
" " " 5 155 00

S. D. Martin
To Balance on Bill ord pd
Dec 27, Ditch No. 2 60 75

T. B Bishop Dr
To check No 10 (General Expense) 30 00

FINANCIAL RECORDS 123
C. Emerson Dr
To Receipt No 50 S. D. Martin
Ditch No 2 $50
" " 3 $ 5 55 00

13th
S Blodget (Ditch No 2 Fund) Dr
To check No. 36% certificate 75 00

J L White Dr
To check 37 (General Expense) Drawg
Map Grey [Greeley] 17 00

Dr C. Emerson (Ditch No 2) Dr
To certificate 1109— J W Sanborn 155 00
" Receipt No 51 Chas Winship
No 2— $50
" 3 $ 5 55 00

[p. 9] 14th
Dr C Emerson To
Certificate No 1010 (Ditch No 2) 150 00
" " 1011 " " " 155 00
" 1 (1012) " "
Balance 80 00

H H Boylen To
Check No 31 — School account 1 00

J L. White Dr
To Check No 37 (H of G Map) 17 00

124 THE UNION COLONY
Union Choir Dr
To use of Hall Jany 14th 1 50

L Hanna Dr
To check No 29 — (General Expense) 27 83

C Botcher Dr
To check No 27 (General Expense) 1 55

14
Dr C Emerson Dr
To certificate No 1013 155 00
" Receipt " 52 Ditch 2 100
"35 10500
" " " 53 " 2 25
" 3 7.50 32 50

W. Holbrook (Brighton Road) Cr
By check (Contingent Fund) 22 50

[p. 10] Jny 18th
M Owens (Ditch No 2) Dr

C Emerson Treas
To check No 38 12.19
" M. order No 1 75. 87.19
Cr
By check No 38 12 19

Money order Acc't Dr
To order No 1 M. Owensi —
Ditch No 2 75 00

FINANCIAL RECORDS 125
E. B. Annis Dr
To check No 39 (Gen Expense) 52 50

Emerson Cr
By check No 39 52 50

G W Stotts (Ditch No 2) Dr
To check No 40 21.30
" M.O. No 2 200. 221.30

C. Emerson Cr
By check No 40 21 30

Money Order Acct
To order No 2, G. W. Stotts,
Ditch No 2 200 00

[p. H]

| Jny 19th

W H McDonald

Dr

To Mny order No 3 (Ditch No 2)

90 00

Mony order acct

Dr
To order No 3 Ditch No 2 McDonald
90 00
" " " 4 " " 2 D P Witter
5000
C Emerson (Contingent Fund) Cr
By check No 41— (W B Woodruff) (Gen Ex) 100
" " " 42 Mr Morris (Gen Survey)
Sec 18 & 17 2 25
" " " 43 Mr Juckett " " 9 00
« « « 44 ]y[r McCarty " " 6 75
126 THE UNION COLONY
C Emerson (Ditch No 2.) Dr
To Certificate 1168 (DWG Root 155 00
Cr By check 45 (Witter, Ditch No 2) 25 00

D P Witter Dr
To order No 4 50
" check No 45 (Balance due on
certificate) 25 75 00

C Emerson Dr
To receipt No 54 Ditch No 2 25
" " 3 2.50 27 50

C Emerson

Cr

By check No 41, E. A. Nettleton
Diteh No 2
00 00
25 00
[By check No] 47 C L "
[Ditch No] 2
00 00
25 00
To certificate No 1169 Alice Hart
155 00
" Receipt " J S Carp
Ditch 2. 125
[Ditch] 3. 20
145.00
" [Receipt No.] 58
[Ditch] 4 7.50
[Ditch] 2 1.25
132 50
[p. 12] 20th
Money Order acct
Dr
To order No 5
50 00
a a a a
50 00
W H McDonald Dr
To My Order 3— (Ditch No 2) 90 00
FINANCIAL RECORDS 127
C Emerson Treas Dr
To certificate 1170, 71 72 73 74
75. 76, 77 1240 00
Ditch No 2 fund
" check 59. Ditoh No 3 2 50 No 2 $25 27 50

B H Eaton Cr
By Money Orders No 7, 8, 9, 10 2050 00
" check 27 39

My Order acct Dr
600 600 600 250
To orders No 7, 8, 9, 10
(Ditch No 2) 2050 00

C Emerson Treas

Dr.

To check 48— B H Eaton-

Ditch No 2. 13.80

13.57
27 39
23d
W H Post
Dr
To 10 Thin Maps
3 00
Cr
By check adv H of G
25 00
[p. 13] 23
C. Emerson Dr
To receipt No 55 (E.A. Nettleton)
No 2— 25
No 3 2.50 27 50
" " " 60 (G. W. McCarty)
128 THE UNION COLONY

Contingent

5

No 2

75

" 3
5
85 00
To Receipt No 61 J W Titcomb
Congnt
5
No 2
75
" 3
10
90 00
25
Dr
Flower & Cameron
Paid To 20 Thin Maps
6 00
26
Greeley Dram Assoc Cr
By Cash for Use of Hall Ja 28th & 27 9 00
C Emerson Treas
certificate Dr
To receipt No 1178 Ditch No 2 155 00
" Certificate " 1179 " " " 153 75
28
C Emerson Dr
To certificate No 1180 Ditch No 2 155 00
" Deposit by W E P C. Ex Fund 25 00
31
W E Pabor Cr
By Deposit 35 75
Contingent Fund Dr
To Deposit 35 75
FINANCIAL RECORDS 129
C Emerson Treas Dr
To Deposit by W E P 35 75

[p. 14] Jan 31st
C Emerson Treas Dr
To Receipt No 62 Contingent $5
No 3 5
" 2 50 60 00

Contingent Fund Cr
By Receipt No 62 5 00

Ditch No 2 Fund Cr
By Receipt No 62 50 00

Ditch No 3 Fund Cr
By Receipt No 62 5 00

C Emerson Cr
By check No 21 200 00

Ditch No 2 Dr
To check No 21— W L Weed 200 00

W E Pabor Sec Cr
By services to date 114 00

General Expense Dr
To Sundries as pr Secretarys Bill 34 50
6

130 THE UNION COLONY
[p. 15] Februay lst
W. E. Pabor, Sec Dr
To cash ret° D. P. R. R. overcharge 40
" " for use of Hall — Dramatic
Association 1.50

Mch 29 F & Cameron Dr
Paid 25 Thin Maps
[This completes this series of accounts.]

JOURNAL :

[Contents]
Index — pp. 1-68.
[Accounts]
Greeley Literary Association — p. 69.
Greeley Free Church — p. 70.
N. C. Meeker, President — p. 71.
R. A. Cameron, Supt. — p. 71.
H. T. West, Secretary — p. 71.
Ralph Meeker Secretary — p. 72.
Gerow (Asst Treasurer) — p. 72.
D. Boyd (Water Commissioner) — p. 72.
F. M. Babcock Secretary — p. 73.
E. B. Annis (Asst Secretary) — p. 73.
Congregational Church — p. 74.
Wm E. Pabor, Secretary — p. 75.
J. H. Birdsall— p. 76.
Baptist Church — p. 77.
Presbyterian Church — p. 78.
Cost of Land — pp. 79-80.
Young Mens Social Clut> — p. 82.
Survey of Outlying Lands — pp. 83-84.
1 In the colony safe at Greeley.

FINANCIAL RECORDS 131

Town Improvements — pp. 87-89.
Grand Army of the Republic; — p. 96.
Ditch No 3— pp. 97.-100.
General Expense — pp. 101-111.
Ditch No 2— pp. 121-125.
Trees— p. 129.
M. E. Church— p. 130.
Schools— p. 131.
Town Hall— p. 135.
Town of Greeley — p. 137.
Annual Report — p. 139.
Main Street Grading — p. 143.
Cemetery — p. 145.
Colony Fence — pp. 149-151.
Bridge, Jackson street — p. 155.
Contingent Expense Fund — pp. 161-163.
Ditch Number Two Fund— pp. 171-182.
Ditch Number Three Fund — pp. 185-194.
Colony Fence Fund — pp. 199-200.
Main Street Bridge — p. 207.
Island Grove Park— p. 208.
Charles Emerson Treasurer — pp. 215-230.
Money Order Account — p. 231.
J. J. Armstrong — p. 232.
Jerry Quigley — p. 232.
Joseph Moore — p. 232.
Ferguson & Atkinson — p. 232.
E. Hollister— p. 233.
Fletcher, Davis & Gelder— p. 234.
3 personal accounts — p. 234.
S. M. McDermid— p. 235.
4 personal accounts, p. 235.
E. Hollister— p. 236.
Abbott & Eaton— p. 249.
Burlington Wagon Road — p. 251.
Account of Certificates Redeemed — pp. 253-254.
Pile Driver Account — p. 260.
Secretary— pp. 301-308, 318-320.

132

THE UNION COLONY

1 personal account, p. 309.
Duncan Crawford — pp. 313-314.
N. C. Roe— p. 317.
Greeley Lyceum — p. 331.
Union Church — p. 335.
Good Templars— p. 339.
Farmer's Club — p. 343.
S. H. Birdsall— p. 349.
Mill Canal— pp. 353-355.
Horace Greeley — pp. 358-359.
Charles Emerson Treasurer — pp. 370-391.
Special Colony Fence Fund — pp. 456-457, 458.
Water Tax, Canal No 2 for Repairs and Superintendance — pp.
464-466.
Canal No. 2, Enlargement — pp 470-476.
[All pages in this book not numbered are blank.]

2000 00
2000 00
1600 00
2800 00
3788 00
3200 00
930 00
1269 80
1200 00
31058 58
9100
34 40
284 50
2000 00
80 00
2000 00
720 00
53 75

[p. 79]
1870

[Excerpts from the Journal]
Cost of Land.

April 6

Paid M. L. Smith

7 a

tta

D. Barnes (Quigley)
E. Williams

aa 9

aa a

J. Quigley
G. W. Phelps
Jno Gates

a
a

a
a

L. Dugal — Pre-emption Filings
D. Barnes

a

a

J. B. Moffat Jr

13

tt

Jno Evans, Trustee

a

a

D. Witter, Legal Services

20 a

29

H. B. Tuttie "
D. H. Williams (McLaughlin)
R. Williams
J. Williams
Moyer, Recording Deeds

W.
A. F.

$55110 03

FINANCIAL RECORDS

133

May 10 Paid C. D. Farwell
23 " J. C. Higley

June 15 " D. Witter — Homestead fees
28 " W. B Plato— Recording Deeds

April 12 Bartels, Bartels & Remick
July 20 Pre Emption Filings
30 Homestead Fees

Aug 29 G. W. Phelps—
" Field and Wheeler

Sept 9 Higley Services
Oct 11 Land Fees
Nov. 11
Dec 30 Land Tax

960 00
1600 00

$ 2560 00

44 00
8 65

$

52 65

$ 4160 00

308 57
16 00

$

324 57

400 00
2000 00

$2400 00

$

25 00

$

9 30

$

19 40

$

65412

[p. 80]

1871

April 5
D P R & T O
128 50
[p. 87] [1870] Town Improvements
April 20
G. Tritch Survey
2 75
29
F. Dubois "
26 00
a
A. B. Saleman "
67 00
30
J. F. Sanborn "
7 50
a
GeorgePerkins "
16 00
a
George Swan "
3 00
a
L. Whipple "
2 50
a
C. Emerson "
8 75
it
C. E. Dean "
70 00
$ 203 50
134

THE UNION COLONY

May

2

H. Chamberlain "

2 00

it

C. A. Dean

102 50

6

J. W. Benson

7 00

7

Wm McAllister

16 58

n

George Swan

3 75

n

J. W. Benson

6 00

9

Thayer — Field Notes —

5 50

16

H. S. Webster

5 00

a

F. Lawton Jr

5 00

21

F. C. Avery

25 00

a

Avery & Dunning

28 50

a

Pay Roll of date

140 13

a

E. S. Nettleton

77 00

28

tt tt a

42 00

n

it a a

84 99

n

C. E. Dean

5 00

tt

Pay Roll of date

3 00

6

J. W. Benson, Park Well

30 00

28

Townsend & Swan, " "

7 00

tt

Wm McAlister — Street Plowing

7 50

tt

L. Whipple

6 12

30

L. Von Gohren— "

43 75

tt

Jno Clark — Hotel de Comfort Well.

2100

$674 32

June 8

Bishop & Sebra Town Ditch

4175

a

T. B. Bishop

8 00

12

B. S. La Grange, Oak St Ditoh Carried over

7 50

$57 25

[p. 88]

June 15

Amt brought over

57 25

n

J. F. Sanborn

5 00

a

A. J. Wilbur & Assistants — Town Ditch

292 54

a

L. Whipple

1100

a

Eli Hall

15 00

tt

Wm McAlister — Street Plowing

3 75

FINANCIAL RECORDS 135
June 15 David Boyd & Assistants
" W. F. Thompson — Lumber town ditch
20 E. T. Nichols— " " "
" W. H. McDonald Survey Oak St "
" H. Sayers work on flume
" James Orr Plowing Streets
" L. Whipple & Assts — on flume
" D. Boyd & " Town Ditch
" M. McCarty Oak St
" E. Grossman
" B. S. La Grange

July 2 R. Fisk, Lumber for flume
" D. D. Martin, Town Diteh
" N. M. Hall,
" Eli Hall & Assts
" W. F. Thompson Lumber for Flumes
" W. L. Weed
" D. Boyd & Assts
25 J. Inman — Bridge Building
" D. Boyd— Town Ditch
" J. M. Colburn, Work on trees
" N. M. Hall, " " "
" D. P. R R Lumber & Freight for diteh
2 J. M. Labar — Island Bridge
" T. D. Bishop — Use of Plow & Scrapers

Aug 8 S. D. Martin — Hauling Trees
15 O. Eaton Park Survey
18 G. H. Elliott Town Bridges

80 62

23115

56 32

12 00

1125

2190

165 14

276 12

3 75

8 75

335 37

$ 1637 25

50 00

3 00

10 00

70 00

363 56

5 25

31012

53 99

98 81

23 62

4 00

67 30

78 00

20 00

$ 1157 65

100

125 30

8 50

$ 134 80

136 THE UNION COLONY

[p. 89]

Sept 20

To F. Moyer — 'Recording Town Plat

3195

1871

April 29
" H. 0. Watson Engineers Asst.
2 25
a a
" Wm Inman
2 25
it it
" E. S. Nettleton survey
77.75
tt it
'•' John S. Titcomb
25 00
May 4
" F. C. Avery maps &c
33 00
" 16
" E. S. Nettleton Engineer
24 50
June 12
a it tt it a
49 00
" 15
" F. C. Avery "
130 00
a a
" J. S. Titcomb
7 50
" . 22
" F. C. Avery
4132
July 14
" Thos B. Inman " asst
2.25
a tt
" J. S. Titcomb Engineer
5.00
" 20
" F. C. Avery Survey & map
66.50
[p. ioi]
General Expense.
1870
January
18 Printing
18 46
" Traveling Expenses of Executive Comm
4199
24 Expense of Trip to Washington
28 00
31 " Locating Committee
400 00
Printing &c
Traveling Expenses Ex Committee
PrintingHelp to Secretary
Expenses Locating Committee
$
458 45
Febry 18
$
50 00
March 17 na
23
42 00
17 50
15 50
500 00
$
575 00
FINANCIAL RECORDS

137

April 13 Check Book
20 Hotel Bill at Denver
" Sundries per Cameron's Bill
23 Thorn's Hotel Bill
25 N. C. M— Cash
a tt a tt tt
" Blank Book
" Sundries pr West's Bill
" Telegraphing
30 A. Z. Soloman
13 Carriage Horse
" Saddle Horse
20 Tent
" Wagon
25 Lumber for Barracks
26 Moving Office Building
30 Work on Barracks. Sundry Bills

May

[p. 102]
May 21
28

3031 12

2 00
37 50
44 19
42 86
2 65
40 00
100
4140 3 61
42 00
250 00
150 00
5 00
130 00
110 40
40 00
39 00

$ 981 61

2

Lumber & Work on Barracks

112 60

12

C. H. Chappell— Three Tents

144 00

it

Hotel de Comfort

1050 00

17

Freight on " " "

75 00

IS

" balance "

125 00

21

Pay Roll— Work "

9175

n

Water closet &c

5 25

Amount carried over $ 1603 60
Amount brought over $ 1603 60
Work on Hotel de Comfort 105 00
T. A. Kent's Bill of Coal 110 25
L. Whipple— Putting up Tents — 1 75
W. F. Thompson. Lumber for H de C. 9 42
Freight on Tents and Coal 18 03
Circulars and Expenses 187 46
Drawing Deed 14 50

138 THE UNION COLONY

May 12

Adv in Tribune

75 00

31

Expenses Locating Comm

150 00

2

Thorn's Hotel Bill

42 28

tt

E. B. Lewis

12 00

6

Thorn's Hotel Bill

13 00

it

E. P. House— Hay

5 00

7

J. W. Benson

15 50

17

Stamps & Lock

2 60

18

Care of Horses

8 00

a

Printing

42 00

a

" & Expense

35 00

21

J. W. Benson

28 00

26

H. Clark — Care of Horses —

3 00

28

Postage Stamps

4 00

n

Sundries

4 50

$ 2489 89

June 3

Stationery & Sundries

3 45

9

Sundries

4 65

a

Telegram

150

11

Discount on Draft

5 00

15

L. Whipple

6 69

tt

A. B. Saloman

48 23

tt

G. W. Perkins

5 62

a

R. C. Kinneson — Hauling Hay —

6 50

it

E. C. Monk oats &c

12 92

17

Express on Colony Book

5 25

23

Oil paper for copy "

100

25

Hay and Hauling

18 00

2

Hauling hay Amt carried up

150

$ 120 31

[p. 103]

June 2
Amt brought forward
120 31
4
M. S. Taylor— (School Acct)
00 00
11
Coil of Rope
16 30
a
L. S. Allen — Hotel de Comfort
18 53
FINANCIAL RECORDS 139
June 15 L. Whipple — Hotel de Comfort 19 30
" Woodworth & Haddix— " " " 42 58
" Russell Fisk 15 58
" W. F. Thompson, H de C. 25 47
20 James Inman, " " " 10 50
" Geo Swan Putting up tents 1 75
25 Long & Alphonse Bunks 28 60
" Russell Fisk 21 37

July

Discount on Draft

$ 320 29

1

2 50

it

Postage Stamps

5 00

2

Monk & Jones — Oats &e

10 19

a

Telegrams (H.G.)

1150

><

O. Plumb Oats &e

4 30

tt

L. Von Gobren Hay

4 00

25

George Hanna "

23 00

a

Woodworth & Haddix — Hardware

16 24

it

Long and Alphonse — Lumber Bills —

82 07

a

Monk & Jones — Sundries

49 16

it

Herding Stock

45 00

a

W. L. Weed — office work —

8 12

a

Telegrams

415

a

Stamps

3 00

a

R. Burchill — Glazing

4 80

25

O. Plumb — oats

23 74

a

E Rea. Blacksmith work

2 00

9

Mending Tents

3 37

25

Plotting maps

20 00

20

R. Fisk Ex Ex Comm

36 50

28

W. F. Thompson — Lumber

32 24

29

James & Butler — Deeds —

15 17

a

Seal & Press

10 00

a

Fezer's Horse Bill

3 50

$ 419 95

140

THE UNION COLONY

[p. 104]

July 9

Cash from N. C. M.

a

Wagon & Harness sold

11

Cash for boxes

22

" " sundries

tt

" Discount returned

n

a a a

a

" Filing returned

a

" Rogerson

Cr
47 65
116 00
5 95
10 50
5 00
2 50
3 00
16 00

5 Cash for Colony Horse

$

206 60

August 1

155 00

" " ." tents
50 75
" " " one Bench
3 37
Papers sold
$
209 12
May 5
50
12
Tent Poles
125
a
Cash from N. Paul
2 35
24
" for hay sold
2 00
25
" " Rope, Coal, Lumber
34 83
30
" " Lumber
2 00
" " Tree Boxes
$
42 93
June 2
12 35
4
" " Coal
18 50
7
Old Boarding House Sold Benson
162 30
it
Lumber
16 11
13
House sold Hanna
60 00
18
Cash for coal
415
21
Lumber
5 40
Hollister & McDivit — 4 Scrapers
J. Max Clark — one Scraper
$
278 81
Sept 5
38 00
Nov 9
9 50
FINANCIAL RECORDS 141
[p. 105]
August 7 F. G. Percival — labor 6 30
22 W. E. Pabor — stationery 39 64
27 D. P. R R 50
29 George Pybum Platting & Tracing 30 00
" R Blum — work — 1 50

Sept

Oct

Nov

$

77 94

3

D. P. R Rd Scrapers

11100

5

J. Clark— Work on Well

100
9
F. M. Babcock — Sundries
5 00
13
D. P. R W. Scrapers
55 84
8
J. C. Higley Horse Hire
2 50
30
O Plumb Oats &c
10 94
a
Expense R. R. Co to Denver
15 00
Herding Stock
$
20128
21
213 00
10
A. H. Root — Dinner to Inspectors
election
2 00
11
Stamps &c
6 13
26
Greeley Coal Co
13 18
27
Byers & Daily — Printing
7 20
28
W. F. Thompson Lumber
3 75
W. H. Post— Stationery
$'
245 26
16
20 85
22
R. A. C. Ex to Chicago
30 50
a
N. C. M. " " "
43 00
15
W. H. McDonald. Survey Boulder Road
45 00
21
E. C. Monk Expense
a
30 00
30
B. S. Lagrange " "
a
20 00
a
L. Bedell. Work on Flume
125
5
J. C. Higley. Horse Hire H. G.
3 00
8
L. Whipple— Work—
6 77
a
J. Beatham Hauling
135
a
J J Dunacan Work
8 00
14
F. L. Childs Bread
4 00
$
213 72
142 THE UNION COLONY
Dec 15 S. F. French office Work 6 15
18 Flower & Cameron Oil &o 14 40
17 Stamps 3 00

Amount carried over

$

23 53

[p. 106]

1870
Dec 16
Amt brought
over
23 53
17
N. Holmes — Painting Office
6 00
a
S. Spencer — privy work
7 50
19
A. Wait Well Rope &c
2 35
21
Bell
9180
23
A. J. Wilber — Work on Colony office
15 67
a
Oscar Eaton— " "
16 30
27
R. Fisk— Coal, Colony
C. W. Sanborn — Lumber
6 50
$
169 65
Dec 31
60 77
a
T B Bishop — Moving Colony Office
30 00
it
O Plumb — Sundries
12 80
a
R. Burchill Glazing Colony Hall
100
tt
C W Sanborn Lumber
9 10
it
H Boettcher Hardware
36 62
$
150 29
1871
January 4
: Denver Pacific Rail Way. Freight
on bell
24 23
" 14 L. Hanna—
¦27 83
" " C. Boettcher
155
" 3]
I M. W. Lansing' — Services —
12 40
$
66 01
it
Feby 1 R. A. Cameron. Expense at Denver 4 75
N.Holmes. " " " 4 75
G. W. Perkins chairs 11 75
W E Pabor Stamps &c 34 50
FINANCIAL RECORDS

143

Feby 1 A. J. Wilber Reading Room 4 10
" J. C. Higley Carriage Hire 3 00
" C. R. Welsh chairs 4 50
" M W Lansing. Services — see Jany Acct 00 00
" L. Whipple Bell Tower 94 57
15 E W & B. Stamps &c 39 00
" W. H Post Stationery 13 20
" J. S. Titcomb Bridge Survey 2 00

J L White (Part Bill)
Wm E Pabor

$ 216 12

[p. 107]
March 4 a

40 00
62 75

a

E. Rea

2 95

a

C W Sanborn

24 35

ita

C W Sanborn (Tabernacle)
W M Lansing (Part Bill

13146 10 00

22

Flower & Cameron

92 00

2531

R. Burchill — Glazing
F L Childs Tabernacle

100
7 00

tt ait

L AVhipple '
T H Morgan
E B Annis '

119 37
48 75
55 62

a

W R Norcross '

59 00

a

L W Condit '

63 00
a
a
W F Thompson '
H B Tuttie
147 67
15 05
aa
C S Brockway '
H Boettcher '
43 75
7 74
a
W E Pabor '
125 25
ti
C R Welsh Tabernacle
8410
a
M W Lansing
9 40
$ 1150 21
April 15 F. C. Avery (Maps &c)
" R A. Cameron (Tabernacle)
" Flower & Cameron (Sundries
46 00
28 00
39 80
144 THE UNION COLONY
April 15 H B Tuttie (Rev Stamps) 10 00
" J. C. Higley (Horse Hire) 3 00
24 " L. Whipple &c 18 55
27 " N. C. Meeker Printing & adv. 198 50
" " N. R. Allen Asst. Sec 45.00
29 "Hollister & Savage [Gavage?] 76.99
" " J. H. Foster Sorting Trees &c 6.00
" " L. W. Condit Tabernacle 3.00
" " M. W. Lansing Janitor 40.00
Amt. forward 514 84
Dr.
Pd R. Stephens (Tabernacle) Chk 213 30 00
" W. E. Pabor Services &c 153 90
" W. H. Post Stationery &c disburse
ments, 34 65
" F. L. Childs Examining Applications 1.75
" W. H. Post Secy " 45.00
" C. W. Sanborn Lumber Coal &c 3 85
" " " " " " " Tabernacle 38 58
" " " " Emerson W. & Buckingham 125.00
a u a a E w Gurley Takg Census 20.00
" 25 " " N. C. Meeker McDonald suit 84.00
" 25 " " " " " Costs " " 53.70
" " " " F. B. Hackett Counsel " " 10.00
" " " " C. H. Marsh " " " 30.00
June 1 " " M. W. Lansing Janitor 40.00
a a a a L. Whipple 6.00
a a a a w E Pabor ackiat — 13.75
" " " " N. M Boynton Meals 5.00
" Lot 17 Block Cr 102.50
" W. H. Post 88.65
" Chicago Tribune adv. Sale of lots 17.23
" C. W. Sanborn Wheelbarrows 13.50
" Geo. Knapp & Co adv sale lands. 10.40
" C. B. Gipson Locating Agt. 100.00
" F. L Childs Justice. Constables and
witnesses fees in McDonald Suit 25.75

[p. 108]

Apl

29

May

4

a

a

a

a

a

13

tt

16

a

10

a

12

a

15

a

n

a

21

a

22

FINANCIAL RECORDS

145

July

13
14

19

" 20
[p. 109]
Julv 20

Pd Judge W. P. Murphy Whidbies claim 10.00
" Woodbury & Walker adv. sale of lots 35.00
" C. H. Marsh Legal services 23.00
" W. H. Post Sec & Disbursements 105.00
" L. Van Gohren Canvassing 7.00
" M. W. Lansing Janitor June 25.00
" H. T. West Notary 7.60
" J. F. Thompson Lumber 7.41
" W. H. Post returned to I Canfield 4.50
" N. C. Meeker Printing & adv 130.50
" Hall Wright & Co Repairs
Tabernacle
" E. Nye Painting [Tabernacle]

Paid.

R. Burchill Glazing Tabernacle
" W. N. Byers Int. Contracts D. P.
26 " L. Hanna Auctioneer Sale of Lots
" " F. C. Avery Maps Colony land
" W. N. Byers adv. Sale of land
[This account continued to August 7, 1872, p.

R.

24.60
32.50
Dr. 14.2028.80 21.40
30.00

HI]

LEDGER1
[p. 1]
Union Colony
1870
Oct 11 By Cash
1
2425 76
a 24 " "
2
7 00
" 25 " "
3
207 75
Nov 2 " ."
7
252 50
[p. 9]
it fj a a
10
1637 50
1870
N.
C. Meeker (Pre's)
January
To Cash
125 00 Jan By Service
125 00
March
,i
tt
275 00 Mch " "
275 00
May
a
..
280 00 May " "
$680 00
280 00
$680 00
i In the colony safe at Greeley.
146

THE UNION COLONY

R. A. Cameron, Supt

June To Cash
July " "
Aug " "

49 76
268 24
245 00

June By Services
July "
Aug "

143 00
175 00
245 00

$563 00

$563 00

H. T. West, Secretary.
June To Cash $265 00 June By Service 265 00
July " " 180 00 July " " 180 00

$445 00

$445 00

Gerow, Asst Treas

1870

May To Cash
100 00 Jany By Services
25 00
Feby "
25 00
Mch "
25 00
Apl "
25 00
100 00
100 00
D. Boyd (Water Commr)
1870
August To Cash
76 00 August By Services
76 00
[p- io]
F.
M. Babcock, Secretary
1870
Dr
Cr
August
To Cash
81 00 August By
Services
8100
Septr
a a
81 00 Sept "
a
8100
October
it a
78 00 Octr "
a
78 00
November
it a
81 00 Novr
a
8100
December
tt it
78 00 Deer
tt
78 00
$399 00
$399 00
E.
B. Annis, Asst Secy
FINANCIAL RECORDS

147

1870 December To Cash
1870 January To Cash
February " "
March ' " "
April " "
May " "

90 00 Deer By services
Ralph Meeker (Secy)

90 00

25 00 January
25 00 February
25 00 Mch
50 00 Apl
150 00 May

By Services 25 00
" " 25 00
75 00
" " 50 00
" 100 00

$275 00

$275 00

[p. 11]
1870
Oct 11 To Union Colony
« j^ « « <t
a 25 "
Nov 2 "

Cash 1870
1 2425 76 Oct 11 By C. Emerson Treas 1 2425 76
2 7 00 " 14 " " " "2 7 00
3 207 75 " 25 " " " " 4 207 75
7 252 50 Nov 2 " " " " 7 252 50

10 1637 50

10 1637 50

[p. 13] Cost of Land
1870
April To Cash Payments 55110 03
" " " 4160 00
May " " " 2560 00
June " " " 52 65
July " " " 324 57
August " " " 2400 00
Septr " " " 25 00
October " " " 9 30
November " " " 19 40
December " " " 65412

1871

$65315 07

To amt brought down
$ 65315 07

By amt
carried down

65315 07

$65315 07

148

THE UNION COLONY

[p. 15] Survey of Outlying Lands

May Expense 240 00

Brought down

1930 35

June " 1036 75

July " 653 60

$1930 35
$1930 35
1871
January To expense brought
down 1930 35
^' Town Improvements
April To Expense 203 50
Expense brought down
May " " 674 32
3807 52
June " " 1637 25
July " " 1157 65
August " " 134 80
18Y! $3807 52
$3807 52
To expense brought down
3807 52
[p. 21] Charles Emerson Treas.
1870 1870
Oct 11 To Cash 1 2425 76 Oct 11 ]
5y M. Owens
1 24167
" 14 " " 2 7 00 " 12
" S. Spencer
2 108 25
" 25 " " 4 207 75 " 20
" Expense
2 44
Nov 2 " " 7 252 50 " 20
" F. M. Babcock Secy
3 93 43
" 7 " " 10 1637 50 " 21
" Expense
" 31 95
" 25
" J. H. Pinkerton
4 75
" 26
" J. R. Thacker
" 266 10
" 27
" Expense
5 5 75
" 28
ct tt
" 3 75
" 29
H 11
" 10 94
" "
ft tt
" 37 41
" 31
tt tt
" 18 85
Nov 2
" M. Owens
6 107 08
It tt
" Clark Wadlin & Co
" 300 10
tt ti
" Expense
" 88 00
tt it
" F. M. Babcock Secy
7 15
tt tt
" J. H. Pinkerton
8 979 40
" 3
" Expense
" 800 00
tt tt
" Hollister & McDivitt
" 58 46
tf tt
" Solon D Martin
9 16136
tt tt
" Expense
" 13 18
" 4
tt a
" 135
tt tt
tt tt
" 8
tt tt
tt tt
10 8 25
" 5
tt tt
" 3
FINANCIAL RECORDS

149

[p. 27]

Michael Owens

1870

1870
Oct 11 To C
. Emerson Treae
1 24167
Oct 11 By Expense
1
24167
Nov 2 '
tt a
6 107 08
Nov 2 "
6
107 08
Dec 3 '
tt tt
130 56
Dec 3 "
130 56
Jany 18 71
tt tt
87 19
Jany 18 "
87 19
[p. 29]
Expense
1870
1870
Oct. 11 To M
Owens
1 241 67
Oct 11 By Ditch No 2
. 2
24167
" 12 "
S.
Spencer
2 108 25
« 12 «
1 2
108 25
" 20 "
c.
Emerson Treas
2 44
„ 25 «
' 4
75 00
" 20 "
F. M. Babcock Secy
3 93 43
„ 26 ..
' 5
266 10
" 21 "
C.
Emerson Treas
3 3195
Nov 2 "
' 6
107 08
" 25 "
J.
H. Pinkerton
4 75
tt (( it It t
t tt
300 10
" 26 "
J.
R. Thaeker
5 266 10
tt It it tt f
• 8
979 40
" 27 "
C.
Emerson Treas
5 5 75
„ 3 «
' 9
58 46
" 28 "
tt
tt a
5 3 75
It tt tt tt t
1 tt
16136
" 29 "
tt
tt tt
5 10 94
if tt tt
tl
tt a
5 37 41
" 31 "
tt
a <t
5 18 85
Nov 2 To M.
Owens
6 107 08
a a tt
Clark Wadlin Co
" 300 10
tt it it
C.
Emerson Treas
" 88
a tt ft
F.
M. Babcock Secy " 15 00
ti f( ft
J.
H. Pinkerton
8 979 40
il it it
C.
Emerson Treas
" 800
it ti tt
Hollister & McDivitt " 58 46
it it tt
Solon D. Martin
9 16136
tt tt tt
C.
Emerson Treas
9 13 18
« 4 «
tt
et tt
" 135
it tt tt
a
tt it
" 8
ti tt it
n
tt tt
10 8 25
" 5 "
tt
tt tt
" 3
Ditch No 3.
[p. 31]
May To Expense 97 2788 55 By Ex carried down
6,333 92
June '
" 3365 90
Aug '
a it
17 00
Sept <
a tt
10 00
Nov <
a it
38 25
Dec '
" " 114 22
1871
$6333 92
To Expense brought down 6.333 92
$ 6.333 92
150

THE UNION COLONY

[p- 41.]

Ditch No 2.

1870

Oct 11 To

Expense 2 241 67

a 12 a

" 2 108 25

" 25 "

" 4 75

" 26 "

" 5 266 10

Nov 2 "

" 6 107 08

ii a a

" " 30010

a it tt

8 979 40

3 "

" 9 58 46

a a a

" " 161 36

[p. 45] Stephen Spencer
1870 1870
Oct 12 To C. Emerson Treas 2 108 25 Oct 12 By Expense

2 108 25

[p. 47] J. R Thacker
1870 1870
Oct 26 To C. Emerson Treas 4 266 10 Oct 26 By Expense

5 266 10

[p. 49] F. M. Babcock Secy.
1870 1870
Oct 20 To C. Emerson Treas 3 93 43 Oct 20 By Expense
Nov 2 " " " " 7 15 Nov 2 " "

3 93 43
7 15

[p. 51] J. H. Pinkerton
1870 1870
Oct 25 To C. Emerson Treas 4 75 00 Oct 25 By Expense

Nov 2

8 979 40 Nov 2

4 75
8 979 40

[p. 53] Clark Wadlin & Co
1870 1870
Nov 2 To C. Emerson Treas 6 300 10 Nov 2 By Expense
[p. 55] Hollister & McDivitt
1870 1870
Nov 3 To C. Emerson Treas 8 58 46 Nov 3 By Expense
[p. 57] Solon D. Martin
1870 1870
Nov 3 To C. Emerson Treas 9 161 36 Nov 3 By Expense

Dec 3 " "
" 19 " "
Mch 6 1871 "

45 62 Dec 3 "
160 75 " " " "
91 92 Mch 6th 71

6 30010

8 58 46

9 161 36
45 62
160 75
9192

FINANCIAL RECORDS

151

[p- 71] General Expense
1870
January To Payments 458 45 May

FebruaryMarch
April MayJuneJuly
August SeptemberOctober
November
December

50 00 June
575 00 July
981 61 August
2489 89 Septr
320 29

Novr
419 95 Deer Carried down
77 94
20128245 26
213 72
319 94

By Cash Sales 42 93
it a a 278 81
" " " 206 60
" " " 209 12
" " " 38 00
" " 784.36 9 50
5568 37

1871

$6353 33 $6353 33

Brought Down

5568 37

[p. 75]
1870

Ditch No 2.

July To Expense 529 42 By Amt carried down 8.767 34
August " " 974 18
Septr " " 88 10
October " " 1588 39

November "

a

1620 94

December "

tt

3966 31

$8767 34
1871
January To Expense
brought down 8767 34
To Expense 2900 43

$8767 34

152

THE UNION COLONY

[p. 79]

Trees

Dr

Cr

May

To

Expense 288 75 June By Cash

75

June

" 1082 85 August " "

50 90

July

" 119 30
August
2 25
October
" 5 75 By Balance carried
November
" 16 50 down
1389 50
$1515 40
$1,515 40
1871
To Ex brought down
1.389 50
[p. 81]
Schools
1870
Dr
June
To
Expense 372 82
July
a
" 25 25
Octr
a
19 25
Novr
a
" 4 50 By Balance carried
Deer
a
" 130 55 down
552 37
$552 37
$552 37
1871
To Balance brought
do
wn
$552 37
[p. 85]
Town Hall
1870
Dr
Cr
June
To
Expense 800 00 By Balance, carried
July
a
" 900 00 down
2703 49
August
it
" 60 19
Novembei
«
" 904 35
December
a
" 38 95
$2703 49
1871
January 1 To Expense
brought down 2703 49
31 To Expense 30 00
January By Cash
$2703 49
14 00
FINANCIAL RECORDS 153
[P- 87] Annual Report
1870 Br Cr
December To Expense 944 50 Deer By Cash receipts 180 00
" Balance car-
down 764 50

$ 944 50 944 50
1871
Jany 1 To Balance January By Cash
brought down 764 50 Receipts 151 75
" 31 To Expense 103 20
[P- 89] Main Street Grading
1870 Dr Cr
July To Expense $583 39 By Amt carried down 583 39
1871 To Ex carried down 583 39
[p- 91] Cemetery
1870 Dr Cr
Deer To Expense 20 25 Deer By amount car
ried down 20 25
1871 To Amt brought
down 20 25
[p. 93] Ditch No three Fund
1871 January To deposits 100 00
[p. 95] Ditch Number Two Fund
1871 Dr Cr
January To deposits 3938 75 January By checks 771 63

154

THE UNION COLONY

STATEMENT OF LANDS SOLD AT AUCTION BY
THE UNION COLONY OF COLORADO,1
July 10th, 1871

[p-1]

Eli Hall

Cash.

Lot 13 Block 19.

$56.00

a 9 tt 79

162.00

$218.00

10% Cash

21.80

$196.20

Asst enlarging Canal No 3.

5.00

Educational fund

$196.20

General "

5.00

$201.20

Receipt No. 521

[p. 2] Jane Sarah Cran
Lot 3 Blk. 1.
30.00
a 6 t
t a
37.00
« 8 '
i a
67.00
« 2 '
' 2.
25.00
« 4 <
' 3
91.00
" 4 '
' 19
50.00
" 5 '
i tt
49.00
" 6 '
< it
50.00
« 7 '
l IS
42.00
"10 '
I ti
45.00
"11 '
t (I
50.00
$201.20
Cash.
1 On the title page. In the colony safe at Greeley. Though but thir
teen pages of this book are reproduced here, the remaining pages add
nothing essential to an understanding of the financial methods of the
colony.
FINANCIAL RECORDS

155

Lot 12 Blk. 19

53.00

" 16 " "

76.00

" 6 " 22

43.00

u fr ii u

25.00

" 4 " 82

78.00

" 1 "100

51.00

" 2 " "

45.00

" 3 " "

33.00

Amt forward
[p. 3] Amt forward $940.
Lot 5 S E % N E % 5-5-65 167.00

Nwy4.

S E % 8.5-65

75.00

10% Cash

1182.00 118.20

940.00

1063.80
Assts Canal No. 3. 52.50
Stamps & Acknowledgements 1.75

Balance due

Educational Fund

643.50

General
Fund
474.55
1118.05
Receipt No.
550
[p. 4]
Ira Canfield
Lot 1 Block 22
$57.00
" 2 '
1 a
50.00
"25 '
' 39
79.00
"30 <
' 42
56.00
"20 <
' 62
80.00
"21 <
1 a
80.00
"24 '
1 a
' 114
130.00 160.00
" 4 '
' 2
28.00
$1118.05
Cash
156

THE UNION COLONY

Lot 5 Block 2 27.00
" 4 " 92 236.00
" 4 " 172 38.00
" 5 " " 33.00
W i/2 iN E % N E % 3.5.65. 65.00
E i/2 N W % N E % " " " 41.00
E % S.E % N E % "" " 30.00
E % N.E % S E % "" " 70.00
E i/2 S E %.S E V4 "" " 100.00

[p. 5]

Amt forward 1360.00

20 acres
tt u

1360.00

Lot.4. N W % N W % 15-5-65 40.00

a
a
a
ittt

3 N E 14 S E % "
4

a it
tt a u

56.00 66.00

1 N E % N W V4 " " " 38.00 5.acres Maud Canfield.
2 " " " " " 40.00 S.acres May Canfield.
5 N W % N W % " " " 42.00 5 . acres . Elizabeth Canfield.
40.00 5 . acres . Imogene Canfield.
40.00 5 acres. Isaac Canfield.

6
7

10% Cash

it tt It

a a it

1722.00 172.20

1549.80

Asst. Canal No 3

75.00

Stamps & Acknowledgts'

4.75

Balance due

Educational fund

$528.30

General "

1101.25

1629.55

Receipt No. 502.

$1629.55
FINANCIAL RECORDS 157
[p. 6] Alexander Boyd Cash
Lot 4 Block 1. $49.00
" 1 " 42 134.00
"16 " 2 60.00
S W %. N E % 1. 5. 65. 145.00

$388.00

10% Cash

38.80

$349.20
Assesst. Canal No. 3
7.50
Stamps & acknowledgts
.75
Balance due
$357.45
Educational fund
$174.60
General
182.85
$357.45
Receipt No. 503.
[p. 7] Dixon
Stansbury.
1/3 Cash.
Lot. 5. Block 1.
$50.00
1/3 Cash
$16.67
Assesst Canal No. 3
2.50
Stamps & acknowledt's
1.10
First payment. $20.27
Note No. 33 due Jan 15/72 $16.66
" " 34 " " 15/73 16.67
General fund 20.27
Receipt No. 544.
158 THE UNION COLONY

[p. 8]

Chas.

B. Ramsdell

Lot.

13 Block 2.

$40.00

it

14 " "

40.00
a
3 N i/2 N.E
%
5.5-65
82.00
tt
4 « "
tt a it
86.00
$248.00
10% Cash
24.80
$223.20
Assesst Canal No. 3
5.00
Bal. due
Educational fd.
72.00
General "
156.20
228.20
Receipt No. 517.
[p. 9]
S. F. French.
Lot 1. Black 2
$32.00
1/3 Cash
$10.67
Assesst Canal No. 3
2.50
Stamp & ack'l'd'ts.
1.15
Cash.
$228.20
1/3. Cash
First payment $14.32
General Fund $3.65 Ed. Fd. $10.67
Note No. 41 due Jan 15/72 $10.67
" " 42 " " 15/73 10.66
Receipt No. 535 14.32
" 583 10.67 32 10.99
[p. 10] W. B. Woodruff. 1/3 Cash.
Lot 5 Block 3. $52.00
1/3 Cash $17.34
Assesst. Canal No. 3 2.50
Stamps & ackn'dgts. 1.10
First payment, $20.94
FINANCIAL RECORDS

159

General fund (1st payt.) $20.94
Note No. 21 due Jan 15/72 $17.33
" " 22 " " 15/73 17.33
Receipt No 525. 20.94
" 584 17.33 52 17.85

[p. H] W. J. Roberts.
Lot. 6, Block 16.
1/3 Cash $52.34
Asst. Canal No. 3 2.50
Stamps & ackdts 1.10
First payment — $55.94
General fund $55.94
Note No. 37 due Jan. 15/72 $52.33
" " 38 " " 15/73 $52.33
Receipt No. 538.

[p. 12]
Lot.l " 2
"15"26
"27
"18
"19"15
" 2
" 3
" 4
" 4
" 5.

W. H.

Blk 19
a tt

" 39
u a
" 62
a it
" 2
"173

"100
N y2NEi/4 5.5.65
3 N E % N W % 15-5-65
a a a tt a a

Garland 71.0058.0060.0069.00
50.00
77.0080.00
45.0029.0026.0035.00
42.00
162.00 45.00 46.00

1/3. Cash.
$157.00

i/2.Cash.

Amt. forward.

$895.00

160 THE UNION COLONY
[p. 13] Amt. forward $895.00

l/2 Cash
Assessts. Canal No.
it n a
Stamps & Ackts.

3.1ots 5 a lots
an. 15/73

$447.50 30.00 15.00 2.25

First payment
Educational fund
General "

$494.75$276. 218.75

Note No. 45 due J
Receipt No. 547.

$494.75 447.50

CIRCULARS

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 1
OF THE
UNION COLONY, No. 1,
Organized in New York, December 23, 1869.

OFFICEES:
N. C. Meeker, President. Gen. R. A. Cameron, Vice-President
Horace Greeley, Treasurer. Ralph Meeker, Secretary.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE :
N. C. Meeker. Gen. R. A. Cameron.
Richmond Fisk, Hoosick Falls, N. Y.
Nathaniel Paul, Wakefield, N. H.
Arthur Murphy, No. 157 Adams Street, Brooklyn.
C. O. Poole, No. 125 East 17th St., N. Y.
Gen. George P. Shelton, Seymour, Conn.
LOCATING COMMITTEE :
N. C. Meeker. W. C. Fisk, Toledo, Ohio.
Gen. R. A. Cameron, Elmira, N. Y.
AUDITING COMMITTEE:
Richmond Fisk. C. O. Poole.

The object of the above-named Colony shall be to settle on
Government or other cheap land in the West, to the end that men
may engage in various industries and pursuits, and that they
may have homes of their own, and that schools and churches
may be convenient
iA printed circular. Loaned to the editor by Mr. Henry T. West.
This is the first constitution of the colony and was adopted in New York.
161

162 THE UNION COLONY
Article I. The officers shall be a President, Vice-Presi
dent, Treasurer and Executive Committee, appointed by the
Colony in session, and a Committee of Location, an Auditing
Committee and a Secretary, appointed by the Executive Com
mittee. The duties of the various officers shall be the same as
belong to other organized bodies.
Art. II. The Secretary shall receive such compensation
as the Executive Committee shall hereafter provide, and the
Auditing Committee shall examine the accounts and report
monthly to the Colony.
Art III. The Locating Committee shall select, with their
best judgment, a location suitable for the settlement of the Col
ony. Art. IV. The President shall represent the Colony, and
always act under its direction, when practicable, and shall re
port his actions at each meeting of the Executive Committee.
Art. V. Terms of office are to: continue until successors
are appointed, unless removals are required on account of incom
petence or misconduct ; and during the interim of Colony meet
ings, removals may be made by the Executive Committee.
Art. VI. The Executive Committee shall make such rules
and regulations, and inaugurate such measures as shall result in
attaining, in the best manner, the object for which the Colony is
organized. Art. VII. Persons wishing to become members, must be
temperance men, and of good moral character, and they must pay
an initiation fee of $5 to the Treasurer ; also pay to the Treas
urer, Hon. Horace Greeley, Tribune Office, New York, $150,
on or before the 1st of March, 1870.
Art. VIII. When the Locating Committee shall have
found a suitable locality for the Colony, they shall report the
same to the Executive Committee, who shall order the Treasurer
to purchase the same with funds on hand belonging to the mem
bers, and take a deed for the land in trust for the Colony. After
ward the Treasurer shall deed designated parcels of land to the
several members, as the Executive Committee shall direct, and
such deeds shall be executed whenever a member in good faith
enters upon his land, particularly village property, to make im-

CIRCULARS 163
provements agreeably to the object for which the Colony is estab
lished. If members neglect to make such improvements within
one year, no deed shall be given, and the amount paid in shall
be refunded with seven per cent, interest, and the land shall be
deeded to such a one as shall make the improvements, with the
approval of the Executive Committee.
Art. IX. After the land shall be vested with the Treasurer
in trust, the Executive Committee shall proceed to lay out four
quarter sections, or 640' acres, located centrally, or most conven
iently, into blocks of ten acres each, and these shall be divided
into lots from half an acre to one acre and a quarter each, for
residences and to form a village, but a portion of the lots may be
from three to five acres each. In the centre, or conveniently, a
plaza or square of ten acres shall be laid out for the business por
tion of the town, and grounds shall be reserved for a park, not
exceeding fifty acres.
Art. X. The lots so laid out shall be sold to the various
members, ranging from $25 toi $50 each, and the proceeds' there
from shall be devoted to the building of a school-house and a
town-hall, and to the establishment of a reading-room and li
brary, free to all members, and to other necessary improvements
for the common welfare. Lots are to be held in reserve for sale
at advanced prices to such as may wish to join after the Col
ony lands are occupied.
Art. XL The land adjoining the town plot may be di
vided into lots of 5, 10, 40 or 80 acres, according to their dis
tance from the town centre, and deeded to the members as they
may choose ; and additional lots at greater distances may also be
selected by them, so that the aggregate value may be equal to
the value of a quarter section on the outer line of the Colonial
property, of which members may have, each, one undivided
quarter section, but no more, with the exception of lots in the
village of one acre and a quarter, one to each, and each member
may make his own selection.
Art. XII. Five half-acre lots in the village shall be re
served for church purposes, which shall be free to' such denomi
nations of Christians as may choose to build thereon.
Art. XIII. The object of this Colony being as above

164 THE UNION COLONY
stated, no member can be permitted to disconnect himself from
the village or town organization, by erecting his dwelling on his
outlying land, to be relieved from his share of the expenses nec
essary for establishing schools and general improvements; nor
can any member own a town lot, unless in good faith he build
thereon. But nothing herein shall prevent a member from re
siding on his farming land, should he so choose ; nor shall relig
ious tests of any kind be required as a condition of membership.

NOTICE OF THE LOCATION OF THE COLONY.
JN. C. MEEKER, Union Colony, No. 1.
President. Tribune Office,
GEN. R A. CAMERON, New Ywk, April 12, 1870.
Vice-President.
HORACE GREELEY,
Treasurer. M 
Dear Sir:
After many difficulties the locating committee have suc
ceeded in purchasing 70,000 acres of Railroad and Government
Land on the Cache-a-la-Poudre River, in Colorado, half way
between Cheyenne and Denver City. The Denver Pacific Rail
way runs directly through the tract, and the junction of the
Cache-a-la-Pbudre and Platte Rivers is not far distant.
The Cache-a-la-Poudre comes down from the Rocky Moun
tains clear as crystal, and with little labor ice-cold water can
be brought into the house of every family, for there is sufficient
head to force it up to the highest building. The cost of irriga
tion will be much less than was anticipated. There is abund
ance of water power for all mechanical purposes.
It is on the banks of this beautiful river that the town of
Greeley is now being laid out
iA printed circular. A copy is preserved by the Union Colony
Historical Society in its Scrap Book, page 5.

CIRCULARS 165
Much difficulty was experienced in buying up the claims
of the squatters; but this obstacle has been removed, so that
members of the colony can have full control of all the land pur
chased by the committee, as well as of the station and county
seat. The scenery is grand beyond description, and the land in
the immediate vicinity is unsurpassed for agricultural purposes.
To the south and east, as far as the eye can reach, the magnifi
cent landscape seems to rise and fall like the waves of the sea.
From the base of the mountains the plain gradually slopes to the
eastward, which accounts in part for the mild winters of this
region. Thousands of feet above this garden spot the sky is
filled with rocky cliffs and snowy peaks, yet the prairie itself
is three thousand feet above the level of the sea. The climate
is said to be peculiarly favorable for persons troubled with weak
lungs. The Committee have not reported at this date, but the
above facts are given in letters written by the President. Gen
eral R. A. Cameron, and Mr. H. T. West and others, will be
on the ground to receive members and assist them in procuring
supplies, making settlement, ete. The President expects to
move out with his family during the summer. About two-
thirds of the members will go this spring.
All goods must be packed with great care in boxes, bales
and trunks. As a rule take only what is necessary. Every arti
cle of furniture can be purchased on the ground at Chicago
wholesale rates, with freight added, which is much cheaper than
shipping from the East Provisions are plentiful in Colorado,
and the prices are about the same as in the States. Coal is
abundant, and it may be burned in an ordinary coal stove.
Timber will be brought down the rivers in large quantities.
Oxen are from $100 to $120 per yoke; horses from $50
to $250; the best are considered dear; cows, $50. Blooded
stock must be obtained from the States this summer. Prepara
tions are to be completed so that gardens can be made this year,
and members should bring seeds, strawberry and other plants,
etc., etc Hired girls are very scarce and wages high.
Fruit trees can be supplied to members at wholesale prices

166 THE UNION COLONY
if they will furnish cash. Those who want to send money for
fruit trees or shrubbery may direct to N. C. Meeker or General
Cameron, Greeley, Weld County, Colorado, giving directions
as to principal varieties, but they must be on hand in season to
plant for themselves.
Lumber is $40 per thousand, but will undoubtedly be
cheaper, for gravel and sand are abundant, and these will largely
be used in building concrete houses.
The following list of necessary articles will assist members
in packing up: Clothing and bedding, first-class crockery or
queens-ware, valuable bureaus, well packed with fabrics, and
securely boxed and strapped. Good clocks and watches, all
kinds of light articles such as brushes, fancy boxes, small musi
cal instruments, children's toys, choice books and magazines,
shoes, maps (if good ones), dried fruits of all kinds, small pic
tures, photographs, lockets, etc., cutlery, castors and cruets, pens,
paper (plenty of it), envelopes.
Extra supply of bandages and flannels, needles, combs, pat
terns of all kinds, fine tools, window curtains, thread, yarns,
jewsharps for the boys, etc. In moving to the far West, people
often leave articles which seem insignificant at the time, but
afterward they regret that they did not bring them. Timber
suitable for axe and hammer handles and cuttings, should be
taken. Many will provide themselves with tents. This is not
strictly necessary, however, except where the families are large
and unused to Western life. The season will be mild, and we
expect to have houses built in a short time after the colonists
begin to arrive. Those who are able to purchase revolvers and
repeating rifles of good patterns, should do so and take them
along. The railroad lands were purchased on very favorable
terms of the National Land Company, agents for the Denver
Pacific R. W. Co., and they have charge of colony business con
nected with passenger and freight transportation. The arrange
ments for carrying passengers were delayed, because the ticket
of all agents of the United States were to meet and change the
rates for the spring traffic. The convention of freight agents
has just been held in this city, and it is expected that freights
will be reduced considerably. Hence it is policy to delay as

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long as possible, to give the colony the full benefit of whatever
reduction may be effected on the regular rates, in addition to
the special reductions which are being made. Tickets from
New York to Greeley are about $60 each. Children under
twelve, half fare; those under five, free. It is necessary to
know the ages of all who are going, so as to properly fill out
the tickets which have been printed. The President of the
Land Company will forward the necessary blanks in two days,
which must be filled up and forwarded immediately to Col.
John S. Loomis, President National Land Company, No. 2,
Astor House, New York. On receiving these blanks, he will
promptly notify each member of the route he is to take, and
he will give him or her full directions about traveling.
The freight arrangements will probably be completed by
the 15th of April. Col. Loomis will have agents at Chicago, St,
Louis, Omaha and other places of transfer, to see that the mem
bers are properly cared for and that they lose none of their
baggage. Those leaving the same town or county had better
journey together and send their freight by special car, which
will be provided. All who can, should take servant girls and
other hired help. Persons going as members of families are
carried at the same prices as the others.
RALPH MEEKER, Secretary,
Tribune Office, New York City.

INFORMATION FOR COLONISTS.

1 John S. Loomis, President,
No. 2 Astor House, New York.
Chas. B. Lamborn, Sec'y and Treasurer.
Cor. Fifth and Elm Streets, St. Louis.
Wm. N. Byers, General Manager for Colorado,
Denver.
iA printed circular, preserved in the Union Colony Historical
Society's Scrap Book, p. 6.

168 THE UNION COLONY
Wm. E. Webb, General Manager,
Topeka, Kansas.
0. N. Pratt, General Agent,
111 Dearborn St., Chicago.
office of the
NATIONAL LAND COMPANY.
No. 2 Astor House,
New York, April 14th, 1870.
Mr  Dear Sir: The National Land Company having negoti
ated sale of lands to the Union Colony, and engaged with your
Executive Committee to take charge of all business connected
with transportation of its families and goods to the lands, would
respectfully request you to fill up carefully the proper answers
to the accompanying questions, and return same at once — which
will enable us, in the most direct and expeditious way, to ad
vise you of route to be traveled, the cost of tickets and freight,
and other essential information for your guidance, and which
is requisite to enable us to meet the wants of your people.
Members taking passage at New York, and perhaps at
Albany, Boston, and other prominent points, will be allowed to
take 200 pounds of Baggage as far as Omaha free, for each full
ticket. Further information will be communicated on this sub
ject soon. From Omaha to end of the journey, each full ticket will
entitle holder to take free 100 pounds of baggage. For all over
100 pounds, we have arranged to have forwarded by the next
regular freight train, at reasonable cost; and this part of the
baggage will be delivered in twelve to twenty hours later than
that taken by passenger trains.
Baggage must be so packed as to have within 100 pounds
articles most needed, to check by the same train passangers go
by on Union Pacific Railroad from Omiaha, All baggage will
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allow Eastern Roads to check over their line. Very reasonable
accommodations, and promptness in matter of re-ohecking bag
gage, will be afforded by the U. P. R. R. Co. at Omaha.
Agents will be stationed at Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha
and Cheyenne, to advise and care for members, and. facilitate
easy transaction of their business. Meals will be provided at re
duced rates at stopping points on the line. At Omaha there will
be a change of cars, and a few hours, or one night, for rest.
It has been arranged for members to be comfortably accom
modated at the "Wyoming House", Omaha, and at the "Rail
road House," Cheyenne.
Children under five years will be transported free ; between
five and twelve, half price; all persons above twelve years of
age, full fare.
It is designed, if possible, to have members of the Colony
concentrate at common points on certain dates, and have them
transported in special cars; but this is not necessary. Colonists
moving individually will have transportation furnished at same
rates. When the Circular is answered by all the members, it
can be seen what number could be ready at same dates; and if
practicable, we will arrange to have members who can conven
iently concentrate at New York, start by trains leaving here on
April 25th, May lst, May 7th, May 15th, or at such other dates
as will be found best.
Freight Rates per hundred pounds and car-load, and for
First and Second-Class Passage, will be sent each member on
Saturday or Monday next.
There is sent herewith to each member of the Colony a copy
of our paper, the "Star of Empire", which contains informa
tion which may be found useful. It is proper to add that the
mission of the National Land Company is to promote the in
crease of traffic on our Pacific Railways by the economical trans
portation of actual settlers to their land.
JOHN S. LOOMIS,
President.

170 THE UNION COLONY
CIRCULAR.1
By The Union Colony of Colorado.

Greeley, Aug. 16th, 1871.
The Union Colony of Colorado having now disposed of
most of its Lands to actual settlers, hereby gives notice to all
inquirers, that the remainder of its Lots and Lands will be dis
posed of at appraised value, without requiring improvements as
a condition for deeds. Hence, no certificates to new members
will, after this date be issued; and those holding certificates
upon which deeds have not been granted, are hereby notified that
the condition of improvements will be commuted, in all cases
where the holders prefer to pay $50 in lieu thereof.
All persons of industrious and temperate habits, seeking
new homes, are cordially invited to come and oast their lot with
us. To all such we offer the inducements of good Schools, good
society, the examples of temperance, refinement and thrift, to
gether with a delightful and healthful climate, beautiful scen
ery, a fertile soil, and remunerative prices for labor and all its
products. Lands under our Canals may yet be purchased, both from
the Colony and individuals, at low prices, considering the pres
ent and prospective advantages which they offer.
W. H. Post, Sec'y.

'A printed circular found in Record Book No. 3, p. 21.

LISTS OF MEMBERS

MEMBERS OF THE COLONY, APRIL, 1870.

UNION COLONY, No. I.1
List of Members who have paid to the Treasurer $155.

N.C.Meeker, President. Gen. R. A. Cameeon, Vice-President
Horace Greeley, Treasurer.
Alcoke, R. S  91 Schermerhorn St., B'klyn.
Armstrong, J. J  Calais, Me.
Adams, George  Oldham, N. H.
Ambrose, E. F  Dexter, Me.
Anderson, J. C  157 Middle Alley, Alleghany City, Pa.
Adams, E. D  Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Abbey, R. P  Hollisterville, Pa.
Andrews, W. J  Washington, Pa.
Ayer, Willington  Charlotte, Me.
Abbott, E. H  Lockport, 111.
Avery, Egbert  Taber, Iowa.
Atkinson, James  Box 490, Waltham, Mass.
Atkinson, Sharon  " "
Annis, Emma  Hoyt, Little Valley, N. Y.
Alphonse, E. C  Box 204, St. Joseph, Mich.
Atkinson, Thos  Fall River, Mass.
Adams, R  Eedfield, N. Y.
Avery, F. E  Ledyard, N. Y.
Atkinson, E  Box 490, Waltham, Mass.
Alcoke, R H  Brooklyn, N. Y.
Atwood, J. G  125 E. 17th St., N. Y.
iA printed circular sent out from New York by the colony manage
ment. The original from which this copy has been reprinted was kindly
loaned me by Mr. Henry T. West. 171

172 THE UNION COLONY
Brandigee, Chas.  134 Pearl St., Room 8, N. Y.
Barstow, Jr., H  Mattapoissett, Mass.
Billings, G. N  East Gains, N. Y.
Birdall, S. H  Titusville, Pa.
Brown, T  Haydenville, Mass.
Bramer, Mrs. C. K  Liverpool, N. Y.
Balcombe, R  Rome, N. Y.
Briggs, E. B  Centre Lisle, N. Y.
Bassett, Beach  Meadville, Pa.
Barues, C. T 
Briggs, 0. H  Centre Lisle, N. Y.
Brakeman, Ed  Geneva, O.
Briggs, A. R  Centre Lisle, N. Y.
Brown, Rev. S M  Box 56, Loda, 111.
Beckwith, Chas. E  Troy, N. Y.
Bythway, Thos.  San Francisco, Cal.
Bythway, M  Padonia, Kan.
Barclay, J. B  Brownsville, Pa.
Bailie, Jno  Box 40, Pittsburg, Pa
Baker, E. L  New London, Conn.
Barker, J. F  Sharon, Pa.
Barker, S. F 
Buckingham, C  Van Wert, Ohio.
Bardill, C  Vandalia, 111
Burr, G. W  Wallaceville, Pa.
Bingham, D. L  Manchester, Mass.
Barter, A  Richmond, Ind.
Brownell, Mrs. Dora A. . . Dowagiac, Mich.
Baker, L. D  New London Conn.
Boyd, D  Lake Ridge, Michigan.
Billings, J. E. . . '.  Oshkosh, Wis.
Brooks, Athmel  Baconsburg, O.
Baldwin, B. F  St. Catherine, Mo.
Bedell, L  Trenton, 111.
Benson, Thos  Thompson, Conn.
Boyes, Wm. H.  Phelps, N. Y.
Boyes, Aaron 
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Burchill, R. A  Davenport, Iowa.
Buffham, J  Racine, Wis.
Bill, E. L  Spencer, W. Va.
Baby, Wm. L  .452 Jackson St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Bennett, P. M. & Co  Bennettsville, N. Y.
Blodgett, S  Union, Neb.
Bristol, L  Providence, Pa.
Banta, J. W  Benton, Ind.
Blodgett, J. S  West Plymouth, N. H.
Bouton, E, D  Penn Yan, N. Y.
Brockway, C. S  Ripon, Wis.
Brownell, J. E  Cambridge Centre, N. Y.
Brooks, M  Newbury, Ohio
Brown, A  Columbus, Ohio
Barnum, P. T  438 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.
Connor, D  New London, Conn.
Coon, M  Bridgeport, Conn.
Cooper, J. G  Tribune Office, N. Y.
Cooley, N. C  Wyoming, Del.
Clark, J  Indian Falls, N. Y.
Cameron, R. A  Elmira, N. Y.
Carey, J. R  Indianola, Iowa.
Childs, F. L  So. Shaftsbury, Vt
Charter, H  Wallingford, Conn.
Cherry, S. A. Mrs  Marysville, Ohio.
Coursen, G. H  Emporium, Pa.
Carlton, D. H  Zumbrota, Minn.
Culver, P. A  Orange, Pa.
Cobb, J  Newman, Kan.
Coker, W. H  New Iberia, La.
Chase, M. H  King's Ferry, N. Y.
Colby W. M  Little Rock, Ark.
Conant, L  Geneva, 111.
Colburn, J. M  Iowa City, Iowa.
Chapman, C. D  Jamaica, L. I.
Clark, T. J  Geneva, DI.
Dunham, J L  Southington, Conn.
Dunham, E. L  "

174 THE UNION COLONY
Denmeade, J. C  Mount Vernon, NY.
Davidson^ J  Westville, Conn.
Draper, G. T  Beloit, Wis.
Dickinson, F.  Geneva, Ohio.
F. G Day  Titusville, Pa.
Doudes, A  Canton, O.
Dunridge, Jas  56 E. Hud. St., Buffalo, N Y.
Dan, H. M  Ashby, O.
Dane, W. B  Montana, Iowa.
Davis, Leroy  Greene, N. Y.
Day, S. A  Glyndon, Pa.
Driver, James A  Camden, O.
Driver, A. M  "
Dunham, S. C  New Britain, Conn.
Dreghorn, James  Ashton, R. I.
Darling, W. M  Mill, Fayette Co., Iowa.
Desmond, J  Manchester, Mass.
De Vine, C. W  New Haven, Conn.
E. L  Repeat'g Arms Co., Bridgeport, Conn.
Emerson, C  Van Wert, Ohio
Eller, M  Draycut, Mass.
Eaton, Daniel  Urbana, Ohio
Eaton, G. W  Ridgway, Mich.
Eaton, J. B  Benton Ridge, O.
Eaton, Almon  "
Engle, P  Ann Arbor, Mich.
Engle, A  Benton Ridge, O
Eacker, Jno  Mount Carroll, 111.
Embick, D  "
Eaton, O  Ridgway, Mich.
Ellis, Wm  Wilmingtou, Del.
Fisk, Richmond  Hoosick Falls, N. Y.
French, S. F  22 W. 9th St. N. Y.
Foot, Jr., Wm  Kaolin, Pa.
Foster, J. H  Phila., Pa.
Fisk, G. W  Hoosick Falls, N. Y.
Fisk, J. M 
Fielder, R. C  West Troy, N. Y.

LISTS OF MEMBERS 175
Forward, Jos  Linn Creek, Wis.
Fisher, H. J  Charlotte, Me.
Fear, D  Belleville, 111.
Frew, A  Williams P. O., Ky.
Forsyth, J. W  Yonkers, N Y.
Fari, D. S  Sparta, 111.
Field, Amos  Glenham, N. Y.
Flagg, C. R  Graham, Mass.
Fussell, L  U. S. S. "Vermont," N. Y. Navy
Y'd.
Fussell, E  Townsend Inlet, N. J.
Frame, W. J  Limerick Station, Pa.
Fritts, J. W  Rouseville, Pa.
French, M. D  Bennetsville, N. Y.
Fussell, C. L  Townsend Inlet, N. J.
Galbreth, H  Albany Iron Works, N. Y.
Graham, S  E. Attleboro, Mass.
Glenny, A  Westville, Conn.
Green, J. B  Quakertown, N. Y.
Gransbury, S. H  Cannonsville, N. Y.
Greenwood, A. H  Grafton, Mass.
Green, W. M  Wallaceville, Pa.
Gates, J  Newcastle, Pa.
Guiney, Mrs. V. R  Urbana, 0.
Gillett, A. S  East Hartford, Conn.
Gilbert, A. J  Baconsburg, O.
Gillett, I. P  Worth, O.
Gorton, Geo  Racine, Wis.
Gifford, M. V. B  Lake Pleasanton, Pa.
Grant, Jno  Ottumwa, Iowa.
Gushee, F. A  Appleton, Me.
Guilford, S  Lebanon, Pa.
Hotohkiss, A  Olean, N. Y.
Hanby, C. F  Yonkers, N. Y.
Holt, A. D  Fredonia, N. Y.
Hawk, W. W  Sterling, Pa.
Harris, J. F  Lockport, N. Y.
Hall, W  Red Creek, N. Y.

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176 THE UNION COLONY
Hertig, J. S  Waynesburg, Pa.
Howe, Va  E. Middleburg, Vt.
Holmes, N  Berlin, Mich.
Holmes, E. D 
Holmes, C. N 
Hall, N. W  Westfield, N. Y.
Hastings, M  Albion, Iowa.
Holton, W  Hinsdale, N. H.
Hatfield, P  Plainwell, Mich.
Hatfield, G.E 
Hall, Eli  Wales Centre, N. Y.
Hollister, E  Oneida, 111.
Haslam, J  New Iberia, La.
Hurlbut, J. B  Worth, Iowa.
Hale, R  Salem, Ohio.
Hopper, W. A  Pleasantville, Pa.
Hilton, R  Passaic Falls, N. J.
Hotohkiss, R  Prophetstown, 111.
Hovey, O. D  Rochester, Minn.
Hanna, L  New Lisbon, O.
Hanna, Geo 
Hanna, C. L  "
Hanna, F  "
Hanna, Amanda 
Hogan, H. L  West Hickory, Pa.
Hoag, A  Albion, Mich.
Hover, W. A  Lima, O.
Howe, J  347 Tenth Avenue, N. Y.
Howe, Mrs. Matilda E . . . E. Middlebury, Vt.
Hoag, E  Albion, Mich.
Higgins, S  Montana, Iowa.
Humphrey, Chas  Afton, N. Y.
Henderson, M. P  Titusville, Pa.
Hawkins, C. P  Ripon, Wis.
Hollister, E  Morrison, 111.
Higenbotam, J  Monroeton, Pa.
Highland, J  Troy, N. Y.
Harbisin, W. P  Indianola, Iowa

LISTS OF MEMBERS 177

Hartley, J. W  388 Broadway, N. Y.
Hurd, S. H  438 Fifth Avenue, "
Ingraham, G. W  Johnsonville, N. Y.
Johnson, J. H  Watertown, Wis.
Jennings, E. P  Midland City, Mich.
Jewell, Geo. A  Yonkers, N. Y.
Jones, E. W  Centralia, 111.
Jordan, Wm  Whippany, N. J.
Justin, J. G  Plainwell, Mich.
Jones, J. H  Putney, Vt.
Jones, J  "
Kent, Wm. J  Buffalo, NY.
Koons, W. L. . .  Rochester, Ind.
Kingsley, J. L.  Pentwater, Mich.
Knight, Mrs. M. A  Westfield, N. Y.
Keith, Wm. H  Mattapoissett, Mass.
Kent, Jas. V  Buffalo, N. Y.
Kent, Wm. M  "
King, J. R  Orange, N. J.
Kitchell, Y  Whippany, N. Y.
Koons, W. L  Rochester, Ind.
Linn, Sam'l  Bridgeport, Conn.
Lawrence, Jas  Gibson, Pa.
Lansing, M. W  Goshen, Ind.
Lyman, A. W  Northampton, Mass.
Lee, Jas. L. Mrs  Rockport, Pa.
Lynn, R  Lockport, 111.
Lennen, K. M  Salineville, O
Langford, C  Belleville, 111.
Lowd, J  Milton Mills, N. H.
Lawson, Jas  West Point, Cal
Longstaff, Thos  Glenham, N. Y.
La Grange, B. S  Harrisville, Mich.
Liggett, A. R  Plimpton, O.
Law, H. M  Ashby, O.
Lane, N. B  Montana, Iowa.
Lee, H  Millport, N. Y.
Logan, A  Millwaukee, Wis.

178 THE UNION COLONY
Little Jno  Manchester, Mass.
Little, W. E  New Market, N. H.
Lee, W. N  Fredonia, N. Y.
Lawton, Jr., F  Tribune Office, N. Y.
Meeker, N. C  Tribune Office, N. Y.
Moss, J  Fredonia, N. Y.
Marsh, I. R  "
Mendel, H. D  Auburn, N. Y.
Morrison, B. J  Medway, Mass.
Mabbitt, J. S  Titusville, Pa.
Marland A  Pittsburgh, Pa.
Monk, E. C  Stoughton, Mass.
Miller, W. W  St. Joseph, Mich.
McWhorter, A  "
McCarthy, G. W  Chatfield, Minn.
Mansfield, V. De L  Morris, N. Y.
Montgomery, M  Milwaukee Mich.
MoKean, D. B  Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
McDermid, S. M  Skowhegan, Me.
Morris, H  Keosauqua, Iowa.
McKay, H  Eyota, Minn.
Monk, G. E  No. Stoughton, Mass
Maxwell, R M  Edwards. Station 111.
Massenberg, W  Freeport, 111.
May, S  Barton, Vt.
Matteson, G L  Galva, 111.
Mattison, C. W  Galva, 111.
Matteson, M. C  "
Moore, A  . . . . Landisburg, Pa.
Moore, B  "
McClain, O. N  Indianola, Ind.
McAllister, Wm  Tribune Office, N. Y.
Nichols, Geo. N  Lockport, N. Y.
Newcomb, R. B  Blissfield, Mich.
Newman, W. C  West Winsted, Conn.
Nettleton, C. L  Sublette, 111.
Nickerson, D  1036 Prairie Av., Chicago, 111.
Neff, S. P  Bennetsville, N. Y.

LISTS OF MEMBERS 179
Norton, E. W  Middleton, Vt.
Northrup, C. L  Ripon, Wis.
Orr, J. H  New Haven, Conn.
Ostrander, C. S  Highland Mills, N. Y.
Odlin, W  San Francisco, Cal.
Plumb, O  Millport, N. Y.
Paul, N  Wakefield, N. H.
Pabor, W. E  Harlem, N. Y.
Pratt, J. W  (Orange C. H.) Va.
Price, H  Troy, N. Y.
Person, G. S  Rochester, Vt.
Page, A. W  Chioopee Falls, Mass.
Piatt, E. E  Springfield, Mass.
Plummer, Jr, N. Y  Pentwater, Mich.
Peebles, S  Chester Hill, O.
Plummer, Harriet S  Pilcher, O.
Pettigrew, J. H  Cooperstown, 111.
Poor, V. H  Rushberg, Mo.
Plato, W. B  Geneva, 111.
Paine, J. H  Brookfield, Vt.
Puckett, T. C  Nora, 111.
Post, W. H  Yonkers, N. Y.
Pybum, Geo. A  Logansport, Ind.
Percival, F. J  Morrisania, N. Y.
Prosser, Geo  Buchanan, Pa.
Patten, S  Hampden Corner, Me.
Preston, A. D  De Ruyter, N. Y.
Pease, Geo. A  Appleton, Me.
Price, Miss M. L  Phoenixville, Pa.
Palmer, G. W  Iowa City, Iowa
Post, J. A  Yonkers, N. Y.
Pool, CO  Metuchen, N. J.
Quimby, M  East Spring Hill, Pa.
Ranney, J  Smithville, N. Y.
Ranney, D. B 
Robinson, R  Brookside, N. J.
Ring, Wm  3 Fairport Place, Brooklyn.
Rush, Thos  Troy, N. Y.

180 THE UNION COLONY
Reed, D  Winchester, N. H.
Ryerson, H. P  Haydenville, Mass.
Roison, J. L  ,  Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Roberts, M. F  Ashton, R I.
Randolph, T. C  Bucks, O.
Rea. E  Mt. Carroll, 111.
Robinson, L. E  Moravia, N. Y.
Root, H. G  Mecca, O.
Roeder, F  197 Pearl street, New York.
Reeve, N. W  Lawrence, Kan.
Richardson, J. H  Groton Junction, Mass.
Richardson, J. S  Perrykill, Mass.
Russell, C. M  Kingston, N. J.
Rapp, J  Mt. Carroll, 111.
Reid, P. W  Buchanan P. O., Pa.
Russell, Hetty M  Waltham, Mass.
Rogerson, R  1703 Menard St., St. Louis, Mo.
Robinson, M. F  Newville, Pa.
Robinson, G. F  Savanna, 111.
Spencer, J. V. R  44 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J.
Spencer, S  43 Mercer street,' N. Y.
Starkweather, H. L  Mohegan, R I.
Stone, S  78 Jackson St., Newark, N. J.
Shelton, Geo. P  Seymour, Conn.
Shearer, J  Reading, Pa.
Shearer, P  "
Stoughton, H  Coventry, Conn.
Spaulding, B. M  Groton Junction, Mass.
Sheldon, H  Warsaw, N. Y.
Stone, O  Lysander, N. Y.
Scott, J. L  Urbana, O.
Stewart, A  So. Manchester, Pa.
Shipman, H. M  Pitcher, O.
Sinclair, W  Hanoverton, O.
Strunck, W. E  Brooklyn, L. I.
Stansbury, D  Urbana, Ohio
Silcott, H. E  Indianola, Iowa
Sayre, H  Greenville, N. Y.

LISTS OF MEMBERS 181
Seeley, N  438 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.
Simpson, J. T  Smithville, N. C.
Satterlee, J. S  Gates Ferry, Conn.
Sanborn, J. F  Clinton, Mo.
Stanley, J. H  Winchester, Mass.
Sawyer, W  Marlboro, N. H.
Smalley, H  New Iberia, La.
Seeley, J. S  Rome, Pa.
Smith, J. G  North's Mills, Pa.
Shepard, T. C  Lowell, O.
Sheldon, L  Leyden, Mass.
Suliot, T. E  Kent, O.
Suliot, I. W  "
Suliot, E. T  "
Stebbins, J. R  14 Madison St., Memphis, Tenn.
Schindler, J. H  Monroe, Wis.
Shattuck, J. C  Linn Creek, Mo.
Smith, M. H  Titusville, Pa.
Spencer, W. S  Gosport, N. Y.
Scott, John  Brooklyn, N. Y.
Searles, A. E  Aurora, 111.
Smith, H  192 W. Madison St., Chicago, 111.
Smith, Charles  Geneseo, 111.
Starr, W. F  E. Hampton, Conn.
Shattuck, O. W  Lancaster, O.
Truf ant, J  Hackettstown, N. J.
Taylor, A  Ilion, N. Y.
Townsend, Geo., Jr  Lewiston, Me.
Tucker, L. S  Harrisburg, Pa.
Titcomb, J  Farmington, N. H.
Taylor, Mrs. Jane  Jackson, Mich.
Thing, D. H  Mt. Vernon, Me.
Thomas, C. H  Salem, O.
Tyler, G. B. C  South Newburg, Vt.
Ticknor, A  Fredonia, N. Y.
Townley, F. G  Chicago, 111.
Thompson, S. K  Poultney, Vt.
Thompson, Chas. E  Maiden, Mass.

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Von Gohren, L  Vandalia, 111.
Vale, I  Providence, R. I.
Williams, L  Arlington, Vt.
Webster, K  Hudson, N. H.
Witmer, H. C  Mountville, Pa.
Wilber, A. J  Bryan, O.
White, M. R  Fairmount, W. Va.
Welch, J  New Portage, O.
Watrous, W. F  Manitowoc, Wis.
Willoughby, B. F  Hudson, N. H.
Walling, O. J  Wolfboro, N. H.
Williams, J. S  Castleton Furnace, O.
West, Geo. H  Chicago, 111.
West, H. T  "
Worth, J. D  Hoosick Falls, N. Y.
Webb, E  Richfield, Minn.
Winship, Chas  New Hartford, N. Y.
Welch, C. R  New Portage, O.
Washburne, S  Lake City, Minn.
Williams, W. C  Wauseon, Ohio.
Wherron, J. D  So. Elliot, Me.
Witham, LP  Milton Mills, N. H.
Watson, G. W  Geneva, N. Y.
Woodruff, W. B  La Harpe, 111.
Wadlin, J. M. G  Hopedale, Mass.
Wright, N. D  St. Joseph, Mich.
Washburne, S. B  Lake City, Minn.
Wiley, M  Trenton, 111.
Welch, D. S  Kendallville, Ind.
Watson, H. C  New Lisbon, O.
White, J. L  Pittsburg, Pa.
Wilson, J. C  Pleasant P. O., Mich.
Williams, S. P  Buffalo, N. Y.
Wareing, A  Waltham, Mass.
Waddington, D  Waltham, Mass.
Woolston, W. II  Malta, 111.
White, A. L  Geneva, 111.
Woodbury, J. A  Beverly, Mass.

LISTS OF MEMBERS 183
Widdoss, J  388 Broadway, N. Y.
Young, D. 0  Shabbona Grove, 111.
Zachario, S. S  Reading, Pa.
Zuckell, J. A  Bennetsville, N. Y.
Note. — 'There may be some of those having paid the $5
fee who will send in the rest of the money during this month
(April.)
N. C. Meeker, UNION COLONY No. 1.
PRESIDENT. 
Gen. R. A. Cameron, Tribune Office.
vice-president.
Horace Greeley,
treasurer. New York,  1870.
M 
Dear Sir:
The Committee who have returned to Colorado to purchase
one of the locations previously visited, expect to close the bar
gain by the 10th of April. It is important that little be said as
to location until certain negotiations have been completed; but
when the land is secured we shall give full particulars concern
ing the country, location, climate, soil, railroad facilities, &c.
The Committee will endeavor to locate directly on a rail
road, near a river where there will be fine water power and
other natural advantages, including timber, coal, minerals, &c.
The climate is mild and peculiarly favorable for persons trou
bled with lung diseases.
The Committee are urging the enterprise forward as rap
idly as possible.
Schools, churches, mills and factories will be established at
once. Some will take their families with the pioneer com
pany, others will go on and prepare homes first.

184 THE UNION COLONY
Colonists will take but little furniture, choosing only that
which is good; the same may be said of clothing and cloth of
all kinds. They should also select a variety of seeds, cuttings,
plants and small fruit trees, and pack them in moss.
The first company will start about the first of May. Im
provements must be made within one year from the time of
joining. Points of Departure will be New York, Boston, Albany,
Philadelphia, Washington, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cin
cinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha, San Francisco, and other
prominent places.
Special arrangements are being made with transportation
companies for carrying freight and passengers at reduced rates.
The price of tickets from New York City will be about $ ;
freight, per pound, $  Before start
ing the members will receive full instructions as to moving, &c.
Gen. Cameron will be on the ground at the place of destination
to receive the members and look after the interests of the Col
ony. Those who have not forwarded their full fees, $155, will
do so at once. We have  full members and
about  who have made partial payments.
The Colony is composed of first-class men from all parts
of the country, and from Canada, England and France. Among
them are Mechanics, Farmers, Bankers, Merchants, Clergymen,
Editors, Publishers, Judges, Manufacturers, Iron Founders, and
in fact worthy people of all reputable professions and trades.
The majority are from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mich
igan, Illinois, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, and
Massachusetts. A few come from California and Colorado.
Truly yours,
 Secretary.

MEMBERS WHO REACHED GREELEY
APRIL— JUNE, 1870.

1 Greeley. Weld County.

Colorado.

Name

Number in
family

Arrived

Former Residence

S. A. Abbott

1

May 7th

Goshen Ind

M

Rinaldo Adams

1

May 13th

Redfield N. Y.

John C. Abbott
1
May 9
Plainfield 111
3
T. H. Abbott
1
" 9
ti a
o
Avery F. C.
1
a a
Ledyard N. Y.
S
L S Allen
4
My 14
Davenport Iowa
t
J Barton
May 19
Milford Del
E. C. Alphonse
2
" 20.
St. Joseph Mich
CO
Jas. J. Armstrong
5
" 19
Calais Maine
Alcoke Rich S
Brooklyn
A. 0. Snow
1
May 29
Scranton Pa
Edgar Avery
Self
a
Ledyard N. Y.
Boyd David
4
May 12.70
Lake Ridge Michigan
S. F. Barker
May 14
Sharon. Mercer. Co. Pa.
Baker E. L.
1
Apr 30
Groton N L Co. Ct.
i This list is taken from
a volume entitled Land Accounts,
pp. 1-20. In the colony safe at Greeley.
Name

Number in

Arrived

Former Residence

family

OS
Baillie. J. A.
Brown S. M.
1
May 14
Loda Iroquois Co. Ill
Burchill R
1
May 16
Davenport Iowa
Barton C. G.
1
" 16
Currittsville Portage Co Ohio
Barker Jos. F.
5
May 29
Sharon. Mercer County, Pa
Banker A [ ?] W.
May 16
Providence, R. I.
Bardill. C.
old Bachelor
1
May 18
Vandalia 111
H
Buckingham Chas
Self
June 10
Van Wert Ohio
3
J. D. Buckley
1
June 20th
Schaghticoke Rens Co N. Y.
Beetham James
7
May 3rd
Blisfield Mich
o
J. M. Colburn
May 13
Iowa City Iowa
o
It1
Linus, Condit,
3
May 7
Whippany, N. J.
o
David Cotton
1
June 13
Yonkers, N. Y.
J Max Clark
2
June 17
Wisconsin
Dresser G. T.
1
May 3
Beloit Wis
Day F. G.
1
" 12
Titusville Pa
Dale Martha
1
" 7
Dracut Mass
Dyer & Hoslett
2
" 20
Fairhaven Vt
Dalzell Robert
Keokuk Iowa
Davis LeRoy
1
June 6
Greene N-York
Name
Ezra Fairchild
Francis Faneher
C. W. DeVine
Richmond Fisk
Charles L. Fussell
Horace J. Fisher
Jas B. Flower
Alvin J. Wilber
Oscar Eaton
Geo. W. Eaton
Moses Ellor
Charles Emerson
Hugh Golbraith
E. W. Gurley
W. M. Green
Mrs. V. R. Guiney
H N Rogerson
Levi Hanna
John Higenbotam
W. D. Hartley
James Henry

Number in

Arrived

Former Residence

family

2
May 7
Whippany N. Jersey.
1
" 9
New Haven Conn
" -1
a a a
1
" 9
Hoosick Fall, N. Y.
1
" 14
Philada Penna
1
" 14
t-1
2
May lst.
Medina Mich.
i
May lst
Ridgeway Mich
og
May 1
Ridgeway Mich
3
7
Dracut Mass
Ka
hrl
Self
June 10
Van Wert Ohio
May 7. '70
Troy N. Y.
GO
1
May 7th
Wabasha, Minnesota
May 21
Wallaceville Pa
May 20th
3
7
Haydenville Mass
2
May 30"
New Lisbon Ohio
1
May 9
Monroeton Pa
1
May 16
Tremont N. Y.
3
May 16"
frm Phila Penn
00
Name

Number in
family

Arrived

Former Residence

i— »
00
OS

A. W. Hancock

1

May 16"

from Phila Pa

E. Hollister

4

May 11

Oneida 111.

Anson Hoag

& wife

May 9th/70

Albion, Mich —

Victor A. Howe

1

" 23/70

East Middleburg Vt.

Mrs. M. E. Howe
1
a a tt
a
Arthur Hotohkiss
N W Hall
3
May 13th/70
Westfield Chart NY [ J ?]
trJ
C. F. Hanby
5
June 18th
Yonkers N. Y
m
Park Kitchell
4
May 7th
Whippany New Jersey
el
J Herbert Jones
1
April 30
Putney Windham Co Vt.
1
D B Keeler
1
May 9
South Salem N Y
o
John L Kingsley
2
May 8
Pent Water Mich
/—I
Johnson I H
3
" 26
Waterford Pa
w
Inman Jas —
" 24
Danvers Mass
M B Knowles
7
June 11th
Omaha Neb
M. W. Lansing
4
May. 7.
Goshen, Ind.
Henry Lee
May 9
Elmira, N. Y.
Samuel Linn
May 9
Bridgeport Conn
John L. Loomis
May 19.70
No. 2 Astor House New York.
John R. Long
8
" 20
Orange, N. J.
John Leavy
1
" 20
Orange N. J
Name

Number in

Arrived

Former Residence

family

Alonzo Long
Self
June 10
Scranton Penna
S. M. McDermid
1
May 9.
Skowhegan Me.
James M Labar
27
Aprl
Enfield Centre N. Y.
Joseph Moss
7
May 13
Fredonia N. Y.
Ira R. Marsh
1
a a
u n
Elisha C. Monk
1
May 1
Stoughton Mass
Wm McAllister
1
April 25
Tribune Office N. Y.
tr1
Aix. Moore
4
April 25
Landisburg Pa
CO
Ben. Moore
1
a u
a tt
o
Henry N. Martin
1
May 9th
New York
g
T H Morgan
1
" 16
Quakertown, Pa.
N. C. Meeker
6
June 9
New York City
a
td
E S Northrup
May 14.'70
Ripon Wisconsin
02
Geo N. Nichols
Self
May 13/70
Lockport N. Y.
D. W. Olin
" 30
Franklin Conn
E. S. Nettleton
May 9
Pleasantville Penna
A. N. Nettleton
a Y
Sublette 111.
George Pyburn M. D
Self
April 30 '70
Logansport Ind.
N T Plummer and
Wife
May 9-70
Pentwater Mich.
Nathl Paul-
May 14, 70
Wakefield N H
Ovid Plumb
May 9- 70
Elmira N.Y
i— '
GO
Name

Number in
family

Arrived

Former Residence

o

W B Plato

May 17th

Geneva Ills

Henry Price

May 6th

Troy N Y

George. A. Pease
May 9-70
Appleton Me
Frederick, J. Percival
Self
May 6th 70
Sherburne N Y
W. E. Pabor
Self
" 12th
Harlem N Y
Wm. H. Post
Self
June 16th '70
Yonkers. N. Y.
D B Ranney
3
May 11
Smithville N Y
H
L E Robison
May 14
Moravia, New York
J. S. Richardson
May 18
Perryvill, Webster, Mass.
2
I— I
John T Simpson
none
May 25
Boston, Mass.
o
Scott John
Brooklyn N. Y.
N W Reeve
3
June 6
Lawrence Kan
wo
A Ruthven —
8
June. 10.
Scranton Penna
W. S. Spencer.
Self
May 14th '70
Gasport. N. Y.
Geo R Stone.
do—
May. 25.
St Joseph Mi
L. S. Springer
3
May lst /70
Oleopolis, Pa.
Stevens Jule. D.
Self
" 17th
Black Hawk Col.
W F Starr
2
May 19
East Hampton. Ct
J F Sanborn
3
March lst
Clinton Wis
Wm Edgar Strunk
Self
May 28—
Brooklyn N. Y.
Harvey Townsend
10
May 19th
Ellenville Ulst. Co. N.Y.
Name
J. W. Titcomb
Kaent Thing
H. B. Tuttie
Arthur Taylor
Henry. T. West
Burton C Whitford
Abram Whitaker
Warren C Williams
James Widdoss
H C Woodworth
James H Orr
W L Weed
Jos S. Williams
W. P. McKinney
0 S Wright
Stillman Washburn
S B Washburn
Wiley Martin
Ludwig Von Gohren
D. Clayton Young

Number in

Arrived

Former Residence

family

1

April 25

Farmington N H.

1

May 9

Mt Vernon Me

2

Evans Colorado

1

May 30

Ilion N Y

April 2d
Chicago . Ills
May 7
Shabbona Grove Ills
April 28
Warren Penn
4
May 13
Wauseon Ohio
2
May 9
Tremont, N Y
4
May 14
Davenport Iowa
6
April 29
New Havin Conn
May 6
Sullivan County N Y
May 9
Youngstown Ohio
1
May 20
Ithaca New York
2
May 23
Lake City Minn
2
May 23
Lake City Minn
4
May 18
Trenton Illinois
6
May 18.
Vandalia, Illinois
Mav 7 "70
Shabbona Grove Illinois
GO H
GOog
gtdHW
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MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS

AGREEMENT OF G. W. PHELPS TO SELL LAND TO
THE UNION COLONY.

1 Denver Col. Mch. 25, 1870
I hereby agree and bind myself to sell & convey to the Union
Colony, or its representatives, the following tracts or parcels of
land situate in Weld County Colorado; to wit: S.E. *4 Sec 31,
Town 6 N.R 65 W; and N. E.'% Sec 6, & S E Vi of N W %
Sec 6 Town 5 N. R. 65 W. ; also the undivided one third of
S.E 14 Sec 8 Town 5 N R 65 W., provided said colony shall
within thirty days from this date agree to purchase said lands
at ten dollars per acre. ^ G. W. Phelps
WitnessWm N. Byers.

THE SAME BY THE DENVER LAND ASSOCIATION.

1 Denver Col. Mch 25th 1870
We hereby agree and bind ourselves to sell and convey to the
Union Colony, or its representatives the S. E. 14 of N W %>
N E % of S W % and N. W % of S. E % Sec 32, Town 6
North of Range 65 Weest, in Weld county, Colorado, at fifteen
dollars per acre provided said colony shall within thirty days
from this date agree to purchase said land at said price
Denver Land.Assn
by D. H. Moffat Jr. Trustee.
1 These two agreements are to be found among the deeds of the Union
Colony in the colony safe. See the letter of William N. Byers, dated
March 25, 1870. 193

194 THE UNION COLONY
[On the back of this sheet of paper.]
[Seal] National Land Company
Wm. N. Byers
Sep12
1870
Gen. Manager
Denver.
[A note in pencil.] I suppose these have been satisfied but
send them to you. Byers.

DEED FROM THE DENVER PACIFIC RAILWAY TO
THE UNION COLONY.

1 Know all men by there presents, That I, John Evans,
of the County of Arapahoe and Territory of Colorado, as Trus
tee of the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, by
virtue of the authority in me vested by a certain Mortgage
made and executed by the said Denver Pacific Railway and
Telegraph Company, under date of August the tenth, A. D.
1869. to John Edgar Thomson, Adolphus Meier and John
Evans, Trustees, and recorded in the several counties through
which the said Railway is located, and also by virtue of a cer
tain Power of Attorney made and executed by the said Trus
tees to the said John Evans, also of record in said several Coun
ties for and in consideration of the sum of Thirty one thousand
and fifty eight dollars and fifty eight cents ($81058.58/100)
to him in hand paid by  Nathan C. Meeker, Robert A.
Cameron, Henry T. West and other persons associated with
them, the same being the appraised value of the land herein
mentioned, do hereby bargain, sell and convey unto Horace
Greely of the City, County and State of New York In Trust
for the use and benefit of the said Nathan C. Meeker, Robert
A. Cameron, Henry T. West, and their associates, known and
designated as The Union Colony and associated together and
iThe original deed, from which this reprint is made, is to be found
among the deeds of the Union Colony in the colony safe.

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS 195
contributing the purchase money aforesaid for the purpose of
purchasing settling upon and improving lands in the Territory
of Colorado, and unto his successors heirs and assigns Forever
in Trust as aforesaid the following described Real Estate, situ
ate in the County of Weld and Territory of Colorado, to wit:
Price
Town- Sec- No of per Total
ship Range tion Part of Section Acres acre $
5 N 65 W 1 North half 317 50 3 952 80
5 " 65 " 1 South East £ 160 3 480 00
5 " 65 " 1 North £ South West \ 80 3 240 00
5" 65" 3  632 84 3 1898 52
5 " 65 " 5 South East i 160 4 640 00
5 " 65 " 5 South | South West \ 80 4 320 00
5 " 65 " 7  646 40 4 2585 60
5 " 65 " 9 South \ North East \ 80 4 320 00
5 " 65 " 9 North West \  160 5 640 00
5 " 65 " 9 South half  320 4 1280 00
5 " 65 " 11 North i North West J 80 3 240 00
5 " 65 " 15 North half  320 4 1280 00
5 " 65 " 15 North £ South East 1 80 4 320 00
5 " 65 " 15 East £ South West i 80 4 320 00
5 " 65 " 15 N. W. I South West \ 40 4 160 00
5 " 65 " 17  640 4 2560 00
5 " 66 " 33 North \ South East J 80 5 400 00
5 " 66 " 33 South West \  160 4 640 00
5 " 66 " 35 North! 320 3 960 00
4 " 66 " 5 South | North West { 8Q 5 400 00
6 " 65 " 29  640 3 1920 00
6 " 65 " 31 North West Quarter 164 32 3 492 96
6 " 65 " 33  640 3 1920 00
6 " 65 " 35  640 3 1920 00
6 " 66 " 25  640 3 1920 00
6 " 66 " 31 North \ North East \ 80 3 240 00
6 " 66 " 31 North \ North West \ 80 60 3 242 58
6 " 66 " 31 South i South East \ 80 3 240 00
6 " 66 " 31 South \ South West \ 82 04 3 246 12

196 THE UNION COLONY Price
Town- Sec- No of per Total
ship Range tion Part of Section Acres acre $
6 N. 66 W. 33 North \ North East \ 80 3 240 00
6 " 66 " 33 North \ North West \ 80 3 240 00
6 " 66 " 35 South \ South East \ 80 3 240 00
6 " 66 " 35 South \ South West \ 80 3 240 00
6 N. 67 W. 35 North \ North West £ 80 3 240 00
6N. 67 W. 25  640 3 1920 00
6 N. 67 W. 27 North half  320 3 960 00
6 N. 67 W. 27 South East \  160 3 480 00
6 N. 67 W. 35 North \ North East \ 80 3 240 00
6 N. 67 W. 35 South West \ 160 3 480 00

9324 06 31058 58
Reserving to said Company, and its assigns, the right of way for
said Railway two hundred (200) feet in width, and in manner
and form as provided by the Acts of Congress in relation thereto,
and provided also that said Company shall be exempt from all
claim for damages to the possession and use of said land that
may accrue to the party of the second part, or his assigns, in
the construction and operating of said Railway." 
To Have and to Hold the Same, Together with all and sin
gular the appurtenances thereto belonging, all the right title and
interest of the said Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Com
pany, and of the said Trustees, to the only proper use, benefit
and behoof of the said — Horace Greely, Trustee, in Trust
aforesaid, and to his successors, heirs and assigns forever 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this thirteenth day of April, A. D. 1870.
John Evans Trustee (Seal)
[Stamps $31.50]
Territory of Colorado j
County of Arapahoe \
I, Edward P. Jones a Notary Public in and for said Coun
ty in the Territory aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Evans

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS 197
personally known to me as the person whose name is subscribed
to the annexed deed, appeared before me this day in person and
acknowledged that he signed sealed and delivered said instru
ment of writing as his free and voluntary act and deed for the
uses and purposes therein set forth
Given under my hand and Notarial Seal this thirteenth day
of April A. D. 1870— Edward P. Jones
[Notarial Seal of Notary Public
Edward P. Jones.]
[Endorsed]
Deed John Evans, Trustee
to
Horace Greely Trustee
Territory of Colorado |
County of Weld \
This Deed was filed for record at 6 oclock P. M. Aprile
29th A D 1870 and duly recorded in Book No 1 of Deeds
Page 540 F. E. Moyer
Fees $3 65 Recorder

DEED FROM THE DENVER LAND ASSOCIATION TO
THE UNION COLONY.

1 This Indenture made the Ninth (9th) day of April in the
year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and Seventy,
Between D. H. Moffat Jr. Trustee of the Denver Land Asso
ciation, of the County of Arapahoe and Territory of Colorado
party of the first part, and Horace Greely of the city, county,
and state of New York party of the second part, Witnesseth:
That whereas N. C. Meeker, Henry T. West, Robert A. Cam
eron, and other persons have associated themselves under the
name and style of the "Union Colony", and now propose to
i The original deed is to be found in the colony safe.

198 ' THE UNION COLONY
settle upon Lands in the said Territory of Colorado. And
whereas, the said Union Colony has not yet become a body in
corporate. And whereas it has become desirable to purchase the
Real Estate hereinafter mentioned and described for the use
and benefit of said Colony and to vest the legal title therein in
some person as Trustee for said Colony. And whereas, the said
Colony repose special trust and confidence in Horace Greely.
as such Trustee, Now Therefore, the said party of the first part
for and in consideration of the sum of Twelve Hundred Dollars
(1200.) lawful money of the United States to himi in hand paid
by the said Union Colony, the receipt whereof is hereby con
fessed and acknowledged, has at the request of the said Union
Colony granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, con
veyed and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant, bargain,
sell, alien, remise, release, convey, and confirm unto the said
Horace Greely party of the second part and to his heirs, and
assigns forever, for the uses and purposes aforesaid all of the
following described lot or parcel of Land : situate lying and be
ing in the county of Weld, and Territory of Colorado. To Wit :
 The South East quarter (S. E. %) of North west quarter
(N. W. V4) North East quarter (N.E.14) of South west quar
ter (S.W.1/4-) and North west quarter (N.W.1,4.) of South
East quarter ( S.E. 14. ) of Section Thirty Two (32.) in Town
ship Six (6.) North of range Sixty Five (65.) West Con
taining One Hundred and Twenty acres (120) according to the
Government survey be the same more or less. Together, with
all and singular the tenements, hereditiments, and appurte
nances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the
rents issues and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title
interest, property, possession, claim, and, demand whatsoever
of the said party of the first part, either in law or equity, of, in
and to the above described premises and every part and parcel
thereof, with the appurtenances, to have and to hold, the above
granted bargained and described premises with the appur
tenances unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and
assigns forever. And the said David H. Moffat Jr. Trustee of
the Denver Land Association party of the first part for himself
and his successors covenants, grants and agrees to and with the

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS 199
said party of the second part his heirs and assign, that at the
time of the sealing and delivery of these presents they are law
fully seized of a good, absolute, and indefeasable estate of inher
itance in fee simple of, and in all and singular the above granted
and described premises, with the appurtenances, and have good
right, full power, and lawful authority to grant, bargain sell and
convey the same in manner aforesaid And that the said party
of the second part, his heirs and assigns shall and may, at all
times hereafter peaceably and quietly have, hold, use, occupy
possess and enjoy the above granted premises and every part and
parcel thereof with the appurtenances, and that the same now
are free, clear, discharged* and unincumbered of and from all
former & other grants, titles charges, estates, judgements, taxes,
assignments and incumbrances of what nature or kind soever;
and that the said party of the first part, and his successors, and
all persons lawfully, or equitably deriving any estate, right title
or interest of in or to said premises, by, from, or in trust for
him shall at all times make do and execute, or cause to be made
done or executed all and every such further and other lawful
and reasonable act or acts, conveyances or assurances for the
better or more effectually vesting and confirming the said prem
ises in and to the said party of the second part, his heirs or
assigns forever as the said party of the second part shall reason
ably require, and the above bargained premises in the quiet and
peaceable possession of the said party of the second part his,
heirs, and assigns against all and every person or persons law
fully claiming or to claim the whole or any part thereof, the
said party of the first part shall and will Warrant and forever
DEFEND 
In Witness Whereof, the said party of the first part has
hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above writ-
ten [Signed] David H Moffat Jr [Seal]
Trustee, of the Denver Land,
Association.
Signed, Sealed, and delivered,
in presence of
Geo W Wells [ Stamps $1. 50]
Frank Hoard —

200 THE UNION COLONY
Territory of Colorado \
County of Arapaho |
I, John O. Anderson a Notary Public in and for said Coun
ty, in the Territory aforesaid do hereby certify, That David H.
Moffat Jr. Trustee of the Denver Land Association who is per
sonally known to me as the person whose name is subscribed
to the within conveyance as a party thereto, and a[s] having
executed the same, appeared before me this day in person, and
acknowledged that he signed, sealed and delivered the said in
strument of writing, as his free and voluntary act, for the uses
and purposes therein set forth. Given under my hand and
Notarial Seal this Ninth (9th) day of April in the Year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Seventy. (A.D.1870.)
John C Anderson. Notary Public.
[Notarial Seal of John C. Anderson.]
[Endorsed] ^
David H. Moffat Jr.
Trustee of the Denver Land Association
to
Horace Greely.
Trustee of the Union Colony.
Territory of Colorado |
County of Weld j SS
This Deed was filed for record at 3 o'clock P. M. Aprile
15th A. D. 1870, and duly recorded in Book No. 1 of Deeds
PaSe501 F.E.Moyer
Fees $3 00 Recorder

A COLONY DEED, WITH LIQUOR CLAUSE.

1 This Indenture, Made this Twenty Second day of De
cember in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
iThe original deed is to be found among the miscellaneous deeds and
papers of the Union Colony Historical Society.

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS 201
seventy between The Union Colony of Colorado, of the first
part, and W. D. Hartley of the second part,
Witnesseth, That the said party of the first part, in con
sideration of the sum of Two Hundred and Thirty Dollars in
hand paid, by the said party of the second part ; and, also, the
further consideration, that it is expressly agreed between the
parties hereto, that intoxicating liquors shall never be manufac
tured, sold, or given away in any place of public resort as a
beverage, on said premises; and that in case any one of these
conditions shall be broken or violated, this conveyance and every
thing herein contained shall be null and void ; and, also, in fur
ther consideration, that the said party of the second part shall
never present or prosecute any claims for damages done by any
irrigating ditch which passes through, or may pass through the
land described in this conveyance, against the said party of the
first part — has granted, bargained and sold, and by these pres
ents does grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said party of
the second part, his heirs and assigns, the following described
lands and premises, in the Town of Greeley, County of Weld,
and Territory of Colorado, viz :
Lot Eighteen, Block Thirty eight, Lot Five Block Sixty
eight To Have and to Hold the same with all the privileges
and appurtenances, and all the estate, right, title and interest
of the said party of the first part, either in law or equity, to
the only proper use and benefit of the said party of the second
part, his heirs and assigns forever.
In Witness Whereof, The said party of the first part has
hereunto set his hand and the Corporate Seal of said Colony,
by N. C. Meeker its representative and Attorney in fact the day
and year above written. N. C. Meeker President.
Attest: Wm E Pabor Secretary.
[Stamp 50 cts]
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of

202 THE UNION COLONY
COLORADO TERRITORY, ) r SS
WELD COUNTY. )
On this Twenty Second day of December A. D. 1870 N.
C. Meeker Pres Union Colony came before me, and personally
acknowledged that he had executed the within conveyance ; and
I certify that I know the said N. C. Meeker who made the said
acknowledgment, to be the same person described in, and who
executed the said conveyance.
Given under my hand and seal, this Twenty Second day of
December A. D. 1870
Wm E Pabor
Notary Public in and for Weld County,
[Notarial Seal] Colorado
, [Endorsed]
DEED— The Union Colony of Colorado
to
W. D. Hartley
Territory of Colorado,
County of Weld
This Deed was filed for record at 6 o'clock P M. Mar 24
1871 and duly recorded in Book 2 page No. 220
Fees, $1.25 Paid W. J. Kram Recorder.

INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF GREELEY.

[p 83]
1 Be it remembered that on the 29th day of May A. D. 1871
the Board of County Commissioners met at Evans County Seat
of said County of Weld 

[p. 84]
Genl R A. Cameron presented the following petition from
Citizens of Greeley
iCommissioners Record, Weld County, I.

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS 203
To the Honorable
The Board of County Commissioners of the County of
Weld and Territory of Colorado.
We the undersigned taxable Electors of the Town of Gree
ley, Weld Co. Colorado do respectfully
Petition
That you will lay out and declare Incorporate the Town
of Greeley, as comprised within the following described Metes
and Bounds, to-wit

[p. 85] [So declared incorporate.]
At the request of the Citizens of the Town of Greeley, it was
Ordered that R. A. Cameron, N. D. Wright, A. N. Nettleton,
L. Hanna and H. T. West be and hereby are appointed Trus
tees of said Town of Greeley, to serve until their successors
shall have been elected and qualified

ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
THE TOWN OF GREELEY.

1 Town of Greeley,
Weld County, Colorado Ter.

Trustees of Town of Greeley,

R. A. Cameron, H. T. West,
N. D. Wright. E. S. Nettleton,
Levi Hanna.

Organization Organization of Board of Trustees.

Meeting At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
of Town of Greeley, held in said town June 10th,
June 10. A. D. 1871. present Messrs Cameron, West, Wright
1871. and Nettleton. R. A. Cameron was elected Presi-
iMinute Book, Town of Greeley I, p. 3. This volume is in the custody
of the city clerk of Greeley.

204 THE UNION COLONY

dent of the Board, and Wm. E. Pabor, was ap
pointed Town Clerk.

THE TRIAL OF THE WHISKY RIOTERS.

[p. 112]
1 The People ) „„ . -r.- ^ c
v „ > ob Arson Kiot &c
Ralph Meeker Alonzo Long J Max Clark and one Post and one
Strunk
Complaint sworn to and filed in my office this 30th day of
October 1870. against the above mentioned Ralph Meeker Alon
zo Long J Max Clark and one Post and one Strunk charging
them with Arson, and, Riot and Destroying property belonging
to the Complainant Signed Fritz Ninyer
Warrant isued this 30th day of October 1870 for the
above mentioned Ralph Meeker Alonzo Long J Max Clark and
one Post and one Strunk returnable forthwith
And now this 30th day of October 1870' Alonzo Long one
of the above mentioned names was brought before me and
entered into recognizance with F. L Childs as Security in the
sum of five hundred dollars for to appear at my office on the
31st day of October 1870 at Eleven oclock A M. for examina
tion on the charges pref ered as above
Subpoena's issued for R A Cameron M. S. Gurley Russel
Fisk J. H. Leatherman Jerry Titcomb George Fry Jno Peach
— Davis Kellog ordering them to appear at 11 oclock the 31st
day of October 1870 at my office in Greely
Warrant returned endorsed [p. 113] executed by arresting
the within named Ralph Meeker Alonzo Long J Max Clark
iJustice of the Peace Docket Book, entitled on its cover, "Weld
County, A. H. M. Docket, 1870." This volume was deposited in 1917 by
the editor, on behalf of Mr. George Young of Evans, with the county
clerk of Weld County, at Greeley. The initials A. H. M. are those of
Anson H. Mallory.

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS 205
Wm H Post Edgar Strunk and one man who refuses to make
known his name on separate warrant and having them in court
and now at 11 oclock Oct 1870 the above named prisoners were
put on their examination and plead not guilty
After having J. D. Gargan Justice of the peace associated
with me The witnesses on the part of the people were sworn
and, we proceed to examine them assisted by Anson Mallery
who acted as attorney for the people After hearing the evi
dence of several witnesses and it appearing that services could
not be had on some of the witnesses wanted on behalf of the
people the court was adjourned until 9 oclock A. M. on the lst
day of November 1870 the prisoners entering into bonds of
two thousand dollars with C F Banby as security Conditioned
that they appear as above specified Nov lst 1870 Court opened
the accused all apeared and as there had been no evidence
against J Max Clark he was discharged by the court after which
the court adjourned until one oclock P. M. And now at 1
oclock p. m Nov lst 1870 Court opened and proceeded hear
testimony on the part of the People the accused [p. 114] all
present after hearing all the evidence on the part of the people
that could be obtained W H. Post was Discharged
C F Hanby one of the witnesses for the defense was sworn
by affirming After hearing all the evidence by the people and
witnesses of the defense it is our Judgement that Alonzo Long
and Edgar Strunk be discharged and that Ralph Meeker be held
under bonds for his appearance at the next district court to be
held on the second Tuesday in December at Evans in the sum
of three hundred dollars for the crime of Riot
And also that Wm Norcross be held in the sum of three
hundred dollars to apear at the same place and on the same
day for the crime of Arson
and this is our Judgement this November lst A. D. 1870
J H Pinkerton J P (Seal)
J. D. Gargan J. P (Seal)
Ralph Meeker filed his Bond this Nov lst 1870 William E
Pabor surity

206 THE UNION COLONY
Wm Norcross filed his Bond this lst 1870
Doct Barclay surity
[p. 122]
The People
VS.
R A Cameron }¦ S S. Weld County Colorado Ter
E. W. Gurley
Russell Fisk
The above named R. A Cameron E. W. Gurley and Rus
sell Fisk came before me on change of venue from Esquire Gar
gan from the showing of the papers the accused were entered
into recognizance to appear before me at Evans charged with
inciting Riot and other misdemeanor set forth in complaint
the above named parties appeared before me at Evans this
12th day of December A. D. 1870 at 10 oclock P. M. and after
the court having consulted M. A. Baggers District Aty it was
deemed advisable by the court that the case be continued ten
days therefore the case is continued until Thursday the 22nd at
10 oclock p. m. at my office in Greeley Col Ter
Thursday December 1870 at 10 clock A M the defendants
appeared and asked to be discharged which by the advise of the
prosecuting atty was done
It is therefore the Judgment of this Court that the people
pay the costs J H Pinkerton J P

1 Territory of Colorado | „„
Weld County } bb
Fritz Nemeyer made Complaint on the oath before J. D.
Gargan and enters complaint that on or about the 23rd of Octo
ber R A. Cameron E. W. Gurley, and Russell Fisk came to
deponents place of business, and by force and intimidation com-
ijustice of the Peace Docket Book of J. D. Gargan, p. 9. This volume
is without title, but covers the period of November, 1870 and September,
1873. It is in the custody of the county clerk of Weld County, at Greeley.

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS 207
pelled him to leave his house, and thereby then, & there insti
gate a riot and encourage the same — Whereupon the said J. D.
Gargan J. P. Issues a warrant for the arrest of R. A. Cameron
E. W. Gurley & Russell Fisk. A. T. Drake makes return' of said
Warrant by bringing the prisoners into Court — A. T. Drake Sub-
poneas Peter Smith H D Kellog and, D. W. C Root as wit
nesses said witnesses appear in Court Prisoners. File affidavit
that J D. Gargan is so prejudiced against them that they cannot
safely go to trial
Gave change of venue to J. H. Pinkerton J. P.
Turned over papers & prisoners to the aforesaid Justice
Justices fees Warrant for Three person $2.00
Subpoena " three " 1.00
Change of Venue .50 $3.50
Docketing Case 25

3 75
Dated this tenth day of December A. D. 1870
J. D. Gargan J. P.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

WILLIAM N. BYERS CORRESPONDENCE 1
[p. 1] 2Mch 24 [18] 70
Col. J. S. Loomis
New York,
Dear Sir : I reached home this a. m. at 4 :30 in excellent
health. Secured the two rooms opposite the railway offices at
$35. per month; possession next week. Will get the proposi
tions required by Meeker this evening or tomorrow. Write him
by 6 o'clock mail today & will do same tomorrow — to St Louis.
Materials all purchased today for the Denver Pacific.
I wish McCaffrey would stop a day at Omaha and examine
Davis land system. I think some of his books & maps an im
provement on anything I have before seen. He will be given
every facility & politeness. I hope you will send him out at
once. Weather magnificent. Plowing & planting progressing
rapidly. Yours Truly, Wm. N. Byers.

[p. 2] Mch. 24 [18]70
N. C. Meeker & Gen. Cameron
St Louis, Mo.
Gentlemen: I reached home this morning. Have the
promise of a proposition and favorable terms from the Denver
Land Association, and Gov. Evans is to see Phelps (who arrived
iMr. Byers was general manager for Colorado of the National Land
Company, assuming his duties as such in March, 1870. The appointment
was accepted during a trip to New York made during the months of
January — March, 1870. Mr. Byers' Diary of the year 1870, in the posses
sion of his son, Frank S. Byers, of Denver, contains the details of this trip.
2The following letters of Mr. Byers, with the exception of those of
July 22, 1870 and April 26 and 28, 1871, are to be found in his letter copy
book, relating to the affairs of the National Land Company. The three
exceptions are to be found in the letter copy book of General Correspond
ence for the period 1868-1871. Both of these books were kindly placed at
my disposal by Mr. Frank S. Byers. 209

210 THE UNION COLONY
here today) and secure same from him, for the Cache-a-la-Poudre
tracts. I have no doubt that tomorrow will be able to advise you
of both. Then will see what can be done with other tracts in
same neighborhood. Will write you again tomorrow.
Wm. N. Byers,
Manager N. L. Co. for Col.

[p. 3] March 24 [18] 70
Col. John S. Loomis
2 Astor House New York.
Dear Sir : Have secured today written agreements covering
the tracts of land bordering Cache-a-la-Poudre desired by Meeker
colony. I write him to St Louis. Yours Truly Wm. N. Byers.

Mch. 25 [18] 70
N. C. Meeker & Gen Cameron
St Louis, Mo.
Gentlemen : Have secured the refusal of all Phelp's' land
at $10. per acre & the Denver Land Association tract at $15 per
acre — written propositions for both, running for thirty days from
this date. Have talked a good deal with the railway directors
and think we will have no difficulty in coming to terms.
Hoping to see you soon, believe me yours truly,
Wm. N. Byers.

[p. 12] April 3d [1870]
Col. John S. Loomis
2 Astor House N. Y.
Dear Sir: Have not yet rec'd a line from you nor from
any one else of the Co. — not a blank or anything else. Am
needing some money badly to fix up office & pay current ex
penses. Please have some forwarded at once. What delays Mc
Caffrey ? He ought to be here. Am receiving filings every
day and am kept busy all the time answering questions and in
fixing up the Meeker business. I go with them tomorrow to

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE 211
Evans and the Cache-a-la-Poudre. Guess will get them fixed
out in three or four days more. Must get up tract books &
plats as soon as possible. Send some Stars soon as possible.
What about commissions to local agents ?
Weather magnificent. Only one cloudy day & one snow
squall since came home. Crops nearly all in & small grain com
ing up finely. Yours Truly, Wm. N. Byers.
[In left hand margin.]
I have applications for passage tickets — emigrant — from
Norway. Give me best terms. We must beat the local I [illeg
ible] for emigrants.

[p. 13] April 3d [1870]
Chas. B. Lambom, Esq.
Sec. & Treas. N. L. Co.
5th & Elm sts, St. Louis Mo.
Dear Sir : Col. Loomis assured me when I left New York
that he would at once have some money transferred hither to
meet expenses in fitting up office &c. None has yet come and I
am needing it badly. I also need blanks and forms every day.
Applications for land are coming in every day but I can as yet
do nothing except place them on file. We can have a large busi
ness just as soon as we can be prepared for it.
Mr Meeker and Gen. Cameron are here. I go north with
them tomorrow. I think will fix them out in two or three days
more. The K. P. should lose no time in getting their grant ad
justed to their located line on this end the route. Yours truly,
Wm. N. Byers

[p. 14] April 6, [1870^
Gen Wm. J. Palmer
Kit Carson, Col.
Dear Sir : Have secured the location of the Union (Meek
er) Colony on D. P. land. We are now making selections.
Their cash payment for railway lands will be $30,000 to

212 THE UNION COLONY
$35,000. They also buy about $25,000 worth private lands and
a large quantity from Gov't We returned this morning from
their location. Improvements will be commenced at once and
pushed actively.
There is a large and growing enquiry for lands and many
enquiries for those of the Kansas Pacific. If possible appraise
ments should be made upon this end of the line without delay.
Mean time I am' receiving applications for same. Have filed
three today. Applications for D. P. lands are also pouring in
daily. Please advise me whether there is probability of change in
the location [p. 15] of your grant. As I understand it your
located line runs entirely off it.
Am glad to have your explanation of the Smith and Smed-
ley matter — but yet think it important that their interest and
influence should be conciliated if it can be done reasonably.
Hope to hear from you about the land matter and location
of grant without delay. Yours Very truly, Wm. N. Byers

[p. 16] April 6, [1870]
Col. John S. Loomis
New York N. Y.
My Dear Sir : Have anchored the Union Colony (Meeker)
as anticipated. Came from the location this morning — rode all
night. We are busy selecting their first batch of lands & will
complete it tomorrow. Will report the result when through.
Applications are pouring in & I am filing them but am not
yet ready for a single transaction. Have no tract books, plats,
blanks, forms, instructions nor anything else. No letter from
you yet not word of McCaffrey.
The Kansas Pacific should adjust their grant to their loca
tion, if they are going to change, and appraise their lands at this
end of the line. Filings upon them are coming in daily. Please
hurry up my affairs. Yours Truly,
Wm. N. Byers.

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Think we can secure agency for lands of St. Joseph & Denver
road by a little figuring. Have the ropes in hand. Best streak
of lands across the plains.

[p. 17] Apr. 8, ![1870]
Chas. B. Lamborn, Esq,
5th & Elm Sts, St Louis, Mo.
Dear Sir: Received your telegram yesterday and this
morning drew upon you for $200. This will not be sufficient
to get my office fairly started — to furnish it, procure signs, sta
tionery &c. Col. Loomis told me, last thing, to open a good
office and fit it up in good style, which I am endeavoring to do,
but am incurring no unnecessary expense.
Have located the Meeker colony and selected a portion of
their lands. Will complete the sale tomorrow or Monday and
can then make you a good report for a beginning.
Applications are coming in rapidly. The Kansas Pacific
ought to get their lands in shape for market at once. Please
push them. Yours truly, Wm. N. Byers.

[p. 18] Apr. 12 [1870]
Col. J. S. Loomis
2 Astor House N. Y.
Dear Sir: Enclosed I send you a/c of first sale to Union
Colony for which they pay cash. They will make another large
cash purchase in a few days and have contracted for all the rail
way lands at present surveyed north of the Caehe-a-la-Poudre.
They have also paid out to private parties over $25,000 for en
tries of land that had been made inside their location. Gen.
Cameron takes charge and goes to' work actively at once on the
ground. Quite a number of the colonists are dropping in.
Meeker leaves today or tomorrow for New York.
I am kept busy answering questions and talking about land.
Need McCaffrey badly so we can get maps, plats and books in
order for business.

214 THE UNION COLONY
Will the company authorize any advertising here ? I think
it would be beneficial.
[p. 19] In talking with Col. Greenwood the other day — suggest
ing that the K. P. Co. should at once appraise their lands on
this end the line so that we could be selling them, he remarked
that he had been applied to for lands and he thought he would
have some one sent up to examine & fix a price upon them so
that he could sell. I asked if the applications would not have
to be referred to the N. L Co? He said, "No, the K. P. re
serves the right to sell its lands and to keep an agent in each
town for that purpose." This was news to me and I think must
result in confusion. How is it? I am receiving applications
for K. P. lands and by a little advertising could, I think, secure
nearly all, but if the railway company is so disposed, they can
greatly embarrass our operations.
Mr. Lamborn authorized me by telegraph to draw upon him
for $200. which I did but it is insufficient to meet first [p. 20]
month's bills, increased, as they are, by expense of fitting up
office — signs, furniture, stationery &c. Hereafter they will be
comparatively light.
Will send estimate on the Star * when copy of New York
edition is received.
My friend, L. W. Tappan, of this city leaves today for New
York and I have advised him to make your acquaintance.
Please introduce him where convenient and promising advantage
to his plans which he will explain.
Gen. Palmer and Col. Reiff are here and leave soon for an
excursion to South Park and upper Arkansas.
The stages are unable to carry the incoming passengers
though they bring from 60 to 70 per day from Evans alone.
Please hurry up the K. P. land business and instruct Mr
Lamborn about my a/c's. Yours Truly
Wm. N. Byers.
1The official advertising paper of the National Land Company, called
the Star of Empire.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE 215
[P- 29] Apr. 12 [1870]
Chas. B. Lamborn Esq.
Treas. & Secy. N. L. Co.
Saint Louis Mo.
Dear Sir: Herewith I send copy of first cash sale — $31,-
058.58 — to the Union Colony. They promise to make another
similar selection in a few days and have made contract by
which they agree to buy all railway lands at present surveyed
north of the Cache-a-la-Poudre.
I report sale to Col. Loomis direct. Yours Truly Wm. N. Byers

[p. 32] Apr. 13 [1870]
Col. J. S. Loomis
6 Astor House N. Y.
Dear Sir : I enclose you a copy of the form of deed adopted
by the D. P. R. Co. yesterday. You will observe a special pro
vision respecting fencing the track which must be explained to
persons who think of purchasing lands contiguous thereto. Pre
vious ignorance of it raised a terriblebreeze with the Union Col
ony folks yesterday but this morning all was made serene by the
Railway Co. conceding the point in their case. They had given
notice withdrawing all negotiations.
We will have to procure I suppose official copies of all
plats. From where best ; the Sur. Gen'l, or Land Office ?
What commission to local agents, and what instructions
about supplying them with appraisement lists, plats &c ? Sev
eral must be appointed soon.
[p. 33] Gen Hughes notifies me that he has collected for you a
quantity of ores — probably a 1000 pounds. Shall I have them
boxed and shipped ?
Meeker and Cameron, have got terribly out with Gov. Evans
and somewhat with Gen. Pierce. They say that hereafter all
their transactions will be through us. They are buying tools &c
and employing men to go to work. Notice this week's News.
Yours Truly, Wm. N. Byers.

216 THE UNION COLONY
[p. 60] Apr 27 [1870]
Gen. R. A. Cameron
Evans Col.
Dear Sir: I understand you talked of contracting with
some one here for 100 farm wagons. If so please give us a show.
I think we can give you as low prices and favorable terms as
anybody. Are you going to make another selection of lands before
May lst? Yours Truly Wm. N. Byers.

[p. 76] May 9 [1870]
Col. J. S. Loomis
Prest. Nat'l Land Co. 2 Astor House, N. Y.
Dear Sir : Col. Fisher, Supt. D. P. R. sent up a complaint
today that half a dozen passengers came over the road with
Union Colony tickets claiming that they should carry them to
Denver — saying they were so assured in New York. He was
going to repudiate them altogether but telegraphed Gov. Evans
who replied that his understanding with you extended to all who
desired to purchase lands. Last week an English party came
through on Colony tickets and when the train stopped at Greeley
no one got off, which seems to have irritated the railway men
somewhat. Cannot you make arrangement for low rate excursion tick
ets, with return to cover sixty or ninety days for us.
Yours Truly, Wm. N. Byers.

[p. 84] May 13 [1870]
C. N. Pratt, Esq.
Gen. Ag't. N. L. Co.
Chicago, 111.
Dear Sir: We have made no arrangements nor promises
for agency at Greeley. There will be but little to do there
since the Colony itself covers all the adjacent country. How
ever, we may when the work in this office is brought up, be able
to give Mr Elliott something to do. As you are aware the rail-

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE 217
way co. reserves the right to nominate our local agents but our
preferences will, I have no doubt, be in all cases considered.
I hear of a good deal of dissatisfaction at Greeley and some
of the sore heads have applied for the use of our columns which
was denied. I expected this result.
I expect Col. Loomis tomorrow night. McCaffrey is sick —
laid up. Yrs. Truly,
Wm. N. Byers,
Gen. Manager N. L. Co.

[p. 91] May 14 [1870]
H. T. West, Esq.
Greeley C. T.
De~ j Sir : I enclose diagram showing the condition of Sec
1, T 5, R 66 W. and price of the land remaining vacant. You
will observe that four forties of that you want have been en
tered. They have never belonged to the railway company. In
the present condition of the section I do not know whether you
will want any of it at all. If you do, you can send memoran
dum of the particular tracts, & check, and I will have deeds made
& send you at once.
A dispatch from a disgusted colonist appeared in the St
Louis Democrat this morning to the effect that the Colony has
broken up & the members scattering every where. I dispatched
the associated Press contradicting it. Hoping to hear from you
soon, I am, y's truly, Wm. N. Byers.
Gen. Manager.
Send the News word as to your progress.
Will publish with pleasure.
[In margin to left.] Will have blank deeds sent.

[p. 191] July 5, [1870]
Col. John S. Loomis,
2 Astor House N. Y.
Dear Sir: Herewith find copies of report of last month's
business. It shows some improvement over that of May and

218 THE UNION COLONY
just about covers all expenses. With only one eighth of our lands
in Colorado ready for market it cannot be expected that we will
do a very heavy business. The footings of our appraisement
sheets show 531.438 87/100 acres, of the value $2,097,351
32/100. Average $3.94 6/10 per acre.
Please look over my letters and answer some others that
seem to need reply.
We are trying to recuperate from a "total abstinence" cele
bration at Greeley yesterday. It was "mighty thin" but good.
They are doing famously, lying reports to the contrary notwith
standing. Expense this month will be considerably reduced.
Yours Truly,
Wm. N. Byers,
Gen. Manager N. L. Co.

[p. 227] July 22, [187] 0
N. C. Meeker, Esq.,
Pres't Union Colony No. 1, of Colorado,
Greeley, Colorado.
Dear Sir: I hereby tender my resignation as Trustee of
your colony, to take effect from the date of its acceptance by
your Executive Committee. The time has doubtless arrived
when you have abundant support within yourselves and it is cer
tainly most proper that all your affairs should be controlled at
home. Wishing you every success and the most unbounded pros
perity, believe me, as ever, yours most truly Wm. N. Byers.

[p. 231] August 1, [187] 0.
Col. Chas. B. Lamborn
Sec'y & Treas. Nat'l Land Co.
Cor. 5th & Elm Sts. St. Louis Mo.
Dear Sir : Herewith I transmit our monthly statement for
July, statement of account and abstract of vouchers. Business
has been very bad. The Union Colony were to have paid us at
least $10,000 in cash in July but failed! to come to time. Farm-

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE 219
ers who want to square out their farms have been busy with their
harvest and many have written to request a few week's or
month's delay. I think this month will be considerably better,
and hope before long that some of the promised new colonies
will begin their selections.
Judge Devereux gave orders today for a set of plats for his
appraisers, but he has not yet explained his plans. Please ac
knowledge receipt. Yours Truly. Wm ^ fi
Gen Manager
[In margin to left] Will get Gov. Evans to advance our July
commissions & then draw upon you for $35.88 to balance ac
counts.

[p. 246] August 11, [187] 0.
Col. Chas. B. Lamborn
Sec'y & Treas. N. L. Co.
5th and Elm Sts. St. Louis, Mo.
Dear Sir: Yours of 7th inst at hand.
The Union Colony made a contract for a certain body of
land for which they were to pay cash from time to time for cer
tain portions — 1/5 of the whole each year for five years. Each
year there is an advance in price of 50 cts per acre. The pur
chase they made the other day was outside of the land covered
by that contract, hence the departure from the original agree
ment. They were to have made another selection and cash pay
ment in July but failed to do so. They promised about $10,000
in that month. Business is running much better this mo.
I enclose Mr McCaffrey's voucher for July, signed. Think
I will avoid such an oversight hereafter. Yours Truly,
Wm. N. Byers,
Gen. Manager

[p. 419] April 26, [1871]
PrivateWm. E. Pabor, Esq.
Greeley, Col.
Dear Sir: Do the colony records show that I was ever

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enrolled as a member ? I have recently been told that they do.
If yes, has any_ selection been made for me, and is there yet time
to pay arrearages ? An answer will much oblige yours truly,
Wm. N. Byers.

[p. 419] April 28, [187] 1.
Wm. E. Pabor, Esq,
Greeley, Colorado.
Dear Sir : Your favor of yesterday's date at hand. Many
thanks. It is as I thought in regard to membership but, I was as
sured that my name appeared on the list as having paid the
initial fee ($5.00) which I thought possible.
I would like to go in but am too hard up at present to
make a start. Many thanks for your kind offer.
Yours Truly, Wm. N. Byers.

MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.

[Cameron to ? Dr. Charles Emerson.]
Elmira N— Y— March 17, 1870
My dear Doctor —
I am just back from New York this evening, having been
snow bound twelve hours, and was very glad to meet your let
ter here. The propositions we found in New York were incomplete
and unsatisfactory, seeming determined to drive us to Evans,
where every body says we must not go ; which is in accordance,
you remember, with the advice and opinion you privately gave
me. Mr Meeker and myself are to be sent back to reopen and
!A11 of the following letters are to be found among the collections
of the Union Colony Historical Society.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE 221
close negotiations when the right point is reached. I am to be
left on the ground to act as Superintendent to locate the people.
If you know of a competent person (who is or wishes to
be a member of the Colony) to act as Surveyor in running out
and [p. 2] plotting the town and adjoining lands, write me
here within a week and after ten days at Denver. We may
give him employment.
We have agreed to out the out-lying property into pieces
of five acres, ten, twenty, forty, eighty, and one hundred and
sixty each, and to apprize each tract, the average value at $150
each, making those who have the best pieces pay a little some
thing to those who have the poorest. And in case two or more
persons insist upon having the same tract, to then sell it to the
highest bidder. We have agreed to give sufficient ground to any
parties, over and above their share, who will erect grist-mill —
saw-mill or a good brick hotel containing 90 rooms
As soon as a location is made, I will write you (tele
graph if you wish) that you may be on the ground at once. I
hope you may see it to your interest to do so; as I know you
and will need your Counsel and advice.
I wish you could unite with some parties [p. 3] in putting
up a temporary hotel and boarding house, if your first location
does not suit you the building could be taken down and moved
anywhere. Not that you might desire to run a hotel but you
might find some partner that would. The want for it will be
immediate and pressing. I am in correspondence with some
parties in Texas in regard to operations in cattle, which I shall
open to you when we meet again.
If you are early on the ground, you will have many oppor
tunities to see what is necessary to be done, and what will pay
the best the first season.
My eldest daughter, who has consumption, is quite feeble.
I hope to be able to get her to Colorado in May, in which case
I am not without hope she may recover. Very truly yours
R. A. Cameron —

222 THE UNION COLONY
[Meeker to West.]
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY,
Denver, Colorado, April 11 1870.
H. T West
Evans Colorado Dear friend,
We cannot well get thro so as to start before
to morrow noon & we shall probably come in our own convey
ance We have a surveyor engaged here, on Dean who is said to
be a good man — I would be glad to have Mr. Phelps survey
the Ditch if he can get time — but we want to be there when it
is done — We have had great trouble with Barnes but have
finaly closed with him & paid his check — Tuttie started at noon
Truly N — C — Meeker

[Cameron to West.] Denver Aprl 13 70
Brother West
Mr. Meeker left this afternoon with the "Colony Horse and
Waggon" He will arive tomorow night, and give you full par
ticulars I enclose you a pass obtained from [p. 2] Governor Evans.
The President has the neccesary papers for your Notarial Public
appointment. Truly yours R. A. Cameron.

[Cameron to ? Meeker.] Denver April 15 70
Dear Friend
I wish you would not sign that contract which the D. P.
R R gave us for 50,000 acres of Land as it is not according
to our agreement, but return them to me blank and I will have
new ones drawn by Mr. Witter.
We agreed for 50,000 acres north [p. 2] of the La Poudre
to be covered by a ditch running from the cannon on a practical

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE 223
rout East, and it was repeated over and over again that they did
not expect us to take any north of that ditch line.
Now a strict construction of the words put in by Evans that
we were to take the Sections in [p. 3] a line would make us take
many sections of land as you will see by the large map given us
to act upon which they never expected to sell us, or even any
one else. It is best to have it made plain now before we in
crease any further the values of lands, [p. 4] I think you bet
ter not make any perminent record of any buisness under our
Legal Organization as the Union Colony of Colorado untill we
can be together as some important points have occurd to me.
I have seen Wheelers brother and he will send [p. 5] him
in so I can close with him Monday.
Tell Sanborn that his friend Mr.  who he boarded
with will send him money today.
I wrote to West a day ago sending him his pass but now
find it in my pocket and enclose it. Truly yours R. A. Cameron.

[Meeker to Cameron.]
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY
Chicago, Ap 25 1870
Genl Cameron Greely Col —
Mr Pratt of the above Company has joined our Colony and
as he is confined here attending to transportation matters he
wishes you would make a selection for him of a lot say of 10
acres, or he he would like it not more than 2 miles from town
in which case he would not expect so much. Now please make
a good selection for him, for he will do good service for the
Colony as you will know he is able so to do
Truly Yours
N — C — Meeker.

224 THE UNION COLONY
[Cameron to ? West1.]
Greeley Colorado July 25 70
Dear Old Brother
You left very suddenly, not even saying "good by."
Since you left we have received the resignations of Mr.
Witter & Mr. Byers, and a private letter from the former a
very interesting letter intended only for our private eye.
Nothing can be [p. 2] done untill you return, and then I
have something to say to you.
You know that the success of the Colony is due to Mr
Meeker, and yourself with my little help and no one can rob us
of the honor
I shall write my wife to come out with you on the 10 of
August. My Brother-in-law Mr. Fitch Flower [p. 3] will also
call on you coming through with our car-load of Freight and
may ask your councle.
Please also call on Drug house and tell them we shall order
a little bill from them within the next six weeks. Make arrang-
ments also, for us to purchas book and [p. 4] Stationary, also
Segars and Tobaco.
Write us soon and remember me ever as your friend
R. A. Cameron.
[p. 5] P. S.
When my wife and two children arive in Chicago, see if
you cannot get them passes out, as Mr. Meeker did his.
You can say what you know to be true that I have worked
to hold this thing up and make it a success, and you can tell
them how valuable my [p. 6] labors have been as compared with
any ones else. You know what two men have had most of the
weight thrown on their shoulders.
Do this and I can recriprocate some day. Yours Cameron
iMr. West seems to have been absent from Greeley in July and
August, 1870, as his name does not appear in the minutes of the trustees
for that period.

private correspondence 225
[Nettleton to West.]
Mr H. T West Pleasantville Penna
Greeley Col. Dec 8^ 1870
Dr Sir.
I wish to inquire if Babcock has deposited a check in the
Bank to my credit for $88 00 also if McDivitt & Stratton have
left the am't of their bills.
I have not sold my property yet. Money is a little close
here and business quite dull on account of the low price of oil
which is caused by the Foreign War, but principally by the
large increase of production amounting to over 18000 bbls pr
day against about 12000 one year ago — Property has declined
in value here since last spring — I have done but little surveying
since I returned having been summoned On the Grand Jury a
few days after my return — The weather has been very fine
here all of the fall this eve are having a warm thunder shower.
Some friend kindly sent me the first number of the Gree
ley Tribune which is quite creditable
I had subscribed for it and the Rocky Mountain News
(weekly) but neither have yet made their appearance
What is the news in Greeley? Have you any stock for
sale located or not if so please describe the location and state
prices I have some friends who wish to buy —
You cannot sell me another ticket via the St Louis and
Chicago R. R. as the holders are entitled to only Second class
fare on that Road. Did you know it when you sold me the
ticket ?
I am very glad to learn by McDonnald that the ditch is so
near done I had not calculated that it would be finished this
fall or before cold weather —
The progress of the Colony is watched with much interest
by many people in the East, and it seems to me that arrange
ments for building Diteh No 1 might be made, as many are
looking towards Colorado for a place settle — My best re
gards to all who may inquire
I am yours very Respectfully E. S. Nettleton

226 THE UNION COLONY
[Nettleton to West.] Pleasantville Penna
Jany 18, 1871
Friend West
Yours of the 20th ult came in due time — I learn that the
price of membership has been put down to $155, that being the
case I do not think the locations on those you have will war
rant the advances — if I reccollect Block 40 lies down near the
river and is not a desireable building lot — I did not have any
trouble with the ticket I bought of you, although it did not
entitle me to first class fare over the St. Louis & Chicago R. R.
but through kindness of the conductor received what I expected
when I purchased the ticket
How did some of the timid ones in Greeley stand it with
the thermometer 28° below zero? I hear the cold you had about
the middle of Dec was uncomon for that locality. I hope so.
About the Holidays we had extreme cold here 14° below is the
lowest I have heard here, last week we had a January "break
up" which spoilt our fine sleighing and nearly took the frost
out of the ground —
From different sources I learn that there is a fine pros
pect for a large emigration to our neighborhood next season.
I presume you are acquainted with many in the Chicago
Colony. Have they made the selection yet ?
The Colorado fever is raging here considerably Some of my
friends insist that I shall deliver a public lecture on matters
pertaining to Colorado, the Union Colony and Greeley — if I
had the Generals gift I would not object, but really people
are very much interested in things connected with [p. 2] the
Colony. I have to spend about two hours each day in answering
inquiries and explaining matters about the past present and
future of the Country and Colony
Several families will probably go from this vicinity next
season. Many more will go if they can sell out — just now it
is a very bad time to sell — Money is quite close and business
dull, though the staple product of this country is looking up
which has a tendency already to help business

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE 227
I have not sold my House & Lot yet and hardly think I
shall I have a good opportunity to rent for about 10 p ct — on
its value and I think I may do that instead of selling at a sacri
fice though I had much rather have the money to use in the
Westn- [Personal matters. 2 paragraphs omitted.]
I have the promise from some Capitalists to visit Greeley
in the Spring with a view of investing in stock, manufactures
or something which may look favorable for moderate but sure
returns —
[Personal matters. 3 lines omitted.] E. S. Nettleton

[Nettleton to West.] Pleasantville Penna
February 11th 1871 {
Saturday Eve \
My Friend West
Your letter of the 4th inst is at hand. And as I shall re
turn so soon I think I had not better purchase the stock you
speak of, though before mailing this I will show some parties
here who are intending to purchase new certificates the loca
tion on the map of the city, and perhaps they will think best
to pay the advance in order to secure the Residence lots — Sev
eral parties from this place intend to visit Greeley this spring
but from your Report they will find it rather "Dry picking"
for City lots — We ought to have made the town site larger, and
I can see that some will be very much dissattisfied if the "Re
serve" is not used to supply the deficiency — I have seen Isaac
Canfield and had a letter from his Father respecting Freights
& Car I am negotiating for freights. I can get a Hannibal & St
Joseph Car sent to our place to go through to Greeley for about
$400. but I think that too high to warrant us to ship our goods,
as we could not get over Three or Four tons of Furniture and
H. H. Goods in a car. hope to hear Monday the cost pr hun
dred lbs.

228 THE UNION COLONY
Mr Hanna was here last week, he has really got "Cattle
on the Brain" he has changed his plan and intends to buy in
Iowa instead of Texas. I think this will relieve his family of
some anxiety — Some parties are talking of putting in some
money in the enterprise
I have not sold my property yet My Friends here advise
me not to offer it for less than I am. There is a good prospect
of the Pithole Rail way being extended through this place, in
that event property will advance. I think there may be some
thing in it for I received a telegram from the Superintendent
of the road this P. M. that he would be here Monday to see
about buying or renting my house —
I reed a letter from the Genl today asking me to come
very soon. I shall try and arrange to leave week after next
and I think it very doubtful if my family can come so soon, and
I probably shall leave them to come with some friends later —
A letter from C. N. Pratt says they have located the Chi
cago Colorado Colony on the St Vrain and Boulder creeks. I
think that is a fine selection as I suppose we run that R. R line
last fall through that locality, and I noticed it was a fine
country —
I judge Pinkerton's Colony is not making as rapid progress
as he anticipated
It is very easy matter for people to talk of going west but
it is another to sell out just now without a large sacrifice
My wife has got up quite smart but has not been out of
doors yet, the babe is 4 weeks old to night —
I hope to meet you in Greeley in a few days.
[Endorsed] E. S. Nettleton Letter Febry 11, 1871

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO
NEWSPAPERS1

[Items on the Visit of Meeker to Colorado.]
2The excursion party with which is Cyrus W. Field left
Pueblo yesterday morning for Colorado City, and will be at
Denver to-night or to-morrow. Among the party is Cyrus W.
Field, A. D. Richardson, and N. C. Meeker, of the New York
Tribune, Morris K. Jessup, a New York banker connected
with the negotiation of the loan for the Kansas and Denver
Pacific roads, Mr. Archer, of the Kansas Pacific, who was here
in the interest of that road two years ago, and several others.

DISTINGUISHED ARRIVALS.3

Mr. Cyrus W. Field, C. N. Meeker, one of the editors
of the New York Tribune, Gen. W. J. Palmer, Dr. C. C. Parry,
Jas. Archer, and Gen. Carr, were among our noticeable arrivals
yesterday. They are here to make an inspection of our Terri
tory, and see if its wonders have been exaggerated. Most of
the party, including Mr. Field, go to Georgetown to-day, and
will return Saturday night, Mr. F. desiring to leave the next
morning for the East, as it is likely he will be present at the
opening of the Suez Canal in less than a month from now. Mr.
Archer and probably Mr. Meeker, will remain here for a week
or two, and will endeavor to become better acquainted with our
people and resources. We bid them all welcome.
1The following excerpts from the newspapers of Colorado are not
intended as a complete reprint of all the articles appearing. In the case
of The Greeley Tribune such a course would be impracticable. In the other
newspapers a number of articles duplicate information. All articles which
throw light upon the conditions in the colony are, It is believed, here
reprinted. zThe Daily Colorado Tribune, October 20, 1869, p. 4.
3The Daily Colorado Tribune, October 22, 1869, p. 1.
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230 THE UNION COLONY
JThe storm prevented our distinguished visitors from pro
ceeding to the mountains as they intended and desired. They
consequently will leave this morning for Cheyenne. Mr.
Meeker of the New York Tribune will stay awhile.

2Mr. Field, Gens. Palmer and Carr, Mr. Archer and Gov.
Evans, leave this morning for Cheyenne, via the Denver
Pacific railway. They will reach the end of the track tonight,
where they will take the cars. Gov. Evans goes as far as Omaha
and then returns. Yesterday Mr. Field, Gen. Palmer and Mr.
Archer visited Golden City and Murphy's coal mine, returning
in the evening.

[Announcement of the Formation of the Union
Colony.]
3Mr. N. C. Meeker, of the New York Tribune, has formed
his colony for settling in this Territory. We understand that
it consists of about eight hundred persons, who have a regular
organization. Horace Greeley himself is President of it, but of
course the Philosopher will not come himself; Mr. Meeker is
Treasurer. The locating committee is to start for Colorado at
once to select the site for their town.

THE UNION COLONY.4

Our people are interested in everything pertaining to the
colony which Mr. N. C. Meeker is organizing for Colorado. For
this reason, and because it contains hints useful to all emigrants
to this territory, we copy the following article of Mr. Meeker,
from the N. Y. Tribune :
"In giving to the public the constitution and by laws of this
colony, as adopted, I wish to make some statements in regard
to what is supposed to be the greatest difficulty — irrigation.
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, October 23, 1869, p. 4.
Whe Daily Colorado Tribune, October 23, 1869, p. 4.
sThe Daily Colorado Tribune, December 30, 1869, p. 1.
*Daily Rocky Mountain News, January 19, 1870, p. 1.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 231
What is suited for a small colony is not so for a large one. The
healthfumess and purity of the atmosphere of Colorado are due
to the fact that rain seldom falls, hence there must be artificial
supply. Now, to make a selection that shall include also, rich
soil, coal, stone, and iron ore, and be in a vicinity where timber
can be had, is the work of the Locating Committee. Such a
combination as this is rare, even in the old states, and wherever
it exists real estate is of great value. There is scarcely a doubt
that such a combination can be had in a territory so large as
Colorado, and which has not been culled as other western states
have been. Irrigation is cheap or dear according to the amount
of land to be watered and the distance the water is to be brought.
It is an improvement which corresponds to what must be made
in every new country that it may be habitable ; it is no greater
than must be made in any new state where rain falls — perhaps
it is not so great — since the colony, besides manufacturing, will
largely engage in growing stock, which is to be cared for by
herdsmen, as is everywhere practiced in Colorado, and no fenc
ing will be needed, at least at present. Every good farmer
who settles in a new country goes into the stock business as
soon as he can, and he ceases to grow grain except for his own
use. The cost of irrigation is perhaps equal to fencing, and it
is a work that is to be extended from year to year. During the
first year gardens can be plowed and some vegetables raised, and
a few acres for each member prepared for growing breadstuffs
the next year. A new settler needs at least eighteen months in
which to grow bread, wherever he may locate, hence the actual
condition in Colorado is the same as in the state of Iowa, but
the preparation is of a different kind. That this system re
quires work is true, but there is no place on the face of the
earth where work is not required, and there ought to be none.
A colony which can control water in that country will be master
of the situation for all time. Some look upon irrigation as an
alarming thing, but they do not consider that by this means the
growth and yield of fruit, vegetables and grain is enormous, as
is proved by the productions of California, now in the front
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are many good farms, there is a similar exhibit, and its wheat
is superior to the finest Genesee. Nor is irrigation a new thing
at all. It is practiced in southern Europe, particularly in the
valley of the Po, which is the garden of Italy, and it has been
established in a large part of Asia for so many ages that it is
seldom mentioned. That a country where irrigation is a neces
sity, is favorable for health and human development, would
seem evident from the fact that the first human pair — precious
in the sight of their Creator — were placed in the garden of
Eden, which was watered by a river.

[Capitalists to Be Invited to Purchase Land for the
Colony. ]
'The executive committee of Mr. Meeker's Union colony
for Colorado held a meeting in New York, a few days since, and
voted to "make arrangements with capitalists friendly to the
movement to purchase large quantities of land adjoining the
colony land proper, to be held in trust by the treasurer for two
years, that accessions may be made during this period, and that
the colony may control the surrounding country. Such cap
italists as buy this land are to be allowed 50 per cent for the
use of their money until the land is sold, and if not sold, they
are to possess it in fee simple." A soliciting committee was ap
pointed, and the enterprise is being vigorously pushed. It
promises a large and valuable addition to our population this
year.

[The Locating Committee to Go West in February.]
2 The locating committee of the Meeker union colony will
start westward early in February. They will visit Kansas,
Nebraska and Colorado, before they return, although the pref
erence is already given in substance to Colorado. The com
mittee consists of Mr. N. C. Meeker; W. C. Fisk, of Toledo,
Ohio ; and Gen. Cameron, of Elmira, N. Y.
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, January 24, 1870, p. 1. See the
minutes of the executive committee for January 3, 1870.
zDaily Rocky Mountain News, January 29, 1870, p. 1.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 233
By telegraph from N. Y.1
The committee of the Union colony with N. C Meeker as
chief, left today for Colorado, to select lands for the colony

[The Locating Committee Reaches Denver.]
UNION COLONY.2

The locating committee of the Union Colony, lately or
ganized in New York for settlement on lands in Colorado, ar
rived yesterday evening at the Broadwell House, where they
have taken rooms. The committee consists of N. C. Meeker,
Esq., of the New York Tribune; Gen. R. A. Cameron of Elmira,
N. Y. ; W. C. Fisk, Esq., of Toledo, O. ; and H. T. West, Esq.,
of Chicago, 111. Mr. Meeker is accompanied by an invalid son.
The committee stopped at Evans for examination of the
Cache-ala-Poudre valley, but were obliged to suspend the exam
ination by reason of not being able to get full information in
regard to the unoccupied lands of that section, so they came
on to Denver to get a look at the plats, etc., in the land office
here. The committee will establish headquarters and radiate
from here in selecting a location for the colony. We give them
welcome and hope their mission will be crowned with a full
measure of success.

[Items on the Investigations of the Locating Committee
in Colorado.]
3 The Locating Committee, Messrs. Meeker, Cameron, West
and Fisk, of Union Colony, spent most of the day yesterday at
the Land Office in the examination of township plats. They
were assisted by several gentlemen who are well posted in land
matters. The Committee leave this morning on an extended
tour of observation in the south. They will first stop at Colo
rado City ; one of the party will make a detour up the Platte
'Daily Central City Register, February 3, 1870, p. 1.
2The Daily Colorado Tribune, February 10, 1870, p. 1.
sThe Daily Colorado Tribune, February 11, 1870, p. 1.

234 THE UNION COLONY
into the mountains and join the main party at Colorado City.
From there they go to Canon City; thence to Pueblo; thence
to Fort Garland and the San Luis Park; thence to the Rio
Grande via Poncha Pass through the South Park to Denver.
The Committee propose to make quite a thorough examination
of the agricultural lands of the Territory before reporting a
location to the Executive Board, by whom their location has to
be approved. We wish the party an agreeable and pleasant
tour.

'The Meeker party returned from the south this morning,
having gone only as far as Canon City. They had anticipated
going into the San Luis park, but failed to get through the pass,
owing to the deep snow. They will make a thorough examina
tion of the country north of the Divide.

THE UNION COLONY.2

Mr. Meeker, General Cameron and others of the locating
committee of Union Colony, returned from the south yesterday.
They only went as far as Canon City, being unable to get into
the San Luis Park on account of the deep snow on the pass.
They leave on Monday morning to take a thorough look at the
various valleys between Denver and Cheyenne, after doing
which, they will proceed to Salt Lake City to study the system
of irrigation as practiced by the Mormons. It is their desire
to learn from Brigham Young or some other of the Mormon
officials, their method of colonization when new towns are to be
built up, and probably they could go to no part of the country
where they could get more information on this subject. We
understand that the committee are also intending to take a look
at Bear Valley, on the Union Pacific Road, that company being
quite anxious to have them locate there, and for which they
offer strong inducements. The committee are well pleased with
'¦Daily Rocky Mountain News, February 19, 1870, p. 4.
"The Daily Colorado Tribune, February 20, 1870, p. 1.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 235
Colorado as far as they have gone, and if they find any better
place we shall be greatly surprised and disappointed.

LETTER FROM SOUTHERN COLORADO1
Colorado City, February 18, 1870.

I met the Union Colony committee at Cottonwood on
their return; they only went as far as Canon City, and were
there informed that it would be difficult for them to get into
San Luis valley by reason of the snow in the mountains, con
sequently their examination of Southern Colorado was very
superficial   H.
[The Locating Committee Returns East.]
2The "Meeker Locating Committee" has returned east.
The Omaha Herald had a call from them, and says: "Mr.
Meeker and his associates have examined the country in Colo
rado, as far south as the Arkansas, and as far west as Bear
River Valley (Evanston) in Utah and Wyoming. They are
more than delighted with what they have seen. They now go
to New York to report on the various locations, embracing as
many as three between Cheyenne and Denver. They expect
liberal propositions from the Union Pacific and other railroad
corporations, and will undoubtedly receive them. More than
500 men, men of means and capital, are already in this move
ment, men of the highest character and intelligence in the main,
and the executive committee have received more than 5,000
letters of inquiry in regard to the plans, objects and aims of the
association."

— 3W. C. Fisk, of the locating committee, Union colony,
was in St. Joseph, last Monday and informed the Herald that
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, February 21, 1870, p. 1.
"The Daily Colorado Tribune, March 9, 1870, p. 4.
3Daily Rocky Mountain News, March 11, 1870, p. 4.

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the location would, in all probability be made in Colorado, which
is good.

*A press telegram yesterday said: "N. C. Meeker, Presi
dent of the Union Colony, of which Horace Greeley is treas
urer, returned from his trip west in search of a location. He
reports that 100,000 acres of land in Colorado, can be pur
chased for one dollar per acre.

[The Locating Committee's Visit to the Bear River
Valley.]
— 2When Mr. Meeker was out here the first time, some one
in this city pictured to him, in glowing terms the beauties of
Bear river valley, meaning Bear river west of the range in this
territory. Mr. Meeker, however, got the impression that it was
the Bear river that heads somewhere in the western part of
Wyoming and flows into Salt Lake, and upon expressing a de
sire to visit it, was kindly furnished with passes over the Union
Pacific, and he and his party went there, after examining this
territory. The result was that that valley fell far short of the
description given them, and they returned east feeling con
siderably disappointed. If they had visited Bear river, Colo
rado, they would have found everything just as it had been
represented.

[The Locating Committee to Return to Colorado. The
Plans of the Colony.]
THE UNION COLONY.3
The locating committee of the Union colony, of which Mr.
Meeker is president, will be in Colorado in three or four days,
to purchase lands for the colony and make other preliminary
arrangements. Mr. Meeker publishes the following notice in
the New York Tribune :
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, March 11, 1870, p. 4.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, March 21, 1870, p. 4.
Waily Rocky Mountain News, March 26, 1870, p. 1.

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The committee of this organization for selecting a site have
reported on several locations to the executive committee, which
has directed them to return to make a purchase. There are
difficulties in getting so large a tract of first class land as the
colony requires all in one body, and belonging to one party, and
more or less complication arises in securing for the colonists
a territory wholly under their control. One proposition which
in many respects is favorable, is to buy largely on railroad
land, which costs about $3 an acre. In this case the colony
would have its own station and county seat.
The number of members who have paid their full dues is
about 400, and the amount of money on hand is $60,000. It
will be difficult to complete the necessary preliminaries and an
nounce the location before the first of April. It is expected that
members will begin to move in April or May, and full directions
will be given in regard to the articles they should take as well
as other matters.
The committee were pleased with the country ; the weather
during the entire month of February was pleasant; farmers
were putting in their wheat, and the roads were dry.
The executive committee have voted to name the town after
Horace Greeley, who has promised to deliver an address to the
people of the colony oh the Fourth of July next.
N. C. Meeker,
President of the Union Colony.

— *Mr. Meeker and Gen. Cameron of the Union colony
arrived this afternoon.

[Announcements of the Location of the Union Colony.]
— 2We are pleased to announce that the locating committee
of the Union colony have decided to locate in the northern part
of the territory, having found a tract of land suitable in every
respect. We congratulate the people of Colorado upon such an
acquisition to their numbers. The Union colony is composed
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, March 31, 1870, p. 4.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, April 7, 1870, p. 4.

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of hundreds of intelligent and enterprising people who will
make the now wild but fertile valleys of northern Colorado to
"blossom as the rose."

*The Union Colony has fixed upon a location not far from
Evans. The site of their town has not been positively fixed,
there being a number of contracts to be completed first. The
Colony will have five hundred families on the ground in a short
time. We shall give further particulars shortly.

[Comment on the Probable Success of the Colony.]
THE UNION COLONY.2
The location of the Union colony in our territory is a
matter of great interest and importance to our people. It not
only brings to us a large body of the best class of citizens, but is
a public testimony to the material advantages of Colorado, in
itself of the highest value, and that must have the effect to direct
general attention to this region ; for the intelligent locating com
mittee of the colony visited the most inviting localities of the
"Far West", and after deliberate comparison of the soil, cli
mate, means of communication, and other essentials to pleasant
and prosperous settlement, have given their decided preference
to Colorado. This is a fact that will tell. It ought to tell. It
is the deliberate judgment of men of intelligence and sagacity,
and it will be accepted by others contemplating emigration to
the West as a sound and reliable opinion, upon which they
themselves can safely act. And this will eventually bring thou
sands more of enterprising settlers to Colorado.
The Union colony has some marked peculiarities, which
its projectors believe will contribute largely to its success. Their
town of Greeley is to be a temperance town. The members of
the company are temperate men, and by the terms of their com
pact the manufacture, sale and use of intoxicating liquors are
to be wholly excluded from the lands owned and controlled by
'The Daily' Colorado Tribune, April 8, 1870, p. 4.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, April 9, 1870, p. 1.

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the company. If this rule can be enforced, there is no doubt
that it will promote morality and good order in the colony, and
make it a nucleus for settlers who desire to place their families
under safe and elevating influences. Such a community will
naturally and speedily furnish itself with schools, libraries,
churches, and all the means and influences by which cultivated
and christian society perpetuates itself. The experiment will be
a very interesting one, and even those who do not personally
sympathize with the strict code of the colonists as to liquor,
must nevertheless concede that if they err at all it is on the
safe side. In a country where freedom of drinking is very
apt to degenerate into destructive recklessness, an illustration
of the other extreme by a whole community may prove a whole
some example and restraint to the rest of us.
The colony starts virtually on the joint stock basis. The
land is purchased out of the common fund, and is held by
Horace Greeley as trustee for the stock-holders, who will sub
sequently become personal owners of the land by compliance
with certain conditions. There are town lots, larger rural lots
around the town, and farm lots outside of these, all of which
will be equitably distributed, and eventually secured by title to
those occupying and making certain specified improvements
upon them within a given time.
We not only hope for the Union colony the highest and
best success, but we confidently predict it. It is organized on a
sound basis ; it has ample capital to enter at once upon all neces
sary improvements; it has hit upon one of the best locations
in the best territory in the Union; it is managed by shrewd,
sagacious and honorable business men, and in fact it has all the
elements of a pleasant and thriving settlement. May Colorado
soon have many more like it.

[The Number of Colony Members.]
— JThe Union colony now numbers over five hundred mem
bers who have paid up in full, and more than two hundred
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, April 9, 1870, p. 4.

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additional that have paid membership fees only. A cheering
republican gain for Colorado.

[Organization and Plans of the Colony.]
THE UNION COLONY.1

The definite location of what is commonly known as the
"Meeker Colony", renders a description of its organization and
purposes, appropriate. We accordingly will attempt to do this,
as we understand it.
If we are not mistaken, the idea of such a colony as this,
was a pet one of Horace Greeley's, on the strength of whose
wishes and requests, Mr. N. C. Meeker of the Tribune staff,
commenced to travel in the search for the kind of country de
sired. He went through half a dozen or more Southern States,
and found nothing, and then came west. He visited Kansas
and Colorado, and returned to New York, where the colony was
organized on the 23rd of December, 1869. Mr. Meeker was
elected President, Gen. Cameron Vice President, and Horace
Greeley Treasurer.
A locating committee was then appointed, who visited
Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas Wyoming and Utah, and they were
unanimous in the opinion that no where was there anything to
compare with Colorado in advantages. Upon so reporting to
the colony they were sent back to secure lands, which has now
been done. Seventy thousand acres in all have been obtained,
including 50,000 acres of railroad lands, and 20,000 entered
under the pre-emption and homestead laws, and bought of.
private parties. The town has been named Greeley, and by the
4th of July, when Mr. Greeley is going to address them, they
expect to have a city in something more than name.
Five hundred members of the society, most of them being
heads of families, have paid in the sum of $150 each, as all
other members will have to, before receiving any of the benefits
of the society. To provide against speculators, who might
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, April 9, 1870, p. 1.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 241
otherwise pay their fee and obtain a portion of the lands with
out settling upon them and contributing to the general im
provement, the lands are placed in trust of Horace Greeley, to
be deeded only upon occupation and improvement. The
society will organize under our general incorporation act, as
"The Union Colony of Colorado," and will make themselves a
permanent society for the encouragement of emigration to their
midst An office will be kept permanently in the Tribune
building, New York, and a proper person kept in charge. The
results of this will be seen in the addition of thousands of the
best kind of people to our Territory.
It is perhaps known to some of our readers that there are
two cities in the United States where liquor cannot be and
never has been purchased. Those cities are Vineland, New
Jersey, and Evanston, Illinois. The latter was named in honor
of our Ex-Governor Evans. Deeds for property in these places
contain a provision that no intoxicating liquors shall ever be
sold on the premises or words to that effect. Greeley will be
the third city of that kind.
The members of the colony will now be soon arriving.
Special arrangements have been made over all the roads, so that
each member comes on a special ticket as soon as he is ready.
It is expected that in addition to the erection of their houses,
and public buildings, such as school house and church, they
will raise a part of a crop during the present year.
The five hundred members include workmen of all trades
and professions, besides men of capital for carrying on manu
facturing, &c. There are also among them fancy stock and fruit
growers, and some who will introduce a new business into the
Territory — that of growing mint, burgamont, &c, for their
essential oils.
The committee now here estimate that most of the trading
of the colony will for the first year, at least, be done in Denver.
They inform us that their estimate is, that the 500 families
will at least average $200 each during the year, amounting to
$100,000. Our opinion is, that it will be much larger, but
those are the figures arrived at in New York.
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important facts connected with the colony, and we expect in
future issues to chronicle its rapid success. We have no doubt
but that it will be the most important in its grand results that
ever located in the west, and its effect upon Colorado can be no
more measured at the present time than can that which will fol
low the two railroads about to reach us.

N. C. MEEKER.1

The settlement in our Territory, and but a few hours ride
from this city, of a colony which will at no distant day be sec
ond only in size to the city of Denver, and which must of neces
sity contain men of prominence, ability and future importance,
renders a sketch of their lives of interest. Hence we have "in
terviewed" "one who knows" — the President of the colony, Mr.
N. C. Meeker, and we present the following as the opening
sketch: Mr. Meeker was born a few miles from Cleveland, Ohio,
in 1818, being now fifty-two years old. He was one year at
Oberlin, and graduated at Western Reserve College, of which
Dr. Pierce, father of our General Pierce of Denver, was Presi
dent. In the early part of his life he was a farmer in Eastern
Ohio, but left that to enter upon mercantile pursuits. In 1857
he moved to the southern part of Illinois, and became a suc
cessful farmer and fruit-grower. At that time he commenced
his agricultural writings for the New York Tribune, first as a
volunteer, and in 1860 as a regular paid contributor. So suc
cessful did he become in this line, and so valuable were his writ
ings, that in 1867 he was induced to discontinue his agricultural
pursuits altogether, remove to New York, and attach himself to
the editorial staff of the paper on a liberal salary.
Mr. Meeker has traveled extensively over the United States,
and possesses peculiar qualities which make his letters of un
usual interest. He gives much attention to details, writes in an
easy sensible way, so that the reader sees what is being described,
'¦The Daily Colorado Tribune, April 12, 1870, p. 1.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 243
just as the writer sees it. Mr. Meeker is not a talker, is modest
and unassuming to a fault; would attract no attention in a
crowd, and would generally be underrated. In appearance he
reminds us of a miller, or Horace Greeley as tradition describes
him in his earlier days. His face is good, and denotes honesty,
simplicity, confidence, that he is a searcher after truth, and aims
to benefit mankind.
His position as President of the Union Colony, is the first
public office he ever held, and we have it from good authority
that he only accepted this, upon the positive refusal of his
friends to allow any one else to do so. His mission to Colorado
is a great one. It is to write up in the next five years this Rocky
Mountain country for the Tribune in the most thorough man
ner ; to tell the world of its grandeur, its beauty, its wealth, its
people — individually and collectively — its progress in the great
march of civilization, its openings for capital, its asylums for
the sick — in fact everything that the most active brain or the
quickest eye can discover. This, in addition to his efforts in
founding a city, which shall be an honor to America, makes his
position a noble one, and deserving of the best wishes of all our
people.

[Purchase of Land By the Colony.]
LARGE LAND TRANSACTIONS.1
The Union Colony has just completed, through the Na
tional Land Company, a purchase from the Denver Pacific
Railway and Telegraph Company of over sixty thousand acres
of land, upon which they paid in cash over $31,000. Another
payment will be made inside of sixty days. For some of this
land they pay five dollars per acre, and the average is over three
and one third dollars. They also apply to government for an
equal amount, and have paid to individuals for improved and
entered lands, within the last week, almost $30,000. Their
purchases entire will cover at least, 150,000 acres, and amount
to more than $400,000. Mr. Meeker left today for Greeley to
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, April 13, 1870, p. 1.

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commence work actively, in surveying the town, digging ditches
and getting in crops. He will in a few days start for New York.
There has been talk of attempts at jumping colony lands.
Our advice to such as have thought seriously of so doing^ — if
any there be — is to let the job out. The colonists have moved
cautiously and securely. Right, law and justice is on their side
and will protect them.

GEN. ROBERT A. CAMERON.1

Continuing our personal sketches of the prominent men of
the town of Greeley, recently founded in our Territory, we give
to-day the following facts concerning Gen. Robert A. Cameron,
Vice-President of the Union Colony, which we obtain from a
mutual friend.
Gen. Cameron was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1828,
and lived there until 1842, when he removed to Valparaiso,
Indiana. His home was at that place for the next twenty-five
years. He graduated at the Indiana Medical College in 1849.
In 1857 he purchased the Valparaiso Republican newspaper,
and run it until 1857. In 1860 he was elected to the Indiana
Legislature, where he distinguished himself as an active leader
on the Republican side, a ready debater, forcible and argu
mentative, able, honest and fearless, all rare qualities in a
politician. He was a member of the Republican convention
which first nominated Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency, and was
a member of the delegation which cast the first full State in
fluence for him, and which was quickly followed by the other
States. At the breaking out of the war he raised a company as
rapidly as men could be enrolled, and on the 17th of April,
1861, reported by telegraph to Governor Morton, and was on
the same day mustered into the three months' service as Cap
tain of a Company in the 9th Ind. Vols. Upon going to the seat
of war, he was promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel of the 19th
Indiana Volunteers in July of the same year, and in June
iThe Daily Colorado Tribune, April 13, 1870, p. 1.

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1862, he was appointed by President Lincoln Brig. Gen. on the
special recommendation of Gen. Grant for gallant services at the
siege of Vicksburg. After the fall of Vicksburg he was sent to
the Department of the Gulf, and there commanded the 3d
Division of the 13th Army Corps in Banks' Red River cam
paign. When Gen. Ransom fell, at Sabine Cross Roads, the
command of the corps devolved upon Gen. Cameron. He was
afterwards placed in command of a District in La Fouche, La.,
and we recently saw a letter from there which said that they had
just formed a new parish (county) and had named it "Came
ron" — "after the gallant General who so bravely defended the
rights of the loyalists in the dark days of the rebellion."
For distinguished services in Louisiana Gen. Cameron was
breveted Major General of volunteers in March 1865.
On the battle field of Garrick's Ford, in West Virginia, in
the early part of the war, he was personally complimented by
Gen. MeClellan.
During one of his campaigns, through exposure and ex
haustion, he lost his eyesight, and for nearly two years he was
totally blind. It is gradually improving now, and will un
doubtedly eventually be entirely restored.
In personal appearance Gen. Cameron is several degrees
removed from a pigmy. His height is six feet or over, and his
weight more than 200 pounds. He impresses us as a man of
solid worth whom it is well to tie to, and we doubt not but that
he is destined to become an influential citizen of this Territory,
as he has been of all other States or localities where he has
lived.

[The Executive Committee Reports on the Advantages
of the Location Selected.]
UNION COLONY.1

The following information is given in answer to numerous
inquiries that have poured in upon the promoters of the Union
Colony :
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, April 13, 1870, p. 2.

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LOCATION.
The locating committee, consisting of the President and
Vice President of the Colony, have determined upon both sides
of the Denver Pacific Railway, fifty-two miles north of Denver
and fifty-four miles south of Cheyenne. The town site will
be in every respect desirable, inasmuch as there are several
localities each suited to the purpose. The lands of the Colony
stretch away in all directions ; gently undulating prairie, thickly
covered with the rich native grasses of the country.
SCENERY.
Eastward, the outlook is down the plain that stretches un
broken to the Missouri river, six hundred miles away, relieved
by the groves and fringes of timber that skirt the Poudre and
Platte rivers and Crow creek. North and south are rolling
prairies, and westward the same to the mountain foot, twenty
miles distant but plainly distinct, and in the wonderfully clear,
rarified atmosphere, seeming scarce half a dozen miles away.
Beyond that line rises the great Rocky Mountain chain, massive
and dark, with pine forests, rising ridge beyond and above ridge
until they culminate in the lofty snowy range, fifty miles away
and with a sweep at least a hundred and fifty miles. Long's
Peak is the nearest and seems the loftiest in sight. It bears
southwest by west and is over fourteen thousand feet high.
Snow is always visible on the main range.
SOIL AND PRODUCTS.
The soil is rich, warm and generally deep, containing sand
enough to make it pleasant and easy of cultivation. It is formed
from the denudation of the mountains and is composed of dis
integrated feldspar, granite, lime and sandstone with magnesia,
soda and vegetable matter. It produces well all the small grains
common to the latitude, grasses and vegetables. As proof we cite
the native grasses which cover the entire country; springing
up rapidly in the spring and early summer, they are cured into
hay as they stand, and upon them cattle feed and keep fat until
the next year's crop comes on. Of grain, wheat is the leading
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winter wheat does well. Spring wheat is planted from February
to the first of May, but the earlier, as a general thing, the bet
ter. The average crop throughout the Territory for three years
past has been about twenty-eight bushels per acre. Forty
bushels is not an uncommon yield and the premium crops in the
last three years were respectively 68J4, 72J4 and 65% bushels
per acre. The average yield of oats and barley is about thirty-
five bushels per acre; of corn thirty, and of potatoes one hun-
drd and fifty. The premium corn crop in 1868 gave 115 bushels
to the acre and was raised near Denver. Exceptional crops of
potatoes have exceeded 600 bushels to the acre. The average
weight of cabbages is fifteen to twenty pounds — exceptions often
running up to forty or fifty, and a single specimen reaching
eighty-two pounds. Melons, twelve to fifteen pounds ; pumpkins
fifteen to twenty pounds, with many very much larger ones.
Garden vegetables common to the latitude do well without an
exception. Wild fruits are abundant and a never failing crop.
They consist of plums, cherries, thornapples, currants, grapes,
gooseberries, and, in the mountains, the addition of strawber
ries, raspberries, service and whortleberries. All the small fruits
produce abundant crops under cultivation, and limited experi
ence with the larger varieties have been successful. Peaches
have been grown in Boulder and Arkansas valleys, pears in Den
ver and apples in various places.
STOCK, BUTTER AND WOOL.
Owing to the fact that horses, cattle and sheep, if they
have free range, always thrive without being fed, Colorado must
ever be prominent as a stock growing, wool producing, and
butter and cheese making country. Stock men estimate the
cost of raising cattle to the age of five years at one dollar and a
half per head per year. This of course contemplates unlimited
range, cheap herding and no feed except what they find for
themselves. At the present time milch cows are worth from
$35 to $65 each. Five year old steers, suitable for beef, $45.
Oxen $110 to $125 per yoke. Saddle ponies, $75 each. Good
farm horses, $350 to $500 per span. Mules, $350 to $450 per
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rapidly and are invariably healthy. Herds that have been
brought from the States infected with the foot rot have entirely
recovered from that disease in a short time and it has never
been known among native flocks. Butter and cheese making are
very profitable. The native grasses furnish the best of food,
whilst pure water and air enable the dairymen to turn out the
most excellent of those articles, for which there is always a
ready, cash market. MINERAL PRODUCTIONS.
Sandstone abounds in the vicinity and will doubtless be
found upon the lands of the colony. Lime, or plaster, is found
in the higher lands adjacent to Greeley, which has been used in
the vicinity for building or plastering, and answers the pur
pose well. Coal has been found within eight or ten miles, and
a bank twenty miles distant is being worked. Abundance will
probably be discovered on the lands of the colony. The coal
veins of the Territory are very numerous and range from three
to eighteen feet in thickness. Along the foot of the mountains,
twenty miles west of Greeley, and bordering the lands of the
colony, there is abundance of iron — consisting of hematite, bog
and magnetic ores — coal, gypsum, limestone, freestone and
granite, all in close proximity. TIMBER AND LUMBER.
There are inexhaustible supplies of timber from thirty to
sixty miles west along the Cache-a-la-Poudre in the mountains.
It consists of white, yellow, black and pitch pine, white, yellow
and red fur, spruce and cedar. It can be floated down the
stream named to any point desired. Millions of feet of rail
way and other timbers have already been brought from the
mountains in that way. Lumber is now worth on the ground
from $30 to $40 per 1,000 feet.
MANUFACTURES.
Excellent water powers can be made all along the Poudre
and at Greeley they can be multiplied to any extent desired.
Saw mills and wood working machinery will be first required.
They can be put in operation almost immediately. Flouring

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mills must follow soon. Manufactories for brick, furniture,
wooden and willow ware, cheese, beet sugar, pottery, paper,
leather, harness, agricultural implements, boots, shoes, woolen
goods, &c, may be added rapidly as stock is abundant and the
market ready for all such goods. Furnaces for the manufacture
of iron, and foundries and machine shops for its working, will
be required and prove profitable.
CLIMATE AND ITS EFFECTS.
Greeley is in latiitude 40° 30°' and 4,800 feet above the
sea level. The temperature in the warm days of summer ranges
from 84° to 96° above zero, in the shade. The sun shines very
warm some days, but in the shade the air is always pleasant,
fresh and cool. Sultry, hot nights are unknown. In winter,
the common range of the thermometer is from 30° to 60°
above zero, but in most winters the temperature at two or three
periods and for one, two or three nights each time, falls below
zero. At one time the past winter it reached 18° below at
Evans. The prevailing winds, the year round, are from the
northwest, ranging all the way between north and west. North
east winds bring snow in winter and rain in spring and sum
mer. There are occasional wind storms but no tornadoes.
Fogs are unknown. The average fall of rain in spring and
summer, from the most reliable data at hand, is six inches ; of
snow in winter and spring, from twenty-five to thirty inches,
giving five inches of water, and a total for the year of eleven
inches. The first snow usually comes in October and the last
in April or the first of May. There is seldom more than three
or four inches on the ground at a time, though two or three
falls of thirty inches each have occurred in the last eleven
years. Rain comes in showers through April, May, and June,
and occasionally in July and August, after which there is
seldom any until the next spring. Rain never falls in the
winter months. Owing to the firmness of the surface soil,
roads seldom get unpleasantly dusty or very muddy. For
natural excellence as highways they are doubtless the best in the
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fruits, is the fact that the native wild fruits never fail to pro
duce full crops.
As healthfulness is largely dependent upon climate it is
classed under the same head. Colorado is far above the
average of "healthful countries," so-called. The invigorating
air gives remarkable tone and elasticity to the nervous system.
In that respect none other is known to excel it. Agues and
other miasmatic diseases, are unknown. Asthma is quickly
cured. Pulmonary diseases and bronchitis never originate
here, and unless firmly seated are greatly relieved or entirely
cured by a change hither. A long list of diseases, to which
females are peculiarly liable, are greatly mitigated in their
severity. There is nothing that can be termed a "prevailing
disease of the country." MARKETS.
The immediate markets for the colonists will be Denver,
fifty-two miles south, Cheyenne, fifty-four miles north — both
reached by railway — and the mining towns of Gilpin, Clear
Creek, and Boulder counties, from fifty to one hundred miles
distant, over good wagon roads, or by rail to Denver and thence
by wagon for thirty-five to fifty miles. The development of the
gold, silver, and other mines will secure always a reliable and
growing market, which will doubtless task to its full capacity, if
not entirely outstrip, the agricultural facilities of the Terri
tory. Wheat is worth two and a half cents per pound, corn and
oats the same, barley four cents, flour $4.50 to $6 per $100
pounds, butter forty-five to fifty cents per pound, potatoes two
to three cents, eggs thirty-five to forty cents per dozen.
WAGES AND PRICES.
Farm laborers now command from $25 to $40 per month,
with board. Mechanics $5 per day, without board. Women as
cooks and housekeepers, $7 to $10 per week with board and
room. Mexicans, as teamsters and herdsmen, $15 to $25 per
month, and board. Good two-horse wagons, with brake, bows,
sheet, &c. complete, cost at Denver from $125 to $140. Double
harness, $40. Best steel plow, $15. Agricultural implements
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BEASTS, BIRDS AND FISHES.
Native to the country there are upon the plains, antelope,
deer, wolves, foxes, badgers, prairie dogs, rabbits and a num
ber of smaller animals ; to the mountains, elk, white and black-
tail deer, antelope, grizzly, cinnamon and black bear, mountain
sheep, mountain lions, wolves, foxes, martin, mink, hedge hog,
mountain badger, beaver, weasel, cony, &c., &c. Birds are
abundant — all the water fowls, four or five varieties of grouse,
including the prairie hen, sage hen and ptarmigan, and a great
variety of singing birds, including the lark, robin, mocking
bird, blue bird, oriole thrush and black bird. Quails have been
introduced the past winter. Of fish there are trout, river white
fish, suckers, and a number of others. Game animals, birds
and fishes, are protected by wholesome territorial laws at cer
tain seasons. WATER AND IRRIGATION.
Springs abound along the Poudre river. Good water can
he procured in wells from ten to thirty feet deep, owing to loca
tion. Irrigation is necessary to produce crops, but the expense
and labor are by no means formidable, while it gives the farmer
absolute control of the nourishment of his crop, increases the
yield and practically insures it The supply of water for that
purpose is abundant and entirely under control of the colony.
The Cache-a-la-Poudre heads in the snowy mountains, and in
summer, when water is most needed, the supply is greatest. The
warmer and dryer the plains the fuller the streams.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There are a number of inquiries that cannot well be in
cluded under any of the foregoing heads which will be answered
here. Wheat does not rust Weevil and chinch bug are un
known. Grasshoppers occasionally become a scourge in some
parts of the country, but in a series of years their depredations
upon crops have certainly been less than five per cent, per
annum throughout the Territory. The people of Colorado are
generally enterprising and wide awake. The colonists will
occupy new ground with very few of the former settlers among
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is worth two per cent, per month upon real estate security.
Loans prudently made are absolutely safe. There are national
banks at Denver and Central, and private banking houses at
those places, Georgetown and Cheyenne. The country is ad
mirably adapted to the culture of sugar beet. The crop is
wonderfully large and very rich in saccharine properties. Pep
permint and other essential oil herbs will also prove profitable
crops ; irrigation placing their culture entirely within the con
trol of the planter. It might be well for the colonists to bring
stock from the States. Horses and mares, the latter preferable,
can be purchased in eastern Iowa at $100 to $125 per head.
Three year old heifers in southwestern Iowa and northwestern
Missouri at $15 to $18 each. Good farm wagons can be bought
in Chicago for $70 to $75 each, shipped to some starting point
on the Missouri river, whence a party of twenty or more men,
properly armed, with a competent and experienced leader, can
drive teams and herds across the plains without much danger
of loss. Some good blooded stock horses, cattle and sheep, for
breeding purposes, should be brought by all means. Ayrshire
cows and Devon bulls would be a good investment. Fruit trees,
grape vines, shrubbery, and all kinds of plants can be put out
this spring. Ground will be in readiness. Mail matter for
colonists on the ground should be addressed to Greeley, Colorado.
N. C. Meeker, Pres. ]
R. A. Cameron, V. Pres. }-Ex. Com.
H. T. West, Local Sec. J

[The Omaha Herald on the Location of the Colony.]
THE LANDS OF COLORADO.1

Concerning the Union Colony's location, we take the fol
lowing from the Omaha Herald. It surprises us, who have so
long known and so frequently published as facts the surmises
set forth below, that it should ever be considered questionable
this side of the Missouri :
iTfte Daily Colorado Tribune, April 15, 1870, p. 1.

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It may not be altogether flattering to Iowa, Kansas and
Nebraska, that such an important colony has passed hundreds
of miles beyond their borders to found an agricultural com
munity. To eastern people, who still believe in the "Great
American Sahara" of the earlier geographies, it must be a mat
ter of astonishment that Mr. Meeker has taken his followers to
the extreme western verge of that mythical country. And what
is the lesson which the fact conveys ? The answer is, that such
intelligent and careful observers as Mr. Meeker and his asso
ciates are willing to stake their money and their future fortunes
upon the belief that the richest agricultural region on the con
tinent, within their preferred parallels of latitude, is that which
they have chosen to be their home. -It will not surprise those
who, like ourselves, are already converts to this kind faith and
doctrine, if these colonies shall prove the solid ground of their
confidence by their works.

[A Resident of Weld County on the Advantages of the
Site Selected.]
OLD WELD HAPPY.1
Fort Lupton, Weld Co., Col.,
April 13, 1870..
Editors News: — I have not trespassed upon your columns
for so long that I am afraid you may think me dead, and stop
the News, thinking the estate is not worth the back subscription
But I can inform you, sirs, that Weld county is looking up. Old
Weld, that has lain wild for so long, is to be reclaimed and
be made to "blossom like the rose." The Union colony is to
locate in this county, on the Cache-a-la-Poudre, six miles from
Evans, our county seat The locating committee have cer
tainly justified the confidence placed in them by the colony, by
selecting the most advantageous site, notwithstanding the per
sistent efforts made by different rings to haul them about. They
have shown their good sense and integrity by locating in the
best county, everything considered, in the territory. Our stock
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, April 16, 1870, p. 1.

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range is inferior to none; our agricultural capacity is superior
to any, and our numerous coal veins are a well recognized fact;
while the best vein in the territory is within our county lines;
I refer to the old Austin. Financially our county is ahead, not
owing a dollar and a surplus in the treasury, while we have
placed no incubus upon our energies and resources by railroad
subscription or otherwise. And for size, bless you ! We could
absorb the entire population of one of the little eastern states,
and give each man a stock range to himself. The locating com
mittee have shown their good sense by locating upon the Denver
Pacific road, as by the completion of the Kansas Pacific to Den
ver this fall, which is a fixed fact, it places them upon the
great thoroughfare of the continent, accessible by rail from any
part of the Atlantic and Pacific states. While the settlement
will more than double the wealth and population of Weld county,
it will insure the admission of Colorado as a state, at the next
session of congress, as our hitherto disputed political position
will be placed beyond a doubt. So, brother News, just hold my
hat while I shout Vive la Weld. ,T.Nemo.

[The Colonists Begin to Move Westward.]
— ¦'From Monday's Cheyenne Leader: A large number
of colonists, en route for Greeley, Colorado, arrived on yester
day's train from the east. The Denver Pacific company had
provided an extra train, which took the new comers out without
detention.

2 The Omaha Herald of Sunday says of the Union colony:
This colony destined for the new town of Greeley, on the line
of the Denver Pacific, and which we learn is comprised of the
best class of pioneer settlers, have commenced to move to their
new home, and about fifty went out west on the Union Pacific
yesterday. Others will follow almost daily, until the full num
ber of about one thousand families have established their city
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, May 4, 1870, p. 4.
"Daily Central City Register, May 5, 1870, p. 4.

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home. These are not emigrants, but well supplied colonists,
with means and material for immediate success. They are com
prised of farmers, merchants, mechanics and professional men,
with money, stock, goods, skill, tools and knowledge to estab
lish immediate independence. They have splendid tents for
homes until houses can be built ; material for manufactures, and
stock for farms. The fruit of the gathering will be a city built
in a day.

[A Disgruntled Colonist.]
— 1Some sore-headed Union colonist who expected to find
a finished town at Greeley, with manufactories, churches and
street cars awaiting him, telegraphed to the Missouri Democrat,
and his special was published this morning, to the effect that
the Union Colony is all broken up and the members scattering in
every direction. The statement is false. There are only a few
of that kind of ^fellows in the colony — probably three or four —
and they had better go back to Illinois at once. They are not
wanted in a new country — unless it be to start grave yards.

[Progress of the Colony Town.]
— 2A private note informs us that every thing is doing
well at Greeley, and that the colonists, as a rule, are well satis
fied with the country and their location. The large ditch is
progressing rapidly, houses are being rapidly built and every
thing is going on finely. There are at least 400 people there, and
the colony so far is a perfect success. That it will be so is as
sured by the character of the people who compose it

A GOOD ACCOUNT FROM GREELEY.3
Greeley, Colo., May 23, 1870.
Editors News : We understand that reports have been cir
culated that the Union colony had been broken up and that the
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, May 14, 1870, p. 4.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, May 21, 1870, p. 4.
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, May 25, 1870, p. 1.

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members had left. Could those who have sent such reports
visit our colony, and see the improvements made during the
last week, and converse with our best men, they would come to
a very different conclusion. It is true that there has been some
dissatisfaction, but the most of it has arisen from a misunder
standing in regard to our situation. Some have come, expect
ing to obtain an eighty or one hundred and sixty acre tract of
land immediately adjoining the town site, and were dissatisfied
because they could not. Others came wholly unprepared as to
clothing and shelter, and of course felt some privations to which
they were unaccustomed, and were thus disappointed.
Lumber has now become more plenty, and as we have two
large buildings and nine tents for present shelter, we shall have
no more trouble of this kind.
Another class, and the most troublesome, have come ex
pecting great chances for individual speculations, and because
they found that such was not the case, and that they could not
obtain positions as officers, they have left us — for which we are
very thankful.
The town of Greeley will be built; and those who have
borne the brunt of the labor will have occasion to be proud of
their work. Some of our members have been to the mountains
and purchased logs, which they will send down the river during
high water. They have sent a man to Chicago for the machinery
for a good saw mill, which we expect will be in operation in a
few weeks. Good clay has been discovered for brick, and a
yard will probably be started soon. A fine bed of clay for pot
tery ware has also been discovered and will be used. Parties
are on the ground ready to contract to put up grout and adobe
buildings at about the same price as wooden ones will cost.
A company for mining coal has been organized, and will pro
ceed to immediate work. They expect to obtain plenty of coal
on the colony grounds. We have found fair stone within six
miles of the town and hope to find some nearer.
At church, yesterday, there were present by actual count,
two hundred and fifteen persons — twenty-three being women.
We have at least four hundred persons on the ground, and all

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 257
are doing their best to build up the place and are working in
general harmony. The clouds are passing away and the sun
of prosperity is shining brightly. Yours truly, H. T. West,
Secretary Union Colony.

[Meeker's Personal Plans.]
JN. C. Meeker, President of the Union Colony, writes
from New York to the Omaha Herald, refuting the slanders on
the location of the Colony by a few disappointed ones who re
turned east. He closes his letter as follows : "One word more.
I know all about Colorado; all about Iowa, Missouri, and the
whole west, and this bosh about Colorado being unproductive,
is a dodge of land speculators, real estate adventurers, and of
'dead beats' generally. I am selling out my property here; I
hope within ten days to be on the ground of the Union Colony,
to commence forthwith to build as nice a house as I am able,
and during the remainder of my life, where I mean to live at
home."

[Comment on Meeker's Answer to Slanderers of the
Colonial Enterprise.]
— 2In a letter to the Omaha Herald Mr. N. C. Meeker
answers the slanders of a few of the deserters from the Union
Colony. He gives a plain statement of the facts, and indulges
in some well-pointed sarcasms on the deserting colonists, as well
as on the course of the Council Bluffs papers. His letter is a
complete refutation of the lies told by the kid-gloved gentleman
who saw nothing but barrenness in Colorado. Regarding the
course of the Council Bluffs papers, and the evident motive
which prompted it, it is too mean and contemptible to be noticed,
and presents a strange contrast to the more manly conduct of
the Omaha Herald and Republican. All we have to say is that
''The Daily Colorado Tribune, May 26, 1870, p. 4.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, May 26, 1870, p. 4.
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when the papers of a town have to resort to such low and unfair
means to obtain settlers, they had better lay no more claims
to rival Omaha. Mr. Meeker's letter, however, is the best re
buke they could have.

THE UNION COLONY.1

A Denver Visitor is Astonished.

What He Saw and Learned There.

Greeley, May 23.
Eds. Tribune : — We are living in a fast age, in an age of
wonders. Especially true is this remark when applied to our
own land and people; where every one is free to think, free to
speak, free to act, and free to work. Everything is done in a
hurry; we conceive plans and execute, all at once; with us to
conceive is but to build. Cities are born and grow to maturity,
as it were, in a single day, and in the twinkling of an eye the
desert is changed into a garden. To what, unless it be the
peculiar character of our institutions — union and freedom —
shall we attribute this rapid growth and development of our
country? And now the question arises, what must this free
dom, with this mighty union of heart, heads, and hands, bring
forth ? A civilization on a scale greater than the world has yet
seen. These thoughts flashed through the mind of your corre
spondent as he came in sight of Greeley, the home of the Union
Colony of Colorado. Never did we more fully appreciate the
true character of the American people than when we stepped
from the cars at Greeley, greeted by the sound of the hammer
and the merry hum of the laborer as he toiled building his
future home. Would you see an example of the energy and
pluck of Americans, come with me to Greeley and note the re
sults of the past three weeks. A city has been founded, houses
erected, gardens tilled, ditches dug, and one man I noticed
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, May 26, 1870, p. 1.

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busily engaged in planting fruit trees. A spirit of enterprise
pervades the whole colony ; you will find represented here, every
section of the Union, from the rock-ribbed hills of New England
to the shores of the Golden State. The colony own about 12,000
acres of land, a mile square of which has been laid out in city
lots. The city site is beautifully located in the valley of the
Cache-a-la-Poudre, about four miles from its junction with the
Platte. The view of the mountains from this point is grand
and magnificent; eastward, the landscape stretches out into a
gradually widening plain, as far as the vision can extend, and
the bluffs standing in bold relief on either side. All taken to
gether, combine to make the view picturesque and beautiful.
The colony numbers about 500 souls, men, women and
children, and rapidly increasing. Between thirty and forty
wooden houses have been erected, and many more are in pro
cess. Owing to a scarcity of lumber, building has been some
what retarded; though a lumber yard has been established, yet
the supply is not equal to the demand. A number of buildings
have been purchased and conveyed from Evans to this place.
Your correspondent has been informed that nearly every house
in Evans is for sale and can be purchased by the colony. Cities
rise and fall like bubbles on the water, and as Greeley rises,
Evans falls.
Greeley can boast of a postoffice, a grocery, a boot and shoe
shop and a hotel, (Bailey House) where at any hour of the day
you can be accommodated with a good square meal. Its pro
prietors (Root & Hankins) are polite and gentlemanly.
A ditch for irrigating is nearly completed, and others are
in prospect. A coal company with a capital of $10,000 has been formed,
and arrangements are also being made for making brick.
The colony, fully appreciating the good results that nat
urally flow from proper intellectual and moral training, have
made preparations for the erection of school houses, churches
and other public buildings, while a Sunday school has already
been organized. There is another fact worth noticing, strange
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of alcohol is expressly forbidden by the constitution of the
colony. With such principles as these, a people is sure to
prosper. There never started out a class of men with brighter
prospects of success than those composing the Greeley colony —
men of character, influence and capital being at the head of the
movement. The most influential man on the ground is Gen.
Cameron — full of life and energy.
Mr. Meeker, President of the colony, reports that the re
ceipts of the colony will average $1,000 per day (terms of mem
bership being $150). P. T. Barnum, prince of humbugs, is a
member, and will visit Greeley in June. He writes Fisk (a
capitalist) who is putting up the largest building in town, tell
ing him to build as large as he can, and he will beat him when
he (B.) gets there. Thus, ever from boyhood up, has he talked.
Some little dissatisfaction prevails among the colonists,
and a few have returned to their old homes ; they expected too
much; their imagination having got the better of their reason
and experience. They did not realize the many difficulties that
would present themselves in the settlement of a new country;
and thus they were disappointed and murmured and at last
turned back into Egypt. Most of them however are contented,
and bound to make the enterprise a success. Experience and
energy, character and capital will win the victory. Would that
a dozen colonies composed of such men were located in Colorado.
Yours, Libertas.

[Changes in the Qualifications for Membership.]
THE GREELEY COLONY.1

Greeley, C. T., May 27, 1870.
Publishers Colorado Tribune. — At a meeting of the Exec
utive Committee of Union Colony, held at Greeley, Colorado,
this 27th day of May, 1870, the following resolutions were
adopted, viz :
Resolved, That on the fifth day of June next, the books of
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, May 30, 1870, p. 1.

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Union Colony, No. 1, at the price for membership of one hun
dred and fifty dollars, and five dollars for contingent expenses,
be closed, and that between that time and the first day of
August hereafter, the lands now purchased may be selected.
Resolved, That on the fifth day of June, 1870, books for
receiving new members be opened, and that the price of mem
bership shall be two hundred dollars, ($200) and five dollars
($5.00) for contingent expenses for the next six months, dat
ing from June 5th, 1870, and that those joining as new mem
bers shall be entitled on and after the lst day of August next,
to select from the lands previously purchased, and from the new
lands purchased, equally with the old members, who have not
located their land.
The members joining the colony after the 5th day of June,
shall be allowed one year from the first day of August, 1870,
in which to make the improvements required.
Members declining to select and improve their land may
transfer their interest in the colony by gift or sale, but the
holders of the certificate (receipt) will be required to take
possession of the land to which the original purchaser was en
titled, and improve the same, as no money invested in land by
new members will hereafter be refunded by the colony.
H. T. West, Sec'y.

[Advice to Discouraged Colonists. The Advantages of
Boulder County.]
DON'T GO BACK.1

When people emigrate from the older States westward, it
is difficult for them to anticipate and fully realize the difference
between an old settled country, with its many acquired advan
tages, and a new country, the resources of which are just be
ginning to be developed; hence, to many who emigrate west
things appear so different from what they expected that they
turn about and go back, without looking around, or waiting till
'The Boulder County News, June 1, 1870, p. 2.

262 THE UNION COLONY
they get over being homesick, or find out the advantages and
future prospects of the country to which they have come. Now
this is all wrong and foolish, for such persons are never prepared
to judge of a country, or whether they will like it or not, until
they have looked around and stayed some time in it.
We understand that some of those who belong to the Meeker
colony came all the way from Illinois and some of the other
States, and when they arrived at their new home were so much
disappointed that they immediately reshipped and took the back
track, without even looking around to see if there was not some
place in all Colorado that might satisfy them. Now Greeley,
the town just springing into existence by the colony, is situated
in a very rich valley, near the confluence of the Cache-a-la-
Poudre with the Platte river, and on the Denver & Pacific rail
road, thereby possessing all the advantages of an agricultural
district as well as railway communication. Yet it labors under
some disadvantages. It is a long distance to timber and not
very convenient to coal, so that when the immigrant from the
States arrives at his new home he naturally concludes that if
he is not far from water he is a good way off from fuel.
We have long since thought that the county of Boulder
possessed more natural advantages than any other county in the
Territory, having within its limits proper proportions of moun
tain and valley, prairie and timber, of agricultural, pastoral
and mineral lands, all distributed admirably through the en
tire county. Then her many streams, all having their sources
about the snowy range, meandering easterly at proper dis
tances from each other, all afford an amount of water power for
machinery and manufactories of all kinds, unsurpassed by any
county of like extent in the United States, if not in the world.
Again, no county contains a greater variety of soils. All
along the streams there are extensive low bottoms, the soil of
which is a black loam, covered with a heavy coat of grass,
making better hay than the best of timothy in the States. Join
ing these are the second bottoms, containing a red clay soil, with
sub-soil of yellow and red clay, which is suitable for the growth
of wheat, rye, oats, barley, and vegetables of all kinds grown
in the States. Indeed, there is no soil in Illinois, Iowa, Wis-

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 263
consin, Indiana or Minnesota equal to it for small grains, either
in quality or quantity. Back of these lie the table-lands and
bluffs, covered the year round with the best of grass for any kind
of stock. Nor are these all. Along the foot of the mountains and
in the canyons are small bottoms and hill sides, with soils just
adapted to the growth of all kinds of fruit grown in the
States, except in the extreme southern tier. These nooks of
ground are peculiarly adapted to horticulture, being sheltered
and protected by the hills and bluffs from high winds, and early
and late frosts — for it is a fact that we do not have frost at
the foot of the mountains as soon in the fall by about two weeks
as we do at twenty, or ten, or even three miles away from them,
nor so late in the spring either.
Thus we find there is no danger of any one branch of in
dustry being overdone here as in the States, especially those we
have named, because there is so large a field for nearly all
branches of industry. No danger of grain coming down to
State prices, because all will not be producers of it; the same
may be said of all other branches.
We have mentioned but a few of the many natural ad
vantages Boulder county possesses. While other counties have
many in common with us, only a very few have all of them. We
might mention many more of her advantages. Her vast forests
of timber alone are a source of immense wealth, covering the
foot-hill and mountains, their majestic shadows inviting the
weary pilgrim to rest. Here too is the very place for the invalid
seeking to recuperate or regain his shattered health. Boulder
city certainly is the locality for him. Situated in the valley, in
a curve of the mountains that places it nearer the snowy range
than any other valley town we can truly say, her atmosphere is
always salubrious, her scenery beautiful, and her water the best
that nature affords.
Then we say again to the immigrant, go not back again;
but if you are not pleased with Weld, Larimer, Jefferson, or
some other county, visit the valleys of St. Vrain, Left-Hand
and the Boulders. In short, don't go back, and leave a country
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that you return to. Stay and help develop this, the best, the
healthiest, and destined to be the richest State in the Union.
There is room in Boulder county for thousands more, and in
the Territory for tens of thousands.

[Population. Business Houses. Government.
Irrigation.]
FROM GREELEY.1

An Interesting Letter from the New Town.

Greeley, May 31. — Greeley, at present date, contains
seventy houses and 460 inhabitants, many of them still living in
tents. This infant town is now four weeks old and growing
vigorously; thereby, is entitled to rank as one of our western
cities. She expects soon to shake hands across the Platte with
Denver, and be her rival friend, with a friendship strong as
the iron band, which in four weeks is to bring them so near
together. The places of business now open are three general provision
stores, two bakeries, two meat markets, one hotel, neatly kept,
with board and lodging at $10 per week; one boarding house;
a blind, sash, and paint shop; a furniture room; an artist's
room (landscape and portrait painter) ; a bank of exchange; a
post office and depot ; also a telegraph office, soon to be in opera
tion. Every day houses come over from Evans, and new ones
are built. Wood is the only available building material.
Houses are made in the plainest style of architecture. Much
of the lumber comes from Chicago, costing $38 per thousand by
the car load. There has been no important development of
natural resources. A coal mining company has been organized
and an exploring party sent out, also a lumber party has gone
to the mountains.
Municipal authority is in the hands of the people. The
trustees have the direction of irrigation, road-making, mining,
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, June 1, 1870, p. 1.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 265
&c. The executive committee have charge of the division and
distribution of lands. The first survey, or survey of the town
and five acre lots, is nearly complete. All the blocks are 400
feet square and divided into sixteen, eight, or four lots, accord
ing to the distance from the depot. One hundred and thirty;
five acre lots lie immediately about the town. Nearly all this
land is taken, except that reserved for persons coming next fall,
Cache-a-la-Poudre river runs closely along the northern
boundary of Greeley, touches it on the north-eastern corner and
passes off to the south-east, leaving a fringe of cottonwood trees
to relieve the view in two directions. The irrigating canal
passes through the south-west corner and forms a southern
boundary. Hundreds of fruit and forest trees have been set
out and much land plowed and planted in "good faith" that ir
rigation will shower its benefits on us in a few days. The work
men are now engaged upon the last of the nine miles of digging
but "the way the water comes down at" our door remains to be
demonstrated through all the lines, angles and curves of the
whole distance. The trees meantime are watered from three
or four wells; a Herculean task indeed. It remains for the
future to decide whether energy now manifested by this colony
is real unflagging enterprise, or merely enthusiasm.
It would be a seven days wonder, if "all went merry as
a marriage bell," if there were no one to find fault, no one to
make blunders or to be disappointed ; if every one found all his
air castles without a blemish. There is no such seven days
wonder here. Many are disappointed, some on very reason
able and others on very unreasonable grounds. Some very
wisely, others very unwisely decide to go away. Perhaps fifty
have left Most of them young men who hoped to get clerk
ships. One man remained in Greeley nearly an hour, and
shaking the sand of the desert, and the prickly pears from his
feet, departed on the next train. Long's Peak blinked and
beckoned in vain. He did not like the look of things.
Improved health is the rule and not the exception. Sick-
headache, asthma and catarrh are very timid. A good moral
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been known to fight, so powerful is the moral influence. Pub
lic religious service is held twice on each Sabbath. It is pro
posed to build a Union church for present needs. No schools
are talked of yet, further than to reserve good grounds for
them. The Indians treat us with silent contempt. We do not
even pique their curiosity.

[An Answer to a Slander on the Quality of the Land
About Greeley.]
SLANDERS WELL REFUTED.1
Mr. Horace Greeley is going West to lecture to the Greeley
colony on the fourth of next month. If he talks as smoothly in
the West as he did in the East, and can convince his dupes that
they have been wise in following his advice, he may escape the
halter. As near as we can learn from returning parties, the
majority of Greeley's land is very poor, and very many who con
sider themselves swindled, would return to their native heath if
they had a few hundred extra dollars to defray expenses. —
C. B. Times.
We appeal once more to the press and people of the Mis
souri valley to stop depreciating the soils of this western in
terior. So far from the lands owned by the Union colony being
"very poor", they are exactly the reverse of "very poor". They
are, in fact, very good lands, and we say to the Times that it
ought not to perpetrate such unmitigated slanders upon a
country which, in its capacity for grazing is infinitely superior
to any other in the United States in the same latitude, and in
its capacity to produce Jhe cereals, is not surpassed by any other
in the world.
These are facts. They are amply attested by data which
none can successfully question or dispute. For journals to thrust
falsehoods in the way of colonized emigration to such a land,
and especially for journals in our own midst to persist in doing
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, June 3, 1870, p. 2.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 267
this wrong thing, which is so diametrically opposed to their
own selfish interests, is to us one of those curious anomalies
which it is not easy to account for. For strangers who studied
our boyhood geographies to denounce this great interior as a
desert, but for our own press and people to do it, is not only
strange but outrageous. — Omaha Herald.

THE ELECTION AT GREELEY.1
Greeley, June 13, 1870.
Editors News : — We have just closed our first election for
executive committee with satisfactory results. On Saturday
evening our president, N. C. Meeker, addressed a full meeting
of the colonists in the open air, giving a full and entirely satis
factory statement of the past and present condition of the colony
affairs, and an outline of the best future policy to be pursued.
His remarks were practical, suited to the wants of our people,
and were received with a hearty good will. He was followed by
Gen. R. A. Cameron, who made one of his happiest efforts, and
spoke most eloquently of the future of our town and vicinity.
At the close of the addresses the following names were unani
mously nominated as candidates for executive committee and
elected to-day.
N. C. Meeker, R. A. Cameron, W. B. Plato, E. C. Monk,
W. W. Wilcox, H. T. West, J. H. Pinkerton, E. Hollister, N.
Holmes.
E. W. G.
Our correspondent, M. T., also writes :
The result shows that there was no special cause for the
proceeding, unless it was to test the strength of the colony; to
ascertain if we really had a "local habitation and a name", or
if we were a myth only. The people will be happy now and
have confidence in their titles, their irrigation, their business,
and, more than all, in their officers, for they have turned them
off and elected them over again, all the principal ones, without
exception. 'Daily Rocky Mountain News, June 14, 1870, p. 1.

268 THE UNION COLONY
THE UNION COLONY.1

Greeley, and a Glance at the Colony Itself.

To describe Greeley and the Union Colony, in its present
new and growing condition, is rather a difficult task. A few
plain items, however, regarding the history and growth of the
place, will doubtless be of interest to all classes of readers.
The situation of the town is one the south bank of the
Cache-a-la-Poudre, at the point where the railroad crosses the
stream. The colony's lands extend up and down the Caehe-a-
la-Poudre for several miles, and they have the refusal of all the
lands along the river which are now controlled by the National
Land Company.
This location was agreed upon on the 5th of April last,
and on the same day the bargain for the lands was closed with
the National Land Company, under whose auspices the colony
was organized. The first house was placed on the townsite the
day of the purchase, and the first well begun. Colonists also ar
rived the same day and began work, in fact a few families had
come a week before, and were awaiting the decision of the locat
ing committee. As near as can be estimated there are now in and about
Greeley about 475 persons. They represent various states in
the east, with a few from California and Montana, One family
from Utah, and about 25 from Colorado. Of this number there
are about 35 families numbering at least 125 persons; about 200
married men who have not yet brought their families, and 100
or more young' unmarried men.
There have been 130 houses erected, and more are in pro
cess. About 20 wells have been dug, the depth varying from
20 to 30 feet. About 175 acres of land have been put under
cultivation, and planted mostly with potatoes and vegetables.
Not much grain has been sown. No fencing has yet been done.
The ditch is completed, and is a fine piece of work. It is 10
miles long, 15 inches deep, an average of 8 feet wide, will carry
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, June 21, 1870, p. 1.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 269
2,500 inches of water, covers between 5,000 and 6,000 acres
of land, including the town site, and cost $8,000. Another
ditch will be constructed this season, which will be not less than
25 miles long. . It will be taken out at or near Laporte, and will
cover not less than 100,000 acres. Its cost will probably ' be
$20,000. This ditch will be on the north bank. Still another
ditch is projected to cover 300,000 acres and to cost $40,000,
but this will not be begun this season. A lumber company have
purchased 300,000 feet of lumber, in the log, which will be
floated down the Cache-a-la-Poudre, and cut at Greeley with
a steam saw mill, which has been already purchased in Chicago.
A coal company for prospecting and mining and also a com-
pony for floating wood down the Cache-a-la-Poudre, have been
organized. One school house is up, and two schools are or
ganizing. The first sermon preached in Greeley was by Rev.
Mr. Baxter, from Staford on the Avon, England. The greatest
number of people at church on any Sunday has been 219, and
73 children at Sunday school.
Regarding the dissatisfaction which has existed it is not
necessary to say much. Probably 50 persons in all have left,
about 45 of them having sold out their interests entirely, and the
remaining five retaining their interests. I believe that the dis
satisfaction is growing less, and that a few weeks more will see
every body happy and satisfied. There never was any real
ground of complaint beyond the mistaken ideas and theories
which people had formed in their own minds, and a stubborn
determination not to learn anything, or to allow anything to
be explained. All the dissatisfied ones need is a small amount of
pluck, and they will soon be all right.
The location of the colony could not have been surpassed
in Colorado, and in every particular reflects credit on the judg
ment of the locating committee. The richness of the soil and the
ease with which it can be irrigated, the nearness to the railway
with all its advantages of mails and markets and transportation,
the fine climate and beautiful scenery, all combine to render the
place a most desirable one. The managers of the colony are
sterling men, and for energy, enterprise, business capacity, and

270 THE UNION COLONY
a fervent desire to see the colony succeed have no equals in the
organization. That the colony is now and will continue to be a
success is a fact which can be asserted most positively. It has
in it the live material, energy, enterprise and pluck, of which
western men sere made, and which impel them to success.
Greeley will grow up to be a beautiful, thriving and prosperous
town, and along the banks of the beautiful Cache-a-la-Poudre
will be found one of the largest and most growing communities
in the west, whose industry, intelligence, and prosperity will
rival that of any section of our territory.
W. R. T.

[Colony Resolutions Relating to Land, Liquor Selling,
Schools and Government. News From the Town.]
FROM GREELEY.1

Greeley, June 25, 1870.
The following resolutions have been adopted by the mem
bers of the Union colony as a line of policy for the government
of the colony :
Resolved, That it is the duty of the executive committee
to see that proper titles with the right to water be properly con
veyed to each individual member; and that all the rights and
powers belonging to the trustees of the ditch company be handed
over and conveyed to the executive committee of the colony.
Resolved, That in the true spirit of colonization, any mem
ber entering upon his lands — a part or the whole — to build, in
good faith, shall be entitled, at once, to his deeds for his business
lot, his residence lot and his outlying land, upon respectively
paying for the same.
Resolved, That in making the deeds for the members, a
clause shall be inserted, forever prohibiting the manufacture or
sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, on the land so deeded.
Resolved, That the diffusion of knowledge, so essential to
good government, depends upon the opportunities and advan-
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, June 21, 1870, p. 2.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 271
tages of education, therefore, we believe that at the earliest prac
ticable moment, a public school shall be opened, free to any
children in the colony.
Resolved, That until a municipal government can be or
ganized under the territorial laws of Colorado, the government
of the affairs of the colony shall be vested in the executive com
mittee of nine, who shall serve without compensation, except for
actual service rendered by the president, superintendent and
secretary. Resolved, That the executive committee be requested to ap
point an auditing committee of three not of their own number,
sufficiently competent for the purpose of examining and auditing
the colony accounts, and make a report to the colony monthly.
A school committee of five has been appointed by the colony
to confer with the county superintendent with reference to the
establishment of a free school.
 M. T.
Another correspondent at Greeley sends these items :
A board of education has been elected and a suitable build
ing is being put up for school purposes. The funeral of Mr.
Charter's son took place on the eleventh, an appropriate dis
course being delivered by Rev. J. W. Schell. Mr. George W.
Fiske received a telegram from New York, stating that his wife
had been seriously, if not fatally, burned by the explosion of a
lamp. He started home on the next train. Mr. McDonald, a
civil engineer, well and favorably known in this locality, re
ceived a contract from the colony, on Monday morning, to sur
vey two thousand acres of the colony lands into lots suitable for
distribution among the members.
The great P. T. Whatisit put in a brief appearance here
last week. Having telegraphed that he was coming, an immense
concourse was assembled at the depot to receive him, consisting
of our worthy postmaster and his mail bag, two small boys,
your humble correspondent and another small sized dog. When
the eye of the great showman fell upon this vast assemblage, his
soul was moved within him to let off one of his best efforts,
which he did.

272 THE UNION COLONY
Ladies and Gentlemen : — Glad to see you. Can't stop, be
cause the caravan — train, I mean, won't wait Give my love to
all the ladies and Horace Greeley and ask him does his mother,
&c, &c. I must be in Golden City to-morrow night No hum
bug about that; admittance only fifty cents to the whole show.
I am on my way after Geo. Francis Train, and I'll catch him
before he gets to the White House. Adieu.
And the ubiquitous showman was off for fresh fields to con
quer.

A DISGUSTED GREELEY— ITE.1
George Augustus Hobbs, one of the editors of the Geneseo
(111.) Republic, who was a shareholder in the Union Colony —
paid his $155 and we hope did not get a cent of it back — has
made his pilgrimage to Greeley and got home again. Poor fel
low! he should never again get out of reach of his mother's
apron strings. Hobbs stopped a few days at Greeley, a public
charge — he having been the first tenant of the poor house and
then of the jail at that place. When at large he did a good deal
of sitting around, and not being particular where he went to
roost, he carried away a great many prickly pears, all of which
have not been yet extracted by his Mamma we suspect. But the
lovely George escaped from Greeley and bummed his way to
Denver, where he sought to publish his woes in the newspapers,
but his character was so readily apparent that the privilege was
denied. We suspect he is the fellow who sent a lying special
dispatch to the Missouri Democrat, saying that the colony had
broken up, which dispatch was contradicted the next day in all
papers taking the associated press reports.
Well, about a month after the gentle Augustus took his de
parture from Colorado, he turned up again at Geneseo, a little
town in Illinois, which in 1853 was about half the size that
Greeley is now and has held its own with wonderful tenacity
ever since. His mother having extracted enough of the prickly
pears to enable him to occupy the editorial stool with tolerable
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, June 27, 1870, p. 1.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 273
comfort, he works off a column and a third of such stuff as the
following :
There is one thing we can and will say to our uneasy, rest
less readers, namely: if you can't possibly stay where you are,
dont go to Greeley, Colorado Territory! That is the last place
on the face of this terrestial ball that any human being should
contemplate a removal to ! Greeley, Colorado T., is a delusion,
a snare — it is a fraud, a cheat, a swindle, and the honest ( ?)
Meeker and his long-faced coadjutors know and glory in it —
or would do so had their plans been a little more successful.
Greeley, C. T., is a graveyard in which are buried heaps of
bright hopes and lots of joyous anticipations. Also, the remains
of "Young Meeker," son of "Old Meeker," who issued false
manifestos concerning the "colony" without authority! Two
or three hundred of "floating population" that have not dudads
enough to get down to Evans, 4 miles below ; a board of trustees
consisting of honest Meeker, "General" Cameron, "Judge"
Hanna ("brother Paul is left out,") Mr. West, id genus omne,
(the "philosopher" H. G., is only a bob to the kite;) several stern
wheel shanties and a few 1-horse tents compose the population of
the great "Union Colony" at Greeley at the present time. Four
hundred of the original colonists have been, looked, got disgusted
at and gone, and the balance will ditto as soon as their friends
send them money enough to do so with. That's Greeley, C. T. !
Two great works there are in Greeley, C. T., which, with pride
and satisfaction, the new-comer is requested to turn his eyes to
and let them rest on by the long-headed, shrewd and honest
"trustees". These are the "Great Ditch" and the "Grave of
Young Meeker" — the former being a tremendous irrigating en
terprise; the other used as a standing witness to the honesty
and sincerity of the "trustees".
This he repeats over and over again, dwelling especially
upon the "grave of young Meeker", showing that he is devoid
alike of decency and the common feelings of humanity. Else
where he says the "Great Ditch" "is a failure because it runs
up hill at an angle of thirty degrees," and also "because there
is no water anywhere around to fill it ;" that Greeley is located

274 THE UNION COLONY
"on a barren, gravelly, sandy plain — part and parcel of the
'Great American Desert', and is bounded chiefly by prickly
pears;" that "a crop of anything else on Greeley soil is totally
out of the question, &c., &c. But provoking as such lying asser
tions are, the good people of thriving Greeley can afford to laugh
at such a contemptible creature as their author — one alike devoid
of truth, manliness, honor, decency and common sense — when
they look at their prosperous surroundings, their growing town,
their rapidly increasing numbers, and the floods of water from
the "Great Ditch" that already nourish the gardens of the town
and fields that surround it. Not over fifty disgusted colonists
have left, and George Augustus Hobbs was and is the biggest
fool among them. The next in rank we would honor with per
sonal mention but from the fact that he has barely sense enough
to keep still. Farewell George Augustus Hobbs, son of Old
Hobbs — possibly — and — we dislike to be personal. We never
again expect to gaze upon your like for pure, unadulterated, un
mitigated, assinine qualities.

[An Answer to a Disgruntled Deserter From Greeley.]
1From an editorial in the Republic, of Geneseo, UL, we
infer that one of the editors of that paper has been to Greeley,
Colorado, and he went there expecting to find golden paved
streets, beautiful roses and lilacs and peonies and dahlias and
violets growing wild on the prairies and on the few spare lots
in Greeley which were not covered by magnificant brown stone
palaces. And he thought that the beautiful streams which flow
from the mountains and through the town, bore on their gentle
bosoms sweet cream and buttermilk, so that all the happy deni
zens of thrice happy Greeley had to do, was to make his selection
according to taste, and quaff from the limpid current until his
angelic stomach should be satisfied. This poor disappointed
editor comes out and finds that he has been swindled; that in
stead of gold in the streets, there is nothing but good honest soil,
such as the best Illinois farmers might be glad to possess ; instead
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, June 28, 1870, p. 1.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 275
of the flowers he expected to sport amongst, he finds some prickly
pears that stick in his feet and renders it impossible that he
should cast himself away in such a desert place. Instead of
streams of cool cream and buttermilk, he finds nothing but water,
and there is no ditch dug to irrigate his farm, and he has been a
victim of one of the biggest kinds of swindles ever perpetrated in
the history of the world, or the sun, moon or stars either. So
he tells his readers to stay where they are, or if they must move
away, do not, for pity's sake, go to Greeley, Colorado. This
silly man, or boy rather, (for he argues like a boy who had never
been weaned) came to Greeley without any idea of the trials a
pioneer has to endure, and finding a colony located and passing
through the easiest of them, he hasn't the sense to see the facts,
but jumps at the conclusion that he has been swindled. We will
guarantee that if the writer of the column and a half of non
sense in the Genesee Republic, will visit the city of Greeley,
Colorado, in the year 18S0, he will in his rage, tear the hair all
out of his head, and curse himself for a fool, in having thrown
away his chances ten years previously, of being one of the joint
owners in the beautiful place.

[Progress of the Colony. Irrigation. Church Services.
First Child Born.]
— xOur correspondent E. W. G. writes us from Greeley
under date of June 27 : Affairs here are progressing ; everybody
is busy and feeling well, excepting our M. D.s and lawyers, who,
I am pleased to inform you, are slowly but surely dying of rest
and inaction. The moth consumes the lawyer's useless volumes
while the rust and mildew play havoc with the doctor's lancet
and pills. Our irrigation works well, and under its cheering influence
our gardens are springing into life — plows and hoes are in active
demand, and a large quantity of land is being broken up that has
never felt a plow share since the day that Adam quit farming
here ; for you must know that we have made the discovery that
Waily Rocky Mountain News, June 28, 1870, p. 4.

276 THE UNION COLONY
this is the identical farm that our first great progenitor occupied
— I refer to Mark Twain as proof of this assertion. On Sun
day last we organized an association, without regard to sect or
creed, for the purpose of providing regular church services. A
committee of twelve was elected to supply a preacher and suit
able room, while the rest of the colony is constituted a standing
committee to supply a suitable audience.
Among the recent arrivals in Greeley I am most happy to
announce that of Horace Greeley Meeker Cameron Dickinson,
who arrived on the 21st His appearance among us has made
quite a ripple in the current of social life, for he is considered
the "representative man" of a large class of immigrants of that
kind, whom we may expect. A committee of ladies having
waited upon him to ascertain his views concerning Greeley in
particular and Colorado in general, have rendered a highly fav
orable report, as the gentleman is remarkably well pleased, and
considers Colorado by far the finest country he has ever seen.
In consideration of his possessing but limited means at the time
of his arrival, the colony have agreed to donate him a town lot —
and a name. The original Horace Greeley is expected without
fail on the Fourth, and we anticipate a- good time. We extend
a cordial invitation to the good people of Denver and all the
rest of the country folks of Colorado to come to town on that
day, hear one of the greatest of living Americans, and enjoy
the hospitalities of Greeley. We have a good deal of land which
can be easily irrigated but which cannot be used on account of
lateness of the season, unless it be sown to buckwheat. Will
some of your readers who have had experience in this matter
give us the results of their labor, and also where the seed can
be procured?

[Drawing for Land. Churches. Public School.]
— 1Our correspondent E. W. G. sends us the following
items from Greeley, under date of July 19 : Weather hot and
items scarce. Yesterday and to-day we have been drawing our
lands — 40 and 80 acres ; 189 shares were drawn and lots located.
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, July 21, 1870, p. 4.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 277
The modus operandi was to put all the names in a box and have
them registered as they were drawn — then each made his selec
tion. Everybody didn't get his first choice, but all appear satis
fied with the general result, except one anxious individual, who
watched the box with eager eye and attentive ear to catch his
name — but the whole list was called and the box found empty,
and his name not there. Indignation and wrath were no names
for his feelings, until he was recommended to look in his pocket,
where the unlucky paper had been snugly slumbering — Rev.
G. H. Adams and E. C. Brooks have been here and organized
a society of the M. E. church. The congregationalists have
also organized a society — Our public school is working nicely,
in charge of Mrs. Guiney, who has the reputation of having
been a successful teacher in Ohio.

[Alleged Land Jumping at Greeley.]
1Hon. J. H. Pinkerton, of Greeley, is in town. He came
up to visit the Land Office for the purpose of ascertaining some
thing about some land jumping operations which have been
going on, on the lands of the Union Colony. Previous to the
completion of the Colony's great irrigating canal, there was a
large amount of land laying unclaimed by individuals, it not
being considered of any value. Two or three days ago the plats
showing the location, and also showing the lands that had not
been allotted, and now under the ditch, were completed and
posted up for the information of the members of the Colony,
and a time set for alotting the unclaimed portion. Certain out
siders have sneaked in and examined the plats, and from thence
have come to the Land Office and filed claims on the lands, in all
probability for the purpose of compeling the Colony to repur
chase its own property. The Colony has reclaimed it, and now
certain outsiders have jumped in to try to make the Colony again
buy it, which is mean, to say the least.
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, July 23, 1870, p. 4.

278 THE UNION COLONY
GREELEY.1

Notes on the Business of the Town.
Greeley, August 22. — It is a great pleasure to watch the
development of a town begun as ours was. Most places happen,
but this was a deliberate intention. To observe it compresses a
life into a few months, making even short lives long. I propose
to glance only at its growth in business. Among the first ar
rivals were a number of traders, intent on the provision and
grocery line. So many as to outnumber their customers ap
parently. Some of these have wisely left the business, and others
have grown into larger establishments as their buildings have
been erected, and their customers now have a majority — an item
favorable to their sales. By them we have supplies of good
quality and as cheap as railroad monopoly will permit It is
only lately that dry goods have received attention. Some firms
are just beginning to receive their stock. There is a drug store
and a book store, also a hardware, but shoes are shabbily treated
by both dealers and wearers. The bank has been an invaluable
institution from its organization, soon after the arrival of the
first settlers. Some have purchased large farms outside of
colony limits, on the old claims on the river. The lumber trade
still continues to be a leading business and will, with the adobe
and general building business, continue to monopolize attention
for a long time.
These are some of the ways in which moderate or large
capital is invested here. But since the first inception of Union
colony it has furnished choice opportunities for the investment
of small sums. Such was its admittance fee: For $150 each
member obtained real estate worth three times that amount, so
soon as occupied. The cultivation of the smaller tracts dis
tributed is also a fine opportunity for those of small means,
either of strength or money. Here is the chance for women who
have the boldness to be independent and wish to avoid sedentary
occupation. While strawberries are seventy cents a quart, or
more, five acres are enough. So long as the plains support great
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, August 27, 1870, p. 4.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 279
herds of cattle, vegetable raising will pay. But the latest op
portunity, and it bids fair to be the, best, is the new stock asso
ciation. It embraces all departments of dairying, herding, and
breeding any kind of domestic animals on which profit can be
found. It will also butcher if that is advisable. With the best
well known profit of grazers it can hardly fail to make fine
dividends. Its name is the "Greeley Cooperative Stock Asso
ciation," and it proposes to have a stock of $10,000, with shares
at ten dollars each. The association will accommodate all
farmers who wish to have a small herd — too small to occupy
their time — or those engaged in other business, especially sala
ried people, who wish to invest a surplus. There is no opposition
to large investments in it, and there have already been some
pretty heavy ones. It is now in operation with a will, and has
nearly relieved us from the incursions of stock in our gardens.
 A. J. W.
[Business Houses. Crops. Trees. Prospective
Membership.]
LETTER FROM GREELEY.1 Greeley, Col.,|
Sept., 6, 1870.}
Dear Tribune: This rapidly increasing town presents a
very lively aspect. Situated upon one of the finest sites in the
country, well planned and improved it will at no distant day be
the centre of trade for this section. The business houses are
fast increasing in number, and are being built principally of
brick. There are in process of erection five large ones of brick,
among which I noticed one with a double front, being built by
our friend Dr. Tuttie, the enterprising physician and druggist,
who will occupy one half of it, with his own business. Gen.
Cameron presides at the Post Office and the town meetings,
and from present appearances, I am of opinion that their sittings
are productive of good. The small crops of corn and vegetables
cultivated, are looking very well and will add to the general
comfort during the hardships of the first year in the far West.
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, September 8, 1870, p. 1.

280 THE UNION COLONY
The streets have two rows of saplings, on either side, fresh and
green, which will in future years reward with their refreshing
shade the labors of these worthy people. May success attend
them. They are expecting an addition to their population this
Fall, of four hundred. If the new comers prove to be as indus
trious as the present inhabitants, Greeley will soon rank among
the first towns of Colorado. To all who come as these come,
Colorado sends greetings, and will ever prove a true and worthy
friend- Y°UrS' Timothy Gimblet
FROM GREELEY.1

Items from the Union Colony.

A Masonic lodge has lately been organized in this place
with F. L. Childs as master. Our place is to have a silver cor
net band. Over seven hundred dollars have already been raised
and the necessary musical talent secured. La Poudre lodge of
Good Templars at this place numbers nearly one hundred mem
bers. Mr. I. H. Jones and V. A Howe Esq. are delegates to the
Grand Lodge which meets in Idaho, Colorado next month. Our
town has two brick blocks just being completed, one fifty feet
front by sixty deep, the other one hundred feet front by fifty
deep ; each two stories high. The rapid sale and increase in the
value of lots in this place has received an additional impetus from
the prospect of a new railroad from Pine Bluffs through Greeley.
Large numbers of our colonists are now at work on the new
thirty mile ditch. It is to be completed January 1 1871.

GREELEY.2

The Financial Condition of the Colony.

Greeley, October 6. — We have at last succeeded in obtain
ing an auditing committee willing to work without pay, and
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, September 28, 1870, p. 4.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, October 8, 1870, p. 4.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 281
have had a report. This report shows that our monies have been
handled with such care, that not a dollar is known to be missing
or squandered. It is fifty-six pities that all the crooks, the
groans and whims, all the cries of "fraud", and "swindle"
could not have been kept until something definite like this had
been done. How much sighing and despair — how much breath
and credit the keeping would have saved. Greeley would have
been a good hundred stronger than at present. I subjoin a
summary taken from the report of the secretary of the com
mittee: Cost of lands  $61,882.68
Current expenses  1,198.39
Survey of lands  1,804.15
Sundries, feed shelter &c  3,125,31
Cost of diteh  5,969.24
" " bridges  263 :59
North side ditch survey  452.60
Town snrvey  76$55
" tmprovements  2,557.05
Free account,  1,490.90
Town hall  1,700.00
General expenses at New York  2,595.41
" " of N. C. Meeker  124.65
" " account of H. T. West. . 271.00
Expenses not classified  2,719.38
Total expenditures,  $87,114 89
" receipts:   100,166.14
Balance of cash on hand  $14,045 27
Some $40,000 will be realized from the sale of town lots,
and a considerable sum from other sources.
It is needless to add that Greeley grows — that every body
knows.
M. T.

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[Newspaper to Be Issued. Elections of Trustees and
Members of Executive Council.]
— xMr. Meeker, of Greeley, will probably issue the first
number of his new paper, the Tribune of the West, the last of
this week. From a letter received from Greeley, last evening,
we learn that things are lively there, everybody building, and
people coming in faster than houses can be built for them. An
election was held, Monday, for board of trustees and members
of the council, with the following result :
Board of Trustees — N. C. Meeker, R. A. Cameron, E. C.
Monk, W. W. Wilcox, J. H. Pinkerton.
Executive Council — E. A. Hollister, E. W. Gurley, B. S.
LaGrange, Ovid Plumb, L. Van Ghren, E. Nye, F. L. Childs,
Elias Hall, John Leavy, E. C. Alphonse, J. C. Shattuck.

HORACE GREELEY.2

His Reception at Greeley.

Mr. Greeley had a most enthusiastic reception at the town
of Greeley yesterday morning. As the train approached the
station the platform was found crowded with people whilst scores
were unable to get standing room thereon. As he alighted a call
was made by somebody for three cheers which were given with
a will and repeated. Many crowded around to shake hands and
a numerous escort accompanied him up town and to the office of
the Greeley Tribune. Flags were flying from numerous houses.
A meeting was immediately arranged for 1 :30 p. m. and work
men began the erection of a stand and seats in front of the print
ing office. After an hour's walk about the town, buggies were
procured and a small party drove up the river to the head of the
diteh, returning by one o'clock when people were found already
assembling in large numbers to hear his address.
Mr. Greeley began by saying that he desired to make some
practical remarks and that they might be somewhat disconnected.
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, October 12, 1870, p. 4.
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He related briefly his experience in youth when he learned how
farms were made in the dense forests of an eastern state where
it required thirty years to dig out the stumps and roots. It took
his father twenty years to make for himself a comfortable home
though he did not belong to the earliest class of pioneers. He
thought pioneering on the prairies of Illinois was not much easier
or better. After all, his preference was rather for the woods. If
he had been selecting a location for his colony he thought he
should have preferred a timber country, and yet he expected he
would have been mistaken. Timber near at hand would be of
great advantage, but as between timber and the conveniences of
a railroad he believed the latter the most important. Railroads
are a necessity in this age. Fifty miles over a wagon road would
in the end be more expensive than three hundred miles of rail
way, considering the waste of time and cost of transportation.
He advocated the herding of stock in preference to fencing for
the care of crops. It would save great expense. He thought
irrigation vastly superior to the chances of rain for the nourish
ment of crops ; illustrated it by examples from his own observa
tion in European countries, and thought if he had his choice
it would be to farm where rain never fell. He cited the earliest
experiences in agriculture which he thought were in the valley
of the lower Nile. He thought like a grumbling old farmer in
Rhode Island, who being reminded that he ought to be thankful
for the blessings of providence — especially rain ; "Humph," says
he, "I think taking one year with another rain does about as
much harm as good." In many of the eastern states where they
rely entirely upon rain there is not a one third crop this year
owing to the unusual drouth, many cattle are already dying
from starvation and others are being killed, because their owners
have no feed for them — he supposed they had not yet learned
that grass after it died and was eaten up was still good feed for
cattle. (Laughter.)
He believed this an excellent locality; and its soil greatly
superior to that of Salt Lake valley where the Mormons have
accomplished such wonders. He feared that Greeley had grown
too rapidly; would rather have seen fewer houses in the town
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ought to be ten thousand acres under cultivation here next year.
When he hears such is the fact he will set it down as a success.
He followed with a great deal of advice about the proper man
agement of the colony, especially in the matter of labor pursuits ;
advised the organization of a farmers' club and other societies
for mutual and beneficial intercourse, information and amuse
ment. His address was eminently practical and will doubtless
result in great benefit to the colony. We regret that we cannot
reproduce it in full. Mr. Greeley goes on. from Greeley by to
day's train direct for home to engage in the political campaign
of his state.

[A Visit to Greeley. Personality of Meeker and of
Cameron. Characteristics of the Town and Towns
people. Horace Greeley's Address.]
FROM OUR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT.1

Greeley, Oct. 13th, 1870.
From Denver to Greeley, fifty-two miles by the Denver
Pacific, is a journey moderately performed as a bit of morning
recreation in the period of two hours and a half, including three
stops, and brakes down on several other occasions, which was
about the same as so many more stops, to save running over quite
a number of cattle on the track. The curiosity of the poor brutes
was so excited at beholding the firey monster that they seemed
spell-bound and riveted to the spot, and nothing but the most
extravagant tooting of the engine's whistle would frighten them
away in time to prevent them from being crushed. And why
shouldn't they be amazed and spell-bound, for it is certainly so
astonishing even to us who have lived more than half a score
of years in the Rocky Mountains and on the western border of
what but a few years since was considered an almost impassable
and quite unhabitable desert, that we can scarcely realize the
fact of our having crossed this so-called desert once on foot, and
twice on horseback, and now two lines of railroad cross it, bring-
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, October 15, 1870, p. 2.

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ing to our doors all the modern improvements and the most pro
gressive system of civilization ? To-day we are riding north in
a palace car, in sight of the Snowy Range, and over acres of
prairie dog towns and vast beds of prickly pears. We can dis
tinguish away ahead of us the dark line that marks the Black
Hills, while on our left the mountains look out upon us through
the haze that has settled over the plains, obscured the foot-hills
and left the Snowy Range bright and plainly visible above all.
The plains to the east of us have robed themselves in panoramic
beauty. As far around us as our vision can extend, all is one
vast mirage. The country a short distance away looks as if
covered with water, which glimmers throughout the haze, and
dances in the beams of the sun as if a curtain of silver was
afloat on the surface. The bluffs seemed suspended in the air,
and the cattle and the antelope that were some distance off
looked to be suspended above earth, and seemed drawn out to
an immense length, resembling trees more than animals. Scores
of antelope would spring up near the train as we passed along,
and some of the timid creatures in their blind confusion, in
stead of running away would run towards us and get shot at,
but never harmed. One herd was so foolish as to run within easy
gun-shot parallel with us for more than mile. Several shots
were fired at them from a rifle on the train, but none were
harmed, and they finally dropped to the rear, and coolly walked
up to the track a short distance behind the train, as if to famil
iarize themselves with the strange thoroughfare.
But here I am, ahead of my story ; we have passed Hughes,
and Johnson, and Evans, and were landed on the platform at
Greeley some time ago. Some fifty or sixty Greeleyites crowded
the platform, and around the train, which half inclined us to
believe that perhaps we were to be treated to a distingue, and
escorted by the constable to the calaboose; but no such good
fortune awaited us ; they came to see if any of their friends had
arrived, to hear the news, to get their mail and inquire after
Horace Greeley. We met on the platform Mr. Fuller and Mr.
Root, gentlemen whom we had known before, and by the former
was introduced to Mr. Meeker, President of the Colony, whom I
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remembered it. We can't recommend Mr. Meeker's social quali
ties as being of the highest order, but a man should not be
blamed for what God never gave him. The Vice President, Gen.
Cameron, is a frank, sociable, jolly good-natured man, and I
found no difficulty in forming a pleasant acquaintance with
very many of the members besides. I found them all as busy
as an army of bees; there are no drones among them. The
town is four months old, and they have probably erected two
hundred buildings, and I conclude there are not less than fifty
in course of erection at the present time. Their location is
admirable; with a railroad at their doors, and an extensive
grazing and arable region all around them, with water inex-
haustable, and soil of surprising fertility, with the habits of in
dustry and systems of economy peculiar to this class of people;
with such system and order as regulates every branch of in
dustry here; with the capital at command, and finally, good
judgment, their sound, practicable and theoretical knowledge
will enable them to prosecute every industrial interest neces
sary to the success of this colony. I have already learned that
there is no such word as "fail" in their vocabulary ; they will
not permit themselves to entertain an idea so unreasonable. The
colony now numbers about 800' souls. The town is laid out in
regular order, with wide streets and water flowing in little
acequias, to all parts of the village. They have planted around
their dwellings and along their acequias, several thousand soft
maple trees, which look remarkably well, and indicate such a
degree of thrift as one would scarcely suppose possible with
exotics of this species. There are twelve or fifteen stores of
every kind, one good livery stable, occupying one of the finest
locations in town, and owned by our enterprising Denver friend,
J. C. Higley, two jewelry stores, two blacksmith shops, a num
ber of carpentef and cabinet shops, a barber and a butcher shop ;
a book, periodical and stationery store, two drug styres, one
hotel, as good as circumstances will allow, but like the greatest
curse that blights Colorado to-day, in almost every town in the
Territory, it is not up to what a hotel should be, neither in
capacity nor any other way.
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fulness, but in dozens of other places in the Territory there is
no excuse for furnishing as they do, such meagre hotel accom
modations at such exorbitant rates. I believe, however, this
people are disposed to adopt all the modern reforms as fast as
they are able; and they have already started in with several
very essential ones, for there is not a saloon of any kind in all
this community. Not a drop of large beer or intoxicating liquors
is sold by the drink or any other way, in this town, except what
is sold at the drug stores for medicinal purposes. Sobriety, good
order, peace, harmony and prosperity, characterize the people
of this colony. Dr. H. B. Tuttie, formerly of Denver, is here,
bustling away with his characteristic energy; he conducts a
flourishing drug store, practices medicine, is just completing a
large building for an office, drug store and dwelling house, has
a farm but a short distance from town, and a beautiful garden
in town, which contains a half acre of healthy looking straw
berry plants.
Horace Greeley arrived yesterday and talked to the people
in the afternoon, not eloquently, but practically and sensibly.
He advised them to get out of town and build up the rural dis
tricts first, and the town would follow as a natural consequence.
Our people were habitually gregarious and too fond to flocking
to our cities and villages, where they help to swell the ranks of
squalid misery and every manner of crime, and pestilence, and
want, and all the evils that infest our densely populated places
everywhere. He advised them to organize a Farmer's Club, and
study and practice the various branches of agriculture, grow
stock, and cover the naked country over with groves of forest
trees, which would not only enhance its value, but greatly add
to its beauty and utility. He thought fences were not advisable
in a country where there was a scarcity of timber or other fenc
ing material, but that every man should take care of his own
stock, and cited his observations in portions of France, Germany,
Italy and Switzerland, where such was the prevailing custom.
He thought artificial irrigation preferable to rain, and gave as
an illustration some portions of Europe he had seen, where vege
tables never failed but were always bountiful, because nourished
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where vast harvests were gathered, having been developed by
artificial irrigation.
We may have something to say in our next of Mr. Greeley's
views on the Indian question, as expressed to us in a private con
versation. We are sorry to know that the old disposition still
rankles in his breast. But then the opinions he has held and
cherished for years unaltered, of course will prevent the voice
of reason from making any impression deeper than that which
trembles on the ear drums.
More of something else in my next. I am off for another
region. H.

[The Characteristics of the Colonists. Fencing the
Land. Business Houses.]
FROM OUR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT.1
Greeley, Oct. 18th, 1870.
Snow fell here Saturday night and continued throughout
the Sabbath; yet in all that time scarcely enough remained to
whiten the ground. It melted as it fell, so that by Monday
noon but little more than vestige of it remained. Monday morn
ing the sun beamed forth intensely brilliant, as if prepared for
the march and the work of a mid-summer's day. The atmos
phere could not have been more pure, and. the mountains were
robed with a threefold splendor. Owing to the peculiar bril
liancy of the subtle element, the mountains appeared nearer,
and seemed towering to greater heights. The feeble snow
quickly yielded to the influence of the sun and changed its con
dition into shining liquid, and stole away to its destiny. Thus
in a few hours the snow and the water and the mud had disap
peared, and the country had become dry land.
The Sabbath is observed here with Puritanic scrupulous
ness. All business houses are closed Saturday night, and are
not opened until an early hour Monday morning. The nearest
to gambling we saw in the place was a few innocent games of
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, October 20, 1870, p. 2.

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checkers for the championship, by some parties at the Bailey
House. We saw a few decks of cards, but they were all business
cards, and decked the counters of every business house in town.
There are some grumblers and fault-finders even here, but that
is the nature of the greater portion of the human family. There
were grumblers in Heaven in early times. It would be unreason
able to suppose that eight hundred people could dwell together
here or anywhere else, in perfect concord and unity in every
thing. There are strait-grained, gnarley-winding and cross-
grained dispositions among them, and of course you cannot
harmonize such freaks of nature by any earthly power. The
greater portion of this people are reconciled to their lot, and
believe they have bettered themselves by coming here. They
have a salubrious climate and access to broad acres. They are
all people of energy and intelligence, and many of them are men
of means. They will soon have completed a diteh, 28 miles
in length, which will irrigate 50,000 acres of land, and all sus
ceptible of a high state of cultivation. One ditch, already com
pleted, is 10 miles in length, and will irrigate 7,000 acres. They
will thus be enabled to cultivate from fifty to sixty thousand
acres next season, if they so desire. From present indications
they will have added by immigration up to next June, enough
to give them a population of fifteen hundred. I am glad to
know that a great majority of the colonists are in favor of
fencing their lands, and adopting such improvements as belong
to a civilized people. If many of them feel too poor at the
present time to build post and rail or board fences, they should
at any rate fence as fast as they are able. Let them commence
early and plant hedges, and thus grow fences, and groves in the
meantime. In a country as highly favored with building and
fencing material as this is, the people have no excuse but a lack
of enterprise and good taste for not having decent habitations,
and a few strings of fences, after a reasonable time. Fences
make a country attractive, break the winds that would otherwise
meet with no opposition; keep stock within bounds, and save
money and labor, and crops enough in a few short years to pay
for all the fences in Christendom. Heaven itself is fenced, and
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everywhere among all people. A house without doors would be
just as reasonable as a country without fences. It wouldn't cost
any more for a herder to guard our doors than for him to guard
our stock. If our railroads were fenced we wouldn't then have
to stop the train so often and run ahead and drive cattle off the
track. We fence ourselves in both summer and winter. Cities
and villages are fenced and walled in, and every well-regulated
community have fences, without which there would be loss of
crops, quarrels between neighbors, and endless litigations would
follow as a natural result. All God's universal creation is
fenced in, and shall we refuse to fence the few acres that we
till ? Soon millions of stock will feed upon the plains, and the
mountains and the valleys will be alive with them. Who is to
furnish the great army of men necessary to keep all this stock
off the little agricultural patches that may happen to be farmed
in the same region? The stock interest will be the greater in
terest, and of course the agricultural interest will have to pro
tect itself with fences. Thus we would advise all who expect
to till land, be it more or less, to fence early, and if possible,
grow a fence, one of the most substantial and thorny kind. Such
will not only make a fence, but will likewise break and check
the winter winds that so often sweep across the plains. They
will help to generate and retain moisture in the region of
country where they abound, and finally, thrifty hedges are an
ornament to any farm or any place wherever they flourish. The
town of Greeley is located in a great bend of the Cache-a-la-
Poudre, on the south side of the stream. The river encom
passes the place in the form' of a semi-circle, thus rendering all
that section of country in the bend accessible to irrigation.
Much of the lumber used in building here is of a very superior
quality, having been shipped from Omaha by the Union Pacific
to Cheyenne, thence by the Denver Pacific to this place. It
comes thoroughly seasoned and is worth from forty to sixty
dollars per thousand when delivered, prices varying according
to quality. Dry goods and groceries are retailed here nearly or
quite as cheap as in Denver or any other slope of the mountains.
E. T. Nichols is doing an extensive grocery business, and I am
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in a single day. Mr. Nichols is a relative of the great show
man, "P. T. Barnum," who likewise has an interest in Greeley.
Plumb & Co. are doing a flourishing grocery and produce busi
ness, and are just completing a comfortable store. R. Fisk has
completed the largest building in Greeley ; it is advantageously
located near the rail-road, and not far from where the depot
will be built. The front part of the lower story is a store and
filled with goods ; the upper story is finished and furnished in
ample order for the accommodation of Mr. Fisk and his family.
Mr. Fisk is cousin to the famous Jim Fisk of Wall Street and
Erie notoriety, and should he make such a splurge here as did
his cousin in New York, then good bye to Greeley and all our
railroads. Wm. H. Post has nearly completed a fine new build
ing designed for a book, periodical and stationary store. Gen
eral Cameron is the Postmaster, and has just completed a very
suitable Postoffice which he has in connection with his drug store.
Near the railroad stands a building about 24 x 100 feet, styled
the "Hotel de Comfort." Its object is for the accommodation of
such as desire to avail themselves of its privileges until they
have time to build and move elsewhere. As to the Greeley
Tribune, it was whispered non constat.
That which is most needed just now is a good hotel. It
would be profitable for all concerned. I believe, however, it
is the intention of the company to erect a large hotel at an early
day. They have several very good business houses nearly com
pleted, which will soon be filled with goods and doing a lively
trade. Quite a number of the members will soon have completed
fine residences. There are two lumber yards, both doing a lively
business and selling common lumber at from thirty to thirty-five
dollars per thousand. There are other business places and var
ious other enterprises worth mentioning, but I have filled my
allotted space. H.
MR. ENGLAND ON COLORADO.1

Mr. I. W. England, of the New York Sun, who was one of
the excursionists at the formal opening of the Kansas Pacific
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Railway, has at last published his experiences and observations
upon that trip. His letter fills nearly three columns in the
semi-weekly Sun of October 11. It is gossipy and readable,
mainly correct and just, but contains some errors that deserve
mention. Mr. England is naturally critical and fault-finding.
The objectionable feature of anything with varied qualities
strikes him first, and thus becomes prominent in his mention.
In some cases he entirely forgets the other side. He also falls
into the very common error of esteeming his opinions, based
upon first impressions, as vastly more reliable than those of
people who have lived in the country for years. He does not
value the experience of others. We shall proceed to briefly re
view the erroneous portions of his letter and point out some of
the most glaring of his mistakes. There was little to criticise
until he got well out upon the plains. They were dined and
wined, feasted and serenaded at the river cities and larger
Kansas towns, and of course all was lovely. At Brookville, two
hundred miles from the Missouri, they rested over night, and
succeeding that we make our first extract :
Beyond Brookville to Denver, 438 miles, the climate is
such that the land is only available for grazing purposes. The
country is covered with a sparse growth of buffalo grass, with
here and there a few weeds and cacti. For arable purposes it
is valueless, unless it can be irrigated. The rainfall does not
exceed six and a half inches per year. The streams are nearly
all dried up in the summer. At no time is the buffalo grass
green save for a few days after rain, the sun soon shrivelling
it up to the brown and sere state in which we saw it
The annual rainfall varies from fifteen to twenty-two
inches. Instead of a "sparse growth", the buffalo grass is a
dense mat, covering the ground to the height of four to eight
inches. It remains green from early spring to mid-summer when
it matures, ripens and consequently dies, yet retaining, until the
next crop grows, all its nutritious qualities.
Mr. England grows enthusiastic over the view of the moun
tains as he approached them, and was really pleased with Den
ver. He says :
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planting shade trees in the streets. The sight of these is most
grateful after leaving the dusty plains ; but they require a con
stant supply of water by irrigation or the hot sun shrivels up
their foliage in twenty-four hours like a frost. The door yards
of the residents have been planted with annual flowers, which
by contrast with the surrounding aridity are marvels of beauty.
Yet the little plats must be kept saturated or the flowers would
soon die under the summer heat.
Very many of the trees in Denver are not watered oftenei
than once in two weeks and then the water is conducted to them
for a few minutes only. Some at even longer intervals, and
after two or three years from the transplanting, they do not
require it at all, except those that happen to be in most Unfav
orable locations. But the cottonwood tree will grow with water
all the time at its roots ; hence his opinion, formed from seeing
so many alongside of the street ditches where water flows all the
time. The flower plats are generally watered about once a
week ; sometimes more frequently, but oftener the contrary.
His next grumble is about the Union Colony, which is
termed "a monument of Tribune folly", a title that probably re
veals the secret of his dislike.
The place was founded by N. C. Meeker, agricultural
editor of the Weekly Tribune. On the 25th of April it had six
inhabitants; on the 4th of July, 1,200; when we visited it
(Sept. 4) about 600, almost any of whom would cheerfully sell
out. Nothing can be done in this section without irrigation.
The estimated cost of irrigating canals is $70 per eighty acres,
and an annual tax for repairs. It is a fine country for sheep, if
the wolves are killed off; but till then only horses and horned
stock can be kept. Many of the original settlers of Greeley
cursed the folly which led them away from the rich bottoms of
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas, to these high and dry
table lands over 7,000 feet above the sea level. To go from the
fertile regions of the lower plains and prairies to these hot
latitudes to farm for a living, is like trying to walk on your
head when your feet are so much more servicable. It may be
scientific farming to thus subdue the wilderness, but the ulti
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after all your irrigation, you are liable every two or three years
to a plague of grasshoppers that devour the farmer's substance
as they sweep down from the sterile regions of the north.
Greeley is only 4,740 feet above the sea level. There has
been no diminution in the population of Greeley at any time.
It had more people September 4 than July 4. Doubtless there
are some who would have sold out at that time, provided they
could have done so at a higher price than' it would cost them to
turn around and buy as good or better property. There was no
such dissatisfaction as Mr. England's letter intimates. They
did not expect to raise crops without irrigation. Seventy dol
lars per eighty acres to provide for irrigation is a trifling ex
pense compared to the cost of draining eighty acres of the "rich
bottoms of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas," and the "an
nual tax for repairs" is trifling compared with the annual cost of
surface draining in those States; to say nothing of the months
during which their people flounder through mud and water
whilst we have good roads and ground in excellent order for
plowing. On the wolf and sheep question, Mr. J. A. Moore
says: "Out of 8,000 head of sheep I lost only two this (last)
winter, by wolves." His location is more exposed to wild ani
mals than is the Greeley settlement. We suspect that Mr. Eng
land did not hear of a single sheep being killed' by wolves. He
shows his selfopinionatedness especially in regard to "the ulti
mate profits of farming." The experience of farmers who have
raised crops here for a dozen years counts to him as nought.
His impression was unfavorable because our system was to him
new and strange, and upon that impression he pronounces an
opinion without argument or consideration. So of the grass
hoppers. No part of the country has suffered from their depre
dations more than twice in twelve years, and many portions of
it only once, yet the stranger who reads Mr. England's letter
will think that utter ruin is a pretty certain thing every two or
three years.
We visited Ex-Gov. Hunt, at his farm. Here luxuriant
crops of hay, grain, and roots were grown by means of irrigation ;
but on the slopes the water runnels were so close together that
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swaths. The Governor said he had been away most of the sea
son, and the overflow not being properly regulated his crops had
not come up to the average.
The ridges to separate the levels on Gov. Hunt's farm vary
in their distance apart from sixteen to sixty feet. His ground
was originally unusually broken in consequence of which those
obstructions are more numerous than is necessary on most farms.
They are somewhat in the way but there is no waste ground or
loss of crops on account of them. Previous to the date of Mr.
England's visit, Gov. Hunt had harvested three crops off his
clover field and he has since cut another, making four crops in
the one season, and an aggregate yield of more than six tons of
hay to the acre. No part of this is told by Mr. E., but he leaves
his readers to doubt whether the Governor got any hay at all. So
he entirely fails to realize the fact that with irrigation all crops
are immensely increased ; that they are assured by the care of the
farmer himself, and not subject to loss or damage by excessive
wet or drouth, or other freaks of climate or season.
The same one-sidedness characterizes his remarks about the
mines. In his opinion failure and loss are the common rule, and
he dwells upon it. "But two or three persons are named to me
as having acquired fortunes from the rich mines they have dis
covered and sold," is all he has to say about any success in that
pursuit. Generally, however, his mountain experiences were
rather more rose tinted than those upon the plains. From first
to last he loses sight of the fact that a considerable community
was built up here long before the day of railroads upon the
plains; that everything required for its early subsistence and
subsequent comfort and elegance was dragged more than six hun
dred miles across the plains in ox wagons, fighting Indians all
the way for long and weary years ; that despite all obstacles its
people who came in utter poverty have wrung from what he
considers sterile plain and forbidding mountain comparative
competency; that they are actually worth more and produce
more annually per capita, than any like number of people in his
own or any other State; that from the first the rate of money
exchange has always been in their favor — showing that they
were sending out more than they brought in, but on the plains

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he notes with wonder that "all the stone, lumber, lime, and nails
for all the dwellings along this dreary stretch has been hauled
by the Kansas Pacific Railway Company."
Mr. England would not make a good pioneer unless he
could find a country where there is unmixed good. He is not
sanguine of advantages but critical of disadvantages and dis
comforts. When he learns to consider both and draw average
comparisons between the worst and the best, and between dif
ferent sections of the country, he will give better and more in
telligible information to disinterested readers.

[Attempt to Locate a Billiard Saloon in Greeley
Frustrated.]
1The Greeleyites are determined that the provisions of the
constitution of that town shall not be violated, hence a man who
recently undertook to locate a billiard sallon there, has been
bundled out by the citizens. The shop was burned down, dur
ing the melee. The citizens of Greeley, believing such institu
tions calculated to harm the young men of the town they have
founded, have the right to prohibit their introduction the same
as they would the establishment of a house of ill-fame or a
gambling den. An outsider knowing these facts, and daring the
danger, should expect to take the consequences. We are dis
posed to allow the citizens of Greeley to run their town as they
wish, and we have no sympathy with any individual party who
attempts to break in upon their established rules, to the harm
of the town and against the peace of its citizens.

WHISKY IN GREELEY.2

Concerning the Mischief it did and how a Saloon-Keeper was
brought to Grief.

Greeley, October 24. — It has been known for some time
that whisky was sold at two stores in this place. A member
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, October 25, 1870, p. 2.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, October 25, 1870, p. 4.

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of the Good Templars has boasted of buying hquor at one of
the places mentioned, yet no steps were taken toward abolishing
the evil. Early on last Sunday morning a German came up from
Evans and opened a saloon within the town limits, on a ranch
partially owned by the Colony. Certain persons repaired to
the saloon and "loaded up" preparatory to attending morning
service at the church. Before the benediction had been pro
nounced, a committee was appointed to interview the saloon
keeper. About two hundred persons gathered around the liquor
establishment, soon after the committee arrived. The proprietor
said that he had paid $200 for the use of the building, which
was claimed by one. Smith, of Evans, and he meant to stay until
the lease expired. One of the committee got possession of the
key and locked the door. The committee finally agreed to pay
the whisky dealer $200 for his lease, and to cart the liquor to
a place of safety. Many were clamorous to burn the shanty and
destroy the brandy casks. The den was soon after discovered
to be on fire. Then the committee made a grand rush and suc
ceeded in extinguishing the flames, besides saving the rum, with
the card tables, decanters and dice-boxes.
While the members of the committee were congratulating
themselves on this feat, the building was discovered to be on
fire again, but the flames were subdued only to break out again
on the outside of the shanty, and this last conflagration en
tirely destroyed it.
The next move was to preserve the brandy. A team was
sent for, and after a slight remonstrance, the proprietor with
his brandy, card tables and dice boxes, was escorted to Colony
Hall.
Here the committee parted with a sigh of relief, and felt
that their mission had been nobly and faithfully performed.
The rum-seller went home delighted, for on a single Sabbath
day he had cleared in behalf of the former occupant, the trifling
sum of $200.
R. M.
(Note. — We have another account of the above affair, which
furnishes no new facts, and in fact substantiates the above, but

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its tone does not suit us as well and its publication therefore is
unnecessary. — Ed.)

GREELEY.1

A few Important Items.

Affairs in Greeley are quiet and prosperous. A number
of fine and substantial buildings are being erected, and improve
ments, of various kinds progressing most satisfactorily. There
are by actual count 352 houses, erected and being erected in
the town, a fact which will warrant us in stating the population
at 1,000 persons at least.
The financial condition of the colony is sound, there being
a cash balance of $9,038.66, in the treasury, besides $34,985.
now due from colonists for town lots, water rights, etc.
The new ditch, on the north side of the Cache-a-la-Poudre,
is progressing rapidly, and will be completed in January. It
will be 30 miles long, and will cover and furnish water for
55,000 acres of land. It is contracted to be completed for
$20,000. It has been determined to fence in the colony lands by
running a fence on the line of the ditches. This will make over
50 miles of fence.
The patronage of the town to the railroad is large. Be
tween May 6th, and Oct. 15th, there was received at the depet
9,853,800 lbs of freight. There has been sold in the town
1,192,000 feet of lumber besides a large amount purchased in
the mountains by private parties.
The citizens of Greeley are readers, for there are received
at the postoffice 115 copies of the New York Tribune, sixty-three
copies of the weekly Rocky Mountain News, thirty-five copies
of the weekly Colorado Tribune, and over 200 miscellaneous
publications. Good feeling seems to be prevailing, the town is growing,
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, November 1, 1870, p. 4.

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improvements are of a first class character, and everything
argues well for the future.

WHISKY IN GREELEY.1

The late Affair under a New Phase.

Greeley, October 31. — The "whisky riot" of October 22,
as reported in your columns a few days ago, culminated in a
court of law, to say : Evans vs. Greeley come up before Justices
Pinkerton and Gargin on the complaint of the "gentleman of
German extraction," who came "with the morning sun" on that
eventful morning, and departed with his "Mountain Dew" ere
the afternoon shadows lengthened over the town. Six citizens
of Greeley were indicted, first, for larceny; second for arson
and riot. Mr. Mallory appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Frank M. Babcock for the defence. Messrs. Ralph Meeker,
Alonzo Long, J. Max Clark, Wm. H. Post, W. E. Strunk and
a mythical individual, "to the court unknown," save as "John
Smith," were up on a preliminary examination. After some
dozen or more witnesses for the prosecution had been heard, dur
ing which but little satisfactory evidence was elicited, the court
adjourned to Tuesday morning, at 9 o'clock, to allow the prose
cution time to produce additional evidence. P.

WHISKY IN GREELEY.2

End of the Drama — Riot and Arson say the Court.

Greeley, November 1. — Court opened at 10 o'clock, a. m.,
Justices Pinkerton and Sargin present. The absence of wit
nesses for the prosecution compelled an adjournment to 1 p. m.,
before which, however. J. Max Clark, one of the accused, was
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, November 1, 1870, p. 4.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, November 2, 1870, p. 4.

300 THE UNION COLONY '
discharged from custody. At 1 p. m., Court opened. The prose
cution offered two witnesses, one of whom "nix know notings",
and the other, saw no disturbance, only "a fire." The prose
cuting attorney here "rested."
The attorney for the defense then asked for the discharge
of Ralph Meeker, Wm. H. Post and W. E. Strunk. This was
opposed as far as the first and last mentioned gentlemen were
concerned. The Court granted the request as far as Mr. Post
was concerned, and discharged him. He "went off" immediately
into private life.
Witnesses for the defense were then called, one of whom
proved an alibi as far as the mithical individual, known as
"Smith", yesterday, but today as Narcross was interested. The
next witness seemed to confuse the mind of the prosecuting at
torney as to the time it took to eat his dinner. After arguments
for and against a motion to discharge all the prisoners on the
ground that there was no evidence to hold any one of them for
examination, the Justices after mature deliberation "on the
boundless prarie" decided to hold Mr. Meeker, for riot, and
Mr. Narcross, for arson.
So drops the curtain on the first act of the Temperance
Drama. P.

WHISKY IN GREELEY.1

How it led to a Temperance Meeting which failed to agree.
Greeley, November 3. — A public meeting of the Colony was
held last evening to discuss the temperance question now agitat
ing the town. Dr. J. A. Barkley occupied the chair, E. W.
Gurley acting as secretary. A majority report of the com
mittee appointed to investigate the charges and to present a line
of policy to be adopted by the Colony, was presented by William
E. Pabor, Esq. A minority report somewhat more radical in
its tone and measures proposed was presented by J. Max Clark.
A lengthy discussion ensued, in which Messrs. Meeker, Cam-
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, November 4, 1870, p. 4.

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eron, Gurley, Clark, Pabor, Fisk, Childs and others took part.
But at 11:30 p. m. no conclusion had been reached; whereupon
the meeting adjourned to Friday evening. The people of the
Colony are evidently awake to the necessity of enacting a
stringent policy in regard to the sale of intoxicating liquors as
a beverage on the lands owned by them. P.

[A General View of Conditions in Greeley.]
HOME CORRESPONDENCE.1

Editor, Boulder News: — Among the many improvements
and attractions of Colorado, it may not be amiss to give your
readers a few items as to the wonderful rapidity with which the
town of Greeley, has sprung up since the first inhabitant set
foot on the location, which is now only about six months. I
visited that place for the first time, last week, and though I had
heard a great deal said about the beauty and thrift of the place,
I was very agreeably disappointed, for its beauty, size and
present prosperity far exceeded my expectations.
The town is situated on a beautiful high rolling prairie on
the Denver Pacific Railway, overlooking the lovely valleys of the
Platte and the Cache-a-la-poudre rivers. Its streets are much
wider than most of the Western towns, being, I should guess,
not less than 100 feet wide. They have taken great pains to
plow and grade, and elevate them in the middle, making drains
for water on each side, and have planted shade trees on either
side of many of them. Since my residence in the West, I have
visited a great many towns and villages just springing up, but
have never seen one before that seemed to rise and grow as by
magic, like Greeley.
It is said to contain now, about 500 houses, nearly all of
which are built of good material, substantially erected and taste
fully arranged and finished showing unmistakable evidences that
those who built them intend to make permanent homes.
'¦The Boulder County News, November 9, 1870, p. 2.

302 THE UNION COLONY
But the town seems not, to contain all this prosperous
colony, for all around, nearly as far as my vision extended, I
could see new comfortable houses erected and in process of
erection on beautiful and rich lands intended for cultivation, a
considerable quantity of which is already broken. This colony
has certainly selected some of the finest laying and richest land
in Colorado. The broad rich valley of the Cache-a-la-poudre at and near
its confluence with the Platte, together with the extensive bot
toms on the latter stream are among its acquisitions.
The town contains many first-class stores of various kinds ;
one Bank, and very many shops, etc., etc.
They have also built a large irrigating ditch, about 8
miles in length, which is taken from the Cache-a-la-poudre, and
supplies the town and a large portion of their lands with water,
for all valuable purposes.
While there, I visited their literary society, which meets
in a commodious hall once a week, and found it crowded with
an audience of both sexes, that for intelligence and fine ap
pearance would vie with almost any locality in the United
States. Indeed, I am inclined to believe that Greely contains
a larger per cent of intelligence, refinement and industry, than
almost any other Western town of its size and age.
Judging from the perseverance and industry which this
people have displayed in building their town, and preparing
their lands for cultivation, together with the efforts they are
making at this time to have rail and wagon roads constructed to
that point, I should not be surprised to see Greeley, in a few
years, one of the largest cities in Colorado.
They have already located, and are constructing a first-
class wagon road from there, to connect with the Boulder City
and Grand Island mining district, and they will soon have men
on the route viewing a practicable line for a railroad from Pine
Bluffs via Greeley and Boulder City, and so on to the Caribou
mines. Some of their leading men, with others, intend forming a
company and taking out a charter to build the road from there
to Boulder, and from Boulder to Caribou. The road will likely

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be built from Boulder City by that company, and the Denver
and Boulder Valley Railroad company.
This route will afford to the colony, a a short road to the
Mountains and mines, and open up a forest of inexhaustable
timber for fencing and other purposes. It will also give them
access to stone for building purposes, stone coal, etc., all of which
will be in great demand by that people. I could not help think
ing, while admiring the beauty, cleanliness and taste, displayed
in the laying out of Greeley, and its police regulations generally,
that many of the inhabitants of the older towns in Colorado, if
they would visit Greeley, might take lessons from it, that would
tend very much to the cleanliness, order and beauty of their
locality. B. G.

GREELEY UPON GREELEY.

Mr. Greeley has at length found time to write out his im
pressions of the Union colony. He does it in a series of ques
tions and answers, as the most convenient way of communicating
the information so often sought of him by individuals. We give
such of the answers as are of general interest:
What are the advantages of this location ? A. A rich deep
soil, free from bog, stick, stump, or stone, very easily broken
up and tilled, and requiring only water to render it abundantly
and surely productive. All these, with a pure, bracing atmos
phere and remarkably healthy climate, it shares with other
localities : but its facilities for cheap and extensive irrigation are
peculiar, and I think unequalled. Wood and timber abound on
the lower hills and in the gorges of the Rocky Mountains, from
20 to 30 miles distant, and may be floated down to the settle
ment when the Cache la Poudre is at its high stage, that is in
June. The lands of the Cache la Poudre are covered and sur
rounded by the short, thin herbage known as gramma grass,
which is said to be very nourishing and to cure on the stalk, so as
to be equally acceptable to cattle in Winter as in Summer, and to
subsist vast herds without other fodder. I am not sure that this
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, November 11, 1870, p. 2.

304 THE UNION COLONY
is an advantage, though to the pioneer of scanty means it will
naturally seem such.
How much land has the Colony secured ? A. About 50,000
acres, very uniform in quality, and almost without exception
arable. What are the leading Industries of this Colony? A. As
yet housebuilding, mainly in the village, with the arts sub
sidiary thereto, and digging irrigating canals, have mainly en
grossed attention. When colonists began to arrive, late in
April, or early in May last, there was not even a shelter for
their heads to be had for love or money. A post office, 10 x 15
feet, was the only structure to be seen. Since then, four or
five hundred dwellings have been built, with other structures,
nearly so many gardens made, and water let into each ; a pubhc
park laid out and planted with trees, and large yields from
small areas of spring wheat, buck wheat, turnips, etc., realized.
I did not hear of a single failure except from the ravages of
hungry cattle. I am confident that if every acre owned by the
colony could this winter be plowed, and next spring seeded to
wheat, the yield would average 40 bushels per acre The pota
toes grown this year, though mainly planted in June or July,
were at once abundant and excellent.
Where will this Colony find Markets ? A. Right at home
for the present, and among the mines which abound in the ad
jacent mountains at all times. The new and promising develop
ments of silver are but 40 or 50 miles distant ; the gold-mining
operations on Clear Creek, some 20 or 30 miles further. The
mines of Colorado will consume all the grain and vegetables
that can be raised in that territory for the next hundred years ;
and, besides, the rancheros or cattle growers of the plains are
every day increasing in number, while not very likely to fall
away in appetite. Few of them grow grain, for want of irriga
tion, but all are glad to help to eat it. I judge that the price
of most grains and vegetables will range as high here in the
average as in our State or New Jersey.
What manufacturers are likely to flourish there? A.
Those of agricultural implements, saddlery, household-wares,
and woolens. Sheep are already numerous in Colorado but are

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destined to become rapidly more so. There is no better location
for the fabrication of cheap, substantial woolens such as blank
ets, cassmeres, etc. Water power in abundance is to be had on
the Cachea-la-Poudre, Thompson, St. Vrain and other streams,
just before or when they issue from the mountains, and before
they are needed for irrigation. Ultimately, high, iight dams
will be constructed at or near the point where they severally
debouch from the mountains, and the water used for manufac
tures or for irrigation as the need shall be most urgent
What is the prospect for trade ? A. A very considerable
trade from the mines and the ranches already finds its focus at
Greeley. More will do so as the adjacent region is settled and
its resources developed. A railroad up the South Platte is ex
pected soon to cross the Denver Pacific at this point, and make
its way hence into the mining region. Greeley aspires to be a
county seat and a considerable city, with what reason we shall
see by and by.
Will the Colony live and prosper? A. That depends on
its people. I do not see how it can well contrive to die, unless
its members should take to drink, or gambling, or some kindred
folly, and so squander their magnificent opportunities. I antici
pate nothing like this.
Would you recommend the formation of more such colonies ?
A. Yes, ten thousand like this, or as much better as can be de
vised. To those intending migration to the far west, it would be
worth while to form such an association, if with no higher pur
pose than to make bargains with railroads for the cheapest pos
sible transportation of families and household goods by whole
sale; but the hardships and privations of pioneer life may be
immensely abridged and softened by such a combination.

[An Unfavorable Description of Greeley.]
ANOTHER "BABY" COME TO GRIEF AT GREELEY.1

Another fool has been to Greeley. He writes without sig
nature and the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sentinel publishes his
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, November 12, 1870, p. 2.

306 THE UNION COLONY
lies as editorial — a very foolish thing, by the way, for the
Sentinel to do. This half-brother of Hobbs' — by his mother's
side — says :
Upon the Denver Pacific railway, midway between Chey
enne and Denver, near a small stream, upon a desert over
looked by the Rocky Mountains, is located a town that is famous
in many ways : famous for its name, for its morals, but not for
the fertility of its soil nor the charm of its scenery. We have
been at Greeley, and we speak that which we know, when we
declare that although the climate is good, the air pure, and the
stars very bright at night, there is nothing to induce a sane man
to plant himself on that desert. No trees are within fifty miles,
except a few stunted cottonwoods upon the banks of the stream.
The soil is alkali, and poor enough. The thing is a humbug. If
it shall serve the purpose of cooling the brains of a few hot-head
reformists by showing them the impracticability of their theories,
it will serve a good purpose, but whoso reads this article and
goes there, cannot say he was not duly warned of the humbug.
Many have left it, and soon its last hovel will be deserted.
We are tired of answering such silly stories. How any man
with a particle of sense can have the impudence to make such
statements, when evidence to prove the contrary cannot but meet
his view on every side and at every turn, is a mystery that ex
ceeds our comprehension. The Sentinel man probably did not
believe that Colorado has been peopled for twelve years, nor that
thousands of acres of poorer soil than any belonging to the
Union Colony produces yearly from twenty-five to forty bushels
of better wheat than he ever saw in Wisconsin. He must be near
sighted or he could have seen the unlimited forests of timber
that cover the mountain sides down to within less than half fifty
miles of Greeley. It is to be hoped that he has got back safely
to his ma.
[The Destruction of the Whiskey Shop Gains a New
Member foe the Colony.]
1A master mechanic, living in Pennsylvania, having sold
his property, was considering whether he would join the Colony,
'The Greeley Tribune, November 16, 1870, p. 2.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 307
when he saw an account in a Titusville paper of the burning
down of the whisky shop, which decided him, and he arrived
on the train, with his family, last Saturday evening.

OUR WHISKY TROUBLES.1
The leading facts in regard to whisky in Greeley, are, that
a liquor-seller from a neighboring town rented a building on a
piece of undivided property, of which the Colony owned one half,
and had his shop running one Sunday morning. A committee
was appointed to wait on him, and he agreed to leave; at the
same time the old shanty took fire and was burned. Several
persons, mostly young men, were prosecuted, and were bound
over, while others were threatened. As they feared they would
not have a fair trial, they left the Colony. The grounds for
their fears were that the members of the Colony, as such, not
being citizens, have no control in judicial matters. A great
deal could be said on this subject, but at present it is not thought
advisable. It is clear, however, that no one will be allowed to
establish a liquor or billiard saloon in this town, nor to sell
liquor as has been alleged to have been the case. Two druggists
have been appointed to sell in oases of sickness, upon application
to a committee. Any violation of the regulations will arouse at
least three hundred who will stand together in a solid block.

[Statement of Principles of the Greeley Tribune.]
PROSPECTUS.2
The Greeley Tribune is printed at Greeley, Colorado, and
its objects are:
lst. To give full particulars of whatever relates to the
Union Colony, of which the town of Greeley is the center, and to
show the advantages of colonization upon our plan.
2d. To call attention to the attractions and wonderful re
sources of the Rocky Mountain country, of which little, as yet,
is known by the American people.
'The Greeley Tribune, November 16, 1870, p. 2.
"The Greeley Tribune, November 16, 1870, p. 3.

308 THE UNION COLONY
3d. To teach that the highest power which man can ex
hibit, grows out of mental culture and at the same time, out of
well established habits of industry connected either with the
cultivation of the soil, or with some mechanical pursuit.
4th. To enforce the doctrine that the foundation of all
prosperity, whether of nations or of individuals, is based on
the family relation as maintained in civilized countries, and that
the highest ambition of a family should be to have a comfort
able, and, if possible, an elegant home, surrouded by orchards,
and ornamental grounds, on lands of its own.

CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF "THE
GREELEY CO-OPERATIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION."1

Whereas : —
We, the undersigned
Jas. C. Shattuck, Chas. Emerson,
N. C. Meeker, Elisha Nye,
A. Hotohkiss, S. K Thompson,
A. J. Wilber, H. McKnight,
Wm. H. Post,
desire to form a Company for the purpose of Dairying, Herding,
Stock-raisng, Butchering and dealing in Stock, Hay and Feed,
under chapter 18th of the Revised Statutes of Colorado, and the
amendments thereto, approved February 11th, 1870.
Therefore we do hereby certify : —
First, — That the corporate name of said Company shall be
The Greeley Co-operative Stock Association.
Second, — That the said Company is formed for the fol
lowing pupose, to wit: first, to carry on the Dairy business,
second, to Herd Stock, third, to Raise Stock, fourth, to deal in
Stock, Hay and Feed, fifth, to engage in Butchering.
Third, — The amount of Capital Stock of the said Company
to be One Thousand Shares of Ten Dollars each.
'The Greeley Tribune, November 16, 1870, p. 4.

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Fourth, — The term of existence of said Company shall be
Twenty Years.
Fifth, — The affairs of said Corporation shall be managed
by Nine Trustees, and the following named persons shall be the
Trustees for the first year and until their successors are elected,
to wit: Jas. C. Shattuck, Chas. Emerson,
N. C. Meeker, ' E. Nye,
A. Hotohkiss, S. K. Thompson,
A. J. Wilber, H. McKnight,
Wm. H. Post.
Sixth, — The principal part of the business of said Com
pany shall be carried on in the Town of Greeley, County of
Weld, Colorado Territory, with the right to carry on a part of
its business outside of said Territory.
Seventh, — The Trustees of said Company shall have power
to manage its business, subject to the direction of the Stock
holders.

[The Greeley Lyceum.]
1 Three sessions of the Greeley Lyceum have been held, the
attendance was large and the performance of the speakers
highly creditable. The questions discussed were with regard
to womans suffrage, and to the permanence of ideas.

[The Public Library.]
2Mrs. A. J. Wilber has been appointed to solicit donations
of books for the Library, also, subscriptions of $1 from each,
for supplying the Reading Room with newspapers. She will
proceed forthwith to call on all our citizens.

3 The Public School will commence on next Monday. It
is desirable that all the children meet for grading at Colony
Hall.
'The Greeley Tribune, November 16, 1870, p. 3.
"The Greeley Tribune, November 16, 1870, p. 3.
sThe Greeley Tribune, November 16, 1870, p. 3.

310 THE UNION COLONY
WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE WE HAVE.1
The Men.
We have three or four classes of men, one is composed of
educated mechanics, who are acquainted with farming and fruit
growing ; who know quite well what a nice house should be, and
who are able and anxious of themselves to build it. Another
class consists of farmers, many of whom are handy with tools.
They are reading and thinking men and they will be cautious to
adopt best methods of irrigation, and to grow as large crops as
the soil is capable of producing. Another class may be said to
be farmers or school teachers, agents, or almost anything, for
they are well educated. Some are graduates, and, during this
summer they have labored like common men. Some of them are
good public speakers, and having studious habits, they are des
tined to exercise an important influence, not only in the colony,
but also in Colorado. But they are not in a hurry. They have
learned that one who waits gains while he waits more than could
be easily gained were we placed in a prominent position; and
they are impressed with the new idea of this age that no man
can be so powerful as he who combines literary culture with
every-day industry. But it is seen that a full development in
this direction requires much more time than when efforts are
exclusively devoted to a profession. We have several ministers
who might be included in this class, and they are esteemed for
their practical good sense, for their knowledge of theology and
rural affairs. They are much like those ministers of New Eng
land, who, in a former age, cultivated the soil with their own
hands, and imprinted upon the whole American mind much of
their acuteness and positiveness of opinions.
We have several politicians who are well schooled in all the
arts, schemes, dodges and devices of this important and in
fluential fraternity, and a silent and unconcious struggle is
going on between them and the educated industrial class. What
is to be the final result cannot well be predicted; but if the
politicians lose their power, and a more practical class succeed
them a great change will have taken place.
'The Greeley Tribune, November 23, 1870, p. 3.

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The Women.
Perhaps a majority of our married women have taught
school, and many of the unmarried ones have. The disagree
able condition in which they have been placed for want of com
fortable homes has given to many a sad cast of countenance, and
some have scarcely appeared in public. Of late, and since houses
have been plastered and conveniences have multiplied, a change
for the better in the appearance of the women has been ap
parent, and the congregations at church is much more elegant
and cheerful than it was two months ago. The truth is a
woman is weak unless she can have a comfortable house; and
a man is not only weak but untidy unless he has a housekeeper.
As to intellect, the women are fully equal to the men and
they only lack drill and wider means of obtaining information.
Many of the females are remarkable for large perceptive and
reflective powers, and these, often, are in excess of their
vitality. Generally, this climate is having a favorable in
fluence on the health of our women, and the hopeful condition
of the colony in most respects, adds to the tonic given by the
pure air. It is to be said that both the men and women of this
colony are select, for they were alike receptive of the aims and
objects, of education, of refined society, of temperance, and of
elegant suburban homes; and they have gathered from many
widely separated regions, to realize these ideas. In dress, our
women show a refined and simple taste which everywhere is an
outgrowth of culture, and the display of it at church and at
the lyceum adds greatly to the high character of the audience.
It is doubtful whether any assemblage in any of the states can
present better dressed ladies. Nor should this surprise, since
they have come from New York, from Brooklyn, from the towns
and cities of New England, from Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Buf
falo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and other more or less im
portant places in the west, or, if from country places, they had
intimate friends in these cities, and thus, whatever distinguishes
there, also distinguishes here.
Of young men and of young women we shall treat hereafter.
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so quiet, and are seldem seen abroad. At first view, boys seem
scarce for no yelling nor whooping nor unseemly noises are
heard at night; nor is church services interrupted by the crack
ing of nuts. Still, there really are a good many boys, and there
will be more, and they will make themselves heard in due time.

[Irrigation Ditch for the Town.]
1 Irrigation being a necessity in Colorado it is to be said that
in the spring we contracted a ditch nine miles long by which
water was brought to any house or garden in the town ; and the
quality has been found so excellent that many cisterns will be
built to receive it At first our wells were good but from the use
of pine curbing, or some other cause, the water has in many cases
acquired a bad taste, The Cache la Poudre water is soft, clear,
and every way agreeable. Besides this ditch, another thirty
miles long on the north side of the river is to be completed by
January, and as it will water some 50,000 acres then, our farms
will be opened next year. The present ditch will irrigate besides
the town more than 5,000 acres. As to irrigation itself, more
will be said hereafter, but all of our people think it makes farm
ing a scientific instead of an uncertain pursuit.

[Colony Membership. The Town. Prospects of the
Colony.]
TO OUR EASTERN READERS.2
The following questions asked in a letter by a gentleman in
Washington City, are so similar to those we are daily receiving,
that we answer them in this form :
lst. What does it cost to join the Colony, and what priv
ileges do you obtain by being a member?
Ans. $205 pays for a share — although some of the old
shares may occasionally be had for first cost, $155. This gives
members a tract of land, with water furnished from the irrigat
ive Greeley Tribune, November 23, 1870, p. 3.
"The Greeley Tribune, November 23, 1870, p. 3.

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ing canals. He is also entitled to vote at all colony elections,
enjoys school privileges, &c.
2d. How much land does each member get ?
Ans. From 5 to 80 acres, according to the distance from
town. 3d. What is the climate, say in comparison to some eastern
places ?
Ans. Our eastern people all testify to its superiority over
New England in that respect. We have had but three rainy
days since coming here. The weather at this time is much the
same as in the latitude of Fredericksburg, Va., but much drier
and more invigorating. Our nights are always cool, and these
bright autumn mornings are sharp, and inclined to give one an
appetite. In a word, our climate is all right.
4th. How much of a settlement is there, and what con
veniences are there for purchasing the necessaries of life — also
the comforts? Ans. We have about 450 houses, and more going up
daily. It is safe to say we have about 1000 people here. We
have stores 40 and 50 feet deep, filled with all the necessaries of
life, and about the same amount of luxuries that can be had in
Chicago, with only freight added. In fact, if you have money
you can buy anything here that you can in eastern cities, except
Whisky. 5th. Are there houses built ready for new comers, and is
there a hotel ?
Ans. No houses are built, unless ordered, as we are too
busy in building for ourselves; still, persons at the east can
have houses built by parties now upon the ground. We have a
hotel and several good boarding houses.
6th. What business is there that a man with capital might
go into, that would be a help to the place, and not interfere with
those already engaged in business ?
Ans. We need a grist mill, as there is none nearer than
20 miles, and next season we will have a heavy wheat crop to be
ground. The colony will grant fine water power and mill site
to responsible parties who will undertake this business. We
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well adapted to the cultivation of the sugar beet, and they can
be raised in almost unlimited quantities. — A fortune awaits the
man, or men who will erect a sugar factory at this place.
We are now sending off tons of hides to the east, to be made
into leather, and sent back to us, we are paying freight both
ways: Common sense says we should make our own leather
right at home. Capital in the hands of an intelligent man need
not be afraid to come to Greeley.
8th. Have you a Church, Sabbath school and day-school?
Ans. We have a Congregational church, numbering over
30 members; a Methodist church of about the same number;
also, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Covenanters, all having church
organizations. At present we hold our religious exercises to
gether, in Colony Hall, which is crowded to overflowing every
Sabbath, where we have good preaching, good singing, and good
feeling amongst the people, who, as a general thing go for better
purposes than to make display. Our Sabbath school numbers
over 100 children, is under the charge of a worthy young man,
and is in a flourishing condition. Our Public School is or
ganized in three departments, and must prove successful, for
our people are fully determined that our schools shall be the
pride and ornament of the place.
9th. What is the general character of the people comprising
the colony, as to morals and education?
Ans. Perhaps we are too modest to do ourselves justice in
this case, but we may be pardoned for saying what we are not. —
We have no whisky dens, nor beer shops ; no gambling hells nor
billiard saloons ; no rows ; no street fights ; very little profanity
is ever heard; the Sabbath is almost universally observed, and
people generally mind their own business.
Greeley, undoubtedly, possesses more educated men and
women than any other town of its size, west of the Mississippi. —
You can at almost any hour of the day, see men with collegiate
educations driving ox teams, shoving the plane, building irri
gating ditches, &c. We have men who have filled professor
ships, edited well known papers — filled a senator's chair, and are
competent for any public business.
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tions may, we trust, give our friends an idea of the "situation"
in our Colony. Let us repeat, that you will not find everything
all right here — much is to be done, and good folks from every
where are welcome to come and help on the good work we have
begun.

(Correspondence of the Denver Tribune.)1
THE IMPROVEMENTS AT GREELEY AND AMONG
THE COLONISTS. Greeley, Nov. 26, 1870.
I may briefly state that the progress made by this enter
prising colony since my previous visit some weeks ago, has been
so great that it will be impossible for me to give an adequate idea
of its extent in what I shall now wrtte. Scores of buildings are
completed and many more have beginnings. The weather has
been so like summer all the fall that it has seemed as Providence
was witholding the severities of the season for the benefit of our
people. Farmers are turning over the sod all up and down this
valley, and more fall plowing is being done in northern Colo
rado this season than ever before. A great many of the colonists
have commenced an earnest improvement on their little farms,
and are making careful preparations for a good crop next season.
Their large ditch will soon be completed, which will afford suffi
cient water to irrigate 50,000 acres of land, the most of which
will be tilled next season. Additional immigration is being
added to the colony every day, and some two hundred have ar
rived in the last five weeks. They have organized, and now have
a flourishing cornet band at this place, and many of the mem
bers show good musical talent Mr. C. W. Sanborn is their
leader and an accomplished musician. They have fifteen instru
ments, costing $975. They gave a concert last evening, which
was attended by three hundred people. The band was assisted
by a number of the lady vocalists of Greeley, and altogether it
was fully equal to anything of the kind we have seen in the
Territory. Many of the ladies have well trained voices and
'The Daily Colorado Tribune, November 29, 1870, p. 2.

316 THE UNION COLONY
exhibit good musical talent. Miss Alice Washburne seems to
be the favorite, but there are several others who are about equal.
Among the number I may mention Miss Tenny Nichols, Miss
Julia Stansbery, Miss Hanley, and others whose names I did
not learn. Miss Hollister presided at the piano, and added much
to the occasion. Mr. Barnes did the base very well, indeed, and
showed a well trained voice. Messrs. Sanborn, White and
Barnes are musicians and vocalists, who can hardly be surpassed
in the West. I am informed it is the intention of Mr. Sanborn
and some of the leading musicians and vocalists of Greeley, to
give a series of concerts in different parts of the Territory the
coming winter. If so, I bespeak for them an interesting tour,
and for those who have an opportunity of hearing them a pleas
ing entertainment. Socially, morally, and religiously, the
Greeleyites are examples worthy of imitation. I find the hotel
accommodations considerably improved since I was here before.
The Bailey House is now the Greeley House, and an addition
has been put on, and the rooms changed, so that now it is much
more comfortable and convenient. In my next I shall be pre
pared to give more of the details and deal more extensively with
subjects pertaining to this part of the Territorv. H.

[Membership Fees.]

xThe Greeley Colony announce through New York papers
that for ninety days only, new members will be received upon
the payment of $155, the amount originally fixed for member
ship in the Colony. Only four hundred can be received upon the
original plan.

[Conditions of Admissions to Membership.]
— 2We make the following statements for the benefit of
enquirers ;
lst The Union Colony prohibits the manufacture and sale
'¦The Daily Colorado Tribune, December 6, 1870, p. 4.
"The Greeley Tribune, December 7, 1870, p. 2.

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of intoxicating drinks on all lands belonging to it, and a pro
vision to this end is inserted in all deeds.
2nd. Persons become members by paying $205, or on
buying old certificates, for which they are entitled to select a
lot within the town plot, which is one mile square, by paying
$25 for an inside, and $50 for a corner lot, and to choose out
side of the town 2J4, 4J4, 5, 10, 20, or 40 acres for which deeds
are given without other payment Eighty acres may be had by
paying extra, what the land cost. Water for irrigation is at
tached to the land.
3rd. All such shares must be improved by the 5th of next
April, and less is required from a poor than from a rich man,
and more from a nonresident than a resident, but no definite
rule has been established. Neither lots nor lands are sold to those
not members, but when deeds are secured members do what they
choose with their land. The object is to secure actual improve
ments. If shares are not improved the Colony sells the land
selected and refunds the money on presentation of the certificate.
4th. There are still opportunities for new members, and
they can select land immediately. It is true, that what now
seem the best locations are selected, but in a short time these
which are now open for selection will be considered choice. A
large number of acres near the town, hitherto unsurveyed, will
be divided into lots and made subject to selection in a few days.
5th. We have several public schools in operation, and two
select high schools are to be opened this month.

OUR YOUNG MEN.1

A company of young men equal to ours cannot be found in
the world Most of them are educated, all are well informed.
There may be a few who, under other circumstances, would be
irregular, but the influences surrounding them by reason of the
good conduct and gentlemanly habits of the many, restrain them,
and they are better than they could expect, themselves to be. A
similar remark is to be made of some older men, who, in coming
'The Greeley Tribune, December 7, 1870, p. 2.

318 THE UNION COLONY
hither adopt the habits of the rest, and they are better men than
formerly. This general state of good morals among us does not
arise from fanatacism, nor from any sort of uniformity in
religious belief. Certain papers, and persons abroad have con
veyed the idea that we are a set of straight backed Puritans, and
that men are fined lOcts for taking a chew of tobacco. If any
thing of this kind exists we have failed to see it, and it is uncer
tain whether a majority belong to any church; while it is cer
tain that no one church predominates. As to the use of tobacco,
some of our reformers frequently remark that they are astonished
and grieved to see so many use it.
For the most part, our young men neither chew nor smoke.
How many of them have made the money they brought with
them, or how many were supplied by their friends, cannot be
known, but from the energy they display, and the careful use
they make of money, it may be presumed that they acquired
the most they have by their own efforts. Generally, a young man's
grip on money is slight, it relaxes unawares, and his hand seldom
closes firmly until a female hand, displaying a plain gold ring,
is clasped over it. Then it shuts like a vice. It will be difficult
to find so many young men elsewhere whose handwriting is so
good, who are so competent to do business correctly and quickly,
or who are so well acquainted with ancient and modern litera
ture. It must be that they had advantages when young; that
kind and intelligent mothers guided and watched over them, and
whether here below or high above, they are still praying for
them ; that they went into business and mingled with the world
early, seeing rough experiences; and finally, that that they
became attracted by the pictures they drew of colonial life, and
of the peaks and ranges and canons and dells of the Rocky
Mountains. Nothing is more unique than the life which most of these
young men lead, Keeping Bachelor's Hall. To the poetic
mind of a young man, struggling under difficulties, with a dark
and perplexed outlook into the future, no more natural plan for
partial relief is presented than that of having a household to
himself; and two considerations arise, aside from the economy,
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palatable since at this period of life the taste is capricious, and
the taking on of new elements, in the completion of the man,
imperiously demand certain kinds of food ; while, by establishing
himself under a roof which he calls his own, a step forward is
taken toward the inevitable destiny of man, when he is to have
a companion, and when furniture and adornments and a well
ordered house shall proclaim that a new and complete home is
established, in which family cares and joys shall arise again.
During the first Colonial days lumber was scarce, but in
stead, there were tents, and in these the young men established
themselves, often, on the banks of the river, in a cottonwood
grove, and afterwards, some built shanties, and having herein
their trunks and bedding, sometimes a hammnck, while they
cooked out doors, generally building a fire between stones, and
they eat their meals on boxes or rough tables, As warm weather
came on, the mosquitoes were found troublesome and many re
treated to their lots in town, and when colder weather ap
proached, they improved their dwellings, or rented rooms where
several mess together. Sometimes eight or ten can be found
taking their meals in a back room from a table promiscuously
spread with tin plates and odd pieces of crockery; some sit on
chairs, others on benches, and not unfrequently they eat stand
ing, holding a morsel of meat and bread in one hand and a cup
of coffee in the other. You may be sure that the floor is not
mopped every day, nor that the sheets, if sheets are used, show
every night fresh folds made by the flat-iron. Among these
young men it is not uncommon to find married men who are
engaged in building, and whose families have not yet arrived,
and it is to be said that they are not a bit more tidy than
their young companions. Others are much better situated, and
they have spent the fall in building houses which looK well on
the outside, and are well finished and arranged within, being
ceiled or plastered ; the windows are well glazed, the doors well
hung and everything in good order. They have little cook
stoves, and pots and pans and cupboards and dishes, and tum
blers for visitors to drink out of, and looking-glasses, and there
is always a shelf well filled with books. But the table is set
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320 THE UNION COLONY
place themselves as to watch some article of food cooking on
the stove, generally slap-jacks, that they may be eaten hot. As
they are industrious and always have some kind of work on
hand, the dishes are shoved away as soon as the meal is over,
and when the next meal is to be prepared, these dishes are to be
washed, or at least scraped. Some having been tossed much
about the world, have learned to be good cooks, and they have
imparted their knowledge to the rest, hence, their cooking is
generally good ; and with baking powder and our excellent Colo
rado flour, they make as nice biscuit as ever were eaten. They
broil or fry steak nicely, and their stewed fruit is well sweetened.
The art of making raised bread has not yet been acquired.
Everywhere the tables are without covering, and it is doubtful
whether a man running Bachelor's Hall ever provided a table
cloth. It is true also, that where women eat and live alone they
often dispense with this article, hence, it would seem that a
table cloth, full as much as anything else, is representative of
the marriage state.
If there are no meetings the lamp is lit, the floor is swept
tolerably clean, and a book or magazine is taken up and read
until bed time, or, as is often the case, bachelor friends drop
in, and they have a sociable chat. So far as our knowledge ex
tends, the conversation of our young men is free from oaths or
vulgarity nor is rough ungentlemanly language of any kind
used. They take a great many papers and magazines, and it
would surprise a stranger to learn that a young man working by
the day or month has kept files of the best magazines for years,
and that there is no topic of general interest nor any im
portant event of the day of which he is ignorant. Of course
each one is the owner of a town lot, often of a business, and of
a residence lot, and also of outside farming land. In the
•progress and growth of the town and Colony he has an equal
share, and the time cannot be distant when by the investment
he has made of $155 he will have a property which will make
him independent, while in the East he could have secured this
only by years of persevering industry.
It is manifest that however much is required to make a
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develop the capabilities of these young men, and, in a manner,
they are waiting. Their work is certain sooner or later to come,
work, which only themselves can do.
Most Beautiful Youth ! in these last ages, while there are
new recognitions of the rights of man, and while the human
mind is spreading its wings broader than in any former period,
count yourselves fortunate that Providence has made prepera-
tion, little by little, through many generations to call upon you
to enter the gates that lead to fairer and more active fields than
mortal eyes have yet beheld.

[Advantages Gained by the Exclusion of Liquor Selling.]
— 1One great advantage gained by the members of this
colony is, an emancipation almost as great as that enjoyed by
the slaves. Wherever we have lived, and through our whole
lives, we have been obliged to associate with drunkards and
tiplers, who swarmed in every rank of society and who met us
at every turn. There were fashionable and unfashionable sa
loons, gambling holes in cellars, and in chambers of high build
ings. At weddings, and festivals, and celebrations was to be
found the fashionable glass of wine, and this whether in country
or town. New York, with its wealth and immense business;
Boston, with its high culture and its prohibatory law, and Phila
delphia with brotherly love, are equally cursed with rum ; and in
western towns, Chicago, Davenport, St. Louis, St. Paul, &
Omaha, are the Germans with their lager beer, and sonorous
songs, and Sunday pic-nics. Even in small countrv towns, were
the lager beer saloons, and ragged hangers-on — on all railroads
were the Irishmen with their whisky and shellahas, and every
where young men of promise were growing red and bloated.
All these are left behind. We have been emancipated, and we
breathe freer. The day of Jubilee has come.
'The Greeley Tribune, December 14, 1870, p. 2.
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322 THE UNION COLONY
COLONY FENCING.1
The problem we had to solve, in regard to fencing, and
concerning which, so much has been said all summer, has been
worked out in the determination to fence in the whole of the
Colony land, upon the lines of the irrigating ditches. The plan
now is, to have a wire fence built in the most thorough manner.
The length of the whole line will be about 40 miles ; and $16,000
has been appropriated for this object. The few farmers, not
members of the Colony, whom this fence will enclose, make few
or no objections, while some think it will be to their advantage,
as they will be protected equally with ourselves. The extent of
country enclosed will be 15 miles long, and from 3 to 4 miles
wide. Taking a straight line, the fence will cross the ditches
in several places, since their course depends on the nature of
the ground, and runs at almost every point of the compass, by
which means, cattle on the outside will have a chance to get
water Along the diteh nearest town, and known as No. 3, it is
probable that the fence will, for most part, run on the outside,
for the reason that water is in great request for household pur
poses, and there is little doubt but that this mountain water will,
in the future, form our chief supply, unless our wells shall, by
some means, become better. At first, we thought our well-water
was unequalled, but for some cause it has gradually degenerated.
With a grand enclosure around the town and farming
lands, the necessity for fencing lots or fields of any size is
avoided, and we shall be able to present the pleasing and civilized
spectacle of high cultivation without fencing, which, saying
nothing about the unsightliness that many enclosures would have,
an immense sum will be saved ; that is, to fence all the different
parcels of land owned by the several members, will cost, as has
been estimated, half a million of dollars. With such an ad
vantage upon the settlement of a new country, the greatest
obstacle is removed, and those wishing to find new homes must
be greatly attracted by the economy apparent in such a plan.
Those who have paid greatest attention to the subject of
fencing, both in Europe and in America, have united in the
'The Greeley Tribune, December 14, 1870, p. 2.

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expression of opinion that the proper course to pursue is to fence
stock, instead of crops, which is precisely what we shall do,
though in a most magnificent way, for in keeping our stock on
the outside of our ditches, we shall have field, if it may be
called a field, enclosed on only one side, which extends outwards
in all directions, an indefinite, almost an infinite distance; that
is to say, there is free range to the eastward 500 miles, to the
west 2000 miles, to the north 8000 miles, and to the south 3000
miles. The practice of fencing crops arose from the necessities of
the hour, not from a clear understanding of the case, and what
ever is done under such circumstances is likely to be done wrong.
Crops are never aggressive, they make no assaults, they destroy
no property, and they only desire to be suffered to grow in
peace. Stock, on the contrary, is unruly, senseless, provoking, and
forever unsatisfied ; and if one reflects a little, it must be seen,
that it is property of this kind which is to be restrained by
bounds. Jails and penitentiaries and confinement are for the
lawless, not for the peaceable. No police, no watchmen, no
penalties are required, or thought of for the innocent.
The most intelligent farmers in Illinois, stated years ago,
that, by fencing crops, instead of cattle, the State lost many
millions of dollars yearly ; and in Europe, particularly in those
parts where agriculture is the chief interest and farthest ad
vanced, and where the best, the cheapest, and the practical are
resorted to in dire necessity, the fencing of crops was aban
doned long ago. In England the hedges are being cut away as
being not only useless, but injurious, for they are grown at the
expense of whatever crops stand within several rods, and thus
the hedge row, which is associated with so much other poetic and
rural in English literature, is to become a dream of the past.
It will show good sense in usj if we avail ourselves, in the
first settlement of a new country, of the experience of others,
instead of going through a long series of costly experiments, by
which our posperity will be retarded for years, that we may be
convinced, at least, of having made a great mistake.

324 THE UNION COLONY
[Inducements to Settlement in Greeley.]
1 Men are constantly in our town from variout points in
Colorado, looking for lots or houses, that they may remove hither
to secure the advantages of education for their children. Several
extensive stock growers and ranchmen have already bought, and
are preparing to build. They will keep their cattle 20 or 30
miles distant from town where the range is good and where no
body will be disturbed, hiring herders to take care of the cattle,
while they will live in town with their families. It is a great
inducement that we have good schools, with the certain prospect
of still better ones, and that we have shown ourselves so totally
opposed to the sale of liquor that no man will dare put up a
saloon for he knows his fate, — knows that he will be cleaned
out in less than 24 hours. Did we only desire to make money,
to speculate in the best manner in real estate, and to attract
monied men among us, without the least regard to principle, we
could not adopt a wiser scheme than the one we are carrying
out ; and we hope to demonstrate beyond all cavil that the surest
way to prospersty is through an organization which insists upon
having for its motto, common honesty, and common sense. As to
brilliancy, and splendid achievements, these can be left to
individuals.

[Preparation of the First Annual Report of the
Colony Trustees.]
— 2Mr. W. E. Pabor was employed by the Board of Trus
tees, to put in form the annual report of their body, which
being done, he was authorized to proceed to New York, to get
the same published, and, also, to publish a lithograph map of
the Colony lands and adjacent county. It seems now that the
whole task has been executed in a highly creditable and busi
ness like manner, and that, instead of being an expense to the
Colony, it is likely that in the end the receipts from the sale of
these will be in excess of the expenditures. Mr. Pabor resigned
'The Greeley Tribune, December 14, 1870, p. 2.
"The Greeley Tribune, December 21, 1870, p. 3.

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a lucretive position, as Post Master, in one of the upper wards,
in New York city, to join this colony, and he gives evidence of
having been sharpened up by contact with the shrewdest business
men in the world ; while, at the same time, it is to be added, he
is a worthy member of the Congregational Church, thus fur
nishing an example so much needed, that of a christian busi
ness man.

[The Public School.]
— 1A visit to the school will be of interest to all who wish
to see the chances for education in this far off land. The school
in Colony Hall is quite full, and the principal, Mr. Gurley,
assisted by Mr. Garver, have the classes well organized. A
recitation room is attached, well warmed and provided with
seats, and here, what may be called a second school, is in prog
ress, pupils in the higher branches being accommodated. From
a short visit on Friday, it appears that much of the improved
methods of teaching has been adopted ; as in arithmatic, and in
the mathematics, and Mr. Gurley gives evidence that he is ac
quainted with short ways of computation and analysis com
mon in the best schools of the East, and by which a pupil saves
much valuable time. No better test, as regards the qualifica
tion of a teacher, can be applied than in this respect. Mrs.
Guinnea's primary school is full and in a prosperous condition.

[Absence of Swearing in Greeley.]
— 2With tolerable hearing, we have not detected more than
half a dozen oaths in our town the whole season. One young
fellow swore at his horse, when plowing ; three men got mad at
cattle in their gardens, and two not belonging to the town, were
talking about somebody stealing their water melons. Still, we
suppose that a good deal is done here and there, which, in the
aggregate, will make a heavy bill for somebody to pay, but
as this is not done in public, some deduction will probably be
made. i-The Greeley Tribune, December 21, 1870, p. 3.
"The Greeley Tribune, December 21, 1870, p. 3.

326 THE UNION COLONY
[The Reading Room.]
— JThe free Reading Room is now open to citizens and
strangers both night and day. Lights and a good fire are pro
vided. Some of our young men are always found sitting by the
table. Those who~ have Books to donate should present them
now, for they are needed.

OUR TOWN.2

Business seems to be as good as ever. — Mr. Fisk has re
duced prices on leading articles. The photographic gallery of
Mr. Johnson's is doing good work, and views of the town are
well spoken of. Messrs. Solomon are buisy all day long, with
county and town customers, and they add much to the life of the
place. Genl. Cameron's drug store has more visitors than any
other place, and he keeps all that is equired for in his line, and
at moderate prices. Mr. Boetcher is always buisy in the hard
ware line, and he can do as neat a job of tin work as any work
man in the country. Messrs. Hollister & Savage have a full
stock of hardware, and it looks as if they could supply stoves
of all kinds, for everybody. Our friend Abbott is improving
his market house, and yet is always on hand to meet customers.
Mr. Talbott's barber shop has a notice in the New York Times.
Mr. Nichols, and his clerks, are busy in supplying all kinds of
goods, and his merchant tailoring establishment, the only one
in Colorado, keeps many needles flying. The young men in
Monk's store seem to have all they can do, and their cheap boots
and shoes are frequently spoken of. Mr. Pinneo's meat market
is as neat and well supplied as ever. The two hotels, the Gree
ley and Colorado House, have full tables. Mr. Benson is getting
ready to help them. — Since the warm weather has come, house
building has started again, and Mr. Sanborn is selling lots of
lumber, while Judge Hanna does his share. The two blacksmith
shops keep pounding out music, and near by, Mrs. Kinison sells
butter, as can be learned from the New York Times. The Bank
has been moved into the fine building on Main st., and it is to be
'¦The Greeley Tribune, January 4, 1871, p. 3.
"The Greeley Tribune, January 11, 1871, p. 2.

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hoped money will be plentiful. Mr. Van Ghoren keeps all our
watches in order. Mr. Higby has horses and carriages, which
are tempting in this fine weather.
Mr. Perkins, next door to our office, is selling all kinds of
furniture and upholstry to town and country people, at about the
same prices as are obtained in Illinois and Wisconsin. Mr.
Post's Book Store and News Depot is the head-quarters for our
literati, and for all who want articles in his line, and we are
in earnest when we say that his prices are lower than in any
town west of Chicago.

[The Public Library Open.]
1 Notice. — The committee respectifully announces, that the
Reading Room and Library in the Colony building on Main St.,
is now open to the public, and extend an invitation to all to visit
the same. Any person having books or periodicals to donate or loan
to the Library, will please leave them at W. H. Post's Book Store
on Maple St., at their earliest convenience.
W. E. Pabor, ]
Mrs. A. J. Wilber,}- Committee.
W. H. Post, J

[The Dramatic Association and the Farmers' Club.]
GREELEY NOTES.2
The Greeley Dramatic Association will give their second
entertainment next Saturday evening, at which time they will
produce Ten Nights in a Bar Room, and Jumbo Jum.
A Farmers' Club has been organized in Greeley, composed
of 60 members. They meet every Wednesday evening for the
interchange of opinions on subjects connected with farming and
fruit growing. They cordially invite persons who visit the town
'The Greeley Tribune, January 18, 1871, p. 3.
"The Denver Tribune, January 24, 1871, p. 2. The new name for The
Daily Colorado Tribune was first used January 20, 1871.

328 THE UNION COLONY
to attend the public meetings. They desire letters from experi
enced persons, detailing their experience in the following mat
ters : Can broom corn, sorgo, and foreign grapes be grown suc
cessfully? They want a list of the varieties, of the different
kinds of fruits, which have proved hardy in this climate, and
which varieties have proved too tender. How many times, and
how late in the season, shall they irrigate fruit trees ? Does
not late irrigation cause a late soft growth, which would be
liable to be killed during severe winter weather? All letters
received will be read before the Club, and published in the re
ports. The officers are D. Boyd, Pres't; J. M. Clark, Sec'y;
J. H. Foster, Corresponding Sec'y.

[Comment of The Miner on the Colony and Meeker's
Reply.]
— 1We clip the following from "The Miner", published at
Georgetown, Col.
"The Greeley Tribune announces that the glory of Chicago
is about departing, and that Greeley, the refuge of the Saints,
is about to become the city of the West This is 'mighty
rough' on Denver. Greeley will, probably, make a small, one
horse, agricultural centre for Weld & Co., where potatoes and
lycums, and sugar beets, and moral ideas will flourish, snd that
will comprise its future. Brother Meeker, of the Greeley
Tribune, has, since his arrival in Colorado, taken to spreading
himself." Our friend does not seem to understand that, potatoes,
lycums, sugar beets and moral ideas' make a more glorious foun
dation for a city than any other city in the world posseses. The
Miner neglects to mention one other element, we have no grog
shops. Now, from our knowledge of the American people, we
are convinced, that, in a healthful climate like Colorado, this
feature, alone will give to our section and town a population of
50,000 souls. Such has made Vineland, a town of 15,000 in
habitants, and on a soil that is poor enough.
'The Greeley Tribune, January 25,^1871, p. 2.

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The truth is, those who found cities have but faint ideas
of what is required for success. Here is this Georgetown, six
or eight years old, and in the number of the paper, from which
we have quoted the above, we find the following item: "The
citizens of Georgetown should take immediate steps to build a
school house." We have been here about eight months and have
two school houses already.

[How the Union Colony Was Advertised.]
— x The projectors of Vineland, N. Y. must have paid over
10,000 dollars in advertising their lands. The Union Colony
has paid no more than $200 and this mostly was for circulars to
members ; and yet we are, and we have been, so well advertised
by the American Press generaly, that if it were paid for at
common rates it would have cost more than $100,000. Nor
have the notices of us appeared in advertising or local columns
but in the news and editorial columns, and some of the very best
literary writers have contributed their voluntary aid. All this
is because we have dealt fairly and honestly, and have kept at
bay speculators and land grabbers of every kind.

[Humorous Comment on a Remark of Meeker's.]
2Mr. N. O. Meeker, the philosophical vertebra of the
Greeley Colony, addressing his brethren of the Agricultural
Club, at the meeting on Wednesday evening, touched upon a
delicate theme, and unwittingly perpetrated the following axiom :
"Wherever you see women, you will see chickens ; and wherever
you see a man, you will see a hog." The maxim has the ring
of a double entendre, and affords malicious people an oppor
tunity to suppose that the great agriculturalist meant to con
found men, hogs, women and chickens in a common relationship.

OMAHA HERALD ON COLONIES.3
Our friends at Cheyenne who kindly placed our own name
upon the Executive Committee will pelase accept our thanks for
'The Greeley Tribune, January 25, 1871, p. 3.
"The Denver Tribune, January 27, 1871, p. 4.
3The Greeley Tribune, February 1, 1871, p. 1.

330 THE UNION COLONY
the compliment. The work which we shall be always glad to do
for Wyoming will, of course, be done through these columns,
and the Herald will do all in its power to promote the in
terests which this Board is intended to advance. This paper has
always held the stock growing-agricultural and mineral in
terests of Wyoming and Colorado to be intimately and inseper-
ably aillied with our own, and for these higher reasons we have
been their strenuous advocate. We see in Greeley the nucleus
of a great future growth in that country, and and if the colony
which fouuded it succeeds, as we have not the slighiest doubt
it will, it will, as we at first predicted it would, be the parent
of scores of similar colonies, stretching out through Wyoming
and Colorado down to our own borders. The colonized form of
immigration is growing in favor everywhere. It is but another
expression of the principle of co-operation, which, restricted to
those limits will insure the immunity of individual interest and
efforts from the destructive theories in which it originated, is
undoubtedly valuable to all who adopt it for these and similar
objects. We learn from Mr. Davis, the Unson Pacific Land
Commissioner, that these coinizing organizations are ripe in the
East, and through them, much immigration will be secured this
year. The operations of the National Land Company are de
voted to promoting it. Nor is it new even to our own history.
Fontenelle was founded by an Illinois colony, so was Fremont.
We look to it as a new and powerful element in hastening
the settlement of this State and the adjacent Territories, and
we add, that it has become such already.

[Entertainment by The Greeley Dramatic Association.]
(Correspondence of the Denver Tribune.)1
GREELEY MATTERS.
Greeley, Col., Feb. 1, '71.
Eds. Tribune: — The Greeley Dramatic Association gave
their second entertainment on Saturday, Jan. 28, at which time
'The Denver Tribune, February 2, 1871, p. 2.

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they brought before the public the moral temperance drama of
"Ten Nights in a Bar-Room." It would be unjust to praise
one and not another, for each did justice to his part, and they
deserve great credit for amateurs. I do not think they can be
beaten by any Amateur Association this side of the Missouri
River. The cast was as follows: Sample Swichel, J. Higen-
botam; Simon Slade, H. C. Watson; Joe Morgan, J. H.
Karsner; Frank Slade, E. Nye; Harvey Green, E. Ruthven;
Romaine, J. L. White; Willie Hammond, E. H. Abbott; Mrs.
Morgan, Mrs. Keeler; Mrs. Slade, Miss E. Hanby; Mary Mor
gan, Miss Ella Nye; Mehitable Cartright, Miss K. Ruthven.
They concluded their evening's entertainment with an
amusing farce, entitled "Jumbo Jum", with the following cast:
Jumbo Jum, J. Higenbotam; Mr. Gobbleton, H. Lee; Mr.
Cheatem, A. C. Wait; Henry Merville, J. H. Karsner; Han
nah, Miss E. Hanby ; Adelaide, Miss E. Ruthven ; Mrs. Gobble-
ton, Mrs. Keeler.
By request, they repeated the performance on Tuesday
evening, the 31st I would only say that the citizens of Gree
ley should do all in their power to encourage the association,
for they have no cause to be ashamed of it.
During the past few days we have had several accidents.
Mr. Whitby of Larimer County, while going up the steps of
the Colony Hall, slipped and fell, and met with such injuries
as will keep him in bed for several weeks. Also Mr. Bennett
of Evans, while getting into a waggon, the front board broke
and he fell under the wheels, the horses became frightened, ran
away — Mr. Bennett receiving such injuries about the head as
will keep him also in bed for a couple of weeks.
[Signed] * * *

SOME OF OUR VISITANTS.

Almost every day one will see fine specimens of trappers,
hunters, herders and plains-men in our town, and often as many
as forty or fifty are on the streets at one time. Last year we
'The Greeley Tribune, February 8, 1871, p. 2.

332 THE UNION COLONY
had but few such visitors, now they are coming more and more.
First, is the hunter of the plains, who brings in antelope, or,
perhaps, carcasses of wolves and wild cats. Sometimes sueh a
hunter is dressed in buckskin, with yards and yards of buck
skin fringe, and all sorts of trappings, and dangling things, but
oftener he is dressed in common garb. No man is more modest
or more gentle than the hunter; he speak as low and soft as a
lady, and one can scarcely imagine that during the greater part
of the year he lives far remote from human habitation, that his
food is mostly game, and that if he should be taken into a nice
room containing a good bed he could not sleep, for he makes his
bed on the cold, cold ground.
Then there is the teamster. He first served his apprentice
ship in driving from four to eight yoke of cattle from Atchison,
Levenworth or Kansas City to the mountains. He has a quiet
meditative way, he looks neither to the right nor left, and his
eyes are cast upon the ground as if he were looking for the
hoof-prints of lost cattle. He, too, choses the ground for his
bed, and on the coldest and most bitter nights, with a pair of
good blankets, he sleeps soundly under a wagon. As a general
thing he is short of statute, stocky in frame, and his face is well
colored with the sun and tempest. He has been in New Mexico
and on the Arkansas, and into San Luis Park ; he has stayed for
weeks in Salt Lake City, knows all about Boise, and Bannock,
and Virginia City, but in all his wanderings he will tell you that
for farming, though precious little does he care about it, that
there is no place like the Cache la Poudre Valley ; indeed, all the
hunters, all the mountain men, all the plains-men, and all the
miners have for years been sounding the praises of this val
ley, — wild and almoat without inhabitants though it has been.
Next is the herder, or cattle man; quite a different char
acter, wearing buckskin leggings, a pistol well sheathed, and a
knife in his belt, and a- jaunty Mexican hat, while his long
Mexican spurs, gingle at every step. Accustomed to violent and
protracted horseback exercise, he is of the wirery, wirest, every
limb seems fastened with springs, his eye is on every object,- and
particulary on objects toward the horizon ; his manners are free
and bold, and he seems ready at any moment to mount and fly

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 333
away over the prairie. Perhaps he is a more multi-sided than
any of our visitors ; he is as well acquainted with the Mexicans,
and we include their women, as with the Americans, he has has
ridden along all the valleys of the Rio Grande, Trinity, Red
River and San Antonio; the Arkansas and the Divide are as
familiar as the creeks and fields in his old school boy rambles,
and many a time and day has he ridden past the Black Hills, of
the Sweet Water, and past Bridger, on his way to Montana and
Idaho. If a proprietor, as he is full likely to be, but it is hard
to tell whether he is herder or owner, he may have from ten to
fifty thousand dollars in his belt, and he has bought drafts in
Denver, perhaps, to the value of millions A most independent,
self reliant, firmly standing man is he, whose intimates and
friends, if anywhere, are far away ; who is here to-day and gone
to-morrow, on his fleet footed horse, and who looks around upon
us with a sort of wonder, and perhaps with a sigh, that never
more shall his cattle darken our bluffs, nor leisurly stroll across
the valley at the close of day to drink at the swiftly flowing river
There are not many mountain men in town, in fact the
mountains directly West of us have been but partialy explored,
and of much of the vast region North of Long's Peak little is
known. Some of the trappers, however, have come down, and
they have caught several beaver near town. A trapper is at
once a wise and simple man. Of the world and of the great
changes going on he has little knowledge, except in faint out
line, but he is a fair listener, and he seems to like to hear
people talk. Still, he has a curious way while listening, of
paying the closest attention to everything, around, and even
specks on his clothes, or on the floor seem suddenly to occupy
his mind. While sitting quietly in a room, he will notice the
slightest movement, and even a breath of air, and, perhaps, dur
ing half an hour his eyes will take a survey of every object in
a room a hundred times. A more harmless, or gentle being, or
a wiser one in his craft, than the trapper scarcely lives. Per
haps those well educated men who are remarkable for their sharp
perceptions, have desended from ancestors who were trapper?

334 THE UNION COLONY
[A General Statement of the Situation in Greeley.]
UNION COLONY.1
We print herewith the constitution and regulations of the
Union Colony; remarking at the out-set, that the Board of
Trustees have agreed to receive members until further notice,
for the old sum of $155, insomuch as it is considered that when
a man brings his family and all, among us, the matter of $50
in addition will be spent in one way or another, doing the Colony
full as much good. The raising of the sum to $205, was made at
a time when there were many grumblers, and the effect was such
as to advance the price of shares $30 in one day. A great many
enquiries are made by people in every part of the United States,
for information which the constitution does not impart ; as these
enquiries are constantly increasing, we shall try to answer them
here. The town of Greeley is located in the Territory of Colo
rado, about half way between Denver and Cheyenne, that is, 55
miles from each, and 550 miles from Omaha, partly on the
banks of the Cache la Poudre, 4 miles above its entrance into
the Platte, while some of its lands cover the most of the delta
formed by these two rivers, being an equilateral each side 4
miles long, and which undoubtedly is unequaled for situation,
beauty, of scenery, and fertility of soil by any other similar
section in the world. This tract is, for the most part, divided
into 5 acre lots which are considered of the value of one share
or $155. North of the river, and extending east and west many
miles, lies the principal farming land belonging to the colony,
and it is divided into 10, 20 and 40 acre lots, each of which is
considered equal, in value to one share or $155. Members can
have more by paying extra. Through this body runs an irri
gating canal, 27 miles long, nearly completed. Another canal
10 miles long waters the land above town, the town itself, and
the delta, above mentioned. This canal passes along the side
of a sloping bluff, about a mile from the centre of the town, and
42 feet above the Park. Water is conducted from this canal
to every house and lot in town, and it runs in clear streams on
'The Greeley Tribune, February 15, 1871, p. 2.

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the outer edge of every side-walk, where, in many cases, shade
trees have been planted. Water is free to all parcels of land,
large or small, but a slight tax is necessary for repairs and super
vision. The soil is unsurpassed for fertility, and it is easily worked,
while the yield of wheat, and other small grains, of potatoes
and all kinds of roots, and of garden vegetables, is, to say the
least, double what it is in the states. The expense of irrigation
is slight, and it is a pleasing, rather than a laborious, task. To
a great extent, at present, the members of the colony live in the
town of Greeley, which lies on both sides of the railroad, but
most of the houses are on the west side, and of these, there are
over 400, many of them of fine appearance and well finished.
There are two large brick blocks, one 100 feet long, several
first-class frame stores, a large Colony Hall, and the like. The
depot building, recently finished, is a handsome structure 60
feet long. There are three schools, two Lyceums, a free Reading
Room, a Brass Band, and Mason's and Good Templars Lodges.
The various religious denominations are preparing to build
churches. The lst Baptist church, now building, is a fine struc
ture, it is to have two towers, and the National Land Company,
through its President, Col. Loomis, of whom the colony pur
chased the railroad land, has recently sent a draft of $500 to
this church on account of its being the first erected. A planing
mill has recently been put in operation, and all kinds of mer-
chantile business is carried on with a large trade, and every
description of goods, furniture and lumber, can be had at nearly
the same prices as in the States, while a Bank buys and sells
exchange on Eastern cities. A grist mill of four run of stone
is to be finished by the first of July, 1871. to supply which with
power, a canal one mile long is to be built, and this will furnish
several water powers for other machinery, In addition, a firm
from Saganaw, Michigan, is investing a large sum in the naviga
tion of the river for the purpose of running logs from the
mountains, in which work they are actively engaged; and they
are to have a first-class saw mill in running order as early aa
June, to which they will add planing and other works. The
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336 THE UNION COLONY
runs with a rapid current over boulders, and its waters are ex
tremely clear.
The distance to the canon whence it it issues from the
mountains, is 32 miles, it has a course of more than 100 miles
within the mountain, and it is fed almost wholly by melted
snows. During the months of June, July and part of a August,
it is unfordable. Cottonwoods, some of great size, willows and
box elders, grow in the meadows along this river and give the
whole scene a highly cultivated appearance, although in only a
few places has a plow ever broken the sod. On either hand ex
tends the boundless prairie, but to the west 20 miles distant,
seeming to be less than 10 miles, appear the great Rocky Moun
tains, the higher and further peaks being always covered with
snow, while their scenery presents constantly changing views;
that which is presented one day being quite different from that
of any other day. Immense forests of pine, spruce and hemlock
are found, and along the foot-hills is almost every variety of the
useful minerals, and just out on the plains commences a series of
vast coal fields, sufficient for the wants of many ages to come
Fourteen miles from Greeley, a coal mine is now worked and
coal is brought into town every day, selling at about $6 per ton.
Other mines have been opened recently, and we hesitate not to
say that the time can not be distant when coal will be delivered
at from $4 to $5 per ton. It is to be remembered that it was
only on May last that this whole region was as much a wilder
ness as it was when Columbus discovered America.
All persons of temperate moral habits are welcome as mem
bers, and each is entitled to an equal share. None of the offi
cers of the Colony receive any pay, emolunent or advantages
of any kind, and they have freely contributed their services to
the value of many thousands of dollars, without expecting any
other reward than that of demonstrating to the American people
the advantages, over all others, of their plan of colonization, and.
also, of having a beautiful town and a prosperous agricultural
community free from the baneful liquor traffic and its attendant
vices, and immoralities, and we add, that so wonderfully great
has been the success of this Colony that no one wishes the plan
had been different.

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Our plans were so broad at the commencement, that we
can yet receive hundaeds and even thousands of members, giving
to all lands where they can have homes of their own, and en
joying the blessings of schools, churches and refined society.
It is true those coming now cannot have the land which others
selected, and which has become valuable, it is also true, that
what they select now, cannot afterwards be had by others, when
it will, also, have become valuable, but in considering the future
developement, the chances are apparently better now than they
were nine months ago. Every member is obliged to make actual
improvements, that is, to build on his residence lot or out lying
property, a dwelling in which he is willing his family shall
live, and in this there are no exceptions in favor of any person,
high or low. Every member is entitled to select a residence lot,
the average price of which is likely to be, hereafter, not much
less than $50, an excedlingly low sum, for, unimproved lots
at second hand, are held at from $100 to $500. It is necessary
then that every member shall have means sufficient to buy his
share, to pay for his lot if he wishes to live in town, and to
build a dwelling, and to do this $500 would be a small sum for
one with a very small family With $1,000 one may get along
passably well, but he must be economical and industrious. Late
comers seem to be late, but after a little, others come later, and
both have the advantage of a town already built, and the prices
of every thing in comparison with first days, extremely low
As to employment, the conditions are the same as in all
other towns. The Colony employs nobody, and makes no kind
of provision for anyone except to secure titles to land. All
other affairs are carried on as elsewhere. The opportunities
for business, men capitalists, and manafuctures are great.
Arrangments are in progress for a high grade of schools. For
health, Colorado is unexcelled and it is doubtful whether there
are a dozen persons in the whole Colony whose health is not
improved; while there are scores who came in a critical state
and who have became sound.
Greeley is situated at the head waters of the great Platte
river, and by a glance at the map, it must be seen that it is
destined to be a railroad centre. A road has been surveyed from

338 THE UNION COLONY
Pine Bluffs on the Union Pacific to Boulder by our town, and
the valley below us, nearly 200 miles long to Julesburg, must
be traversed by another road at no distant day. The capacity
for stock growing in the adjectant country is immense, and a
simple statement is sufficient to prove it. Thousands of cattle
have lived all winter on the range without hay or grain and
they look extremely well.
Soldiers often enquire if they have especial rights on gov
ernment lands under our canals, we answer no, because the
water is Colony property which must be paid for by every one
alike. We often have letters asking what inducements the Colony
holds out to poor men. We answer none, for this is not a beneve-
lent enterprise, nor a hospital, but a good place for men with
small means who are willing to go to work to get more. Nor
is there any such thing as community of property. We have
co-operative societies formed by individuals, and they manage
their affairs as they please. The Co-operative Stock Association
is an example, and it is doing well, nor could it scarcely fail;
the capital stock is divided into shares of $10 each and one may
own as many shares as he can pay for, and he will be entitled
to dividends from the profits.
Many enquire as to reduced rates of passage. We have
made arraingments for reduced rates for members only, which
are imparted by letter, and they are not made public. The route
hither at present is by Chicago, Chicago Burlington & Quincy,
from Chicago to Kansas City, or from St Louis to the same
place, thence by Kansas Pacific. Letters of enquiry are to be
addressed to W. E. Pabor, Secretary Union Colony, Greeley,
Colorado, and money is to be sent either to Horace Greeley,
New York, or to Dr. Emerson, Greeley.

[Water Deeds and Shares.]
SPECIAL NOTICE TO COLONISTS.1
Office of the Union Colony. £
February 13th, 1871. j
All members of the Colony, who have received deeds for
'The Greeley Tribune, February 15, 1871, p. 3.

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their lands, are hereby notified that water deeds for the same are
to be had by presenting their deeds or statement of the lands
held on such deeds, to the undersigned
Also, by vote of the Trustees, each certificate of mem
bership is entitled to five Water Shares of stock in the Union
Colony. Those who have received but one are requested to
return the same and obtain a certificate certifying to five shares
of said stock.
Those not holding deeds are notified that such Water shares
are secured when deeds are granted. By order of the Board
of Trustees. William E. Pabor, Secretary.

CONSTITUTION, RULES AND REGULATIONS OF
UNION COLONY OF COLORADO.1

OFFICERS.
N. C. MEEKER President
GEN. R A. CAMERON Vice President.
William E. Pabor Secretary.
Dr. Charles Emerson Treasurer.
E. S. Nettleton Engineer.
Board of Trustees. — N. C. Meeker, Gen. R. A. Came
ron, Nelson Holmes, Wm. W. Wilcox, E. Hollister.
Executive Council. — J. C. Shattuck, E. W. Gurley,
F. L. Childs, Ovid Plumb, L. Van Gohren, B. S. La Grange,
E. Nye, Eli Hall, John Leavy, E. C. Alphonse, A. J, Wilber,
N. D. Wright.
The management of the Colony is in the hands of a Board
of Trustees, consisting of five persons, elected annually, on the
first Tuesday in May, by the members of the Colony.
The Board elect from their own number a President and
Vice President; the latter to act as Superintendent when re
quested to do so, by the Trustees. The Trustees, also, elect a
Secretary and Treasurer.
'The Greeley Tribune, March 1, 1871, p. 1.

340 THE UNION COLONY
The members of the Colony, also elect an Executive Coun
cil, consisting of twelve persons, four of whom are invited by the
Trustees, to sit, and act jointly with them. All matters of
doubtful policy, coming before the Trustees, are referred to a
full board of the Council for opinion and advice.
Any person of good moral character, and of sound tem
perate principles, may become a member of the Colony, by
paying the sum of One Hundred and Fifty-five dollars, by
draft, to Horace Greeley, Tribune Office, New York City, or
to Dr. Emerson, Treasurer, Greeley, Colorado; Provided, that
no minor child ender eighteen shall be entitled to hold such
membership. The payment of the sum mentioned in the foregoing para
graph, entitles the holder to a division of outlying land, not ex
ceeding Forty acres, in fee simple, including the perpetual
use of Water from one of the Irrigating Canals ; and the further
righs of obtaining Water for a Government Eighty, for the
sum of One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars; also, the priv-
ilage of selecting a residence lot in the town of Greeley; for
the minimum sum of Fifty Dollars.
Parties will obtain deeds for their selections by making
such improvements as are satisfactory to the Board of Trustees.
The principle idea is, that the party enter on some one portion
of his land to improve in good faith; one year being granted,
from the time of becoming a member, for making such improve
ment. Reservations of lands shall be made and set apart for
Churches, Schools, Colleges, Seminarys, Public Buildings, Parks
and such other uses as are calculated to promote the public
good. A part of the funds accuring shall be invested in land, and
the remainder in the Construcetion of main Irrigating Canals ;
ornamenting Parks, erecting educational and other public build
ings, constructing bridges, and such other things as are abso
lutely necessary to advance the welfare of the whole.

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TIMES IN GREELEY.1 Greeley, March 6, 1871.
Eds. Tribune : — This thriving little burg is all alive and ac
tive in the erection of dwelling and business houses, some of
which would be a credit even to proud and beautiful Denver,
being of fine architectural style and built of the best material.
The business men complain greatly of dull times and the
scarcity of money, as nothing could be done last year to produce
anything for the market, and hence nearly a whole year has
been spent by the citizens preparing for the duties and rewards
of the present season, who have had all to buy and nothing to
sell. The town now has about five hundred families with more
coming, and bids fair to double during this season.
Preparations are being made by which about 15,000 acres
will be fenced by the colony, including the town-site, which
will insure safety from the stock running at large, and appears
to have a tendency to inspire confidence in a good many who felt
discouraged. The town was excited a few days since by the trial of the
Erie rioters, an account of which you gave your readers
Last night, about 1 o'clock, the alarm of fire was sounded
by the Colony bell, and it was found that the Greeley House
was on fire. The citizens rallied promptly, and by hard work
and a judicious use of water, the flames were soon .extinguished,
with but little damage to the house, and none to the furniture.
Greeley needs, first, water ; and then an engine.
On the night of the 2d inst, Mr. Higley of this place, had
a horse, saddle, bridle and a gun stolen from his livery stable,
and yesterday morning the thief was caught, and he and the
property stolen were brought into Greeley last evening by Mr.
Duncan, of Park Station Creek. The name of the thief is not
known, as he refused to give it, but he had a preliminary trial
before Justice Childs, at 10 a. m. of this date, and in default
of $2,000 bail is remanded to jail until the December term of
'The Denver Tribune, March 7, 1871, p. 2.

342 THE UNION COLONY
Court The probabilities are that he knows more than he wishes
to reveal about other horses stolen from near here.
People here are delighted with our splendid weather. Julius.

[The Formation of a Second Union Colony.]
— * "Union Colony No 2". is an organization got up in our
place recently, which made a location near Ft. Collins and pre
empted 1600 acres of land, on the supposition that the Penn
sylvania canal would water it, but it was discovered it would do
no such thing, and the whole thing becomes collapsed; which
leads us to remark that during the next few years all sort of
schemes will be put on foot, for which one would do well to
stand from under; and which leads us to remark that when a
Colony is formed as "Union Colony No. 2," it will be known
on good authority, and until then, we give fair notice that all
such off-shoot are decidedly gratuiteous.

[Change Made in the Period for Improving Colony Land
and Comment on the Same.]
THE LAST DAYS OF THE CLOSING SCENE.2
The location of this town and Colony, was made on the 5th
of April, 1870, and according to the constitution, or original
compact, deeds were to be refused for all lands attached to
shares not improved within one year, and the lands were to be
sold to those who would improve, while the money so received,
was to be refunded to such as made the selections, and refused
to make the necessary improvements. It was never for a moment
supposed but that every member would be on hand to make a
selection, for it could not be expected that the Locating Com
mittee were to be authorized to purchase land in good faith, and
that they who authorized them should fail, on their part to make
selections, for if any considerable number should do so, the
'The Greeley Tribune, March 8, 1871, p. 2.
"The Greeley Tribune, March 22, 1871, p. 2.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 343
result would be the failure and bankruptcy of the whole enter
prise. But, inasmuch, as some members have failed to appear
and make selections, the Board of Trustees, by a recent vote,
has extended the time for making selections and improvements,
for one year more.
However, we would speak now of those who came, and who
made selections of lots, but who have failed to improve with the
expectation that, by some hook or crook, they would get deeds
for their lands, which have become valuable, for the reason that
the grat majority have gone on, made extensive improvements,
and, altogether, built up a nice town That they might have no
reason to suppose that any favors would be extended to them,
to the manifest injustice of the majority, the Board of Trustees
have, on various occasions, voted that improvements must be
made, or deeds would be refused, and gradually they have be
come convinced that they would be obliged to make improve
ments if they had any expectations of sharing in the advance of
real estate, and in the general prosperity. Still, it seems evident
that some will fail, and as a portion have pleaded inability,
giving various reasons therefor, the Board, at its last meeting,
voted that such might have 60 days longer time, after the 5 th
of April, 1871, but that the price of corner lots would be ad
vanced from $50 to $150, and inside lots from $25 to $100,
and that, if, after the lapse of 60 days, no improvements are
made, such lots would be open for selection by others; while
outside farming lands are also included.
The weather all along has been extremely fine, and activity
in the way of building is manifest. Some of the houses going
up are of such a character that deeds are sometimes granted
with reluctance, and in some cases they have been refused. A
farmer living East, holding two certificates, and generally sup
posed to be wealthy, selected two first class lots last spring, and he
built thereon two shanties of the value of $40 or $50 each. Last
Fall he applied for deeds to the same, having meanwhile returned
East, and was refused. He now writes in beseeching manner,
saying that he has improved to the best of his ability, and that
he hopes to bring on his family to occupy the dwellings; but
as he does not bring them, deeds are still refused — Some others,

344 THE UNION COLONY
at this date, are rushing up small buildings, in which the lum
ber is of a cheap character, and it is stretched as far as it will
possibly go; the shingles, in some cases, being lapped only half
their length, and spread far apart, and they hope by such
trifling structures to obtain deeds to property which others have
made valuable. Their success is to be seen after their applica
tions shall have been acted upon. In one case, after a deed was
granted on an improvement, the house was moved upon an ad
joining lot, and a deed asked for this same improvement, which,
of course, was refused, for the Trustees keep well informed. In
short, the same games are attempted as are common in pre
empting Government lands, such as having houses on wheels;
but every move of this kind is immediately noticed, and the
little speculators are obliged to invest to some extent.
Still, solid investments in the way of genuine improve
ments are constantly going on, and the demand for lumber and
builder's hardware is heavy. The mountain mills and the mills
in the Black Hills, in the region of the Larimer Plains, are
running night and day, and from 5 to 10 car loads of lumber
arrive daily. Only about two weeks remain before the clock
shall strike 12 at midnight, bringing to a close the days of pro
bation, of many anxieties and labors and of successful en
deavors — and bringing in the anniversary of the day when the
Union Colony was located in a wilderness, where the savage
still lingered.

CANAL NUMBER TWO.1
On Friday last, water was let into Canal No. 2, throngh
the head gate, 12 miles above town. As the river is now at the
lowest stage, only about eight inches of water in depth ran over
the apron. A slight wing dam would give more than double
the depth. It is thus demonstrated that the position of the
head gate is as low as is necessary, and that there can be no
possible failure in getting water into the Canal. When the river
rises, in May, this Canal will receive water enough to flood the
whole country; and now, so far as the farmers fearing that
'The Greeley Tribune, March 22, 1871, p. 2.

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they will not have water enough, they had better be on the
look-out that they do not get too much ; and it will be necessary
to establish strict regulations.
It is to be remembered, here, that the Board of Trustees
are about to adopt such needful laws in regard to the use of
water from Canal No. 3, which waters the town, and the 5,000
acres adjacent, as will give to each cultivator a sufficient amount
of water, and at as frequent periods as may be necessary; for
it was seen last year that if avery person is allowed to use water,
a vast amount would be wasted, and it was evident that some
are naturally so careless that if the Mississippi river were at
their command, it would be insufficient, while fields would be
swept away. It is proposed to adopt so much of the regulations
of the Salt Lake people, as shall be found applicable the gen
eral plan of which is, to divide the tillable land into districts
under the control of a Water Board, and the whole under the
control of a Water Commissioner, who gives personal super
vision to the furnishing of water, and whatever pertains thereto.
Canal No. 2 must be governed in like manner. We would add
that, so soon as the early part of next week the water in this
Canal will have come down almost 16 miles, something more
than half its length, and that it will be filled at an early date
from one end to the other.
People are now busy putting in grain under this Canal,
and the whole region is said to be rapidly crystallizing into a
farming scene. Meanwhile, the antelope timidly peep over the
gentle swells, looking at the great change in the feeding grounds,
which have been their's for unknown centuries, and the gray
wolf and the cyote, and the badger, and the prairie dog, are
getting ready to depart from their ancient habitations.

[Construction of the Colony Fence.]
— JThe Committee, consisting of Messrs. Holmes, Childs
and Wilber, commence this week with the 15 or 20 miles of
fence, along Canal No. 3, which is to be built on the lower side,
'The Greeley Tribune, March 29, 1871, p. 2.

346 THE UNION COLONY
that is, on what may be called the tow-path. From the bottom
of the Canal to the top of the fence, it will be 8 or 9 feet. Work
is to be prosecuted with vigor, and with all the force of men and
teams that can be had.

[River Farms.]
— 1Mr. Greeley, will be glad to learn that a good many
families are living over the river on their farms, having left
the town, and that they are plowing large breadths. Water has
come down the Big Canal, 3 or four miles ; and so soon as the
work is completed on a few contracts, water will be let in
through the whole length of 27 miles.

[Bridge Over the Cache a la Poudre.]
— 2The Bridge over the Cache La Poudre is to be com
menced forthwith ; and the piles will be on hand this week. The
length is to be 150 feet. Mr. N Holmes, is in charge. Inas
much as we shall require several bridges, it has been thought best
for the Colony to have a pile driver made which will cost about
$250

LAND SPECULATION.3

Great opportunities are presented in this Colony for study
ing the social system, for it is constructed piece by piece, and
put together before our eyes, much as the human body is put
together piece by piece, in a manakin. Units, or individuals
came hither, equal one to another; one owning no more land
than another; no one having privileges nor opportunities. But
changes are gradually going on, and the most notable feature is
the accumulation of land by a few individuals, who, having
ready money, quietly buy out the needy, or the disaffected;
and it is evident that we are to have some large landed pro
prietors among us. For this, there is no help, because the
iThe Greeley Tribune, March 29, 1871, p. 3.
"The Greeley Tribune, March 29, 1871, p. 3.
*The Greeley Tribune, April 5, 1871, p. 2.

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original owners have neither ambition nor ability to hold on;
and if they make a few hundred dollars, they consider they are
successful, not thinking that they are losing thousands; and it
is shown that there can be no device, nor scheme by which
weak men can be made strong; while the idea which they and
their friends had, that by simply joining the Colony they were
to be made something of, vanishes.
Still, there is a large class, numbering, perhaps, three-
fourths of the members of the Colony, who are not disposed to
sell, or if they do sell, it is for the purpose of buying again
immediately, and they intend to make their homes here, and
to live and die here. The struggle is coming on between them
and the large land owners, for there must be equal taxation, and
bearing of burdens, and if the rich men can stand it, all right.
It is not improbable, however, that in a short time subdivisions
of the large pieces will begin ; indeed, it may be reasonably sup
posed that the lands of weak men have been bought, to be sub
divided, and sold at an advance, which should encourage original
proprietors to hold fast.
These considerations demonstrate the wonderful success
of this Colony. Nothing is more cautious or timorous than
capital, and when we see it freeley invested in real estate, we
may be sure that conditions are fixed, and that future progress
is certain. Perhaps the capitalists are doing far more good
than harm, for they lead the way with a firm tread, and give
to the whole community a support and confidence not otherwise
attainable.

[Advance in the Value of Colony Land.]
— xIt looks hard to see men who have done nothing since
last spring but bottom chairs now sell out their shares for $500
to $1000 each, while others have been hard at work making their
shares worth this much. However, they who do not sell make
the most money, and they lose most who sell. A young man
who sold a business lot last Summer for $200 thought he was in
'The Greeley Tribune, April 5, 1871, p. 2.

348 THE UNION COLONY
high luck but now he goes around lamenting and mourning,
because said lot is worth $500 cash donw.
Another sold a five acre lot last June for $175, and bragged
about it, and now he is not worth enough to buy it back and if
he should work 12 hours a day he would not be able to earn
money as fast as that land rises. So you see, .the real speculator
holds on and works while the weak speculator only expects.

[The Fence and Canal No. 2.]
1 Rapid progress is making with the fence along canal No. 2,
and the enlargement of said canal will be completed this week,
when floods can be had, if wanted.

FENCE BUILDING.2

The work of building a grand fence around the larger
portion of Colonial property is going forward rapidly. Nearly
all the posts, 10,000 in number, have been delivered and several
miles have been set, and wire is to be strung soon. After mak
ing many enquiries in St. Louis, Chicago, and Denver, so as to
get good wire at the lowest rate, it has finally been bought of
one of our business firms, Messrs. Salomon Brothers, at 7%
cents per pound, delivered here in Greeley. In addition to wire,
a pole not less than 3 inches in diameter at the top, is to pass
from post to post, about mid-way in the wires, which must pre
vent cattle from putting through their heads.
The posts deserve especial notice. They are fully 7 feet
long, wholly of solid pitch pine, will average nearly 8 inches in
diameter, and, although of light material, many of them are
as heavy as an able-bodied man can well lift Ordinary posts,
such as many of the farmers use, appear worthless in compari
son. The specifications and contracts for these posts were made
mostly by Mr. N. Holmes, who has full charge in the building of
the fence, and we are sure that every member of the Colony
will feel indebted to him for the thoroughness, experience and
iThe Greeley Tribune, April 5, 1871, p. 2.
"The Greeley Tribune, April 12, 1871, p. 2.

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good judgment he brings to this enterprise, for he intends to
show that a wire fence can be made which shall effect the object
for which it is intended.
The number of acres enclosed will exceed 35,000, and of
these scarcely 500 acres are owned by persons not members,
though it is to be said, that they contribute something to the
expense. This is a most important work, nor is there anything
of the kind enclosing so many pieces of land owned by different
persons anywhere else in the world. When the fence shall be
finished we mean to give a full description of it, and to show
how economical and profitable it must become.

SALE OF LOTS.1

Office of the Union Colony of Colorado, April 7, 1871.
At a Special Meeting of the Board of Trustees held or^
the evening of April 6th, the following resolutions, offered by
Gen. R. A. Cameron, were adopted, and ordered published:
Resolved, That all the Business Lots east of Madison
street, except those occupied by Colony buildings, and until now
reserved for the purpose of being sold at an advanced price for
the erection of Educational Buildings, be put into market at
the following prices, to-wit: All corner Lots, including the Lots
lying next east to the Side-track of the D. P. R. R., One Hun
dred and Fifty Dollars each, and all other Business Lots One
Hundred Dollars each; and that SATURDAY THE 15TH
DAY OF APRIL, at 1 i/2 o'clock, P. M., under the charge of
the Superintendent and Secretary, a drawing shall take place,
at which time all members of the Colony, not having had a
Business Lot, and having obtained a deed on improvements, or
having had one granted, shall be eligible to make a selection:
Provided, that within 5 days thereafter the money on such
selections shall be paid into the Treasury. ,
All the money obtained from the reserved lots sold, shall ) /
be sacredly set apart for the erection of a Graded School
building; and as soon as $5,000 are obtained, said Graded School
building shall be commenced.
'The Greeley Tribune, April 12, 1871, p. 3.

350 THE UNION COLONY
After the drawing for said reserved business lots, they
shall be opened for location under the rules and regulations of
the Colony: Provided, however, that the money on said lots
shall be paid at the time of location, and a deed obtained.
All the Resident Lots in said territory will be offered also,
on and after the said drawing, at the price of One Hundred and
Fifty Dollars, for corner lots, and One Hundred Dollars for
inside lots, to be paid for on location, to all members entitled
to locate a Residence Lot Said money to be set apart, and used
as aforesaid. The Book of Entry of names for the drawing will be ready
on and after Monday, 9th and will close at 12 M. on Saturday
April 15th.
Persons entitled to enter their names, will be required to
present their deeds, or certificates (if deeds have not been taken
up) at the office of the Secretary, as evidence of their right to
enter into such drawing.
By order of Board of Trustees. Wm. E. Pabor, Sec'y.

HOTEL DE COMFORT.1

In the account we give of Forefather's Day, is a poem;
by the Colony Poet Laureate, Mr. Pabor, which requires ex
planation. Upon making the location for the colony, one of the
first steps taken was to contract with a saw mill man for 70,000
feet of lumber, which was to have been delivered at once, but
he brought only a few loads, for he held back for a higher price,
which, in our necessities, he expected to get. Therefore when
families arrived there was no shelter, and Mr. West was
directed to go to Cheyenne and buy a building, and have it
brought down on the cars, which was done, and it was erected
on the corner of Jefferson avenue and Main street, where it
stands to day, 64 by 34 feet, though greatly changed, for it is
transformed into the Tabernacle.
The building was divided into two unequal parts, the
'The Greeley Tribune, April 12, 1871, p. 2.

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smaller being devoted to families, and the larger to men. It
was long used for colony meetings, and public worship. In both
divisions bunks were built against the walls, and large quan
tities of hay were used first and last, for bedding. There was
neither plaster or finish of any kind ; and cooking was done out
doors in stoves, or by fires built on the ground. So fast as
houses were completed families moved out while others newly
arrived, filled their places. The Editor of this paper arrived
early in June, and lived here nearly a week, then moved into
a shanty, which was decidedly prefererable.
The largest room, occupied by men, and to a great extent
.by those who were uncertain whether they would stay, early
became the head-quarters of the grumblers and disaffected who
took especial pains to inform all new comers, that the colony
was a swindle, and that the officers were no better than rob
bers. There is good evidence that men with families became
so discouraged, as to return to the states, when if they had fell
into other hands, they would have remained, much to their ad
vantage. Still, many occupants were not easily moved, they
were firm friends to the colony, and it was through them that
the officers were informed, early, of. every revolutionary at
tempt. Several demagogues, living in other quarters, who had
joined the colony in a spirit of speculation, made it a point to
visit the Hotel de Comfort, and by inflamatory language arouse
the prejudices of the inmates; and to these must be attributed
the inauguration of some measures which have resulted in
serious embarrassments, the effects of which are felt to-day, but
these however, are not of sufficient magnitude to effect the gen
eral organization. For some time after we arrived, there were
crowds of excited and dissatisfied men around this establishment,
who did no work, and who spent all day and part of the night,
blabbing, and it was easy to gather a crowd of forty or fifty
men at a half minute notice. The remedy was found in the
example set by some in going to work at building and improving
and in the firmness which the officers manifested in carrying
out the principles, on which the colony was founded. Another
thing aided in the remedy which was the establishment of sev
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352 THE UNION COLONY
then to $35, and finally to $30 per M. for common fair lumber.
Progress would have been impossible while there was a monopoly
in this comodity. As new houses were built, Hotel de Com
fort became less like a Jacobin Club, when a substantial sup
port began to be extended to the officers, and this support has
increased in the ratio that genuine improvements have been
made. And yet, something of a rabble was left in those who had
little idea of going to work, and they lived there all Summer
and Fall, with no kind of business, cooking their victuals at
little fires while they passed the greater part of each day going
from store to store, and from one group of workmen to another,
discussing glibly on all sorts of subjects, and in [p] articular,
on the manner that the colony should be managed. It was not
long before their worthlessness became apparent, and they sank
in reputation about as low as was for the common good, for it
must be remembered that they were members. Their numbers
grew less and less, as cold weather approached, and finally the
last one disappeared. During December and January, the long
dreary halls were deserted. In February, it was resolved to
unite the two rooms, and convert the whole into one large hall,
for Sunday worship and other uses, and under Mr. Whipple,
the work has been well done. It was the ghost of this building,
of the days which we have reviewed, that the poet permits us
to hear complain.
A greater knowledge of mankind would have lead us to
forsee that in a colonial enterprise, like ours, such a club of
persons, as made the Hotel de Comfort a sort of mid-night
horror, was inevitable. For they were of those whose heated
imagination led them to conclude that they were to find here a
new Eden, where work and endeavor no longer were to be at
tached to the nature of man, as a condition leading to success,
but when they found that new skies gave them no new powers,
they declared they had been deceived, which was true enough,
and they lingered and complained, making all the trouble for
themselves and for others that they had the ability to make, but
when cold weather came their powers were exhausted and they
departed for other shores. — Happily, meanwhile, the great
majority enterered upon the work, of making new homes, and,

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 353
as a result of their well directed efforts, it is now seen that they
have laid foundations upon which a city is building, the boun
daries of which are scarcely to be encompassed by the eyes of
children already born.

NEW LOTS IN THE MARKET.1
According to the original Constitution or compact of the
Union Colony, a certain portion of the town lots were to be
held in reserve, to be sold after the settlement of the town, at
advanced prices, the proceeds from which were to be devoted
to educational purposes. A year having expired, and the set
tlement of the town made, the lots which have been held in re
serve are now to be sold at from $100 to $150 each. They lie,
for the most part, on each side of the Railroad, and as many of
them are business lots, an opportunity is presented for those
wishing such to get them. The particulars of the sale appear
elsewhere in our columns; and it will be seen that the sum
realized, which is to be paid in five days, is to be used for
building a Graded School House, which it is expected will cost
not less than $10,000. Those who understand the growth of
towns must see that the erection of such a building will imme
diately double the value of the lots now to be sold, besides, all
other real estate will be increased in value ; the town itself will
receive new life, and business and every kind of industry will
be doubly sustained.

[Various Items Relating to the Town.]
GREELEY.2
A brief visit to this town convinces us that it is the most
wonderful example of what may be done by concerted action,
that exists in the world. A year ago the location had been
selected, and that was all. To-day there is a city at least the
fourth in rank in the Territory, and its numbers are still increas
ing faster than any other except Denver. Real estate has ad-
'The Greeley Tribune, April 12, 1871, p. 2.
"The Denver Tribune, April 13, 1871, p. 4.
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354 THE UNION COLONY
vanced proportionate with the increase in the population. A
lot on main street, which cost the colony $1.28 a year ago,
and was sold by the colony for $25, was this week sold by the
former purchaser for $800. The receipts at the post-office for
the sale of stamps, amounts to $600 per quarter. The town
is alive to all the improvements necessary for a good com
munity. Reserved lots are now being sold so as to raise $12,000
for a nice school-house. As soon as $5,000 are raised work will
be commenced. The Baptist church have a large and handsome
church well towards completion, and the Methodists will shortly
commence. The machinery for a $10,000 grist-mill is ready, and the
mill will be in operation in two months. A saw-mill is also
located in town, to which the logs will be driven from the moun
tains by way of the Cache-a-la-Poudre. The great canal is a
wonderful specimen of the year's work. It is 26% miles in
length, and will be lengthened six miles this year. At the head
it is 3% feet deep, and 12 feet wide at the bottom. The next
five miles is 11 feet wide and 2% feet deep, and every suc
ceeding five miles is one foot less in width.
Wednesday evening the Good Templars gave a festival
to raise money to purchase an organ, and a great time was ex
pected. We regretted our inability to accept many kind invita
tions to remain and participate. The Committee of Arrange
ments for the festival were, Mrs. M. E. Howe, Mrs. J. C. Ab
bott, Gen. R. A. Cameron, M. W. Lansing, Mrs. S. B. Wright,
Miss Amanda Hanna, S. B. Milner, and W. H. Bennett.
The Odd Fellows have organized a lodge, which will be in
stituted on the 26th, by Grand Master McLaughlin, the occasion
to be celebrated by an elegant ball and supper. Denver Lodge
No. 1 is expected to be present on the occasion, which is the
anniversary of the foundation of the Order in America.
The Missouri Valley Life Insurance Company, through its
Agent Mr. Fisher, is hard at work among the Greeley people.
Mr. Fisher is organizing a local board, composed of such men
as Gen. Cameron, F. L. Childs, W. E. Pabor, E. Hollister, and
others. The colony election occurs in May.

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TERRITORIAL NEWS.1

News from the Colony.

Last Wednesday evening, April 10th, the first anniversary
of the location of Union colony was celebrated at Greeley. Mr.
Meeker made a lengthy speech^ recounting a history of the in
ception of the colony and its success. General Cameron, Mr.
H. F. West, and others, also addressed the meeting, and Mr.
Pabor read a poem.
The Greeley Tribune of this week says that the work of
building a grand fence around the larger portion of the colonial
property is going forward rapidly. Nearly all the posts, 10,000
in number, have been delivered and several miles have been set,
and wire is to be strung soon. The number of acres enclosed
will exceed 35,000.
The receipts of the Greeley postoffice are about $600 per
quarter. The first mail was received about the 10th of last
May, and there were only four letters. The office is rated among
offices of the third class; by next year it will undoubtedly be
advanced. Next July it is to be made a money order office.
The Tribune estimates that there are two hundred houses
in Greeley, and a population of two thousand, with new arrivals
every day.
A graded school building, costing $10,000, is to be erected
at Greeley. Mr. Meeker states that Mrs. Lyman, wife of J. B. Lyman,
agricultural editor of the New York Tribune, is the writer of
the interesting articles in that paper entitled "Home Interests."

LATEST FROM GREELEY.2
(Special correspondence Denver Tribune)
Greeley, April 9th, 1871.
Messrs. Editors: — The water is now in the irrigating
ditches, and the Greeleyites are of a certainty, happy. The
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, April 13, 1871, p. 1.
"The Denver Tribune, April 14, 1871, p. 2.

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farmers are all busy putting seed into the ground, and there is
every prospect of having large crops this season, if the water
holds out. An immense amount of water is required for irriga
tion purposes — more than one not having a large experience
would suppose — and although the ditches have recently been
made nearly double the size of the original plan, yet they are
still too small to permit all this large tract of land to be thor
oughly worked this season. Those now engaged in agricultural
pursuits will find out before Fall this fatal mistake, and many
crops will undoubtedly suffer for it. Stockmen will, however,
have no reason for complaint, and in a short time we shall have
large and numerous herds here and in this vicinity. Several of
our enterprising stockmen have large flocks of sheep, and I am
told they are thriving beyond all anticipation.
The "Great Sensation" has subsided for the present, al
though by the heroine's last confession, some ten or twelve of our
citizens are implicated — among them Dame Rumor mentions
some of our married men.
On Friday last the G. W. Y. Y. Club gave their closing
"hop", which was well attended by the "bon ton" of Greeley.
Every one enjoyed themselves hugely, and we saw among the
vast throng many noble men and fair ladies. The services of
the gentlemanly and affable Dr. Frank Pinneo were engaged
for floor director, which in itself is a sufficient guarantee of a
general good time, while the music by Smith's Quadrille Band
was as it always is, Al. This was the grand event of the season,
and did space permit, I should be happy to mention who were
there, and descriptions of the many elegant costumes.
The "Greeley Dramatic Club" after several weeks of strict
rehearsal, will give an entertainment shortly, when they will
produce a new moral drama, entitled "Ten Nights in a Bar-
Room," and interlude, and close the entertainment with "Paddy
Miles' Boy." Dr. Karsner — the popular assistant at Dr. H. B.
Turtle's, is the stage manager.
The "Mutual Admiration Society" met in concourse large
and grand, at the Tabernacle on Friday, April 5, 1871, and
poured forth self praise for about four hours to an audience
of some 600.

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This meeting was evidently worked up for electioneering
purposes, but it will not work. Too much old fogyism will ruin
Greeley. What is wanted here is a new set of officers, or else let
the affairs of the colony be wound up, and the place run under
a town organization. Then if the Denver Pacific Railway
wishes to appoint Messrs. Meeker and Pabor, or Gen. Cameron,
as their agent for the sale of railroad lands, let them do so.
As it stands now, there is a great deal of dissatisfaction on the
part of the people, and the "Growler Club" is numerous.
If we are to have a new President, let an active, wide
awake, goahead man be chosen; and if such a man is selected,
he will be sure to be elected. There are men here who are
better adapted to manage the affairs of the colony than those now
in power. And we earnestly hope that before the coming elec
tion, which takes place early in May, that the sound and sensible
men will meet and prepare their candidates, and not allow
things to be run in the present manner. Be up and on your
guard before it is too late.
At this electioneering meeting on the 5th of April, why
were only the "Chosen few" called upon to address the audience ?
We should liked to have heard remarks from such men as
Judge Plato, Col. Gipson, Counsellor Knowles, and others who
were present, and are gentlemen well qualified to address a
public assemblage. They would have told us a plain and un
varnished tale, not about visions and the N. Y. Tribune. As to
the cause of these great dissatisfactions, they are as numerous as
the sands of a desert, but until some future time I will only
mention two of minor causes : First. According to the articles
by which "Union Colony" was organized, all those who paid the
sum of $155, and were not disposed, or unable to improve their
shares according to the conditions, should at the end of the year,
which expired on April 5th, 1871, have refunded to them their
original one hundred and fifty dollars, with seven per cent.
interest for use of the money. Several different parties have
informed me that the officers of the colony have refused to
comply with this part of the contract. Then, secondly.' Two
of the principle officers are engaged in the real estate busi
ness, and are using the colony office for that purpose.

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But as my letter is somewhat lengthy, I will close. In my
next I will give a farther insight into the ways that are dark.
"Sappho." .

[Extract From a Colony Circular Relating to New
Certificates of Membership.]
COLONY MATTERS.1

The Greeley colony, of which we have made mention at
some length in another portion of this paper, has just issued a
circular concerning new certificates, of membership. From it
we quote: "Any proper person may become a member of the
Union colony of Colorado, upon complying with the following
conditions : The payment of fifty dollars ($50) entitles him to
two shares of stock and a resident lot, valued at the said fifty
dollars. The payment of one hundred dollars entitles him to
four shares and the selection of a resident lot of the value of
one hundred dollars."

COLONIAL IMMIGRATION.2

The Union Colony — Completion of its first year
Practical results of the Colonization System.

(Editorial' Correspondence).
Greeley, April 17, 1871. — The Union colony of Colorado
has now completed its first year. From a review of its history
and its progress important information may be gained, as well
as encouragement for a continuance of the new system of immi
gration which it inaugurated. The Union colony was an experi
ment. Immigration by colonization was a new idea, and like
all new ideas its value had to be demonstrated by practice, and
its utility by success. In full faith that the practical workings
of the system would more than realize the claims of the theory
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, April 19, 1871, p. 1.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, April 19, 1871, p. 2.

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the colony was founded, and at the close of the first year suc
cess has placed its imprint not only upon the organization itself,
but has illustrated the correctness of the idea, and fully demon
strated its claims as the most practical and efficient method of
peopling the great west, and of opening up and developing the
vast and varied resources which here abound, and which await
only the hand of industry to be turned into productive wealth.
The Union colony is a pioneer, and whatever of value, whatever
of information, whatever of encouragement is derived from the
first year of its history, should be gratefully acknowledged, and
the same honor yielded as would be given to the individual who
manfully wins and deserves success in a new and untried field of
thought or of endeavor. A GLANCE AT ITS HISTORY.
The proposition to form a colony for settlement in Colorado
originated with Mr. N. C. Meeker, then an attache of the New
York Tribune. It was warmly seconded by the venerable editor
of that paper, and received a hearty endorsement from hundreds
of people in all parts of the country, who expressed their desire
to become members and join in the enterprise. An organiza
tion was effected, and early in the spring of 1870 the locating
committee consisting of Messrs N. C. Meeker, R A. Cameron,
and H. T. West, arrived in the territory to select a site for the
coming colony. They decided upon this point, and on the 5th
of April, 1870, announced their decision. In every respect it
was a fortunate location, and the wisdom of their action has since
been abundantly demonstrated. Located upon the banks of the
Cache-a-la-Poudre, possessing an abundance of water and enjoy
ing admirable facilities for irrigation, with a fertile soil, an
unequaled climate, a fine mountain view, and finally, having
direct railway and telegraphic communication with the commer
cial cities of the territory and of the east, the site chosen for the
pioneer colony was one which, by its many and combined ad
vantages, has contributed not a little to its success. The col
onists arrived slowly during the latter portion of April, and it
was not until the first weeks in May that they began to come
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and at once the building of a town, the cultivation of the soil, the
development of the various resources of the place, and the or
ganization of schools, churches, and all that pertains to a well
regulated society commenced. To review the struggles of the
organization and the various difficulties which surrounded it is
not necessary at this time. There were disappointed and dis
affected ones ; there were ambitious men and faint-hearted wom
en ; there were worthless and lazy members, who were appalled
at once by the pioneer's duty, and gave up in despair ; there were
grumblers and growlers, and mocking ones, who, like birds of
ill omen, gave tokens only of failure ; there were imperfections
in the plan, and mistakes in the organization which had to be
remedied and overcome; there were unforeseen obstructions
which had to be surmounted; there were unexpected obstacles
which rose daily in the path, and which had to be met by wis
dom, candor and moderation. Amid all this, however, there were
those whose faith never lessened, whose courage never quailied,
whose confidence never weakened, and whose enthusiasm and
patriotic devotion to the cause of the colony, and determination
to see it succeed, only increased amid the dangers and shone
more brightly amid the threatened storm. Wisdom in council,
moderation in action, energetic endeavor, and an industrious
and persistent labor have won the day. The organization has
completed its first year, and, crowned with success, and bearing
the fruits of its trials and experience, the Union colony of Colo
rado today vindicates the idea upon which it was organized, and
is a practical illustration of the excellence of the theory of im
migration by colonization. WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.
The results of the first year's labor are eminently satisfac
tory, and show an industrial, financial and social progress which
is most gratifying to all friends of the west. Thirty-six miles
of main irrigating canals have been constructed, which place an
aggregate of 60,000 acres of land under the influence of water,
and insure an abundant supply for all time to come. A simple
and efficient system of lateral ditches has been begun, which
gives a full and equal distribution to all portions of the colony

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domain. Two thousand acres of land are now plowed and being
placed under cultivation, and it is safe to assert that before the
end of the season at least 2,500 or 3,000 acres will be planted
with grains and vegetables and this year yield remunerative
returns to the husbandman. A thriving and flourishing town
has been built up, in which are stores which are carrying on a
growing business in all the departments of trade, a bank whose
operations indicate a sound and healthy state of finances,
churches, schools, societies, and all the various elements which
constitute a community. From January lst to April 15th, in
clusive the freight received at the depot of the Denver Pacific
railway, amounted to 258 car loads, or 6,414,386 pounds on
which was paid a total of $30,096.87. The local ticket sales
for the same time were $1,072.80. There is also a large ex
press and telegraph business. The receipts of the post office for
the various quarters since the organization of the town are as
follows: For the quarter ending June 30, 1870 (55 days)
$4.25; ending September 30, $332.50; ending December 31,
$478.06; ending March 31, 1871, $598.94. The number of
papers and periodicals received is 441, of which 131 are copies
of the weekly New York Tribune, and 50 are copies of the
Weekly Rocky Mountain News. There have been given 422
deeds on improved property, and 2,954 shares of stock issued.
The present population of the colony is between 1,200 and 1,500,
which are the extremes of the different statements. The most
wonderful and at the same time the most important facts con
nected with the progress of the colony relate to real estate, and
the pemament rise in its value which has been effected in the
twelve month of its existence. Speaking in general terms, the
amount of money invested in lands, and improvements by the
colony as an organization, and by its individual members approx
imates an aggregate of $800,000. The present estimated value
of the same to-day, giving inside figures, is $2,400,000, a rise
of three hundred per cent. The increase of individual invest
ments is not less astonishing. A person who a year ago in
vested $225 — $155 for membership, $50 for corner business lot,
and $25 for inside business lot — can today realize from $600 to

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$3,000 for the same, independent of any improvements. An
actual sale was made last week for $1,500. The average price
of business lots is $300, equal to the rate of $2,400 per acre,
and this land last year was purchased at $4 per acre. The per
cent of increase is almost incredible. The advance in the value
of resident lots, and five, ten, twenty, forty, eighty, and one hun
dred and sixty acre tracts, are correspondingly great, and only
further confirm the figures we have already given. To note the
increase in business of all kinds; the various educational and
christian and social interests which have been inaugurated, and
are in a prosperous condition ; the excellent moral status of the
town, and the true temperance principles upon which it is con
ducted ; the confidence in its future growth and in the develop
ment of the surrounding country, and the actual power and
experience which has been gained, and which constitutes an ele
ment of strength, whose capabilities and influence for future
progress are so unlimited, is only necessary at this point. To
elaborate or enlarge upon them is forbidden by want of proper
space, and rendered unnecessary by the intelligence of the
reader. With all its commercial and industrial progress, its
social advancement has kept equal pace. The material growth
of the Union colony has found a rival only in the moral and in
tellectual influence which it has cultivated and extended.
CONCERNING THE SYSTEM.
While the system of immigrating by colonies finds an abun
dant and ample triumph in the facts now stated, a few general
remarks may not be inappropriate, and may afford aid and infor
mation to those now organizing colonies, or who are looking to
the west with the expectation or intention of emigrating. There
are advantages in the colonial plan which render a removal to
the west more pleasant, and which separate it from nearly all of
the isolation and loneliness, and numerous deprivations which
are generally attendant upon the first few years of pioneer life.
Combined with the inducements which generally attract people
to the west, are the additional ones of schools, and churches, and
society; the colony bringing with it its own civilization and
planting it at once in its new home, and not waiting for it to

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spring up and crystalize and grow through long years of slow
but constant progress. There is strength also in unity, the
colonial community being endowed with progressive elements
from the beginning. The Union colony has accomplished more
in one year than the same number of families scattered into dif
ferent localities could have done in five, if not in ten years. A
combination of energy, industry, intelligence and capital, ming
ling with the desire to open up, to develop, and to improve the
resources of the west, and to build here new homes, will, when
properly directed, accomplish wonders and surpass the expecta
tions of the most sanguine. In the practical workings of the sys
tem there is required an amount of patience, of firmness, of
moderation, of fairness, and of honesty of purpose, which can
not be underestimated, and which is absolutely essential to the
success of any colony. There must be the prevailing elements,
and if they are lacked there will be no true success. It is the
possession of these characteristics in the management that has
given such great success to the Union colony. Their never fail
ing determination to do right, to be fair and to be moderate under
all circumstances, supplemented by an honesty, never doubted,
has contributed everything to the success of this organization.
Without these necessary qualities in the managers the colony
would have failed miserably; and so will all future colonies
fail unless they possess and maintain these principles from the
beginning. Whatever else may be lacking there must be honest
men in power, and an overruling and unflinching integrity in
all their public transactions. Encouraged by the success of the
Union colony many others are now organizing, and are being
located in our territory which extends to all a cordial welcome.
There need be only success, and no one of them should, with the
experience of the past year to guide them, have a less favorable
history than this Union colony. If any of them fail, however,
it will not be the fault of the system, but owing to the absence
of good management and the lack of the vital requirements we
have named. Let all colonists weigh well these sentences, and
see to it that they entrust their money, their interests and their
welfare in the hands of capable, upright and honest men whose
management will be above suspicion.

364 THE UNION COLONY
THE FUTURE OF THE COLONY.
With a beginning so favorable, and with so great a progress
for the first year, we are warranted in predicting a continued
growth and an increased prosperity. The present is only an
index of the future, and past achievements are regarded only
as a basis upon which will rise a far more generous structure of
commercial, industrial and social greatness. The present sea
son will see an addition of at least two hundred families, while
two hundred and fifty can be furnished with lands which are
now covered by the irrigating canals and ready for immediate
occupation and cultivation. The improvements for the com
mon benefit, such as fencing, the completion of main and lateral
irrigating canals, the building of bridges, the adornment of
public grounds, and similar works, will be prosecuted with
energy. The crowning act of the management will be the erec
tion of a graded school, to cost not less than $10,000, a work
upon the importance of which it is unnecessary to dwell. A
mere statement of the fact carries its own reflections with it.
While these public improvements are in progress, individual
enterprise will accomplish its work and keep pace in the advance-
. ment of the general colonial interests. The town will become a
busy mart of trade where the pleasures and elegance of city life
will combine with the restless spirit and activity of commerce.
The country for miles in every direction, subjected to the labor
of the agriculturist, and the fertilizing power of water, will
yield its annual harvests, and insure remunerative returns to
industry. Manufactures will thrive, herds of stock will throng
the extensive ranges, and prosperity will everywhere reward
those who seek her favor and prove themselves worthy of her
smile. For Greeley, for the Union colony, and for the country,
and the valleys which surround them, and extend their fertile
and productive acres for miles away from this centre, awaits a
future whose speedy development will be equaled only by its
substantial progress and prosperity. We hail this first year's
as an index of a brilliant future.
CONCERNING INDIVIDUALS.
In concluding this extended communication it will be proper
for me to note the liberal policy which has been pursued toward

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the colony by the Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific railway
companies ; and also to mention the fostering care of the National
Land company, under whose auspices it was organized, from
which its lands were purchased, and whose agents arranged the
many and complex details of transportation. To Col. John S.
Loomis President of the company, and to Wm. N. Byers the
General Manager for Colorado, the Union colony are indebted
for an active care and attention, and watchfulness which has
contributed greatly to its advantage, and demonstrated the benef
icent workings of the company they represented. In the his
tory of western settlement and enterprise the National Land
company will be accorded a place among the leading and most
powerful agencies which hastened its growth and development.
Let me also award the proper praise to the officers of the colony
who have labored so hard, who have given so much of their
personal time and attention to the common good, who have
been so often abused, and most times so unjustly blamed, who
have succeeded so well, and through whose capacity, honest and
practical ability the Union colony has won permanency and
success. To N. C. Meeker, the persistent, faithful and honest
president, and to Gen. R A. Cameron, whose active energy and
practical ability, patient temper and farsighted care as vice
president and superintendent has done so much for the public
weal, let that acknowledgment be given which eminent services
alone deserve and demand. In their labors they have been sup
plemented by an efficient board of trustees and officers, who must
receive honorable mention as faithful and devoted public
servants. Whatever mistakes they may have made, whatever
errors they may have committed, or whatever blunders may be
charged against them, it must be admitted that their administra
tion has been characterized by a firmness, an ability, an honesty,
and a success, which raises it far above cavil and entitles them
to credit and consideration at the hands of a discriminating
public. Personally let me acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. E.
H. Abbot, the gentlemanly agent of the Denver Pacific, to Mr.
J. B. Flowers, to Mr. H. T. West, to Mr. E. S. Nettleton, the
colony engineer, and finally to my excellent friend Mr. W. E.

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Pabor, the present efficient secretary of the colony, for various
important information, as well as for constant and generous
courtesies and attention.
W. R T.

[No Billiard Saloon Allowed in Greeley.]
— 1We had a visit last week from one of the aristocracy,
perhaps it was one of the Royal Family of Cheyenne, and he
wanted to start a Billiard Saloon, and he went from one man to
another asking if he might, and every one told him he might'nt,
unless he wanted a fight or a fire, and he went back, and when
he walked he stepped slow, not lifting his feet more than an
inch above the ground, which is a way the Royal Family of
Cheyenne, in the male line, have; and departing, he looked
back on the town goodly in size, without a billiard, and wept.

FROM GREELEY.2

Political affairs in the Union Colonv.

Greeley, April 24, 1871.
Editors News: An important colonial meeting of the
members of the Union Colony was held at the Tabernacle on
Saturday evening last. It was called for the purpose of getting
the sentiment of the people upon the future policy of the colony
and the probable election of a new board of trustees, the present
board going out of office the first Tuesday in May. The hall was
well filled and the interest evinced was commendable.
Captain David Boyd was called to the chair and Mr. N. C.
Meeker was the first to address the meeting. He was in favor
of a continuance of the policy in force during the last year and
had no special reason for any material change.
He was followed by General R. A. Cameron who at once
announced his purpose not to be a candidate for reelection as a
'The Greeley Tribune, April 19, 1871, p. 2.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, April 25, 1871, p. 2.

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member of the colony board. This announcement took the
audience by surprise, as no hint of such a purpose had been
made public, and we cannot but feel that the master spirit of
the colony will withdraw from the field of action when the able
vice-president and superintendent permits (if the people of the
colony will allow him so to do) his mantle of authority to fall
upon the shoulders of a successor. Feeling thus free to suggest
what should be the future policy of the colony the general gave
a brief but comprehensive summary of the purposes that should
be kept in view. These were to encourage immigation by every
available method in order that the lands under the colony control
should be occupied by new comers, that new laterals should be
run from the canals at present counstructed and these canals be
enlarged in order to bring within the area of cultivation whole
sections of railroad and government land now beyond and out of
the reach of irrigation ; that the officers of the colony — whoever
they might be — should be encouraged and trusted; that the
probabilities were that even with all the land under each canal
under cultivation, grain and vegetables enough would not be
raised in sufficient quantities to supply the demand for home
consumption; that a thousand new comers would settle in the
valley before the fall, and their wants must be met and sup
plied ; the river should be bridged at at least three new points,
and a road laid out on the north side leading to the Platte
valley. As to the past but little need be said — facts spoke in
tones full loud enough to be heard in every village in the
nation. The question of a graded school was settled easily and
satisfactorily. About $8,000 would be realized in a few weeks
from the sale of reserved lots, and by fall a building would be
ready for occupancy worthy the enterprise, the thought, and the
intelligence of the people who had made "this wilderness bloom
and blossom like the rose."
A. J. Meter, J. H. Foster, Wm. Foote. jr., and other
speakers follow General Cameron, discussing the temperance
policy of the colony as well as the question of making the ditch
corporations subject to civil control But some of the speakers
evidently got befogged on the stock share question and the right
to tax shares and land alike.

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The meeting prolonged its session until near midnight and
then adjourned, having accomplished but one practical result —
the appointment of a committee of three to call another meeting
for Tuesday evening, at which time nominations are to be made
for a full set of officers for the colonial, the school, and the town
organization. At present writing the indications are that nearly, if not-
quite, an entirely new board of trustees will control the destinies
of the Union colony for the next year.
Men may be changed, but measures of vital necessity to
the success of Greeley cannot wholly be overridden or set aside,
and the wise policy of the past must be continued in the future,
even with a new pilot at the helm. There can be but one
course for the gallant craft we have set afloat, on which to steer.
"Sail on, sail on, oh ship of state!
Sail on, oh Union, strong and great —
Humanity, with all its fears,
With all its hope of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate."
So might we say of the Union colony, as the poet said of
the grand union of which he sung. And we say to the over
burdened hearts in a thousand eastern homes, that here at our
ever open gates, a welcome and an entrance waits. Maple Buds.

GREELEY NEWS.1
(Regular Correspondence of the Denver Tribune.)
Greeley, April 22, 1871.
Messrs. Editors : — Greeley "still lives", and I am proud to
say, still growing. New members to Union Colony are arriving
each day by the dozens. New buildings are in the course of con
struction, and beautiful improvements are every day being made.
Amongst them I will only mention a few of the most prominent :
"The "Colony Market," under charge of B. F. Pinneo, has been
'The Denver Tribune, April 25, 1871, p. 2.

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removed from a small room on Monroe street to an elegant
structure, with a Mansard roof on Main street.
Mr. Obid Plumb, proprietor of the "Farmers' Exchange,"
has recently built some four or five dwelling houses, which he
will probably rent. One of them is being fitted up for his own
private use, in an elegant manner. Mr. Plumb intends to occupy
it by the first of the following month, and if our Denver friends
ever visit Greeley, and should look at this house, they will
simply exclaim that it is immense.
Mrs. Ruthven is building a large addition to her house ; the
carpenter work is being done by Mr. J. Higgenbottom. When
completed, this will be the largest private resident in Greeley.
P. T. Bamum's hotel will open on the first of May, under
the management of Mrs. A. M. Olds. This house will accom
modate one hundred and fifty guests. Mr. Chas. Taylor is
personally superintending the carpenter work. Mr. Henry is
the mason. The decorating and paper hanging is done by Mr.
A. DeLano. Everything is being done to make this the leading
hotel. The Greeley House has changed hands — Mr. Boynton, of
Central City, is the purchaser, and is undergoing a course of re
construction. The carpenter work on this building is done by
Mr. Hund, painting by Mr. Nye, and paper hanging by Mr.
Delano. Several others are building, and workmen are in con
stant demand.
The "Sensation of the Period" is a juvenile "Boot Black,"
who made his appearance on the streets with his opening chorus
of "Black 'em up and make 'em shine less than a minute — only
a dime." Willie E. Pabor is no longer Secretary of the Union Colony,
being superceded by Mr. W. H. Post. Messrs. Meeker and
Pabor (the two prominent officers of this Colony) have dissolved
and given up the real estate business.
The Mutual Admiration Society met last night (Saturday)
for the purpose of selecting candidates for the ensuing year.
The meeting was a total failure. General Cameron in an ele
gant manner declined to serve as an officer of this colony. A vote
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Union Colony has lost a valuable and trusty officer — one who has
worked hard and faithfully for its success. General Cameron
has stood the trials, the burthens and the troubles in the early
days, while Mr. Meeker, like the Arab, "folded his tent and
quietly stole away." After some very appropriate remarks, the
gallant General, amid unbounded applause, took his seat Then
a long, lank, cadaverous, long-haired man, with spectacles, and
a shabby genteel make-up, got up, and said some one had made
slurring remarks against the temperance cause, but says he,
"Who is it ?" "You must find out, for I'll never tell." As this
was a hit against General Cameron, the General immediately
rose to his feet, and in a brief space of time informed the
audience that this story had been thrown in his face several
times, but denounced it as a vile fabrication, manufactured
from whole cloth.
Col. White then took the floor, but as he endeavored to show
the present officers of the Colony up in their true light, he was
several times called to order. Col. White appealed to the
audience for his right to proceed. After a decision in his favor,
he had his say, and told of the ungentlemanly acts of the Execu
tive Council. Although many were there, but few were chosen, and as
the Society thought it best not to let any more exposures be
made, one of the leading spirits took the floor, determined not to
give any one else a chance to say a word of truth, and keep it
until a late hour. The meeting adjourned until Tuesday, with
out affecting any business. More anon. Sappho.

[Announcement of the Election of Colony Officers.]
— 1The election of Colony officers, and the nominating of
officers for our city, takes place next week. Friends at a dis
tance will be pleased to learn that we have caucuses and wire-
workings that would be a credit to the most civilized community,
but it is remarkable that while so many are seeking office, no
officer gets any pay.
'The Greeley Tribune, April 26, 1871, p. 2.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 371
THE BALL AT GREELEY.1
Our correspondent at Greeley attended the Odd Fellows'
Festival on Wednesday night, and sends us an account of the
same. We have published the main features, except the fol
lowing :
The following gentlemen were elected as officers of the
Lodge: E. Rea, N. G. ; G. W. Perkins, V. G. ; D. W. 0. Root,
R. S. ; W. B. Woodruff, Treas. ; J. H. May, P. S. ; J. Ecker, P. G.
Also the following appointed officers : S. Milner, W. ; W. S. In
man, C. ; McClain, R S. N. G. ; A. Z. Salomon, L. S. N. G. ; C.
Hankins, O. S. G. ; H. Schenck, I. S. G. The charter members
consisted of Messrs. Root, Perkins, Rea, May, Hankins, Wood
ruff, Schenck, McClain, Inman, Milner, Titcomb, Ecker and
Fanchar. About 200 couple joined in the dance, the music for which
was furnished by Smith's Quadrille Band. The supper (if I
may be allowed to call it by that name) was furnished by Judge
Childs, and if any one made themselves sick by eating too much,
I should have been happy to have had a seat at the same table,
and if ever another ball takes place at Greeley, if my advice
is worth anything, I should say, let the job out to some "hotel,"
which has accommodations and facilities for getting up a sup
per. Coffee and cake is pretty good, but something more sub
stantial is better.
Mr. Charlie Abbott, Mr. D. C. Root, Sheriff Brush, and
the others of the committee, deserve great credit for the manner
in which they conducted the whole of the arrangements, and
every one present seemed to appreciate their desire to please.
Among the many fair ladies present, was the beautiful and
gentle blonde Miss Gussie N — Is, attired in a magniflcant light
silk, with point lace, sash and bow, "en pannier."
Miss Belle S — ts was charmingly dressed in white, with
black silk sash, and necklace of pearls.
Miss G — was gotten up regardless of all expense, and was
beyond all doubt, the belle of the evening.
'The Denver Tribune, April 28, 1871, p. 2.

372 THE UNION COLONY
Mrs. Harry L — e appeared, as she invariably does, par ex
cellent, and was dressed in an elegant and costly manner.
Miss Laura N — s was also very richly costumed in silks
and diamonds. Miss Gussie P — s was neatly dressed in white muslin, with
countless flounces and ruffles.
And as white seemed to be the reigning color, Miss F. E.
also chose it, and with a profusion of cheap jewelry looked very
well. Miss Lottie N — s looked immense in a plain black silk,
with pannier, and the most costly jewels. Miss R — y wore an
elegant orange dress, tastefully trimmed. Miss D — k — n also
in white, with black silk overskirt Miss H — y, Miss G — n,
Miss E. B — d, Mrs. O — s, Miss S — d, Miss S — m and the talk
ative Miss F S — y, were all in full ball room costume. Mr.
Benedict, Mr. Moffat, Sheriff Brush, Mr. Babcock, Mr. Watson,
Mr. Root, Mr. Ruthven, Counsellor Knowles, CoL Gipson, Sta
tion Agent Abbott, Conductor Prugh, Mr. Thomas, were all en
joying themselves at the late hour that I left "Sappho."

[Electioneering and Nominations for Colony and Town
Officers.]
TERRITORIAL NEWS.1
Our Greeley correspondent, "Maple Buds," writes us under
date April 28th as follows:
The result of the two caucuses of last evening you will find
appended to this report ; a full gathering of the clans was held,
and at first there were indications that harmony would prevail
as far as town and school boards were concerned, and a committee
of conference met and considered the subject ; but the bitter feel
ing evinced by the opposition against the name of General
Cameron, and the firm stand taken by his adherents to unite on
no ticket that did not present his name, led to a failure of
agreement The candidates for the colony board of trustees are as
follows: Administration, N. C. Meeker, E. Hollister, J. C.
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, April 29, 1871, p. 1.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 373
Shuttuck, N. Holmes, D. Boyd. Opposition, N. C. Meeker,
A. J. Wilber, E. T. Nichols, W. B. Plato, D. Boyd. For town
trustees — Administration, R. A. Cameron, E. T. Nichols, N. D.
Wright, E. S. Nettleton, Levi Hanna. Opposition, H. T. West,
N. D. Wright, N. Holmes, H. Piatt, L. W. Teller. For school
directors — Administration, J. L. Brush, L. W. Teller, Wm. H.
Post. Opposition, J. L. Brush, F. H. Rous, J. C. Shattuck.
The administration party will hold a grand ratification
meeting at the tabernacle on Monday evening. The indications
are that the administration ticket will be elected by about a two-
thirds vote.

FROM GREELEY.:

Pohtics — They become hot as the Election approaches.

Greeley, Col., April 26th, 1871.
Editors News: The second colony meeting to consider
"the affairs of state" was held here last evening, and after con
siderable sparring between the factions, it was mutually agreed
upon that each party (the administration party and opposition
party) should meet on Thursday evening to make its own nom
inations, and then test its own strength on the day of election.
We cannot say that such meetings as these two lately held
have been productive of good, in such crowded assembleges and
when seemingly parties are hardly equally divided, there is al
ways some one individual who stands ready to "spit" at his
opponent in a way that is ungentlemanly and unwise. Now last
night there was one who was emphatically a "Jumping Jack"
and it is a question in our minds whether his associate had not,
previous to the opening of the meeting, attached some mechanical
contrivance to the seat of his breeches by which, at a touch from
the "chieftain of the clan" he sprang up to "play his part" and
show how little there was in that puppet's part, and how well
he could play it. As the venom was mainly personal and directed
solely against "General Cameron and his associates." to those
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, April 30, 1871, p. 2.

374 THE UNION COLONY
who came unprepared to decide between the two contending fac
tions, it was evident that the opposition was connected together
with cement of personal spite, and we cannot but help predicting
that the sound common sense of the great majority of stock
owners will be found arrayed on the side of the able general on
whose broad shoulders has been placed so many burdens and
so much odium as attaches to the highest position attainable in
the nation. To build a vessel outright is more difficult than to
pilot it after it has been launched, and to no one man does the
colony owe its success more than to the one against whom the
opposition so universally sets itself, as a turbulent wave sets
itself against the solid rock.
On Thursday evening each party will make its own nom
inations, and on Tuesday next the silent fall of the potent bal
lot will forever set at rest this element of discontent, now dis
turbing for a brief season the harmony, the safety, the success
of Union. Then the brief pantamime over the "jumping jocks"
will disappear as suddenly as they have appeared upon the mimic
stage. Maple Buds.

PROGRESS OF THE COLONY.1
Our town of Greeley has started with more varied aims and
objects than any other town. First, it is a leading and general
aim to make it a centre of trade, of manufactures, and also of
whatever relates to education, culture and good society. Second,
to make it a temperance and moral town. Third, to make it
self-sustaining, by means of agricultural and horticultural pur
suits. To carry out the general plan, there has been a remark
able assemblage of men, ambitious and anxious to succeed, and
also well fitted for the undertaking, and to this end they have
gathered from many widely different sections, much as the
elements of minerals crystalize and form a perfect body. In
other words, the building of this colony is analogous to the
demonstrating of a mathematical problem.
This fine spring weather is met by the utmost activity in
carrying out that part of the plan, which is to make the colony
iThe Greeley Tribune, May 3, 1871, p. 2.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 375
self-sustaining. Plowing is going on everywhere, and wheat,
barley, oats and potatoes are given to the earth with no sparing
hand. Thousands of fruit trees are planted, broom-corn, sorgo,
and garden vegetables of every description are planted on a most
extensive scale, while productions intended for early use have
been growing under glass for some time. In hundreds of
windows of residences, and in the windows of many business
houses, tomato, cabbage, and other plants are growing in boxes,
all of which shows a wide spread attempt to plant on a large
scale, and to secure as early maturity as the season shall permit.
The evidence is presented on every hand that there is con
fidence in this colony; for no one can fail to see that men of
means are investing money liberally, and this in improvements
of that class which are made in older settled countries after ex
periments are no longer needed. The planting of orchards and
of strawberries by the acre, not in a few, but in many cases,
going on through these passing days, are seen only in places in
the States where the demand has gradually forced such efforts.
As a consequence of this condition of things, money is
plentiful, trade and business of every kind are brisk, and no
one wishing work need be an hour without it. So great is the
need for work of all kinds to be done at once, and so anxious are
men to get through with one thing that they may immediately
take hold of another, so many are the teams hauling goods, sup
plies, and building and fencing material, so busy are clerks
and salesmen, in short, all classes, that one who is an active
participant is hurried forward, much the same as in New
York City, busiest of all cities ; and every body is, in a measure,
intoxicated with the excitement, along with the bracing atmos
phere of this most delightful climate — intoxicated we say, al
though there is not a drop of spirits, nor of wine, nor beer to
be had within all our boundaries, which shows the utter folly
and extravagance of resorting to stimulants as a means of
sustaining men in protracted labors, and in efforts requiring
acuteness and activity.
We refer to one thing more, which is our financial con
dition. As many as fifty who joined the colony a year ago, and
paid in their money, fail to come, which is a small per cent in

376 THE UNION COLONY
so large a number as 700 ; and it is with pride and pleasure that
we state that all such can have their money returned, if they
wish it, and not only this, but the year's interest added. Those
not acquainted with the circumstances will not be able to under
stand how we should be able to buy land with money which we
are yet able to return, and not become insolvent. The truth is,
the increase in real estate has been so great, and confidence is
so deeply founded, that these certificates of indebtedness are
richly worth their face, while the prospect is that, during the
coming year, they will appreciate in value from 50 to 200
per cent. Hence, there have been cases where certificates have
been bought up as soon as sent in, to be located and held for a
rise. Certificates which were located, and which, by action of
the Board of Trustees, have a year longer to run, in which im
provements may be made, sell readily at 100 per cent premium,
and if the locations are choice for much more.
In the midst of all this, grand improvements, requiring
much money, are entered upon, among which are the digging of
a canal which will make a most magnificent water power, and
the building of a graded school house to cost from $12,000 to
$15,000. The money for these works is derived in part, from
the sale of resident lots, of which there have been two recent
drawings, and they were taken with great avidity and the cash
paid for them. The conclusion which one would gather is, that
the members of this colony have money, and that they are not
afraid to invest it in real estate, and in making such improve
ments as elsewhere come only after many years.

THE ELECTION.1
Last week was all alive with caucuses and electioneering,
preparatory to the holding of the first annual election, which
took place yesterday, the result of which appears elsewhere. In
the first place a meeting was held a week ago last Saturday night
to consider the proper policy to be pursued in Colony mat
ters, when it appeared that a party had been already formed,
called a reform party, one object of which was to transfer all
'The Greeley Tribune, May 3, 1871, p. 2.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 377
matters now regulated by charter and controlled by a Board of
Trustees, to what was termed civil authority. The case is this :
On organizing the Colony it was found necessary to take out
a charter under the general corporation law of the Territory,
which had recently been amended to suit plans of colonization,
which was done, and land was bought, irrigating canals dug
and other work done under this authority, and the legal life of
this charter was to be 20 years. To supersede this Board of
Trustees by the appointment of town officers, at least to such an*
extent as should make their duties nominal, was a favorite plan
with a few, still it was presumed they might hold title to the
land yet belonging to the Colony, and also, to some other posses
sions, but it is probable their ideas were quite indefinite. They
also objected to the provision of the law which entitled a man
to cast a vote for every share he possessed, that is, they objected
the same as if single share-holders in a Bank should object to
large share-holders casting more than one vote. They also
objected to the sessions of the Board of Trustees being secret,
and one speaker insisted upon greater economy, but his remarks
fell flat, for none of the officers get pay. After a little, a mo
tion was made to nominate officers for the coming election, by
which it appeared they had a slate already prepared. The ad
ministration party, so called, objected to this as unfair, for the
meeting was not called for any such purpose, and the plan was
defeated, when it was voted to meet next Tuesday for nomina
tions. Before Tuesday arrived several caususes were held by each
party and when they came together, each with a well prepared
slate, which, as the event proved, was broken, they could not
agree on any method, when a committee of conference was ap
pointed. After being out more than an hour they returned,
reporting that each party should hold its own convention, on
Thursday evening, from which time the two parties had each
a separate existence, one being named the Regular and the
other the Reform party. During these sessions there were many
sharp speeches, and the excitement at times ran high ; in short,
politics and office-seekers were in the ascendency, and there
were the same scenes as are enactd among politicians elsewhere.

378 THE UNION COLONY
There were two subjects, however, on which both sides agreed;
these were in regard to temperance and education.
One might think that this was all, but far from it. On
each ticket were names which some did not feel they could
possibly vote for, inasmuch as they were men who had done
little or nothing in the way of forwarding the interests of the
Colony, and the result was that on Saturday morning they
agreed on an Independent ticket, forming a third party, which
shows a remarkable progress and enterprise in so new a town.
The Independents said they had great hopes of carrying
their ticket, for the reason, as they alleged, that the two parties
were nearly equal, which fact gave them the balance of power,
but the returns show how capable they were of judging.

COLONY ELECTION RETURNS.1
The election yesterday was remarkable for the small num
ber of ballots cast, the number being 206. Last summer, with
half the population, the number was 230.
Colony Trustees.
Regular Ticket — No. Shares.
N. C. Meeker  1784 E. Hollister  1232
J. C. Shattuck  1246 D. Boyd  1686
N. Holmes  1127
Reform Ticket —
A. J. Wilber  657 W. B. Plato  650
E. T. Nichols (Independent)  713
Treasurer.
C. Emerson (no opposition)  1875
t, , m. , . Executive Council.
Regular Ticket —
J. G. Cooper  1246 D. B. Ranney  1274
C. D. Farwell  1288 J. H. Johnson  1267
F. L. Childs  1071 James Inman  910
A. Hotohkiss  1805 M. B. Knowles  931
J. A. Woodbury  1092 Jos. Murray  1036
O. Plumb  1721 Evan Rea  1868
iThe Greeley Tribune, May 3, 1871, p. 3.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 379
Reform Ticket —
J. S. Scott  888 J. Max Clark  503
C. A. White  776 S. K. Thompson  845
M. V. B. Gifford  559 J. R Thacker  566
S. Blodgett  552 H. Marshall  587
J. Leavy  580
Scattering  189
Total number of votes, represented by shares, was 1882.
The vote for Town Trustees, under the Charter or City
organization, soon to be established, was as follows :
R A. Cameron  140 E. S. Nettleton  147
N. D. Wright  138 Levi Hanna  126
H. T. West (Independent)  98
There was a great deal splitting of tickets, and many of
the officers were elected by the three parties. The Independent
Ticket showed a full strength of about 300 votes, or shares;
most of its candidates were on the Regular Ticket

[Results of the Election]
JThe election of town trustees and executive council of
Union colony No. 1, was held at Greeley, yesterday, May 2d.
The following gentlemen were elected : Trustees for the town of
Greeley— R A. Cameron, H. L. West. N. D. Wright, E. S.
Nettleton, Levi Hanna ; board of trustees for the Union colony
of Colorado — N. C. Meeker, J. C. Shattuck, Nelson Holmes,
E. Hollister, David Boyd ; treasurer — Charles Emerson ; execu
tive council — James G. Cooper, C. D. Farwell, F. L. Childs,
Arthur Hotchkiss, Joseph A. Woodbury, Ovid Plumb, D. B
Ranney, James H. Johnson, James Inman, M. B. Knowles,
Joseph Murray, Evan Rea. This election is a triumph for the
regular ticket, which was elected throughout with the exception
of S. T. Nichols, who was defeated by U. L. West.
The school district election was held in the same town on
Monday last, with the following result : President, J. L. Brush ;
treasurer, L. W. Teller ; secretary, W. H. Post.
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, May 3, 1871, p. 1.

\/

380 the union colony
[The Election Over. Schools.]
UNION COLONY MATTERS.1
Greeley, May 4th, 1871.
Editor News: — The contest is over, the smoke of battle has
been lifted and we know where the dead and the wounded lie.
As we predicted the victory is with the "administration" by a
vote of two to one, and it is surprising, considering the bitter
feelings evoked during the campaign, to see how acceptable the
result is to the great majority of the members of the colony.
Unlike the south, the "opposition" accepts the situation, and if
there be a grumbler he grumbles alone and without sympathizers.
But following closely upon this election is an event of
more importance even than the success so well achieved. The
subject of schools is one that engrosses the attention of all the
members of Union colony. Last night there was a meeting held
at Colony hall, the importance of which cannot easily be over
rated. It was resolved that the question of raising $15,000
by a tax be submitted to the voters of the school district at an
early day; this added to the $15,000 to be donated to the board
of school directors by the trustees of the colony for the same
purpose, will go far to erect a graded school with no superior
in the west. The site for this school is also donated by the
board of trustees, and is as fine as any reserved so wisely by the
first officers of the colony for town, county, and educational
purposes. It faces the park and will be about 240 x 115 feet
in size. The mill race for the grist and woolen mill about to be
started will be commenced next week, and the water power we
will obtain will run these and a paper mill in addition.
These are signs of material progress that cannot be over
estimated, and we chronicle them with pride in behalf of the
city of our choice. Maple Buds.
'¦Daily Rocky Mountain News, May 5, 1871, p. 1.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 381
[Program of the Celebration of the Arrival of the
Colonists at Greeley.]
NEWS FROM GREELEY.1 Greeley, May 6th, 1871.
Editor News : — At a meeting held last evening, in Colony
hall to arrange for the first annual celebration of the arrival and
settlement of the Union colony in Colorado, to be held on
Island Grove park, Saturday, May 13th, 1871, the following
programme was arranged: First — Raising the national flag
in Lincoln park, at sunrise. Second — Labor at embellishing
the park, by the planting of trees, ploughing and grading walks
and roads, to commence at 8 :30 o'clock, a. m., under the super
intendence of engineer E. S. Nettleby, and to cease at 12 :30
o'clock, when the call from labor to refreshment will be given
through music by the Greeley silver cornet band. From this
time until 2 o'clock, will be devoted to recreation and social
gathering during which each family or collection of friends,
is to spread their basket pic-nic dinners.
Exercises at the stand will commence at 2 o'clock, p. m.,
precisely, when the following programme will carried out:
First — Music by the Greeley glee club. Second — Prayer by
our first minister, Rev. A. Baxter. Third — Song by the Gree
ley glee club. Fourth — Poems by Captain David Boyd. Fifth
— Song by the Inman brothers. Sixth — Oration by General
Robert A. Cameron. Seventh — Song by the Greeley glee club.
Eighth — Poem by Wilham E. Pabor. Ninth — Song by the
Inman brothers. Tenth — Volunteer speeches and songs.
Eleventh — Benediction at 4 o'clock, by Rev. S. M. Brown.
You will observe by the above that quite a celebration will
be had, and as all our business men will close their stores from
9 o'clock, a. m. to 4 o'clock p. m., it will be quite a gala day.
As there will be a good opportunity for Denverites to run down
and enjoy the hospitality of our people, and witness the exer
cises, and return the same day, we hope they will take advantage
of the excursion rates issued by the Denver Pacific Railway.
Maple Buds
Waily Rocky Mountain News, May 7, 1871, p. 1.

382 THE UNION COLONY
GREELEY MEMORIAL DAY.1
The first annual celebration of the arrival and settlement
of Union Colony at Greeley, will occur on Saturday of this
week. The exercises will be as follows :
Raising the National Flag in Lincoln Park at sunrise.
Labor, commencing at 8 :30 a. m., under the charge of the
foUowing committee: E. S. Nettleton, Engineer and Chair
man; Capt. Arthur Hotohkiss and B. S. La Grange. Persons
are requested to report to either of the above named what teams
and implements they will bring, that their share of labor in tree-
planting, ploughing and grading may be duly assigned. Work
will cease at 12 :30 p. m., when they will be called from labor
to refreshment by music from the Greeley Silver Cornet Band.
Until 2 o'clock, the interval will be devoted to recreation
and social gatherings, during which time each family or col
lection of friends is requested to spread its Basket Pic-Nic Din
ners. Exercises at the stand will commence precisely at 2 p. m.
The officers of the day are President, N. C. Meeker ; Vice
Presidents, R A. Cameron, H. T. West, B. H. Eaton, Dr. C.
Emerson, J. L. Brush, E. Hollister, Mr. Bailey, J. C. Shat
tuck, E. C. Monk, Dr. S. Scott, E. T. Nichols, O. Plumb, J. H
Johnson, A. J. Wieber.
The exercises at the stand will consist of :
lst. Music by the Greeley Silver Cornet Band.
2d. Prayer by their first minister, Rev. A. Baxter.
3d. Song by the Greeley Glee Club.
4th. Poem by Captain David Boyd.
5th. Song by the Inman Brothers.
6th. Oration by General Robert A. Cameron.
7th. Song by the Greeley Glee Club.
8th. Poem by Willie E. Pabor.
9th. Song by the Inman Brothers.
10th. Volunteer speeches and songs.
11th. Benediction at four o'clock by Rev. S. M. Brown.
'The Denver Tribune, May 11, 1871, p. 2.

EXCERPTS FROM COLORADO NEWSPAPERS 383
GREELEY'S GALA DAY.1

A splendid day — Grand displays— Beauty, wit, and poetry —
Speeches by colonists, and "music by the band" — Pic
nic, tree-planting, a glorious time, and every
body happy and nobody drunk.

The people of Greeley — or at least the officers of the cele
bration — did a very sensible thing when they postponed the
tree-planting exercises and basket pic nic, with its attendants
of speeches, poems, and good-will, from Saturday to Monday.
The lowering clouds and the chilly atmosphere of Saturday
were entirely dissipated yesterday, and the sunshine and beau
ties of a May day are the only words to adequately express the
atmospheric surroundings. Greeley was in high feather, the
lads and lasses and the staid matrons and stern fathers vied
with each other in the general gaiety. The day had been looked
forward to with anxiety and earnest expectation by all of the
colonists, and on every hand liberal arrangements had been
made to insure the success of the occasion. The city was in her
festal garb, and from the outset everything betokened a most
auspicious event.
The programme was carried out as published in the News
of last week. From 12 to 2 o'clock a basket pic-nic was held
in the grove on the river bank. It was a pleasing feature of
the day, and was most assuredly enjoyed by everybody who par
ticipated. The scene presented was calculated to carry one
back in imagination to the Fourth of July occasions of similar
character at the east. Families gathered around their respect
ive "tables" spread on the grass, and made the feast enjoyable
not only to themselves but to the invited guests, of which there
were many, both from Denver and other points.
The repast ended, the literary and musical portions of the
programme were begun. A platform had been erected and
tastily decorated with the national colors. The Greeley cornet
band put in a full appearance and discharged their duties to
the evident satisfaction of all. The stand was occupied by the
'Daily Rooky Mountain News, May 16, 1871, p. 1.

384 THE UNION COLONY
committee of arrangements, the officers of the day, the orator,
poet, and invited guests. At 2 o'clock p. m., the exercises were
commenced with music, after which prayer was offered to the
supreme being by the Rev. S. Brown.
Mr. N. C. Meeker, president of the colony, addressed the
assemblage in a short and well chosen speech, welcoming the
people to the park and expressing his gratification at the happy
faces that surrounded him. He then introduced the Inman
brothers, who sang "Merry Yankee Boys are We." Upon the
conclusion of the song, Mr. Meeker presented General R. A.
Cameron, orator of the day.
General Cameron's speech was very interesting, and we
regret we are able to give only a synopsis of it He began by
remarking that thirty years ago Holon Godfrey had encamped
on the spot where they now were assembled with from 2,500
to 3,000 Indians. It is one of the most delightful spots of all
the mountain regions. Twelve years ago the gold excitement
brought 10,000 to the country from all parts of the globe; but
none who came were wise enough to discover the wealth of the
soil. He then revived the old stories of the Nile and its beneficial
influences upon the country through which it flows, and com
pared the Platte river to the historical river. It had been the
fortune of the Greeley colony to have been led there by one
holding a prominent position in the newspaper world, and the
general here took occasion to pay a tribute of respect to Mr.
Meeker. The speaker indulged to some extent in statistics
concerning the colony, its possessions and its prospects. There
are now fifty miles of irrigating ditches, which supply 45,000
acres with water. There are mills and water powers. There
are from 5,000 to 10,000 acres of grain under cultivation,
which will furnish a vast amount of the necessaries of life. The
people are paying more attention to husbandry than at first, and
with commendable results. But there are many things to be
done. A school building is to be erected, to cost from $25,000
to $35,000, and it is expected it will be one of the finest insti
tutions of the kind in the west The colony must work, and
the city of Greeley must outrival Salt Lake. There is something
higher and holier in this organization than material wealth.

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Let others do as they will, but as for the colony let it serve
the Lord by forever abolishing and banishing alcohol. Greeley
should be the Athens of America as well as the cream of the
union. As old Athens led and governed the world, in her day,
so we should govern the land to-day and feel inspired to say it
will be done. The colony should have peace and be united for
the common good. In the future, when the colonists gathered
on these festive occasions, he hoped all would feel that it had
been good for them to have thus gathered, and when they wander
forth in the world all would feel proud to arise and introduce
themselves by saying "I am a Greeleyite." The general's ora
tion was received with applause.
William E. Pabor, esq., followed the orator with the fol
lowing poem, entitled "Past and Present:" [The poem is
not reprinted here because of its length and also because of its
all too nebulous, character.]
After music by the cornet band, Mr. Hall, of Denver, ad
dressed the audience, complimenting the people upon the per
severing industry they had displayed — silent perhaps, but power
ful, as shown in the town they have built, the lands they are
cultivating and the canals they have in operation. The example
they have set had put hundreds of similar organizations in mo
tion. Mr. Hall closed by reciting a poem he had read at a
former Fourth of July celebration.
The Inman brothers followed Mr. Hall by singing a tra-
vestie on "Freedom on the old Plantation," written by Mr.
Pabor for the celebration. From the clapping of hands that
followed the song it was evident that both the travestie and the
music were a success.
Mr. Howard followed with a. poem full of happy local hits.
The Inman brothers followed with the song "A Thousand Years"
with words arranged for the occasion.
At the time of the departure of the train for Denver the
exercises had not concluded. The participants were enjoying
themselves with volunteer speeches and songs, all of which were
of the happiest and most felicitous order. The Denver delega
tion were obliged to tear themselves away, however, from the
scene of festivity, which they did with great reluctance, only
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386 THE UNION COLONY
wishing that, such annual celebrations could happen oftener, and
hoping that they may never be discontinued by the Greeley
colony.

A DAY AMONG THE COLONISTS.1
Everybody is Quixotic enough to be always "seeking for
better bread than wheaten," and the farmer who has tilled fat
acres in Illinois is agued into the belief that health and plenty
should go hand in hand, and that there must be a climate where
the skies are so sunny that a man is never sick, and the soil so
fruitful that all you have to do is to tickle it with a hoe and it
will laugh with a harvest. The site on which Greeley stands was
chosen as a sort of an Arcadia — the main things in view good
health and good crops. Many who arrived there a. year ago
thought that Messrs. Meeker and Cameron had missed the
mark, and were so huffy at the choice that had been made, that
after doing all they could to snuff out the young colony, stam
peded back east to say to their friends that the whole thing was
agriculturally and geographically damned.
Yesterday Greeley celebrated the results of the first year.
Its friends there had every reason to rejoice. If any of the
croakers were there, the citizens might invite them with just
pride to consider what had been accomplished. Look at the
well built town with its 1,500 people, stores, bank, newspaper
conducted by one of the best journalists in the west, schools,
library, churches, a live agricultural society, lyceum, culture,
order, a sweet temperament of gallantry and good principles ; the
town handsome with trees, gardens and gladly thinking of
harvest time, with 6,000 acres in crops within sight of the pub
lic square. Let the grumblers who gave out a year ago, see all
this, and they must conclude that they judged wrong, or some
special Providence must have come to the aid of Greeley.
If the good people up there indulged in a little high-flighted
buncombe yesterday over the record of their first year's work,
we think they may be pardoned, for they have indeed made
progress. There is no great secret in the matter either. They
'The Denver Tribune, May 16, 1871, p. 2.

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have simply "pulled all together". There has not been a Micaw-
ber among them. They have resolutely made things turn up.
None but courageous workers would have settled where they did.
At the start dolts and cowards were weeded out. Here is a city
well laid, well built, with all literary and religious advantages,
all industries thriving, raising products enough to be more than
self-sustaining, building a $6,000 church, and about to build a
$30,000 school house, needing no courts, no calaboose, one of the
most thoroughly alive and stirring, and yet the quietest com
munity in the west.
We visited Greeley late last fall, and were not prepared
to see much change from then till now; but we must confess
our surprise when we alighted there a few days ago, and hardly
believing our senses, requested of a friend if he would be so
kind as to tell us where we were. New large buildings on every
side; regular streets; a new and comfortable depot (a freight car
was their station last fall). What are we to think of a place that
a year ago "was not", and to-day a railroad station that presents
the following showing:
Statement of agent Abbott for month ending May 10 :
Amount of freight received  2,584,484 lbs
No. loaded cars received  117
Cash receipts of station  $13,119.77
They have got many things down to bottom prices at Gree
ley, fully twenty-five per cent, lower than in Denver. This will
be a great "card" in drawing customers, and will help in many
ways. We were surprised on eating at the hotel as good a din
ner as we ever had in Colorado to find the charge but fifty cents.
Upon our return from Greeley we had the pleasure of a ten
minutes' stop at Evans, now starting up so fast under the
auspices of the St. Louis Western Colony. Some twenty-five
new-comers had arrived that morning, and thirty the day before.
We found the President, Superintendent and Secretary on the
ground, and all busy getting things to rights. Mr. House, the
agent at the depot, was kind enough to give us a statement of
railroad business for the month ending May 7th, as follows:
Number pounds colony goods received, 652,740, or about
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and products of the soil), 539,123, or 27 car-loads; cash receipts
of station, $2,862.62.
This may be considered a pretty clean showing for a place
just getting on its feet, and we doubt if any of the colonies can
show such large importations ; and it must be considered too that
this is the first month of the colony. New buildings are going
up on every side, and important enterprises are under way.
Mr. Willard, of Boston, has commenced operations for
making brick. The mill-race and first irrigating ditch, from the
mouth of the Thompson, is being pushed forward rapidly. The
contract is that it be finished by the lst of next month, but, from
present indications, it will be finished before that time. The
colony work has been delayed for want of lumber, but within
the last few days there has been a good supply on hand, and
there will be plenty hereafter. The bridge over the Platte,
from present appearances, will be finished in about four days.
The colony has donated grounds for the Court House and other
county buildings, and the County Commissioners have accepted
it, and have contracted with Mr. Brown to erect a fire-proof
building for the county officers. Work has already commenced
on this building, and it will probably be finished in a month.
The bridge over the Platte will be a great convenience to the
Southwestern Colony, twenty-three miles down the river, who
will make all their shipments from Evans. The best of feeling
exists between these two colonies, and they are co-operating.
A large ditch from the Platte will soon be taken out by these
colonies, to irrigate all the lands lying between them. A ma
jority of the Board of Trustees, consisting of Rev. A. C. Todd,
President; Hon. J. M. Pinkerton, Vice-President and Super
intendent, and C. F. Hartman, Secretary, and J. L. Brush, are
on the ground, and will proceed at once to make all needful
rules and regulations, which could not be done until a quorum
of the Board was present The tide of emigration from Illinois,
Boston and many other places in the east, has just commenced
setting in, and there will be large numbers on the ground this
season. A majority of the arrivals are farmers, with their
agricultural implements and stock, and they all find employ
ment at remunerative wages on the ditch, until they can get

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ready to operate for themselves. Quite a number of residence
and business houses will soon be completed. The buildings in
the town are about all occupied — some of them by two and three
families. Col. Fisher, of the D. P. R., kindly placed the large
building belonging to the company — some forty by seventy-five
feet — at the disposal of the colony for their use this season, for
the reception of colonists with their freight. The printing ma
terial for the new paper to be called the Evans Journal, is now
on the way ; and it is expected that the first number will be
issued on or before the first of June. A very complete outfit
for both paper and job work, has been purchased by Mr. Hart-
man & Co. It will be a seven-column sheet, somewhat larger
than the Greeley Tribune, with Messrs. Hartman & Todd as
editors. From the above facts the outside public will be able to
gather what the inside public already know, that colonizing is
going forward most successfully in Colorado.

SALE OF LANDS.1
The Union colony, of Colorado, will sell at auction, com
mencing on the third day of July next, at the office of the colony,
in Greeley, Weld county, Colorado territory, all the lots and
lands under their canals, which are not located by certificates of
membership prior to July lst, 1871, or reserved for public
buildings. By order of the board of trustees. N. C. Meeker,
President Wm. H. Post, Secretary.
Greeley, June lst, 1871.

[Population of Greeley.]
TERRITORIAL NEWS.2

There are, in Greeley, six hundred and seventy-four males
and four hundred and twenty-one females. The town is only
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, June 3, 1871, p. 1.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, June 15, 1871, p. 1.

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one year old. There have been eleven births and seven deaths
in the city.

[A Visitor's Comment on Greeley Answered.]
XA letter-writer in the St. Louis Democrat, who would
seem to have blundered through Colorado blindfolded, writes
about Greeley as a town "containing from fifty to sixty houses,
all one story, unpainted, some not yet shingled, and, like Evans,
having not a tree in sight" Late census returns make a show
ing for Greeley of over one thousand population. Of course
there are several hundred houses in the town ; many of them are
two-story, and nearly all painted. Unless the Democrats cor
respondent is near-sighted, short-sighted, or suffering in some
way from defective vision, he might have discovered a beautiful
grove within a few hundred yards of the village. More than
half the correspondence published at the east concerning this
country emanates from peripatetic dead-beats who shoot through
the territory like a dose of salts.

[General Description of Conditions in Greeley.]
OUR GREELEY LETTER.2
Greeley, November 23, 1871. — Snow to the depth of seven
inches fell here yesterday, which, together with what had pre
viously fallen, makes a very respectable winter mantle for
mother earth.
There are no startling news to write of this section just at
the present time. Greeley is Greeley still, only a little worse
so — sobered down into the stern and solemn realities of living
in earnest, and for a purpose, and that purpose looking to and
meaning something substantial in the future. Like a faithful
beast of burden after its coltish antics and frivolous freaks are
over, they are settling into the traces for heavy work. An
'Daily Rocky Mountain News, June 22, 1871, p. 2.
"Daily Rocky Mountain News, November 26, 1871, p. 1. This and
the following item, though from a later period than the other material here
published, have been added because of the light that they throw upon the
characteristics of the colony.

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earnest, unflinching, uconquerable energy and determination
seems to characterize the majority here ; and so long as that dis
position is entertaned by the masses their success is as certain
as the presence of the sun in heaven. No condition of circum
stances will thwart them from their laudable purposes. They
are learning and are beginning to heed the folly that is so com
mon with the American people, of flocking together. Tneir
habits of gregariousness have become proverbial. Our people
are too much in the practice of bunching up. They start in as
if to build a flourishing town or city was the chief desideratum
to a country's success — to a people's prosperity. They forget or
overlook the fact that an inland town or city must receive its
life and support from the surrounding country, from the rural
districts. And if where the rural districts ought to be there is
nothing but a waste of blank desolaiion, the city that attempts
an existence there will be feeble and must untimately fall and
die in the midst of such surroundings. Cities contaminate, and
drive poor people into legitimate speculations and various vices
that grow out of the monopolies and over crowded competitions
that are found in all cties. But in the country the poor man
may be lord of his little domain, and however humble his home,
it is nevertheless his own, and he is as free to assert his manly
independence as his lordly neighbor who presides with regal
dignity at the banquet hall and counts his broad acres by the
thousand. Judging from the appearance there is certainly no lack of
water here ; it flows promiscuously on the surface and under the
surface. The wells are generally well filled and a good many
cellars would answer for swimming baths if the water was a little
warmer. As it is, should the weather prove cold enough, they
will do very well for skating-rinks. If some reasonable sanitary
measures were adopted here, it might have a beneficial influence,
and perhaps mitigate the ravage of scarlatina, cholera, or any
other disease that might arise through the influence of too much
water in the cellar, or too many stagnant pools on the surface.
Notwithstanding the little ups and downs which are the
fate of all places and every one of every place, I believe the
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energy and perseverance as governs this people, with a firm
foundation already established and sustained by a better code
of morals than probably exists among any equal number as
promiscuously thrown together anywhere on the face of the
earth, failure may be the rule, but we look upon this colony
enterprise as constituting one of the grand exceptions.
Father Meeker is plodding on with "Rosa Bobbins," and
the end is beyond the reach of mortal vision or the stretch of
human imagination. "Rosa" seems, martyr-like, to be pushing
on through the wilderness, and her Christian fortitude will
probably sustain her to the bitter end.
The leading business houses here are doing a reasonable
trade, A. Z. Solomen carries a large stock, and is driving a
flourishing business, as he well deserves. He has recently mar
ried a beautiful and accomplished lady, and the happy twain
are well on the highway to favor and fortune. E. T. Nichols is
doing a heavy grocery and provision' trade, but the secret of
his success is traceable to his brother Will, whose facinating
smile and captivating manner sells a host of goods. Dr. Buchtel,
successor to Dr. Tuttie, in the drug business, is doing a fair
pill trade, besides practising the healing art quite extensively.
The Colorado house is full to the extent of its capacity, and it
is eminently deserving of its patronage. The Greeley house
has lost none of its merit, and is largely patronized.
¦ The lumber yards, livery stables, butcher shops, and many
other business places here are doing well, and seem to be laying
substantial foundations for permanent business. The school is
well attended, and is a very creditable institution. The Lyceum,
and the Farmers' club, are each attracting considerable atten
tion and are kindling an interest among the people here that
must certainly add to their stock of knowledge and prove a last
ing benefit In company with Sheriff Brush, your correspondent ven
tured abroad yesterday among the farmers of the lower Cache-la-
Poudre. It was a good day for old ducks. The snow played
around us in blinding whirls, and came down as if mad. Our
road was no road at all ; it was simply a vast expanse of snow-
covered plain, cut and seared by great acequias, with innumer-

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able laterals, and divided by wire fences, inside of which, after
removing scores of bars and making more angles than are known
to the science of trigenometry, we succeeded in reaching a dark
spot on the prairie, which we found, after careful examination
to be a human habitation. To us it proved a welcome oasis in
the desert waste of snow that was above and around us. After
prayer and feasting we returned happier than when we went.
Some chicken-hearted easterners, and some dyspeptic invalids
are moaning piteously because of this blessed snow. They talk
and act as if it ought never to snow or rain in Colorado. They
would have the country dry up, and burn up, as has been the
fate of some portions of Michigan, Wisconsin and other places
east of us, during the past summer. They are unable to see any
virtue in snow, especially in Colorado. If it were any where
else it would be just what the country needs: and in view of
the fact that in Colorado it has been altogether too dry for the
last eighteen months, it looks as if it was needed here. When
the spring season comes, and the streams carry an unusual
volume of water, and luxurious vegetation sports on the high and
hitherto barren places, and our great mining industry is vita
lized, and every other industrial interest energized in conse
quence, then perhaps many of the blind skeptical croakers we
now have, may be made to see and understand the value of a
heavy fall of snow on the high mountains, and a liberal distri
bution of it over the valleys; our warmest winters are those
that furnish the heaviest falls of snow, and, if stock are in good
flesh at the beginning, they do even better than during a colder
winter with less snow. H.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN GREELEY— VOTING FOR A
POSTMASTER.1
Greeley, Col., Dec. 4.
Editor Tribune : — The election for Postmaster, last Satur
day, was the most exciting ever held in the place. When Gen.
Cameron left the Colony for New York, many of the best
citizens thought that he should no longer be Postmaster, as he
'The Denver Tribune, December 4, 1871, p. 4.

394 THE UNION COLONY
was getting a large salary, and working for another colony.
His father-in-law and partner, Mr. Flower, then circulated a
petition to have the office transferred to his name, and many of
the people signed the document. Others proposed to ballot for
another candidate, and Mr. Albert E. Gipson was urged by
some of the leading men to call a meeting, which was done.'
Several speeches were made, and the discussion was unusually
warm. N. C. Meeker, the President, said that there were plenty
of competent men who were making but little money, and they
ought to have the office rather than a non-resident who was
receiving $3,000 a year. He would vote for the General if he
were here. As for Mr. Flower, he was a gentleman whom
everybody liked, yet while he was in company with Mr. Cam
eron, he could not see the propriety of a change, for in either
case the salary was equally divided between the two partners,
which, with the General's income, gave each a yearly sum of
$3,000. However, the speaker was in favor of the people choos
ing their Postmaster by ballot, not by petition. Saturday was
the day selected for balloting, notwithstanding Mr. Flower
objected to the plan.
Mr. Gipson's friends proposed that the ladies should vote.
This caused no little commotion in the charmed circles over
which they preside. The polls were opened at one o'clock. Mr.
Gipson's lieutenant, Col. C. A. White, and Mr. Drake, pro
cured a large two-horse sleigh and started for voters. There
were flags, bells, mottoes, posters and good-looking young men,
and in a short time the hall was packed with women and girls,
all crowding up to vote for Gipson. Then Mr. Flower sent for
bells and a fast team, and gave orders for the driver to "corral"
all the women who would vote, and bring them to the "front".
The news spread like new cider, and in the course of two hours
the scene reminded one of a political camp-meeting. Courting
a girl on the Lower Arkansas was nothing to the way in which
Gipson and Flower seduced the loveliness and flower of Greeley
from the undarned stockings of their domestic hearthstones.
We must not forget to mention another phase of the contest:
Early in the morning, Miss Emily Morris sent some young girls
around with tickets bearing her name, and notwithstanding the

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short notice, she received several votes, and then withdrew from
the field. At five o'clock the perspiration fairly stood on the
brows of the respective candidates. The excitement increased,
and by sundown the sleighs were flying through the streets.
The women were getting excited, and their enthusiasm glowed
like pine knots. One of the leading merchants soon rushed up
the street in a two-horse cutter, and soon returned sitting in the
laps of three ladies, while the horses shot through the streets
to the polls. At the polls, Mr. Gipson escorted the fair ones up
stairs to vote, while the wholesale gentleman drove off for more.
At dark fresh horses were procured and the excitement in
creased. At eight the polls were closed. Time was precious.
Gipson knew of a dozen ladies up town, who must be brought at
once. Marx rushed off for three girls on the east side, and so
they came, young girls, servants, old ladies with silver hairs,
brides, and women with young babes, until it seemed as though
all the arguments that Brother Todd had ever made, were to be
utterly swept away.
Ten minutes to eight! Here comes Mr. Flower with his
arms full of weak-minded womanhood who vote like men. Three
minutes later the cutter swings around the corner at white heat,
and the next minute Gipson sweeps the aisle with beautiful
women, fragrant with perfume and embroidered with blushes
and smiles. The moments hung in suspense. Col. White, the
man of wonderful stories and bloody battles, looked anxiously
for the last rose of Autumn. She came, glowing like ivory and
vermilion, and just as the last moment hopped from the box, she
deposited her thunderbolt. Gipson received the last vote; and
then the clerks commenced counting. Gipson was defeated like
a man, and Mr. Flower went home rejoicing. Gipson is a young
lawyer, who recently came from Wisconsin. Considering that
he is not an original colonist, it is highly creditable that he re
ceived only 80 ballots less than his opponent. Miss Morris had
19 votes. The lesson of this election is, that women can and will vote
at a moment's notice. General Cameron has eloquently de
nounced the women who want to vote, yet his entire family
marched up to the jaws of the ballot box only two days ago.

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Last summer a young man fairly scorned the arguments of Mill
and Beecher ; on Saturday he took his wife to the polls and told
her to do her duty. In addition to the views of Chapin and
Curtis, I believe that if the Republican party only needed
two votes to carry New York, Mr. Greeley would take his wife
and daughter to the polls on a litter, rather than print a Demo
cratic majority in the columns of the great Tribune. Chip Johnson.

LIST OF DOCUMENTS AND
NEWSPAPERS.
Documents in the Union Colony Safe, in the Basement
of the City Hall of Greeley.1

Bound Volumes.
Proceedings of the Union Colony Association, December 4,
1869-March 16, 1870.
Record Book No. 1 of the Executive Committee, April 21,
1870-October 4, 1870.
Record Book No. 3 of the Executive Committee, July 5, 1871-
October 29, 1872.
Record Book No. 4 of the Executive Committee, November 5,
1872-March 4, 1882.
Cash book, Union Colony No. 1, 1871.
Journal, 1870-1872.
Ledger, 1870-1884.
Ledger, 1877-1881.
List of Complete and Partial Payments, Union Colony No. 1.
Expense Book, 1870-1872.
Treasurer's Account Book, 1873-1883.
Order Book, 1882-1886.
Water Tax Account Book, 1870-1873.
Receipt Book, 1881.
Receipt Book, 1881-1882.
Record of Deeds and Mortgages, 1880-1882.
Enlargement Tax Record, Ditch No. 3, 1872-1873.
Deed Record, 1871.
Deed Record, September 26, 1871-March 4, 1873.
Deed Book, 1871.
Record of Deeds Granted, 1870-1871.
Register of Lots and Lands located and deeded, 1871-1891.
Land Record, 1871-1872.
i This list has been prepared by Dr. Thomas M. Marshall.
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Land Accounts, 1870-1872.
Record of Lands sold at Auction, July 10, 1871.
Record of Stock Certificates.
Check Book, First National Bank, Greeley, 1888.
Surveyor's Description of Property, 1890.
List of Members, Union Colony No. 1.
List of Members with Record of Payments by the Colony for
Labor, mainly in 1872.
Miscellaneous Papers.
A bundle containing deeds, 1870-1881 ; certificate of renewal
of the charter of the Union Colony, 1890 ; a few letters of
1872 ; and miscellaneous papers.
A bundle of deeds, 1871-1878, and miscellaneous papers.
Scrap Book of H. T. West.
Documents in the Colony Room of the Greeley Public
Library.

Answers to the Colony Questionaire, 1869-1870.
Two shelves of miscellaneous papers, including deeds and let
ters.
Newspapers.

The Daily Rocky Mountain News.
Published in Denver by William N. Byers and John L.
Dailey. Dailey sold out to Byers in November, 1870. The
paper was established in 1859 by Byers who was its editor dur
ing the period of the colony movement. It contains much infor
mation on the colonies. Its correspondent W. R. T. was W. R
Thomas. A complete file of the paper is preserved by the State
Historical and Natural History Society in Denver.
The Daily Colorado Tribune.
Published in Denver by R W. Woodbury and John Wal
ker. It was established in 1867. The name of the paper was
changed to The Denver Tribune on January 20, 1871. There

LIST OF DOCUMENTS AND NEWSPAPERS 399
is a large amount of information relating to the colonies in it.
Its traveling correspondent H., was Chauncey L. Hall. A com
plete file of the Tribune is preserved by the State Historical
and Natural History Society in Denver and an incomplete file
in the library of the University of Colorado.
The Greeley Tribune.
Published weekly in Greeley by Nathan C. Meeker, the
president of the Union Colony. Its first issue was that of No
vember 16, 1870. A file is preserved in the Greeley Public
Library. Daily Central City Register.
Published in Central City by David C. Collier and Frank
Hall. It was established in 1862 as the Miners' Register, the
later name dating from 1868. It contains very little informa
tion concerning the colonies. A file is preserved by the State
Historical and Natural History Society in Denver.
The Boulder County News.
Published weekly in Boulder by various men during the
period of the colony movement. It was established in 1868 as
the Boulder County Pioneer, and changed its name to the above
in 1869. It contains but little first-hand information on the
colonies. A file is preserved in the library of the University of
Colorado.

INDEX

No attempt has been made to index all the matters re
ferred to in this volume. Even where subjects are indexed refer
ence has not been made, with some few exceptions, to the
financial records. The added biographical data, in the case of
certain important persons, have also been selected. The index
of persons connected with the Union Colony or Colorado is,
it is believed, complete for all sections of this work except the
Lists of Members. These, for obvious reasons, have not been
printed a second time here. Names and initials in brackets
have been supplied by the editor ; those in parentheses are var
iants upon the correct usage-

Abbey, R. P., 97.
Abbot,  , 71.
Abbott, Charlie, 371, 372.
Abbott, Miss E., 109.
Abbott, E H., 331, 365.
Abbott, J. C, 104, 326.
Abbott, Mrs. J. C, 354.
Abbott, T. H., 112.
Abbott and Eaton, 112.
Adams, G. H., 105, 106, 277.
Adams, R. S., 102.
Agricultural Colony, XIX.
Allen, L. S., 138.
Allen, N. R., 104, 144.
Alphonse, E. C, 55, 104, 109, 282,
339.
Anderson, John C, 200.
Andrews, W. J., 77.
Anger, Gen., 23.
Annis, E. B., 86, 90, 92, 104, 125,
143, 146.
Annual Report, First, XXXI, 85,
93, 94, 109, 113, 153, 324-325.
Archer, James, 229, 230.
Armstrong, James J., 87, 102.
Ashcraft, Samuel, 44.
Atkinson, Edward, 103.
Atkinson, S. A., 101.
Atkinson, Thomas, 103.
Auditing Committee, 13, 55, 59, 161,
271.
Avery, F. C, 104, 114, 116, 134, 136,
143, 145.

Avery, J. C. [F. CT], 92, 109.
Avery and Dunning, 134.
Babcock, Frank M., 56, 59, 61, 62,
65, 66, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76,
77, 78, 79, 80, 84, 85, 106, 117,
141, 146, 148, 149, 150, 225, 299,
372.
Baggers, M. A., 206.
Bailey,  , 382.
Bailey, H. H., 90.
Baker, A. S., 103, 106.
Baker, Eugene L., 90.
Bancroft, H. H., History of Nevada,
Colorado and Wyoming, XXXII.
Band, Silver Cornet, 280, 315, 335.
Baptist Church, First, 88, 101, 335.
Barclay, Barkley, Dr. J. A., 206, 300.
Bardil,  , 71.
Barker, George E., 95.
Barker, R., 101.
Barnes,  , 77, 105, 316.
Barnes, C. J., 106.
Barnes, David, 27, 132.
Barnes, A. S., and Co., 92.
Barnum, P. T., 81, 95, 99, 260, 291,
369.
Bartels, L. F., 27.
Bartels, Bartels and Remick, 133.
Bartels and Remick, 27.
Bassett,  , 71, 77.
Bassett, B., 97.
Baxter, Alfred, 103, 269, 381, 382.

401

402

THE UNION COLONY

Bayley, H. H., 97, 99.
Beagle, F. G., and Co., 120.
Beatham, see Betham.
Beaver Colony, XIX.
Bedell, L., 141.
Benedict,  , 372.
Bennett,  , 331.
Bennett, W. H., 354.
Benson, J. W., 134, 138, 326.
Beswick,  ¦, 76, 80.
Betham, Beatham, J., 92, 97, 141.
Billiard Saloon, attempts to locate
in Greeley, 296, 366.
Billings, J. E., 95.
Birdsell, S. H., 106.
Bishop, I. B. [T. B.?], 92.
Bishop, T. B., 51, 54, 81, 122, 134,
(T. D.), 135, 142.
Bishop and Sebra, 134.
Blodgett, S., 90, 123, 379.
Blum, R., 141.
Boettcher, Botcher, C, 124, 142.
Boettcher, Boetcher, H., 86, 117, 120,
142, 143, 326.
Bond, H. G., 92.
Botcher, see Boettcher.
Bou Eouton [Bouton?], E. D., 101.
Bouton, E. D., 70.
Boyd, Alexander, 106, 157.
Boyd, David, XXIV, XXXI, 40, 110,
111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 135,
146, 328, 366, 373, 378, 379, 381,
382; A History of Greeley . .,
XXXI.
Boyd, R., 106.
Boylen, H. H., 123.
Boynton, N. M., 144, 369.
Brandigee, Charles, 101.
Bridges, over Cache a la Poudre,
91, 92, 94, 99, 103, 346; over
Main Ditch, 35; over Mill Power
Canal, 116; over Platte, 108;
over Thompson, 52, 96.
Brockway, C. S., 92, 104, 143.
Brockway, W. H., 99.
Brooks, E. C, 277.
Brownell, J. B., 101.
Brown,  , 110.
Brown, C. F., 103.
Brown, James, 85, 90.
Brown, S. M., 105, 381, 382, 384.
Brown and Orr, 104.
Brush, J. L., 373, 379, 382, 388.
Brush, Sheriff, 371, 372, 392.
Bryant,  , 107.

Bryant, Frank, 95.
Buchtel, Dr., 392.
Buckingham, Charles, 75, 78, 88, 93,
120.
Buckley, J. D., 99, 105, 116.
Buell, G. W., 116.
Burchill, Burchell, R., 85, 90, 102,
103, 115, 120, 139, 142, 143, 145.
Burke, R., 96.
Burrows, J., 106.
Byers, Frank S., XXII, n. 2, 209,
n. 1, n. 2.
Byers, William N., XIII, XVII,
xxii, xxiii, xxiii - xxrv,
XXVIII, 14, 15, 17, 65, 69, 116,
145, 193, 194, 209-220, 224, 365.
By-laws, 19-21 ; amendments, 22, 109.
Cache a la Poudre, valley of and
the locating committee, XXI-
XXIII, 164, 210-211, 233.
Cameron, Gen. Robert A., XX, XXI,
XXIII, XXIV, XXVIII, 10, 11,
12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, 23, 25,
28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37,
38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46,
47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56,
57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66,
67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75,
76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,
85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93,
94, 95, 96, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103,
104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 117,
141, 142, 143, 146, 161, 164, 165,
166, 194, 197, 202, 203, 204, 206,
207, 209, 210, 211, 215, 216, 220,
221, 222, 224, 232, 233, 234, 237,
240, 244, 245, 252, 260, 267, 273,
279, 282, 286, 291, 300-301, 326,
339, 349, 354, 355, 357, 359, 365,
366, 369, 370, 373, 379, 381, 382,
384, 386, 393, 394, 395; biogra
phy, 244-245; vice-president of
colony, 11; member first locating
committee, 13, 232; superintend
ent, 13; member second locating
committee, 14, 237; trustee, 15;
vice-president, 18; member execu
tive committee, 22; member exec
utive committee, 42, 267; super
intendent, 42, 146; trustee, 80,
282; vice-president, 339; town
trustee, 203, 373, 379.
Camp, Aug., 99.
Canals, see Ditches.

INDEX

403

Canfield, Elizabeth, 156.
Canfield, Imogene, 156.
Canfield, Ira, 155.
Canfield, Isaac, 156.
Canfield, Maud, 156.
Canfield, May, 156.
Carlton, D. H., 104.
Carp, J. S., 126.
Carpenter, Delph E., VI, XXX, n. 1.
Carpenter, E. D., 10-11.
Carr, Gen., 229, 230.
Cash Book, 117-130.
Castorville, Texas, a colony town,
11.
Central Kentucky Emigration Soci
ety, XIV.
Chapman, C. H., 99.
Chapman, J. S., 100.
Chappell, C. H., 137.
Charter,  , 271.
Chase, Martin H., 102.
Chicago-Colorado Colony, XVII, 226,
228.
Childs, F. L., 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93,
95, 96, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105,
106, 107, 108, 110, 111, 113, 115,
116, 118, 141, 143, 144, 204, 280,
282, 301, 339, 341, 345, 354, 371,
378, 379.
Churches, see Baptist, Congrega
tional, Covenanters, Greeley
Free, Methodist.
Circulars, 27-30, 161-170, 171-184.
Clark, H., 138.
Clark, J., 141.
Clark, J. Max, VI, XX, n. 1, XXXI,
85, 91, 104, 105, 106, 114, 140,
204, 205, 299, 300, 301, 328, 379;
Colonial Days, XXXI-XXXII.
Clark, John, 134.
Clark, Wadlin and Co., 91, 92, 148,
149, 150.
Clay, W. W., 80, 106.
Cloud, R. W., 106.
Colburn, J. M., 135.
Collyer, Robert, XVII.
Colonies, Colorado, XIV-XIX, see
also Chicago - Colorado, German
Colonization Company, St. Louis-
Western, South Western, Union.
Colony Hall, 24, 24-25, 32, 32-33, 47,
48, 49, 50, 66-67, 78-79, 87, 152,
335.
Colorado Central Railway, XL
Condit, L. W. (L. M.), 104, 143, 144.

Congregational Church, 277.
Cooper Institute Meeting, XX, 6, 6-
12.
Cooper, James G., 86, 101, 113, 115,
116, 378, 379.
Cooper, James Jr., 86.
Corona, a colony town, XIX.
Correspondence, of William N. By
ers, 209-220; miscellaneous, 220-
228.
Cotton, D., 104, 105.
Coursn [Coursen], G. H., 101.
Covenanters Church, First, 112.
Cranford, Jane Sarah, 154.
Crossman, E., 135.
Dagger, J. W., 106.
Darling, M. W., 104.
Davis,  , 204.
Day, F. G., 88, 104, 109.
Day, S. A., 104.
Dean, C. E. (C. A.), 133, 134, 222.
Decker, Mrs., 105.
Delano, De Lano, A., 369.
Denver and Rio Grande Railway, X.
Denver Land Association, XXII,
193, 197-200, 209, 210.
Denver Pacific Railway, construc
tion of, XI ; contract with Nation
al Land Company, XII; land pur
chased from, 27-28, 88, 166, 193-
197, 211-212, 222-223, 243; right
of way, 34, 68, 78.
Devereux, Judge, 219.
Devitt, J. R., 104.
De Vine, C. W., 104.
Devine, N., 93.
Dickinson, Horace Greeley Meeker
Cameron, 271.
Dickinson, Rebecca, 106.
Ditches, proposed, 16-17; general
items, 105, 110, 289, 334-335, "355-
356, 360; Ditch No. 1, XXX, 100,
225; Ditch No. 2, XXX, 55-56,
58, 60, 61-62, 66, 68, 73-74, 76,
103, 111, 150, 151, 298, 312, 315,
344-345, 348; Ditch No. 3, XXX,
21, 38, 40-41, 73, 73-74, 75, 78, 79,
94, 103, 115, 149, 255, 265, 302,
312; Ditch No. 4, XXX, 100; Mill
Power Canal, 100, 112, 113, 380.
Dixon, Herbert, 88, 119.
Dixon, Horace Greeley, 88.
Drake,  , 394.
Drake, A. T., 207.

104

THE UNION COLONY

Dramatic Association, 327, 330-331,
356.
Dresser, George T., 78, 101.
Dubois, ¥., 133.
Dugal, L., 132.
Dunacan, J. J., 141.
Duncan,  , 341.
Dunham, E. L., 89, 122.
Dunham, J. L., 89, 122.
Dunham, S. C, 102.
Dyer, Edward G., 55, 57.
Eagle Ditch Co., 48.
Eaton, Benjamin H, XXX, 64, 68,
75, 76, 84, 87, 90, 100, 104, 106,
122, 127, 382.
Eaton, Hannah, 106.
Eaton, Oscar, 77, 86, 99, 135, 142.
Eaton, Quincy A., 102.
Eaton, Rose, 106.
Ecker, J., 371.
Elections, Colony, general items, 18-
19, 22, 109; officers and executive
committee, New York, Dec, 1869,
XX, 11; executive committee,
Greeley, June, 1870, XXVIII, 41,
42, 267; local treasurer, August,
1870, 70, 73; trustees and execu
tive council, Oct., 1870, XXIX,
282; trustees and executive coun
cil, May, 1871: Notice of, 109,
370; preliminary meetings and
candidates, 356-357, 366-368, 369-
370, 372-373, 373-374, 376-378; re
turns, 378-379.
Elections, Town, trustees, May, 1871,
373, 378, 379; postmaster, Dec,
1871, 393-396.
Elliott,  ', 216.
Elliott, G. H., 135.
Emerson, Dr. Charles, 73, 119, 120,
121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127,
128, 129, 133, 147, 148, 149, 220,
308, 309, 338, 339, 340, 378, 379,
382; local treasurer, 73; treas
urer, 378.
Emerson, W. H., 102.
Emerson and Buckingham, 101.
Emerson,. West and Buckingham, 92,
96, 103, 106, 117, 144.
Engineer, see Nettleton, E. S.
England, I. W., 291-296.
Evans, county seat, Weld County,
XVII, XXI, XXII, XXIV, 211,
220, 233, 259, 387-389.

Evans, Gov. John, 39, 54, 78, 95,
132, 194, 196, 197, 209, 215, 219,
222, 223, 230, 241.
Exchange Building, see Colony Hall.
Executive Committee, Greeley,
XXIV, XXVIII, XXIX; minutes
of meetings, 22-80.
Executive Committee, New York,
XX, XXI, XXVIII, 11, 161; min
utes of meetings, 12-14.
Executive Council, XXIX, 21; min
utes of meetings with trustees,
80-116.
Fancher, Faucher, F., 106, 371.
Faris, Ferris, S. R., 84, 120.
Farmers' Club, 327-328, 329.
Farwell, Charles B., 27, 45.
Farwell, C. D., 113, 133, 378, 379.
Fence, Colony, 81, 92, 94, 100, 101,
103, 289-290, 29S, 322-323, 341,
345-346, 348-349, 355.
Ferris, see Faris.
Fezer, J. F., 102, 139.
Field, Cyrus W., 229, 230.
Field and Wheeler, 133.
Fish, R., 135.
Fisher,  , 354.
Fisher, Col., 39, 95, 389.
Fisher, Horace J., 102.
Fisk,  , 301.
Fisk, George W., 95, 271.
Fisk, J. M., 95.
Fisk, R., 87, 101.
Fisk, Richmond, XXI, XXVIII, 11,
12, 13, 22, 23, 25, 31, 32, 33,' 35,
36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 95, 161.
Fisk, Russell, 22, 23, 24, 25, 32, 33,
47, 48, 49, 50, 66, 83, 99, 139, 142,
204, 206, 207, 260, 291, 326.
Fisk, W. C, XXI, 13, 161, 232, 233,
235.
Fisk, Russell, and Co., 118.
Fletcher, George, 101.
Flower,  , 66.
Flower, Fitch, 224.
Flower, Flowers, J.'B., 48, 49, 365,
394, 395.
Flower and Cameron, 84, 102, 106,
118, 128, 130, 142, 143.
Fontenelle, a colony town, 330.
Foote,  , 97.
Foote, William, Jr., 115, 367.
Foster,  , 102.

INDEX

405

Foster, J. H., 76, 105, 106, 144, 159,
328, 367.
Foster, Mrs. N. A., 106.
Fountain Colony, XIX.
Fremont, a colony town, 330.
French, S. F. (T.F.) , 84, 104, 142, 158.
Frisbee, L. S., 106.
Fry, George, 204.
Fuller,  . 285.
Gano, Jacob, 108.
Gargan, Gargin, Sargin, J. D., 205,
206 299.
Garland, W. H., 116, 159.
Garver,  , 325.
Gates, John, 27, 132.
German Colonization Company,
XIV, XV-XVI.
Gerow, J. L., 13, 146.
Gifford,  , 102.
Gifford, M. N., 106.
Gifford, M. V. B., 106, 379.
Gilchrist, A., 51, 54, 58, 59, 64, 99.
Gilchrist, Hover and Co., 50, 52.
Gipson, Col., 357, 372.
Gipson, Albert E., 394, 395.
Gipson, Charles B., 104, 144.
Glenny, John, 84.
Gonzoles, J., 108.
Good Templars, 113, 115, 116, 280.
Gordon, J. H., 77.
Graham,  , 111, 113.
Grand Army of the Republic, 113,
115, 116.
Gransbury, S. H., 103.
Grant, John, 95.
Greeley Co-Operative Stock Associa
tion, 279, 308-309.
Greeley Free Church, 112.
Greeley, Horace, XX, 4, 6, 9-10, 11,
12, 14, 28, 63, 93, 98, 99, 161, 162,
164, 194, 196, 197, 198, 200, 230,
236, 240, 241, 266, 272, 276, 282-
284, 287, 288, 303-305, 338, 340,
346, 396; treasurer of colony, 11,
93 ; visit to Greeley, 282-284, 287-
288.
Greeley, Town of, name, 14, 237 ; in
corporation, XXIX, 41, 202, 203;
organization of trustees, 203, 204 ;
deed of colony property to, 113;
population, 264, 268, 293, 298,
310-312, 313, 317-321, 361, 389,
390; visitants, 331-334; adverse
comment on, 390.

Green City, a colony town, XVTII.
Green, D. S., XVIII.
Greenwood, Col., 214.
Gregory,  , 11.
Guiney, Guinnea, Mrs., 277, 325.
Guinney, Virginia, 101.
Gurley, E. W., 81, 82, 83, 84, 85,
86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95,
96, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105,
106, 107, 144, 206, 207, 275, 276,
282, 300, 301, 325, 339.
Gurley, Horace, 105.
Gurley, M. S., 204.
Hackett, F. B., 144.
Hale, B. O., 106.
Hall, Elias (Eli), 101, 134, 135, 154,
282, 339, 385.
Hall, N. M., 135.
Hall, N. W., 95.
Hall, Wright and Co., 109, 115, 145.
Hallett and Rea, 105.
Hanby, C. F. (C. J.), 83, 91, 102,
205.
Hanby, Miss E., 331.
Hancock, G. W., 86.
Hankins, C, 371.
Hanley, Miss, 316.
Hanna,  , 228.
Hanna, Amanda, 354.
Hanna, Frank, 106.
Hanna, George, 105, 139.
Hanna, Jerry, 106.
Hanna, Levi, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31, 32,
33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42,
86, 88, 116, 118, 121, 124, 140,
142, 145, 203, 273, 326, 373, 379.
Happer,  , 71.
Hardman, J., 106.
Harnp, George, 106.
Harris, B. P., 112.
Harris, James F., 92, 98, 106.
Hart,  , 97.
Hart, Alice, 126.
Hart, Lydia, 101.
Hartley, W. D., 85, 201, 202.
Hartman, C. F., 388.
Hartman and Todd, 389.
Hatfield, G., 106.
Heaton, Charles, 102.
Heinlein, Theodore, XVI.
Henderson, M. P., 92.
Henderson, Smith and Co., 87, 119.
Henry,  , 369.
Henry, D. S., 101.

406

THE UNION COLONY

Herder, 44.
Higby, see Higley.
Higenbotam, Higgenbottom, John,
331, 369.
Higgins,  , 105.
Higly,  , 47.
Higley, Higby, J. C, 75, 92, 108,
133, 141, 143, 144, 286, 327, 341.
Hill,  , 110.
Hill, G. S., 88, 106, 119.
Hilton, B. W., 84.
Hilton, L. W., 106.
Hilton, Ralph, 102, 109.
Hindle, Thomas, 106.
Hoard, Frank, 199.
Hobbs, George Augustus, 272, 274.
Holbrook, N., 103.
Holbrook, W., 124.
Holliday, W. H., and Co., 114.
Hollister,  , 316.
Hollister, E., 42, 44, 46, 48, 49, 50,
52, 55, 58, 59, 60, 63, 65, 66, 67,
69, 70, 71, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85,
86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95,
96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 103, 104, 106,
108, 110, 111, 113, 114, 116, 117,
267, 282, 339, 354, 372, 378, 379,
382.
Hollister, William, 92.
Hollister and De Witt, 92.
Hollister and McDevitt, 140, 148,
149, 150.
Hollister and Savage, 144, 326.
Holmes, Charles H., 99.
Holmes, E. D., 102.
Holmes, Nelson, 42, 43, 44, 46, 48,
49, 50, 52, 59, 60, 63, 65, 66, 69,
71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79,
80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89,
90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98,
99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105,
106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 115,
116, 142, 267, 339, 345, 346, 348,
373, 378, 379.
Holmes, N., Jr., 99.
Hotohkiss, Arthur, 99, 308, 309, 378,
379, 382.
Hotchkiss, R., 88.
Hotohkiss, W. A., VI.
Hotel de Comfort (Tabernacle),
XXIV, 22, 39, 48, 49, 59, 59-60, 95,
102, 291, 350-353, 366.
House, Edward P., 18, 103, 138, 387.
Howard,  , 385.
Howard, C. W., 97.

Howe, Mrs. M. E., 77, 97, 354.
Howe, V. A., 77, 277, 280.
Howes, Judge, 64.
Hughes, Gen., 215.
Hulet, Huley, Horace P., 55, 57.
Hund,  , 369.
Hunt, Ex-Gov., 294-295.
Independence Colony, XIX.
Indians, 31.
Ingram, George W., 101.
Inman,  , 72, 371.
Inman, James, 135, 139, 378, 379.
Inman, Thomas B., 114, 136.
Inman, William, 136.
Inman Brothers, 105, 381, 382, 384,
385.
James, E. B., 89.
James and Butler, 139.
Jeske, Rudolph, XVI.
Jessup, Morris K., 229.
Johnson, James H., 378, 379, 382.
Johnson, S. H., 97.
Jones, Daniel, 101.
Jones, Edward P., 17, 196, 197.
Jones, J., 106.
Jones, J. Herbert, 36, 64, 70, 99.
Jones, John, 100.
Jordan, H. B., 99.
Journal, 130-145.
Joyce, Joseph, 106.
Juckett, John A., 103, 125.
Jummell, Janet, 106.
Justin, J. J., 93.
Kansas Pacific Railway, completion
of, XI; and National Land Com
pany, XII, 211, 212, 214.
Karsner, J. H., 331, 356.
Keeler,  , 97, 331.
Keller, L. W., 92.
Kellog, H. D., 204, 207.
Kendall, A., 97.
Kent, T. A., 137.
Kentucky Fountain Colony, XVIII-
XIX.
Kinison,  , 326.
Kinnison, Kinison, Kinneson, R. L.
(R. C), 88, 89, 121, 138, 159.
Kinsey, John, 57, 58.
Kitchell, Park, 103.
Knapp, George, and Co., 144.
'Knowles, Counsellor, 357, 372.

INDEX

407

Knowles, M. B., 72, 74, 378, 379.
Kram, W. J., 63, 202.
Lobar, LeBar, James M. (James
H.), 101, 135.
Lagrange, B. S., 70, 76, 80, 81, 82,
83, 84, 85, 86, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96,
97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 106,
107, 108, 116, 134, 135, 141, 282,
339.
Lain, O. M. W., 106.
Land, Colony, cost of, 27-28, 132-
133, 147, 211-212, 213, 215, 243;
auction sale of, XXV, 154-160,
349-350, 353, 389.
Lansing, M. W. (W. W.), 82, 86,
88, 92, 99, 100, 101, 114, 142, 143,
144, 145, 354.
Lansing, W. K., 91.
Law,  , 105.
Law, H. M., 101.
Lawton, F., Jr., 134.
Leatherman, J. H., 204.
Leavy, Leavey, John, 41, 99, 282,
339, 379.
Ledger, 145-153.
Lee, H., 331.
Lee, H. W., 103.
Lee, Waldo N., 95.
Lemon,  , 65.
Leonard, E. M., 104.
Lewis, E. B., 138.
Library, 82, 309, 326, 327, 335.
Lichty, A., 104.
Like, A., 103.
Lincoln, Nebraska, a colony town, 2.
Locating Committees, XXI, XXI-
XXII, XXIII, 12-13, 14, 161, 162,
183, 211, 232-236, 237, 240, 359.
Londonderry Colony, 9.
Long, Alonzo, 204, 205, 299.
Long, John, 41.
Long and Alphonse, 139.
Longmont, a colony town, XVII.
Longstall, Thomas, 99.
Loomis, Col. John S., 167, 168, 169,
209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 215, 216,
217, 335, 365.
Lounds,  j 101.
Loveland,  , 70.
Lyceum, 309, 335.
Lyman, Mrs. J. B., 335.
Lynn, R., 104.
McAllister, McAlister, William, 99,
134.

McCaffrey, [D.], 209, 210, 212, 213,
217, 219.
McCarty,  , 125.
McCarty, G. W., 90, 95, 127.
McCarty, M., 135.
McClain, C, 371.
McClellan, Gen., 245.
McDermott, S. M., 97.
McDevitt,  , 108.
McDevitt, C. J., 104, 105.
McDevitt and Devine, 97, 99.
McDivitt [McDevitt] and Stratton,
225.
McDonald, Walter H., 51, 54, 81, 82,
84, 86, 125, 126, 135, 141, 144,
225 271.
McElroy, W. S., 116.
McKelvy, Charles, 99.
McKinney, W. P., 82, 104.
McKnight, H., 104, 308, 309.
McLain,. M'Lain, O. N., 74, 75, 101.
McWhorter,  , 71.
McWhorter, Alexander, 101.
Main, L. B., 116.
Mallory, Anson H., 204, n. 1, 205,
299.
Mansfield, V. de L., 84.
Marks, Frank, 64.
Marsh, B. F., 102.
Marsh, C. H., 114, 144, 145.
Marshall,  , 97.
Marshall, H., 103, 379.
Marshall, Thomas M., VI.
Martin, Charles D., 75, 77.
Martin, D. D., 135.
Martin, Helen E., 103.
Martin, Solon D., 87, 120, 122, 123,
135, 148, 149, 150.
Marx,  , 395.
Masonic Lodge, 280, 335.
Mattison, C. W., 110.
Maxwell, James, 106.
Maxwell, James P., XXIV, n. 2.
May, J. H., 93, 371.
Meeker, Nathan O, XX, XXI,
xxiii, xxrv, xxviii, xxxii,
1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
17, 18, 28, 30, 34, 41, 42, 43, 44,
46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 58, 59,
61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74,
75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,
85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93,
94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102,
103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110,

408

THE UNION COLONY

112, 113, 115, 137, 140, 141, 144,
145, 161, 164, 166, 194, 197, 201,
202, 209, 210, 211, 213, 215, 218,
220, 222, 223, 224, 229, 230, 232,
233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 240, 242-
243, 252, 253, 257, 260, 267, 273,
281, 282, 285-286, 293, 300, 308,
309; 328, 329, 339, 355, 357, 359,
365, 366, 369, 370, 372, 373, 378,
379, 382, 384, 386, 389, 392, 394;
biography, 242-243; first visit to
Colorado, 229-230; president of
colony, 11; member first locating
committee, 13, 232; member sec
ond locating committee, 14, 237;
trustee, 15; president, 18; mem
ber executive committee, 22;
member executive committee, 42;
president, 42; member board of
trustees, 80, 282; president, 285;
member board of trustees, 378,
379; president, 110; editor The
Greeley Tribune, 399.
Meeker, Ralph, 1, 12, 147, 161, 167,
204, 205, 299, 300.
Meeker and Pabor, 109.
Meier, Adolphus, 194.
Members, lists of, 171-183, 185-191 ;
number of, 230, 237, 239-240, 240,
256, 259.
Membership, Colony, terms of, XX-
XXI, XXV-XXVI, 11, 37, 94, 107,
162, 226, 260-261, 312-313, 316,
317, 334, 337, 340, 358; certifi
cates discontinued, 170, 358; re
turns for fees: Land and water
rights, 28, 29, 34, 43, 45, 47, 56,
57, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 72, 86-87,
100, 101, 107, 108, 115, 163, 276-
277, 337, 338-339, 340, 358;
shares In Union Colony of Colo
rado, 21, 93, 96, 109, 358; im
provement of land, 81, 162-163,
317, 337, 340, 342-344.
Memphis Colony, see South Western
Colony.
Merry, John, 106.
Methodist Church, 277.
Metor, A. J., 367.
Miller, J. E., 107.
Milner, S. B., 354, 371.
Moffat, David H., Jr., 27, 132, 193,
197, 198, 199, 200, 372.
Monk, E. C. (C.C.), 23, 25, 31, 32,
34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43,

44, 45, 47, 48, 50, 52, 55, 56, 59,
60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 69, 74, 75, 76,
77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 141, 267, 282,
326 382.
Monk,' E. C., and Co., 117.
Monk and Jones, 139.
Monument Colony, XIX.
Moore, Alexander, 102.
Moore, Benjamin, 84, 95.
Moore, J. A., 294.
Moore, Joseph, 99, 105.
Morgan, T. H., 104.
Morris,  , 125.
Morris, Emily, 394. 395.
Morris, Howard. 106.
Morse,  , 106.
Moyer, F. E., 18, 132, 136, 197, 200.
Murphy, Arthur, 10, 11, 12, 13, 161.
Murphy, W. P., Ill, 145.
Murray, Joseph, 98, 114, 378, 379.
National Land Company, XII-XIII,
XVI, XVII, XXII-XXIII, 166, 167,
167-169, 211, 214, 215, 216, 218,
223, 268, 330, 335, 365.
Nemeyer, Ninyer [Niemeyer], Fritz,
204, 206.
Nettleton, A. N., 90.
Nettleton, C. L., 90, 126.
Nettleton, C. S., 64.
Nettleton, E. A., 126, 127.
Nettleton, E S., 70, 71, 75, 114,
116, 134, 136, 203, 225, 227, 228,
339, 365, 373, 379, 381, 382.
Nettleton, E. S., and Co., 118.
Nettleton and Young, 108.
New-Braunfels, Texas, a colony
town, 11.
Newspapers, excerpts from, 229-
396.
Nichols, E. T. (S. T.), 55, 81, 95,
100, 135, 290, 326, 373, 378, 379,
382, 392.
Nichols, Tenny, 316.
Ninyer, see Nemeyer.
Norcross, William, 205, 206, 300.
Norcross, W. R., 104, 143.
Nye, Elisha (Elihu), 105, 115, 145,
282, 308, 309, 331, 339, 369.
Nye, Ella, 331.
Odd Fellows Lodge, 113, 115, 116,
371-372.
Olds, A. M., 104.
Olds, Mrs. A. M., 369.

INDEX

409

Olds, H., 116.
Orr, James H., 46, 97, 112, 135.
Orr and Brown, 91.
Owens, Michael, 90, 96, 97, 99, 112,
124, 148, 149.
Pabor, William E., XXXI, 48, 75,
84, 85, 86, 92, 98, 99, 101, 104,
105, 109, 128, 129, 130, 141, 142,
143, 144, 201, 202, 204, 205, 219,
220, 300, 301, 324, 327, 338, 339,
350, 354, 355, 357, 365-366, 369,
381, 382, 385.
Palmer, G. W., 105.
Palmer, L., 106.
Palmer, S., Jr., 93.
Palmer, Gen. William J., 211, 214,
229, 230.
Parker, George E, 101.
Parry, Dr. C. C, 229.
Patten, S. G., 105.
Paul, Nathaniel (Nathan), XXVIII,
11, 22, 23, 25, 31, 32, 33, 34, 140,
161.
Payne, J. H., 103.
Peach, John, 204.
Percival, F. J. (F. G.), 101, 141.
Perkins, George, 133.
Perkins, G. W., 77, 138, 142, 327,
371.
Pettigrew, J. H., 103.
Pickett, E., 104.
Pierce, Gen., 215.
Pierson, Henry, 101.
Pinneo, B. F., 368.
Pinneo, Dr. Frank, 356.
Pinkerton, James H. (J. M.), XVII,
48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56,
57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 66, 69,
70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78,
79, 80, 84, 87, 92, 148, 149, 150,
205, 206, 207, 228, 267, 277, 282,
299, 388.
Phelps,  , 222.
Phelps, G. W., XXII, 27, 133, 193,
209, 210.
Plato, J. B., 101.
Plato, W. B., 25, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36,
38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48,
50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60,
61, 101, 133, 267, 357, 373.
Piatt, Charles, 103.
Piatt, Harvey, 101, 373.
Plumb, A., 105.
Plumb, Anna E., 103.
Plumb, Ovid (Obid), 85, 121, 139,

141, 142, 282, 339, 369, 378, 379,
382.
Plumb and Co., 291.
Pollock, H. I., 92.
Pollock, H. T., 64.
Pomeroy, J. B. (J. V.), 52, 60.
Poole, C. O., 11, 12, 13, 161.
Post, William H., 81, 96, 101, i09,
112, 114, 115, 117, 120, 127, 141,
143, 144, 145, 170, 204, 205, 291,
299, 300, 308, 309, 327, 369, 373,
379.
Potter, John, 114.
Pratt, C. N., XIII, XVI, XVII, 168,
216, 223, 228.
President, see Meeker, Nathan C.
Preston, A. D., 106.
Prugh,  , 372.
Puckett, J. C, 105.
Pueblo Colony, XIX.
Pyburn, Dr. George, 70, 71, 141.
Quigley, J., 27, 132.
Rae, see Rea.
Ramsdell, Charles B., 158.
Ramsey, A., 99, 104.
Ranney, D. B., 89, 109, 122, 378,
379.
Ranney, John, 101, 106.
Rapp, Jessie, 77.
Rea, Rae, Evan, 90, 99, 113, 115,
139, 143, 371, 378, 379.
Reed, P. W., 92.
Reiff,  , 105.
Reiff, Col., 214.
Reves, N. W., 97.
Richardson, A. D., 229.
Roads, to Boulder, 60-61, 73, 302;
to Evans, 92 ; to Fort Collins, 91 ;
on north side of Platte, 108.
Roberts, M. J., 101.
Roberts, Samuel, 103.
Roberts, W. J., 159.
Robertson, N., 105.
Rogerson, H., 101.
Rogerson, H. N., 99.
Root, A. H., 88, 120, 141, 285.
Root, D. W. C, 126, 207, 371, 372.
Root and Hankins, 259.
Rous, F. H., 373.
Russell, C. W., 84.
Russell, C. M., 101, 112.
Russell, M., 105.
Ruthven, Mrs., 106, 369.

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THE UNION COLONY

Ruthven, Miss E., 331.
Ruthven, E. R., 106, 331, 372.
Ruthven, Miss K., 331.
St. Louis-Western Colony, XVII-
XVIII, 228, 387-389.
[Salomon], Salem an, Saloman, A.
B., 133, 138.
Salomon, Solomon, Soloman, Solo-
men, A. Z., 59, 60, 118, 137, 371,
392.
Salomon, Solomon, Brothers, 326,
348.
Sanborn,  , 223.
Sanborn, C. W., 70, 84, 86, 88, 99,
114, 118, 120, 142, 143, 144, 315,
316.
Sanborn, John F., 41, 55, 92, 133,
134.
Sanborn, J. W., 123.
Sanborn, N. W., 95.
Sargin, see Gargan.
Say ers, H., 135.
Sayre, Alfred, 59.
Schell, J. W., 271.
Schenck, H., 371.
Schenck and Woodruff, 83.
Schools, ,39, 68, 83, 152, 309, 325,
335, 349, 353, 355, 376, 380.
School Directors, 373, 379.
Scott, E. G., 107.
Scott, J. S., 379.
Scott, Dr. S., 93, 382.
Secretary, see Meeker, Ralph; West,
Henry T. ; Babcock, F. M ; Pabor,
William E.; Post, William H.
Secretary, Assistant, see Meeker,
Ralph; Gerow, J. L. ; Annis, E.
B.; Allen, N. R.
Seebree and Bishop, 38.
Seeley, J. S., 102, 112.
Seyman, A. W., 106.
Severance,  , 97, 101.
Shattuck, Joseph C, 80, 84, 88, 90,
91, 92, 94, 95, 98, 99, 100, 102,
103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111,
113, 114, 115, 282, 308, 309, 339,
372, 373, 378, 379, 382.
Shaw, D. B., 105.
Sheldon,  , 106.
Shelton, Gen. George P. (G. C), 11,
12, 13, 161.
Shepherd, B. F., 104.
Simpson, Dr., 102.
Sinclair, Samuel, 63.

Sinclair, William, 80.
Slater, E. B., 109.
Slone, Samuel, 106.
Smart, C. M., 120.
Smiley, Jerome C, Semi-Centennial
History of the State of Colorado,
XXXII.
Smith,  , 297.
Smith, M. H., 92.
Smith, M. L., 27, 132.
Smith, Peter, 207.
Solomon, Soloman, Solomen, see
Salomon.
South Western Colony, XVIII.
Spencer, Stephen, 84, 92, 142, 148,
149, 150.
Springer, L. S., 99.
Stafford,  , 60.
Stansbury, Dixon, 105, 157.
Stansbury, Julia, 316.
Star of Empire, XII-XIII, 169, 214.
Starkweather, H. L., 106.
Stephens, Robert, 144.
Stevens, Charles A., 102.
Stevens, Robert, 99.
Stewart, Robert, 80.
Stickney,  , 106.
Stickney, Henry, 105.
Stimson, Thomas, 102.
Stimson, T. J., 109.
Stotts, G. W., 87, 125.
Stratton, John, 102.
Strunk, William Edgar, 204, 205,
299, 300.
Superintendent, see Cameron, Gen.
Robert A.
Swan, George, 105, 133, 134, 139.
Tappan, L. W., 214.
Taylor, Arthur, 104.
Taylor, Charles, 369.
Taylor, George M. (G. W.), 104, 109,
114.
Taylor, M. S., 138.
Teller, L. W., 373, 379.
Tennessee Colony, see South West
ern Colony.
Thacker, J. R., 104, 148, 149, 150,
379.
Thayer,  , 134.
Thing, Kent, 80.
Thomas,  , 372.
Thomas, Calvin H., 95, 97, 103.
Thompson, John Edgar, 194.
Thompson, S. K., 102, 308, 309, 379.

INDEX

411

Thompson, W. F. (J. F.), 88, 104,
114, 118, 122, 135, 137, 139, 141,
143, 145.
Thorn,  , 137, 138.
Titcomb,  , 371.
Titcomb, Jerry, 204.
Titcomb, John S., 96, 105, 114, 136,
143.
Titcomb, J. W., 128.
Todd,  , 395.
Todd, A. C, XVII, 388.
Town Hall, colony, see Colony Hall.
Town Hall, Greeley, 111, 113.
Townsend, Mary J., 106.
Townsend and Swan, 134.
Treasurer, see Greeley, Horace; Em
erson, Charles.
Tribune Association, 63.
Trich, G., 133.
Trustee, Colony Board of, original
board, 15; by-laws of, 18-21; first
meeting of, 18-21; proceedings of
later board, 80-116.
Trustees, Town Board of, first elec
tion of, 373, 378; organization,
203, 204; communication from,
110-111.
Tucker, C. L., 101.
Tucker, Mary E., 105.
Tuttie, Dr. H. B., 27, 81, 89, 90,
104, 108, 132, 143, 144, 279, 287,
356, 392.
Union Colony, announcement of
plans, 1 -4; Cooper Institute Meet
ing, q. v.; adoption of name, 11;
constitution, first, XX-XXI, 12,
161-164, revised, 84, 339-340; lo
cation of, XXIII, 164-165, 237-
238, 238, 240 ; advantages of loca
tion, 245-254 ; certificate of organ
ization of, in Colorado, 14-17, 30;
arrival of colonists, 185-191, 254,
254-255; dissatisfaction, 217, 255,
255-256, 257-258, 260, 261-264,
265, 266-267, 269, 272-274, 305-
306; first anniversary, 355, 381-
387; characteristics of colonists,
XXX - XXXI, 288-289, 310-311,
317-321; co-operative activities,
XXIX XXX, see also Ditches,
Fence, Bridges; financial state
ments, 42, 54, 61, 84, 85, 97-98,
280-281, 298; temperance princi
ples, XXI, XXX, 1, 23, 201, 238-

239, 241, 270, 314, 316-317, 321,
324, see also Whiskey Riot.
Vice-President, see Cameron, Rob
ert A.
Von Gohren, Van Gohren, Van
Ghren, Van Ghoren, Ludwig, 101,
102, 134, 139, 145, 282, 327, 339.
Wadlia, A. J., 101.
Wadlin, J. A., 84.
Wadlin, J. W. G., 84.
Wadling,  , 36.
Wait, A. C. (A), 103, 142, 331.
Ward,  , 74.
Ward Brothers, 93, 101.
Washburn, Washburne, Alice, 106,
316.
Washburn, S. B., 106.
Washburn, Stillman, 101.
Water Commissioner, 40, 70, 76.
Water Districts, Superintendents of,
102, 103.
Watson,  , 372.
Watson, H. O, 106, 116, 136, 331.
Watson and Von Gohren, 114.
Webb, William E., 168.
Webster, H. S., 134.
Weed  105.
Weed, W. L. (L.W.), 49, 66, 74, 82,
87, 129, 135, 139.
Welch, C. R., 92, 143.
Welch, C. R., and Co., 96, 105.
Welch, Jacob, 100.
Welch, Joseph I., 97.
Wells, George W., 199.
Wells and Fargo Co., 88.
Wells, Lazo and Co., 119.
West, George H., 100.
West, Henry T., VI, XXI, XXII, n.
2, XXIII, XXIV, XXVIII, 14, 15,
17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 30, 31, 32, 33,
34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42,
43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51,
52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61,
65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74,
77, 78, 79, 80, 100, 111, 114, 145,
146, 161, n. 1, 165, 194, 197, 203,
217, 222, 224, 225, 226, 227, 233,
252, 257, 261, 267, 273, 281, 350,
355, 359, 365, 373, 379, 382 ; mem
ber first locating committee, 233,
259; trustee, 15; secretary, 18;
member executive committee, 22;
secretary, 23; member executive
committee, 42; secretary, 42, 45;

412

THE UNION COLONY

resigns as secretary, 56; town
trustee, 111, 203, 373, 379.
West, L. M., 100.
Western Colony, see St. Louis West
ern Colony.
Wet Mountain Valley, XVI.
Wheeler,  , 223.
Wherrin, J. D., 101.
Whidbies, B. F., 111.
Whipple, Irene S., 106.
Whipple, L., 48, 88, 92, 103, 104,
133, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 141,
143, 144.
Whiskey Riot, 204-207, 296-298, 299,
299-301, 306-307.
Whitby,  , 331.
White,  , 316.
White, Charles A., 92, 370, 379, 394,
395.
White, J. L., 97, 99, 123, 143, 331.
Whitford, B. C, 105.
Wilber, Wilbur, A. J., 46, 51, 54, 86,
92, 100, 103, 114, 134, 142, 143,
308, 309, 339, 345, 373, 378, 382.
Wilber, Mrs. A. J., 309, 327.
Wilcox, William W., 42, 43, 44, 46,
50, 51, 52, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63,
65, 66, 67, 69, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77,
78, 79, 80, 83, 84, 85, 86, 90, 91,
92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100,
104, 122, 267, 282, 339.
Wiley, J. C, 106.
Wiley, M., 104.
Willard,  , 388.

Williams,  , 82.
Williams, A. D., 35, 36.
Williams, A. J., 27, 132.
Williams, David H., 27, 132.
Williams, E., 27, 36, 132.
Williams, W., 106.
Williams, W. R., 27, 132.
Winship, Charles, 123.
Winship, Olin, 89.
Witham, L. P., 103.
Witter, Daniel, XXIV, XXVIII, 14,
15, 17, 54, 59, 65, 69, 90, 104, 106,
132, 133, 222, 224.
Witter, D. P., 125, 126.
Woman's Suffrage, 393-396.
Woodbury, Joseph A., 101, 378, 379.
Woodbury and Walker, 145.
Woodruff, B. H., 90.
Woodruff, W. B., 90, 125, 158, 371.
Woodworth, H. C, 25, 33, 34, 35, 36,
38, 39, 40, 41, 42.
Woodworth and Haddix, 72, 139.
Wright, N. D., 106, 203, 339, 373,
379.
Wright, R. B„ 106.
Wright, S. B., 77.
Wright, Mrs. S. B., 354.
Wulsten, Carl, XV, XVT.
Wyman, H. L., 106.
Young, B. C, 103.
Young, George, 204, n. 1.
Yates, T., 106.