Denver, Denver County, Colorado

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Excerpt:17 Dec. 89 sent Chamber of Commerce Pamphlet & short note. Denver Colo Dec 11 [18]89 Mr. President Sir! Will you please answer me a few questions I am a contractor from Omaha where I can give you all the refferrences of any kind you wish. What kind of clay have you for makeing brick and how close to the city and what is the price of coal. What is the price of common ...
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Excerpt:lengths of dimension and finish lumber What are the wages of brick masons & carpenters as well as laborers, this tells the supply. Send me a small map of city if you have one, with answers, and I will remit by return mail besides be ever so much ablige Can one get any concesians by establishing a good brick yard Frat. I am yours resp Geo Woodard 1217—20st Denver Colo Room 3 ...
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Excerpt:STOVER & CO., GENERAL MERCHANDISE, WOOL, HIDES, PELTS, WAGONS, CARRIAGES, &C. ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, 1880. future, and the following was consedered all we could pay & be safe. For teams from 4$ to 5$ per day they furnesh themselves at a cost of about $1050 per week. Men from 1$ to 2$ per day and board. Those prices are almost double what other contractors are paying. If we choose to do so (& I don't Know but what we may be forced to if the people do not come out) we could hire ...
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Excerpt:W. Woodruff St. George aug 25 [18]86 Historian's Office, P. O. BOX 321, Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug 20 1886 St. George, Utah, Presidents John Taylor & George Q Cannon Dear Brotheren, Your letter of July 13 reached me at St George. My position here should have some explanation. I stayed 34 days in Ashley and the surrounding country when duety and safety seemed to require me to leave. Marshal Brooks of ...
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Excerpt:Denver Col Aprile 15th 1890 President Willford Woodruff Sir Having met one of your Priesthood who was sent to me by our God, I have taken counsel of him & this is why I address you. what I am to say to you I do not know just yet I will wait a while until I have the Risson or what will be spoken to me Hark say unto him open the way for your boy for my son When my son Edgar. Halter. McCormack was born I holde him on my hands ...
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Excerpt:SAN LUIS VALLEY, COLORADO. THE TRINCHERA ESTATE COMPANY, OWNERS of 450,000 acres of land in one solid block. Now offer 40,000 acres choice farm land, under irrigation, for sale cheap and on easy terms. Also choice Fruit Lands in Colorado for sale, which to-day successfully compete with California. Positively without competition to-day as to price, quality and location. C. B. NELSON, Gen. Agt. ROOM 19, 1605 LARIMER STREET. Denver, Colorado, July 13th 1890 President Woodruff ...
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Excerpt:Denver, Colo. 13th October [18]90. W. Woodruff, President of the Mormon church Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Sir. Thoug I am a stranger to you, permit me to send you enclosed a clip of the Times. I am very glad to hear such explanations as those ^are^ as I always had a good opinion of the Mormon church, because they practice what they preach. I amdo not belong to any church, because I believe in Revealations or Spiretualism wich they do ...
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Excerpt:June 6, 1883 danger, and when we arived at the Bottom we breathed much freeer we arived at Pueblo in the Evening we here took supper and changed cars we took sleeping cars and arived at Denver at I oclok. Distance of the day 331 Miles June 7, 1883 ~ Thursday 7 We arose and found ourselves in Denver we went to the American Hotel & took breakfast After which BMr W. N. Babcock general Agent of Chicago and North ...
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Excerpt:August 22, 1890 ~ Friday Aug 22, 1890 N. A James took our likenesses last Evening in a group by the lightning Process. About 8 oclok we took carriages and travelled through their ranch we visited some lakes abot 6 miles from camp some went in bathing & walke around the shore of the Lake Our likneses were again taken here we returned to the House took Dinner & then rode to Alamosa Distance 35 M[iles] we took cars for Denver. These 3 Men treated us with great kindness. Even paid ...
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Excerpt:Aug 12, 1890 Altitude of the summitMount is 8300 feet. We Met Mr Beckwith He wanted the Mormon to vote for him we passed Cheyenne at Noon we arived at Denver at 8 oclok Evening staid 2 Hours we arived at Lejonla August 13, 1890 ~ Wednesday 13. at 5 oclok we arived at Albuquerque at Midnight we put up at San Felipe Hotel August 14, 1890 ~ Thursday 14 We Met with ...