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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1915)
1 - t i he Alliance Special Edition RALD Section Two He i 3 A 8 - QUEEN CITY OF THE PLAINS . , f Metropolis of the Rocky Mountains, ' la Many WayK a World's Model City Denver "Queen 6lty of the 1 Plalns's. "The Mile-High City," "Gateway to the Nation's Play ground" these are a few of the beautiful and appropriate names giv en to the metropolis of the Rocky; Mountains. , , Denver is truly one of the great cities of the world, great not merely because of large population, but still greater In many other ways. ' A brief mention of the city in these columns must suffice now, but we wish to give Denver, in the near fu ture an Illustrated writeup, such as the nearest large city to western Ne braska should have in the leading publication of this section. Denver at a Glance DENVER Famed as the Mile High City, -Is the capital of Colorado. Population 253.163. This Is the government's estimate of March 26, 1115. Denver is situated approxi mately 1,000' miles from San Fran elsco, 1,000 miles from Chicago, and J.000 miles from New York City. Note the clean streets. Denver is known as America's cleanest city. The street car service, both city and internrban, Is of the most mod era class. Pay a night visit to Curtis Street. "The Great White Way." See the Electric Building, illumin ated by 200.000 candlepower, the beet lighted building in the world. Denver's enviable reputation as the best lighted, best cared for and best shaded city, is unexcelled, ighteen railways enter Denver. Denver has 220 miles of finely pared and surfaced streets. Denver is the most substantially built city of relative Bize in America No wooden buildings. Located Just east of the Rocky Mountains, Denver is protected from billiards and cyclones by the tower lag peaks of the Rockies. Denver aerer bad n earthquake, a cyclone, a great fire, a gTeat flood nor a beat prostration. Parks Denver has 14 public parka owned hf th eity: moat notable are: LWkw 'Ty ii,-, - 'I iohw!WVi,l'9) m"o of rcM.rt . . CITY PARK Contains 320 acres HEAD BY EVERY MEMBER NEBRASKA STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION. ALL THE NEWS OF ALLIANCE AND WESTERN NEBRASKA OFFICIAL OIUJAN NEBRASKA VOLUNTEER FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION. IT REACHES HEADQUARTERS FOR 18,000 FIREMEN ALLIANCE, '1 .- a! 5'nd utm Jut. . " wi.ln'trw V.J Ji 4 -rli S ty '.'.i.:r c.'txulkX f 6ad8,ja Vufed $he new Peck? f .; r.iln 'Nation:! Trrkj tU I "h'r'.l'il'.: ) i '.:''( J . Oor: r--,:.Th.is py-k" cW-.:' "220X00 acrta cf troun'In ill. ry c; ;Mo an'to the wortj. From Denver to r i y Mbuntjn I ;:1t r::' "' . ; t upon1 hie51 Denver hi ept . Jina $1 5.000 for mour.a!.i boii!:v. -t!3,"i3 enly ohelhou'r by motor. V Jhls twj i.aurs u-iv', bvir t? tend' J rc: 'i -j t,' utful CU. 't:"f-r:':'y 'Cv-'-:;.-;f ' ; the foot .hilts, canons'" and oWwlSd and r'uBad.'moyhti!r.iL':t rnaBntflcent'.Mxncry. : - - -... .; GRAYS. PEAK- beautifully improved, has the most extensive zoo in the Intermountain West, fine aviary, and children's playground. During the summer, free band concerts are given by the Denver Municipal Band of fifty piec es, under the. leadership of Innes, the famous bandmaster. CHEK3MAN PARK A beautiful "breathing spot." An interesting feature here, is a mountain index, showing, by arrow lines, the loca tion, distance and elevation of all the mountain peaks visible from Denver; embracing a range of 130 miles. WASHINGTON PARK With Its fine bathing beach, and Elitch's Gar dens, a privately owned amusement park. Live Stock Denver is a live stock market of evc-r growing importance, cacn year new records along some line are made. The sheep market broke all records in 1914, -receipts being 70. 000 head over 1913. More than half a billion dollars was handled in Den ver during 1914 through the live stock Industry, the banks at the stock yards alone handling 156,- 000.000. In connection with the live stock market in Denvre, a packing industry, already large, but still In its infancy, is maintained. Output of the Denver packnlg plants last year was, In round numbers. 112,- 000,000, number of people employed, 1,300. . ,a? m Evans. . ; w; .v ,14,330 rr. ,, .. ,, j::-w,v, ' - ; . -!.'. ., " . , .1 4' ; . ..V . ! f -. . - , -J ..t (- : '' . !- . L ' ',' 3 "' .H I ii tit J '-- BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, T.'. BERTHOVD PASS .r r--. 0 FROM DESERT TO GARDEN SPOT Development of Agriculture in Colo rado as Related to the Live Stock ' Industry ' tJie Went I On or about the first day of July, 1890. the editor of this paper passed through Sterling, Colo., for the first time, . enroute from Nebraska to Cheyenne, Wyo. This fact may have no interest to readers of this paper except as an introduction to a statement relative to the develop ment of agriculture in Colorado within the last twenty-five years. At the time referred to the South Platte valley looked like a desert, with' a little cow town stuck down into it without any seeming good reason for its existence. A few days ago . this same writer In passing through Sterling noted the truly re markable changes that had taken place in the last quarter of a cen tury. Now a thriving city, with a magnificent high school building which is the pride of the county in which it is located, and other fine structures, In striking contrast to the village of a quarter of a century ago. The surrounding country Instead of having the appearance of a desert Is - t - kw v is ill it m !! 111111:1" it!r--ft w t- "--? :"2i?Bririr2r.-' -trf-. THE DENVER DRY 1915 : "k iPEA'V i y t ,- . j '.:u if vv A i ." now a Veritable garden spot. To one who is interested in the live stock industry of the west and understands the close connection there is between that industry and the development of agriculture in the territory contiguous to the ranch country, it is certainly Intensely in teresting to note the wonderful strides that have been made in farm ing In eastern Colorado during the last decade or two. , It Is only in recent years that the importance of stock raising and farming in this country to each other has been generally understood or ap preciated. The fact that a part of this country Is splendidly adapted to the growing of crops while another part of the country is far better adapted to grating is really an ad vantage to both parts. The stock country helps to furnish a home mar ket for the agricultural products, and likewise the agricultural portion of the country helps to furnish a home feeder market for the stock raising section. After years of experimentation, with more or less failures in various lines of enterprise, this country ' is now being developed on a basis of permanent prosperity. There was a time when a spirit of antagonism, and even open enmity, existed be tween ranchmen and would-be farm ers of this country. That time is B ii u u m m I m : a r . ISI SRIUntt IU M la') " r ..." r,. - GOODS COMPANY ? V 1 ' frit, .'j -: . . ..- .. . .. ll 3 j r - forever past. . Both ranchman and farmer realize that they may be and are mutually beneficial to each other in the permanent development' of this country. .i DENVER'S Bid STORE Mile High" City Has One of Iju-gt-st Stores in This Country . An immense retail business Is transacted In the city of Denver. To accommodate this trade, the city has some very large stores and numerous smaller 1 ones. One of Denver's largest retail mercantile ' establish ments, or the largest, Is that of The Denver Dry Goods Company. This store extends the full length of a 400-foot block, from Fifteenth street to Sixteenth on California, and has the distinction of having the longest main aisle of any store in the world. New York and possibly some other cities have stores occupying buildings as long as that of The Den ver Dry Goods Company, but none of them have a continuous aisle four hundred feet In length. When visit ing Denver and taking in its sights, you should Include the store of The Denver Dry Goods Company. Guest: "andlord, you may bring me a sirloin steak, et it be fresh and Juicy, broiled halt through, but not too rare, very tender, and be sure that yon se real fresh butter." Landlord: "Why, if I had such a fine thing as that I'd eat It myself." ''' - , .. ' mm u f ii v.ihti iUVl. ' ; ' : ? lliSS.-G , - . lift J : r NO. 83 t v ' Crr : V MALTED MILK TO REPLACE BREW How the tutors People Are Turning . Malting Machinery to the Man ufartur of New Product . ' . . . 1 Recently Tcr Alliance Herald con tained an article ' regarding ' the ' changing of the Coors brewery at Golden, Colo., near Denver, into a malted milk manufacturing estab-. lisbment. Since then a very Inter esting article on this same subject ' has been published in The Com-. merce, the official paper of the Den- ver Chamber of Commerce. This ar ticle was written by Charles M. lKtt redge, Jr., assistant secretary of the . Chamber of Commerce. . We are pleased to publish' his story as it con tains interesting information regard ing the comparatively new industry in this country and shows the com mendable enterprise of the erstwhile brewers. Aemtty tor the Change How would . you feel It yon had eight hundred thousand dollars in veste din a manufacturing plant and were told one nay tnat 11 was no longer legal to turn out your product that oa ad after a certain date. not far distant, what is produced by your plant, geur machinery and your tremendoes Investment, the accumu lation of years, must be regarded as unlawful and relegated to oblivion? This is exactly the notice that was served on more than one huge enter prise in Denver not so many months ago, when the people of Colorado voted that the state should become "dry." "What will become of the brfwerlesT" is a question that many of us haye asked in a more or less off hand way, net being vitally interest ed in the btewing business, and per haps not greatly caring what the an swer might be. Nearly Million Invested When the dry vote was announced victorious, the Coors, at oGlden, had elgni nunarea mouBana uonarn in vested in a brewing business. Last year the eoneern paid out to the farmers of this state over one hun dred thousand dollars tor grain. An other hundred . thousand dollar went for Colorado labor. The trans portation eaargee on the production of the brewery eaased one hundred (Com hided en page t)