New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-29

UNION CoLoNY.-The Greeiey Tribune ri the
DIST inst has proceedings o: the Board of Trs of
Union Colony, programme of the Greeley Lyceum,
ditto Sunday school Conost, Watch-Night Meeting,
Farmers Club, monthly meeting of tho Greeley
Stockholders and Dairy Association, (wisTefrOm
we are n0wise surprised 10 learn that tho COWS are
giving lijte milk" while their only shelter is the
bleak prairic) a notice that Bishop Randall held
morning and evening tcTvices in the Colony Hall
where the fully attended school is kept on week
days. and baptized the first child born in the Colony
&c, &c.-al which seem to argue intellectual life
in the Colony, not yet sine months old. Tho follow
ing items seem of general interest:
Eight carloads of fresh beef have been
shipped from Denver East, by the Kansas Pacoc
excHf non to Denver week after next they win stay
over night when they will see and be seem hear and he
| heard.
A wonderfully rich deposit, OF. pocket, of
silver as recently struck in the west side of Carboo
Mine. During seven hours Work, 1Our men TOOK Out
! over $50 pounds of ore, worth 5000
! They are getting ready to have street
railroad in Denver. When our iveacre lots come INTO
Guilty. .iOn must have one 90; and an express inc
win be needed to bring in strawberries and Sumner
| traits.
| Oar Dramatic Association has given two en-
tcraipueuts in NchOlss Hail. aud, notwithstanding the
encn IN da well With more favorable weather, many
living distance will he aplc TO Gttend The present
I
| I've mended.
Tho Young people should start debating So
cietes OF their own. since they can nave no KIND OF
| chaDc, in ne IycrHm the big fish. We WOult
suggest ALSO tha the girls should have ncey Of their
own, there might be society composed 81 P2h seAes.
The primary schoOhouse could DC had LII THIS mailer
| be started at once.
An editor of one of the Cheyenne papers
says that advocate impracteabe ideas ond that we
ought 10 do tits that. Rather inn raCicabe, is MT
it, 10 ,ant colony of thousand souls thar can build 30
miles ~ bitches and 900 houses m SIX months ana nave
- ell a
said editor thinks ought totakc Cheyenne for model
wit line of 40 rods Of orphan factories. Then there
Is another paper printed at Cleveland which has
tce shout colony neither good nor bad II Is true,
hut II makes the mistake OF surprising itself smart when
il sny stupid We knew Cleveland for rs years while
il struggled aud gasped, and not knowing whether to
large rs orr town only six months old Give the age
Clevean has, aud we will take it in for a suburb
Some time ago, Gov McCOOk supplied the
Ute INDIANS Win cdT d iHc d f nspeac Th
they objected TO- and they proposed to XIII them all,
Init having than they could use some OF the cows
mad calves which pleased them and row the increase
has been 50 great that they refuse to have any killed.
evident that oy will have large nerds and he able to
supply themselves with better beefsteak Than the people
Of Boston get BY the way; the Boston people complain
Of nothing much The dearness and scarcity OF good
beef unless it is me inefciency Of hired girls Thus the
Ttes better of in another tcspec for they have no
kind Of trouble with hired girls
The cottonwood of our valleys is almost
worthless but the pine wood which has been Heated
wod We have ever For starting coal fire 1t IA far
snperOT to the hes maple hickory. The pitch Ia the
knot and through the grain makes strong, hot blaze
and when the wood becomes dry, Which II soon does ia
Our climate il can he almost started with match " "
SLY prepared, for IL splits readily In the mountains,
snch wood h in pr0fusion for large regions the
forests are dense considerable dlmculty was expo
rieuced In running this wood down Tor want OF prOe
knowledge; but Capt. Post, who has had most eNpe-
rience, says that he can run II Tor dollar cord
1t sells for Those living near the mountains have
great advantages in getting wood and stone, for the
hauling; sH, they do not seem to get iic my faster
than the people further out on the plains while they are
more subject TO high Winds and hasiOrins are not UNI
common Everywhere, large area oi unbfoken tertle
land such az surrounds for great distance gives, on
the whole greater amount Of comforts than sections
Astounding INA few natural productions Tor these are
easIy onrlt with small part of the surplus Of the rich
soil Farmers living the broad praes OF Illinois say
that they have better supply OF fueI tnah when tbey
lived IN tinbered country.
Among the 400 families in our town, there
NAV be Srne peoplc who are suffering for hecesSarics
thus far they have not been discovered although in
Qles have been made. Physicians and Others who are
much among the people, have been requested 10 sSe-
tam whether any In want. Still, there some
| whose are limited, and who are obliged TO use
T1ct economy but they have managed their AFFAIRS 80
carefully that at present. they eeen TO need no assist
ahc ~ 10 not unlikely that some Will need help before
spring As we have made crop this yrir. 10 eeak o.
ailo NJ We live almost wholly means brought with
Or arr greater this than they will e here
| aftef' ana they must fall heavily On many The
conSirucuoho Of Ditch No this Eall and the letting
OF the WORK 10 members only, by which over $4,000
| are distributed among our peoule has be,u Of I'M
mense advantage And now the building of ~ miles Of
fence To pcose tns Two bitches and farming land, in
by our people. Money so expended viii 20 treat
and II may d. estimated that dollar pended In
times n ierue, that mnch money goes out for goods
and provisions but fair per cent circuIafes among us
size of ours, support st esst half dozen saoons ana
several gambling holes We have nothing OF the kind
a 1s Tor a. h other town We nj, e. S. tbs
save w day, instesa " rpeStans W6 for lsssf. v