The Greeley tribune., 1907-02-14
RAPID BUSINESS PROGRESS BFING MAnE
AT LITTLE TOWN SOUTH OF HERE
Bright Looking Stocks Of Goods Displayed in
Stores. Cordial People Behind Counters.
Center Of Union Pacific Signal Sys-
tenn Located There. People
Want Local Newspaper.

LaSalle has been on the map for
some years as name, but since ID.
S. Ellis plated three blocks as a
town two years ago it has made a
splendid record from business and
residence standpoints both. The
town has location that would make
business for any point, situated as it
is on the fork of the Denver and
Julesburg and the Denver and Chey-
enne branches of the Union Pacific
system.
The population is of the same type
that has made Greeley, and In fact
the bulk of the state. a refined,
wide-awake and temperance loving
people; a people that are progress
sive, who will test innovations, not
as question of policy, but as a
question of right. And the remark
may be made right here that the
states of the Mississippi valley and
even puritantical Tor pharisaic p
New England, have very much to
learn In straightforward, aggressive
right-doing for rights sake from the
state of Colorado, which numbers
out thirty years of age. And it's in
the wild and woully west," too.
d. S. Ellis, one of the original
settlers in the LaSalle country, is
the owner of the town site, with the
exception of the lots that have been
sold, owning at the outset, quarter
section of land.
The deeds contain the forfeiture
clause In case Of the handling Of
liquor on the premises, similar to
the Eaton deed, and little more
stringent (Mr. Ellis says better
deed) than the Greeley Instrument.
Over there at LaSalle they say If you
want a comparison as to the respec-
tive merits of "wet'' and dry"
compare Greeley and Evans, founded
respectively in 1870 and 1871, and
draw your own conclusions.
1t does seem, too. that the com-
monwealth of Colorado has reason to
feel intensely grateful to the Ply
mouth Rock type Of men and women
who stamped the character of the
state in the various colonies and
settlements, an impress which can
not be etfaced, but makes the endur-
ing type OF independent, clean and
wholesome progressiveness that
marks the state of Colorado as a
whole.
One of the improvements that has
come to LaSalle lately, and one that
is of state and national Importance,
is the installation of the block signal
idea ON the Julesburg- Denver por-
tion of the Union Pacific. This Is
the automatic block signal idea that
has been IN use in the east for some
time. The Union Pacific out of
Cheyenne on the main line has used
the block signal for four or five
years. From Omaha to Green River
a complete block system is in opera
tion. Every foot of the road Is
blocked. East of LaSalle the sig
nails have been in operation and the
section Of the road from Denver to
LaSalle was ready to leave the hands
of the construction department and
90 into the department of operation
Sunday. Two or three weeks will
be required to complete the installa-
tion of the signals from LaSalle TO
Cheyenne.
Strictly speaking, the signal work
on this portion Of the road does hot
complete a system, but 1t safeguards
the switches rather than every foot
of track. The signals are operated
nv n motor which is in turn operated
by storage battery.
LaSalle has the distinction OF hav-
ing the power house, or the plant
which charges all the batteries ana
sends them out from Denver TO
Cheyenne and from LaSalle to jules