The Greeley tribune., 1907-05-02
MORE FOUND
OLD PICTURES STILL COM
ING IN RAPIDLY
Description of Some of the Fun
ny Olden Time Scenes OF
Greeley in Photos Now
at Tribune Office

The Tribune struck popular
chord when, in the interest OF local
history, it undertook the task of
gathering and copying the existing
Photographic views of Greeley and
vicinity in early days. Each old
pioneer when he read last weeks
Tribune began to ransack his memory
and his garrett for pictures. with the
result that no less than twenty
photographs of Greeley scenes in the
early seventies have been brought
forth from their almost forgotten
resting places and stood up in front
Of the Tribune's photographer to be
copied. Gene Abbott dug up two,
of railroad trains on Greeley sid
ing, taken back In the days when he
was station agent here, and the
grotesque smokestacks Of outlandish
size In themselves testify to their
age, back in 1871 or thereabouts.
Another find is a little picture of
the Meeker school, shot from
across the little lake that then
existed in the south half of Lincoln
park. The reflection of the building
in the lake is almost perfect. This
picture has been enlarged to SKI.
The original was taken IN 1873.
John Levy contributes one of him
self and associates, taken July 4.
1870, in front of the Levy tent or
Eighth street and Thirteenth avenue
John Is leaning against his WIN
chester and the American flag float
from a pole run up at the end o1
the tent.
j. X. Thompson brings couple OF
views of the Thompson Bros. saw
mill that stood in early days on the
banks of the Poudre near the Howard
brigade. This mill often cut u, 0O(
feet of pine lumber daily from logs
noated down. the Poudre from the
mountains. The Poudre was quite a
stream in those days, before the irri-
CATION ditch played such hovac with
it's water.
A photo of Josie Meeker and OF
Mrs. Price recall the days of the
Meeker massacre. when these girls
from Greeley suffered all sorts OF
horrors at the hands of the redskins.
A little picture of the home and
family of Col. White, taken about
1875, has been enlarged to SKI, as has
hard looking little picture of Sew
epth street from the school house
looking east.
A later photo is the hanging of
French in the Greeley court yard IN
1888, almost twenty years ago. This,
we believe, Is Greeley's first ana
only lynching.
Still another old time photo was
contributed by A. A. Woodbury. and
shows the Hawes corner In 1873,
when 1T was occupied by a grocery
store, and next door, a gun shop, the
"Greeley armory. Mrs. Mary
Scott, now of Scott's bakery, is
standing in the doorway OF the
grocery.
And so they core, singly, in pairs
and trios. and soon we expect to
have copies of every view of local
interest that still exists of those
taken In the seventies. We Will
gladly copy those that are brought to
us and return the originals in as good
shape as when received. When the
work IS completed the Tribune will
make up a fine volume of prints from
those negatives and present 1t to the
new Greeley library, where future
generations may look on these long
forgotten scenes of early days In
Greeley.
In order that those interested may
see the progress made so far in get
ting these pictures together all OF
the COPIES will be on exhibition In
the show window Of Fezer's drug
store Thursday, Friday and Saturday
of this week, where everybody Is in-
yited to inspect them. If you have
any pictures of early days in Greeley
and Union colony not shown In this
collection you will do favor to
the coming generation by letting the
Tribune make copies of them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. N. Haynes went
to Cheyenne last FRIDAY where Mr
HAYNES delivered the address at thu