The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02
COUNTY HISTORY
GIVEN IN FULL
CONTINUED from page 81

WHEELER of Aspen, with J. s. Ri
land as manager. Wm, Carlneli
was next manager In December.
1887. the first daily appeared,
the DAILY, News Edited by Fl.
j. Holmes, Then the Ute Chief
became daily. In 1888 the two
papers were joined under the
name of the cute Chief News"
Afterwards the name. was chang
ed to New Empire. - G. c.
Banning purchased the plan. III
the spring of 1899 and added new
press and material. He changed
the name to 'fGlenwood Republi-
can," with W. H Graenhalf as
manager. 1t was sold to lee, Ea-
ton and Myers in 1889, who pub
lished it till 1891, when it was
bought by VIM. Cardnell. He
changed the name to "People s
Herald" Then II. j. Holmes
bought out Mr.. Cardnell ard
started to publish the Avalanche
Echo and later on a daily. "The
Daily. Avalanche He still con
tinues to publish both papers. In
1893 A. j. Dickson started to
publish the "Glenwood Post" and
during the year 1907 combined il
with the "Daily POST" which he
still publishes.
The "Carbondale Item" is a
Carbondale paper conducted oy
Chas. johnson. In New Castle
Geo. West issued the Golden
Transcript in company with J
w. Work. They then began pub
fishing the New Castle "Nonpa-
reil" as weekly. He sold to
Mr.. White, who changed the
name to the "Grand Valley Gao
tus," F. c. Coryell became pro-
prietor in 1891 and issued daily
paper for year. The present
paper is the "New Castle DEMO-
crst"-published by Thomas. Cald-
well. At Rifle the paper called
the. "Rexeille' is. issued by Hor-
ace Mann, and the Telegram"
is issued by Mr.. Carlin. In Grand
Valley the "Grand Valley News"
is printed by F. w. Popple.
General improvements.
Garfield county is rapidly being
supplied with all the modern me-
cessities and conveniences. Wag
on roads are built. from one end
of the county to the other. The
first road made in this county was
in 1883, connecting the numbering
camp at. Carbonate with Eagle
and Grand valleys. Many roads
have been, built. in the county
since then and are kept in as good
condition as possible. There are
roads along the Roaring Fork
and Crank rivers and also along
their tributaries. Senator E. 7.
Taylor secured the passage of
bill, in the General Assembly
which provided that the state
should build a road between Gyp-
sum and Glenwood Springs
through the Grand canon. This
road was. completed in 1902.
Garfield county has complete
system Of telegraph and telephone
lines. The central station is Glen
wood Springs. Nearly every
farmer has a telephone in his
home. In different, parts of the
county there are several deliy-
cries bringing the mails every
day to boxes in the farming dis
tricts.
There are many wagon bridges
across the streams and rivers of
the county and there are also a
number of railroad bridges. At
present large bridge is being
built across Grand river at Silt,
small farming district.
The, system of irrigation has
been much improved throughout
the county. Many reservoirs
have been built in different parts.
In 1899 the Grand Valley ditch
was built. It cost 10000. 1t is
twenty-four miles long. By this
ditch and the Grass Valley canal
5000 acres have been brought
under cultivation. Many other
large bitches have been built in
a ysrsnt districts which have
Er6uaht much of the land under
cultivation.
In the; Carbondale district the.
principal products are hay, grain
cattle and potatoes. The pro.
ducts Of The Grand valley are
much the. same including fruit.
for which the. soil is, especially