The Greeley tribune., 1911-06-01

who have retired from active busi-
ness life still have n powerful voice
in forming public opinion.
Planted First Potato.
The mayor of Greeley William
Mayher, has been in the lumber
business here for twenty-seven
years. He claims the distinction of
having started the first lumber yard
In the state. Henry C. Watson,
who planted the first potato in the
Greeley fields, is president of The
Greeley Mercantile company. The
potato was planted In 1870, and 1t
may be still doing bushes at the
old stand. Mr.. Watson is ex-mayor,
ex-senator and is one of the most
powerful financiers of Greeley.D. A.
Camfield, president of the Greeley
Poucre Irrigation district, which,
when completed, will water 125,OOO
choice acres of the Poudre valley,
has been here twenty-five years.
This enterprise bonded at s5,OOo,-
900. will be completed in time to
water next years crops. The name
of Dan Camfield has been assoc;a-
ted with nearly every enterprise
that meant growth for Greeley He
was builder of the Camfield hotel
and of the Trust building across the
street from it. The two are Joined
by an arch, which is to be electric
lighted and made the welcome arch
OF Greeley.
Bruce F. Johnson, president OF
the Union National Bank (the old
est in the city, and head of the
Park Merchandise Company, came
to Weld county in 1859 with the
Pixies Peak gold rush. Before that
he had been civil engineer for
the Northwestern railroad and had
surveyed S25 miles of it's track.
From gold miner he turned to
freighting and drove freight teams
between Leavenworth, Kan, and
Laramie. He settled in Greeley in
1872, after the Union colony had
been established. Other old timers
Asa Sterling. president of the First
National Bank; Jesse S. Gale, presi-
dent of the Weld County Savings
Bank, old time stockman and
rancher B. d. Sanborn, part owner
of Estes park, real estate man, ac-
tive tinancier of the Boyd. Lake irri-
CATION project; Jared l.. Brush,
former lieutenant governor of Colo
RADIO under Governor Mcintyre and
Governor Alya Adams, locator Of
the first placer in Colorado in Jack
sons diggings near Georgetown in
1859; George ID. Statler. former
state auditor; Charles F. Tew, irri-
CATION attorney; j. w. McCreery,
former state senator, father of the
irrigation laws of Colorado; John
Leavy, secretary of the Greeley
Pioneers association, so years of
age. OF the members Of the origi-
nal colony alive today many are
well along in their sos.
Like Fort Collins, Greeley is
stirring with railroad activity. The
Commercial club recently took up
the agitation for union depot for
the Union Pacific, the Denver, Lara
mie & Northwestern and the Colo
RADIO & Southern. A committee OF
the club is now holding series of
conferences with the representa-
tives of the railroad companies The
building of the Denver, Laramie &
Northwestern through Greeley in
creased the activity of all railroads.
Within the last year the Union Pa
cific constructed branch lines to
Briggsdale and to Hungerford to
handle the shipments of potatoes
from those points. The Denver,
Laramie & Northwestern has al
ready purchased valuable site 'or
a depot here and will build 1t unless
the nion depot proposal can be car