The Greeley tribune., 1911-06-01

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| Men Proud Of Them.
All this is said without disparage-
ment to the men. 1t was from the
men of the Commercial club and che
newspaper men that l secured the
dope" on the women's activities.
Ask any man in Greeley today what
the women are doing and he will tell
you just what have told. Honor to
whom honor is due!
There is one line OF excellence in
which Greeley is pre-eminent, and
that is her public buildings. Any
organization, religious, social or po-
litical, that would attempt today to
put up mean or unsightly build
ing in Greeley would find itself m
a fight. The building Of the new
First Baptist church, recently COM
pleted and dedicated. is an instance
of this. The church had the choi.e
Of two sites, one in the central part
OF the city, the other farther out.
After careful canvassing of its fl
nancial resources the church decided
to take the cheaper site. But what
did the citizens living near the other
site do but get to work and raise the
difference in cash in order to bring
the church downtown, where its
presence would be an ornament to
cost $4,000 and the church is one
OF the finest bits of architecture in
the city.
In order to get a better site for
the proposed new federal building
than the one originally selected, the
public-spirited citizens of Greeley
raised $4,000. The site for the
building will pass into the hands
of the government June1, and the
structure will cost 100000. In
stead of taking library from An
drew Carnegie. the Greeleyites sab
scribed $4,000 and built one Of
their own. Next to the library is
the new city hall. costing $4,000. A
new high school costing $6O,O00 ex-
elusive Of the grounds is being erec-
ted. The foundation for a new Elks'
club costing $4,000 has been laid
Anew county court house costing
$250,00O will be built free of debt
within the next year. The State
Normal school, whatever else may
be said Of 1t has one of the most
beautiful II not the most beautiful
campus in the state, and is adding
two new buildings at cost of
$15O,000. The building operations
in Greeley for 1910 were over ST.
100000.
One Big Civic Center.
Every new public structure In the
city has been built in such a way
beautiful park. 1t seems doubtful
II Greeley will ever need a civic CEN
tor. The entire city will be a civic
center, and that will be the accom-
plishing OF the ideals of the original
Union colony. The Union colony
founded in 1870, went out of cor
porate existence April Is, 1890, by
the expiration Of its charter, but like
John Browns body, its soul Is
marching on. Horace Greeley's
facsimile still stands at the top Of
the Greeley Tribune. and probably
1t will always remain there. When
the editors of that paper tried to re-
move 1t few years ago and to sub
stitute something more legible, such
a howl OF protest was set up that
the thought was abandoned.
County's Products
The products of Weld county, of
which Greeley Is the commercial
center. are potatoes. which produce
$1,5OO,OOO annually; sugar beets.
which produce$ ,OOO,OOO; alfalfa,
$1,0OO,OOO; wheat, $75O,000; oats.
$25O.OO0. and miscellaneous pro-
ducts, $2.5OO.OOO. The Greeley
sugar beet factory this year has an
acreage OF 5000. The Empson can
ming factory here has an output Of
100000 cans of peas per hour and
the value Of the plant is $4,000.
The sugar factory, 1t is estimated
sets 100000 in circulation each
year by payments to farmers and
factory employees.
The Greeley Commercial club. OF
which I. Rothschild Is president and
]. F. McCrery. secretary, makes a
systematic practice each year Of col
lecting samples of the products OF
Weld county and of sending exhibits
OF them to the state fairs and the
national land shows. Weld county
wheat took the prize in the national
land show at Columbus. Ohio, last
fall. Exhibits were sent to the Pitts
burg land show. the Chicago land
, show and the Omaha land show, and
In each case Secretary McCrery
brought home the prizes. Greeley
is headquarters for the Weld County
Commercial association, which In.
cludes several towns and Mr.. Nc.
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