The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon. (Canon City, Colo.) 1911-192?, 1919-09-11

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bought the church and the lots and
gave the church and the lots to S. A
Van Buskirk If he would remove 1t.
The Newton Lumber Company used
to have a lumber yard on the corner
where the Biggs block is now. There
had been q lumber yard there for
many years, belonging to one firm and
then another. When the Newton
Lumber Company occupied the site
Mis-. Frank p. Smith, then Bessie
Bowlby, was the Dookkeeper and office
manager.
Lyman Robson got his idea for the
beautiful circular display windows in
the two stores in the Annex block
while on trip to Europe. He had
the block in mind when on the Euro
pean trip and gathered many sugges-
lions for it while away. There is
nothing like the two windows any
where in the southern part of the
state. and only one or two in Denver
William w. Wallace used to travel
with a circus as an expert bandsman.
He was also in the show game, and
has made most OF tie towns of the
nation with one aggregation or an
other. He settled in Canon City lany
years ago, but even yet some of the
old-timers with whom he worked,
who were young men in those days,
come through here with an outfit
The first cabin erected in Colorado
by citizen of the United States was
built within the confines of what is
now Canon City? Such a structure
was reared by orders Of Capt. Zebulon
Pike between Soda Point and the
eastern portal to the Royal Gorge in
the summer of 1907 for the protection
of the men and horses of his military
command during the winter of 1903.
Capt. Pike was sent by the govern
ment on an exploring expedition into
the Rocky Mountains for the purpose
of finding the source of the Red river.
and made his rendezvous here for sew
cate the headwaters of that stream.
The old cabin. or cache" as the mill
tary records denominated it. disap-
peared many years ago, and its exact
locality is not known. The members
of Gen. Marion chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution, discussed
the matter few years ago of erecting
tablet on the approximate site to
commemorate this historic event.
Capt. Pike, afterwards colonel in the
United States army. was killed in the
War of 1912.
That the north side of the Arkansas
river was Louisiana and belonged to
France previous to 1902 when it was
purchased from Napoleon Bonaparte
by the United States government. I'm
til after the Mexican War of 1S41 the
territory on the south side of the Ar
kansas river, extending westward to
the Pacific coast, was part Of the re-
public of Mexico. A Mexican village
occupied a part of the site of what is.
now South Canon when Capt. Pike
came to Colorado in 1907. 1t dated
back to 1875, according to tradition
That Capt. Pike and few of his
troopers crossed the Arkansas river
somewhere in the vicinity of what is
now Texas creek, and were the first
Americans to enter the Wet Mountain
valley. Unconscious that he had
crossed into Mexico and that he had
incurred the hostility of the people of
that country in doing so. Capt Pike
brought unexpected trouble upon him
self and his men. After suffering
hardships in the Wet Mountain valley
from cold weather and deep SHOWS.
during which several of his men were
frozen to death, Capt. Pike and his
followers were captured by Mexican
soldiers and conveyed to Santa Fe
where they were imprisoned until the
government at Washington was able
The first job Ralph Wann ever had
was working for J. C. Mitchell, for
merly of the Mitchell cigar store, who
then ran cigar store and pool room
in a building on the site of the present
Futon market in the city of Pueblo?
w. H. Dozier introduced the popu
lar La Confession cigar into this ter
ritory. He was then travelling for
the Morey Mercantile Company of
Denver and he got the cigar started
throughout this section of Colorado