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The Argentine Central Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad in the United States built from the Colorado and Southern Railway at Silver Plume, Colorado to Waldorf, Colorado (now a ghost town) and onward to the summit of Mount McClellan.
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The Colorado and Southern Railway was an American Class I railroad in the western United States that operated independently from 1898 to 1908, then as part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad until it was absorbed into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1981.
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A narrow gauge railroad serving Southwestern Colorado from 1891 to 1951. It included the Galloping Goose rail service, developed by the Rio Grande Southern Railroad in the 1930’s. The Galloping Goose consisted of railcars crafted from automobiles and ran them as trains on narrow gauge track to different towns in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The train cars were built in Ridgway, Colorado. The train held the contract for the mail until the early...
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The company maintained a coal mine and tipple in Garfield County, Colorado, which they used to supply their foundry in Pueblo via the company-owned Crystal River Railroad. The company was founded by John C. Osgood in the late Nineteenth century.
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A railroad track established by William Thomas Carpenter to transport the coal from the Book Cliff Coal Mine from 1889-1925. It started at the yard depot, located just west of Rice Street on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado. It then proceeded up 1st Street north toward First Fruitridge, turning east to go down Bookcliff Avenue and crossing the big ditch just before Patterson, where it headed into the desert and toward the Bookcliffs and the...
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A railway line the Gilson Manufacturing Company created that ran from Crevasse, Colorado (later known as Mack, Colorado) to Black Dragon in order to mine natural asphalt from the Black Dragon uintaite vein.
The railway was headquartered in Mack, Colorado. It’s final destination and turning point was Watson, Utah. It’s main mission was to haul gilsonite, but it also included one passenger car. According to Mesa County History Project interviewee...
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The 1895 First National Bank/Knights of Pythias building faces the intersection of F and Second streets is associated with the history of financial institutions and of fraternal organizations in
Salida. The building, located on the site where the disastrous fire of January
1888 started, was erected to house the First National Bank on the first story
and the Knights of Pythias meeting hall on the second. The First National
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It was established in 1913 as The Redlands Realty Company by Albert J. Schwartz, W. C. Osborne, and R. J. Bardwell. It was preceded by the Redlands Water and Power Company, which was organized in 1905. The history of the two companies intertwines, with the Water and Power Company conceived of as a means to bring to fruition the broader development and sale of real estate on the Redlands. According to William Rump, whose father Charles Rump was involved...
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A railroad company that ran a transcontinental line between Denver and Salt Lake City in 1870. Had the largest narrow-gauge railroad network in North America during the mid-1880s, which is now owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad after it bought the company in 1988.
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On November 27, 1887, the Edison Electric Light Company lighted the first place in
Salida. The Salida Mail reported: ‘The incandescent lamps that were lighted on F St. Bridge last evening caused much surprise on account of the brilliantlight that covered such a wide field.’
The process had begun earlier that year in April, when the city council approved H.H. Brown, esquire, to build a power plant in town. An ordinance was then filed in May...
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A rail line that ran from Denver to South Park to Leadville. Construction began in 1873 and finished when the 'High Line' (branch line) to Leadville was made in 1880, followed by the Alpine Tunnel which allowed the mainline to reach Gunnison in 1882. Was succeeded by the Colorado and Southern Railway who began dismantling the line in 1910 starting with the Alpine Tunnel's closure and then ending with the Denver/Leadville connection being discontinued...
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A company founded by brothers Albert “Bert” Carlton and Leslie Carlton sometime around 1889. It delivered coal and firewood for local mines. It also transported ore from the mines directly to the Midland Terminal Railroad. The company had large buildings in both Victor and Cripple Creek. Troy Wade, husband of oral history interviewee Grace Wade, ran the company during the 1930’s. After prohibition was lifted, the company also served as a beer...
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The Town Company governed and funded the creation and construction of Grand Junction and its government prior to the town's incorporation. According to the Grand Junction News, the Town Company filed articles of incorporation sometime in December 1882. Its organizer was George Crawford, who had the Town Company offices and the first town hall built at the corner of 7th and Main Streets (an adobe building on the site of what is now the Avalon Theater)....
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A company established in 1921 by Harry Lewis Brown, who had sold his Wrigley’s chewing gum factory in New Jersey in order to fund the venture, reportedly starting with an initial capital investment of $100,000. The company’s first mine was based above the Roan Creek Valley, half a mile from the eventual placement of the Roan Creek Community Hall. The company mined the oil shale from Mount Blaine (also known as Mount Index). A tramway brought the...
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It was originally known as the Grand Hotel and was part of the Thompson Block commissioned by W.S. Thompson in 1882, with construction completed in 1883. According to the website of the still extant hotel, it was the largest structure south of Denver at that time and a "pinnacle of luxury" in the Southwest. Its first floor housed the post office, bank, Bureau of Mines, general store, doctor's office, and Silverton Standard Newspaper. The second floor...
