Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
100 Years Ago
Dec. 3, 1914
The editor of a paper in another county states that one day he picked up a Winchester and started down the street to deliver it to its owner. The delinquent subscribers got it into their heads that he was on the war-path, and everyone he met insisted on paying what he owed to the editor. One man wiped out a debt of ten years standing. On his return to the office he found a load of hay, fifteen bushels of potatoes, a load of wood and a barrel of turnips. Will someone please lend us a gun?
75 Years Ago
Dec. 7, 1939
“We’ve already started!”
So said Wm. Carroll, construction superintendent for Chas. H. Owens, Denver highway contractor, when queried as to when work would get under way on the building of the final stretch of the Snowy Range highway between the Medicine Bow forest and Highway No. 230, a few miles above Saratoga.
Mr. Carroll and Wm. Slater, time keeper, arrived here yesterday from Denver, and spent most of the day inspecting the canyon near Brush Creek, through which the road will be built. The crew is now engaged in clearing away brush along the right-of-way, and Mr. Carroll said grading will be started if present weather conditions hold.
50 Years Ago
Dec. 3, 1964
Worth of the Saratoga & Encampment branch of the Union Pacific railroad is not measured in what it brings into the valley, but what it takes out.
This is the conclusion drawn after studying the figures released by V. J. Allred. UP depot agent , this week. From Jan. 1 to Dec. 1, 1964, the valley branch line served Saratoga and Encampment by bringing in 25 boxcar loads of various items, while 1027 car loads of local products were shipped to market via rail.
Products shipped from this are include wool, sheep, cattle, finished lumber, wood chips and railroad ties.
25 Years Ago
Dec. 6, 1989
Changes made in the prize structure of the annual Saratoga Ice Fishing derby will allow that a minimum of $5,000 in prize money will be awarded, according to Saratoga-Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce Manager Carol Sherrod.
This year’s derby has been scheduled for Jan. 20 and 21. The derby committee is headed this year by Pam Rollison and Shawn McBride.
According to Sherrod’s newsletter, the prize money will be divided up among all those who catch tagged fish. “This means that if 20 tagged fish are caught they will be worth $250. If 10 are caught they will be worth $500, and if only one or two are caught, they will each be worth a bundle,” Sherrod stated. If someone catches the $5,000 tagged fish, that money will be awarded in addition to the money awarded for other tagged fish.
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