GREELEY  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Weld county, See also:

• COLORADO

Colorado, U.S.A., about 50 M . N. by E. of See also:

• DENVER

Denver . Pop . (1890) 2395; (1900) 3023 (286 See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1910) 8179 . It is served by the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union Pacific and the Colorado & See also:

• SOUTHERN

Southern See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways . In 1908 a See also:

• FRANCHISE (from 0. Fr. franchise, freedom, franc, free)

franchise was granted to the Denver & Greeley Electric railway . The city is the seat of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

State Normal School of Colorado (1889) . There are See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich See also:

• COAL

coal-See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields near the city . The county is naturally arid and unproductive, and its agricultural importance is due to an elaborate See also:

• SYSTEM

system of See also:

• IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation . In 1899 Weld county had under irrigation 226,613 acres, representing an increase of 102.2% since 1889, and a much larger irrigated See also:

• AREA

area than in any other county of the state . Irrigation ditches are supplied with See also:

• WATER

water chiefly from the Cache la Poudre, Big See also:

• THOMPSON
• THOMPSON, FRANCIS (1860-1907)
• THOMPSON, LAUNT (1833-1894)
• THOMPSON, SIR HENRY, BART
• THOMPSON, SIR JOHN SPARROW (1844-1894)
• THOMPSON, THOMAS PERONNET (1783-1869)
• THOMPSON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (18ro–1886)

Thompson and See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• PLATTE (so named, from the• French, because of its shallowness), or NEBRASKA

Platte See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers, near the foothills . The See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal crops are potatoes, See also:

• SUGAR

sugar See also:

• BEETS, NIKOLAAS (1814-1903)

beets, onions, cabbages and peas; in 1899 Weld county raised 2,821,285 bushels of potatoes on 23,195 acres (53% of the See also:

• POTATO
• POTATO (Solanum tuberosum)

potato acreage for the entire state) .

The manufacture of See also:

• BEET

beet sugar is a growing See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, a large factory having been established at Greeley in 1901 . Beets are also grown as See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food for live stock, especially See also:

• SHEEP
• SHEEP (from the Anglo-Saxon sceap, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; e.g. the German Schaf)

sheep . Peas, tomatoes, cabbages and onions are canned here . Greeley was founded in 187o by Nathan See also:

• COOK
• COOK, ALBERT STANBURROUGH (1853– )
• COOK, EDWARD DUTTON (1829–1883)
• COOK, ELIZA (1818–1889)
• COOK, JAMES (1728-1779)
• COOK, THOMAS (1808-1892)

Cook Meeker (1817-1879), agricultural editor of the New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York See also:

• TRIBUNE (med. Lat. tribune, from classical Lat. tribunal)

Tribune . With the support of See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace Greeley (in whose See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour the See also:

• TOWN

town was named), he began in 1869 to See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate in The Tribune the See also:

• FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding of an agricultural See also:

• COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony in Colorado . Subsequently See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

• HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD (1822–1893)

Hayes appointed him See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent at See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White See also:

• RIVER

River, Colorado, and he was killed at what is now Meeker, Colorado, in an uprising of the See also:

• UTE
• UTE, or UTAH

Ute See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians . Under Meeker's See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme, which attracted mainly See also:

• PEOPLE

people from New See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and New York state, most of whom were able to contribute at least a little See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital, the Union Colony of Colorado was organized and chartered, and bought originally 11,000 acres of See also:

• LAND

land, each member being entitled to buy from it one See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence See also:

• LOT
• LOT (Lat. Oltis)

lot, one business lot, and a See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract of See also:

• FARM

farm land .