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42.1 4.8 4-corners; turn right with poles.
42.6 0.5 4-corners; turn left with branch poles.
44.4 1.8 Right-hand diagonal road; bear right with poles.
44.8 0.4 Fork; bear left with travel, leaving poles.
45.7 0.9 End of road; turn left with travel. Cross RR 47.3.
48.8 3.1 Fork; keep right.
51.7 2.9 4-corners; turn left with poles. Cross concrete bridge over
Platte river 52.1. Cross RR 52.7.
52.9 1.2 Left-hand road; turn left with travel.
53.2 0.3 Evans, 4-corners, sta. on left. Turn right two blocks.
Cross RR 53.7. Same
53.3 0.1 4-corners, park on far right; turn left.
thorofare becomes 8th Ave. Pass college buildings on left
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'56.9 3.6 Greeley,* 8th Ave. & 7th St., bank on far left.
GARAGES—The Moore Auto Supply & Tire Co., 1021 8th Ave.
Turn left with trolley onto 7th St.
57.2 0.3 11th Ave., brick school on left; turn right, leaving trolley.
Cross RRs 57.7-60.1. Thru Lucerne 61.2.
64.0 6.8 Prominent 4-corners, just beyond cemetery; turn left. Cross
RR 64.7—now on Collins Ave.
64.8 0.8 Oak St., sign on far right; turn right.
65.0 0.2 Eaton, Oak & 2nd Sts. Straight thru on Oak St.
65.3 0.3 End of street; turn left onto 5th St.
0.2 Cheyenne Ave.; turn right across RR. Cross RR 66.2.
65.5
69.1 3.6 Prominent 4-corners; turn left with poles. Cross RR at sta.
69.9.
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70.0 0.9 Ault, banks on right. Keep ahead. • Many fine views of the
71.1 1.1 4-corners; turn right with poles.
mountains along western horizon 73.1.
74.8 3.7 Pierce, 4-corners (center of town over to left) . Keep ahead.
0.4 End of road; turn right across RR and immediately left just
75.2
beyond.
79.0 3.8 End of road; turn left with poles.
80.0 1.0 4-corners; turn right with poles. lett.
80.5 0.5 Left-hand road, just beyond small wooden bridge; turn
Cross RR 80.9.
81.0 0.5 Nunn, lumber yard on left. Keep ahead.
81.5 0.5 End of road; turn right.
82.0 0.5 5-corners; turn square left.
83.0 1.0 4-corners; turn right with travel. Ft. Collins.
Straight ahead before this turn leads to Wellington and
87.6 4.6 Dover, Colo., sta. on right. Keep ahead. left with
87.9 0.3 Right-hand road; turn right across RR, curving
road just beyond. Avoid right-hand road 88.2.
97.0 9.1 Fork, sign in center; bear right. Pass state police station on
Cross Colorado-Wyoming state line 104.7, passing
right 98.6.
monument on left.
right.
114.0 17.0 End of road; turn just beyond small wooden bridge; turn
114.1 0.1 Right-hand road,
right with travel. _ #
114.2 0.1 4-corners; turn left across iron bridge over RR yards.
0*3 End of road; turn left down slight grade.
114.5
Cheyenne City Map and Points of Interest, page .31.
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114.6 0.1 End of road, sta. over to left; turn right across KK and
sleep that night was disturbed by the howl-
’Greeley (pop. 8,200, alt. 4,652 ft.).—It was of
this city that Horace Greeley made his famous ing of the wolves. This very much discour-
remark, “Go west, young man.” Under the aged them, yet they set to work and con-
structed the first extensive system of irriga-
leadership of Nathan C. Meeker, the friends tion canals in Colorado, which has earned for
of that great journalist organized the Union of Irrigation” in
Colony, which founded the city in 1870 and Greeley the title “Father
the west. They set out trees and before long
named it for Horace Greeley, who gave it an the place was dubbed “Forest City ; how-
immense amount of free advertising in the ever, in time the colony was made one of the
New York Tribune. It was at that time a most fruitful garden spots in the world. The
cactus plain, uninhabited save for two or 1,500 enroll-
three isolated ranchers. When the colonists, State Teachers’ college, with its the beauty.
to
mostly easterners, struck their tents, their ment, contributes greatly