Back in Time | Aspen

From the Aspen Daily Times on Sept. 23, 1887:

“Everybody knows …

• That the liverymen have about twenty sore-backed horses this morning after yesterday’s female cavalcade.

• That Aspen will boom when the railroads come.

• That Porter Plumb stands no show for the judicial nomination, much less an election.

• That Deane and Billy Edwards are the ladies’ favorites in Aspen.

• That the Aspen Consolidated Mining Company is opening nearly a mile of the Great Mother Contact Lode, on which all of Pitkin county’s rich mines are located.

• That the usual inquiry of nearly every man in this country when a new enterprise is started, or a new strike is made, is: ‘Where do I come in?’

• That election is near at hand, and candidates better be stirring, or many of them will never be mentioned.

• That Charlie Boyd is a monumental rustler through hard times.

• That the time is here when mining claims can be developed with home capital, consisting of muscle and concentrated persistence.

• That the saloon men are ashamed of their business of making strong men weak and robbing needy children of money for bread.

• That the Midland has been the cause of lowering the rates of freight on railroads in the state.

• That the Times is not published entirely for sweet charity’s sake and can’t live on dead-headism until it makes a strike in the Iowa, Bushwhacker and Famous.”

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