The Meeker Herald
125 years ago
• The railroad surveyors are on 14-Mile Creek. They have encountered no rock work whatever between that point and New Castle.
• J.B. Wheeler and P.C. Coryell are developing five coal mines near where the White River Valley railroad will cross Piceance Creek.
• Hugus & Co. have over 70,000 pounds of freight at Rifle awaiting transportation to Meeker, and their corps of freighters are on the “hump” endeavoring…