#advertising #brewing #health #silver #railroad #granada #postcards ## Trinidad Business Directory, pg. 1 **Brewers** - Vincent Albus - Main Street - Frank Meyer - Church Street \[AD\] **Trinidad Brewery, F. Meyer & Co.** We take pleasure in announcing to the public that our beer is now ready for use. We intend to put none but the very best on the market. As soon as possible we shall bottle beer for families, and deliver it. Trinidad, Las Animas Co., Col. July 25, 1873 ## The Air of Colorado, pg. 2 The air is so dry that meats to not spoil nor clothes mildew. Sound rises so that music cannot produce a very potent charm, nor have so full an effect as where the soft notes linger in echo. Two fine bands discourse sweet tones, which can scarcely be heard more than a square, and a large sheep owner, being asked why persons did not bell their sheep, said it was of little use where you could catch them by the tail before hearing the bell! The report of firearms is ## Local Items, pg. 3 **Silver Report** We were shown, on Wednesday, a specimen of very rich silver ore, taken from a lead which had just been discovered in the Raton Mountains, at a point about six miles from Trinidad. ## The Railroad to Trinidad, pg. 3 We have been shown a letter form Joseph Davis, now in Boston, who writes he has had a "talk" with Strong, Milkerson and Pierce, and they express themselves as being anxious to build the road as soon as possible. They have already issued orders to build a wagon road on the most direct and feasible route from Grenada to this place. Pres. Strong in his conversation, said if money was as easy at the present time as it was last year, he could name the day he could put the road into Trinidad. He is doing all in his power to raise the money to continue building, and thinks his prospects are good. Mr. Davis writes he is well pleased with is talk and has great hopes of the early completion of the road to this place. ## Local Notices, pg. 3 **Davis & Sherman's Ads** - If you wish something palatable in the shape of bronia, chocolate, gelatine, sea moss farine, and dessicated cocoanut, go to Davis & Sherman's. --- - This is the kind of weather that makes one feel miserable, but some of that blackberry brandy will set you all right. It can be found at Davis & Sherman's. ## Clippings from Exchanges, pg. 4 - Last week the Post office Department distributed to Postmasters 5,260,000 postal cards, being an excess of over 2,000,000 more than any previous week. - The postoffice department have issued 62,000,000 postal cards, of which one half have been sold and transmitted through the mails. The supply of the smaller offices throughout the country will soon begin. Source Document: ![[trinidad-enterprise-1873-08-15.pdf]]