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Poudre
Ghost
Canyon
Town
Pioneer
People
In Northern
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Colorado

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Longs
Gold
Peak
Last Water
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Hole in
the West
Climbers
Frontier
Outlaws
Town
In Early
Early Loveland
Colorado
Remembered
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Skiing
Picture:
Steamboat
Marmots
Springs
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Mountains
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Places on the Poudre
The Will Barnes family, Poudre Canyon pioneers. Loveland Museum.
By Bill Lambdin
T he Cache la Poudre River is one
of the few remaining wild and
scenic rivers in the West, undamed
and untamed.
The canyon through which it runs
west of Fort Collins has numerous
places associated with northern
Colorado’s pioneers.
The small village of Rustic
contained one of the Poudre Canyon’s
first hotels, the Rustic Hotel. It was
built shortly after 1881 by pioneer
Samuel Stewart, who homesteaded in
this part of the canyon.
Stewart chose the name Rustic to
match the primitive setting in which
he built his log hotel. It was a stage
stop when first constructed and later a
popular hunting and tourist lodge.
Stewart also built much of the
road up Poudre Canyon that we drive
today west of Rustic, including part
of the road over Cameron Pass to
Gould.
He was an enterprising pioneer
who believed gold mines in the
mountains above Poudre Canyon
would need a wagon road so supplies
could be hauled in and ore hauled out.
He charged a toll for each wagon that
used his road.
Some gold and silver strikes had
been made at Lulu City in 1880; so
Stewart extended his Poudre Canyon
road to that camp high in the Never
Summer Range of what is now the
northwest corner of Rocky Mountain
National Park, just on the west edge
of Larimer County.
To build the Lulu City road,
Stewart had to hack out a trail from
Cameron Pass south over the
Continental Divide at 12,000-foot
Thunder Pass, then down to the head-
waters of the Colorado River.
This was a monumental task with
nothing but picks and shovels, horses
and wagons, in a rugged mountain
range famous for fierce winter storms
and some of the deepest snows in
Colorado. But Stewart did it.
Unfortunately, the mines at Lulu
City contained low-grade ore and
played out quickly. Stewart’s work on
that road did not pay off.
But his Rustic Hotel was
successful. For many years, it was a
favorite spot with northern Colorado
residents who wanted to get to the
mountains.
Later an Iowa millionaire named
Norman Haskins bought the hotel,
remodeled it and gave it to his
mistress, Mary Luthe—which caused
quite a scandal in the canyon.
The old Rustic Hotel was torn
down in 1978, but you can still see
where it once stood, just east of the
Glen Echo building and on the oppo-
site side of Highway 14.
You can also hike up Stewart’s old
mining road from Cameron Pass, over
the Continental Divide at Thunder
Pass, and down the Colorado River
headwaters to the location of the ghost
town Lulu City.
Local Forest Service maps will
help you find the route, which is
described in Stan Case’s book “The
Poudre: A Photo History,” available at
local bookstores.
________________
COVER PICTURE: Marmots in
Rocky Mountain National Park.
Taken by Fort Collins professional
photographer Gregory Mayse. See
his photographs at Trimble Court
Artisans in Fort Collins and
www.gregorymayse.com. Email him
at info@gregorymayse.com; phone
970-412-3600. I
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About Family Financial Issues

By Scott Burns unusual, but their leverage is $16,000 in 40 years, adjusted for augment their charitable giving.
Financial Writer immense. inflation. Take everyone to the beach. With
Give home down payments when Contribute to a charitable fund; families increasingly spread around

T hese days, many women have a

life expectancy of 100 years.
Many of them want to leave some-
thing behind for their children or
grandchildren. In fact, some deprive
themselves and are hoarding money
for their children.
But that’s a problem. The children
won’t be children. They will be old
people by the time the will is read.
Here’s the math for my family. If
no money is distributed until my wife
reaches 100, our youngest child will
be 75. The oldest will be pushing 80.
In many families, the next genera-
tion will be inheriting money long
after they would be inclined to blow it
on a new Ferrari. They will also be
inheriting it long after they have
passed most of the financial hurdles
in life—and too late to truly make
their lives better.
What can we do?
Give early; give often. Put the
leverage of time in their hands. Here
are a few examples. None are
they are ready. Accumulating a down
payment is a long and difficult
process. A down payment begets
future price appreciation and years of
future tax deductions.
If the price of the house is two
times your children’s income, annual
appreciation of 4 percent a year will
grow their net worth by 8 percent of
their income a year.
Prepay grandchildren’s tuitions.
This does double duty. It educates the
grandchildren, and it allows the
parents more financial freedom
because they won’t have to save the
money themselves. It may allow them
to fully fund their 401(k) plans.
Contribute to a Roth IRA for your
children. With young children at home,
most people are hard-pressed to maxi-
mize their tax-deductible 401(k) plan.
But funding a Roth IRA for an
adult child allows your money to
grow tax-free in their name. Every
$1,000 given today is like providing
an inheritance of $8,000 in 30 years or
meet with your children to decide
gifts. Between community founda-
tions and the charitable funds
established by most of the major
mutual fund firms, it is very easy to
make a gift that becomes the basis for
future annual giving by your children.
They receive no tax benefits
because it’s your money, but it may
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
C hronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
affects over 1 million people.
Researchers think they might know
what causes it, though they don’t yet
have a cure for it, according to a report
in the Journal of Clinical Pathology.
CFS sufferers feel tired and
lethargic constantly. Many of them
also complain of stomach pain, and
that’s what led researches to conclude
that CFS is caused by viruses in the
digestive tract—specifically chronic
antiviral infections.
the country, the role of convener is
priceless.
Finally, if you can do this, be
thankful. Today and tomorrow are a
lot harder for most people.
________________
Scott Burns is a longtime financial
writer for the Dallas Morning News
and other papers. I
Enteroviruses are viral microor-
ganisms that live in the digestive
tract, said the researchers. They might
not be the only cause of CFS, but this
is the first time researchers have
found anything they are reasonably
sure is linked to CFS.
Researchers think the problem
begins with a virus that enters the
body through the gastrointestinal tract
and then infects other tissues, and
remains as a chronic infection that
results in CFS. I

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Remembering
Early Loveland
Editor’s Note: Years ago, Phyllis Kreutz and, along with crops and
Hershman wrote about her livestock, he began raising chil-
grandfather, David Hershman, a dren. Lydia died in l877. In l879,
Loveland pioneer. he married Mary Gruner.
In l877 he acquired 40 acres
By Phyllis Hershman north of Derby Hill and another 40
north of that in l885 to own all the

D avid Hershman arrived in the

Big Thompson Valley in l865.
He and his brother, John, had
loaded a harvester and mowing
machine in Illinois and creaked
toward Colorado in a covered
wagon.
That first fall, David planted 10
acres of wheat and 6 acres of oats.
Hay brought $l00 a ton at Black
Hawk and Central City (where
miners were). David bought a ton
of potatoes for 7 cents a pound,
hauled them to Central City, and
sold them for l2 cents a pound.
In l869 David married Lydia
property along Highway 287 from
Derby Hill north to the 400 block of
South Lincoln Street in Loveland.
In l882 he bought l60 acres
southeast of Loveland, plus
another ll0 acres just north of that
in l894. This land, known for years
as Hershman Hill, was east of
Derby Hill. Early Loveland fishermen. Loveland Public Library.
At the turn of the century, he
built three houses on East Third David moved to Boulder later gentleman, very particular about
Street. A store at the corner of East so his younger girls could attend his vocabulary and appearance. He
Third and Railroad, known as the university. From there, he often walked from town clear out
Harrison and Hershman Grocery, moved to Long Beach, California, to Hershman Hill to visit his son,
was operated by George Harrison, where he died in l92l. and always asked for a brush to
husband of David’s daughter. He was a quiet, refined dust off his suit. I

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Park’s Historic Ranch
By Peggy Hunt

E stes Park historian James

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Black Canyon: An American
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It is about the pioneer family of
Alex and Clara MacGregor, who
came to Estes Park in 1874. The
young, just-married couple estab-
lished a ranch, post office, and the
first road built into the area.
The ranch survived the Great
Depression, wars and family
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A n experimental medicine called
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mature people overcome some of the
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report in the Annals of Internal
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MK-677 helps people gain muscle
mass that the body naturally loses
through age. “As we get older, our
body composition changes,” said
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is distributed in the center and the
abdomen, and (we) lose a lot of
muscle mass.”
Drug Tests Stopped Too Soon
T ests of new cancer drugs are
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and the drugs are put on the market
before anyone knows what harm they
might do.
That’s the conclusion of a recent
report in the medical journal Annals
of Oncology.
If a drug appears to be an impor-
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This is associated with a decrease
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It’s Called Liquid
Gold for a Reason
By Bill Lambdin
A fter the establishment of
Greeley in 1870 by Nathan
Meeker and the Union Colony
pioneers, probably the most impor-
tant event in Weld County’s
history was the Big Thompson
Project that brought water from
Colorado’s west slope to front
range farms and towns.
Without the Big Thompson
Project (named for the Big
Thompson River), Weld County
would not have become one of
America’s richest agricultural
areas.
Before the project was
completed in 1947, the farms
around Greeley were nearly blown
away during the Dust Bowl years
of the early 1900s.
The idea of bringing water
from the west slope through a
tunnel was first proposed in 1889
by state legislator Hiram Prince.
But it was such an enormous
undertaking that it took 20 years to
get the project started and another
20 years to complete it.
The reason it was so enormous?
Builders had to figure out how to
divert water across the Continental
Divide by tunneling under the high
mountains of Rocky Mountain
National Park.
They did that by building the
Alva B. Adams Tunnel, an engi-
neering masterpiece that runs deep
under the mountains for 13 miles,
linking Grand Lake on the west
slope to Mary’s Lake on the east
slope near Estes Park.
Crews bored a huge 9-foot
hole from both sides of the
mountains. When the crews met,
the tunnel was only one-sixteenth
of an inch off center line and
only three-fourths of an inch off
grade.
News reports worldwide
praised the achievement, which
was completed without the sophis-
ticated technology of today.
The Alva Adams Tunnel brings water from northern Colorado’s
west slope to Greeley and other areas.
The tunnel was named for U.S. Eventually it took $160 million to
Senator Alva B. Adams, a complete the tunnel, dams,
Colorado Democrat who secured pipelines and canals that make up
$43 million to start the project as a the Big Thompson Project.
joint effort between the U.S. West slope water is stored in
Bureau of Reclamation and the Grand Lake, Shadow Mountain
newly formed Northern Colorado Reservoir, Lake Granby and other
Water Conservancy District. lakes. Then it is diverted through
the tunnel and pipelines to Mary’s
Lake, Lake Estes, Horsetooth
Reservoir and other east-slope
lakes.
From the storage lakes, an
extensive system of canals carries
water to farms and towns along the
Front Range. The water also runs
power plants and provides
numerous fishing and recreational
activities at Horsetooth Reservoir
and other lakes.
For Greeley, the water that
comes across those massive moun-
tains has been a precious,
life-sustaining force. It allowed a
dry, arid land to blossom and
become a productive place.
Newcomers to Colorado often
don’t know how important water is
here. Many don’t realize that most
of the front range would be a
barren, treeless desert without
water storage projects like the Big
Thompson.
In Colorado, water has always
been more valuable than gold and
all the other ores mined from the
mountains.
If our rapid population growth
continues, we may someday face
water shortages and understand
why author Daniel Tyler called the
Big Thompson Project “the last
water hole in the West.” I
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Information on Estate Planning

By Ron Rutz, Attorney
Legal Correspondent
Q: Where can I read about what the
Personal Representative is expected
to do?
A: Let’s look at not only the
Personal Representative’s position but
the three other major fiduciaries that
often need to be selected—Trustee,
Guardian, and Agent.
Personal Representative: Called
an executor or administrator in other
states. The job consists of settling the
estate. Normally, he pays bills, files
wishes of the person who set up the
trust. Specialized knowledge is not
necessarily needed. If a Trustee has
tax issues, investment choices, etc., a
CPA, attorney, or financial adviser can
be hired.
The Trustee needs to have the
ability to bring in such people when
necessary. Another significant Trustee
activity is to interact with the benefici-
aries of the trust.
Guardian: When selecting guard-
ians, especially for minors, think in
terms of a surrogate parent—someone
who has your same moral, religious,
followed by the Agent having the
time and being able to handle things
promptly.
Like a Trustee, specialized knowl-
edge or talents are not as important as
having someone who realizes when to
hire an expert toaccomplish certain
matters.
Just one person can act as Personal
Representative, Trustee, Guardian,
and Agent. But try to match talents
with job requirements and do not just
pick a family member automatically.
Be careful not to be like the little
league baseball coach who has his son
pitch when maybe being the batboy
would have been a more appropriate
position.
________________
Attorney Ron Rutz will answer ques-
tions sent to 2625 Redwing Road,
Suite 180, Fort Collins, CO 80526;
phone 223-8388; email rutz@ronald
rutz.com. I

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handles the legalities to transfer
assets, and makes sure that the legal
and personal matters of the deceased
are properly completed.
Children are often selected as the
Personal Representative, with the
oldest child usually demanding the
position. But be realistic and select a
person who pays attention to details.
Trustee: A Trustee is like a quar-
terback or agent for a trust (a legal
document setting out how to handle
assets). The key elements for a good
Trustee are judgment and a desire to
handle the trust according to the
fÉÄâà|ÉÇá
to be able to handle the physical and
emotional tasks of being a “parent”
for a minor.
For an older individual, a
Guardian should have the loyalty and
focus to be available to meet the
unique issues presented by an adult
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A Pioneer and a Buffalo

By Robert Munkres summer on the Santa Fe Trail, Mrs.
Holmes’ husband “went out buffalo

F or most emigrants, buffalo were a

novelty, an annoyance or a source
of food. Occasionally, however, a trav-
eler responded to the huge animals in a
somewhat more feeling manner.
One who did so was Julia Anna
Archibald [Holmes], who detailed her
actions in a letter written from Fort
Union, New Mexico, on January 25,
1859.
While her party was detained by a
rain-induced flood the previous
hunting and returned bringing with
him a buffalo calf apparently but a
week old.
She said, “It was a great curiosity
to us all, and in the fullness of my
compassion for the poor little thing, I
mixed up a mess of flour and water,
which I hoped to make it drink. I
approached it with these charitable
intentions, when the savage little
animal advanced toward me and gave
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Colorado Crosswords By Tony Donovan

ACROSS 57. Yield to

1. Fred ___ , purchased with #43 down, 58. Tax payer I.D.
and published The Denver Post from 59. “The Big Easy,” of the PGA
1895 into the 1930s 60. “Yes! We have no ___.”
6. Terrier talk
9. Bottom line DOWN
12. Apple spray 1. County in extreme southeastern
13. Kick an extra point, say Colorado
14. Lines or marks in printed material which 2. West slope locale noted for its sweet
shows where something is to be inserted corn
16. Popular police, forensics series 3. Partner of straight
17. Jefferson Davis’ org. 4. Lets loose
18. According to Newton, the opposite of 5. ___ Chance in Washington County
“in motion” 6. Boston College conf.
19. “Quakies,” more formally 7. ___ Parks of desegregation fame
21. Gardener’s need frequently 8. Breckenridge neighbor
23. St. Vrain of Bent’s Fort fame 9. Bad news for the kids in the morning!
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10. Tangle up
26. Spicy cuisine
11. Earl Grey
29. “The Ballad of Baby Doe” for one
15. Disease source in Africa
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33. Phoenix’s river
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34. 1840s to 1860s migration route which 22. Town southeast of Ft. Collins whose
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37. Canyon or cave phenomenon 24. ___ Meeker of the Union Colony
39. Indians native to Missouri 25. Roosevelt National ___.
40. Agave fiber used in making ropes and 27. Community southeast of Limon
rugs 28. Andy’s radio partner
42. Little piggies 31. Child’s question: What makes ___ ___?
43. Word before can or horn 32. Family follower
45. Occupation of #23 across 34. Anthem beginning
46. “___ ___ old cowhand,....” 35. Trail Ridge, et. al.
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Dedicated Teacher
By
Arlene
Ahlbrandt

A book was recently published as a

tribute to a dedicated Fort Collins
teacher and principal, Miss Merle M.
Bennett.
It was written by her niece,
Carolyn Goodwin, and by Janie
Arnold, who retired from Bennett
Elementary School. That school was
named in honor of Miss Bennett, who
was born in 1882 at Herman,
Nebraska.
She attended the state teachers
college in Greeley (now UNC) and
began her teaching career at
Remington kindergarten in Fort
Collins in 1918, the first kindergarten
west of the Mississippi.
She was with the Poudre School
District for 35 years as both a teacher
and principal. During the 1918
influenza epidemic, schools were
closed for three months; and Miss
Bennett volunteered for nursing
service in an army hospital that was
set up at Colorado A&M College
(now CSU).
She loved children, music, poetry
and roses. At her red-brick home at
314 East Mulberry Street, she had over
100 rose bushes. She compared chil-
dren to roses, saying, “You need to
feed them, nurture them and trim out
the rough spots.” Many of her students
Merle Bennett, for whom Bennett Elementary School was named.
blossomed into successful citizens.
When Bennett Elementary School
was dedicated to her in 1963, she said,
“Teaching was my life for many
years, and I loved every day of it.”
Her house was designated an
historic landmark in 1994. Today her
niece Carolyn and Carolyn’s mother,
Jane Goodwin, live in Miss Bennett’s
house; and that is where she died in
1964.
Copies of the book, “Merle M.
Bennett: Gardener of Excellence,” are
available at the Fort Collins Museum
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Patients Can’t Sue If Harmed Unsafe Medicine

M ost patients don’t know that
they cannot sue a medical
device company if a device they use
proves to be unsafe or causes harm.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently
ruled that a device manufacturer
cannot be sued through state courts if
the FDA approves the device. The
court’s logic was that, if the FDA
approves a device, it must be safe
and consumers have no right to ques-
tion the FDA’s actions.
Senator Frank Pallone (D-N.J.)
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Pallone. “The FDA has shown
itself incapable of keeping
dangerous products off the market,
and now the Supreme Court has
said patients can’t sue companies
for redress.”
He added, “The FDA has limited
resources and can’t assess all the
risks that a device poses once it gets
on the market.” I
By Bill Lambdin
H ow safe are the medicines we
take? In the past, there were few
problems.
But health researcher Gardiner
Harris believes there could be prob-
lems in the near future because
many of the ingredients used in our
medicines are now produced in
China.
That country has a history of
exporting unsafe products that end
up in tainted heparin (blood thinner)
that killed 81 people, toys with lead
paint, toxic baby formula, and other
things recently exposed.
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration rarely inspects any
of the many Chinese plants that
produce chemicals that end up in
medicines. Harris said, “Last year,
generic drug applications to the
FDA listed 1,154 plants providing
active pharmaceutical ingredients:
43 percent of them were in China,
and another 39 percent were in
India. Only 13 percent were in the
United States.”
Harris has been a health
researcher for over 10 years and
wrote his latest report for the New
York Times. It is an expose of the
serious problems we could face as
drug companies increasingly use
Chinese chemicals because they are
cheaper than those produced in the
U.S. or elsewhere.
He says the FDA cannot begin to
inspect all of the medicines
containing Chinese products. In
fact, the FDA’s former general
counsel told Harris that the agency
is a “fundamentally broken agency,
and it needs to be repaired.”
Harris interviewed several U.S.
pharmaceutical officials for his
report and found that most did not
want to talk about using Chinese
chemicals in medicines. They didn’t
like talking about “the difficulty of
regulating factories across several
time zones, 6,000 miles and a vast
linguistic and cultural divide.”
Having low-cost drugs like
generics is a great benefit to many
Americans who otherwise could not
afford the medicines they need. But
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Laughter Is the Best Medicine

Y oung Chuck bought a horse from
a farmer for $100.
The farmer agreed to deliver the
Ireland. We’ve decided to declare war
on your country.”
“Really?” said the president.
empty it, and offer him a teaspoon or
a bucket.”
“I see,” said the man. “A sane
had flying lobster before.”

Within this vale of toil and sin

horse, but he showed up and said,
“Sorry, son, I have bad news. The
horse died.”
Chuck replied, “Well, just give me
my money back.”
“Can’t do that. I spent it already.”
“Then bring me the dead horse.”
“What are you gonna’ do with
him?”
“I’ll raffle him off.”
“You can’t raffle off a dead horse!”
“How big is your army?” person would use the bucket.” Your head grows bald
There was a silence, then Paddy “No, a sane person would pull the But not your chin.
said, “There’s me and my cousin plug. Do you want a room with a -Burma Shave
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Another silence, then Paddy said, She said, “Oh, good! I’ve never Some Burma Shave. I
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20 more volunteers from the pub, a
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“I raffled him off. I sold 500
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