Box 1
Contains 59 Results:
Letters, 5 October 1888-21 October 1888
Letters from La Jara.
Letters, 4 November 1888-19 November 1888
Letters from La Jara.
Letters, 12 December 1888-27 December 1888
Letters from La Jara.
Letters, 6 January 1889-22 January 1889
Letters from La Jara.
Letters, 9 February 1889-19 February 1889
Letters from La Jara.
Letters, 10 March 1889-20 March 1889
Stone begins developing his claim in earnest, while living at the neighboring Atkinson ranch.
Letters, 28 March 1889-18 April 1889
By 18 April Stone, having completed construction of a one-room house, is settled on his claim and has begun planting.
Letters, 25 April 1889-10 May 1889
Letters from La Jara.
Letters, 15 May 1889-9 June 1889
Stone continues to put in crops and dig ditches for irrigation. From the beginning of June he is alone on the ranch.
Letters, 23 June 1889-27 June 1889
By 23 June Fred Stone is on his way to Colorado to join his brother. In the 27 June letter Stone discusses the Alamo Ditch Company and water rights in general.
Letters, 11 July 1889-13 August 1889
Fred has arrived in Colorado safely. Continued problems with irrigation.
Letters, 18 August 1889
Correspondence with Seymour and Frederick Stone.
Letters, 5 September 1889-9 September 1889
Stone writes of his loneliness, and of his disillusionment with the valley and with farming.
Letters, 20 September 1889-27 September 1889
Stone agrees to an apparent proposal from his father that he return east.
Letters, 6 October 1889-27 October 1889
Stone writes of selling his team and wagon, and making other preparations for his departure.
Letters, 6 November 1889-16 November 1889
Stone further details his preparations to move back east.
Letters, 29 August 1894-10 September 1894
Nearly five years after leaving Colorado Stone writes from Barstow, Florida, where he is employed by the Pharr Phosphate Company. Stone tells his father of the company's precarious financial situation, and seeks his advice on a personal course of action.
Letters, 16 September 1894-30 October 1894
Prospects for employment elsewhere in the phosphate industry.
Letters, 11 November 1894-18 November 1894
Celebrating Republican successes in the 1894 elections, and more confidential words to his father on the troubles of the Pharr Phosphate Co.
Letters, 26 November 1894-16 December 1894
The company in receivership.
Letters, 6 January 1895-15 January 1895
News of the company and of Florida in general.
Letters, 20 January 1895-3 February 1895
Prospects for the company are dim, as the storebins are full of mined phosphate rock with little prospect of sales.
Letters, 10 February 1895-14 February 1895
Pharr still open. A second freeze has badly damaged Florida's crops, and further weakened the local economy.
Letters, 17 February 1895-3 March 1895
Letters, 9 March 1895-19 April 1895
Affairs at the company still uncertain; Stone writes of possible alternate careers, including journalism.
Letters, 22 April 1895-2 May 1895
The 22 April letter is addressed to Stone's brother Fred. The 2 May letters are written from Atlanta, Georgia, where Stone is seeking work (though still employed by Pharr).
Letters, 5 May 1895-8 May 1895
Additional letters from Atlanta.