History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . nsive coal mines near Laredo in Txas, and to assist inthe Mexican National In 1884 Ocorge Sackett, fromOhio, came to Salida and invested in real estate in and alxiut the town, all ofwhich he placed in Miss Ohmertz hands as iiis agent. She is also managerof the landed interest of several Denver owners. J. W. OConnor, county physician of Chaffee co., was born in 111. in 1852,and educated at the Rush medical college, Chicago, graduating in 1879. Hecame immediately to Denver, where lie was appointed resident physician ofth
History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . nsive coal mines near Laredo in Txas, and to assist inthe Mexican National In 1884 Ocorge Sackett, fromOhio, came to Salida and invested in real estate in and alxiut the town, all ofwhich he placed in Miss Ohmertz hands as iiis agent. She is also managerof the landed interest of several Denver owners. J. W. OConnor, county physician of Chaffee co., was born in 111. in 1852,and educated at the Rush medical college, Chicago, graduating in 1879. Hecame immediately to Denver, where lie was appointed resident physician ofthe Arapahoe co. In 1880 lie removed to Chaffee co., and the fol-lowing year was appointed surgeon of the railway. He superintended theconstruction of the railroad at Salida. CHAFFEE the business of the place was removea, and its growthwas thenceforth slower. The railroad company in1886 had extensive buildings and works; the townwas well watered, and had a bank, an opera-house,churches, schools, good hotels, a public reading-room,. Salida and Vicinity. pleasant drives, and was generally prosperous, beingin the centre not only of rich mining districts, but ofa good farming region, which was being rapidly set-tled/* »In Ohmertz Femak Pioneerincf, MS., 2, it is said that a large oat-mealmill would be erected in 1865 by M. Sackett, and that a large smelter wastalked of by other capitalists. A coal mine, 6 miles helow Salida, owned hjDavis, Carstarphan, and Craig Brothers, was about to be opened. J. H. Stead, 586 COUNTIES OF COLORADO. Clear reek county, not large, but important, wasthe scene of some of the earliest mining discoveriesafter the slight indications of Cherry creek, and oneof the original seventeen counties organized by thefirst legislature. The early history of this portion c»fColorado has been quite fully given/* Its name wastaken from the creek which flows through it, the high-lands along which for thirty-seven miles are filledwith veins of silver
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