Big Colorado Ranch
Greeley, Colorado, September 28 – A deed was filed in the county clerk’s office here today conveying the S. L. W. Ranch ten miles east of here, to the S. L. W. Ranch Company, a corporation.
    The property was owned by J. M. Studebaker, Lafayette Lamb and H. E. Withwer, all of Chicago. The former owners still control the stock of the new corporation but the business of the company will be settled up.
    The S. L. W. Ranch comprises nearly 14,600 acres of land, 2,500 acres of which are under cultivation. The balance is hay land and pasture. The ranch is famous for its Hereford cattle and Per heron-Norman horses.
Seely Lake and the Ogilvy Ditch form one of the finest of the smaller irrigation systems and are part of the ranch.
[September 28, 1905, Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Sub. by:  Frances Cooley]

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SMITH EPIDEMIC IN WEST
Four Brothers and Three Sons File on Adjoining Homesteads
    Greeley, Col., Nov. 25-Weld County is threatened with the largest colony of Smiths in Colorado. Four Smith brothers, S.J., L.G., H.W., and N.B., all living in different parts of Colorado, decided to end their days as neighbors and filed on homesteads a few miles from Briggsdale.
    The Smith brothers have eight children among them, three of whom are of age, and these filed on adjoining homesteads, making seven filings in the family. This summer they regarded their initial work as a sort of outing and gave week end parties through the season at the various homes. They hope eventually to have enough people to found a town of Smithville. November 26, 1910, The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis  Indiana - Sub. by Shauna Williams]

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GIRLS TAKE UP HOMESTEADS
Young Women in Colorado Prepares to Teach School and Also Prove Claims.
     Greeley, Col.-Teaching school and homesteading land will be the combined industries of some fifty young eastern girls in Weld county this school year.
     Recently these teachers have been busy building their claim shanties, and in many cases the girls have done the work themselves.
     Whenever possible four girls have taken up adjoining quarter sections, and have erected a common home at the point where the four claims meet, the house being so arranged that one room is located on each claim. Each young woman will occupy the room on her own land, thus fulfilling the requirement of the homestead law which demands that the person taking up the land live on it for a certain period of the year. [December 28, 1910, The Evening News, Ada Oklahoma - Sub. by Shauna Williams]