Pitkin-Garfield County CO Archives Biographies.....Bane, Clinton T. December 23, 1844 - 
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

Clinton T. Bane

     Clinton T. Bane, senior member of the firm of Bane Brothers (C.F. and B.F.

Bane), progressive ranchmen and stock-growers of Garfield, located on a fine

ranch of three hundred and twenty acres, one hundred and eighty acres of which

can be easily cultivated, has had a wide experience in a number of states and a

variety of employments.  His educational advantages were of the most meager kind

and extent, but he has supplemented them by close observation and the worldly

wisdom acquired only in the school of experience.  He was born on December 23,

1844, in Cass county, Illinois, and attended the public schools only two years.

 He began to make his own way in the world at the age of fifteen, working on a

farm for twelve dollars a month and his board.  In 1861 he came to Colorado and

locating near Denver, passed the next two years in the employ of George Rist. 

He next went to Nebraska, near Omaha, and there he worked as a day laborer for a

short time, after which he moved to Alameda county, California, where he was

employed on a ranch for wages two years.  From there he went to Arizona, and for

one year was engaged in prospecting and other occupations. He returned to

California, and soon afterward migrated to Butte, Montana, going later to

Helena, that state, and passing two years in driving teams.  In 1884 he came

back to Colorado, and at Leadville worked in the mines for a year, then moved to

Aspen, where he spent three months freighting, after which he worked for I.W.

Chatfield one season.  At the end of that time he and his brother, B.F. Bane,

located adjoining pre-emption claims of land in Pitkin county, ten miles

southeast of Carbondale, on which they are still living.  They own good water

rights for their land and raise large crops of superior timothy hay and grain,

and also cattle in large numbers.  The brothers are well known as good business

men and enterprising and forceful factors in the local affairs of the community.

 They are Democrats in politics and give their party loyal support.  Their

success here has been pronounced and they stand well in the community.  Although

unmarried they take a great and serviceable interest in the welfare of the

county and its people, and lend their ready aid to all undertakings for their

advancement and improvement.

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905



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