PIERCE, Albert M., b. 1852: 1905 Bio, Rio Blanco County, Colorado

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Donated August 2001

Transcribed by Judy Crook <jlcrook@rof.net>  from the book:

Progressive Men of Western Colorado 

Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill.



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Albert M. Pierce

	Albert Pierce, one of the Pierce Brothers, extensive cattle and ranch men, with

large ranches in Rio Blanco and Routt counties, and in charge of one of the

largest and most prosperous businesses in their lines in this portion of the

state, is a native of Missouri, born in Mercer county on October 8, 1852.  He

was born on a farm and on this he grew to manhood, attending the common schools

and taking his place in the farm work at an early age, as is the custom of

country boys in all parts of this land of great agricultural wealth and

productiveness.  When he reached his legal majority he came to Colorado and

settled near Canon City, where for ten years he was engaged in raising cattle on

the open range.  In 1882 he moved to Maybell, on Bear river in Routt county,

where he took up a ranch which he increased in size until he now owns eight

hundred acres in that county, all of which can be cultivated.  The land is

adaptable to all the ordinary products of the soil in this region and yields

abundant harvests.  In 1895 he purchased the ranch on which he now lives, six

and one-fourth miles east of Meeker, which comprises three hundred and forty

acres, the greater part of which is under cultivation.  He is a part owner of

the Highland and the Miller creek ditches, and has plenty of water for the

proper irrigation of the ranch; and as he pushes its cultivation with due

enterprise and commendable skill, he reaps results of magnitude and profit from

his labor on it.  He also owns a ranch of three hundred and twenty acres on

Coalcreek, which is all hay land and given up to the production of horses and

cattle in large numbers.  Mr. Pierce is associated in the ranch and stock

business with his brother, J.M. Pierce, of Routt county, and the firm is widely

known as one of the most enterprising and successful as well as among the most

extensively engaged on the Western slope.  Mr. Pierce is independent in politics

and active in local affairs and all undertakings for the benefit of the western

part of the state.  He is a leading citizen in this section and well worthy of

the high regard in which he is universally held.



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