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Show tho pla1_ns to ut3h, had fOon subsequently found and later mgrateci his family to Uta..~.. This allianco wi t..1t a young mm ago proved to be a lifolong friondship for Alfred. 1-011 til nta..'1 Oregon Short Line Railroad west of An!orican F:},lls. Idaho. Soventsen miles of this proj ect 7ms very heavy Hork. Itfull of cuts and fills, ~'1d Il'Jlch of through solid rock, II but tho tr'io C(..l ma through all right. of his 1St NILFORD STORE AND COLORADO RAILROAD BUILDING }10NTANA, HCCUNE & CAPLICE, AND TDillER e!ilbarl~ed on tho purchase of 0. J!lorchandising st.oro in Milford, UtM , froightir-.g out fro:11 there to V[ll~OUS places. A. i{. I S brother Henry Froderick "Was cnllsted to manage the storo '-lhile tho pa rtners engaged in furthor contract vIB-king act:ivi ty.ll A railroad contract bob-men BUford e.nd Frisco wa.s comploted and. freightJ_ng made to Piocho, st. George, Silver Reof a.nd other points . By tho ond ofl~879, the partnership had in its coffors about $18 ,000 profits. Th€1 trio At this :31:.mo tim 0 , oPIX'rtunity for ilie fh--;n to contr ~ ct for tl1e deliver,y- of 25,000 cords of 'Hood to tho Loxington Hilla &t Butta, }fontana, aroso. Al.fr<id was confid ant "tI'1oy could fulfill the contract and realize a greo.t profit. p.,J.t his othSl:" tuo partnors bagsn to be foarfuL Rven tho bold spirit of N:r. Read filltoroo. Thoy doubted tho c ompany l s ability to p(:ll'fo1"ln i uch D. task and folt Alfred was teo much of a pluneor for ~~cm.lo ~~f~d tr-led to persuade tho othor t H O to go nlong ".d th him, telling th e:.~ they one day wmlld regret tJl0ir back outo They did rogN)~ it latar but Grover and Rend otill t.rould not p;).rt.j. cipn.t~t tho p3-rtnership was d.i.ssolved, and A. Hi took his sizeD_bIe oharo of :ho profits to gon t.:ma to \I go it alone 0 It 7 It WllS i n the fill of this year when the trio obtainod the contra ct fer laying a portion of the Rio Grande Railroad along the San Juan i\..ivsr in Colorado. Ons contract Has obt..unod for r ldll'oad l r,ying into NO,\-7 Mmd.co al s o. So tile trio sold thoir s t ore in EllioX'd and turnod all of their en~rgies to the new gradL~ contra cts in Colorado in Jru1US!Y 1880. Sarah Fay. Alfred ' s first da ugh WI' t was born Harch 6. 1880 t during the Colorado contract ora. A..lfred first of all bought out Josoph Broughton am Comp..1.ny. a th:dv1.ng mercantile house at Walkorsvillo. a mining to-.m , boo:ni.'1 and lively. situated onG mile north of !S.J.tte on top of II mountain . Hers A. W. met John Caplioa, Irlsh t vory succossful in r.1illing, am a true gentlorrnn. Together they took OVGr thG IllGrchllntila bU3ina ~g calling their p3.rt.nership Caplice and McCuno, General Contractors. Henry Fr0derick McCune was enlisted to help manage tbe thriving store ,,~th a blustering Englishme.n, a t..'1orough b".J.sino5~r.12n. 'D'19an Apostn.-w from thG LDS Church, by the n111'l1e of Joseph Broughton. Brough ton had mrne d the store preyious. 18 Disaster threatened in the form of hoavy winter but somehow "t4'-:.9 pro~10cts wore p"J.llod off successfully. Thon the partnors cha.ng ed their company name to Grovel', HcCuno, and Road IlrXi cm~ p16t()d 30 miles of South Pll.l"k railroad in Gunnison County. C()l ;re.do ,13 Ul.Orl .54 milos of tho Denver and NOloT Orleans soction of 'ilia Union Pacifac RaUro.' ld b..')twoen Colorado Springsan:::l Pueblo, Colorado . The prcfi ts of the p..1.rtnership continued to gro-i'l. T'ne store had th0 nrune C.2pl1ce, McCune, n.nd Co. over its front and, lldid an i.\m~an~8 busines s being loca.ted in t.~o !lcart of a ,vast mirJ.ng district." Butte WIlS a lTlckoo mecca. for ~a.-nb101"3 and. prostitutes b3causo of its straUiglc location in tho thl'iving mining ani ti.'Tloor distriot of a booming !1ont..ap.1l. Tor:;."i tory,. But yri th tho vicEl which always soems -to folioir proapnri ty f ~o l·chEl.ndis ing. contraoting, and minL'1g undor the able dil""Octor::hip of HcCuno arrl CapJ.ico 't>o'ho chose capable mon to zr.ana.go 1110 store yioldod great profits. Henry Froderick ~m.s able to got a.long i-n th the "~P05ta.ta all right and kept the int-el"Ost6 of A. t,T. 6CCuru . HCCUNE-READ STOCKRAISING COHPANY Alfrod and Hal tor docidoo. to invest some of their money in s. stockraising venture with Tho:rn.as J. Schofiold. Thoy Ol'B;::tnizcd n. stock company and purchased numerous aoreage, cattlo, shoep, am horsos, operating on s, ' large sc<lle in Sout.~ern Ut...<ili . Frank Claridge , Alfred IS fif't..'1 son, 'I-;ras born September 10. 1882 0 at Nep.i.i. -while his father was constructing 20 miles of the - 5- |
