GRANT COUNTY


Organized, 1888; named for President Ulysses S. Grant; County seat, New Ulysses; area, 576 square miles, 368,640 acres; population (1915),1900; assessed valuation (1915), $2,193,999; resources and industries—agriculture and stock raising


NEW ULYSSES
Population (1915), 116; elevation, 2960 feet; established about 3885; formerly Ulysses; named in honor of U. S. Grant; town moved to present location in 1909; railway station is situated on the Santa Fe railway
Ulysses Discontinued
Ulysses Short-lived--Vol. 1

GRANT COUNTY REPUBLICAN, Republican; S. A. Davis, editor and publisher, New Ulysses.
Weekly. Apr. 30, 1892 + 24 vol.
Founded 1892 by A. T. Evans.


DISCONTINUED

CITY PAPERS/DATES VOLS.
Ulysses Grant County Register. July 21, 1885 - 1890 5
Tribune; Tribune-Commercial; Grant County Register. Mar. 19, 1887 - 1892 6
Cincinnati Commercial. Cincinnati and Appomattox. Apr. 7, 1887 - 1888
[See, also, Ulysses Tribune]
1
Standard. Cincinnati and Appomattox. Dec. 24, 1887 - 1888
Golden Gazette. Feb. 16, 1887 - 1889 3
Shockeyville Eagle. Mar. 16, 1886 - 1889 2
Plainsman. Shockeyville and Ulysses. Jan. 4, 1889 - 1890 2
Surprise Post. June 3, 1886 - 1887 1
Zionville Sentinel. June 30, 1887 - 1888 1



SHORT-LIVED--VOL. 1

CITY PAPERS/DATES
Ulysses Register (d). Aug. 1 - 15, 1888
Conductor Punch. Nov. 25, 1887 - Feb. 3, 1888
Lawson Leader. Oct. 28, 1887 - Jan. 20, 1888
Shockeyville Independent. Dec. 7, 1887 - Jan. 18, 1888


 
 
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