I’ve always been intrigued by this item in an 1882 map of Golden. What is a “Bone Fertilizer Works?” Bone meal? I haven’t found much enlightenment in the old Transcripts. For a few weeks in 1884, the company ran an advertisement saying,
Golden Fertilizer Works.
Have on hand for sale: Pure bone manures, pure bone ash, pure ground bone; also decomposed meat and bone for fruit trees, grape vines and truck farming; acid salts for thoroughly rotting barn yard manure. Material furnished farmers for making their own artificial manurers. Pure ground plaster for grass, alfalfa, etc., etc. The prices of the above articles have been greatly reduced. Satisfactory terms given to responsible farmers.
If that appetizing description doesn’t make you want to get out and amend your soil, I don’t know what will.
