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Anheuser & Busch Bottling Plant

Fort Collins Express, December 29, 1881

Brown & Law have opened their bottling establishment on Laporte Avenue [described in another article as "west of railroad and south of Depot]. They report trade as improving right along. They bottle the Anheuser & Busch beer, of St. Louis. They have a building 20x40, two stories high. Their trade extends to Evans, Livermore and other towns round about. They have a refrigerator 18x20 for storing beer during the summer.