This photo postcard of Dacono was postmarked on March 3rd, but the year is missing. Given the presence of the Keneven and Fisher Saloon in the foreground and what looks to be another saloon on the other side of the Baum Hotel, this picture was probably taken before January 1, 1916, for that is when Colorado went “dry.”
The Baum Hotel is almost certainly named for Charles Lockhard Baum, who dug the coal mine that brought the settlement which became Dacono.
A woman named Grace sent this postcard to her mother in Golden, CO. She writes that her husband Paul “is not working very steady now” and that they may move back to Denver about the 10th of March. Paul probably worked at the Baum “Golden Ash” coal mine, for, as the warmer months would approach, lay-offs would go hand-in-hand with the reduced demand for coal. Grace writes that they had a little snow the night before. Before closing she writes, “I was to a Russian dance Saturday.”
