Letterheads often "say" a lot of things about a company, a person, or even a town. Besides sometimes showing an eye catching image, they may also provide information about an entity or person. The following letterheads are ones we picked out because they are "cool," either from a historical viewpoint or because they're especially interesting.

E. Myers letterhead showing sketch of Texas State Capitol building. Myers would be the architect for the Colorado State Capitol building.

An early example of a land surveyor business. As the state became more settled, such businesses were important.

Nicholas Creede discovered a bonanza silver lode in Saguache County called the Amethyst Lode in 1889. Almost overnight the area teemed with 10,000 miners who established mining camps such as Amethyst, Weaver, Willow, North or Upper Creede, Bachelor, Sunnyside and Gintown (or Jimtown). Creede absorbed some of these towns and eventually became the county seat of Mineral County which was formed out of Saguache County in 1893. A poet and newspaper editor, Cy Warman, wrote this poem about Creede:

Here's a land where all are equal--
Of high or lowly birth--
A land where men make millions,
Dug from the dreary earth.
Here the meek and mild-eyed burros
On mineral mountains feed.
It's day all day in the daytime,
And there is no night in Creede.

The Vestel House was a prominent hotel in mining town, Fairplay in the 1870's and 1880's.

Schools were well established in large communities such as Denver by the time statehood for the Colorado Territory was achieved in 1876.

The small town of Lindon in Washington County was a post office in 1887 and 1888 under the name of Harrisburg. Thereafter, it was named Lindon after pioneer L.J. Lindbeck. In 1994 it had a population of about 50 people.

Trinidad was well established by 1888, first being settled by Hispano pioneers from New Mexico in the early 1860's. The railroad arrived in southern Colorado in the 1870's, spurring impressive growth in Trinidad. The town needed several hotels such as the United States Hotel to accommodate traveling businessmen.

The Nebraska link to the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad was founded in 1869 and later purchased by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. A line to Denver was completed by 1882 which was the first direct rail line from Chicago to Denver.

One of the original Fifty-Niners who discovered gold in Colorado was Charles Nachtrieb who settled on a ranch on Chalk Creek in Chaffee County. Chalk Creek was a post office in 1879 and 1880 and thereafter developed into a town called Nathrop at the junction of the Denver & Rio Grande and the Denver, South Park & Pacific railroad lines.