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The silver star., 1899-09-08

J. j. Harris l. Co. have just received
enough sugar direct from San Franc isco
to sweeten the county. and xre selling il
at u price that defies competition.
The silver star., 1899-09-08

Mrs. A. A. Rust and children came in
Sunday. from visit with relatives at
Rico and Quarry.
The silver star., 1899-09-08

When in Durango you should stop Ut
the Inter. Ocean Hotel. Chas. Fleck. pro.
prietor. The table 10 supplied with sv.
erything the market affords aud you are
sure Of being treated courteously 10 well
as having y good comf0rtwbis bed to
sleep 10. Rates eI.j0 and 600 per day;
opposite Union Depot. i6tf
The silver star., 1899-09-08

Joe. butcher received a letter, Wednes.
day. from his youngest daughter, Grace,
which announces her marriage on June
l4th, to Homer Dayton, at Keota. Iowa.
The silver star., 1899-09-08

J.. ". d. Brindle came In. Tuesday even
Ing. from Cortes. having made the trip
from Durango 10 Dolores on his wheel
not In one day. however.
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: Fred Adams. Of Bluff Utah. vas q
visitor 10 Dolores last Monday. lie ssys
the machinery for the placer camp will
probsbly'srt fhouxh scristirs thssysnr.
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new serial story will soon appear on
the inside Of TmE SILVER STAR. Now 10
the time to subscribe II you want 10 read
ihis story.
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A bridge has been put in on the street
leading to the river bridge and the grade
fixed up for hauling.
The silver star., 1899-09-08

Mrs. II. E. Brumley returned. yester.
day, from Lizard Head, where she has
been visiting Mrs. A. NJ. Puett.
The silver star., 1899-09-08

Frank Hall. Of Durango. canvassed
this village Wednesday and yesterday in
th e interest OF some books he 10 selling.
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Most OF the farmers are cutting their
second crop of Alfalfa.
The silver star., 1899-09-08

J. J. Harris Il Co. have one Of tn,
most complete stocks Of genera
merchandise found in the West.
The silver star., 1899-09-08

Mrs. Chas. Mattson and baby lef, last
Wednesday for Durango TO visit with
relatives.
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A9-wh"n you answer an advertisement in
fIE SILVER STAR. either local or foreign,
please mention me fact hat you saw II in THF
STAr. II ross you nothing and may be x e
help TO the paper 80
The silver star., 1899-09-08

Noah Barnes is now making regular
trips to this village with water melons,
and they are up to the usual standard.
The silver star., 1899-09-08

Martin Rush left Thursday for Plateau
to purchase beef.
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Notice Of sDiscon6nuance SILVER STAR
10 not discontinued at exUiration and in sent
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Address all communicationst to
JOE II. DEWITT. PURLIsHER.
Dolores, Colorado.
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VI. MacCwaig came in Wednesday eve
ming from Ground hog.
The silver star., 1899-09-08

Senator Harris and wife and Mr.. and
Mrs. Smallwood visited the Montezuma
valley last Sunday.
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WASrEp:-At the sawmill: three or
four mill hands. A. A. Rrsr.
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Archie Hays passed through this city
last Wednesday enroute to Mancos on
his wheel. He says the Rico firemen
carried off the prizes at Ouray on Labor
Day
The silver star., 1899-09-08

Rate From Dolorcs to Grand Juoer,ox
Peach Day Sept. II. Ia e7.75, selling days
Sept. II, II. and II; final limit to return
Sept. 10.
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Harry French and wife were visitors
in Dolores. last Monday.
The silver star., 1899-09-08

Chester II. Brown, KsIAniasop. Mich,
says, "kodoI Dyspepsia Cure cured me
OF y severe case Of indigesiion,cnn strong.
" recontsn@ud 1t 10 all dysp-pticA" d.
Resfs what you rai without MD frnm the
stomach and cures dyspepsia. M. II.
Ordwsy.
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There's RIways hope while there's One
Minute Cough CurerAn attack ofpneu.
monia left my lungs IA bad shape and /
was nesr the frat stages of cons um y lion.
One Minute Cough Cure compisteiy cur.
ei me" writes licl.n Mriienry. .BisInark
N. D.oives instant reiief.-M. n. Ord way.
When in Dolores stop at the Sou uthsru,
For wounds. burns, scalds. sores, skin
dissssessnd all Irritating cru ptiuna. moth.
Ing ~ enothIng and healing as DrWjttn
Witch hafA Hniss.. Mrp Emtnm B,lles.
hAtron Engiewood Nura~ry, ,Ch hicsv, says
of its "Whcn ull slse faila IN healing our
babies, II win cure" N. II. Ordwxy.
the SILVER SrAR prinss ell the iocsl
ews--subscribc fer It -Iee.ee YER.
ko,iol pyypspsls Cure u 4 vcIen,So
compound hkslhg the endaraeit,tnt II
eminent physicians and the vshslical nrtSh
Ie "dixesn whst ypu eat. and poslfi fisely
qureo dyypSp6lh. =. A. KesfO6, BInott.
|1ngdoie. Tonn.. nays Il cured hie II indl.
eeeet0n - IN Sssss' >tss~ s~s~s -. q. ed.
W.
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There it Roe-! Sec it, You ought to
have il insured!
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The county commissioners we're in ses-
sion yesterday.
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THE NATIONAL. I.ANDLrsr

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stnsy, tote tsIhtsd eeoe
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Hot. dry and dusty.

A little rain would be very welcome in
this vicinity.
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Stop at tho inisr.Ocesn Hotel whcr
10 Durango. l0tf
The silver star., 1899-09-08

The liner Ocean Hotel Is III. tls,. !.
stop when you Ru to Durango. G,nA VII
gOod meals ami cuurttxais 'r-atnen. an
assured you. 1877
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enjoy its present pre-eminence it is. of
course, impossible TO say. The very
conditions that have made it may cause
it to be excelled within the next few
years
The erection of 400-foot office build
ing offers no engineering nor architec-
tural problems that have not been dealt
with before in steel structures of lesser
height. II is an evolution from the first
steel building. Just as the sixty mile-an
hour express train is a natural develop
ment from the first use of steam for
traction purposes.
This is not saying that it is a simple
matter TO put up thirty-story build
ing. 1t is really a wonderful achieve
ment, not for the particular architect
or engineer engaged in this one under
taking, but for the constructive genius
of the age which has made such a feat
possible.
The best idea of the magnitude of
such a structure as the Park row build
ing may be obtained. perhaps, from a
consideration of some of the startling
city, is. tower and all, nearly fifty feet
below the summit of the new building.
How long the Park row building will
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great this distance is one may realize
b. rejecting that it is equal to the
length of two city blocks. or by meas
uring off the distance horizontally for
himself
While there are a few structures that
exceed the new building in vertical di-
mension, it is by all odds the tallest in
habited building in the world The res
taurant on top of the main building is
sos feet above the street. while the top
most offices, large. comfortable rooms,
are $40 feet in the air. Their windows
command a view of over forty miles.
The two lofty towers of the building
may be seen from nearly the entire dis
lance across the state of New Jer-
sey.
The new building has a frontage of 1G3
feet on the street which il faces, of
twenty-three feet ON a side street. and
of forty-seven feet on a rear alley. 1t
may, therefore. be said to look in three
directions. 1t is nearly four times as
high as its main frontage. The diff
ficulty presented by that proportion is
an architectural problem of some mag
nitude in itself.
The lot on which the building stands
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the vacation idea popular with thou
sands who never entertained it before.
The central Chautauqua and its sew
enty odd branches gather together q
multitude that numbers from 10000 10
100000 at all times during the season.
With the other educational, religions
and temperance assemblies. the Chau-
tauquas continually entertain no fewer
than 1000, 600 pleasure-seekers. and rep
resent an expenditure probably not less
than $4,000 per day
Any comprehensive account of the
amounts paid out for summer vaca-
tions by Americans must include a
large item under the head of ocean
travel. In any ordinary season the
cabin lists OF all the Atlantic liners
are crowded from May until Septem-
Der. A certain amount of this travel
is on account of business, but the
majority of the travellers are on pleas
ure bent In addition to the regular
voyages of the liners. there are many
special trips to various parts of the
world which claim thousands of voy-
ayers.
No fewer than 100000 is a safe esti-
mate of the number of those who take
their summer outing in the form of a
sea trip. 1t is expected that next year
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HALF BILLION FOR SUMMER VACATIONS.
Take
and How They Are RunMost Famous AnYacht

There is no business in the countr,
that has grown so rapidly of recent
years as the summer vacation business
Twenty years ago the ordinary Ameri-
can would have stood aghast at the
idea of leaving his business for two or
three weeks in the summer season.
Consequently he never thought of Of
fering such rest to his employees. But
the summer vacation habit gradually
fastened itself upon us and has grown
stronger every year, until it may be
said to be characteristic American
ha bit.
In almost all business offices it has
become customary for everybody. from
the head of the firm to the boy who
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-28

nearly 100000 Americans will cross
the Atlantic to visit Europe and attend
the Paris exposition.
Cities as Summer Resorts.
1t is not usual TO consider the large
cities. like Chicago, New York and Bos-
ton. as summer resorts, but it is a fact
that a good many persons spend their
vacations i'll these places For exam
pie it is said to be easier to rent GER
tain high-class apartments in New York
and Chicago in summer than in winter.
They are taken for the most part by
visitors from the south. who choose
this time to visit the northern cities and
view their various attractions. Many
clergymen, teachers and professional
men from other parts of the country
spend their vacations in one or another
of the large cities where they can make
use of libraries or other conveniences
that they desire TO enjoy.
Practically all of these vacation trips
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-28
SOLD A HERD OF ELEPHANTS.
Michigan Man Makes a Big Deal
With the King of Siam.

Chicago Inter OCEAN,
Warner P. Sutton of Saugatuck,
Mich, has just sold fifty elephants. He
received 1920 for the bunch, or s742. 90
a head, and he says it was. an extra
good price. He had had the ANIMALS
upon the market for two years. and
would have been glad to get $50. 600 for
| them The elephant market was glut-
ted however. and he had to wait until
a customer came along who could at
ford to own such a herd and to employ
the $50 men needed to care for and
work the beasts.
These elephants We're part of the
Cheek estate in Siam, which Mr. SUIT
ton is settling up for the widow. Mrs
Sarah Bradley Cheek. of Oakland, Cal.
The late Mr.. Cheek was an American
citizen, who lived in Siam; and. being
man who feared nothing. he went
into the lumber business in partner
ship with the Siamese king His ma
jesty furnished the forests and posi-
bly, the capital. At any rate, Mr.. Cheek
put in the brains and the enterprise
prospered. 1t is not charged that Mr.
Cheek died because he was the kings
partner. but at any rate he passed
away, and there We're rumors of diner
ences between him and the king be-
fore he did so.
w HGD MIS- CAtth asked IOI lIIP-
ment there was trouble What the
trouble was is not clear. but it seems
that the king did not intend 10 be rash
about paying her anything. Mrs. Cheek
was a Michigan girl, and had a broth
er. the Rev. Dan Bradley of Grand
Rapids through whom the matter was
placed in the hands of Mr.. Sutton. Tie
latter has had considerable experience
in handling recalcitrant foreigners. He
had never handled an unruly king. but
he decided to take the case and 80 ut
his Siamese majesty. just as he would
at an ordinary foreigner. There is IL
place over in the state department in
Washington where, if you know how 10
do it. you touch the button in the mat
ter of a foreigner and Uncle Sam does
the rest. Mr. Sutton pushed the but
ton.
The king of Siam took it hard at hrs:.
1t was new to him. But the pressure
from Washington continued. Then
the king gave in. But he appears 10
have done so slowly and reluctantly
1t is POW four years or more since he
began to yield. and the Cheek estate IS
not yet settled. An allowance has been
made to the widow to live upon, and
the assets of the numbering business OF
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add to the income of some one of the
railway systems OF the country. The
general passenger agent of one of the
smaller lines says that the income of
his road from vacation passenger travel
is S6OO,OO0. In the case of the great
systems like the Pennsylvania and the
New York Central this business must
be worth from $l,5O0,0OO to $4,000 an
nuaily.
The individual cost of these vacation
trips varies from a few dollars for
railroad fare, in the case of the man
who visits relatives or friends in the
country, to $4,000 or above for those
who stop at expensive hotels in fash
lonable resorts. Altogether it is quite
WITHIN the bounds of reason to say that
Americans spend. on account of their
summer pleasures. $500, O0O, Geo to $780,
OOO,OOO- This is a tidy sum TO eXpend
Tor the sake of having a good time IL
all Americans were willing to dispense
with their outings and to turn the
amount thus saved over to the govern
ment, TIE amount would be sufficient to
eXtinguish the national debt of 1915. 0O0.-
600 IN two years. 1t is nearly double
the entire expense of the Spanish
American war
In treating of this subject the statis-
ucIan would include as part of the cost
OF summer vacations the amount which
the people would take vacations would
earn if they remained al their ordinary
employmentS during the same period.
For the entire 100000 vacationists
this must amount to some 5000. 600 600
This amount can scarcely be said To be
lost, however. as the increased vigor
with which the workman or business
man returns 10 his task probably en-
ables him to make up the time lost in
an absence of one or two weeks
The summer vacation has come to he
a social and financial movement of the
first Importance. The influence on bust
ness and trade of the movement of
$500. 100000 is not to be overlooked This
money is scattered broadcast among
railways, hotels and tradesmen in every
part of the country. \ large part of il
reaches the persons employed by the
railways. hotels and tradesmen. and
stimulates the labor market in places
where 1t is apt to need such an infiu-
ence- Ultimately most of the money
returns whence it came through pur-
chases made by the country residents
hotel employees and others who re-
ceive it. Thus it completes the course
followed by the vacationists themselves
and is of double benefit to the business
community T.. w. MAYO.
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Brave Men Fall

victims TO stomach. liver and kidney
troubles as well as women, and all feel
the results in loss of appetite, poisons
in the blood. backache, nervousness,
headache and tired. listless. rundown
feeling. But there's no need to feel
like that. Listen TO j. w. Gardner.
Idaville, Ind. He says: Electric Bit
tiers are just the thing for man when
he is all rundown, and don't care
whether he lives or dies. 1t did more
to give me new strength and good ap-
petite than anything / could take. I
can now eat anything. and have a new
lease on life" Only 80 cents, at u. c.
NJ. 1. Drug Store. Every bottle guar
anteed.
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BY R. H. ROBERTSON.

The new Park row building in New
building in the world. and, with very
few exceptions, the tallest work of hu-
man hands to be found anywhere on
the earth's surface. A passing glance
at the sky line of lower Manhattan
shows how decidedly it towers above its
near neighbors and closest competitors
the st. Paul building, which is 30S
feet high. and the American Surety
building, rising S12 feet above the street.
The Manhattan Life structure, which
was, for a long time, the highest in the
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THE FIRST SKY SCRAPER.
Built By Architects Holabird and
Roach, Who Designed It.

Chicago construction" as a term
designating the modern bridge-built
steel sky-scraper, is an evolution. No
one man can claim the method as his
own. 1t grew out of local necessities
and circumstances more surely than
from the brain of one enthusiastic ex-
perimentor. Its practicability, how
ever, was first demonstrated in the
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on the Long Island coast The Cat
skills, the White mountains and the
Wisconsin lakes show half as many.
There are 800 in Asbury Dark. Com
putting these hotels to contain ar aver
age of twenty rooms eacn. and to be
filled to two-thirds of their CAPACITY
during the summer, the hotel bill Of
Americans on their vacations must
amount to at least S1.5OO,OO0 per day
during the hot season.
Vacations With Farmers.
In addition to the hotels, there are
thousands of village and farmnousas
where summer boarders are lodgel and
fed. In some parts of the country
nearly every family takes summer
boarders. and there are probably as
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To begin with. its height from the
sidewalk to the tops of the cupolas on
the towers is $50 feet Thus it is over
100 feet taller than the dome of the cap
itol at Washington. eighty-five feet
above the statue of liberty, and within
a very few feet of the extreme height
of the pyramids. Even these figures do
not represent its full proportions. The
flag poles on top of the building are
fifty-seven feet in height The founda-
tons extend fifty-four feet below the
surface. Therefore. from the base of
its foundations to the top of its fiagpole
the new building spans SOL feet. How
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Cheek and the king are being closed
out, but it may be several years more
before Mrs. Cheek is in actual possess
sion of the halfmillion or more still
due her.
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many who find entertainment in this
way as visit the hotels The great
American summer board bill cannot
fall short of s., 900 per week.
All over the mountain and lake dis
tricts are located camps where sum-
mer vacationists pitch their tents and
live in more or less primitive fashion.
The number of those who spend their
outings in this fashion grows larger
every year. 1t is considerably above
the million mark now. Their expendi-
lures for camp outfits. provisions and
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contains $1,000 square feet. Considering
this fact and the great hight of the
structure, it need not be said that a
vast amount of steel and stone and
other material enters into its construc-
ton. AS matter of fact, ii weighs
about 10000 tons. If all the material
were loaded upon heavy street trucks
it would require a procession of teams
and wagons nearly three miles long to
convey it. 1t would build all the houses
of an ordinary suburban town, with
sized church.
1t may surprise those who are not ia
miliar with the art of modern construc-
ton to know that this towering struc-
ture, with all its weight, rests upon a
foundation of sand. 1t is as secure,
however, as though its base rested upon
the most solid rock. In fact, founda-
ton equal if not superior to rock was
made for it.
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Ten Thousand Yachts.

Others who like the freedom of indie
pendent vacation trips, but who do not
care for the piney woods, turn to
yachting as a means of recreation. \
coasting trip on a small sailbOat
affords an inexpensive and delightful
summer vacation. The fleet of yachts
and pleasure craft that dot our coast
and inland waters every season num-
Der something like 10000, and repre-
sent an expenditure that adds several
millions to the debit side of our pleas
ure account
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If you want good seeds write for our
catalogue; write US postal card.
R-WIEDEMANN co.
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SKY SCRAPERS ARE NOW TEN YEARS OLD
Building
Its Architects Tell
Just Erected in New Man Who Designed It.
What the Building Is.

and spectacular statistics which it pre-
sents.
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1t Stands On a Bridge.


This was done by driving timbers a
foot. in diameter and forty feet long
into the sandy soil which forms the site
of the building by means of a twenty
ton pile driver. These piles are in rows
| two feet apart and sixteen inches from
center to center under the vertical
columns which support the structure.
There are some l., 600 of them under the
whole building. Several acres of
| Georgia timber land were denuded to
furnish the foundations alone of this
big building.
The piles were driven into the ground
as far as they would go under the
blows of the twenty-ton driver. They
are thus prepared to sustain a weight
of twenty tons. AS the most that will
be put upon them is about seven tons 1t
will be seen that they form a tolerably
secure foundation. Moreover, they are
below the water line, so that they are
indestructible by the ordinary process
of decay.
When the piles were driven in their
full length the sand was cleared away
for a foot down around their tops and
concrete was poured about them,
forming a. solid rock surface, resting
securely upon their caps. On this con-
crete base were laid large blocks of
granite and above them the brick piers
of the building.
The weight of the building is not al
lowed to come directly upon the granite
capStones which surmount these piers,
Instead, it is distributed by the system
of steel Orders which is familiar to all
engineers. These Orders are from eight
to forty-seven feet in depth. They are
in effect big bridges placed between the
foundations and the footings of the
vertical columns of the building to
carry the weight evenly. The heaviest
of these. beneath one wall of the build
ing, weighs over fifty-two tons.
Above the surface the method of con-
structing the building has been the
one that must be tolerably familiar to
all residents of the larger cities who
have seen tall buildings in process of
erection. 1t consists of a steel frame
work. built span above span as is done
in the building of a cantilever bridge.
The walls are merely the sheating for
this skeleton structure. Having as
surance of sufficiently firm foundation
any engineer could sit down and figure
out in a few minutes how to build a
building if it were
necessary. The addition of a few more
stories to a steel building offers no
great engineering difficulties. The con-
siderations that finally will limit the
height of skyscrapers will probably be
rather of an economical nature.