Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-12-30

Plata river section where he has con-
siderable mining property. Mr..
Owens is looking for big campaign
of mining development in his section
next year.
Telluride is just entering upon it's
greatest winter of ore production. and
within sixty days the temporary shut
down of the Smuggler will not be no
ticed for its brief curtailmenut of
production.
Charlie Burt, the Needles mountains
prospector and contractor. is spend
ing the holidays In the city, and will
resume work on his present five hun
dred-foot contract about the first of
the new year.
1t is predicted that the mountain
demand for Durango manufactured
pressed brick will be stronger next
year than ever before. as several new
business blocks are planned for
Silverton next summer
DR.. G. v. Copp went out to Denver
this morning with the idea of short
visit. provided an extra session of the
legislature is not called Should
this be done. he will remain to partic-
ipate In its deliberations, being the
La Plata-Montezuma senator.
Elsewhere in this issue appears
notice given by the health officers of
the city and county, commanding peo-
pie to secure burial permits before
burying the dead. On inquiry The
Herald was unable to learn whether
or not there have been abuses of this
state law in Durango or not.
Quite a sensational divorce case is
on at the county court this afternoon.
Mrs. Jerry Hobo filed bill for divorce
cross-complaint was filed by the
husband. The evidence is quite
.racy. some hobos being made CO.
respondents. 1t is said a snapshot
was taken of the woman while in the
arms of one of her lovers.
The stockmen who range their
herds In the mountains In summer
months. figuring to get the stock out
before deep SHOWS come, have ma lie q
striking contrast of miscalculation
during the past two winters. Last
fall they waited till the later part of
November. and had to dig animals
out of six feet of snow. Had they
remained in this fall until today they
would have had no snow.
The popular desire to secure a
home packing house in Durango
ought to result in the organization of
strong local company. The first
of April will not be too soon to begin
the building. Paying fiat excess
oil at least three cents per pound for
meats. on account of freighting thom
out of the country several hundred
miles and bringing them back again.
will not be suffered much longer in
the southwest
]. B. Blizzard, owner of the Esmer-
aida mine, above Silverton, will
spend two or three months in Arizona
this winter, looking over some country
he visited a good many years ago
While absent Italian contractors will
continue the main Esmeralda tunnel
on the vein for further stopping ground
from the lower level. The Esmeral-
da has just closed a most successful
year of production and will be in
shape next year to largely increase its
output.
Richard Shields came in this morn
ing from Lightner canon. He says
the deer made mistake this fall in
their calculations on the weather
Heretofore they have waited till the
first heavy snow to leave the noun.
tains. but this fall they went out
several weeks ago to the lower lands
of New Mexico, from whence many
Of them never return, and he wonders
If the Colorado game laws protect
Colorado deer visiting in New Mexico.
Gus. Larouge, the Mexican who
married the Mexican woman who tes-
titled in the incest case against L.
Hadley. convicted three years ago.
that Hadley was her second husband.
has created sensation in Mexican
circles by eloping with another Mex
lean woman, leaving the Hadley wo-
man No. with her children in n
starving condition. In taking the last
woman away from one of his nei.,h-
bors he is said to have violated the
statutes by appropriating the on
ly stock the fellow had to HIS own use
and benefit, namely, Billy goat.
Manager O'Keefe telephoned The
Herald from Pennington this fore
noon, the line working splendidly. A
few details remain, and then all will
be In readiness for business by the
last day of the year. This work has
been pushed with great vigor and re-
fleets credit on those having the
work in charge, but the instructions
were to rush to completion before the
close Of the year. and this has been
accomplished. That the line will
prove of preat conyenienca IN our nao-