Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-12-23

From Thursdays Daily.
John Moss OF Pine River is visit
ing the city.
Frank Blackmer, proprietor OF the
Blackmer hall at Aztec. is In the city.
ID. Preston Bell returned last even
ing from visit to. Pagosa and VIII
continue to Silverton today.
Returning visitors to the Farming
ton country report great activity in
there and In improvements
In all lines.
Alien g. Draper, who have been In
business at Hesperus for some time.
have leased the Palace hotel bar
room. which they will conduct here
after.
Thomas Maber and ]. NJ. Marshall
have leased the old Greenlight saloon
on Tenth street, at the railroad. and
they will open It up for business in
few days.
The bastile is well Buitcd to the
accommodation OF people who get too
drunk to attend to business and those
who in that condition annoy people
who try to attend to their duties.
Those familiar with the movements
OF western railroads are predicting
that George Gould will broad gauge
the Rio Grande from the upper Rio
Grande valley. south OF Creede, via
Pagoaa. to Durango and build on to
the south to connect with the Allan
tic a. Pacific.
w A. Bey, one OF Pine Rivers
leading and progressive citizens,
spent yesterday In this city. return
ing home this morning. Mr., Bey
has an attractive home and is adding
yearly to the same. May he live
long and prosper is the wish Of many
friends.
The mountain newspapers are be
ginning to record the usual grist of
denths occurring at high attitudes
during winter months. chiefly caused
by pneumonia. resulting from all the
various forms OF exposure. The
mountain men take chances enough
at nil seasons to be entitled to all the
money they get.
Early spring will witness the build
ing OF the new wagon road from the
La Plata river to the East Mancos
country, where the Doyle syndicate
is operating. The road might have
been built this fall had not Mr.. Doyle
been engaged IN the gigantic mining
litigation which has been going on
for several weeks In the United
States courts at Council Bluffs, Iown.
The Home OIL company Mt Pagosa
has lighted flow OF Illuminating gas
producing n blaze eight feet high and
n pipe connecting with the escaping
oas flow IL extended to a stove which
is employed for the comfort OF those
engaged In the enterprise. Those IA.
miiiar with the oil prospects at Pa
rosa are very enthusiastic IN their
predictions for the future OF Archuleta
county
In discussing the death OF u
Shaw Mt Ouray the other day the
Ourav Herald snvs: ''Mnnv people
'hroughout the San Juan borrowed
his hard-carnod money, and. though
hn died without money, upwards oi
900 oo0 In notes that nre long past
duo arc among his personal effects
Some OF these loans were made "a
men quite well known here md who
arc apparently In good circumstanc
es but who were blind to his stricl
on and impoverished condition"
Durango. while priding Itself upon
It's position as an educational city
should not forget there are other less
prctontious places which are ambi
tious to occupy similar position
Anything which lessons Durango's ed
ucational Importance win be felt by
all who are interested In the city
Lack OF habitable houses has kept
many families away from the city
but this IL not so bad as having Heo
pie living In shacks that breed dis
ease
Chas. Il. Johnson. district passen
ger agent of the well known and pop
ular Nickle Plate route from Chicago
east. with headquarters In Denver
came down from Silverton this morn
ing. Sickness In the family pre-
vented Mr., Johnson spending much
time In this city, but his road comes
in for kindly consideration by the
travelling public OF this section.
Business at Hesperus is reported
good. and II is thought there will be
several new buildings erected there
during the coming year The pure