Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-01-20

From Thursdays Daily.
Aid any policy which will build,
Improve. develop and make the San
Juan greater.
The southwest must produce more
meat. more wheat and more potatoes
and hay and grain.
Some big prices are being refused
for lands lying near to Durango,
which are sought for oil boring.
Bottling the water OF the springs
soda and otherwise. about Durango
Is to he one OF the important indus
tries
S. 8. Merry since retiring as sup
| erintendent OF schools is planning for
a big campaign OF advertising OF his
popular catarrh remedy.
| The clouds were more promising
this morning OF snow than since the
time for winter weather begun. and
still Durango has had no snow.
| The Montezima valley will have to
get to boring artesian wells. They
might get oil by 1t, but If they get
| plenty OF water they viii be much
better on than they are now.
X J. McNutt took the morning
| train for Monte Vista, where he goes
In. utt 90 sl,x al G. |
Home board VIII be gone week
or ten days.
District Attorney Anglim and At
| torney N. C. Miller will go to Pa
gosa tomorrow to attend the regular
term OF the district court for Archu-
lcta county.
1t is now Levan q Williams, Mr..
w. II. Williams having purchased
Mr.. Morgan's interest in the saloon
business. Mr.. Williams will thus re-
main and be one Of us.
| 1t may not be long until some Of
the local coal companies Will be Dor
ing In the Durango coal felds for oil
Stranger things have happened In
this country.
Who Will be the next in Durango to
build big block that will be ade-
quate with the requirement OF the
times. There are several business
firms hungry for better places to do
business In.
The stockgrower who will be pre-
pared to produce his own feed Is go
ing to be In It. He will make his
own price on what his stock eats.
and II he can make more by selling
his feed than by feeding he can sell
both stock and feed
The tearing down OF the ruins"
to make room for the new cold stor.
age enterprise goes .merrily on, and
9Th street Is being raised in the
process of removing broken bricks,
lime and sand. making needed and
creditable Improvement.
The spirit to help communities and
people to do greater things is co-ex-
lstcnt with intelligence and eniight- |
| ened thought. The selfish, grab-ev-
ery-thing-in-sigh policy even to the |
emulation of the banditti. is malice |
born of ignorance
The Herald was the first Colorado |
paper to publish the facts regarding
the contamination of the great min
ing deal at Rico. The deal was made |
In Denver The Herald published |
| the news and 1t WAS wired from the |
| Herald account to the Denver papers. |
District Attorney Anglim on his re-
| cent trip to Montezuma county did |
some business. convicting George |
Peel and WIN Bishop of petty lar |
ceny. They had stolen divers arti- |
cles of wearing apparel at a dance. !
| 1t is said this petty thieving at the |
dances has been going on In the re-
| mote places for several years and |
this is the first conviction.
| The Herald was the first Colorado |
paper To publish Frank Hartman's
article on the mills Of San Juan.
written for Mines and Minerals.
| Since that time the article has been |
published In many Of the papers, In
cluding the Denver Times. That /,
article was the first ever written on
the mills OF the San Juan collective |
ly, and Mines and Minerals was at
great expense in securing the data
II is such matter as will attract the |
attention of capital and practical peo- |
pie. and the popular mining jour |
nails efforts In behalf OF the country |
| win be appreciated. as is indicated |
by the article being so widely pub
| llshed