Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-02-09
NEW SWELL MARKET
WILL OPEN UP MONDAY

The Colorado Cold Storage and Mar
ket company, after full and careful
preparation. will be ready to open up
their magnificent new market on next
Monday morning.
This is market enterprise which,
in point of detail and completeness of
apparatus, will eclipse anything of
the kind ever before attempted in the
San Juan country, and viii equal the
large markets of Denver and Pueblo
in efficiency and variety of stock and
fixtures. and in up-to-date methods of
manufacture. and the handling of
products
Besides the local beef, mutton and
pork with which the market will al
ways be supplied, there will be kept
a complete stock of the Rex brands
of fresh and cured meats. Quaker
Farm pork sausage and Diamond C
links and two pound sacks. Also the
celebrated and unexcelled Diamond
c brand of hams and bacon, choice
homemade and imported lards,
brains, liver and all other packing
house substantials and delicacies
usually or unusually kept in first
class market A full line of choicest
brands of canned meats, vegetables
and fruits, as well as fresh vegetables
and fruits will always be kept on sale
In the manufacturing department
the arrangements and paraphernalia
for manufacturing all kinds of meat
market products are strictly modern
and complete. Everything in this de-
partment is supplied with appliances
which run and cook by steam There
are steam cookers and steam grinders
and presses, steam kettles and steam
sausage suffers, and other mysterious
appliances. all run by steam. the in
terror workings of which are known
only to the initiated. Here will be
manufactured in a room kept as scru-
pulously clean as the most particu-
lar housewives spotless kitchen, full
line of head-cheese. literwurst. Wen
ma and other sausage, etc. etc.
The retail and manufacturing de
partments will be under the immedi-
ate and careful supervision of Mr.,
Ernest Wetter, than whom there is no
more capable and experienced expert
in these lines anywhere in the state.
Mr.. Wetter understands every minute
and practical detail of the business,
and you may rest assured that he will
spare no pains to make the new mar
ket a popular success.
The new rooms. which have just
been completed for the use OF the
market. are very tasty and perfect in
every respect, both for convenience
and display.
On account of this company's splen-
did cold storage plant and its ad-
iuncts, such as the ice factory, private
electric light plant, etc, all located
just at the rear of the new market
corner, they will be thoroughly pre-
pared to supply every want in the
market line, not only retail. but the
wholesale trade of the entire San
Juan district Here is an enterprise
which will be great convenience to |
the retail markets of all this south |
western country. Here they can Sc
cure every choice packing house prod |
uct, in any quantity desired. and at
the lowest market price, fresh and re
anu "i'iioub tiiS ''-H"'i''' w |
lays and eXorbitant express charges |
from Pueblo or Denver.
The Herald is confident that the |
retail men of the entire southwest |
will appreciate this new enterprise, |
which will prove not only great con
but a money-saving necessi- |
ty in their future business.
The Herald believes, knowing full |
well the business character and ability |
of the men who are financiering and |
the Colorado Cold Storage |
and Market company, that this wor-
thy enterprise will prove a complete |
success right from the start, and that |
its business will expand and grow un-
til it becomes one of the potent fac |
tors in Durango's future prosperity |
The officers of the new company, |
which is incorporated, are William |
Wolf, president; Nicholas F. Cooke. |
secretary and treasurer. and Ernest
Wetter, manager.
Rex. Bansemer, the popular agent |
for the celebrated Rex brands of
meats, will have an office in the new
market building. and will make his
headquarters there.