Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-24

greatest boosters In COLORADO. so le
, all the boosters be on hand or tn
, secretary may be accused of exat
gerating.
: The Pennington country is gettin
to be widely known among the HON
seekers and investors abroad, an
they are arriving daily. looking 70
homes, business opportunities, builC
ing chances and other investments.
Charlie Fleck is getting ready t
work his properties in the Oro Fin
section OF the La Plata mining dis
trict. Between these and his Light
ner holdings with Billy Hankey h,
has a good chance to make some min
ing money.
Tom Edwards went up in Wall'i
gulch Sunday to look at prospect h,
! had heard about. He has dabbed int
good many things and if he keep!
up his lick he will get n mine. Plucl
and hope were never better inyeste,
in Colorado
Chancellor Buchteps AN Evening
With James Whitcomb Riley" at tn,
Methodist church Saturday night was
| attended by fair congregation
which was delighted with the enter
tainment Chancellor Buchtel depart
ed this morning for Denver.
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DR. Hurds mother and brother are
visiting him, arriving Saturday even
ing. His mother, Mrs. e. H. Mills
is from Garrettsville, o.. and the
brother, Frank Hurd, is from Youngs
town. same state.
The oldest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. L. Paxton had needle re
moved from the heel yesterday AT
Ochsners hospital The needle was
run into the foot the Fourth of July
and was located by X-rays.
Leo Won Rosenberg does not appear
to be one of those numerous mining
experts who go into mining district
to turn everything down out of feaI
that he will lose his reputation. He
works long, earnestly and thoroughly
~
Do you remember how at the school
election last year the public was
promised 1T would be taken into the
confidence of the school board and the
doings at all meetings would be made
public? And how has the promise
been kept?
The Democrat says that during
Prof. Olin's visit here he saw great
wealth in malt barley. but in other
sections he saw II different The
Democrat then quotes an article to
show way, but nothing whatever is
said about barley.
District court will convene for La
Plata county on the first Monday
tSeptember A., and attorneys are
making a lively hustle to catch up on
cases which they had not prepared
for trial. There will be as much as
the usual quota of both criminal and
civil cases, II not more. The Grim
inal docket is probably larger tnan us
ual, there being a number of import
ant cases.
Joe Weinig went out to the Duran
go Girl Sunday morning. and from
there across the characterization di
vide to prospect toward the nead OF
Deep creek where Earl Snyder has
been mining and the Mexico sheer
owners are herding their focks
might 1t be" that another pasture
will turn out as good as Cripple
Creek? Joe drank at the brookside
as he went along his way.
f. c. Dunbar and wife arrived last
night from Detroit, Mich, and will
take up their residence here. Mr.
Dunbar comes to look after the rub
ber factory. He has cut loose his
boats and burned his bridges behind
MIN" and may now be considered a
permanent fixture in Durango. Mr.
Dunbar reports the machinery for the
ih't'is Du NHt
number of men with him who will fill
positions In the factory.
O.
Hon. T. C. Henry and Hon. A. J
McCune, former state engineer, are In
the city being on business connected
with the irrigation problem of Monte
yuma county. Mr.. Henry pro
posed, for the Montezuma Land &
Water company, the terms to the
landholders who would come undel
the proposed extension of the canal
Mr.. McCune is the engineer who wal
employed TO do the engineering worl
in the event that the terms were ac
cepted. Up to the present time tn,
canal company and the landholderi
have made little progress towards get
| ting together. Messrs. Henry anC
McCune go ont to Cortez tomorrow.
George Donahue. who will be re
membered by many of our theatel
goers as one of the pleasing actor
| wno was here with the Marie Fouu
tain company last December, is bac
again as manager of the Eastern Ma