Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-11-30

ton of fact that seems to Dafne
our best informed thinkers, men who
have given much study to the strength
of Durango's resources and to her
needs in building and the advance
ment of her Industries.
From Tuesdays Daily.
J. S. d. Hopkins came over from
Hesperlis yesterday evening to go up
to the ranch. at Hermosa.
O.
Furman Hamor is down from Lake
Hamor and will walt for the snow
storm to settle so his snow shoes will
ft the road.
Mrs. w Il. Forester and Miss Eve.
lyn Thomas departed for Salt Lake
this morning The latter is the daugh-
ter of Governor Thomas of Utah.
The 7-year-old girl Agnes, daughter
OF Andy Nichols. who died at Animas
City Saturday and was buried Sun
day. is said to have had diphtheria.
phone message received from
Shiprock. in the Navajo domain, yes
terday evening. said the weather had
been bright, sunny and beautiful all
day.
DR.. ]. w. Kaylor, VINO has been
spending few days visiting old
friends and attending to business mat
ters, returned to Akron. Colo. this
morning
w. s. Pickerill went down to Farm.
ington this morning to get away from
the storm at home and see what the
lower country can offer in the way OF
precipitation.
Morgan tSeward was down from his
ranch yesterday evening, having been
out the early part of the day getting
| soaked while he hunted the remand
or of his cattle to drive south.
Durango is to be congratulated that
while all her markets are filled with
turkeys today, 80 per cent of them
we're raised here in the country and
are not embalmed products of last
year.
| The boys are down from the Boston
coal mine waiting for the storm to
settle. They could dig coal all right,
but the winding mountain railway to
the mine has soft track and can not
haul coal till the ground hardens.
o
Billy Morris came down yesterday
from the Bonnie Girl mine, accompan-
led by Fred Webb. They said they
had watched snowslides playing ring.
arouud-the-rosy for two days and be
came nervous. They report the whole
La Plata canon scene OF slides.
Roy Hayes came over yesterday to
visit Billy Wigglesworth and attend
to some business. returning to Cortez
this morning. Mr.. Hayes says the
snow. but much rain, and the roads
are what modest farmers call soft
/ Andy Jameson. who has been en-.
gagged in the butcher business and
various other pursuits at Durango for
more than twenty years, departed last
night for Old Mexico. wnere he will
hunt mp a good mining camp.
Chas. Webster, who has been work
ing above Silverton, around the
mines, came down yesterday evening
to go out to Pueblo for the winter,
having made more money in the
mines in one summer than he could
around Pueblo in six years. 80 much
is tne difference in the wages.
| Antoine Wilmer came in yesterday
from Bayfield,. where he is ranching
aud raising his own meat He reports
his neighborhood prosperous and says
that with the further facilities which
the Pine river country will have next
year for irrigating more land, much
more may be expected in the several
lines of production.
Matt Harrington is expected to ar.
rive this evening from Kansas, nav
ing started Sunday, and II the train
comes through he will be here Until
his arrival the relatives and friends
will not know what to do regarding
funeral arrangements for Jerry Har-
rington, who died at Silverton Sunday
morning. The remains were brought
down yesterday evening. Robert Dwy.
or, an uncle, having gone up Sunday
to arrange for removal to Durango.
Billy Mann came down yesterday
evening from Minnie guch. where he
has been working a prospect property
of his own during the past summer.
lie VIII go out for the winter for a
change of climate. He says he knows
that when a chew of tobacco doesn I
taste right there is something wrong
and he must seek lower altitude. He
Will go over about the Arkansas river,
west OF Canon City, SO as not to be
too far away from mining camp.
The boys delivering and selling
Denver daily papers were out in the
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