Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-09-11

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the money. One OF the pretiest coun-
tries on the face Of the big globe.
Toe La Plata district needs one mil
lion dollars as much as hungry toll
er ever needed his supper.
Editor Egger OF the Times-Observer
and Editor Day of the New Era. at
Pagosa. continue to make faces at
each other
The modern fashion OF peddling
soup de bouilion requires the use OF
4 trowel "The smile that does not
wear or has vanished. so fleet are
the works Of men.
Reduce the tax rate and invite peo-
pie with money to build at once 200
more residences in Durango. You
wfll thus invite the Investment OF
from one to two million dollars with
In year in the industries OF La Plata
county.
J. A. Hill, the carpenter and car
builder. employed so long In car
building In Colorado, where he has
done the finishing of some of the fin
est coaches we have, emerged from
the hospital yesterday after a siege
of several weeks.
With less talk and more actual de.
velopment than ever the La Plata dis
trict looks good-epeouraging TO the
farmer and the other trade seekers.
There is perceptible difference be-
tween the three and four dollars per
day wage aud the twenty TO sixty dol
lars per month salary.
can put up the third best stock show
In the counties OF Colorado. Will the
stockgrowers bring the best ones? ?
Stalls at the fair grounds will be free
and II there are not enough 1t will
not take long to build some more.
Judging from external appearances
and outward demonstrations, 1t may
be reasonably predicted that there will!
be some weddings on or about fair
time. and it's outside fellers coming
in to get these girls. The town fellers
keep themselves broke and our girls
have to seek elsewhere, You're bad
lot. boys.
G. NJ. Hiliker. who retired to he hos
pital as L result OF trying to keep up
the old gait in the mountains with a
lot Of kids, is reported as getting
along a little better. and will proba-
bly, be about in day or 80.
G. W. Bowman. formerly in the saw
mill business in Archueta county but
now with the Mutual Life Insurance
company, is in the city. accompanied
by H, L. Thompson, who is associated
with him in the work. The two have
been making an overland trip from
Denver. While In this section Mr.
Bowman will visit his brother at Glad
stone and also at Pennington.
Among the capitalists going into
the Pennington country are men oi
rare discrii iinstion in their selection
Of opportunities. who, If they lighi
there, will have abundant capital fol
any enterprise they choose to foster
Already one syndicate is atins
the situation for a mammoth electric
plant, generating its power from the
waters Of the upper San Juan river
Another is big irrigation enterprise
tiuming and diverting San Juan waters
over the highest lands in San Juan
county, New Mexico.
o
c. s. Bailey OF the executive board
OF the Aztec fair. who is doing the big
boost, writes The Herald: you will
nnd enclosed complimentary tickets
to our fair and carnival September 10
20 and 2l. We are preparing pre- gram
which will furnish amusement for all
and our exhibit Of fruits and produce
promises to be one OF the largest ever
displayed In northern New Mexico
Take few days OF and visit us al
this time Get rid of your business
trials for few days. We expect you
and YOU should make 1t a point to be
herA"
II is getting too late to swim. too
cold, but 1t is not too late to dyna.
mite that drowning hole in the Ami.
mas river. Who will take the lead in
this enterprise? II will be lots of fun
to see the electric battery work on
some deep holes there. loaded to the
guard with dynamite or nitro-glycer.
inc. It's neat job to pour the nitro,
but cousummately more fun to watch
what II will do when 1t "goes on"
The Herald today presents the list
of rates made by the Denver & Rio
Grande railway for the people of vari-
ous given points who may desire to
visit Durango during the fair. It may
he well for the management of the fair
to send advertising as early as posi-.
BILE to all the points stated, and to fur
nish the list of rates which means in
each instance the amount charged for
the round trip. The Rio Grande may
have overlooked sending advertising
TO some OF these points, but in any