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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

Mancos has petitioned for rural car
rier service and it is likely Inspector
Fredericks will Investigate and report.
Postoffce Inspector Fredercks has
been in and out of Durango several
days attending to matters in this
southwest section.
o.
c. V. Stafford, territorial bank exam
iner of New Mexico, who cane in
from Santa Fe Sunday evening. Went
to Aztec this morning.
j. W Lair will now devote his Ell
tire store room to groceries, increas
ing stock, thus being better able to
cater to increasing business.
T. H. OBrien, representing tile vast
coal interests of the Phelps Dodge
company on the La Plata river, ar
rived from the south last night.
f. C. Perkins was an Aztec passen-
ger over the broad gauge this morn
ing to attend district court, and viii
probably be absent most OF the week.
All the trains leaving Durango this
morning were quite well filed, but
those coming In this evening will
bring many back. The eastern was
crowded.
Sam Sloan came In yesterday even
ing from his hunting trip around the
Pagosa country. If Sam brought any
thing back but the gun he had IT in
he baggage car.
G.. T. Ross, who has been visiting
his sister, Mrs. Frank Galloti for some
time, returned to his home at Winfield
| kas., this morning. He says he likes
Durango and Colorado.
Neil Camp returned Saturday even
| ing from a tour of the East. visiting
relatives and old college friends and
having a good time. He kept his word
and came home alone.
| The crowded condition of the Dp
range public schools either suggests
that Durango is growing or that thor,
is much greater number Of non-res
idents on the tuition lists.
DR.. Condit came up from Aztec las
evening, meeting mis- father, who is IN
gagged In mining. and who arrived fron
the east on the 4.4O train. the tive
continuing to San Juan county.
Mrs. A. A. Rust and children return
ed to Dolores this morning. Mrs
Rust was injured in the Rio Grand
Southern wreck some time ago. en-
her left eye still bears witness of tn
incident
grand jury meets first 1t will be Wee
nesday before any OF the cases wi
come up for trial.
| Judge Russell, District Attorne
Pulliam and Court Stenographer Mis-
Meesecre left Sunday morning fc
r Rico, where the fall term of distrit
. court for Dolores county opened th
d morning. No local attorneys are II
lterestsd.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

Judge John R. McFie. territorial
judge of New Mexico: A. NJ Bergere,
clerk of the court, and Alexander
Read. prosecuting attorney. arrived
from Santa Fe Sunday evening and
departed for Aztec this morning to
hold court for San Juan county.
Pennington and Aztec can Join in
picking up the flow of the Florida
river at its mouth and pipe the same
water Durango is using to their towns,
and If they don't hurry up somebody
else will get the water.
c. c. Holbrook, judge OF the district
court at Alamosa. having Just returned
from Pennington. departed over the
Southern this morning for Montezu-
ma county. Judge Holbrook is a
strong believer in the Seventh Day
Adventist doctrine and refuses to hold
his court on Saturday.
e. p. Wilson, editor and proprietor
of the Aztec Index, arrived in the city
last evening and Is spending the day
with us. Mr.. Wilson is enthusiastic
over the advancement of Aztec and mis-
section Of the country, and to th'E end
will enlarge his paper with the coming
issue. Mr. Wilson says new settlers
are arriving daily and he looks for
tion within a year.
VIM. Firebaugh, one OF the pros
porous ranchmen OF the upper valley.
Is down today purchasing supplies.
| He is one OF the farmers who found
he had more land than he needed, and
sold some.
| Ed Clement. the old-time miner, pi'
| oneer of the San Juan and traveller
| through nearly all the mining coun
| tries the sun shines on, has just re-
turned from Silverton, where he if
revivifying his mining interests. He
says Silverton and her mines were
never so great in production and prog
ress as now.
Albuquerque has nearly $4,000 peo
pie and her resources are railroad
lizards, horned toads. sage brush, cac
III sands and winds to carry them
Durango has 5000 people and resourc
es match ess In diversity and magni
tude and value. Bat Albuquerque hai
a combination of brains and energ'
that will not brook defeat
o.
Rex Molette was In the city owe
Saturday for the purpose Of arguin
motion before Judge Russell. but a
the latter had not returned from hi
, hunting trip 1t will be necessary t
! submit written brief. Mr.. Molette r.
, turned to Alamosa yesterday morr
ing. He says the bank failure Is
hard blow to Alamosa.
Mrs. o. Risser and Mrs. Harriet A
genbright OF blandinsville. Ill.,, VIII
have been visiting their brother. Wn
y Lock, at Pennington. departed tn
3 morning for their home. They al
r much pleased with New Mexico an
I what they have seen OF Colorsd
8 They say Pennington has q great +
l. ture. but that she must &c, bstt'
water.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12
FULL OF TRAGIC MEANING

Are these lines from ]. II. Simmons.
of Casey, iowa. Think what might
have resulted from mis- terrible cough
II he had not taken the medicine
about which he writes: Il had q fear
ful cought, that disturbed my nights
rest. tried everything, but nothing
would relieve It. until took DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
lion, Coughs and Colds. which COM
pletely cured me-" Instantly re-
lieves and permanently cures all
throat and lung diseases; prevents
grip and pneumonia. At G. K. TIT
fapy, Jr., druggist; guaranteed: Soc
and 800. Trial bottle free.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

c. W. Wells. deputy state engineer,
is expected to arrive In Durango
Thursday evening to take up with the
county commissioners the matter Of
completing the state road up juno
ton creek. The plans and specifica-
of the road are now in the hands OF
the county clerk. 1t is to be hoped
that the state has presented set Of
plans and specifications which con-
template permanent road. on which
practical contractors may bid intelli-
gently, that the work Of construction
may proceed as early as possible.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12
DON'T BORROW TROUBLE.

1t is bad habit tc borrow anything.
borrow Is trouble. When sick. sore.
heavy, weary and worn-out by the
pains and poisons Of dyspepsia, bill.
iousness. Bright's disease and similar
internal disorders. don't sit down and
brood over your symptoms. but ny for
relief TO Electric Bitters. Here you
will find sure and permanent forget
fulness OF all your troubles. and your
body Will not be burdened by = load
OF debt disease. At G. f. Tiffany. Jr.'s
drug store. Price SOC. Guaranteed.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12
A Judlcious inquiry.

A well known travelling man who
visits the drug trade says he has
often heard druggists inquire of GUS
toners who asked for a cough medi-
cine. whether II was wanted for 4
child or for an adult. and II for y
child they almost invariably recon-
mend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
The reason for this is that they know
there is no danger from 1t and that
it always cures. There is not the
least danger in giving 1t, and for
coughs colds and Group 1t Ia unsur-
passed. For sale by all druggists.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

for proper mills is what the district
needs. and prosperity throughout the
East has enabled people during the
past year to make money out of so
many different avenues that they
have not been as ready to take hold
of mine development, but the increas
ing production Of gold in the La Plata
district must secure needed capital
1t will come.
The Durango Girl now has a force
of four men at work. 1t was neces-
sary to do some retimbering before
going ahead with the drift on the up
per level, but two shifts are working
on the breast now and good headway
is being made. A new feature in the
country rock came in yesterday when
A. d. Leiner was up at the mine. 1t
is probably fusing of the diorite
with the associated metamorphic
sandstone
1t will not be long until the Durango
Girl will be sending ont rich ore again.
sumed operation they will know what
10 do TO get ore and keep the work
up to project the mine
The Vera on Junction creek starts
Up again today. Charlie Carroll took
out supplies yesterday and Joe Jack
son went up with him to stay a week
or so. Hugh Owens will be employed
on the new development.
Fred Dusenberg and Lampert Egolf
are down today from the Lightner
country. They hope to be employed
again soon on the Three Metals
group, and are waiting for the com
pany to get things in shape for a re
sumption of development. They say
the property promises with further de
yelopment to become at least a mill
ing group If shipping values fail to
he found. The veins are large and
permanent, showing as well defined
fractures as any in the La Plata dis
trict.
A big mining deal was delayed re
emily by the middle man adding q
half million more TO the price of the
| property as a commission. Study the
ivoldance of these occurrences or &c
out and hunt for money that you car
deal directly with. The promoter
sometimes is a bad population.
One good mining camp paper witt
enough energy to study conditions ant
tell the truth does more good In ;
year than four thousand so-called ex
perts and middle men figuring on
shoe-string to tie something up TO
people VINO never bought anything.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

ton said there is no question about
the demand for railway mail service
being a Just one and he said the Same
world he brought about as soon as
report was made and the department
could act. Recognizing that the Az
tcc-Farmington and tributary sections
should have this service, Postmaster
Raymond took the matter up with the
postofhce officials the day passenger
service was established. giving the
number OF people. approximately, to
he served. sending clippings from
newspapers etc. and 1t was on the
strength of the letter that Mr. Cha.t
ION wus sent here to investigate and
report. The present contract for car
rying the mail between Durango and
Harrington does not expire until July
/. 1906. but MIR. Elliott will turn the
can he established. which will proba-
bly, be inside of three or four weeks.
John Greer, VINO used to pack from
Rico to Rockwood twenty-odd years
lgo. breaking trail himself for his
burros through two to five feet OF
7now, is in today from Fort Lewis
mesa, where he has ranch and
amily. requirements OF his years of
effort, but John says the family makes
him rich enough without the ranch.
md he has n notion to go prospecting
again.
The underwriting Sullivan machine
Employed on the Boston coal mine IL
'vidently doing Its work to perfec.
ion, II. II. Haney. who is operating
{ with single helper. is taking down
rom as to 100 tons of coal daily.
arYlng as to moving and changing
rom room to room. The machine
'arrios an endless chain of striking
plcks which cut space of five inches
vide SIX feet deep In eighteen min
ltes. When the block is thus loos-
ened the powder man comes along
and with few holes breaks It out.
The progress of economy In coal min.
ng has been more rapid than that OF
metalliferous mining. because vastly
greater tonnage had to be extracted
md coal is nearer to the poor peo-
ple's product than the metals. The
metals are coined to attract the In
dustrial struggle and the coal was
made to burn.
The Herald Is repeatedly asked; "Is
there anything new in the fair grounds
hold-up?" Yes and no. The now
feature is that the only thing remain
ing at this time Is suspicious which
will be about all there will be unless
something develops later to point alb
solutely to the guilty ones. And In
this connection It Is too bad to have
"suspicions" holding place in the
matter. They will be hard to down
and no matter II the suspects are In
nocent II will work an irreparable in
Jury to their standing. There are
stories going the rounds that would
have made interesting reading at the
time Of the robbery, but The Herald
was requested to refrain from mixing
mp In order to give those on the track
full sway. Now the stories are old
and worn threadbare. hence not nee
essary to publish, and the robbery will
now have to go down as a mystery
unless the future brings new disclos-
pres to the front and we presume the
association viii now go ahead on the
supposiilon the money has been lost
forever. IT'S too bad but all will have
TO make the hest of bad Job and
profit hereafter from costly expert
ence.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12
rom Tuesdays daily.

from Tuesdays daily.
James Brierley, the Silverton ball
player, wife and three children. came
in from the east last night and con
tinued ON home.
Don Archuleta spent the night in
the city and returned to Pagosa this
morning He says Pagosa is to have
a new railroad and be a big town.
Wash Patrick, superintendent OF the
Durango trout hatchery, went down
to Chama this morning with 75.0OO
| FISH, which he will place In the Chama
river twenty miles above the town OF
Chama.
Mrs. Conrad Pulvermiller and daugf
ter, Mrs. Julia Wynn, have returned
from several months sojourn al
Los Angeles, where they say there Is
a big building boom and good times
VIM. McQuaid, associated with the
construction OF the broad gauge south
who has been III at Mercy hospita
with typhoid fever for several weeks
departed for Beatrice. Neb.. this morn
ing, leaving many friends In Durango
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

WASHINGTON. Oct l0-The do
partment Of agriculture announced 20.
day that the condition Of corn on Oc.
tobsr was s9.2. the bsst In = decade.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

From Mondays Daily.
Mrs. Lloyd Sheets went out 10 Grip
pie Creek this morning to visit her
friend. Mrs. Schilling.
B. G. Miller. manager OF La Plata's
great May Day gold mine. departed
for Denver this morning.
Mrs. Julia Winters and daughter
Ruth came In from Albuquerque Sat
nrday evening to visit Grandpa and
Grandma Lewis.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

c. II. Charlton returned last syen
Ing from inspecting the Aztec-Fnrm
ington section for the establishment,
of daily railway mail service. beine
accompanied by Superintendent Lee
instead Of Agent McAtee. Mr.. Charl
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

C. Il. Lynch. who will superintend
the building of the new quarters in
Durango for the Colorado Telephone
company, is in the city and work will
begin at once.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

The sheriff's deputies arrested the
proprietor of the Schofeli dance hall
this morning al an early hour for VIC
lation of the midnight closing Law, but
up to this afternoon the date OF trial
had not been fixed.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

Ollie w. Kllnger of the Silverton
Standard was passenger bound for
home last night He had been at
Denver until he was tired OF strenu
GUS things and was getting back as
fast as he could. He says Silyerton
is progressing by leaps and bounds.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

Vic. McGirr, the Pagosa attorney,
who has been in the city on business
several days, went home this mosn.
ing, saving that he didn't live in as
big town as Durango. but that II
was better one. Like the man from
his own country.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

Judge John r. McFie. territorial
judge Of New Mexico; A. NJ. Bergere,
clerk of the court, and Alexander
Read. prosecuting attorney, arrived
from Santa Fe Sunday evening and
departed for Aztec this morning to
hold court for San Juan county.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-12

Pat Nash is working on patented
property in which he has Denver cap
i,al interested. Colonel Dobbs is start
ing work on his prospects. james
Mullen is doing his annual work on
some good property. Cnas Kuhn and
Sterling Thomas are doing develop
ment on their property and will con
tinue work until Christmas or later.
Parshall and Koennecker are extend
ing development on their properties
Joe Jackson, Herman Berndt, George
Treat and Frank Wilkerson are pre-
pairing to start up work again on their
Junction creek property. Bob Bircheg
and Monroe Findlay are working theii
Junction prospects. Emery Brown
continues work on his Orc Fine
group and Dick Gaines is gettinf
ready for good campaign of develop
ment near by.
Should the Neglected get started ~
again soon the country will be NOR,
active than it has ever been, and /
is probable that the big mine will b.
running again soon.
Rainy weather this season has don
much to retard development of tn
smaller properties where there are In
sufficient quarters or none at al
where there are no coverings for SUI
face developments. Roads and trail
have been bad, some of them impass
able, but the conditions are now e,
cellent for outdoor work and probabl
will remain 30 for several weeks,
not till January.
More money for development an
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23

Thing Arrange Have Feed Shredded
Next Fall and He Should Crops

wheat is cut, and manure them. Have
this put through shredder this win
ter while it is dry and you will be
delighted.
By this shredder business you can
save all the food stuff on the farm
and have rlenty in good manageable
condition to keep up all your stock
all winter in good, warm stalls and
keep them in fine condition. The
compost and stable manure you
would save in this way will easily pay
for each years trouble and eventual
ly make your farm rich. This is by
far the best way and easiest to utilize
everything in the way of food stuff |
ever saw. You can have all the feed
you need, and feed it to advantage
by the use of the shredder.
The Best Way to Utilize All Food Stuffs.
/ write this that you may prepare
for this winter. Our company has
bought a corn cutter now which cuts
and shocks the corn as the team pulls
it down the rows. Corn shocked up
as cut, while green, does better than
to let lie on the ground to cure.
All you have to do to have perfect
food is to be sure to cut or put
through shredder while perfectly dry
and keep dry. This, with little salt,
is better for my stock than fodder.
1t is healthier food than just corn
and fodder.
I have told you only of my own ex-
perience. but I could tell you of many
others who have had as good, and bet
ter, success than myself.
H. F. FREEMAN.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23
Peculiarities of Tobacco.

A gentleman who is not engaged
in the tobacco business, but whom we
presume is man of scientific incli-
nations, writes the Journal letter
of inquiry about the culture of to-
bacco. Among the questions pro-
pounded, the gentleman wants to
know why it is that tobacco in the
Piedmont sections make better chew
ing tobacco than that grown in other
tobacco growing sections. While it
is an old story we will answer our
friend through our columns. Ger
tainly it is a fact that the weed
grown in the piedmont country makes
the best chewing tobacco in the
world. This is now an established
fact, and the weed grown in Stokes.
Surry, Rockingham, Henry, Patrick,
Guilford. Forsyth, Alamance and
other counties in the two States sus-
tain the same relation to plug that
the tobaccos grown in Cuba does to
cigars, and that the bright grades
in Eastern North and Carolina does
to cigarettes and smoking. AS to
why these facts exist, our friend will
have to analyze the soil and consider
the climate. Tobacco is a peculiar
plant. Cuban seed planted in this
country will not make cigar tobacco
New England tobacco is unlike all
other products of the weed. White
hurley is peculiar to the West, and is
only good for the manufacture of
navies. In fact, the history and pc
culiarities of the wonderful plant is
interesting, and volumes would be re-
quired to tell the entire story
Southern Tobacco Journal.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23

lime be allowed to cool after b.;;.
Stacked, and that both the IL ill., Oelng
the copper sulphate be diIntaJ S and
fore the two are mixed. RorJa.Ot Vt
mixture should be used wbilo fsa1 fsag
The spray is best applied I1s'n' as
fine mist and with considerable fas ~ a
1t is necessary that the worI 's !;
spraying be done thoroughly Al N
parts of the tree must be hit All
K. A. EMERSON
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23

All prat tice and experience have
clearly proven that the greatest foe
to good roads is water. The drain
ing of iml roued roads, is therefore,
one of the first principles of road
construction, and it's Importance
should not be lost sight of. Water
will make mud of any soil however
hard, and unless it can be led away,
mud must follow as the inevitable re-
suit. The fact has been stated so
many times that it almost seems out
of place to refer to it here.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23

The teaching of the art and science
OF housekeeping and home~making Is
no longer a fad, but is becoming q
work of necessity. The new way Is
lncomparably superior to the old 1GI OF
rendering home-life on the farm al
that it should be. Education along
the line of ones life work ennoDle'
and dignifes labor.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23
Inoculating Soil With Nitrooen


Prof. L. III. Bailey delivers this Or
thoritative dictum on the soil inoon
lation discussion in The Conntu
Calendar for May, the first issue of
the new outdoor magazine published
by the Review of Reviews BooF
Company:
'The most recent development Is
the recrudescence of the idea Of in.
oculating directly by means of pure
cultures of the germs. This is the
result Of the work of DR.. George 7
Moore, of our National Department
of Agriculture. He has incorporated
his cultivated germs, in a desiccated
state, with absorbent cotton, so that
they can be sent by mail and then be
used for the inoculation either of the
soil or of the seed. The cotton is
thrown into water (Which is prepared
by treatment with certain chemicals
and when the germs have multiplied
sufficiently to make the water cloudy,
the seed or the soil is wet with the
liquid. The process is exceedingly
simple and is inexpensive A large
number of packages of the inoculat-
ing material were sent out by the
Department Of Agriculture last year;
and the gratifying results of the
work are reported in Bulletin Il of
the Bureau of Plant Industry. issued
January %, 1905. The subject,
therefore, is only this year before
the general public for information
and discussion.
"1t is vet too early to give an
opinion as to the value of this neT
method of incubation. The publish
ed results are most encouraging. On
the other hand. other experiments
with alfalfa have given no pro
nounced results, nothing like those
secured from incubation by means
of soil. The question is yet in its
experimental stage so far as gen
eral field results are concerned. 1t
will not be a panacea, nor is the
culture a fertilizer. At best, the
inoculation will constitute onl y one
factor making for productivenes'.
All new developments, particulary
those that have novel and striking
features, are likely to be over-valued
and sensationalized by undiscriminat-
ing persons, and this often results IN
injury to some of the best innova,,
tions. It is now to be determined
what the possibilities of the new
method are, under what exact condl-
tions it may be expected to be sue
cessful, and how to eliminate the
causes of failure. There is no lndI-
cation that this new method will be
revolutionary, but there is reason to
believe that it will carry US one steo
further toward the realization OF orr
quest for nitrogen to provide the
food for mankind"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23

Col. James M. Smith, the NIL
llonaire farmer of Smithsonia, Ga'
farms now, just as it was done before
the war. He keeps his happy ana
contented colored laborers busy EI
keeping them constantly employe,4
(holidays excepted) the year roun''