Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-04-20
the commissary.

Chicago has a single blessedness
society made up of young women
who have pledged they will never
marry. The individual or individuals.
who refused to give their street car
seats to the aforesaid women should
he ashamed of themselves.
Vandegrift & LOTUS secured anoth-
er small contract from the lockwood
Power company and sent gang OF
men up today to commence work.
TIE contract consists of small dam
-5 900 or 5000 yards-and about two
miles of hume. Messrs. Vandegrift |
d. Lotus go up tomorrow.
S. w. Pingrey has not lowered the |
awning of mis- real estate Office for
several days till today. and when he
did lower It sparrow's nest contain
ing two eggs rolled down. The spar
rows are increasing so rapidly here
that tney have become a serious men
ace to bluebirds and other songsters.
William Roessler came in from
Mancos last night to meet his father,
Joseph Roessler, his brother Frank
and a cousin. C. n. Brewer, who ar
| rived last night from Montgomery
City. Mo They all went out TO Man
COS this morning. The newcomers
may decide to locate at Mancos.
Information comes from Denver
| nat Wash Patrick will continue as
superintendent of the local fish natch-
cry the appointment having been
made last week Mr.. Kincaid, who
| has filled the position of state super
| lntendent of fish hatcheries. has also
| been retained the next two years.
Mr.. Patrick has been instructed to go
| anead with the work for the summer.
| A Washington special to the Den
yer News says: THE comptroller of
the treasury has approved the appli-
cation of Geo, n. Williams, president
of the Mercantile National bank of
Pueblo: Clinton A. Bowman, Nelson
| A. Ballou, Fred G. Helmboldt, Albert
l.. Brown, John H. Slattery and Guy
l.. Emerson to organize the Silverton
National bank of Siiverton, with s25,-
400 capital"
San Juau county will have two ball
teams tnis year, Slattery's Silverton
"Slobs" and strictly all-home talent
Silver Lake team II Is said Slattery
has two new players in addition to
Catcher Briefly Nash. the Glad
stone pitcher, has signed with Slat-
terry for the season. There will no
doubt be a strong rivalry between
the Silverton and Silver Lake clubs
as well as with Durango.
Il. NJ Burgess, general superintend-
ent of the Colorado Telephone com
pany, departed this morning for Den
yer after having looked over the Du-
range field. The telephone business
i'll Durango has grown to be too great
for the present system which is
known as the magnetic, and Mr. Bur
CESS will recommend change to the
rommon battery This is the sys-
TEN in use in Denver, Pueblo. Colo
rado Springs, Leadville. Trinidad.
Boulder and Grand Junction. The
system was changed in the lastnamed
place last winter. BY the common
battery system 1T is unnecessary for
the party calling central to ring. The
mere taking down of the receiver ap-
prises central. by means of little
light that a number is wanted, and
when the receiver is hung up another
light is signal to central that the
conversation is finished. A great
many changes in construction will
nave to be made The whole equip
ment of the central Office will have
to be changed and every telephone in
town will have TO be altered. 1t is
expected that the work Of making the
changes will be commenced pretty
soon and it means a considerable eX-
penditure of money-much Of which
will he paid out for labor.
The new stamp for crushing ore,
invented and manufactured by j. r.
Ball, proprietor of the Ball Foundry,
is attracting considerable attention
from mill and mining men. 1t is pre-
dicted by many of those wno have
seen ii that it will revolutionize mill
ing. Mr., Ball has battery of three
stamps set up in mis- foundry where
they may be examined by mill men.
The invention is known as the '3-
stamp battery" 1t has a triple dis
charge. and consequently the capacity
OF one stamp is equal to about three
times the capacity Of the old-style
stamp. for the reason that the old
style has only one discharge. Anoth-
er advantage is that in order to repair
one stamp II is necessary only to
close down that one stamp, whereas
with the old style It is necessary to
close down the whole battery. thus
losing a great deal of time Mr.. Ball
studied up this invention when he was
working in mills years ago and saw
the needs of improvements. Mill
men should not pass through the city
without stopping to take look at
| this invention