Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07


summer time: where Lee Wood has
been in the pasture business long
time. It remained for some explorer
to find enough TO engage the atten-
ton or people who are now aggregat-
ed together as the Delayed Mining Il
Milling company. Edgar l.. Thomp
son. general manager of the com
pany, who came down this morning
from the scene OF action brought a
number of ore samples recently tax.
en- from development on the 2l0-foot
tunnel on the Delayed No. l claim.
| Four different features OF the ore may
be seen at the Herald office.
| This company. organized during the
| last year. with Offices at Silvertou
and Buffalo, N. Y, has IL full claims
and fraction in Its group. TIE ores
| shown, Mr.. Thompson says, range In
value from $50 to several hundred dol
lars per ton. In the proportion OF
| gold, silver and copper values he
says that an ore there with o value
in gold of $50 per ton the silver value
goes from As to 100 ounces and
copper from As to 65 per cent per
| ton.
Asked II he could not soon ship
| some ore Mr.. Thompson said tnat the
| only delay will be necessary develop
| ment for the recovery of ore, which
of course has been true OF every min
ing property ever opened for produc-
tion. Only a small force is at work
now hut preparations are being made
for more extensive work number
of Durango mining people are attract
ed by the showing made and some OF
them may become Interested In the
property.
It is not surer now than 1t was
in June year ago that the Southern
Pacific Railway company will build
the Arizona 4 Colorado branch of 1
their system. II was certain then
and is certain now. the only thing
newer now than then being that the
Southern Pacific has determined to
parallel the Gould or Rio Grande sys.
tenn through Its Colorado territory to
Denver
In 1881 the spark fell from the
smokestack at Denver that built the |
lire between the two systems wnen |
he incident arose between Jay Gould |
and Coils p. Huntington. regarding |
the refusal of the latter to extend the |
courtesy Of trackage for the formers |
private car to the Pacific This has |
never been forgotten by either side, |
but the Southern Pacific is compelled |
to come as far as Durango and can
see business in going on to Denver |
This road has not expended more |
than 100000 in surveys for fun. and |
1t is not keeping dozen or more sur
veying corps in the field for fun
There will be no trouble about the
money to build. The Southern Pa.
ciflc. II not the richest. is one OF the
richest railway corporations In tne |
world, banded from the Atlantic to |
the Pacific with steamship lines on |
both oceans.
The survey from Durango TO the l
junction with the main line on the |
south. 1t is understood, is practically |
complete. and tne work OF reaching |
Denver by the shortest and most
practicable route will be accomplish /
ed easily while the weather Ia good
That the Rio Grande system will
parallel the Southern Pacific main /
line to the coast as speedily as posi-
BILE, there can be no doubt, as It will ,
he necessary to the protection OF the
formers interests.
That these railway movements
must help Durango there remains no
doubt In wnat degree they will
help Durango commercially. or as a
wholesale or distributing point will
depend upon the discrimination Of the |
railways. Whatever will be the pol
icy of two great competing roads.
they cannot fail to build the south
west and the growth and advancement |
of It's resources and Industries win
be as rapid as that Of any section |
ever blessed by railway competition. |
TIE Rio Grande cannot afford to stop |
at Pennington, and will not. II VIII
continue to build south as fast as IT
can unless II decides to connect with
broad-gauge between Pennington and4
While little can be learned OF the
intention of either road regarding
choice OF surveys or routes, 1t mas
been understood for sometime that
the question of abandoning the sky
scraping route over the continental
divide has been serious with the Rio
Grande. and that crossing Weminuche
looked too much like duplicating work
which the road has 80 long desired
to abandon.
Much of all this must be for the
good of Durango. A thousand enter
prises will start In moment. The
long-desired touch with the PACING
and Its people who do things In
moment will ne established and mines
| undiscovered Will be producing all
over radius OF 100 miles square
| Hundreds of new ranches or farms
and waterways will be operating with
| in year or so and thousands OF
sheen. cattle and horses will be added
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