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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07
WE ALL KICK, BUT
WHAT GOOD DOES 1T Dor

Wnen we buy can of salmon and
take it home and find 1t is filed with
the skin and scraps from the canning
factory we resolve to not buy any
more of that brand But when we so
to buy another can We have forgotten
the brand and ask the grocer for good
can. He recommends the very same
brand invariably. Then we decide
to buy salmon at another store, and
have the same experience there. One
customer who has had trouble in this
respect carries label of the brand
he wants in his pocketbook for refer
ence. Sucn experience makes the
customer think hard things about the
salmon factory and also about the
merchant who persists in buying the
stuff.
The same may be said of much OF
the canned corn that is sold. The
customer is made 10 pay for large
quantity of cobs if he uses much
corn.
For horseradisn he is sold ground
turnips with enough horseradish to
give II Il HaNOr.
All grown-up people learned in
their youth that the syrup labeled as
pure maple" was a fraud and maple
sugar, too. Still the brand is in de-
mand, though purchasers are aware
of the deception.
II the customer is not well up on
canned goods he may buy a can of
green peaches when he thinks ne is
getting nice ripe ones.
And then when we get can of coal
oil with so much water in it that the
lamp cannot be lighted, patience
ceases to be a virtue
All these offenses against the pub
lie should come under the head of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses
and the offenders should be punished.
Traffic of that kind ought to be stop
ped. II the Wholesale dealers could not
be reached, 1t might be made so warm
for the retail dealers that they would
refuse to buy more of the manufac-
turers.
There is a crying need for a rigid
pure food law. which would require
that all articles of food be correctly
labeled and be pure and cleanly, of a
hign grade and as represented.
AT times there mas seemed to be
little hope CT ever regulating the oil
business on account of the enormous
wealth of the oil interests. but the
people will have an inning some day.
though 1t may be a long way off.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

A paper down in the sandhills OF
.tention to the fact that what the
town needed more than anything else
was he idea of permanency. People
were urged to discard the idea that
they were there only temporarily and
to look upon the place as their per
manent home. That is one of the
best sentiments that nave come out
of New Mexico. 1t is a sentiment
which, if lived up to will make every
resident of town loyal to that
town. We are interested in no place
so much as home, and as long as we
have the feeling that we are here un,
til we can get to some place else we
can never have the love for the place
we dwell in that We should have.
You have doubtless noticed among
your friends that the most of them
who have been here several years
nave been expecting for a long time
that they would have become able
ere this to go to Colorado Springs, or
Denver, or Kansas City or somewhere
else. And those VINO have been here
but short time are going back to
where they came from after they
make stake. They may worry
along for many years and still be in
the notion all that time of returning
to their home town when they are
able. The other day man who is
conducting large business in Du-
range admitted to the writer that he
had expected to get out of here long
before this. The chances are he is
tied UP here for a lifetime, and II he
could only realize that fact ne would
be that much better on Tnere are
few, however, who look upon their
present abiding places as permanent
They are mostly people who went
away looking for a better place and
could not find it and came back.
Some of them went two or three times
and came back as often as they went,
eacn time they returned being more
hrmly convinced tnat this was the
only place for them. How much bet
ter on would they have been could
they have realized that at first. And
how much better of the town would
also have been had it received the
combined benefits OF all such people
through all the years that they felt
they must save their money to spend
somewhere else. Here is something
for people of tnis class to think about.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

enjoy better markets than any other
section of Colorado We are near the
mining towns of the San Juan and the
mining towns make the farmers best
markets.
Do you want to go into fruit rails
ing? The opportunities for that in
dustry are even greater here than
farming. Fruit from this section is
beginning to be known from San
Francisco to New York and from Can
ada to the City of Mexico.
Do you want to go into cattle
sheep, goats or horses? We have
ideal ranges, vast in area, for pasture
in spring, summer and fall. and con
yenient ranches for raising feed for
winter.
Do you fancy the sawmill and lum-
ber business? This section has large
industries of that kind.
Would you like TO try your luck at
mining? In the La Plata mountains
we have the extraordinary condition
of district embracing number of
shipping mines and also a large ter
ritory that has not yet been prospect
| ed.
| Would you prefer coal mining
| Tributary to Durango are many thou
sands of acres of coal land which re-
mains yet to be opened up.
| Have you money which you would
| like to invest in power plants, in
building irrigating canals and storage
| reservoirs or kindred enterprises?
| There is an inviting field here.
Do you want to take up land unde:
the desert act and build home?
Here is the chance for you.
| Do you want to live in an ideal town
where the water is pure, the climate
delightful, and the industries so va
ried that the stability of the town
does not depend upon any one indus
try? This is the place.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07
Ia PLATA COUNTY MINES

From the Miner.
Miller 4 Pierce are making good
progress on their assessments in Nep
tune gulch.
Daniel Shively is pushing work on
his tunnel to cut the Mountain Lily
| vein and expects to reach it within q
| week.
Two weeks of heavy rains every
day has interfered with surface min
ing but it now looks as though we
We're to have some good weather
Bradford a Unterberger have en-
countered ore in the drift on tneir
blanket vein in Boren gulch which
roasts out gold in good shape and
shows fine paintings after roasting.
Judge Eastman reports that the
ore streak recently struck IN his prop
erty is showing a continued improve,
ment in size and richness and he is
confident that he can make good
shipment this fall
Good headway is being made by
the Boren Gulch Mining company In
their main drift and expect this sea
sons work to show good results
This drift shows fair grade OF mill
ing ore at the present time and II is
likely that as 1t is extended good
shoots of smelling ore will be opened
In spite of extremely hard rock and
much bad luck the Empire tunnel is
making considerable headway and
this week cut a vein that is likely to
prove shipper, as 1t shows some
fine tellurium ore. The tunnel is now
in about 1900 feet and only lacks
$50 feet of reaching the Small Hopes
vein, its objective point.
There was a breakdown of electric
machinery at the May Day mine last
week which caused the stoppage of
the ore washer and curtailed ore ship.
ments. Work is being pushed on the
new buildings at the lower tunnel
and there will soon be accommoda
tions for double the present. force.
The tunnel is now in something over
300 feet and three shifts with air
drills will soon run the remaining 800
feet which will cut the May Day vein
at depth of $50 feet.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07
NEWSPAPERS MADE THE
BUTT OF ECONOMY

In the past 20 years the city OF Dn-
would have saved for the taxpayers
5000, 900 had the same policy been
pursued in all departments as has
been practiced toward the newspaper
Year in and year out. through good
times and bad, the newspaper is
made tne great and shining object of
economy. Large sums are now and
then spent on Improvements and con
tractors are allowed to make nice
sums of money occasionally spent on
what might be termed municipal or
county luxuries; men are employeu
in power are glad to pay well for
same. But when it comes to the
newspapers, there is where a record
for economy is made which is GER
tainly worth calling attention to.
County treasurers may use tne coun-
tees may fail to discover the short
age of city clerk, yet in awarding
printing contracts weeks are consum-
ed in figuring, lest one concern get
ten cents more in the course of a
year than a competitor bid.
Times in the past can be recalled
by everyone familiar with city and
county affairs when many kinds OF
loose business have been done and
many cases of extravaganza could be
named. But with few exceptions
extravaganza could be named. But
travagance to happen with respect to
the newspapers.
II economy all around were prac
| ticed, 1t is safe to say that sys'
TEN of contracting could be put in
practice and a large sum saved year
| ly. BY sucn a system the street and
alley work could be done at a greatly
| lessened cost. All grading and street
and alley cleaning could be done in
this way and done in such a manner
that there would be no complaint
about alleys remaining unclean and
unsightly. The appropriation for
street and alley work this year is S.,
900. This includes the expense of
sprinkling and horse feed. BY letting
contract for all this work to one
man it is safe to say that a very large
annual saving could be made in this
one respect alone.
II could be arranged so one man
could relieve several members of the
| council of the most of their duties
and then their salaries could be cut
II could be arranged with physi
clans VINO look after parties having
contagious diseases so it would be
known Just what the cost of looking
after each patient would be and then
the council would know just where
they were at, as they do when they
have an ordinance published or some
stationery printed
Smallpox patients VINO are not
| county or city charges should be
made to bear the cost of the medi
cine used by them, as they would in
any case of sickness.
And so on down the line The ad
vertising and stationery expenses are
hiSi e TN SoiPuicu Vltu othCi OA'
penditures which are often passed
over too lightly.
There is entirely too much machin
cry and rigmarole attached to the
city government. 1t kills too much
time, and time is money, or should
| be, at least.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

Uncle Sans supply of homesteads
is getting low and that is why there
is such rush to the Uintan reserva-
ton. 1t will not be many years un-
til there are no more homesteads to
be had. The time was wnen it was
said that Uncle Sam had farm to
give to every settler, but that will
soon be thing OF the past.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

Durango is soon to have a new in
dustry in the manufacture of rubber
from the rubber weed, machinery now
being on the way for one factory. A
sugar factory seems assured for next
year, and movement for getting a
creamery has just been started by the
board of trade.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07
TO THE INVESTOR
AND THE HoMEsEEkER

10 the easterner who is contem-
plating move to the West, we would
say, WHAT kind Of business do you
want to engage in? Do you want to
farm? II so then you can't find a
better place in the United States, for
in addition to the excellent adapta-
oility OF this region to farming, we
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

in time will be proven to be mines.
1t is easier to gather rubber weed or
harvest wild nay than to develop one
of the richest mines known to mintng
history. The poor owners and oper-
ators OF our home mining properties
will have to continue In their poor
way to convince capital and other
mines will be picked up at better
than bargain counter prices.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07
WANT Ed

RUBBER WEED ROOTS. WILL
PAY ONE AND oNE-HALF CENTS
PER POUND FOR ANY QUANTITY
OF RUBBER WEED ROOTS DELIv.
Erred IN DURANGO, COLO.
jos. 3. hENsLEY,
STRATER HOTEL.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

brings Is Of the work of the govern
ment geological surveyors now en-
gagged there. They will impart in
wee scraps and fragments informa
tion which the prospector has SC
long sought regarding the specia
geological structure OF that countr,
which will be found in association
with the occurrence of ore. These
government boys when they are Out
in the field. are the same human NOR
tails we meet almost every dag when
we are out where we are glad to meet
even sheep herder, and WIN they
know anything that may make the
little longer they tell him about the
rocks.
The completion of the work and
the publication by the government OF
the maps, charts and reports will
throw new sidelights on that section
just nortn OF the majestic Needles
mountains.
1t is not poor mans camp, there
are few; 1t will take lots of money
but the prospector and his burro and
dog must do this preliminary work
he must do 1t. forsaking almost all
else as the soldier does. The pros
pector is one of the integral parts Of
the human structure of progress.
Some day there will be a grea, min
ing camp at Bear creek. 1t will tax;
time and money and some Of the best
Of them will be damned for the mis-
takes they make. .
They will build town over there
some day and it will keep over sc
many people busy figuring how best
to run 1t, and some poor fellow vii
Rave to start tine first newspaper.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

the Denver Post is a good thing to
stretch out the correspondents s
string, but bad thing for the good
name OF the town.
Benjamin said ne didn't want that
wagon monkeyed with; he wants to
haul kindling and tin cans 10 the
smelter with 1t. Post no bills"
T. H. Wiggleswortn, the veteran
surveyor, was down yesterday from
his hiding around Weminuche, where
things in the nature of camp life have
been strenuously busy.
w. s. Weightman has on the road
carload of Texas watermelons
which will reach Durango in day
or two. They are represented to be
the finest lot of watermelons ever
shipped to this market.
The new broad-gauge south is now
putting the fourth bridge in near Ce
dar Hill, more than 25 miles south
OF Durango, and Aztec will be easily
reached with track and rolling stock
by the 18th of this month.
About all the young men in town
have been gathered up for railway
lutcant to leave their girls but the
lassies will like them as well for get
ting out throwing their feet.
The situation in La Plata county
mining affairs was never SO brilliant
as at present. Production is three
times greater rnan ever and develop
ment more than three times greater
Pin your faith in success and looE
twice at anything that looks good.
The community where young meI
in all sorts of positions spend ever,
dollar in riot every day, week AM
month, is good one for the young
man wno saves his dollar in another
community to come to to get the pick
of some rare blossoms for a wife
And amt 1t the truth?
The possible establishment of other
smelling bases along the San Juar
river on the south will not disturb
or injure the growth of Durango bul
will help. Durango is smelling over
five hundred tons of material dali,
and will continue to gain vastly eaci
succeeding year regardless of this
building of other smeliers, whether
by the trust or Independent syndi
Gates. The trust will never quit Du
range or curtail the amount of ma
terial smelted here as long as Du
rango's coke makes her easily tne
most advantageous smelling point in
the world. Durango has greater re
sources than any other town on earth
and will not sit down and cry IL
somebody else happens to have some
thing. Bring on more money and new
blood to help build Durango.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

That proposition that Durango has
no title to water and water rights
bongnt and paid for 10 Just little too
rottou TO look good to Duranso people.
Durango paid good price, but the
goods are worth the money and the
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

ly surprised to see their sons putting
their legs under the table alongsiue
OF the high-toned commercial trav-
elers. tourists, mining magnates and
millionaires. AS rule the Indians
who come to town, when they eat at
all. climb up on the stools at the 15-
cent chop house, hut no chop house
goes with these boys They are go
ing to Santa Fe to spend their vaca-
tons, having month of. Mr.. Mar
tin goes to visit his parents and
friends, he being a Pueblo. while Mar
anjo goes to get a number of Pueblo
pupils for the Fort Lewis school, as
side issue.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

You cannot make tracks to heaven
by tramping on others.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

speedy settlement OF the difficult
ties that have arisen during the past
few days between the management of
the Rio Grande railway and the en-
ployes in its maintenance department
will be hoped for by the San Juan and
southwest. We nave just emerged
from situation precipitated by dif-
ferences arising between the employ
ed and employer, and II it is left to
the parties of the first and second
parts in this difficulty an adjustment
may be effected sooner than II Tom,
Dick. Harry and the Devil butt in.
1t is railroad AFFAIR for railroad peo-
pie
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

Harvesting the water power OF the
San Juan river south of Pagosa to
furnish power and light for all t'nat
historic region along the stream from
Largo to Pennington and on west TO
Shiprock, will be among the engi-
neering achievements OF the near Iu-
tnre. Electric power saves coal and
coal oil and thus cheapens the ex-
pense bill of the industrial pursuit
Where the Aztec had lived centuries
ago, probably awaiting the dawn Of
day for his light, there will be within
year or so a stream of electric
lignt Illuminating the San Juan river
at night for 100 miles, and on a
thousand slopes miners will be ex-
tracing coal for the industries of the
Pacific southwest and the Mexican re.
public. The agricultural and pastoral
Industries to the south will then be.
gin to grow and other cities will be
born In day. Great is the Soutn.
west
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

Worlds fairs. like the growth of
the greater cities. will Join in de-
cadence when the general govern
ment has reached the zenith of les
glory in upbuilding of the West-the
West that in another century Will
claim more people tnan are claimed
now for the United States. The de
cadence of overcrowded cities will
first mean the relief of millions OF
starved and stified human beings who
now find no relief in the greater pol
icies of great government HUI
manitarlans now giving their best eff
fort to the relief of humanity will md
it more expedient to turn their eyes
to the great West where men and
women can relieve themselves IL they
are only shown the way. Building
the West is a greater ambition today
than when men like Fremont and
breckenridge led the way.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

When the public SCHOOLS open again
in September the sober. sane senti-
ment of Durango will urge rigid en-
forcement of quarantine and sanitary
laws. Sick children will be sent home
and the school management will find
it expedient to use the phone on the
health officers II there are any remain
ing. And II We are out of school a
day we will make 1t up. II case of
measles or chlckenpox comes in from
Saguache or Espanola to raise rents
and crowd one Of the lady teachers
rooms, the health department of ,le
city government may be appealed to.
All the talk about Durango having
no title to reservoirs and water rights
is bosh, The Herald will name a
man who will take the city's water
and reservoir rights. at the price paid
by the city, He will put up good
and sufficient forfeit Immediately
upon the city's naming a reasonable
sum. Now, II the city has no rights
to the water 1t is using. II 1t has no
rights to the reservoirs used for stor.
age. let the council unload on some
one else wac would be glad to assume
the burden. The libel published In
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

VIII the Democrat state for the
edifcation of the public under what
its editor acquired
common stock in the d. & r. G. rail.
road.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

A bad break mas been exposed for
the past 60 days in the sidewalk near
the corner of Second avenue and
Eleventh street in front OF vacant
lot. These defects should not be
permitted to 80 so long without being
reported.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

Rev. o, B. Sarber, wife and little
daughter returned last evening from
a two-weeks' camping trip to Emerald
lakes. They report delightful time
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

Two hundred new residence build
ings In Durango will find occupants
as fast as they can be built. at good
rentals. Hundreds OF families who
would rent are prohibited from living
In Durango because they can and no
place TO live in.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

A wedding occurred at Animas City
this morning. Mr.. 70. X. Smith and
Miss Effie Shields were married at
the nome of the brides mother, Mrs.
NJ. r. Shields. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Ferguson OF the
Presbyterian church The couple
were escorted to the $3.50 train by
large number of friends and they
left for Arboles. where they will re-
side. The groom mas a ranch there.
The bride is Durango girl, having
grown up here, and the groom has
worked here number Of years, the
last two years having lived at Pago-
sa Junction. He was at one time en-
ployed by the light company mere and
is known as Il young man of industry
and abstemious habits. great
quantity of rice was showered on
them as they left
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

F. NJ Endslsy. the cement sidewalk
man from Canon City, says that Can.
on City mas the finest sidewalks Of
any town in Colorado, and the best
of any town of the same size In the
United States. This is due In part
TO the fact that cement sidewalk
man lived there and talked the busi-
ness up. and in part to the fact that
cement is manufactured there and its
cost is not prohibtive like 1t Is in
town where 1t must be shipped in by
rail hundreds of miles. Cement side.
walks are catching" One man has
one laid and then his ueighbors all
want one to keep mp with him. II
is regretted that the high freight rate
to Durango prevents any except the
most well-to-do from having cement
walks. But now that start Is be.
ing made in this line, 1t may be ex-
pected that such walks will ere long
stretch from one end OF the Boulevard
to the other, and be laid in many 9th.
er sections of the town. even though
the cost is high.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

Are there any idle miners In town? +?
thirty Or forty good ones are wanted
in Creede. Address George Davis,
general manager OF the Creede Unit
ed Mines company,
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

The telephone girls are all right.
but they are spoiled. They are spoil
ed with five-pound boxes of candy.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

Some OF the nignthawks took the
Crusaders banner down last night
looms. Some Of the boards used for
seats were also taken and arranged
in front Of the saloons, resting on
beer kegs.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

1t is sometning of novelty to see
an advertisement for two-score min
ers, yet Creede Is advertising for that
number.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

from Fridays Daily.
Mrs. Peter Peterson went to Silver
ton last night to spend week with
friends.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

B. B. Martin, assistant farmer at
Shiprock, was an arrival in town last
night. AT Fort Lewis he was Joined
by Naranjo, one of the trusted Indian
employees OF that school. They put
I'D at the Strater. wnere the rates are
the highest in town. Taeir fathers
and mothers, who live In wickiups or
adobe huts, would no doubt be great
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

Hon. Adair Wilson left this morn.
ing for Denver.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-07

Eddie Covert of Lightner creel
found leather pocketbook contain
ing valuable papers belonging to d
n. Wood, an insurance agent, wnici
may be found at the Herald offie, ant
Eddie should be rewarded for hi
promptness in trying TO locate th'
owner.