Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-05-18
they have pay dirt or not

they have pay dirt or not
r. +. Sloan of the freight and tarifl
committee reported that he had. dur
ing his recent visit to Denver. called
on officials of the d. & r. G. and tried
Mr.. Sloan reported that he had not
received any encouragement
lengthy discussion on freight
rates showed beyond the shadow OF a
doubt that Durango was numerically
Disseminated against. and It was the
popular impression that our city
could never become a wholesale point
until the rates were adjusted, The
5oard will continue to work ON the
matter, and wnen the matter nas
been thoroughly gone over and fig
ures and statistics complied. then
they win push the matter with the
ID. q r. G.
Some discussion about a new depot
was had. but Iothing was done about
| the matter at this time, 1t lnas gen
orally been understood for years that
whenever new depot is built 1t viii
| be back OF Kruschke's or the Oxford
As the old depot Is becoming very dl
lapidated and no effort made to repair
II. and IT is evident that Increased
tive. 1t is believed that ere long the
ID. x II. G. Will build a new depot
without importuniug,
Mr.. Jakway reported tnat he had n
conversation with Congressman HugE
by telephone relative to changing the
location of the Fort Lewis Indian
school from Its present location to
Durango. A movement OF this kind
was started more than year ago
by some OF Durango's citizens. but
as no particular headway was made
he matter WAS allowed to drop Mr.
Hogg wanted to know II anything had
been done recently In regard to the
matter and was told there had not.
MIR Jakway said there was tenden-
cy on the part OF the Indian depart.
ments TO establish the school
on the reservations instead OF In the
cities or places In the East far away
from the reservations. The school
at Carlisle, Pa. is higher or more
advanced school than those on the
reservations, the latter being merely
preparatory schools for the more ad
vanced ones, He believed that Du
range as central point might have
the Fort Lewis school moved acre
and have II made a central advanced
school for the children OF all reserva
*25. 900 was now being spent on i'm
provements at the Indian school AT
Dulce and about 100000 would soon
be paid out for new buildings and i'm
provements at the San Juan school
at Shiprock, while that money ought
TO be spent In Durango. 1t would
cost more to haul the lumber and 9th
er material from Durango to Ship
rock than the material Itself cost. and
then the great isolation would always
be a drawback to getting good teach
ers to stay, while If the school was
located in Durango there would be no
trouble of tnat kind. Mr.. Hogg had
said the only way to get the location
changed would be by legislation. He
would be In Durango on the 9Th OF
June, when he would talk over the
matter with parties interested
Mr.. Parsons, who had some insight
of the way the Indian views the
schools. said that the red men had
come to be willing to send their chill
dren to school II the SCHOOLS were on
the reservations, but they were I'M
willing to send them far away. and
the agents had had great deal of
trouble In obtaining sufficient chill
dren for the schools. And all the
members of the board agreed that
there was considerable human nature
In the attitude OF the Indian parents
and they could not be blamed.