Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-16

200 more nabitdDle houses, SoOu, Hou-
ern four to seven room cottages. The
city is growing steadily on founda-
ton as substantial and permanent as
that OF any other American city. Then
why not build?
Dealers are paying so per ton for
baIed alfalfa hay and selling for sl2.
Andrew Hogan, assessor OF Pitkin
county, is visiting his friends, the Teis
brothers.
Mrs DR.. Lackey returned from
trip to Pennington yesterday and
brought with her enough fruit for the
winter.
DIR. J. w. Lackey has purchased
the Tower residence on Seventh street.
recently purchased by Chas. van
Brimmer. the latter having decided TO
go away
Joe Clark and Mike Moran will go
to California tomorrow morning, the
former to remain all winter and the
latter to return in four or ive weeks.
John Kellenberger Is still Offering
to make a present OF choice build
ing she In the mining town OF La
Plata to any one who will erect a
81, 900 building, and this Is the only
ground in the mining town which can
e..
Prospectors continue to explore the
ConejOs range, but with Indifferent
success. They have been tindinr
| veins there for n quarter of century
but the values do not hold mp to eth
er shipping or milling. But some DAY
some fellow will find something there.
Pennington people continue to dis
cuss the possibilities of the Southern
| Pacific crossing the San Juan river
| about fifteen miles below Pennington
and building another town. and this
| would not be departure from the
long pursued policy of the big south
| ern road.
| General Hollister. after spending
| several days pleasantly with some ol
| mis- old comrade soldier friends, visit.
| ing the beautiful country home of w.
T. Kirkpatrick departed for Denver,
his home, this morning. General Hol-
lister is president of the Continental
Oil company
| The Rio Grande chair car for the
east this morning mad applications
by three times the number of people
II could seat, and some of those dis
appointed were a little sore, Had Jim
Brown or Aeen McAtee been in the
car 1t would have been worse than
asking when the train would be in.
Mancos Is to have a rural route II
the recommendations of Postoffice In
| sptocr Fredericks are listened to, and
they undoubtedly will be The dis
| trict will embrace six miles down the
Mancos river from the town of Man
cos, and. returning. six miles along
Webber canon. the Mormon settle
ment.
The Catholic fair, which holds forth
| the last week of the month, will come
| in for its full share of the prosperity
Astounding in this section. Their will
he the usual pretty booth, where ar
ticles can be purchased or one Try his
luck by rattle. while dancing will Gt-
ford the usual pastime for the young
er people.
c. w. Wells, deupty state engineer
came in over the Southern from Den
yer last night and returned over the
eastern this morning. He had con
| ference with the commissioners tnis
morning regarding the completion oil
the state road up Junction creek
| Plans and specifications for bids for
the work are with County Clerk Eddy
at the court house,
Bidders on the construction of the
Junction creek road will notice that
the time has been extended for the re
ception Of bids for the work until Oc
tober 2l, 1905. This will give more
time for bidding on a piece of work
that will puzzle the best one. as
scarcely any other piece OF road work
ever had greater variety of detail
than this one. But go one and build
the road: that is what the state gave
the money for.
A half fare, or one fare to Aztec and
back. Sunday morning, is announced
for the ball game there between the
Aztecs and Durango nine which
George Logan is looking after George
| thinks he has nine that can beat
any bunch of hayseeds. The rate ap
| plies to everybody and as the train
leaves at a. IN. and returns Mt from
430 to ) p. M, all will have time to
visit the ruins and have good time
for half the money.
| That the quarantine laws in Duran.
go have never been observed except
in a few remote instances where hu.
man conscience guided. is so well
known that the fact is scarcely wcrth