Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-11-20


the Durango country that he guessed
he had become hypnotized and that he
would not be content till he had seen
the whole area tributary to Durango.
He goes TO the Pennington country to-
day. and If he doesn't find something
In hold him here he may go over into
the Arkansas valley sugar beet and
factoy country. He is looking for
section that produces something every
wear without an exceptional season
without production, and he has found
It here.
The Mexicans digging rubber weed
near Fort Lewis are experiencing the
inclemency Of the weather today.
Dan Thornton is in from the Flor
ida stock ranch and cream extracting
plant today, saying the weather was
better when he started than 1t prom
ises to be at the finish.
Durango old timers VINO have sur
yived are scattered over wide domain.
1t is learned that Johnnie Sessions,
who enjoyed the fitting reverses be
tween fortune and misfortune in La
Plata county in the earlier days, was
seen at Los Angeles a few days ago.
getting ready to go into the Nevada
gold fields. He said he had left Sill
yerton 10 get away from catarrh and
unpleasant memories; he had recov'
cred good health and was starting
anew. George Leep, a prominent Fir
is doing business In Coldfeld. New.
Nosing around for news you're some
times perplexed either win their con
servatism or their frankness, and
when Tom Graden was met this after
noon he said: Yes. know some
news; Fergie Graham has the worst
piece OF sidewalk between Animas
10 be quoted Mr. Graden replied: Yes
| don't care If | do say It; | nearly
fell down on Fergie's sidewalk and
wonder that some other casualty has
not occurred there. You see, we nave
been trying to get Fergie to build a
new walk 10 make the town look bet
ter"
Mrs. McGallard. who lies i'll at Ami
mas City, with her children about her
was cooperative with Mary McQuiety
Hartman rs years ago in an effort tC
establish Sunday school whore
Pennington now stands and where
the Hales, Hendersons, Hartmans and
Puetts ground wheat hauled from ii
ezra Amarillo, on a coffee mill when
Animas City had run ont of flour and
there were no roads to haul 1t over
There were some pioneers at Farm
ington and the mathematician can moi
find in the figures the longer or hap
pier life. whether it had been there o.
somewhere else.
Three Pueblo Indians came in yes
terday evening from the railway grade
on the new standard gauge railway tC
Pennington. One of them talks goot
Missouri talk and says the work Is
rounded out so well on the new roat
charged. He is a discriminator on
the subject of labor, saying that the
Navajo is too enthusiastic about his
work, and does more in day thar
the most eXacting boss would require
He suggests that the Navajo bucks
no lt,~tI ft,t.. a
placed under Irish bosses, with short
handled shovels to begin with. thai
they may be taught the art of section
work. He SAYS if there was a joh
for all the American Indians the Nav
ajoes would soon work them all out oi
a job by doing too much work in n
day. Asked about the Greek laborers
he said he did not care to go into ]
detailed discussion, but wanted to be
quoted as saying that he stood for the
real American, first, last and all the
time.
Juan N. Jacques, former treasurer
of San Juan county, New Mexico, WHIT
says he would not have a sheep cam
without a jug in it since he got his
rihgt hand crippled in sawmill ac
cident, is surely a patriotic citizen
He lives in New Mexico and for New
Mexico. He feeds mis- sheep on Colo
RADIO grass and pays taxes In New Mex
leo, and recently, to demonstrate
again as he had done many times be
fore, he drove his 5000 sheep from
above lockwood TO Aztec to load
there for shipment to the East, and
thus give New Mexico credit for the
production of the sheep. But when
seen yesterday by passenger bound
for Durango, "Whaun." as his more
intimate friends call MIN, was slightly
perturbed by reason of the fact that
the Red Apple railway had not provid-
ed him with broad gauge cars from
which sheep could be transferred to
narrow gauge cars at Durango, Aztec.
too, boasts the largest railway stock
pens on the western slope, Incident :
of this character. If they do not at
tract the attention of the county com
missioners may lead to broad gaugins
the Rio Grande from Durango to the
east, either via Wiminuche, Pagosa