Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-26

the west. The power plant viii have
two lines of electric distribution. The
river line is now complete to Needle.
ton
Joe Hefernan came up yesterday
from his trading post on the San Juan.
where he has quite trade with In.
dians and whites. He says that coun.
try is being settled up rapidly and
that there are many home seekers
and land hunters roaming over the
country, going out on the higher lands
and speculating on both government
and private irrigation enterprises.
o
Fred Schrader has Just received
samples of quartz from the Surprise
and Worlds Fair properties In Chi
cago gulch. taken out from recent de.
velopment, and will have some as.
says made. A big feature of the
Worlds Fair material is a quartzose
quite the same In color (wnitishl and
on the west. Mr.. Schrader has ex-
pended much money and time in ex.
ploring the Chicago gulch country.
and has as n refslt very promising
outlook for making a mine out of the
group, If, indeed, not more than one
o
$. w Johnson, who came all tae
way from Medicine Bow. Wyo.. to buy
high grade sheep. purchased yester-
day from r. Il. Cooper i5i Rambouil-
let rams which were horn and raised
in La Plata and down The river. Nine
teuths of the people OF this country
have little idea OF the progress of our
Industries This was one OF the finest
displays of nome grown product ever
seen in the country. It Is congratula-
tory that the same day one sheep firm
shipped In 200 ewes from the outside
La Plata county was able to export
l54 just as good stock in rams.
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Talk about your apples anywhere
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. but
learn any time they raise 'em, about
the superior product Of the Hermosa
country. T. A. Kerr has just finished
mailing the lids on 5000 boxes of win
ter apples. and Andrew buchanan, his
neighbor. on $500 boxer Most OF
these are the Wagner, None OF these
apples are wormy. but all solid and
perfect in the detail
When Karl Burghardt, representing
the NJ. J. Patterson Bridge company OF
Denver. left for his home this morn
ing ne said: III Durango gets ready
'or steel bridge | will come back
again, and II she doesn't. I'm glad
came down here, for | have found a
big country where my company can
10 business. We will build some OF
your steel structural mills before long
and we may get to work in La Plata
county. too"
A farmer today said he could get
81 so for his wheat and that he was
selling what he had because he didn't
have granary room for all his stun
but that If he had more room he would
hold wheat for $3.50 He says he
knows n number Of wheat growers
who are holding for $3.50. 1t is said
San Luis valley Is short on wheat
and can not cut in at this time to con
troll the price OF tine La Plata country
product. If this farmer is right the
babies will have to wear their stock
ings darned to make up the differ
ence.
The PhelpsDOdge company. copper
coal operators and railway
builders of the Southwest. evidently
are not idling their time with their
newly acquired coal territory south
of Durango. which aggregates from
3 900 to 5000 acres.
1t was not intended for anybody to
know it, but the company shipped yes.
terday twenty tons Of the coal from
the La Plata river holdings to New
York for careful analysis and practi.
cal tests. contemplating the various
uses for which the Phelps Dodge peo.
pie will desire coal for fuel. steam
heat and smelling.
This is the largest shipment of
southwestern coal, II indeed. not from
ever made to New York.
This company will do business In
the Durango country.
O.
Antonin the footless Mexican, who
necessarily moves at a snail gait, has
selected the worst place in the Du-
range yards to cross a network of
Rio Grande tracks. just below the pas
sengcr depot, and yesterday evening,
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