Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-03

Of visitors from the country.
]. A. Kroeger and Dick Gaines were
Animas valley ranchers in town to
day. Couldn't make hay, so came to
town.
Peter Pelon was found at the Ora
den Mercantile company's establish
ment today purchasing goods for his
Largo store.
A few people around Durango are
making money out of poultry prod
ucts and there is room for 500 more
to make up part of what we are i'm
porting.
Mrs. ]. S. d. Hopkins and her faith
er were down from Hermosa today
They brought load Of berries down.
They report it raining just enough to
keep the hay from drying
o.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
/ ,sO0.foot crosscut tunnel on the May
Day mine, which is to prove the con
tinulty of the great vein at several
hundred feet greater depth.
James Galloway and Nat Ruggles
are purchasing supplies today for the
resumption of work on the Lydia
May mining property, near the mead
of Lightner creek, adjoining the Hi
hernia.
north of lockwood is attracting quite
q number of outing parties. mum
ber who had been in Hermosa park,
failing to make catch, came back
over the hill and went up to Hamor.
The Empire Gold Mining company
is getting six feet nearer every day
to the big Small Hopes ore chute,
where a raise of nearly 900 feet will
be made on ricn ore Probably the
tap will be made within 80 days.
William Girardin. who has been
laid up at his home at Bakers bridge
with rheumatism since the Fourth of
July. was brought to town and placed
in the hospital. 1t is the first time
he ever had rheumatism, and it is
making up for lost time.
Good roads will hurry La Plata
county's prosperity and give Duran
go uniform steady and unbroken
trade the year 'round-good roads to
the mountain sections as well as to
the agricultural districts. La Plata
can make no better investment.
Steve Miller and one man who have
been working on one of the proper
lies of Fred Schrader, in Chicago
. suleh. east OF the Durango Girl, for
several weeks are getting encourag
ing results and it is probable that
work will be continued indefinitely
Mrs. Edwin Schimpf. wife of the
ierald's job foreman, departed this
morning with the baby for her olC
home in Beaver Falls Pa, for visit
with ner parents and other relatives
j l
since coming West, three years ago
Ed. is already being lonesome
j. r. Ball went to Silverton las
night to be gone few days on bust
| ness. We look 10 see a lot of Mr.
I Balls new stamps installed in Sal
t Juan county mills this season. They
are certainly a great Improvement
over the old style and will add great
ly to the capacity of any mill using
them.
Z Miss Nellie McCloud and Miss Mar
+ garetta Wilson will see the Portland
5 fair together. Miss McCloud will
leave in the morning for Denver, in
company with Judge Wilson, and
D there Miss McCloud will join Mis-,
2 Wilson, who went last week The
two young ladies will go over tne
= Burlington and Northwestern Pacifi,
; to Seattle, and after a short stoI
there will continue on to Portland
After taking in the sights at the ex
position they will go down tc Sar
! Francisco, and from there Miss Nc
Cloud will return home, while Mis-.
Wilson will visit her sister. Mrs
Brown, in Berkeley.
The Importance OF the advancing
development and production of the
La Plata mining district should new
er be lost sight of by those wac
/ would build a greater Durango. This
is Durango's biggest card and II
should be played at every turn. The
: district must necessarily be develop.
ed by outside or nonresident capital,
as there is not quarter of one per
; cent OF the money required to be
found at home. We have the grub.
staked prospector and the fellow VINO
mas little more capital trying to get
in when he hears of a strike Both
; must appeal for outside money and
hurrying the attention of capital to
he district will hurry progress of ex-
, ploration and the production of gold.
The district is shipping more ore to-
, day than at any former time in the
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