Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-01-05
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The Hotchkiss Times serves notice
that transients must put up In ad-
vance FOR job work and advertising
Montrose is said TO he enjoying a
building boom The government tun.
mel enterprise should have boneflc-
ial effect In many ways.
| Mancos people contributed $50 To-
wards the Pueblo Chieftain's New
Years edition, receiving therefor ESQ
extra copies OF the paper. the town
receiving full page write-up with
two columns given the county.
The Phelps-Dodge people are ex.
perienclng some difficulty with water
in their coal mine on the La Plata
| They are now installing some pump
Ing machinery and work will be re-
sumed with more vigor. They
have opened ap 30 foot solid breast
OF coal and local tests show II to
he coking product Index.
John Wetherill. general hustler for
the Phelps-Dpdge survey, was In town
| today. He Informed us that they have
completed the survey up the La Plata
and have returned here and gone into
camp at their old camp grounds on
the old Carson ranch. Look for things
TO move right after New Years -
Pennington Times Hustler.
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The Ouray Plaindealer mentions
the fact that II asked the modest sum
of $50 of the city council for its Now
Years edition and got turned down
In handsome manner. and at the
same time the council gave an out
slider $3.50 for lectures. It's always the
way. The home enterprise gets II in
the neck for the outsider.
With the Phelps-Dodge railroad
running through Pennington up the
La Plata to the coal fields and Du-
range and on the south. giving us di-
rect connection with El Paso and the
gulf and the Southern Pacific passing
through Pennington and up the AMI
mas TO Rurango with spur running
mp to the La Plata coal fields with
Huntington AS the Junction point.
and connecting us with the great sys-
TEN at Deming: and with the Denver
Rio Grande leaving Durango pass
Ing through Pennington and on to
Clifton, II will make our town one OF
the leading railroad centers of the
Southwest and will start us well on
the way of a city of 10000 inhabitants
-Farmington Times. Hustler.
Albert c. Thomas secretary OF the
San Juan County Frult & Produce
Growers association visited The
Index Office Tuesday. AIR. Thomas
says the association is success and
did better business than was eX-
pected It would the first year. The
d. a. r. G. gave the association very
reasonable rates, and the outside
market was good. The most OF the
trouble encountered was In the grad
ing OF the fruit by the packer Each
Individual fruit raiser should make
Il thorough study of the art of grad
ing and packing, and then his stamp
VIII be safe guarantee as to quality
Eliminate the idea that because the
fruit Is raised on your ranch 1t does
not require grading Aztec Index.
This Christmas really seemed. more
| like old times-llke the later S0s-
| than for many moons says the Tel
luride Journal Lots of men were
down from the hills with the merry
chinlS of money in their clothes. and
they dropped in any old place. where
ever they pleased. and spent It II they
| liked. as they liked. and with whom
| they pleased. and there were no st
| Johns. Carpenters. or any other mn
| derstudy of the devil to tell them
where to go or how to spend II. II
| Is presumed that all noticed the dit
ference In town and this item Is indict'
ed for the information OF the oufsid'
ers who hadn't the opportunity oi
Witnessing what we at home could
not help but see. And that brings out
| this truth: Telluride. II left alone. Is
composed of a community OF money
makers and money spenders. that has
no equal in Colorado"