Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-12-25

er's wine raffie yesterday, says lie hal
r never been much inclined to me be,
2 erage but that he has number o.
& friends whom he will invite down t,
his country home on Christmas. Frank
Will and Frank Rivers have already
z been invited
: Joe Coppinger and family departed
this morning for Old Mexico TO tarry
In the sunshine of the Montezumas
3 where Cortez won mis- conauests. to
: get away from the rigors of the Ital.
, Ian climate of the San Juan to try an
other Italian climate further south
and to study the peculiar economies
which President Diaz has introduced
and enforced in the domain of the
Mexican republic. The children. Reed.
Braidon and Gladys. went along to
keep company with their parents, OBJ
livious of the public schools and the
contagious.
b. NJ. McAtee, brother of Durango's
p. b., who has just taken a big Jump
in the scale of promotion on the Rio
Grande official directory, has been Wis.
iting the latter and wife. and went out
this morning TO Denver to visit his
/ sisters. Mr.. McAtee has charge of the
| amalgamation in the great Gold King
niii at Gladstone, above Silverton. a
position won by practical study and
| hard work He has been q student for
l nr
| School of Mines and in the University
of California. and is well equipped for
his work. Mr. McAtee. sneaking of
he pneumonia epidemic al Silverton.
said the Gladstone section had been
fortunate. that the people there were
employed and provided with good
quarters. that they might take care
II themselves, and that they had not
had a case of pneumonia.
John w. Waters. when asked today
about the stock situation in the Du. |
range country. said. There Is more
stock in the country at the present |
lime than ever before because the low |
prices have caused owners to hold for |
higher prices. The increase has been
we're remarkable and the shipments
were almost as large last fall as dur
'ng the fall previous. Beef is now
within Is cents per 100 pounds as low
rs 1t was during the panic of 1893 and
he drought that followed, but the
itockgrowers are confident that il will
not be long until they can get better
)rice in all the markets, extending 10
Kansas City and Chicago"
George Patten of Pine river is in
today to look over the situation relat-
'ng TO Christmas and TO meet other
'armers and ask them about their
crops. Mr.. Patten has been in La
Plata county long time, long enough
% commingle with the peoples poll.
les and lend his sympathies to some
'f the local statesmen and masters of
economy who have been architects of
taxation and the manipulation of off
al bonds, which the boys have had
occasion TO require from time to time,
md he says there have been times
when he didn't know which was his
lttorney, the fellow for or forninst,
but he paid the toll and went right
IN in the modest avenues of industry
irying to make a living and keep pay
ng taxes. Mr.. Patten thinks 1t is
al in ones life and he really doesn't
care much about it.
Earl Snyder. manager of the gro
Gerry department at the Graden Mer-
camille company, relates a peculiar in
cident In calculation of the turkey
product in the New Mexico country
south. Just before THANKSGIVING he
was led to Investigate the number OF
turkeys produced below and as near
IS he could get to on information
there would be 500. which was
thought to he an eXtravagant est-
mate. Mr.. Snyder says that since
that time the country has shipped
1000 turkeys to Durango and is still
shipping. About 1,2O0 pounds of
iressed turkeys came on the Red Ap-
ole train last night, about two-thirds
is many the night before, and every
where you go you hear the gobble OF
the live turkey in the coop. Mr.. Sny-
der thinks this production of the glad
some bird is most congratulatory, and
that he has q notion to raise some
himself, SO merry has been the re.
suits. There were no embalmed tur-
keys this time from Kansas and Ne
braska.
Editor Herald:
In your paper of yesterday appears
an Item to the effect that the city |
council contemplated issuing $4,000 |
refunding bonds bearing five and one
half per cent interest, and $780, |
bearing six per cent interest. The
item is an error. The present out. |
standing bonds which are proposed 10 |