Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-14


Home at Monte Vista, announcing the
death OF her husband Harry Jack,
whose funeral will occur tomorrow at
the Home.
The Aztec Index is grieved because
there is a great falling of in the is
suance OF marriage licenses, and in or
der to stimulate the practice he offers
his paper free to anyone getting mar
ried. He says II they have the paper
in the house year they cannot get
along without II after that.
The visit of Wellington Il. Loucks
here Will have beneficial effect. He
has left information here which will
lead our people To studying the good
roads movement and the result will
be that when we have any money to
spend on roads hereafter the thought
of spending it so the benefits will be
lasting will not be lost sight Of
Durango Hign school graduates,
I'LL itN VAtCPsiohof h"NN iouhu IL Nv
cessary to seek employment or oppor-
tunity outside OF Durango. The rule
or order in other communities is gen
orally different Too many times
when a position could have been filed
by one of the graduates of the Du-
range school importations have been
made regardless of their capability to
construct sentence.
Wood 4 Morgan have sold the re-
bought Of King brothers to II. II.
Smith. George DeLuche returned last
night from Dolores, where he finished
gathering up another bunch for ship
ment to st. Louis. There were six
carloads, containing about 80 head
and they left Dolores for the East yes
terday.
Durango will nave two broad-gauge
through lines of railway within 10
months. 1t will not take longer than
that time for the Southern Pacific to
reach Durango and it will not take
so long for the Rio Grande to connect
Durango with Denver by broad-gauge.
The realty owner and house builder
are in for prolonged season OF pros
perity.
The government surveyors are
through with their work on the great
reclamation survey in the La Plata
valley for the present. They broke
camp yesterday and came to town
last night The wagons, horses, camp
outfits and other property will be dis
posed of at auction. This work just
finished will enable the engineers to
figure out the cost of constructing the
great storage reservoirs designed to
reclaim 100000 acres OF land between
Durango and the San Juan river, so
it can be determined whether the cost
to the farmer for water will make the
project feasible or not.
The good roads proposition is all
of for the present. 1t will be taken
up at some time in the future, how
ever, for it is too good thing to drop
A special meeting of the city council
was called last night to discuss the
matter and the council was evenly di
vided as to the abvisability of going
to any expense in the matter at this
time. The mayor was opposed and
cast the deciding vote. AT the close
of the council meeting another meet
ing of citizens was held in the council
room and various representative bus
mess men expressed their views 1t
was not clear to the majority as to
how any expense in the good roads
movement could be met at present,
and for this reason 1t was deemed ad-
visable to drop the matter temporar-
lily. Mr.. LOucks. the organizer of the
National Good Roads association.
said this morning that when a good
roads convention was held II should
have the undivided attention of the
people, and that such could not be the
case were the convention held on the
dates decided upon, August l6, II and
is. because the Farmers Institute and
the Woodmen log rolling were dated
for the same time. Mr.. Loucks was
presented with a box of fine cigars
as he was leaving this morning, they
being given him by rev friend
token OF their appreciation OF his ef-
forts in behalf OF this district, A few
individuals offered to raise the money
by private subscription necessary to
bring the chief engineer here. but Mr..
Loucks would not listen to such
proposition, saying he did not wish
to force the matter upon the people
and expressed a willingness to wait
until the people were ready for him to
return. He went out on the eastern
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