Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-23

liNisionS.
Pumpkins are selling of the wag-
ms at cent per pound.
Potatoes at Montrose at 45c and 81
II Durango is quite variance.
Pueblo is giving closer attention to
he trade of Durango than formerly.
Baed alfalfa Is bringing $40 ton
valley hay coming In as yet.
Jim kight. the IN. & o." cigar
man is in Durango. selling cigars and
sisiting his old friend, AL Grant.
Nearly hundred farmers wagons
in and ont of Durango today, and the
crowd will be much larger tomorrow.
Surveyor Art Miller goes out In the
TO survey number OF min
ing claims on Lewis mountain for
patents.
Tom Burroughs Is In today from
his Florida ranch. He says there Ii
nothing now but that everything looks
GOOD in his country.
Colorado the local papers OF each
fown announce the killing of bear In
,reater numbers than ever before.
Work continues on the Hazel NJ
mining claim, named for Mrs. Mazel
" Murray, former landlady at Trim
ble. The shaft is now down about
30 feet and still going.
Joe Coppinger finds 1905 prosper
GUS year. He has raised big crop
If hay and grain He can't bale his
timothy hay fast enough to satisfy
ihe buyers at s14.50.
Godfrey Challen is as proud today
rs a hoy with new top. He says
his wife, who was operated on by Drs.
I.ackey and Hutchinson last Saturday,
TX rapidly recovering.
The Famous reports very gratify-
ing business the past few days. indi-
eating they have the goods and the
people the money with which to buy.
The advertised prices could not help
but attract customers.
The farmers are just beginning to
market their crops, from the field.
orchard. patch sand garden, and again
II will he realized that the prosperity
Of the farmer is always felt In Du-
range, A good many of the grain
growers are still waiting for the
thresher.
Both Herald reporters and part OF
The mechanical force have been suf
fering with bad colds the past few
lays. Not very agreeable when no
substitutes can be obtained to get out
n paper.
Lee Doster came down yesterday
evening from Rasmus Hansen's coun
try home and will start out tomorrow
to begin his annual work on proper
ties in the Orc Fino country In which
he is Interested
j T. Pennington drove in from his
upper Florida ranch this morning
leaving small sack of sugar beets
with Secretary Armstrong. HAVING
been grown at dn altitude OF 7.5i7
ieet And the ueets we're of fair size
VIM. GoeGlein, the assayer, who IL
now at Cripple Creek, announces his
Intention of returning to Durango In
the spring, and he says he thinks he
will bring some Cripple Creek money
along vita him for mining develop
ment.
Valentine Goeglein and VIM. Ren
shaw of Cripple Creek. who have been
here several days looking after min
luH plbpbeiliouo III lue oIlttItOU
country and about La Plata, returned
home this morning, saying they would
be back in the spring.
Drug stores handling patent medi
cines containing alcohol. especially
Peruna and Hostetter's, will have to
remunerate the government by taking
out annual license December l, OF
they will have to settle with Internal
Revenue Collector McDevitt
There is only one infallible In Du-
range and his name is Day. This Is
positive, because Day says so. II
anyone else was to make the asser.
ton there might he cause for doubt
but any statement arising from the
party in question can not be doubted
Oh the gulllbles
Manager Stilwell has booked the
Colored Concert troupe for the 26th
OF this month. The aggregation halls
from Chicago and is playing all thu.
large cities, coming highly recon-
mended from opera house manage
ments. As 1t has been several weeks
since Durnnpp npanie have had ao ~