Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-04-12

caused much discussion and turned
the eyes OF many readers 10 that coun.
| try.
The melting of heavy SHOWS and
swollen streams VIII continue to give
the San Juan soft tracks and slow
trains for sometime
| The county attorney OF San Miguel
county at Telluride. has just had his
salary raised from $3.50 to $500 per
annum.
The new telephone building Is ready
for occupancy. and II Is understood
that all the hello machinery is soon
to be moved To the new home.
The county commissioners this aft.
ernoon are trying TO finish up the
work Of allowing great horde of bills
against the county. large feature
being the court expenses of the re.
cent term.
| bhh'i pifHthl NOuulilbHS DiOUNDlN
Aztec and Pennington will open the
railway excursion season. and 1t
might be a good "trip to take while
waiting for other nolghbors to get
ready for royal reception. .
| While many western railways are
experiencing so much trouble In oper-
ating lines already built 1t will not
be surprising II those who contem-
plate building will delay tn the wealth
er promises to be good for "A little
while.
| Down on the lap of the great San
Juan mountains. the most productive
farming and fruit growing section on
earth. the people are going mcrrily
on with their work and will be ready
| to send the mountains the things they
will need by the time they are ready
for them.
The signs are little better at Tel
luride. The Liberty Bell mrll has re
sumed to the extent of running
through the mill about 200 tons of ore
daily. and since the roads and trails
are getting a little better other mines
are enlarging their operations and
traffic generally is moving better.
The lazy Ute and more industrious,
but adventurous Navajo. are just now
playing slx-card poker for the buttons
and buckskin trappings of tneir
clothes and saddles, way down on the
| San Juan, and the hobo who went
south to winter Is yawning for spring
that he may find easy money In the
mountains.
Jesse Accord went out this morning
| with his mule train to take load OF
Trail and provisions to the Durango
Girl mine. He expects to get as far
as the old cyanide MILL II no further,
and should he fail TO get further the
boys at the mine can get on web snow
shoes and hike along with one OF
these festive bars Of iron till they
get them all In the tunnel.
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| Albert N. Henbest, one OF the bright
| lights drifting west having missed
| Durango. aad selected Telluride as
the place to make his fash, and
touched up a machine sewing outfit
besides getting to the good strangers.
II is a wonder that one so bright
would overlook anything as easy as
Durango has always been.
o.
Mrs. c. w. Tage, wife Of the Herald
linotype operator. was among the pas
sengers arriving on that exceedingly
late train this morning from the east
but was treated. with the other pas
sengers yesterday to the novelty oi
witnessing church services at the TOP
OF the range. midst snow banks
drifts and snow-flled cuts
NJ. Kennedy. the Anlmas City mer
chant, announces that the absence o
the North Side bridge mas not seemed
to seriously discomm0de the people
living there and In the valley above
Everything appears to move alont
about the same. the chief dlfferenc,
being a transfer of street cars at tn,
river.
II trouble and continued adversely
! Will teach the lesson, Sllyerton nai
probably learned during the past win
ter to be patient and tolerant. BE
ginning with pneumonia plague tina
took away nearly one hundred. snow
slides came on to do more havoc
And while silyerton has been Digging
for the dead. shoyellng trails and try
Ing to restore the great mining dis
trict to normal conditions. probabl,
the people have wondered what woul'
happen next.