Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-06-21
From wednesday's Daily.

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From Wednesdsy's Daily.
w b. Alexander returned home m
Fagosa Springs this morning. Said
the contractors were expected in the
last OF this week to commence on tne
foundations of the new hotel
Charley Stilwell has received
message from Adair Wilson. dated
Denver saying he and Mrs. Wilson
would arrive in Durango Wednesday
evening barring earthquakes and
foods.
Dr. Brenaman, dentist of Mancos
and Uncle John White. one OF the
staunch citizens of Monteznma coun.
). spent the night in Durango dr,v.
ing over and returning the same way
oday Mr. White reports conditions
very favorable in his section of conn.
try.
New pnone instruments are taking
The place of old ones 1t will he
month or six weeks before the old
ones are dumped and the compapv
operating from the new building. al
| though moving day is slated for the
| 18th of July. And there will be gen.
| eral rejoicing when the change takes
| place.
| W. G. Black, one of the promoters
| of the New Eden Ditch company of
San Juan county, N NJ, is spending
the day in Durango with friends. He
| will make drive up the Animas val.
ley for the purpose of showing his
friends. wno are from the East, the
prettiest valley in Colorado. In con
versation with Mr.. Black it is learned
that the great irrigation project
which he and his partners have un-
dertaken is progressing most salts
factorily. They have studied the ex
perience of others in such matters
and have profited thereby. The can
| al will be taken out of the Animas
river mile and half above the state
line and will carry water 40 miles
It is designed to reclaim 10000 acres
and perpetual water rights will be
sold to farmers on easy terms. Cross
ing the divide between the Animas
} and San Juan rivers the canal makes
sheer fall of 100 feet and this it is
| proposed to utilize for electric pow
er, which will be one of the side as
sets of the company. Some of the
| construction work will be very ex-
pensive, while other parts will be
very cheap. The first seven miles.
it is estimated will cost $45,000.
Mr.. and Mrs G. F. Akers were in
; from Grommet today trading with the
merchants. Mr.. Akers said the coun-
try is rapidly settling up around
Grommet and lots of improvements
are being made. There is plenty OF
water this year and ranchmen are do
ing well. He has fall wheat waist
hign-20 acres of it. He has the bal
wheat and oats-and it is looking fine
James Taylor, the colored man who
nas made Durango his home for more
than Is years and has won high
place in the estimation of the people
and a competence by his industry, is
soon to leave with his wife for Balti-
more, their old home, to remain. They
nave sold their house on Fifth avenue
and Ninth street to Mrs. Ida Vailei 4
| When Mrs. Taylor left her home
years ago it was out in the country.
Now the street cars run right by the
door. Mr.. Taylor is now employed in
the big Graden stores as janitor and
| all-around handy man. Both he and
ais wife will carry the best wishes OF
+ "a large number of people with them
when they leave.
About the noon hour Harry Jack
sons delivery horse dashed up Main
street, evidently heading for the Ami
mas. Several citizens endeavored to
stop the animal on the Eighth street
crossing but failed. A little further
up the street stood the white driving
| horse of Mrs Heber Graves, facing
the runaway. The runaway under
took to pass between the tied animal
and the sidewalk, resulting in the
right shaft of the runaway vehicle be-
ing plunged into the breast, just be-
II low the shoulder, of the white horse
u probably eight or ten inches. Natur-
ally general m;xup followed, the
shafts of both rigs being broken. BY
ISLANDERS soon released the animals.
!, the Jackson horse apparently sustain
ing very little injury The white
horse was taken to the Likes & Zip
perian barn and treated with hopes OF
saving the animal, which is seriously
if not fatally injured,
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