Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-22
Goodman is expected home tonight.

: Goodman is expected home tonight.
: Miss Edith B M Young came #
from Pagosa Springs Saturday ever
ing to attend the institute, after whic,
} she will visit her sister at Aztec. re
turning to Pagosa for the fall an,
winter term OF school.
Gordon Smith, travelling auditor o
the American Smelling company. lef
this morning for Denver after finish
Ing his work here. He expects Il
stop of at Antonita and try his lucl
a couple of days in the Conejos.
F. c. Perkins was a Denver bound
passenger this morning. He will re
turn in about week with his daugh
ter, Dorothy, who is now with rela
tives in Denver, en- route from Kan
sas. where she spent the summer.
| Congressman and Mrs. Warren A.
Haggott and children returned this
morning from Silverton whittier they
| lourneyed Saturday evening and spent
the Sabbath. They will depart In
the morning over the Rio Grande
Southern for Telluride.
| Miss Pearl Thompson. who has been
with the Smelter State bank the past
two years, left this morning for Pa.
gosa Springs where she will spend her
vacation of ten days. After returning
Miss Thompson will be with the law
firm of Ritter & Buchanan as stenog-
rapher. taking the place of Miss Wini-
fred Turrill who has resigned to take
effect the first OF the month. Miss
Thompson is thorough and compe-
| tent stenographer and has many
friends who are pleased with her pro
motion.
A Denver man and his son were
arrested and confined In jail for steal
ing coal. The neighbors asked for
their release stating that the father
and son were the sole support OF the
family. 1t was apparently such an
unusual thing for Denver father to
be the sole support OF his family that
his release was ordered Immediately
Maybe that will have an encouraging
effect on others and induce them to
become the support OF their families.
Press Southard and wife were out.
going passengers Sunday morning, cut
ting their sojourn at Aztec short and
only remaining over night in Durango.
Press is an old time Durangoite but
has been away for ten or twelve years.
being in charge of the electric plant at
Excelsior Springs. Mo-, ut the present
time. Mr.. and Mrs. Southard join Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Arnold of Denver to-
day and the four will spend few
days at points along the Moffat line.
Saturdays Denver Post contained
the Information that a recent shipment
OF n selected ton of ore from the Small
Hopes mine in the La Platas showed
gross values, chiefly in gold OF $780,
900. This would be good If true. but
1t isn't. The mines Of the La Platas
are rich In precious metals and some
picture returns have been received
from shipments. but nothing Hke that
given by the Post Superintendent
w. r. Price told The Herald reporter
this morning that while some very
rich ore had been encountered in the
present workings, no shipment OF
a selected ton had been made. The
ore SO far taken out has been saved
from the work of driving drifts and
getting the mine ready for making reg
ular shipments. Picked specimens will
give assays of higher figures than
mentioned above. The mine is all
right and regular shipments will soon
begin. The ore as shipped will return
from eight to ten ounces gold, which
is big thing in itself. Such reports,
when there is no truth In them, do
not do the country any good. The
truth about the mines Of the La Platas
are good enough for us. Mr.. Price
says he is reasonably well satisfied
with the present value OF the ore.
OF course. he would be better pleased
II he could select a ton that would
return s3GO,000. He may be able to
do so some time. Who knows?
A large number OF Pagosa Springs
people came in yesterday morning on
speck.l train and witnessed the
slaughter of their ball team by the
Durango's by a score OF IS to 2, and
If the Durango's had played ball after
the third inning they could have
chased each other around the diamond
until they were tagged out. The Pa