Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-22
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1t is said there are 125, 900 head o.
swine in the San Luis valley.
One thousand ounce silver ore has
been struck in the Black Bird mine
at Ouray.
Telluride office took in s7S5.O5 from
persons buying tickets on the Sail
Lake excursion. Not so bad
Telluride ball team has been prom
ised six games in different points OF
Utah with 60 per cent of the gate re
ceipts.
Peter Menzie's Scottish entertain
ers. composed entirely of Scots, will
about hit Durango the first week in
September.
lot consisting of LOO tons OF
Cripple Creek ore worth only 1925
per ton was made to pay by cyanide
treatment.
Alamosa Journal accuses second
baseman of its ball club betting on
the opposition club and causing Ala
mosa to lose the game.
Alamosa Independent Journal says
Colorado Telephone company will not
extend the line between Durango and
Alamosa this year. VIII wait until
1908.
Telluride will not be satisfied until
her ball team tries conclusions with
Durango A series of games with
various teams is planned after the
goth of the month.
Telluride Journal thinks Slattery
would rather lose ten thousand dollars
on baseball than the three thousand
he was robbed of the other night.
Same with every true sport.
The man Holllngsworth who robbed
the Rio Grande of $500 at Alamosa,
also took along about the same value
OF coupon tickets and several hundred
dollars worth OF Globe express orders.
II was supposed Hollingsworth had
been arrested in Texas but 1t proved
to be the wrong man.
Miss Edith B. NJ. Young will close
noon and go to Durango tomorrow to
attend the teachers institute. after
which she will go to Aztec to visit
her sister until the opening of the
Pagosa High school.-Pagosa Springs
Tlmes-Obseryer.
Elliott McGalliard and Harry Hays
returned Wednesday from the gold
fields of Nevada. They report condi-
tions of living in the mining district
of that country to be pretty hard, and
are not very well satisfied with their
prospects there. Mrs. McGalliard came
over from Durango the same day to
join her observation-disclosures Tribune.
One day last week while Mrs. F. A.
Byrne and Miss Jennie Martinez were
mans ranch, they met with an ex
perience which was more amusing than
startling. The upper bridge was being
repaired and 1t was therefore neces-
sary for vehicles to ford the river at
that point. When their horse reached
the middle of the stream 1t deliberate
ly laid down and refused to bulge.
The ladies' were in a quandary as to
how they would reach the shore, but
finally they both jumped out of the
carriage and landed in hole where
the water was about four feet deep.
They succeeded In reaching the shore
with their clothes thoroughly soaked.
Assistance soon arrived and the horse
persuaded to take its nap in a drier
spot.-Pagosa Springs Times-O Observer
l. w. Mcconnell, engineer in charge
of the Gunnison tunnel for the govern
ment at Montrose, has been given def
mite information that the prosecution
o. work on the big water proposition
is to go right on despite word to the
contrary which has been circulated
section of the country, says phone
dispatch to the Telluride Journal.
However, he has orders to reduce the
expenditures from $500, 900 per year to
$450,000, just one-quarter of the former
annual appropriation, and this has
probably caused the rumor to get in
circulation that work would be sus-
pended. In order to push the bore
through on the present appropriation
the heighth of the tunnel, which is
thirteen feet, will be cut down to
about half. say six and half or seven
feet for the present, and the tunnel
put through next year, in 1908, and
then after it Is completed in that man
ner 1t will be made higher in the next
two or three years, II necessary, or
whenever the government is fixed to
make the expenditure. The length OF
the tunnel complete will be 10000
feet. The progress made Is good, SO
far 2O.434 feet having been run at this
time, which is little better than two
thirds the entire distance. The river
or east portal Is now in 6,944 feet
and the west or Montrose portal is in