Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-21

1nal homestead entries anu zlo ues-
ert land entriesis the record for the
year of 1906 at the United States
land office at Santa Fe.
Surveyor Jay Turley is surveying
a canal line from the mouth Of Pine
river to near Simpsons on the Gale
gos canon, a distance of about thirty
miles. The canal will cover 100000
acres on the south side. Some inter
ested parties are having the work
done.
1t is an assured fact that the Ham
mond Ditch company will construct
a fiume across the Largo canon. The
flume will be 2,70O feet long. There
will be required 300 pilings, which will
be hauled from. Dry lake on the line
of the Apache reservation, distance
OF fifty miles.
The Telluride journal says that
while there is not the hurrah OF the
old-time pay day, merchants about
town all report satisfaction with bus
mess conditions.
The sanitation Of the school and
its surroundings is as important as
any other associate feature in every
American city. 1t is extending to
Cuba and the Philippines.
Frank Wallace, who was one Of the
convicts implicated in the attempt to
escape from the Canon City peniten-
tiary when Night Captain Rooney
was killed, has applied to the state
board of pardons for pardon.
Duragno people must be awake to
the fact that other important cities
in Colorado are after the normal
school. Durango must have it.
Only one can be had now, SO it is up
to Durango to go after 1t.
Mrs. Joe Woods is entertaining
today in honor of her sister, Miss
Lena Barber, and will entertain again
tomorrow and Monday, to give Miss
Lena an opportunity to meet many OF
her old friends, and she has many in
Durango.
All the branches of the Rio Grande
running out of Durango are doing all
they can on both in and out haul.
They find it difficult to secure cars
enough, due largely to the increasing
demand for coal. There are more
coal diggers working than ever be-
fore by 20 per cent and every mine
producing at its fullest capacity.
Keeping up La Plata county roads
has always been the most arduous
and vexatious task imposed upon
any board of commissioners. but
until Logan and Charlton came to the
board there never had been any ef-
fort or idea contemplating permanent
work. All the work they have done
for two years has contemplated per
manency. and from all sections of
the county come words of recognition
of the fact.
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A. D. Leiner have leased the Hahn
building on Main avenue between
Ninth and Tenth streets and will
make it billiard and pool hall, carry
ing cigars, tobaccoes and candies.
The building is undergoing repairs,
the floor having been lowered to the
level of the sidewalk. One of the
finest steel ceilings in the state is
being put in and when repairs are
complete there will be no handsomer
room in town. In few days Messrs.
Cooke and Leiner will 90 to Denver
to purchase tables and equipment.
This is the Durango season for
speculation as to the possibilities of
new year and there are many ru-
mors afloat regarding new businesses
and building enterprises. 1t would
appear to the ordinary student of
Durango affairs for more than quar-
tetr of a century that there is more
room here for manufacturing and
building enterprises than for new bus
mess ventures. The latter field ap-
pears to be quite well filled in every
branch, but 1t is an open field for in
spection and the exercise OF that
judgment born of experience
and training. Durango certainly
needs more building and more
manufacturing establishments, which
would be followed by an increased
pay roll that makes business, more
than crowding business field.
The re-DrintinR or reissue of the