Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-17
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The Kempton Komedy Ko. is max
ing another tour of the San Juan
towns.
The Durango band has been engaged
for the Aztec 4th OF July celebra-
tion.
B. B. Calvin is remembering friends
with souvenir postal cards from Dub
lin and other points in Ireland.
San Juan sheep growers unloaded
sixteen loads of wool at Aztec the
other day consigned to VIM. Wolff Of
Durango.
Many Navajo Indians are purchasing
buggies. Keeping in close touch with
their white brothers and also indi-
eating prosperity among the, tribe.
Count Cory rode into Cortez last
Friday with his automobile car, ac-
companied by J. j. Sheilder OF Mancos,
coming over in eighty minutes. II
Ia the first car of the kind ever in
| Cortez, and several of our citizens
were given sin by the generous OWE
err They went from here to Dolores.
-Cortez Journal.
Silverton's baseball team on return
| from their Durango Waterloo. march
ed gaily up the street from the depot
| to the STRAINS" Of u tenor drum, bear
ing a transparency, inscribed with the
| legend, Baseball Suits for Sale" But
| the gulp of grief is swallowed with
| the fixed determination OF painfully
walloping Durango on the very next
resumption of hostilities.-Silverto
| Standard
The Grand Junction News is after
| the city council with big stick Tor
permitting loafers to block the side
| walks In from of pool and billiard halls
and other places about town, squirting
| tOptcCO juice oNel lue siuS"aih anu
making remarks about ladies passing
This is proper Durango is not trou-
bled with this kind of loafers, but the
authorities permit the sidewalks tc
be used as spittoons.
| ]. X. Mum, prospecting partner ol
| V. u. Rodgers and j. C. Anderson. who
has been out in the Rosebud district
of Nevada for some months, where
he made some promising mining loca
tions, came in last night and will &c
down to Durango in the morning fol-
a few months stay, as it is impossi
BILE to accomplish much out at Rose
bud in the summer because of the ex
cessive heat and the scarcity of wa
ter.-Telluride Journal.
Sudden death on the rail One day
last week as the fast mail on the
Red Apple line was coming up, j. II
Jackson's big black dog, Joe, took {
race with the train. He outrun Il
and tried to jump across the tracl
ahead of it but slipped and fell undel
the engine and was cut clear in two
Joe was buried on the right of wa,
with mile stone for a monument
Other dogs take warning. Engineer
held responsible for not running fas
enough to keep ahead of the dog
Aztec Democrat.
L L., ID al ,,g Jnt
Canal, Land and Power company, hal
moved the survey camp to Aztec, from
which point the survey of the Bit
ditch will continue steadily to it
conclusion. AT the present rate o
progress Mr.. Burwell should finish b!
the middle of July and then speed!
results may be expected. The EdeI
ditch is winner and the large amour
of fine land it covers, tributary t.
Aztec will put this city to the from
even more rapidly than in the pas
two yearss--Aztec Democrat.
f. T.. Quirk came in on the trair
last Thursday. He has visited the va
rious fruit sections including Pail
sades, Grand Junction, Montrose, ant
the various valleys in Utah. and h,
says il We have the fruit that Is re
ported to him we are certainly aheaC
of any section, with the possible eX
ception of the north Ogden valley
At Denver he visited the proprietc
OF the big cherry orchard with sixt!
acres in bearing trees and was tolt
that they would not have a box o
cherries. At Palisades they have
very little fruit and practically M
ches.-Farmington Times-Hustler
Henry Steinbach and son, Levi, o
Flora Vista are demonstrating tn,
profit In gardening. They have abou
one and half acres of fair qualit,
of land in vegetables. To cultivat,
and prepare for market requires tn,
services of Levi and two hired mel
at $40 per month. He ships to Sill
yerton three times per week from $2l
to $50 worth each shipment. Mr. Hen
ry Steinbach is the salesman and dis
poses of all that is sent at gooc
proht. Evans Wood has proven the
| yalue of cultiyatinp asnaracus and nj,