Semi-weekly herald., 1908-12-21
SAN JUAN TOWNS

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| Montezuma valley received a soak
ing the past week. says the Correz
Journal.
| Telluride council voted the other
night to install fire alarm system at
$43 per month rental.
| George Lane was called to Monte
cute some boys at Cortez for disturb
| ance.
| The Cortez Herald Is brlmfull OF In
| tercsting local news this week. Keep
ii up, Mr.. Howard, and the Montezuma
| valley people will make good.
Telluride was visited by a severe
| windstorm along with the rain and
| snow Wednesday evening, blowing
down n large tree which crushed In
the residence of ]. A. Manifold No
| one injured.
]. X. Johnson of Minatare, SCOTS
bluff county. Nebraska, came in on
| Saturday. He had visited the Monte
yuma country before coming here. On
Monday he purchased J. s. Bryson's
fruit farm on the peninsula, for which
he paid $1,000. He gets a good place
that is well worth the money.-Farm-
| ington Times Hustler,
| The heavy snowstorms which swept
over the western slope during Tues
day and Wednesday played havoc with
the telephone wires In the country dis
tricts. Yesterday-aa Whitaker
had men out between Fruita and
|Grand Junction and between Grand
Junction and Whitewater. picking up
broken wires.-Grand Junction News.
There are seventy-five loads of
freight for Telluride scattered around
the Southern system, but nothwith-
standing this fact, It will be impossi-
BILE to do much in the freight line
| for the next few days, or at least un-
| til passenger trains are running regu-
larly again and the effects of the big
storm have been overcome.-Telluride
journal.
| A low rate on crude oil for smudg-
ing purposes has been published by the
| Denver and Rio Grande. A freight
\ rate OF cents per gallon Is to be
granted to the ranchmen OF the west
ern slope ON crude oil from Florence
| to Grand Junction. The complete rate
i as announced by the railroad Is 80
cents per 100 pounds in carloads. This
make its practically 2 cents per gallon.
Grand junction News.
The local sugar factory yesterday
made the third payment for this sea
sons beet crop and the growers OF
Mesa, Delta and Montrose counties re
ceiyed checks aggregatins $125,0O0.
The two previous payments bring the
total received to date to $325,00O. The
entire beet crop has now been deiiy-
cred to the factory, the amount ex-
ceeding 10000 tons. This years yield
was exceptionally light.-Grand juno
ton News,
A petition is peing circulated by
citizens living above Aztec prayiu2
the county commissioners to make d
levy for a bridge to be located some
where in the vicinity OF the Wakefield
, ranch. There is no question thai
/, 10, M
cessity and the commissioners Will df
. righteous act In ordering the levy
What benefits one part Of San JuaI
county is bound to help all the rest
Give the land owners on the west sid'
of the Animas river between Azte'
and Cedar Hill chance to get to mar
. ket.-Aztec Index.
t II is a common expectation anon
o those who live here TO see Cortez dot
r BILE In population In 1903. There !
:. every indication of II at present, a
e your yards are being depleted OF lun
It Der to fill demands for building ms
|. terial. The general prosperity of tn
Z Montezuma valley fully warrants thi
b. conclusion, as 1t would be but ma
"a ural growth. Houses are going up o
I" every hand. Where is there a tow
e that called four orders for building
a out OF one yard in week. as did th
Mead -Hengstler yard a short tin
since? Cortez stands on the best foo
ing OF any town OF its size In the who
state, and is the best business poin
Here things are summing, and the
Is no indication Of diminution OF tn
" activity. Come down and get far
NJ in this matchless valley, where "
u can buy land for forty dollars per ac
that win cost you hundred and nj
n in any other point in the fruit grown
In districts Of the valley.-Cortez 10,