The daily sentinel., 1909-10-20
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

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With large number of new hous-
es proposed and sewer and water as
sured shortly. those cheap lots in
Keith's addition are winners. Buy
now and reap the benefit of advance
in values. Jaynes, $50 Main
a rumor comes up from Montrose
that the Empire of that town con-
templates starting a daily newspa-
per. Better think twice, and then
think again. You'll find heap more
work and less profit in daily than
in weelSly.-Telluride journal.
Grand junction is going to make
big thing out of that Western Slope
Congress. If the congress can bring
the western slope into one harmoni-
GUS whole. it will have accomplished
great deal of good for western Col
orado. The slope has suffered a
great deal heretofore on account of
the inability to pull together-Mont-
rose Enterprise.
Labor is scarce in Vernal Mon
day work was started on the drain
ditch with only three men, and. un-
less larger force can he secured, IL
will have to be discontinued. The
city is paying s225 cash per day.
per Burns bench have hired over
twenty men the past week at 81 a
day and board.-Vernal Express.
Some OF the backwaters or ponds
along Green river that are driving
up are found to contain numbers of
fish, and the attention of DEPUTY
Game and Fish Warden Pope, who
was in town this week. was called to
the matter. II is said that they are
mostly catfish and perch although
there are some suckers. An effort
viii be made to put all of the fish
in the shallow ponds back into the
river, and the others ought to be
drained. but that would be a big un-
dertal,ing. -Verual Express.
Old Pat Lynch is dead-not the
two-legged Pat who still lives over
in Pats Hole in the Blue Mountain
country, but the horse he sold to
the government 2S years ago. John
McAndrews bought the horse for the
government when II was years old.
and rode il about S years. until he
quit the Uintah reservation. and
then he gave the government S1OOI
for the faithful old horse and put
him on the retired list. For the past
3 years Mr.. McAndrews has been pay
ing pasture bill for old Pat He died
over in S. p. Dillman's pasture. Mr.
McAndrews Will have the front hoofs
polished and mounted for souvenirs.
The horse was - years old when he
died.-Vernal Express.
Discussing "a recent dispatch in
which II was stated that the Denver
Il Rio Grande was considering the
construction of tunnel through the
mountains in the neighborhood of
Marshall pass by which a distance of
30 miles would be saved on the
through trip to the west by con
nection with the Western Pacific.
prominent railroad official stated
that scheme of this kind. was very
improbable. He pointed out the i'm
mense cost of such a project. as a
tunnel miles long Mt best would be
required. and the probable cost of
such change would be in the neigh
borhood of s million dollars. Then.
too. he pointed out the WORK of dou-
ble-tracking in the vicinity of Pando
and Tennessee pass. which is being
prosecuted as rapidly as possible. as
an indication that there is no inten-
tlon OF abandoning the present route.
The new work would require at least
three years to bring it to completion.
Altogether it was the general opinion
that there was little danger of anV
change in the present routing of
through rafiic.-Leadville Herald |
Democrat.