Semi-weekly herald., 1909-11-25
-ango sports are figuring on taking in

fully considered: The gates have been
opened, the floods turned loose and
once more Silverton Is being deluged
with shower OF circulars from the
catalogue houses soliciting holiday
trade and offering their cheap shoddy
goods at catchy prices to fool the un-
wary and land suckers, who after
spending their money find too late
that they have been duped TO the
queens taste. II is like dead fruit
Oh the lips. There is nothing to be
gained by sending outside for Christ
mas goods that can he bought al home
with much greater certainty o. sat
isfaction. Our merchants go to extra
expense to serve us in this particular
| and we should give them cur patron
age. Keep the money at home by buy
ing your holiday goods from your To-
| cal merchant and you will enjoy a
much more happy Christmas.
Harry French loaded five cars of
hay this week for Telluride. Rico and
Dolores at $14 for alfalfa and SIG for
| timothy and there seems 70 be plenty
of demand for 1t at these figures, says
| the Mancos Times-Tribune.
The Montezuma County Fair asso
ciation, mention of which was made
last week, is now fully launched. Sec
| fa 30 oII Cot "a
| ton says that a meeting of the new
directors will be called between now
and Dec. LIST, at which time new Off
GERS and committees will be elected
| and the work for the ensuing year got
ten under way, says the Mancos
TimesTribune.
w. s. Whitworth, who came in last
week with DR.. Crawford from Georgia
went to Durango Tuesday to look over
| that city to ascertain the prospects in
his line Mr. Whitworth is a banker
| and thinks he would like to come west
| ii he can find field where the induce.
| ments are sufficiently alluring Man
| cos Times-Tribune.
| While on his way to the Camp Bird
| mine in Ouray county to attend to
some urgent repairs for the San Juan
| Power e. Water company, Robert Lock.
wood had thrilling experience with
a snowslide, the memory of which will
| remain with him as long as he lives
| He was standing on the mountain side
| above the nlne in about two feet of
| snow, VIII IN Il suddenly and without
| warning gave way and he shot down
| the canon for a distance OF nearly a
| thousand feet. landing near the mine
more scared than hurt. He returned
| TO Silverton and is at work again none
the worse for his forced flight down
the mountain, excepting a few slight
bruises and something to tell his chill
| dren for all days to come.-Silverton
| Standard
Judge Greeley Whitford's plan of
sending violators of Denver's license
law to Jail will have more salutary
effect than cash fines. The average
saloonkeeper don't care any !. ore for
money than we do. remarks the Tellu
ride Journal
| The Montrose Press has already
nominated Senator Horace 7. DeLong
of Grand Junction as the Republican
candidate for governor next year.
| Bill Coppinger the granger king of
Montezuma county, accompanied by
his brother, Charley, came up from
the big valley yesterday and journeyed
on to Durango to see what he can
get for fifty big fat hogs he now has
ready for the market. alr. CJ1pinger
this year threshed 6,49l bushels of
grain and sold most of his cats ON the
ranch for 50 per hundred, and would
have made 1000 bushels more but for
the destruction wrought by the heavy
summer rains. Tom Coppinger will
make over 6,000 bushels of grain and
Charley made $500 bushels off of 40
acres. When it comes to raising grain
the Coppingers bear off the laurels
every time, then lay IT over all their
neighbors raising hogs.-Mancos
Times-Tribune.
The Western Pacific railroad ac.
cording to the Grand Junction News
has ordered 900 cars of coal from the
Somerset mines in Delta county de.
livered at Salt Lake as rapidly as pos.
sible.
| II. A. Harrison, former resident
of Cortez, writes friend that Colo.
rado Jonathans are selling three
pounds for a quarter at Los Angeles.
Frank knight of Cortez took a car of
hogs 10 Silverton for which he receiv.
ed s7.75 per hundred A bunch of
easy money.
j. j, O'Rourke was in from the lie
banon district yesterday, ard reports
having sold S07 boxes of apples from
a two-acre orchard that had not been
pruned or given any care for the past
three or four years. The applss
brought an average of 90 cents per
box delivered at Dolores. 1t is safe 10
say that j. J. will see to It that tL >