Semi-weekly herald., 1910-10-03

SPECIAL PRICE HAHN.
High-grade clothes at Nathan's.
Attorneys ] NJ. Palmer and w. r.
SoRelle were arrivals on the Red Ap
pie train this morning from Farming
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs, Ed Nickel and mother
Mrs. ]. Nickel, left for their home at
Pagosa Springs this morning after
spending few days at the fair.
Mrs. II. L. FIammett, well known
resident of Durango some years ago,
left for her home at La Veta this morn
ing. after a brief visit with her sisters,
Mrs. ". G. Killian and Mrs. F. Har.
mon.
1t will be several days before The
Herald viii be able to make out and
mail ILLS for the month of September
Too buoy to think OF such thing TO-
day The same holds true with about
everyone in Durango.
The big masquerade at Red Men
hall last night was very largely at
tended. There was the largest crowd
that had ever been in the hall, last
night. Miss Ada Richardson won the
ladies' prize for the most original cos.
tune, and Mr.. DeCamp, of the forest
service, the gentleman's prize. The
prizes have been on exhibition in
Hahn's window for the past week, a
beautiful twenty-six piece silverware
set going to Miss Richardson, and Mr..
DeCamp obtaining the gold-headed UNI
brella.
Last evening at the fair grounds,
what at first appeared to be dis.
tressing accident, occurred at the close
of the bucking contest C. Il. Allen.
one of the participants in the bucking
contest was Just finishing up his ex.
hibition on the diamond, when on
account of the lateness of the hour,
the race by the cowboys, was called
Mr. Aliens horse bolted through the
open gate leading from the diamond
to the track, right into the midst ol
The racing cowboys. Mr.. Allen and two
others, whose names we did not learn,
were thrown. and the former picked
up unconscious. 1t was thought at
first both legs were broken, and he
was injured internally. He was taken
down town, and although badly bruls.
ed, does not seem to be seriously
hurt The other riders were also
bruised but no bones broken. 1t seems
almost like a miracle that the men
we're not killed outright.
w. Goff Black, who is interested in
the Eden canal and other irrigation
projects in San Juan county, passed
through from Aztec today to Denver,
on brief business trip. Mr.. Black
says that San Juan county is progress
ing steadily Pennington has made a
good growth the past year, and Aztec
is moving along nicely, as well as sew
eral fine residences and smaller dwell
ing houses. Mr. Black added that the
Standard Investment company. of
which he is one of the directors. have
Just completed a canal from the San
Juan river, which waters land owned
by the company. A fifty-acre tract 10
Gated in a narrow valley about FIVE
miles on this side OF the mouth of
Pine river, was planted out to orchard
this spring. The company hauled wa.
Ter for the trees until just recently
when the canal was completed, the
trees making growth of three feet
this season, in spite of drawbacks,
Sandstone palisades of at least a thou
sand feet, form one wall of the valley,
which is an old Mexican settlement.
The MeNicans say that they have rails.
ed peaches for the past twenty-eight
years, and have never known fail
ure, either in that or any other fruit.
The palisades serve as a protection to
the fruit and the currents of air forced
through the valley seem to prevent
heavy frosts.