Semi-weekly herald., 1911-05-04
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A good many incoming passengers
announce that they are bound for the
"San Jewann river" and "Mounty-
zmy valley" frui. Alamoaa
Empire.
T. l.. LOTUS new home on the
mesa promises to be one of the finest
homes in the county when completed.
The location is ideal and the view is
Rrand.-Farmingt Times Hustler,
A iIolyoke, Colo, farmer realized
more than $40 per acre from his po-
tato crop in 1910. Holyoke is dry
farming territory and the year was
unusually Moffat Times.
w. ]. Jordan and his righthand
bower. Massmer Of the Big -Four com
pany, have arrived with the drilling
rig and now things will be doing down
the canon Immediately. Cortez Her
aid.
The Vermillion mill is expected to
start Monday. Provisions for the
n..2srding house are being hauled up
and everything looks favorable for a
successful Seasons Silverton Stand
ard
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert W. Pearson,
who for the past three months have
been visiting friends and relatives in
Colorado Springs We're arrivals on
Thursday evenings train.--Silverton
Standard.
P. b. McAtec and wife were down
from Durango this week. They are
beth good Pennington boosters and
lever lose an opportunity to boost for
this section.-Farmingt Times Hus-
tier
The capital stock Of the Farmers
and Merchants bank was increased on
Monday from Sl0,000 to SIS, 1000. The
business OF the bank has nearly dou-
bled since its last Rtatement.-Bay
field Blade.
The encouraging news comes from
the Esmeralda mine in Minnie gulch
that l.. #. Sliced is mining in 800 per
ton ore. This ere is being taken out
below the Blacksmith level. 1t looks
good for Minnie gulch.-Silverton
Standard.
Durango is TO have n S150,000 fed
eral building located in the very CEN
ter of the city. Good for Durango
Now let us all push for direct rail
road line from Del Noite and we can
20 there to trade our flour and po-
tatoas for their coal and timber.---Del
Norte Prospector.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Wittow and
family returned from Durango on
:. Sunday evening and have again open
ed their residence in Silverton, after
an absence of several months, during
which time Mr.. Wittow was occupied
by business Mt the Smelter City,
Silverton Miner.
About seventy men are working at
the Gold King mine. A temporary
building has been erected to be used
as boarding house and hunks built
three high in what used to be the
change room. Ore is being sent over
the tramway preparatory to starting
the MILL Silvcrton Standard
arrived last Friday from a visit of
several months with old friends in
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and north
east Colorado. They both return to
us looking well and feeling well as n
rcsaA of their trip.--Mancos Times
Tribune.
Last Sunday the First Prcsby-
terian church of Cortez was duly or
ganized according TO the laws Of the
Presbyterian church, u. S. A. Rev.
W. s. Crozier of Durango preached at
the morning hour and his sermon was
certainly one in which all present were
interested and helped thereby.---Cor-
tez Herald.
c. T. Singleton. the civil engineer,
has surveyed line from the upper
bridge across the Pine river, through
Bayfield, to Ignacio, to be used as a
route for an electric railway. Mr.. Sin