Semi-weekly herald., 1912-09-30


the faith that make men success al.
Mr.. Mcneil said that many Of
forts had been made to secure a rail-
read to Del Norte but every effort
had met with failure. Then It was
tnal they decided to move their bank
to Alamosa and to the site of rhe old
Victoria hotel. They closed the bank
with its deposit of $55O,00O and cash
in safe of more than 100000, on Sat
urday and the whole banking estab-
lishment with himself and Mr.. Camp
in the rear moved to Alamosa and
we're ready to begin bLsiaess Monday
mornir1
1t was at this time that they pe-
gan to hear about the glowing ac-
counts of the Animas valley and Mr.
Camp was dispatched to look in:o the
adv;sat;iity of establishing {; bank IN
this section! A favorapla repor. was
gwen and bank was established
here.
With interest he related the
:rc:dert of Mr.. Camp fieisht.ng
to Durango $4,000 in currency when
there was robbing and all manner of
crimes committed all along the way.
Thrilling Experiences
Harry Jackson was then introduced
by the toastmaster as one who had
many thrilling experiences, many Of
which he had not forgotten.
eatI hot ha To
Colorado in 1880 and had the expert
ence of conducting Sunday school
at Table Rock in those early days.
Later he made his way across the
mountains to the San Juan country.
He called to mind the city of tents
in the mountains where 400 or 500
people were searching for precious
metals. He remembered the terrors
of the night when noted bandits raid
ed the town. Stages were held up,
cattle stolen and thirteen men were
killed in period of a few days. How
one man who cut the price of beef
was escorted to the town limits to
the tune of whistling bullets.
Mr.. Jackson's experience of the
night of terror at Arboles was, he
said, his last thrilling experience, saw
ing the time when he got married.
Association Historian
Mr.. Wingate said that he now de-
sired to introduce man who had
been one of the pioneer school teach
ers in the San Juan country. Mr.. ID.
E. Newcomb of La Jara was the man
to whom he referred.
Mr.. Newcomb passed over in part
the early "reminiscences and devoted
his time largely to informing the
members of those whom he had visit.
ed in other parts of the country.
At San Diego he had visited John
Shaw, who was getting old, but en-
| joying good health. There he called
on Frank Hyatt, who has residence
on Coronado beach, and has writtan
in large letters the word "Alamosa,
so that all who may happen there
from that section of the country may
know that he is welcome. Here Mrs.
Love is keeping boarding house, but
when he saw her she was paralyzed
so that she could not speak.
He had found that that most ex-
cellent gentleman, Harry Schiller,
was dead, but met his wife and daugh-
ter. He had the pleasure of calling on
the former hotel man, ]. C. Mcclellan,
and daughter, who had so many times
catered to the hungry pioneers at AL
amosa. He was pleased to find the':,
as happy as they could well be, but
sorry to learn that the good wife had
gone to the beyond.
At Orange Grove he had the pleas
ure of visiting II. I. Ross and son
all as happy as they could be. Here
he was most royalty entertained and
the pioneer days were gone over with
renewed interest.
He also had a delightful visit with
Mr.. Givens at Hollywood, suburb Of
Los Angeles.
Mr.. Newcomb was more than pleas
ed with the cordial treatment Civ,
the San Luis valley pioneers at the
meeting and thanked Mr.. Wingatc
Camp, Mcneil, Graden and others, to-
gether with their wives, for the many
kindnesses shown them while in the
city.
Ranchman of 1873
George Spencer was introduced as
the pioneer ranchman, who came
across the plains in an emigrant wag
on in 1870. He hunted buffalo on
the plains for year or two before
deciding to join that innumerable
throng who were headed toward the
mountains in search of gold. He went
to Del Norte and the following year
came to the Animas valley. He, with
another, went into camp just a few
miles above Durango. They were i'm
mediately notified by the Indians who
were then in camp where Animas City
now is that they must leave. While
the white men in this section had gone
for supplies and Mr.. Spencer was
guarding the camp the Indians made
their appearance. He had barricajed
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