Semi-weekly herald., 1913-11-13


part it would be an easy matter to
interest outside capital and thus ele-
vate mining to the position it occu-
pied few years ago.
The business session lasted until
1890. It was followed by a Dutch
lunch" and then adjournment for
those who desired, to the handsome
Elk club rooms, the 0uray bunch be-
ing hospitable cntcr ,ainers.
At 8 O'Clock next morning the Sill
verton-La Plata delegation was home
ward bound, reaching Silverton at
in the afternoon.
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Eighty-three cars Of ore were ship
ped from Rico during the month OF
October. Twenty-Five more would
have been shipped had the railroad
company been able to supply the de-
mand for cars.
r. Sorensen, cashier of the ID. and
r. G. freight depot in Alamosa, is
missing and likewise $500 of the
company's money. A warrant has
been sworn out for his arrest.
r. 7. Montgomery OF the Pine river
valley section, threahed this year
better than eighteen bushels of al
falfa seed from six acres of land.
The seed is worth about ten dollars
per bushel, so the returns from the
crop viii be about $40 per acre.
Judge Charles Blanchard of Las
Vegas is promoting an irrigation pro-
ject in the Fruitland section, which
embraces 10000 acres of land com.
prising the whole valley of the Mead
ows and one-half the Liberty section.
The system proposed will be operated
by pumping from the San Juan river
by steam and electricity generated by
the coal underlying the land. The
promoter estimates this method of ir-
rigation will be cheaper than the
gravity system, and the maintenan-
ces reduced materially.
New Mexico's state tax levy has
been increased one-tenth of a mil
over last year, having been raised
from 1876 mills to 1876. The asses.
sed valuation of the state is sol 1884,
601.0O.
The Mancos Tribune gives
its readers the following timely ad
vice:
The Montezuma valley is goins
largely to hogs this year, there be
ing quite a drove on many farms es
peeially in the upper part of the val
ley. 1t takes knowledge, judgment
and skill to raise hogs successfully
but with these qualifications one car
raise hog meat as cheaply in Monte
yuma county as in other parts Of tn,
country, but where one does not pos
sess these qualifications and is no
prepared for raising hogs they ar,
one of the easiest things in the worl,
to lose on, and, if you get starte,
wrong. the longer you hang on tn,
more you lose.
Mancos has two coal mines in con
slant operation.
Telluride is shipping an average oi
three ear loads of concentrates day
to the Durango smelter.
Walter L. Mepdenhall has LEASED
the Lake City Times for a period ot
two years. He becomes responsible,
for the destinies of the paper De.
cember list.
The Pagosa Springs New Era
says:
While trapping in the vicinity OF
Washington flats, Tom Nee and
Buck o'Neal had the good fortune
at daybreak yesterday morning to
kill large grey female timber wolf
Ia fine specimen of that species
which with its mate came prowline
around their camp. The boys state
that the male was even much larger
than the one killed and will return to
that vicinity in the hope of getting
him. The stoeismen cannot give too
much praise to the riddance of these
pegts. which evcrv wear oausc untold