Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-22
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Lloyd C. Sheets has the foundation
in place on the mesa for a mansion
of some mensions.--Bayfeld Blade
w. Goff Black and Edward Everett
Young were appointed by Governor
Mcdonald as delegates to the Ma
tional Irrigation congress at Calgary
lCanada.-Aztec Independent.
Mrs. w. l.. Lee and Miss Marie
Phillips, of Ridgway, departed Sun
day morning for Denver to visit a
couple Of days before continuing their
journey to Pittsburg, Pa, to visit rel
atives. They will also visit in New
York before returning-Ouray Her
aid.
]. G. Dunning, of Lake View, has
just purchased SO shoas which he
has turned into his big orchard to eat
up the apples. Mr.. Dunning has more
than 1000 boxes of fine apples which
he will feed to his hogs instead of
putting them on the market, and this
seems to be the right sort of move
to make on the apple proposition this
fall.-Cortez Herald.
the Wellington properties on C.
II. C. hill, and an average of fifty
tons per day of lead-carbonate ore is
being shipped to the Durango smelter
by that company. Recently several
hundred feet of overground car tracl;
was constructed connecting the new
tunel at the Princeton with the aer-
ial tramway, and greatly facilitating
the transportation Of the ore.-Rico
Item.
Roy Current had narrow escape
from drowning on last Saturday at
| the Animas river bridge. He was on
his way to the La Plata. for load
of coal and drove into the river near
| the head of the Kello- Blancett ditch
to water his team. The wagon struck
hole, turning over on its side and
throwing Roy out in deep place and
he went under twive before getting
out. 1t was with difficulty the team
and wagon were gotten out His
grub box and feed was lost but the
bed floated down the river and was
rescued by John Farmer.-Aztec In
dependent.
| f. r. Chambers was severely in
jured by a horse kicking him Fri
day. He was in the Indian country
south of Bloomeld buying stock when
about 8 a. IN. a horse kicked him, Civ
ing him such blow that it broke the
bone just above the ankle. He was
brought in a wagon to the Wiltbank
ranch, where Mr.. Sammons was phon.
ed for. Sammons left in an automo-
bile and reached the store at Bloom
eld. He had difficulty in getting to
the ferry, having to wade through
mud and water, but finally got across
and dressed the wound. They came
down Saturday and Chambers was
placed in the Pennington General
hospital. He had to be brought some
80 miles by wagon before medical
attention could be secured.-Farming-
ton Times Hustler
The government is at present en-
gagged in doing the engineering work
just below the Bluff oil fields, looking
to putting in an immense dam, which
will hold the flood waters of the San
Juan back, thus accomplishing a two
fold object in preventing the annual
destruction of those high torrents
and also saving them to release when
this water is wanted in the Imperial
valley. Surveys will determine wheth-
er it is advisable to put this dam in
the vicinity to Comb Wash or lower
down near the dome. We also learn
that there is quite revival of work
in those oil fields, several parties do
ing work there and getting in new
capital to sink to oil. Thus far there
have been but few machines in that
territory capable of going to the
depths necessary to really prove up
the field. With the advent of ag-
gressive capital mad big rigs there
will yet be proper estimate put upon
this greatest undeveloped section.
Nowhere in the west is there such IA
vorable results from prospecting as
at Bluff, and it is one Of the strange
events of the industrial world to see
this promising field lie idle year af-
ter year.-Montezum Journal.
Saturday evening the citizens Of
Silverton were shocked to learn that
Baptista Mattivi had met his death
by electrocution. While rendering
aid to stricken fellow man he met
his death. This all happened shortly
after o'clock Saturday evening. 1t
appears that the arc light at the cor
ner of Twelfth and Blair streets was