Semi-weekly herald., 1915-01-14


boundaries of the new county shall be
shows the game the few are trying
to pull off at the expense of the tax
payers of both counties, or Montezuma
county and the proposed county
Cortez Herald.
The articles written by S. w. Car
penter and published in last week S
issue of the Mancos Times-Tribune
and the Dolores Star had the desired
effect and the taxpayers of this end
of the country are now fully awake
to the unfairness and danger of the
proposition, and mass meetings are
being held and ways and means dis
cussed to prevent the passage of the
proposed bill to form a new county
Dolores Star.
The case of the state VS.. Joe Cop
pinger for violating the two-mile
range law was tried before Judge Da-
Wis Monday. Coppinger was found
guilty and fined $5 and costs. The
case is really one to test the constitu-
tionality of the law and was prompt
lily Observation-Disclosures Times
Hustler.
Monday night gave us a rather
strange sample of weather. 1t began
laundering and lightning and then
snow followed. 1t showed quite live
lly for about an hour, covering the
ground with about three inches. 1t
then cleared up and turned colder
Pennington Times-Hustler.
John NJ. Price and parties have
opened up fifteen-inch streak of fine
looking galena ore at the w. j. Bryan
mine, and if the vein continues to
show up favorably, shipments from
the property will be commenced at
an early date.-Rico Item.
Without doubt our readers are ia
miliar with the Scriptural instance of
the man who found pearl of great
price and went and sold all that he
had and purchased it. Well. Farm
ington has a man who went that one
better. He found a pearl of great
price. and did not have to sell all that
he had to buy it, either. While eat
| ing of his New Years oysters, taken
raw, luckily, Louis w. Gales bit into
pearl that is estimated to be worth
Just meagre six hundred dollars. He
sent it to Chicago to be polished and
mounted, and will doubtless kept it
to safeguard against a rainy day
Pennington Enterprise.
A recent issue of the Chicago Rec
ord Herald prints the picture and
LII -, 1f
Nora Deutch, who was formerly Sill
verton girl. 1t seems she was the
telephone operator in large factory
building which caught on fire, but she
stayed at her post until the fire de-
partment was called and each depart
ment was warned throughout the
buildings and the men and women at
work given chance to get out.
Through her efforts, everyone was
able to get out without being hurt.
According to the article, she was in
deed heroine, and did not work well.
-Silverton Miner.
The Journal keenly regrets that the
matter of county division has come
up in the way it has, as it will serve
but to engender enmities without at
tanning the object. We are sure that
both Montezuma county and La Plata
will strongly oppose this move in the
legislature.-Cortez Journal.
The total gross value of the gold
ore produced in 1914 by the Cripple
Creek district was $14,551 ,931, or APP
proximately the same as in 1913, and
the total dividends paid by the various
companies aggregated $3,193,6S5, in
cluding q couple Of close corporations
that have to be estimated, as they
give no reports.
During 1914 the value Of ore ship
ped from the San Juan triangle, en-