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Show t of the manner in which Lane met his death. San Juan Record and has issued a circular calling in the maturing six per cent bonds, about $200,000,000 in amount for payment July 13. Those who so bonds exup desire can have their and one-ha- lf Joe Mc- MINING MENTION THE DOVE CREEK PRESS THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF DOLORES COUNTY AND SAN JUAN COUNTY. UTAH Published Every Thursday al Monticello, , Utah Entered al the Pust Office at Monticello, Utah, as second class matter under the Act of Congress of Much 3. 1879. BIRL J. BREWINGTON. Editor and Publisher The Sunday is booming again, and an assay made this week showed up the astonishing return of 2,232 ounces, silver. Winkficld & Klee, and others have let a contract on the Liza Jane. Git along. T 4 interest in the Robert E. Lee and Rico mines have been sold to E. B. Cushing by A. A Waggoner and A. D. Demasters for $5,000. They are both good mines and Mr. C. may congratulate himself on a big bargain. Demasters and Waggoner, Cushing are now working the Campbird under contract. It is already down 141 feet and it will be pushed until mineral is reach-e- tended at three SAN JUAN RECORD fc DOVE CREEK PRESS found dead three miles below Pfl town yesterday. He had been THURSDAY. .APRIL 16. 1953 in the employ of Mr. Hersey, of Office tf. all kinds for sale at the Press LEGAL BLANKS Hermosa, and was probably murdered by somebody to get possession of his outfit. Undertaker Nelson has gone down to bury the body. per cent interest. It is understood that a syndicate of bankers is forming in New York to take the bonds of those bondwas short of holders who do not care to avail jack-as- s material, and when he themselves of this offer, paying had made arrangements for the for them in full. existence of all the asses required for practical purposes, he Julius Thompson is putting up made enough memb ,OIORADO;??'' a building on Glasgow avenue. men (?) to have a great abundiress Association ance of asses. ' The stearriTwhitsle of the burro The Chrysolite Mining Co. is train is now thrilling a large and now employing 250 men and is enthusiastic audience. NATIONAL EDITORIAL turning out fifty tons of ore a sTb cFa t i n & Harms have rig- daily. There is $230,000 on hand, Blodgett V. 3 ged up the reddest wagon in but it has been deemed best to Efsnin America for use as a water wa- defer the renewal of dividends gon. They will do a heavy busi- for the present. MEMBER OF UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Silver A contract for 50 feet will be ness this summer, as The canyon in which Gold ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE let on the Robert E. Lee next Creek water is in demand. Hill and Silver City was located week. Subscription Rates in Dolores and Adjoining Counties L. Alderman, of Aldreman Sc before 1853 by the Mormons. The Parole has attracted much Six Months $1.75 $3.00 One Year to Gault, has gone south for the They took out considerable gold we are if and attention lately Subscription Rates Elsewhere purpose of procurring beef cat- by rude implements prior to the Six Months $2.00 judge from the fine specimens $3.50 One Year to supply the immense de- discovery of the Comstock lode exhibited, the interest is not un- tle mand for butchers stuff. He will in 1856. warranted. PRICE 10 CENTS PER COPY It is said that Gus Misch has probably go to Montezuma The bullion shipment from the already struck it rich in one of Leadville smelters during the his claims across the river on Joe Temble is putting up a month of March aggregated Expectation. two story frame building on Commercial street, just in the DOTS FROM THE DOLORES The public debt of the United Points of Progreses from an rear of the News office. The Odd States is $68 per head; of Spain, Interview with a United States Fellows, who have recently or- $154: of France, $130; of Enguse the upper porwill ganized at Rico. chamDolDeputy Surveyor Five From the files of the scraps of clothing. $117; of Holland, $114; of tion as a halL land, Tribune. Denver 16 were empty bers of the revolver ores News dated April Canada, $28; of Mexico, $39; of Mr. Frank W. Gove, Deputy one shot remaining. This fact and 23. 1881. Published in $2. Switzerland, sort is a Mineral Alf States United good Surveyor, Waggoner is accepted as evidence that he Rico, Colo., in the days of a of in a at to visit have man around after Rico, of had a running gun fight with stationed the early development The Pike County lode, near the Indians, as it will be remem- of some days to his brother, Mr. mining camp. Besides being po- Ophir, is reported sold to a Bos; Dolores County. amount of ton the Utes accused of Aaron Gove, Supt. of the Denver ssessed of a good bered that company for $10,000. The ore POOR JOE McLANE the killing stated that two of I schools, will return Monday next practical mining sense, such as is galena and gray copper. The following additional par- their party never returned. His for the field of his labors among is as desirable as it is rare, he ticulars of the finding of the horse was a fleet one, and it is the mines of the Dolores. Mr. is liberal and generous, two RICO MARKET REPORT has possible that after being wound- Gove, in connection with his qualities very necessary in the APRIL 9. 1881 body of Joe McLane, which been bleaching in the sun since ed the poor fellow escaped the official duties, is the represen- west. His Leadville experience Beef Steak 10c and 15c lb. bonanza to him a spe- clutches of his pursuers and hid tative of the Montezuma Irrigat is proving a July, 1878 are found in Denver Beef Roasts 10c lb. a which here an and he knows enterprise good thing cial telegram to the in the clump of bushes where his ing Co., 6c and 8c lb. of great benefit when he sees it, as is testified Beef Boil, News from Cheyenne Wells: body was found. When his horse promises to besection 15c and 30c lb. of the by the tenacity with which he Apples James Barry, Jr., J. F. Teelers, returned home the saddle bore to the mining 10c lb. for all time to come. Upon clings to the Robert E. Lee, the Potatoes Ed Zimmerman and Louis N. evidence of the fact that Joe Breakfast Bacon, 20c and 30c lb. McLane, the party that went out kept his seat for some tima the Dolores river, fifty miles be- Rico and Campbird lodes. Al- A Grade Coffee 22Vic lb. low Rico is a beautiful valley of though compelled for developafter the remains of Joe McLane, after having been wounded. 15c lb. miles in ments sake to sell a small por- Beans arable land twenty returned to this place a little Flour (100 lbs.) the times $14.00 Several searching we two all found of of 50,000 tion still and noon them, embracing today. They past 75c and $1.25 lb. sent out at the time Mc- length, acres at an elevation of 5,500 dont believe $500,000 would in- Tea that remained of poor Joe at a parties $5.00 and Lane was missing passed within feet. The soil is exactly familiar duce him to step down and out, Bourbon Whiskey point some 20 miles north of $7.00 g&L hundred yards of the spot to that of Mancos, but a few reclaiming no interest whatever. Cheyenne Wells, on the North awhere was found. Nei- miles further south, and produc- His faith in Dolores mountain is Smoky hill road. The remains ther the body expense nor time was spar- tive of the cerals and all the ve- unbounded and not without were on the side of a small hill, without results. getation indigenous to the cli- cause as it is now showing up about 250 yards south of the ed then, but all The county was searched by mate and soil of Colorado. It some valuable mines. It will not road, in a knot of high grass and well organized parties from Au- is not productive of all these be long before we shall be able Dove Creek, Colorado sage brush. God only knows 1878. November to 19th, of W. A. Dinner guests Sunday at the whether the poor fellow died gust 1st things, merely, but all manner of to write the name forth in am- Waggoner as a Rico millionaire home of Mr. where he fell, or whether he liv- After that his brotherforemployed springs vegetation and Mrs. Kenneth months, azing luxuriance and abundance and it will be pleasant and two men in the hunt ed and suffered for hours bul-'duty gladwere Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, and of summer 1879, the et is of his during this In the one of is the It fulfilled. hour company ly purpose erhaps days. There Dyer and children and Mr. hole in the back of the skull cattlemen, hunters and every to construct a system of ditches prosperity he will not forget the Guy Mrs. Dick Weber and and to occasion had man who pass ofso that friends of earlier days, as is the entire valley below the brain, which came a through out at the mouth, knocking out through the country always every foot of ground may be ten the case with others. Joe. The for look to poor Some very fine specimens of four front teeth. It is, of course, point placed under thorough irrigaMr. and Mrs. Wilmer Dicken country where the body lay tion and ready for cultivation by gold ore have lately been taken attended impossible to tell whether or not these a party of is wild and months the from the mines of North Geor- Mrs. Dickensbirthday- Mrs. long the farming imigration of he received other wounds. J. T. sister, desolate. is When this g future. accomplishValuable gia. There is no possible question Fraka of Yellow Jacket be ed will land peothe at been have quickly obtained It is the purpose of the party quartz as to identity. The revolver outlying mining several points by sluice washing. found, his brother says, was car- bringing in the remains to return pled and all the the centers of It is said that the art of gold Mrs. Raymond Perkried by Joe for about six years. to the spot when the snow melts camps beyond will Mr. Juan have a per- mining has been brought to such ins andand Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hod-so- n Among other evidences were a from the ravines in the hope of great San of The source supply. perfection in some of the .Georwere dinner guests Sunday and several securing still further evidences petual has gold filled tooth already been survey- gia mines that gold can be wash- night at the George ground Herron of ed by Mr. Gove and the work ed out at a cost of twenty per home. The evening was spent in constructioon begun. Mr. Gove cent. playing cards. reports the town and mining district of Rico in a flourishing It has become quite common Mrs. Jack Miller spent all day condition, with the prospect of of late for advertisers to write Monday at the George Herron this year, great accomplishments a long article about some- home. which it may be said, will be its up or other, and end up with thing of season actual first develop- a flaming advertisement. This is Mr. and Mrs. Venus Denny of is an ment. That it immensely all well enough and legitimate Moab, Utah, spent Tuesday at rich mining section is establish and is often of service to the the Glen Denny home. ed beyond question. arreader when the advertised Replace those worn tires with ticle is genuine, but these pa Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Dicken a From the letter from private FAMOUS tent medicine men are going were dinner guests Saturday at a new set of those Mancos we learn that Utes are into the freely just a bit the J. P. Dicken home. FIRESTONE'S. beginning to act very badly too much thing of it for us. are cattle again. They killing Read the advertisements It pays every few days and then tauntamand is the a settlers about While it there ing greater threatening that they will make ount of development being done white man heap scare in that in Pioneer District this year than vicinity. It is feared there will any previous year of the camps shortly be serious trouble in that infancy, there are still a few section as the Mormons are said who go swaggering about, deto be inciting the Indians to go nouncing everything but their upon the warpath. Settlers all own laziness. The prospect was along the frontier should take never brighter for those who warning and prepare to protect will grasp an opportunity to do them selves. do for themselves. y J J FOLDING BANQUET TABLES God-Almigh- ty FOB DOVE te CREEK CHURCHES, SCHOOLS. CLUBS. LODGES. INSTITUTIONS. ETC. Individual Donor Plates on tables-a- l no extra cost d. 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