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Newspaper
The La Jara Chronicle
Location
La Jara, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1906
Page
4
The ad promotes a full assortment of fishing gear including standard flies, fly books, baskets, leads, lines, snells, and trout hooks. It highlights the town's finest selection of rods and suggests overhauling outfits before season start.
CAPULIN residents and visitors are cited in a stream of brief items. J H Whitney, Caricos, Walter Fred, Rastus Pursley, Ben Miller, T B Reed, John Flintham, Rafael Trujillo, Manuel Martinez, David Martinez, R Ortiz, J D Frazey, and Luis Rivera appear in ongoing business and family movements. The town prepares for summer crops, shop work, roof repairs, and new construction. A March to June bird and livestock reference hints a breed sale by H A Jones in Sanford with a shop display at Hamiltons Drug Store.
J B Naranjo made a business trip to Alamosa on Wednesday with Mrs R A Austin of Denver visiting the ranch Monday. R A Austin and his clerk Perry were seen in La Sauces Monday on business. Rio Grande water low due to weather. Paty Lopez of La Jara attended a Los Sauces Diteh Co directors meeting last Monday. Mail carrier Juan B Madril and his wife visited Sauces last Sunday. Guadalupe Salazar went to La Jara Saturday to buy provisions for his sheep camp after a successful lambing so far. The Patriotic Entertainment by Bountiful schoolchildren last Friday netted 10.80 for a silver service for the Cruiser Colorado. program and refreshments praised. Bountiful school board thanks contributors and Mr O F West Over of Manassa for making the event a success and donating generously.
Ten dollars reward offered for delivering three horses to Tanner Boys at the Bernard sawmill. The details list a buckskin pacing saddle pony branded HIX on left shoulder about 750 pounds, shod all around. a roan mare pony branded on left shoulder about 800 pounds, shod all around. and a sorrel filly with no brands two or three years old, with the note that these horses left the Bernard sawmill in the latter part of the period.
The Colorado State Forestry Association calls for public support from citizens and business leaders. It highlights 1903-04 gains including ten million acres added to reserves and fifty tree planting experiments with 31 700 trees, urging membership at one dollar annually or ten dollars for life. It also advertises fundraising jobs with a salary and expense allowance and signs off with a brief note about Brumbly the blacksmith.
Notice announces the La Jara Fire Department annual election of officers on the first Tuesday evening of June with full attendance urged. Chief Gro. W. Duxham presides. Also promotes J H Paddock of Capulin for painting and decorating services at Romualdo Ortiz's store, for buggy or carriage work.
Notice announces La Jara Mining stockholders annual meeting in C ojo s county Colorado on Tuesday June 5 1906 at 2 P M to elect a board of directors and transact other business. Secretary Walter L Wilson dated La Jura May 3 1906 last publication June 1 1905.
The record lists multiple May 1906 transactions involving S. W. Land Co of Colorado and various parties in Alamosa, including deeds, mortgages, and releases. Notable entries reference F. W. Swanson, Arthur Graves, Canon Ditch Co, Parma Land Co, J. C. Milyard, Workman, Sundquist, Hyatt, Sewell, and the Alamosa Cemetery Assn, among others, with transfers of land, interests in ditches, and mortgage actions.
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