John Lynton has found an outlet for his beef cattle south and last week shipped several truck loads to Flagstaff, where they were to be slaughtered. In the lot was one steer which weighed 1,290 pounds which is considerable hamburger.
Earl Ince moved his family in from Lebanon this weekend has established the folks in the rooms above the town hall. Mr. Ince, who is owner of a barber shop, finds it more convenient to live near his work.
Steve Boxer, representing the cattle buying division of the government drought relief program, came in yesterday and is making his headquarters at the Del Rio. The price allowed the grower ranges from $4 to $20 per head.
So far as this office is informed, the largest trout taken from the Dolores River this year was caught last Saturday by Kay McEwen. The trout weighed four pounds and measured twenty-one and a half inches from tip to tip. The boy caught the fish just a short distance above the town of Dolores, using a cheap bamboo pole and five cent line. He had quite a tussle with Mr. Trout, but finally got him out into shallow water and landed him.
Ben Pargin, chief mogul and major-domo of the Piedra sections, was an overnight visitor in Dolores this week coming in Monday and departing Tuesday morning for home. Mr. Pargin was here looking for some stolen horses, he said, but mentioned vaguely about a long lost uncle which he hoped to get trace of while in this section. As there has been no one hanged around here for the past several years, the relative may still be hiding out in the hills north of Dolores.
Convinced, after considering the matter during the past two weeks, that water users of the Montezuma Valley should have an opportunity to judge for themselves of the merits of various possible reservoir sites on the Dolores, and that, in any event, another meeting of the association is advisable before negotiations are begun with federal relief authorities, Chairman L. E. Brown of the executive committee of Montezuma Valley water users Association, on Saturday directed the calling of a meeting of all interested in stabilizing the local irrigation water supply, to be held at the site of the Groundhog reservoir on Sunday, August 12.
Shannon Livick