100 years ago: “Objections to the city commissioners going ahead with the laying of the proposed new pipe line until a competent hydraulic engineer had gone over the work and given an estimate of the size of the pipe necessary, were voiced by a committee of citizens which called on the city council.”
75 years ago: “Hundreds of Durango people jammed the 800 block of Main Avenue to welcome home the good will tour party of nearly 100 persons returning from a trek of about 900 miles on behalf of the Spanish Trails Fiesta, Durango and the whole San Juan Basin.”
50 years ago: This appeared in the section called Girl About Town: “Eliza Burr and Mike Soiu returned from a months vacation that included traveling by bus, boat, helicopter, plane and train through Montana, Wyoming, and Utah. They said that even viewing the territory from all angles, they never saw any country more beautiful than Colorado and the Durango area in particular.”
25 years ago: “The parched Durango area received a good soaking this week but precipitation remains more than two inches below the average year-to-date rainfall and a fire ban remains in effect in the San Juan National Forest. Durango received 2.21 inches of rainfall during the last seven days.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
