100 years ago: “Ludwig Vota, of Silverton, has taken his bunch of pack stock up to the mining city from the winter range on the lower La Platas. The prospects for mining activity in that section, all mining men say, were never better.”
75 years ago: “The only postage meter machine in the basin has just been installed by the Turner Securities. As explained to a not too bright layman, the machine is primarily designed to save the trouble of taking letters to the post office usually at rush hours.”
50 years ago: “While it is all right to drive on the nearly completed section of Main Avenue, motorists are urged not to spin their tires on the newly constructed part which was scheduled to receive a prime coat of oil. City Manager Robert Rank said quick starts tear up the prime coat and will ruin the street before the pavement is laid, probably late this week. Rank state (sic), ‘It is our street and we’re going to have to live with it, so take care of it.’”
25 years ago: “The proposed new fairgrounds property east of town on U.S. Highway 160 may not be the site to build on after all. The next in line for consideration may be the Ewing Mesa. Water and soil tests have shown that 100 acres of the Irv Mason property near Grandview designated as the possible building site for the proposed new fairgrounds is a wetlands.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
