100 years ago: “The Lucky Four Mining Co. is at work setting things in order to resume shipments to the smelter. These properties were closed during the winter only for lack of accommodations for their employees.”
75 years ago: “Durango will need a new airport, if a federal-sponsored pilot training school is to be established here, Civil Aeronautics Inspector Le Boutillier of Denver warned. The inspector, in Durango on business in connection with the possibility of locating a non-college civilian pilot training school in this vicinity, said he absolutely could not accept the present airport for such a school.”
50 years ago: GEM VILLAGE – “Sunday seems to have been the day to go fishing. Several of the Villagers got out to try their luck, and succeeded, apparently.”
25 years ago: “Local foresters have stepped forward as Durango’s first group to claim ‘ownership’ of city property in the new Adopt-A-Park program. The San Juan Basin Chapter of the Society of American Foresters agreed to adopt Roosa Park at the bottom of El Paso Road for two years.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Animas Museum and Center of Southwest Studies. Their accuracy may not be verified.
