100 years ago: For-sale advertisements included a “Carter Car” in good condition for a bargain, red roosters, six pullets, a team of 8-year-old geldings and a 12-year-old driving mare.
75 years ago: Weston Lumber company began construction of a new modern building, of which would contain a new, electrically-equipped box factory.
50 years ago: Fifteen-year-old Dennis Wayne Nugent of Farmington hit and killed a deer with his sedan while driving in Durango.
25 years ago: Daniel Jaramillo, a 36-year-old snowplow driver, was buried by a massive avalanche on Red Mountain Pass and, after 18 hours of being trapped, managed to squirm his way out of the slide and escape death.
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
