100 years ago: “That the city water from the big reservoir will be in fairly good condition for use by Sunday and better than it has been for years by Monday was the prediction made by City Manager Hood. The work of cleaning the reservoir is being prosecuted diligently. In connection with the present work, the almost imperative necessity for cementing the bottom of the reservoir has been apparent.”
75 years ago: “More than 70 Durango people are signed up and ready to go on a one day good will tour around the ‘circle route.’”
50 years ago: “Everyone’s convinced it has been a hot and muggy July, and cold statistics show that it’s true. Malcolm Dayton, official weather observer for Durango, says by the time July is over the maximum and minimum mean temperatures will be higher than maximum and minimum means for the month in 1963 and 1964. The maximum mean temperature for the first 24 days of July this year is 86.7, the minimum mean is 49.8. There had been .99 inch of precipitation for the first 24 days.”
25 years ago: “The base and fountain built in Gateway Park to showcase a monument to the mining industry will remain vacant for at least another year as the remaining work on bronze sculpture is postponed. Local sculptor Clyde Doney, who was commissioned by the Save Our Stack Committee in December 1987 to create the monument near the Durango Area Chamber Resort Association office, suffered a heart attack last month and has taken a break from the hard, physical labor required to finish the project.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
