100 years ago: “Landlord Shea is installing a new set of pipes in the big plunge at Trimble Springs, at a considerable expense, the old pipes having become rusted and clogged with the heavy iron deposit from the impregnated waters.”

75 years ago: “Happening to stop in Al Kroeger’s office we were interested by two old pictures hanging on the wall. Both are relics of the days when the Western Colorado Light & Power Co. occupied the office Al now occupies in the Century building. One picture is the work of an employee of the company named Lloyd and is dated 1906. It represents a winter scene where the waters of Cascade Creek empty into the flume. The other is a photograph of the old wooden flume crossing the highway where the steel syphon now does.”

50 years ago: “Two representatives of THT Production Company of New York City are in the Durango area to make a documentary film for the Untied States information agency. Allan Rossman, production manager, and Tibor Hirsch, producer, director of the company, are here to film ‘Transportation USA,’ a 35 mm color film. Eight local Boy Scouts and four from Denver will be used in the filming of camping scenes at the Junction Creek campground and of boys riding the train to Silverton.”

25 years ago: “Amid the barnyard bawl of steers, goats, sheep and hogs, generous patrons bought more than $70,000 worth of competition livestock during the Junior Livestock Auction at the La Plata County Fair. Livestock owners, many not yet in their teens, paraded their animals before a standing-room-only crowd as smooth-talking auctioneers coaxed the highest bids.”

Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.