100 years ago: “Just 250 feet of ice, between 4 and 5 feet thick, remain on the right of way of the Rio Grande between here and Silverton, and after that is removed this forenoon, James McHolland’s ‘flivver’ will regulate the time pieces, morning and evening, as heretofore.”
75 years ago: “Fire which spread practically instantaneously through the interior damaged the building occupied by the Brown Brothers repair shop and oil refinery near the west end of 11th Street. The fire had resulted when a gasket on the oil refining machinery had broken, throwing a hot spray of oil under a 600-pound pressure all over the walls and ceiling of the place ignition of the oil mist was nearly instantaneous in all parts of the building.”
50 years ago: “Former Durangoans certainly made a big splash in last weeks Rocky Mountain News. Almost every day there was a picture of someone from Durango.”
25 years ago: “The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Company has applied to the Public Utilities Commission for a 15 percent rate increase on all of its ticket prices for the summer. The railroad has just recently completed a $2 million construction project to rebuild the roundhouse that burned down Feb. 10, 1989.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
