100 years ago: “A.J. Geoglein, of Telluride, came down from Tacoma, where he has just completed the welding of a 3,000 h.p. wheel for the power company. He expects to remain in the city several days visiting relatives before returning home.”
75 years ago: “Fire, of one of the ‘unknown source’ kinds, completely razed the bath houses at the Trimble Springs resort 9 miles north of Durango, at a loss estimated at between $4,000 and $5,000.”
50 years ago: GEM VILLAGE –“The long holiday weekend was busy for most of the Villagers. It came in the middle of haying for the neighboring farms, and it brought visitors to some homes.”
25 years ago: “Travelers on Old U.S. Highway 550 and passengers on the Durango & Narrow Gauge Railroad may be surprised to see an empty lake with white deposits on its banks when they round a curve about 14 miles north of Durango. What they are looking at is Shalona, a private lake which for the past 44 summers stored more than 21 million gallons of Elbert Creek water behind its earthen dam. This year a head gate in the dam is being replaced, and Shalona’s mounded islands will stand high and dry until repairs are completed sometime during the second half of this month.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
