100 years ago: “State Commissioner of Mines Thomas R. Henahen was an arrival on the Southern from a visit and inspection of the La Plata Mining District. ... That Henahen should be enthused with the La Plata Mountains as a wonderful mining district speaks very well for the region named.”
75 years ago: “L.M. Forsman, local agent for the D. & R.G.W. railroad, has received from headquarters a full schedule of cars ordered for stock shipment this fall for shippers throughout the San Juan. Every stockman who ordered a car or cars has been assigned a definite date at which time his car will be available at the point indicated.”
50 years ago: “Action was taken by the student senate at Fort Lewis College to provide a nickname for the athletic teams, at least temporarily. The name chosen was ‘Raiders.’”
25 years ago: “Some 500 people crowded into large yellow, blue and green-striped tents pitched along the Animas River near the Red Lion Inn for the second annual Taste of La Plata County. And no one was disappointed in the feast of the harvest gathered from La Plata County producers and growers and prepared by Red Lion Inn cooks.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not have been verified.
