100 years ago: “The Farmington train from the heart of the fruit belt was over an hour late; caused by an engine failure.”

75 years ago: “William Johnson, well-known internationally as a mine tunneling authority, and Ivan E. Goodner, consulting engineer for the company that owns the old ‘Idaho’ mine and mill north of Hesperus, were business visitors. Goodner announced the letting of a contract to W.H. Ray of Cripple Creek, Colorado, for driving 1,200 feet of cross-cut tunnel at the Idaho mine.”

50 years ago: PAGOSA SPRINGS – “Four administrators from three San Juan Basin schools were killed in the wreck of a light plane two miles southeast of the summit of Wolf Creek Pass. The men were identified as Cyril K. Conway, 38, superintendent of schools at Mancos and pilot of the single-engine plane; Kenneth Wallace, 52, member of the Mancos school board; H.M. McMillan, 38, superintendent of schools at Dolores, and Richard Hudgins, 40, business manager of the school system in Cortez. The four men had flown in a Rooney Super 21 plane, to Denver for a meeting with the State Board of Education to discuss plans for the vocational school in the Basin.”

25 years ago: “A 19-year-old couple were being held in La Plata County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bond after their arrest for distributing LSD, allegedly across the street from a downtown hangout known as ‘Stoner Park.’ A search warrant of the residence at 135 E. 13th St. turned up LSD, marijuana and cash. Also confiscated was Ecstasy, a synthetic hallucinogen.”

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