100 years ago: J.W. Jarvis returned from Denver, and was forced to pass up Cheyenne because he ran out of money. He said it was an “awful trip” with “no luck.”
75 years ago: The labor shortage in area mines was a serious problem, and it wasn’t improving. The war industries established a wage scale that appealed to miners more than the profit-based system in place at mines, of which production was steadily decreasing.
50 years ago: As part of the Durango Festival of Fine Arts, Dr. Robert Delaney, history professor and head of the Southwest Studies department at Fort Lewis College, would give a presentation about the heritage of the Southwest.
25 years ago: Someone called police to report a woman with long dark hair, who was on a porch in the 700 block of East Second Avenue “banging her head against a wall.”
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
