100 years ago: “Ralph Foley was running around town with a sidecar on his motorcycle, which he just got in from the Excelsior works. It’s a nifty arrangement to carry your girl, all right, and no chance to fall off if one should let go of the handle bars (sic).”
75 years ago: “A work train crew has been running out of Silverton for the past month, bringing up and distributing rails for 10 miles down the Animas Canyon, and work of laying the rails is expected to begin next week. When finished, the heavy rail will extend from Silverton to a point between Elk Park and Needleton covering all of the heavy snow slide (sic) area, and this will greatly aid the railroad schedule between here and Silverton during the winter months.”
50 years ago: “The Vanadium Corporation of America has been at work on its abandoned tailings ponds for two weeks, but so far has not started to put a cover on the huge tailings pile which has been such a subject of controversy. Page Edwards, VCA director of Western Mines, said that an engineer is studying the pile to see how it could be rearranged for other commercial uses.”
25 years ago: “Today is the first day in 28 years that the emergency room at La Plata Community Hospital won’t be open. The LPCH board voted to discontinue acute care services, beginning with the emergency room and Urgent Care Center, to allow expansion of the level of specialty services at the public institution. Other general medical services will be closed by June 30.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
