100 years ago: SILVERTON – “The train at the Sunnyside Mine has been completed and the ore bins are rapidly being filled at the mills. It is expected they will be going full force within a few days.”
75 years ago: “Three pre-tourney favorites – Durango, Cortez and Mancos turned in victories in the opening season of the San Juan Basin League tournament, going into the evening games with a clean slate.”
50 years ago: “Fort Lewis College is naming its six unnamed residence halls for a Spanish padre, an Army lieutenant, a railroad president, a road builder, the first dean of the college, and a late president of the State Board of Agriculture. ... Escalante Hall, named in memory of Padre Francisco Silvestre Velez de Escalante; Crofton Hall named in honor of Lt. R. E. A. Crofton; Palmer Hall for Gen. William Jackson Palmer; Mears Hall in recognition of the impact Otto Mears had on Southwest Colorado; Snyder Hall, being named for Prof. George Franklin Snyder; and Cooper Hall in memory of Walter B. Cooper.”
25 years ago: “No community in Southwest Colorado wants a hazardous materials route passing through its area, according to testimony in Durango before the Colorado State Patrol. But if the patrol has to designate any route at all, 40 citizens and government officials of seven Southwest Colorado counties told the patrol they prefer that trucks carrying low-level radioactive material, gasoline, diesel and explosives used Colorado Highway 141 rather than highways over dangerous mountain passes to travel north and south through this part of the state.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
