100 years ago: “Joe Hartman, of the Sunshine Mine, delivered coal from that mine in the city to local customers.”
75 years ago: “Durango’s new middle-of-the-street traffic signs were installed as more or less of an experiment, and are not necessarily permanent. The sign were installed as an effort to give the pedestrians a break in downtown Durango, but they may be taken out if they work too much of a disadvantage to the motorists.”
50 years ago: “Ward Allan Howe, a feature writer on railroads for The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, made his pilgrimage to Silverton on the Narrow Gauge. Howe deeply regrets the decline of rail travel in the United States and points out that only two all-Pullman trains still operate in the United States.”
25 years ago: “More than 200 firefighters continued at Mesa Verde National Park on steep slopes on the park’s north rim. The crews still were trying to contain the fire’s spread as it crept as much as 1,000 feet down the park’s massive north escarpment at Long Spur.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
