100 years ago: A classified advertisement read, “Men wanted – Rockmen paid $3 per day, common labor pick, shovel and swampers, $2.75 per day. Board, 90 cents per day. Address Logan and Lowell, contractors, Pagosa Springs.”

75 years ago: “Because the electric power was off for three hours, the Herald-Democrat finds it physically impossible to get out the bulk of its news, for which we apologize.”

50 years ago: SILVERTON – “Improvements at the Standard Metals Corp. mill in Silverton appear to be ‘adequate and sufficient’ to prevent further pollution of the Animas River. A lawsuit was filed last spring charging the company with polluting the river with tailings from the mill.”

25 years ago: “The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge railroad rebounded robustly from February’s roundhouse fire and will finish its best season ever with more than 200,000 passengers.”

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