100 years ago: Classified for-sale advertisements included: “two sows, China boar or will trade for milk stock,” “between 70 and 80 head of good grade Hereford cattle,” six burros” and an eight-room modern home “for livestock.”
75 years ago: Fort Lewis “experimental farm” received “50 plants of guayule rubber” with which the college would conduct experimental tests.
50 years ago: According to head football coach Lou Cullen, “the Fort Lewis College Raiders had a better year in the classroom than they did on the football field.”
25 years ago: Police warned someone accompanied by two wolf-hybrid dogs that the animals were not allowed within the city limits.
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.
