100 years ago: The Durango Democrat printed a news item from The Telluride Examiner that said, “Say, by gosh. The whole of La Plata County must be turning into booze. It has not been long since a carload of bailed hay was accused of giving birth to 10 barrels of booze at Durango, since then there has been other ‘finds,’ and in the Durango Democrat of April 3, there is another report that 25 cases of whiskey were seized near Bondad in La Plata County.”
75 years ago: The farm security board received four registered Holstein bulls from Colorado Springs for the dairy animal conservation program in Durango. They could be purchased “for actual cost” by any farmer or dairy producer on the condition that they kept the animal for production.
50 years ago: Colorado state patrolman C.D. Bushey reported that 40-year-old Durango man Ralph R. Bacheldor struck and killed a deer with his car about 19 miles west of Pagosa Springs while he was driving home on U.S. Highway 160.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Accuracy of content may not be verified.
