100 years ago: “A.R. Lewis and wife returned from the La Platas where they spent the day looking over their mining interests.”
75 years ago: “Twenty more hunters bagged their game in the Durango area.”
50 years ago: “Herb Brown of the Retail Merchants committee says, ‘It’s really not that Durango merchants think they should take precautions against over-anxious hunters by wearing red shirts to work this weekend, it’s because it will be the second year for Red Shirt Days in Durango which is a way to denote the opening of hunting season and a welcome to out-of-town hunters.’”
25 years ago: “The State Board of Agriculture unanimously approved a lease on a coal mining site 15 miles southwest of Durango that will make American Indian students the recipients of as much as $5.5 million in free tuition over the next 10 years. The lease will allow King Coal Mine Inc., a local mining firm, to have mineral rights to about 6 million tons of coal under 640 acres at Fort Lewis College’s Hesperus Campus. The company has proposed giving SBA an 8 percent royalty in exchange for mining the high-grade, low-sulphur coal.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
