100 years ago: SILVERTON – “Leasers on the Scotia have just finished loading a car of high-grade ore, and while this will be their last car this season, they intend working the property all winter.”
75 years ago: “Lee Howell, former Durango garage owner who long has been wanted by law-enforcement officials here, is now being held at San Bernardino, California, and will be brought to Durango to face trial on charges of operating a confidence game.”
50 years ago: “Randy Ash is looking forward to Nov. 16. It will be his 13th birthday, but he is also receiving a wonderful present from his father Sgt. Floyd W. Jerry Ash stationed in Iwakui, Japan. It is a homemade midget motorcycle. The pint-sized cycle, standing 20 inches high, is the product of three months effort by Ash to combine a salvaged motorcycle engine, bicycle and motorcycle parts into a birthday gift for his son. Ash, a machinist with the Marines has been cutting, soldering and welding in spare time to ready the cycle before the middle of November.”
25 years ago: “The board of directors of La Plata Electric Association voted unanimously to pass on a 14.5 percent wholesale rate increase for Colorado-Ute to its customers, and supports a merger of Colorado-Ute with a Denver-area electrical utility to keep the power wholesaler from declaring bankruptcy. That 14.5 percent wholesale rate increase translates into an average 8.5 percent increase for LPEA consumers.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
