100 years ago: “City Commissioner Wilson left for Silverton, from which point he will return to Electra Lake and fish for two solid days with the new outfit he grabbed at Wall’s.”
75 years ago: “Pat O’Rourke, young son of Judge and Mrs. J.B. O’Rourke of Durango was lost for a while in the mountains of the Hermosa country but was found about midnight. The sheriff and under-sheriff gathered a posse of 14 CCC boys and 8 jail inmates and went to the scene. When they arrived about midnight they found that O’Rourke had been located by his fishing companions who had returned to search immediately.”
50 years ago: “Weather diagnosis: hot and dry. Monday’s temperature of 93 makes it the hottest day of the summer thus far and Monday’s no rain marked the end of a month in which no measurable precipitation has fallen.”
25 years ago: “A Durango fire canceled the city’s July 4 fireworks display, but party-goers and fire-gazers gathered anyway on lawns and hillsides to watch nature’s spectacular show. Smoke, flames and glowing embers on the steep, pinion- and juniper-covered ridge behind Boker Lumber Co. were visible from much of town all night.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
