100 years ago: CAVE BASIN – “May the first, and it snowed 8 inches today and is still snowing. It has not thawed any here for five days. There are about 25 men up here at present.”
75 years ago: “A large group of local businessmen and shippers and railroad officials discussed the mater of freight services supplying the city. Many of the businessmen and shippers have signed petitions to the D&RGW railroad for resumption of ‘rocket’ freight service on passenger trains – a service which was dropped several years ago when the Rio Grande truck system was established.”
50 years ago: “Charles Gremmels, 1828 Forest, bagged a bearded tom turkey. He refused to tell where, but said he was gone about an hour from his house and saw at least 50 birds. Gremmels is a Bureau of Reclamation engineer.”
25 years ago: SILVERTON – “The snow is melting in the San Juan Mountains, and the sleepy old mining town of Silverton is waking up to a high country spring. With the startup of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad there will be spring here. A Feb. 10 fire that destroyed the railroad’s roundhouse in Durango and damaged the old engines is only a setback, not a disaster. Celebrations in both Durango and Silverton for the train’s opening weekend have been in the works since the fire, and the season looks good.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
