100 years ago: BAYFIELD – “We are very anxious for the winter break up as quite a number of Bayfield autoists want to take in the exposition, and we do want good roads.”
75 years ago: “Rod S. Day passed away in Durango March 10. He was taken ill at Baggs, Wyoming, where he had been located for about a year as supervisor for a CCC camp and was brought to Durango for treatment and recuperation. Roderick S. Day was born in Sprignfield, Missouri, July 24, 1874, and moved with his father’s family to Ouray, Colorado, in 1881 where his father, the late David F. Day, published the Solid Muldoon.”
50 years ago: DURANGO – “Tuesday will be student Government Day in Durango when high school students will spend the day learning about the intricate operations of the city government and many departments. Seventeen students, all members of the junior or senior classes, will take part in the Rotary club sponsored event.”
25 years ago: “The Animas River was flowing at 123 cubic feet per second through Durango this morning, just 29 cfs above a 77-year-old drought record. The lowest flow ever recorded on the Animas at Durango was 94 cfs on March 2, 1913. With the area’s snowpack only 36 to 40 percent of average, following a dry, fire-torn year in 1989, concerns are growing throughout Colorado that drought this spring and summer could be severe.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
