Maude and Jim pull a water wagon and sprinkle the streets to reduce dust in 1918 or 1919. The driver is not identified.
By Forrest Stone
Herald Staff Writer
100 years ago: After he’d spent a few days in the San Luis Valley “on a business mission,” G.L. Butler, editor of The Farmington Times-Hustler, was in Durango for one night before he continued home.
75 years ago: Passenger cars were reportedly “traveling New Mexico highways at the greatest speed of any state in the nation.”
50 years ago: Three well-known University of Colorado professors were scheduled to give presentations and participate in discussions during a symposium about Vietnam held in Durango.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Accuracy of content may not be verified.
