Durango Fire Department reminds residents of burning regulations
Open burns in city prohibited
DATE: Apr 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
And the West is History
100 years ago: Harry A. Kelly of Dolores left Durango for Memphis, where he would “undergo another operation on his leg, that has caused him a great deal of pain the last two or three ye...
DATE: Apr 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History
And the West is History
100 years ago: Louis Herman of Boulder, “grand patriarch of the I.O.O.F. lodge of Colorado,” departed for Alamosa to deliver an important address to the community.
75 years...
DATE: Apr 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History
And the West is History
100 years ago: A boulder, estimated to weigh more than 100 tons, “rolled down the hillside, over the track and into the river,” and “demolished” a section of railroad on the Farmington b...
DATE: Apr 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History
And the West is History
100 years ago: There was a report published to warn people that “trouble in a different form lurks on the trail of stock owners.” It related to I.M. Shaffer of Animas Valley, who “lost a...
DATE: Apr 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History
And the West is History
100 years ago: There was an advertisement for pure seed potatoes, which included “Early Six Weeks and White Pearl varieties.”
75 years ago: The Department of Agriculture ma...
DATE: Apr 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History
And the West is History
100 years ago: Henry J. Thomas, an employee of the Durango railyard roundhouse, departed for Portland to see his wife and daughter.
75 years ago: Durango city councilmen un...
DATE: Apr 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History
And the West is History
100 years ago: Mrs. Annie C. Wigglesworth, “widow of the engineer who located this division of the D&RG,” returned to her ranch after “visiting a few of her many friends in Durango.” ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History
And the West is History
100 years ago: Classified wanted advertisements included a hotel day clerk at the Imperial Hotel in Silverton and a housekeeper at 722 Sixth Ave., “phone Durango 219.”
75 y...
DATE: Apr 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History
And the West is History
100 years ago: Silverton shipped 76 cars of ore in the first 11 days of April, on track to break the previous year’s record.
75 years ago: Five local youths were arrested a...
DATE: Apr 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History
And the West is History
100 years ago: E.A. Chubb returned from his ranch to Durango and looked healthy. He reported that “the rabbits have killed off nearly all of his fruit trees.”
75 years ago:...
DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History
And the West is History
April 15
100 years ago: H.R. Davis was in Durango from Kline mesa “to get the latest war dope and incidentally to spend a goodly bunch of coin with the merchants on the main stem.” ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History
