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And the West is History

And the West is History

100 Years Ago: “Pled Guilty: W.H. Welch who was apprehended Saturday for the purloining of a couple of Stilson wrenches from the Colorado Cold Storage Company, one of which was later tur...

And the West is History

75 years ago: “Roy W. Secord, who for the past 12 years has operated a dental technician’s laboratory in Durango, has accepted a civil service position as technician in an Army hospital ...

And the West is History

75 years ago: “Local carpenters are busy making ready the building formerly occupied by the Stein Mercantile Co. for the new Ben Franklin store which will open in about a month. The buil...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Construction work necessary for the installation of the flotation process at Smelter is being rapidly pushed. The process is a new one, developed by Lawrence Clapp, AS&R ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “James O’Driscoll received quite painful bruises on the chest this morning when he attempted to aid Allan Moore in stopping his runaway team. While Mr. Moore, the Perins s...

And the West is History

75 years ago: “Committee members from the Basin Sportsmen organization met Monday night to consider reports from the fish and big-game committees. Included in this action was a recommend...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “J.H. Slattery of Silverton was homeward bound last night after spending the winter on the Pacific coast. He is interested in the lease on the Gold King and other large pr...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The San Juan creamery shipped a little over 2,000 pounds of butter to the Chicago markets this morning. The manager of the plant is planning to make a shipment of a carlo...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Dave Howe is to be Mayor Speer’s private secretary. We presume this little side issue, however, will not be allowed to interfere with Dave’s professional activities as a ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The high school contract will be awarded to M.J. Kenney of Denver. As far as the school board knows, at the present time, the contract for the high school will be awarded...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The San Juan Basin Wool Growers association will pay a $100 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons illegally holding sheep b...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Arthur Chapman, the talented special writer for The Denver Times who has been in this city and vicinity for several days gathering data for a mining and general article o...
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