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And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The May Day mine, which has been practically shut down for the past three or four weeks, has resumed operations and many of the former employees are going back to the propert...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Reports of storms from the outside filtered into town. A big storm was said to be raging on Cumbres and Silverton was reported hard hit with a big storm. The telegraph wires ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “J.C. Arthur killed a big brown bear in Ignacio Canyon after it had been caught in his trap, and several of his friends here dined on bear steak. The bear had been fattened on...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “It developed that the city was practically without preachers, and that even the Rev. R.S. Fairchild, the only one left, was preparing to leave. The Baptist and Presbyterian c...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Tomorrow the school bells will ring and the lads and lassies will try to get their faces clean and find the school books they hid in the clothes closet last spring. All the s...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The Brinkley-Douglas Commission firm unloaded a car of California oranges for the local trade. A beautiful pack.” 75 years ago: “Only a little more than two days t...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The fire department was called to the North Side by an alarm turned in at box 42 when employes of the light company attempted to readjust the wires in a box they had disconne...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The double tragedy discovered by police in North Durango were almost the sole topic in the city. The news of the murder and suicide of the two well-known young people created...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Superintendent Tom Hamor of the Durango fish hatchery took out 150,000 fry for Moler Lake, Gladstone Lake, Pole Creek, East Lime Creek and Bear Creek, all of which are public...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The bodies of W.E. (“Red”) Ritter and Mrs. Ruth Hamblin were found in the Heckman cottage, 2180 West Third Ave., by night Marshal Garbanati. The two had evidently been dead f...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The city schools open next Monday, Aug. 30. This week Superintendent Smiley will be in his office in the high school building every day, to meet with prospective pupils and p...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Pat Sheridan, Fred Seybold and Carl Anheier, all on the Western Colorado Company’s payroll, went up on last night’s train to Electra Lake loaded down with fishing rods and gu...
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