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And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Realizing the importance to Durango of nursing the mining industry in the San Juan Basin and of affording it every facility for development, the county board of supervisors w...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Charles Godfrey, who has been in the hospital several days as a result of a splinter flying into his eye, was out, with indications of no permanent injury to result form the ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “A new angle was given the proposed milk ordinance for the city of Durango when Commissioner Wilson advised the city council at its regular meeting that the Civic Club Committ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “A fire in the stone building on the corner of Main Avenue and 12th Street, formerly occupied by the San Juan Transfer Company from unknown origin, caused damage to several hu...

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Meetings and Events Sunrise Yoga, 7-8 a.m. and 8:15-9:15 a.m., Boys and Girls Club of La Plata County, 2750 Main Ave., $5, 259-0385. Fort Lewis College Buffalo Council ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “W. F. Hunter, post trader on the reservation 30 miles below Farmington, who has been spending a couple of months at his old home in Illinois, returned on the Eastern with a b...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “L. E. Jenkins of Bayfield, was an arrival in the city on the Eastern train. He says the roads are too nice just now to be disturbed by automobiles or wagons. He started last ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “In the hardest fought battle they have had this season, the Durango High School basketball team defeated the fast Silverton team at the high school gym with a final score of ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Richard Gifford, the high school student who had a bone in his right foot broken when he slipped on the steps at the school, will be laid up for some time. An X-ray picture w...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Everybody in Durango is going to church next Sunday judging from the interest taken in the ‘Go to Church’ movement.” 75 years ago: “Gerald Morelock, who was painfu...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Doctor Henkle, the Silverton dentist, was a southbound passenger on the Farmington train to pull a few New Mexican teeth.” 75 years ago: “The Western Colorado Powe...

And the West is History

100 years ago: SILVERTON – “The train at the Sunnyside Mine has been completed and the ore bins are rapidly being filled at the mills. It is expected they will be going full force within a f...
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