Looking Back

Five Years Ago June 15, 2015 A 19-year-old Durango man died on Saturday after falling into a stream that flows beneath a snow field he was walking on near Chattanooga, just below Red Mountain Pass. “The man walked up the snow field and slipped on an incline into water underneath.

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130 YEARS AGO From the June 28, 1890 edition of the Silverton Standard: ‘HIS BURROSHIP' RETIRES AFTER 600-FOOT FALL. Louis Wyman has the curiosity of the San Juan in the shape of a burro who has fallen over a six hundred foot precipice and is alive today.

EUREKA AND THE SUNNYSIDE MILL, 1919

San Juan County Historical Society photo Best-known-to-exist view of Sunnyside Mine facilities at Eureka in 1919.

Mountain Happenings

Monday, June 22 • Silverton Town Board, 7 p.m., Town Hall. Wednesday, June 24 • San Juan County Board of Commissioners, 7 p.m., County Courthouse. Saturday, June 27 • “Just Us” Cemetery Work Day, 10 a.m., Hillside Cemetery. Ongoing • San Juan Regional Planning Commission, 7 p.m.

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Five Years Ago June 18, 2015 Michael McFarland of Silverton was sentenced Friday, June 12, to two years in prison for negligent homicide and domestic violence in the June 6, 2014, death of his wife, Jessica, at their Minera Street home.

WAY BACK!

130 YEARS AGO From the June 21, 1890 edition of the Silverton Standard: THREE LEAP FROM HAND CAR; ONE KILLED, TWO INJURED. While running around the curve into Red Mountain on Saturday last three section men jumped off the hand car on the Silverton railroad.

HAND-DRILLING CONTEST, EARLY 1920S, 12TH & GREENE

Early 1920s - Double hand drilling contest at the corner of 12th and Greene, with the Benson building in background.

CENTRAL HOUSE, 12TH AND REESE

Central House lodging house, 1172 Reese Street, around 1900. Photo shows 12th Street side of the Central House structures, including 2-story portion facing Reese Street. (Now the site of the school’s garden). At the right the rear of the old frame high school building on Snowden Street can be seen.

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10 Years Ago June 10, 2010 The Lackawanna bridge over The Lackawanna bridge over the Animas River was closed Monday after it failed an inspection by a Colorado Department of Transportation contractor. And county road supervisor Louie Girodo said he isn’t sure when — or if — it can be reopened.

Mountain Happenings

Monday, June 22 • Silverton Town Board, 7 p.m., Town Hall. Wednesday, June 24 • San Juan County Board of Commissioners, 7 p.m., County Courthouse. Ongoing • San Juan Regional Planning Commission, 7 p.m., third Tuesday of the month, County Courthouse. • Silverton Clinic, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.