Tom Moore Boarding House San Juan County Historical Society photo The Tom Moore boarding house above Eureka in Animas Canyon around 1902. The boarding house was hit by an avalanche in December 1908, killing Frank Mondell and damaging the furnace room. The boarding house was demolished by a second avalanche on Jan. 5, 1910 and was never rebuilt.
10 years Ago December 31, 2015 The Christmas Day Storm Photo: Mark Esper/Silverton Standard & the Miner Scott Fetchnhier of Silverton shovels snow in front of his Greene Street shop on Christmas Day amid a howling blizzard.
Way Back!
140 years ago From the December 30, 1885 edition of the Buena Vista Democrat: TRIP HAS ITS TERROR.James Wood, of Silverton, makes his perilous journey to the North Star on Solomon twice a week, carrying the mail and reporting progress at the mine, The old trail along King Solomon Mountain has been abandoned, as the snow is too hard to give a foothold, and the present rou...
