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Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad passenger train approaches Silverton after emerging from the Animas River Canyon in 2012. Photo: Criss Furman/Silverton Standard & the Miner
From the Oct. 4, 1890 edition of the Silverton Standard: JURY ACQUITS MAN OF BREAKING TOLL GATE.
Louis Wyman appeared before Justice Abbot on Wednesday charged with breaking down a toll gate upon the Silverton and Animas Forks toll road. John Burnett, the manager of the road, made the complaint. ... The case occupied all day and it was eleven o’clock at night when the jury re...
