Way Back
The White & Harvey General Store at Mineral Point. Its signs advertise wine, liquor, cigars, hay, grain, coal, hardware, tinware, and groceries. Thirteen people, nine on skis, are shown, along with two large dogs. The view is looking north. Photo Courtesy of Silverton Mountain.
From the Jan. 18, 1890 edition of the Silverton Standard: NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS.
The pleasures of running a newspaper in the San Juans are never better appreciated than at the present time.
The spring crop of mining items has not commenced to sprout. The circle tourists are hibernating in some colder climates. A great many San Juaners are freezing to death in the east ...
