145 YEARS AGO
From the September 8, 1876 edition of the Fort Collins Coloradoan:
GRADE FINISHED.
The Denver & Rio Grande is graded to Silverton.
From the September 9, 1876 edition of the Colorado Springs Gazette:
ANIMAS TOLL ROAD PUSHED THROUGH.
Work is being pushed with energy up on the Animas Valley wagon road. Some eighteen or twenty men are at work within a couple of miles of Silverton, building…
