Maude and Jim pull a water wagon and sprinkle the streets to reduce dust in 1918 or 1919. The driver is not identified.
Maude and Jim pull a water wagon and sprinkle the streets to reduce dust in 1918 or 1919. The driver is not identified.Courtesy of the Animas Museum

75 years ago: The farm security board received four registered Holstein bulls from Colorado Springs for the dairy animal conservation program in Durango. They could be purchased “for actual cost” by any farmer or dairy producer on the condition that they kept the animal for production.

50 years ago: Colorado state patrolman C.D. Bushey reported that 40-year-old Durango man Ralph R. Bacheldor struck and killed a deer with his car about 19 miles west of Pagosa Springs while he was driving home on U.S. Highway 160.

Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Accuracy of content may not be verified.