This 1 cent postcard of Promontory Point on the Ouray Toll Road was published by Sterns & Orendorf B & S Co. in Ouray. It’s part of the Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado Collection.
This 1 cent postcard of Promontory Point on the Ouray Toll Road was published by Sterns & Orendorf B & S Co. in Ouray. It’s part of the Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado Collection.Courtesy Center of Southwest Studies

75 years ago: “Repair work casually noted on Third Avenue includes the painting of Mrs. Lena Graham’s house, and shingling at the Wetter residence.”

50 years ago: “Leonard D. Winckel, roundhouse foreman for the D&RGW railroad in Durango for the past two plus years, has been named an inspector of locomotives in the Interstate Commerce Commission, Bureau of Safety and Service. … Winckel will be one of 50 locomotive inspectors in the Untied States. He does not know to which district he will be assigned.”

25 years ago: “A 4.7 mile stretch of Colorado Highway 172 is being repaved at a yet-to-be-determined cost to the project’s contractor because of improperly adjusted extensions on a paving machine. In addition, the Colorado Highway Department will have to pay to have deceleration lanes repaved on Highway 172 between Elmore’s Store and County Road 302 because of uneven pavement.”

Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.