Next Stop: Silverton, Colorado!

Volume 139, issue 44
IN BRIEF
Silverton Clinic open
today and May 15
Silverton Clinic at the
Miners Union Hospital will be
open Thursday, May 15.
Agnes Eytchison, MS, RN,
FNP-BC Family Nurse
Practitioner from Mercy
Regional Medical Center
Urgent Care at Durango
Mountain Resort will be available for medical prescriptions
and exams.
“Many of you may know
her from DMR Urgent Care,”
said Lois MacKenzie, assistant
director of the San Juan
County Public Health Service.
MacKenzie said Mercy
Regional Medical Center has
been considering establishing
at least a part-time clinic in
Silverton.
“This will be a trial of sorts,”
MacKenzie said, “so make an
appointment and let Mercy
know we need them and
appreciate their presence here
in Silverton”
There will be more information to follow.
Call (970) 387-5114 for an
appointment.
May 8, 2014
Edwards, Horton finalists for judge
Governor to appoint
county court judge
The Sixth Judicial District
Nominating Commission has
nominated two candidates for a
San Juan County court judgeship
created by the retirement of the
Hon. Lyndon K. Skinner, effective
July 1.
Judge Skinner faces mandatory
retirement this summer.
Nominees Anthony D.
Edwards, a Silverton attorney,
and Melodee A. Horton, were
selected in a meeting in Durango
on May 5. A third candidate,
William Gardner, former La Plata
County sheriff, was not nominated to the governor.
Edwards has been a resident of
Silverton for 15 years, aside from
4-1/2 years in law school.
Horton said she is a “parttime” resident of San Juan
County. She registered to vote
here in September 2013. She and
her husband first moved here in
1981 and have owned several
homes and businesses in
Silverton over the years.
“We just recently decided to
retire there before this whole
judgeship thing was mentioned,”
Horton said.
Under the Colorado
Constitution, the governor has
until May 21 to appoint one of
the nominees as county court
judge.
Comments regarding either of
the nominees may be sent via email to the governor at gov_judicialappointments@state.co.us.
Next Stop: Silverton, Colorado!
Small business
seminar set for today
Region 9 Economic
Development District and the
Small Business Development
Center are hosting a small
business seminar Thursday,
May 8, from 2:30-4 p.m. at
the Grand Imperial.
Silverton picnic in
Durango May 14
A Silverton potluck picnic
get-together will be held on
May 14 at Santa Rita Park in
Durango.
Bring your own drink and
dish. For more information,
contact Roberta Salfisberg
Fletcher, (970) 259-2275.
Dance students to
per for m May 17-18
The Silverton Dance Crew
at Silverton School will present “Dinner at the Movies,”
on Saturday, May 17 and
Sunday, May 18 at 6 p.m.
Proceeds from the performances go to Silverton
High School and pep squad.
Tickets are $15 each and
include dinner, salad, dessert
and the show.
Tickets are available at
Silverton Grocery.
And on Sunday, prior to
the show, come Celebrate the
Tobacco Prevention Youth
Coalition’s work.
Their open house will be
from 5-6 p.m. before the
Dance Recital at Silverton
Public School in the PAC.
See BRIEFS, Page 4
The first Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train of the season pulls into town on Saturday, May 3.
Criss Furman/Silverton Standard & the Miner
Legion post not ready to fade away
Group to remain active,
despite selling building
By Mark Esper
Gerald Swanson
Silverton American Legion
Post #14 may be surrendering its
historic building, but it won’t be
fading away just yet.
Long-time members Gerald
Swanson and Ted Johnson
reviewed the history of the post
and said members till intend to
keep activities alive, such as leading the Fourth of July parade and
Memorial Day ceremonies.
Swanson, a lifelong Silverton
“The Legion plans to
continue with ceremonies on Memorial
Day and the parade on
the Four th of July. But
it’s har der and har der
to do so.”
Ted Johnson,
past commander
resident and Korean War veteran,
said the original Silverton Legion
post was established following
World War I but went defunct.
“After World War II it was re-
chartered with the same number,” Swanson said. And the post
was able to pick up the old
Miners Union Hall in a tax sale.
“We got it, but it wasn’t much.
The windows were all broken and
the roof was a sieve.”
But the Legion members put
in some work and made the
building at least habitable.
Swanson recalled that they
found a bunch of old caskets in
the basement of the building,
which once housed Prosser’s
Furniture store and undertaking
business.
See LEGION, Page 5
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SILVERTON STANDARD
OPINION
Superfund — or not?
By William Simon
Silverton Standard
& the Miner
A National Historic
Site in Journalism
— Society of Professional
Journalists
It may help to clarify some
issues regarding the EPA’s participation with the Animas River
Stakeholders Group (ARSG) and
that agency’s potential to put
Upper Cement Creek on the
National Priorities List (NPL)
under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liabilities
Act (CERCLA), aka “Superfund.”
The EPA has continuously
and actively participated in the
ARSG since its inception, as has
the State of Colorado and the
Bureau of Land Management
(BLM). These agencies have
authority to take CERCLA
“removal action” but typically it
is the EPA that designates a site
to the NPL.
Thus far these agencies have
GUEST OPINION
Perhaps Superfund
designation will be
necessary and more
desirable in the future
but presently it will
only harm a proven
method that is not
broken and doesn’t
need fixing.
used their removal authority to
allow the ARSG to accomplish
numerous cleanups of historic
mine sites that have led to significant improvements in water
quality in Mineral Creek, the
Upper Animas River above
Silverton, and prior to 2005, the
Animas below Silverton. These
projects have been the result of
Official newspaper of the
Town of Silverton and San
Juan County. The Silverton
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San Juan County Historical
Society. Our mailing address
is P.O. Box 8, Silverton, CO
81433
collaboration between many federal, state, and local agencies,
mining corporations, citizen
advocacy groups, landowners
and concerned citizens voluntarily committing their resources to
improve water quality and
aquatic habitat by addressing
“abandoned” mine sites.
When the ARSG formed in
1994, the Sunnyside Mine was
an actively “permitted” mine
and as such was considered to be
adequately regulated and
enforced by state and federal
agencies. In late 1996, Sunnyside
Gold and the state entered into
a court “consent decree” that
allowed Sunnyside to install
numerous bulkheads throughout
the mine to stop water discharges and to remediate several
surface mine spoils. The intent
See SIMON, Page 6
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FROM THE STANDARD
MAIL CAR
I don’t want to
make the Earth sick
Editor;
Dear Citizens of Silverton,
My name is Kyra Maxfield.
I’ve lived in Silverton my entire
life. I’m a sixth grader at the
Silverton Public School. I love living in Silverton. People in
Silverton love to hike, bike, run,
ski, snowboard, hunt, fish, raft,
and walk their dogs. People in
Silverton love the Earth.
The Earth takes care of us. We
drink water from the Earth. We
get food from the Earth. We get
air from the Earth. When we pollute the Earth, the Earth gets really sick. I don’t want the Earth to
be sick.
We can help the Earth by not
driving so much. We can pick up
trash so it doesn’t blow into the
rivers. We can reuse metal so new
metal doesn’t have to be made.
We can buy stuff in Silverton
instead of going all the way to
Durango or Montrose. We can
turn off lights in our houses
when we aren’t using them.
I’m going to ride my bike and
walk more when I have a short
trip to take. I’m going to unplug
cords when I’m not using them.
I’m going to recycle in my room.
I’m going to take small steps that
will help the Earth, and so can
you!
Thank you,
— Kyra Maxfield, Silverton
Trout Unlimited
applauds Sunnyside
Gold’s ‘Game Plan’
The column that nearly wasn’t
By Freddie Canfield
There I was Sunday afternoon, talking with
Mike Andreatta, Brian Luther and Criss Furman up
at Silverton Lakes Campground after loading out a
backpack to give to my son, Mark, a helping hand
on his first ATV run of the season up to Animas
Forks.
Well, Mark was off and running with the folks
he was guiding — no need for me to join in on the
run. This proved to be a good thing. Half an hour
later Freddie felt pole-axed and was wiped out.
After making the mountain bike run back into
town and back to our place it only got worse from
there. Not my preferred trajectory in life.
So now as I write, instead of the Great Outdoors
and our incredible community surrounding me, it
is, (gasp) all sorts of 21st century gizmos and gadgets. Not exactly what you, good readers, or I, your
cooperative weather observer, associate with this
rather bushy sort of fella — Yikes!
The very things that I would ordinarily be
avoiding like the plague are now part of the solution to keeping me amongst the living — hopefully for many long and ever-more-wondrous years
out ahead.
Mercy was what was called for and mercy is
what I have received at Mercy Regional Medical
Center. Should you or any of your family or friends
require a trip down the mountain, double thumbs
WEATHER AND OBSERVATIONS
up and a big grin from your correspondent,
Freddie.
Pre-surgery and post-surgery — what a difference. Immediately. I am a new man. Miracles
never cease, and all of your payers helped, too.
Hats off to all of our friends who regularly make
the commute down here — nurses, physician’s
assistants — not to mention that outstanding
bunch of paramedics and EMTs who make irregular runs whenever duty calls, plus a growing number of folks from Mercy who now have places in
our community and out in the county who likewise feel and find our mountains calling.
I have also welcomed the outstanding team in
the ER and surgery to come visit us. What a great
bunch of people!
Well, enough about Freddie, his challenges and
return to the living.
What about all of you? What about the weather? Signs of moderation and cooperation in both
those areas. Plus, the absolutely best First Train Day
in living memory — 65.1 degrees, our new seasonal high in the high country!
Lots of dancing Can Cans on Notorious Blair
Street while our very own Silverton Brass Band
played on, sounding mighty good for this delightful first day of train since half a year ago.
See WEATHER, Page 5
Editor;
As a committed member of
the Animas River Stakeholders
Group (ARSG), we welcome
Sunnyside Gold’s “Game Plan for
the Animas” as a useful path forward to improve water quality in
the upper Animas basin. Trout
Unlimited (TU) supports the continued pursuit of innovative technologies for this complicated
problem. TU has not determined
that any particular method, such
as bulkheading or active treatment plants, should be included
in the final solution, but the
Game Plan could serve as a useful
process for arriving at solutions in
a timely manner within the
We
stakeholder process.
look forward to hearing from our
fellow stakeholders on their
assessments of its merits or weaknesses.
We continue to believe that
the ARSG process holds more
promise for achieving durable
and timely solutions than does a
CERCLA designation and we view
the Game Plan as a good next
step. However, if the Game Plan
should fail to achieve targeted
water quality and fish habitat
See LETTERS, Page 3
Write to us
The Silverton Standard & the
Miner welcomes letters to the
editor. Send letters via e-mail to
editor@silvertonstandard.com,
or via snail mail to, Editor,
Silverton Standard & the Miner,
P.O. Box 8, Silverton, CO
81433.
SILVERTON STANDARD
goals in a timely manner, we
would urge all stakeholders to
reconsider all available options
and applicable technologies.
Development of Good
Samaritan policies to enhance the
use of third party groups, such as
TU, to help clean up mine sites
remains a strong interest of TU in
the ARSG process. We will continue to work with our fellow
stakeholders to see whether use
of Good Samaritan polices could
help advance our mutual water
quality goals.
TU is committed to working
with Sunnyside Gold and other
key stakeholders to clean up the
Animas and restore its formerly
splendid trout fishery. We plan to
be part of this process as long as
it takes, and to provide the necessary resources to achieve this worthy goal.
Silverton Area Chamber
gets a new director
Editor,
The Silverton Area Board of
Directors is pleased to announce
the hiring of Amy Dickinson.
Amy will be replacing Rose Raab
as Executive Director later this
month.
The Chamber Board advertised
for the position of Executive
Director following Rose’s letter of
resignation in March, which was
accepted with regrets. Rose has
worked for the Chamber since
May of 2009. Her efforts to
improve the chamber and to represent Silverton area businesses
and to promote the community
have been greatly appreciated.
Following an extensive interview process, the Chamber Board
voted to hire Amy Dickinson as
the new Executive Director. Amy
has a background in web design,
marketing, and event planning
and hopes to utilize these skills to
further promote the chamber and
Silverton.
You will have an opportunity
to meet Amy at the Chamber
Round-Up/Bar D Dinner on May
18th. Tickets for the dinner are
on sale from Chamber Board
members and at the Silverton
Visitors Center.
Sincerely,
Dean Mize
Chamber Board President
Thinking of Silverton
Editor;
Thank you for another wonderful year of the Silverton
Standard & the Miner. I always
enjoy reading about Silverton. So
much goes on in such a small
community.
I hope allowing ATVs will
strengthen Silverton’s economy
and I hope allowing marijuana
will not harm Silverton or its
children. Heather and I often
think of everyone and hope to
return for a visit sometime this
year.
All is well here in Salt Lake.
We are knee deep in spring. The
grass is deep and green and tall.
The trees have leaves again. Four
weeks ago my daffodils began to
bloom and for the last week my
columbines have been in full
bloom. Today is wet and cool—
cool being 48 — a perfect spring
day.
I am enclosing a check for the
next year of the newspaper and a
little extra for the paper itself. I
hope you and the Silverton
Standard will remain partners for
many years to come.
— David McFarland, Salt Lake
REVEGETATING
City
(David McFarland is former
Silverton Town Clerk.)
Unguided skiing at
Silverton Mtn. worth
more than ATVs, pot
Editor;
It seams as though many people are making a big deal about
the Marijuana and ATV issues as
to how it will affect the economy.
What troubles me is there is
already an establishment in place
that could greatly benefit the
town, more than it does already.
This is Silverton Mountain.
People are spending a lot of energy squabbling over the ATV and
pot issue, and appear blind to the
idea that unguided skiing at
Silverton Mountain would be of
much greater benefit to the town
financially than either ATVs or
the pot, and possibly both combined.
I feel very confident in saying that some of the busiest
days in town last winter were
the unguided ski days. There
were only seven of them early
season. Town was dead
absolutely dead right up until
the mountain opened on the
21st or so of December, and
then all up and down main
street the signs read NO
VACANCY.
It was hard to find a room in
town during these days. When it
transitioned to guided-only it
seemed pretty easy to find a
room in town. Why is everyone
caught up in this petty pot and
ATV stuff, leaving it to just a few
individuals to try and put pressure on the management to allow
for more unguided skiing, or better yet for all, unguided skiers
and guided skiers to co-exist.
The mountain operates on
land that is all of ours and the
few folks that are pushing for
more time up there are made to
feel like the unreasonable bad
people or something.
Business owners
need to not be intimidated and to open
there eyes to the fact
that they are missing
out on a lot of business. Guided and
unguided skiers can coexist and the town
would thrive. So
instead of beating the
dead horses of pot and
ATVs start beating on a
wild stallion that could
be wrangled in to be a
major economic player
that will not bring the
stink of exhaust fans or
pipes.
— Stephen Mead
III, Green River
Preserve assistant director
Mark Esper/Silverton Standard & the Miner
Silverton School students and AmeriCorps volunteers plant willows near the Lackawanna Mill on Wednesday
afternoon, May 7. Ten AmeriCorps volunteers were in town for the last several days working on a variety of community projects.
Blues Train to roll
The Durango Blues Train is
proud to announce the lineup
for the first weekend of
the 2014 Blues Train, on
May 30 and 31. Award-winning
musical guests include Big Sam’s
Funky Nation, Todd & The Fox,
Robby Overfield, Kipori Woods,
The Bottoms Up Blues Gang,
Eddie Turner, C.W. Ayon,
Johnny Long, Chris Dracup,
and Gino Matteo.
The lineup for the August 22
and 23 Blues Train will be
announced later this summer.
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Dance Recital
May 17, 18, 6 PM,
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May 21
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May 22
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LETTERS, from Page 2
Page 3-Thursday, May 8, 2014
SILVERTON STANDARD
Page 4-Thursday, May 8, 2014
BRIEFS, from Page 1
Volunteers needed for
Iron Horse bike race
Volunteers are needed for the
Ironhorse Bicycle Classic on
Saturday, May 24 in Silverton.
Course marshals for the finish
line are needed to help staff this
fun community event.
Great food by Elevated Fine
Foods of Silverton, T-shirt and
swag bag and a fun volunteer
party for all who help out. Coffee
by Mobius Café.
Please contact Mel at volunteer@ironhorsebicycleclassic.com
or call (970) 769-3486 for more
details.
Mail goes out early
With the daily closures of Red
Mountain Pass due to rockfall
mitigation work this month, outgoing mail from Silverton should
be at the Post Office by 11:30
a.m. for delivery that day.
The mail carrier needs to leave
Silverton by noon.
Red Mountain Pass is currently
closed from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m., and then from 1:30-6 p.m.,
Monday-Saturday.
Philanthropy Days June
11-13 in Pagosa Springs
Only 145 spots remain for
the 2014 Southwest Rural
Philanthropy Days Conference,
June 11-13, in Pagosa Springs.
Southwest Rural
Philanthropy Days (RPD) is a
collaborative program that
builds excellence among the
nonprofit and social service
agencies that support our communities.
It also brings financial support and professional development opportunities to community, arts, and environmental
organizations in our region of
southwest Colorado, including
the counties of: Archuleta,
Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma,
and San Juan.
The event features nonprofit
development workshops and
networking opportunities that
convene representatives of
foundations and nonprofits
from the Denver Metro area
with local foundations and government leaders for three days
of capacity building workshops
and funder roundtables.
This event, coordinated in
collaboration with Community
Resource Center (CRC), allows
grant seekers from our region to
build partnerships with foundations based on the front range
of Colorado.
To register, go online to:
www.crcamerica.org
OLD TIMERS, OLDER DRILL
Mark Esper/Silverton Standard & the Miner
Silverton old-timers Zeke Zanoni, left, and Jerry Hoffer unload a Slugger rock drill dating from the 189s0 at the
San Juan County Historical Society Musem on Monday, May 5, as Scott Fetchenhier watches. The drill was
donated to the museum by Dee Jaramillo of Silverton.
MOUNTAIN HAPPENINGS
Thursday, May 8
• Free small business seminar on resources, 3:30-4 p.m.,
Grand Imperial Hotel meeting
room.
May 17-18
• Silverton School Dance
Recitals, 6 p.m., PAC, with dinner, $15.
Monday, May 12
• Silverton Town Council,
7:30 p.m., Town Hall.
Wednesday, May 14
• San Juan County Board of
Commissioners, 8:30 a.m.,
County Courthouse.
Sunday, May 18
• Bar D Dinner, Chamber
fundraiser, Citizen of Year
announced, Kendall Mountain
Community Center.
May 17-18
• Silverton School Dance
Recitals, 6 p.m., PAC, with dinner, $15.
Saturday, May 24
• Iron Horse Bicycle Classic.
Ongoing
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Help spread the word
about Silverton!
Call (970) 387-5477 for details
• San Juan County
Historical Society Archive —
Regular hours on Fridays, 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. (starting Nov. 8).
• Silverton Movement
Center: Mondays — 8:30 a.m.,
Monday-Friday, Silverton School
Gym.
Tuesdays — Yoga with
Elizabeth, 8:30 a.m.; Belly
Dance III, 6 p.m., Kendall
Mountain Community Center;
Wednesdays — All Level
Kettlebells, 8:30 a.m.; Core
Fitness Roller (limited to 10 students), 5:15 p.m.; Thursdays —
Yoga with Katie, 5:30 a.m.;
Pilates, 8:30 a.m., Belly Dance
Troupe, 7:25 p.m.; Fridays —
Kettlebell etc. workout, 8:15 a.m.
• Blair Street Historic
District Association, 10 a.m.,
first Wednesday of each month,
Empire Street Bunkhouse.
• Alcoholics Anonymous
meets in Silverton every
Wednesday at 7 p.m. For locations, questions or help, call
(888) 333-9649.
• American Legion
meetings, 7 p.m. first Thursday
of the month, Legion Post.
Silverton Youth
Center activities
Winter schedule:
Monday-Thursday, 5-9 p.m.;
Friday-Saturday, 4-10 p.m.;
Sunday 3-9; Thursday, 6 p.m. —
elementary movie night
Wednesdays, 1005 Reese St., 3254373.
• Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, President
Duane Eggett, Sunday services: 9
a.m. priesthood, 10 a.m.; sacrament, 11 a.m. Sunday school,
727 Greene St., 387-5338.
• First Congregational
Church of Silverton, Sue Kurtz,
moderator. Sunday service 9 a.m.
All are welcome. 1070 Reese St.
(970) 387-5759. e-mail: silvertonucc@aol.com Website: silvertonchurch.org Look for us on
Facebook!
• Silverton Church on the
Hill, 11th and Snowden, Pastor
Mark Lawson, (970) 387-5215.
Sunday KSJC (92.5 FM) 8-10
a.m., Christian music, devotional and sermon; Bible study, 9
a.m.; Children’s Sunday School
at 10:15; 10:15 a.m. regular service; Wednesday night prayer/fellowship, 7 p.m.
• Word of Life Fellowship,
Pastor Jim Greenfield, Sunday
service starts at 9 a.m., 1706
Empire St. 387-5893.
Spiritual events
What’s happening?
• Church of Christ, Sundays:
Bible class, 8 a.m.; service, 9
a.m.; and Sunday Bible discussion, 5 p.m., (970) 946-7648.
• St. Patrick’s Catholic
Church, Father Nat Foshage,
Mass, 5 p.m. Saturdays and
Got somethin’ goin’ on?
Contact the Standard.
Phone 387-5477 or e-mail
editor@
silvertonstandard.com
FOR THE RECORD
San Juan County
Sherif f’s Of fice blotter
April 28 — Kevin P.
Quatman, of Huntington, Calif.,
was issued a summons for driving under revocation.
Responded to two 911 calls that
were false alarms. Two motorists
were assisted.
April 29 — Three warnings
were issued for speeding.
April 30 — Four warnings
were issued for speeding. A
warning was issued for defective
equipment. A motorist was
assisted. A lost purse was report-
ed. A warning was issued for a
defective vehicle.
May 1 — Responded to a
911 call that was a false alarm.
A motorist was assisted.
May 2 — Susan A. Beutel, of
Manasquan, N.J., was issued a
summons for speeding; 52 in a
30-mph zone. A warning was
issued for impeding traffic. A
found cell phone was returned
to the owner. Five warnings
were issued for speeding. A
parking warning was issued for
parking in the school fire zone.
A warning was issued for park-
ing in the lane of traffic. A burglary was reported and is under
investigation.
May 3 — A found key fob
was turned in. A warning was
issued for defective equipment.
A warning was issued for speeding.
May 4 — A possible drunken
driver was reported; the subject
was stopped and was not intoxicated. Harassment was reported
and the subject was warned. A
warning was issued for skateboarding on the sidewalk where
prohibited.
SILVERTON STANDARD
Page 5-Thursday, May 8, 2014
L:EGION, from Page 1
Criss Furman/Silverton Standard & the Miner
FIRST TRAIN DAY
Silverton residents and others dressed in old-fashioned garb to greet the
first train of the year on Saturday, May 3. At left, drummer Scott
Fetchenhier and bass drummer Jackie Kerwin team up in a performance.
Below the band plays as Carolyn Wilcox dances with Mark Esper, right.
Criss Furman/Silverton Standard & the Miner
Jerry Lyle/Silverton Standard & the Miner
School’s not quite out for summer
This year Silverton School is
offering a unique summer experience.
The school’s PEAK program
will be running from June 16Aug. 8, offering students diverse
activities including outdoor
adventure, core academics (reading, writing, and math), science,
art, theater, soccer, basketball,
and swimming.
“PEAK will challenge and
engage every learner with daily
morning movement, creative
writing, free reading, problem of
the day, math skill builders, language arts skill builder, maker
WEATHER, from Page 2
So, off and running with
Silvertonians getting on board for
another season. Lots of good
plans in the making. Plenty of
opportunities for solution-finding
to keep us mountain folks busy
and out of trouble for the foreseeable future.
It is so heartening to live in a
program, art, outWednesday,
Interested?
door adventure,
Thursdays mornPlease attend the
swimming, and
ings — Math,
informational meeting
more,” said Paul
Reading, Writing,
open to all on Thursday, Makerspace:
Joyce, program
May 15, from 8:30-9:30
administrator.
Engineering and
a.m. at Silverton School. Design.
“We want summer to be fun and
Makerspace is a
flexible,” Joyce said. “We underplace and an opportunity for our
stand that your family may be in
kids to get hands on with designand out, the PEAK program will
ing and engineering everything
accommodate scheduling needs
from sewing wearable art to proincluding a separate pricing struc- gramming microprocessors.
ture.”
• Flexible Fridays will include
This year with PEAK:
trips to Ouray Hot Springs and
• Daily Breakfast and Lunch
adventures in Silverton,
included.
Adventure Mondays will take us
• Core Academics Tuesday,
outside Silverton for fun and
Enrichment.
• Molly Mook-Fidler and
Sinjin Jones will be back for a 3week theater program featuring
our student interns and an elementary and a secondary production.
• Aug. 11-15 — Challenger
Soccer Camp and Youth Center
Activities.
More information can be had
by calling Elizabeth Barszcz or
Paul Joyce at 387-5544, emailing
pjoyce@silvertonschool.org or
ebarszcz@silvertonschool.org or
stop by and see us at school.
community like Silverton.
The next few days may not
give me anything approximating
an outsiders view. After three
decades that is not likely.
However, I am open to it and my
level of appreciation of each and
every one of you just goes up
exponentially.
Not to mention appreciation
of life itself.
Freddie Canfield is currently a
patient at Mercy Regional Medical
Center in Durango, where he is
recovering from a ruptured appendix.
His son, Mark Hall, is serving as
Interim Cooperative Weather
Observer for the Standard. The temperature table (and Freddie) will
hopefully be back in Silverton in
time for next week’s paper.
If Freddie had elected to tough
this one out — in the time-honored way that he has been alltoo-well-known to follow, well
there simply would not have
been a next column, nor any
more to follow.
So here’s to life — to all of you
and to our shared future, together!
“It was eerie as hell,”
Swanson said. The caskets were
given to Bill MaGuire’s undertaking business.
Windows were replaced, the
roof patched.
“We got the furnace going,”
Swanson said. “We’d bring in
two train carloads of coal and
unload it then have a big
party.”
Then came a harsh winter,
maybe in 1962, as Swanson
recalls.
“We had one of those horrendous winters and the roof
started to cave in. I called up
Fred Wolfe (fire chief at the
time). The firefighters arrived
with timbers to shore up the
roof above the grand ballroom
upstairs.
“We got the building stabilized then brought in a roof
detail in the spring,” Swanson
said.
The Silverton Legion post
boasted 70 members or so, but
with a decline in the mining
industry, membership went
downhill too.
But over the years the hall
hosted dances and other community activities, including the
legendary (and controversial)
badger fights.
The “fights” were an elaborately staged affair that
involved more anticipation
than anything else.
“We had to close it down,”
Swanson said. “Frank
Giacomelli died and we didn’t
have another dog.”
Johnson, a Vietnam veteran
and past post commander, said
the post needs to “make sure
“we have some money for
operating expenses.”
For instance the post’s
famous halftrack still needs to
be maintained.
Will the post survive?
“I hope so,” Johnson said.
“The Legion plans to continue with ceremonies on
Memorial Day and the parade
on the Fourth of July,” he said.
“But it’s harder and harder to
do so.”
And the legion plans to
establish a sizeable scholarship
fund for Silverton School graduates.
Swanson said he has been
in contact with Legion officials
on a possible road forward.
A couple of interesting tidbits about the building:
In 1905, the former governor of Idaho was assassinated
in a crime investigators linked
to the Western Federation of
Miners’ leadership, including
Big Bill Haywood.
The Silverton local mortgaged the building in 1907 to
help pay for Haywood’s
defense, led by the legendary
Clarence Darrow. Haywood
was acquitted.
Remember that tax sale
through which the Legion
acquired the building?
According to county treasurer and local historian Bev Rich,
San Juan County had allowed
the miners union to go without paying property taxes on
its union hall and the Miners
Union Hospital for years.
But after a bitter strike in
1939, the county reversed
course and slapped the union
with back taxes on both buildings. That is how the county
ultimately acquired the hospital, and the legion acquired the
Miners Hall.
SILVERTON STANDARD
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SIMON, from Page 2
was to reduce acid mine discharges to the point that it would
no longer be necessary to operate
the then existing and expensive
water treatment plant at
Gladstone.
After all terms of the agreement had been met Sunnyside
Gold was released from the consent decree. Unfortunately soon
afterward several nearby Cement
Creek mines began discharging
acid mine drainage (AMD) that is
$
believed to be a result of an
increased water table throughout
the mountain and a large mine
pool captured by the bulkheads.
The large amount of increased
AMD from these other mines had
not been anticipated by the parties involved with the consent
decree. We now know that water
quality from these new or
increased discharges have offset
water quality improvements
made earlier through the ARSG
efforts.
Beginning in 2005, ARSG rig-
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subscribers will not be inserted.”
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January 5, 1901
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orously developed programs to
monitor and characterize the
sources of these discharges, to be
able to design, engineer, and estimate the construction, maintenance, and operation of individual or combined treatment facilities.
As in the past, ARSG relies
upon scientific investigations performed by experts, including the
USGS, an independent agency
lacking a potentially conflicting
regulatory agenda. These endeavors have been supported financially and cooperatively by the
CERCLA authority agencies as
well as other ARSG participants.
Sunnyside Gold and the EPA
have developed reports on traditional treatment construction
and operations and maintenance
costs and San Juan County has
researched various ways to establish an operation authority for a
treatment plant(s).
ARSG and the BLM have
bench tested and on-site pilot
tested several new treatment
methods. With funds provided by
mining corporations, Trout
Unlimited, the National Mining
Association, the International
Network for Acid Prevention, and
national consulting firms, the
ARSG sponsored a crowd sourcing challenge that searched for
“out-of-the-box” innovative treatment methods, which was successful in providing potentially
cost-saving solutions.
Still, the costs will be substantial — likely running into the
tens of millions of dollars.
Because inevitably the public will
be picking up a substantial portion of costs, through long-term
operations and possibly unnecessary litigation (i.e. Superfund),
ARSG will likely remain committed to finding the most practical
solutions by thoroughly investigating alternatives.
No agency has the funds,
expertise, or inclination to
accomplish all that needs to be
done, let alone the ability to
attain consensus among stakeholders. At this time, NPL would
greatly inhibit such collaboration
as it explores litigation of all
potentially responsible parties
(PRPs).
Litigation of Sunnyside Gold
will lead to abandonment of its
willingness to participate. The
company has currently offered up
to $10 million toward treatment,
which would instead be used for
legal defense. Once hostile legal
actions begin, the public is put at
arm’s length, at best, since data
and solution negotiations are
often not open to public scrutiny.
Experience has shown that the
public will be allowed suggestions
on issues openly aired but final
decisions will be made by the
EPA. This inhibits the ARSG consensus driven, collaborative
process that leads to local ownership and a sense of community
stewardship for the resource.
Since CERCLA has not been reauthorized, the numerous NPL
sites are now dependent upon
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congressional funding rather
than the more lucrative surtax on
the chemical industry.
With fewer federal funds to go
around and CERCLA’s restriction
that only EPA can manage remedial action at a NPL site, there is
no guarantee and little likelihood
that listing will result in a quicker
or more cost effective solution.
Experience has shown that collaboration among the many
stakeholders has resulted in hard
fought, slow but highly successful
projects.
The ARSG approach can maximize funds available for project
planning, determination of cost
effective treatment, and an equitable sharing of costs among
stakeholders. Perhaps Superfund
designation will be necessary and
more desirable in the future but
presently it will only harm a
proven method that is not broken and doesn’t need fixing.
William Simon was the coordinator and project manager for ARSG
from 1994 to 2010. He is currently
retained as an ARSG consultant and
co-coordinator with Peter Butler and
Steve Fearn.
Metal Prices
Wednesday, May 8, 2014
1297.70
Gold
Silver
19.37
Platinum
1433
800
Palladium
3.0331
Copper
8.4463
Nickel
.9294
Zinc
.9436
Lead
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We are looking for clerks, and a
person to do produce deliveries.
Applications are available at the
store. Wages very depending on
experience.
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NOW HIRING for summer season. Please call to inquire, 970
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Revised map ublished in the Silverton Standard
& the Miner on May 8, 2014
COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE
SALE NO. 14-002
To Whom It May Concern: This
Notice is given with regard to the
following described Deed of Trust:
On March 4, 2014, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the
Notice of Election and Demand
relating to the Deed of Trust
described below to be recorded in
the County of San Juan records.
Original Grantor(s)
KAREL L PENSE & RONALD
PENSE
Original Beneficiary(ies)
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
Current Holder of Evidence of
Debt
NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE
COMPANY LLC d/b/a/ CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY
Date of Deed of Trust
August 17, 2009
County of Recording
San Juan
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
August 28, 2009
Recording Information (Reception
Number)
147059
Original Principal Amount
$397,500.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$164,537.22
Pursuant to CRS §38-38101(4)(i), you are hereby notified
that the covenants of the deed of
trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and
interest when due together with
all other payments provided for in
the evidence of debt secured by
the deed of trust and other violations thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY
NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
The property to be foreclosed is:
LOTS 9,10,11 AND 12 OF
BLOCK 1 IN THE TOWN OF SILVERTON, COUNTY OF SAN
JUAN, STATE OF COLORADO
Also known by street and number
as: 1406 CEMENT ST, SILVERTON, CO 81433.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED
HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE
DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the
Evidence of Debt secured by the
Deed of Trust, described herein,
has filed Notice of Election and
Demand for sale as provided by
law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby
Given that I will at public auction,
at 10:00 A.M. on Tuesday,
07/01/2014, at San Juan County
Courthouse, 1557 Greene St.,
Silverton, CO 81433, sell to the
highest and best bidder for cash,
the said real property and all
interest of the said Grantor(s),
Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns
therein, for the purpose of paying
the indebtedness provided in said
Evidence of Debt secured by the
Deed of Trust, plus attorneys'
fees, the expenses of sale and
other items allowed by law, and
will issue to the purchaser a
Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 5/8/2014
Last Publication 6/5/2014
Name of Publication
Silverton Standard
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE
DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE
OF INTENT TO CURE BY
THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO
CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED.
DATE: 03/04/2014
Beverly E. Rich, Public Trustee in
and for the County of San Juan,
State of Colorado
By: Amy Swonger, Deputy Public
Trustee
The name, address, business
telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s)
representing the legal holder of
the indebtedness is:
Aronowitz & Mecklenburg 1199
Bannock Street, Denver, 81433
(303) 813-1177
Attorney File # 8686.00112
The Attorney above is acting as a
debt collector and is attempting to
collect a debt. Any information
provided may be used for that
purpose.
©Public Trustees' Association of
Colorado Revised 9/2012
COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE
SALE NO. 14-001
To Whom It May Concern: This
Notice is given with regard to the
following described Deed of Trust:
On January 15, 2014, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the
Notice of Election and Demand
relating to the Deed of Trust
described below to be recorded in
the County of San Juan records.
Original Grantor(s) Original
Beneficiary(ies)
Current Holder of Evidence of
Debt Date of Deed of Trust
County of Recording Recording
Date of Deed of Trust Recording
Information (Reception Number)
Original Principal Amount
Outstanding Principal Balance
Diane R Wallace and Donato
Desantis Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Inc. acting
solely as nominee for AEGIS
WHOLESALE CORPORATION
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. June
02, 2006 San Juan June 09, 2006
144939 $198,000.00 $190,027.54
Pursuant to CRS §38-38101(4)(i), you are hereby notified
that the covenants of the deed of
trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and
interest when due together with
all other payments provided for in
the evidence of debt secured by
the deed of trust and other violations thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY
NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
The property to be foreclosed is:
UNIT 20 BUILDING K, CASCADE
VILLAGE PHASE I, CONDOMINIUM BUILDINGS J&K, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT
THEREOF FILED MAY 7, 1981
IN BOOK 222 AT PAGES 125,
126, AND 127 AND AS- BUILD
PLAT RECORDED FEBRUARY
3, 1982 IN BOOK 222 AT PAGES
729, 730, 731 AND 732, COUNTY OF SAN JUAN, STATE OF
COLORADO, AND DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS
FOR CASCADE VILLAGE CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED
AUGUST 21, 1981 IN BOOK 222
AT PAGES 385 THRU 423
Also known by street and number
as: 50827 US Highway 550 N,
#120, Durango, CO 81301.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED
HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE
DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the
Evidence of Debt secured by the
Deed of Trust, described herein,
has filed Notice of Election and
Demand for sale as provided by
law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby
Given that I will at public auction,
at 10:00 A.M. on Tuesday,
06/10/2014, at San Juan County
Courthouse, 1557 Greene St.,
Silverton, CO 81433, sell to the
highest and best bidder for cash,
the said real property and all
interest of the said Grantor(s),
Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns
therein, for the purpose of paying
the indebtedness provided in said
Evidence of Debt secured by the
Deed of Trust, plus attorneys'
fees, the expenses of sale and
other items allowed by law, and
will issue to the purchaser a
Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication Last Publication
Name of Publication
4/10/2014 5/8/2014 Silverton
Standard
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE
DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE
OF INTENT TO CURE BY
THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO
CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED.
DATE: 01/15/2014 Beverly E.
Rich, Public Trustee in and for the
County of San Juan, State of
Colorado
By: Amy Swonger, Deputy Public
Trustee
The name, address, business
telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s)
representing the legal holder of
the indebtedness is: Aronowitz &
Mecklenburg 1199 Bannock
Street, Denver, 81433 (303) 8131177 Attorney File # 1269.22485
The Attorney above is acting as a
debt collector and is attempting to
collect a debt. Any information
provided may be used for that
purpose.
Published in the Silverton
Standard & the Miner on May 8,
15, 22, 29, and June 5, 2014.
Help wanted: San Juan Services.
Full or part time starting May.
Could become a year around
position. Flexible shifts. Call or
see Rebecca at the store. 970387-3462. Email applications to
sjsrebecca@gmail.com.
The Silverton School is accepting applications for the following
positions for the 2014-2015
school year. Salary
Commensurate with experience,
benefits for full-time positions.
Must hold a current Colorado
teaching license or be able to
qualify for one by the start of
school. Please send a letter of
interest, resume and references
to the Silverton Public School,
P.O. Box 128, Silverton, CO,
81433 by May 16, 2014. For
more info contact Kim White at
supt@silvertonschool.org or
970.387.5544. The Silverton
School District is an equal opportunity employer.
Full time Secondary Math &
Science Teacher
Full time 4th-5th Grade Teacher
Long-term Substitute Teacher
2nd-3rd Grade: August 18November 7, 2014; salary $120
per day
(5/15)
Now hiring seasonal retail position at Silverton Harley in
Silverton. Customer service, computer skills required. Must be reliable, available weekends and holidays. Apply in person or by
email, merchandise@silvertonharley.com
PART TIME housekeeper needed, Villa Dallavalle, (970) 3875555.
REAL ESTATE
Published in the Silverton
Standard & the Miner on April 10,
17, 24, May 1 and 8, 2014.
Mining claims for sale by
Owner. From $4500 on up. Many
under $10,000. See www.silvertonland.com
Great buy for cash buyer! 1332
Empire St. Silverton Multi Use;
commercial, apartments or single
family home with apartment
income. Call 970-903-7071
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Bayfield Home Overlooking HD
Mountains , 4 BR, 2 BA 1950 sq.
ft. Over 1/2 acre . Pre-Inspected
$299,000 . Go To buymountainview@yahoo.com Hosts: Ed &
Jackie 970-769-6873 (d)
FOR RENT
Coming In May! Newly renovated studios and apartments in the
historic Benson building. Semifurnished. Laundry facilities on
site. Satellite TV included. $425$550 per month. (970) 903-4132
Great Rental Opportunity
High quality commercial office
space available June 1st, 2014
on the ground floor of the Tower
House Victorian at 11th and
Greene Street Silverton Colorado.
• $900 per month, one year lease
preferred but negotiable.
• 600sf ground floor with frontage
and parking on Greene St.
• Two main rooms and one private office.
• Oak floors and full custom
Victorian trim.
• Radiant heat, double-pane windows, French doors.
• Wired for modern networks.
• Nonresidential, commercial use
only.
Tenants responsible for separately metered electricity and propane
as well as shared trash and
water. Business liability insurance required. Please contact
Nicole Barr at
Silvertonpropertymanagement.co
m 970-387-0133 for details or
email guygrover@yahoo.com
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Two shops for lease — Main
Street, Silverton, Colorado!
Pack up your inventory and bring
it up to Silverton, Colorado for lots
of new customers from May to
October! Up to 4 trains a day, and
car traffic — lots of tourists, and
many events. If interested, call
Barbara, (480) 947-2378. (ind)
FOR LEASE OR SALE — 1260
Blair Street, formerly Stellar
Restaurant. Call 970 375-0452.
E-mail mipaioff@netzero.com
(RE: 1260 Blair St.)
(ind.)
Benson Business Center on
Greene Street to open in
April/May. Five industrial/contemporary 7X8 community offices
spaces available with new furniture, internet, and business services; fax, scan, copier and private
conference room. $300 per
space, per month. Stop by to see
pre-construction layout.
tberenyi@berenyi.com or 843696-7157 for inquiries/to reserve
an office.
RETAIL SPACE AVAILABLE at
Old Town Square. Very reasonable. Call Tommy, (970) 316-1966
MISCELLANEOUS
WANTED
Want to purchase minerals and
other oil/gas interests. Send
details to: P.O. Box 13557,
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“The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.” — William Faulkner
Thursday, May 8, 2014, Silverton, Colorado
AVON FIRE, 1938
15 Years Ago
May 6, 1999
Welcome to Cheryl Meadows
and Joe Jepson from Budd Lake,
N.J., who have recently moved
here to be year-round residents in
Middleton. They hope to build a
small motel in town soon.
115 YEARS AGO
From the May 6, 1899 edition
of the Silverton Standard:
20 Years Ago
May 5, 1994
The Silverton Trax, the public
school’s student newspaper, has
won a second-place award in a
national competition sponsored
by the American Scholastic Press
Association.
SLUGGING MATCH
AT 12TH AND GREENE.
At an amateur slugging
match on the corner of Greene
and 12th streets, Sunday night,
one of the parties got a clip that
put him to sleep for about 10
minutes. Upon returning to
consciousness the man seemed
to be laboring under the
impression that he had been
trying to kick one of Wyman’s
pack mules from the rear. Then
suddenly realizing the situation
he made a break from where he
had been resting, hunted his
opponent and went at him
hammer and tongs. The crowd
interfered and separated the
combatants and the stern sad
face of the night watch hove in
sight. The boys gave bonds for
appearance before Magistrate
Watson and the following day
they appeared as per contract.
The Judge took a fresh chew
and said, “sons, why all this
clamor, this confusion on the
public street o’ Sunday night,
and you pecking away at each
other like a couple of red headed woodpeckers? Sons, it was
wrong, very wrong, your little
hands were never made to tear
each other’s eyes. The hurtling
mash of this man’s neck
resounds to the skies and divers
blows and kicks and cuffs and
yells of rage galore were worthy
of but savage tribes that roamed
in days of yore. Therefore I shall
be obliged to adjust your penalties at $5 and costs. Amen.”
110 YEAR AGO
From the May 7, 1904 edition
of the Silverton Standard:
EXTRACTS FROM THE
GLADSTONE KIBOSH:
Last week while the large force
of two men were working on the
All Gold Mining, Milling, Con.
Tunnel Co.’s property, known as
the Rocky Pass-em-up tunnel,
they encountered a 4-foot streak
of hot air. Immediately one of the
eastern stockholders was called in
and machinery will soon be
placed on the ground for the purpose of bottling the same.
Looking
Back ...
Photo courtesy of San Juan County Historical Society
A group of people watch firemen put out a fire at the Avon Hotel rooms on May 8, 1938.
Shipments will be made regularly
to eastern papers and stock will
proceed to go sky high. Buy now
as we need the money.
The following ordinances will
be strictly enforced by Marshal
Shea in the near future prohibiting the shooting on the street day
times; selling ice cream to paupers; old maids talking in their
sleep; hugging other mens’ wives
in public; feeding overalls to burros; being drunk on the streets
Sundays, carrying over one concealed weapon and drinking
alone.
65 YEARS AGO
From the May 6, 1949 edition
of the Silverton Standard & the
Miner:
COAL SHED
DEATH PROBED.
Investigation in the death of
Joseph Full, 32, former
Montrosean in Silverton on or
about last Feb. 10 , is being conducted by District Attorney
George Dilts of Durango and
members of his staff, including
Byron Bradford, deputy district
attorney.
The inquiry was started at the
request of Full’s parents. Full was
found in a coal shed at Silverton
Feb. 10, with a bullet wound in
the head. Under the body was .22
caliber rifle wa found. At the
time, Coroner Wm. McGuire listed the death as suicide.
Bradford spent Thursday at
BUY LOCAL
Think local first + Buy local
when you can = Being a local!
Buy what you want, not what
someone wants you to buy:
A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses
is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices
over the long-term. A multitude of small businesses,
each selecting products based not on a national sales
plan but on their own interests and the needs of their
local customers, guarantees a much broader range of
product choices.
Silverton interviewing persons
here about Full and the details of
his death.
From the May 13, 1938 edition of the Silverton Standard & the
Miner:
FIRE DESTROYS
UPPER PART OF
AVON HOTEL.
The upper story and roof of
the Avon Hotel, Empire and 10th
Sts., owned and operated by Rosa
Steward, were almost completely
destroyed by fire, originating in a
third-floor apartment, about 10
o’clock Sunday morning.
The building, a brick and
stone structure, was constructed
by the late F.O. Sherwood for a
mercantile establishment with
the second story as living quarters
and a rooming house. After Miss
Steward acquired the building a
few years ago, ceilings of the original building were dropped and a
third floor added.
Furnished as apartments, the
entire third floor was in use and
several occupants were forced to
leave by windows as the blaze cut
off any access to the stairways. A
dog in one of the apartments
died of suffocation. Furniture and
personal effects on the second
and third floor were damaged by
water.
Insurance on the building and
contents, said to approximate
$2500, is entirely inadequate, as
the loss will easily reach $6000.
Miss Steward will not make
known her plans for restoration
of the building until an adjustment of loss is made ...
Silverton has experienced
larger fires in past history, but
probably never a more stubborn
blaze, rendered almost inaccessible to fire fighters by the construction of the building and
the amount of lumber in the
roof and supporting structure.
Four streams of water were used
more than two hours by volunteer firemen before the fire was
out.
Neighbors discovered the fire
and warned occupants of the
building. Response to the alarm
was immediate and volunteer
firemen were assisted by many of
the largest crowd of Silverton
people to assemble in many days.
Church and Sunday School services were discontinued and all
other activities in the town
ceased until the blaze was extinguished.
Occupants of the several apartments found places to stay in
other parts of town. Miss Steward
will continue to occupy the lower
floor of the hotel until repairs
and restoration is accomplished.
From the May 3, 1940 Silverton
Standard & the Miner:
NEW MILL NEARS
COMPLETION.
A crew of six men is placing
new machinery and completing
construction work for the new
100-ton mill. It is thought the
property will be ready for production as soon as filters are received
from the factory, within about a
month.
From the May 6, 1960 Silverton
Standard & the Miner:
DAN GALLEGOS
RETIRES AT IDARADO.
Dan Gallegos, with a lump in
his throat from emotion, still
with great pride, told the
Standard editor this week that
he had put in his last shift at
the Idarado Mine and was retiring. Dan held the position of
general track superintendent at
this great Colorado mine for
eight years.
In recounting his years of
employment, he named on one
hand the jobs he had held during
his nearly fifty years of continuous employment.
His first job was with the
D&RGW in 1912, a position he
held until 1917. This was in the
Antonito area. Next six years
Dan worked for CFI at the quarry at Calcite. He returned for
another long period of employment with the railroad. In 1933
he came to Silverton and immediately obtained employment at
the Mayflower as track man, a
business he knew from A to Z.
He was at that place until
1952 when he went to the
Treasury Tunnel of the Idarado
mine. His last shift was April
29th.
Late snowstorms in the San
Juans delayed the arrival of the
season’s first passenger train by
one day last weekend. When the
rain did arrive on Sunday, about a
dozen locals were on hand in full
wild west regalia to greet the passengers. Within an hour, though,
another snowstorm was sweeping
the streets clear of strollers and
the train soon headed back to
Durango. …
Silverton residents often resent
the town’s reputation as remote,
snowbound and inaccessible. “It’s
not really like that!” they insist.
But sometimes it really is. The
recent storms, following a mild
winter, were just a little
reminders.
25 years ago
May 4, 1989
Connie Fielding, Donna
Perino and Dennis Norton were
sworn in as members of the
Silverton board of education
Tuesday night. Fielding and
Norton replace Bobby Gallegos
and Larry Raab, who decided not
to run for re-election. Perino was
an incumbent in the position.
Although there are nearly 100
entries in already, Chamber of
Commerce Photo Contest coordinator Scott Fetchenhier says to
keep them coming.
30 Years Ago
May 3, 1984
The way was cleared for
Standard Metals to continue
operating the Sunnyside mine at
a brief hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy
Court in Denver Friday.
Sheriff’s blotter: April 11 —
Assisted the Colorado State Patrol
with a five vehicle accident at
Gladstone. Received a report from
Ernie Kuhlman about shots that
had been fired at a county cat
parked two miles north of
Silverton.
40 Years Ago
May 9, 1974
The following students were
the winners on the “Safety Bug”
contest for posters and creative
writing sponsored by the
Silverton Women’s Club.
First grade: 10 Chris
Gallegos, 20 Damon Livermore,
30 Jaryce Romero; second grade:
no entries; third grade: 1) Chris
Luther, 2) Chester Smith, 3)
David Zanoni.
Fourth grade: 1) Kenny
Gallegos; 2) Tony Maddox, 3)
Stella Lovato; fifth grade: 1)
Marlene Romero, 2) Ruben
Lucero, 3) Geri Swanson; sixth
grade: 1) Kim Puckett, 2) Leslie
Gallegos, 3) Dione Zanoni.