Column by Hal Walter
Pack-Burro Racing – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Some jackasses never go away. Just ask the folks in Buena Vista, where the third leg of the Triple Crown of pack-burro racing is about to resume after a three-year hiatus.
Article by Lynda La Rocca
Local Winery – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
In vino veritas. In wine, there is truth. And in Salida, there’s truly good wine, thanks to Mountain Spirit Winery, Ltd., one of the region’s newest enterprises.
Sidebar by Martha Quillen
Salida Plan – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
The revised plan has policies, but no actions; the city plans to store the actions in a drawer for future use. However, the policies are hard to interpret without the actions, as with this example:
POLICY: Improve the quality of industrial development and lessen the impact on surrounding land uses.
Sidebar by Martha Quillen
Salida Master Plan – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
The wordy water depletion analysis and other water information included in the Salida Comprehensive Plan may make sense to an engineer, but it doesn’t make decisions easy for citizens and civil servants.
Review by Martha Quillen
Salida – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
City of Salida Comprehensive Plan
Prepared for: Salida City Council
Salida Planning & Zoning Board
Volunteers Planning Committee
Citizens of Salida, Colorado
prepared by: Leland Consulting Group
HOH Associates, Inc. & Gorsuch Kirgis
Review by Ed Quillen
Mountain Life – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Up at Altitude – A Celebration of Life in the High Country
by M. John Fayhee
Published in 1994 by Johnson Books
ISBN 1-55566-134-3
Review by Ed Quillen
Water – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Animas-La Plata
A video from Western Colorado Congress
P.O. Box 2461
Durango CO 81302
970-259-3583
Article by Lynda La Rocca
Local Artist – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
When Ursula Gilgulin is piloting an airplane past the highest peaks of the Upper Arkansas Valley, she often studies the vales below and envisions–her next painting.
Sidebar by Christina Nealson
Forests – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Smoke pours over the Sangre de Cristos, following the route I rode on my horse six weeks ago…winding up Cotton Creek Canyon on the west, into Horse Thief Basin, traversing to the top of Three Step Pass, up and over into south Brush Creek drainage on the east side…where the smoke fans and makes white the deep green forest.
Article by George Sibley
Forests – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
In July of 1994, fourteen firefighters burned to death while fighting a wildfire in scrub oak, piñon pine, and juniper on U.S. Bureau of Land Management terrain along Interstate 70, seven miles west of Glenwood Springs. Within hours of that terrible event, an “interagency team” with representatives from the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Forest Service (USFS), and the National Weather Service, had assembled to investigate the event. Their report came out last year with predictable findings.
Essay by Ellen Miller
Colorado politics – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
A lot of us would like to believe that the Rocky Mountain West is mostly rural, with people living in little towns or at most small cities. People would spend enough time in the sparsely populated regions so everybody would understand to some degree how the economics of rural survival happen.
Sidebar by Central Staff
Salt Works – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
The reputation of Lawyers in the Good Old Days
…the first and only salt works in Colorado. When these works were erected, in 1864, all the salt used in this whole western country had to be freighted in wagons from the Missouri river, 700 miles away, at a cost, for freight alone, of from four to 20 cents per pound. When the springs, near the works were discovered, they were thought to be very valuable, and no little contention arose as to the title. However, the first claims were settled and the business of salt making sprung up, and soon became very profitable. Then, as is too often the case in the west, litigation commenced between the owners, followed by injunction after injunction until all parties interested were impoverished. Meanwhile the railroads were advancing day by day, which meant cheap salt….We hear that it has been recently decided, now that the works are valueless, the litigants plucked, and the railroads have destroyed rich prospects. Moral: If you have a good business look out for, and keep out of the lawyers’ hands, they are hungry fellows always hunting a fat “grub stake.”
Sidebar by Ed Quillen
14 – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Why they used Salt to get Silver
Every account of the Salt Works mentions that rock salt was used
Sidebar by Ed Quillen
Salt Works – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Geologists say the salt of South Park has been there for a long time — since the Pennsylvanian Period of the Paleozoic Era about 300 million years ago.
Like today, Colorado then boasted two parallel north-south mountain ranges: Uncompahgria and Frontrangia. Unlike today, these mountains were islands in a vast sea.
Article by Dan Jennings
Pioneer industry – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Just north of the junction of Highways 285 and 24 at the base of Trout Creek Pass is a treasure trove of Central Colorado history, the Salt Works Ranch, owned by one family since it was founded in the early 1860s.
Brief by Central Staff
Politics – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Curtis Imrie, who raises and races burros hereabouts, won’t be. He didn’t enough votes at the convention in Pueblo to get on the primary ballot.
Al Gurule, who serves on the Pueblo City Council, got the Democratic nomination, and he’ll oppose incumbent Republican Scott McInnis in the November general election.
Brief by Central Staff
Transportation – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
‘Tis the summer driving season, and there’s a site on the Internet with a state-by-state list of alleged speed traps.
You may not be surprised to learn that Colorado has its share, and so we thought we’d pass along the pertinent reports.
Brief by Hal Walter
Climate – July 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Wet Mountain Valley ain’t so wet this summer
This summer the Wet Mountain Valley and surrounding ranges just aren’t wet at all. In fact they’re drier than a Baptist wedding.
