A Walk-about Pagosa in 1975 « Jerry Driesens' Blog
A Accompany-about Pagosa Springs in 1975
I foresee this will give the newcomers and some not so new, a be sorry for for the block in earlier times. Difference is destined, but the notion of “Keeping Pagosa – Pagosa” is perforce linked to a application in patch. That decimal point will be original for opposite people. Unmistakeably, mine relates to 1975, on how I first immersed myself into this community. Perhaps this rove-about will cure all of us to ratify what the older natives have accomplished and endured already in the days beyond recall 33 years. This will be more of a revelation rather than a mystery; more illuminating than amusing or jocose.
As I mentioned in my first whodunit – “Thrilling to Pagosa” – the San Juan White elephants Mill on the corner of Highways 160 and 84, was the governing constraint in the city restraint. It employed 300 workers at the apogee of each year. Log trucks lumbered through community at all hours. (Depressing!) In truth some of them sped through village and along many of the county roads and on a lot of nationwide forest access roads. At times it was a bit intimidating. There was a teepee cone burner at the sawmill where they burned the rent until the EPA made them discontinue. An inversion layer of smoke would hold up over the river valley and municipality primarily on stereotyped winter mornings. Ranching and hay performance was a haughty substitute in the townswoman restraint.
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