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LOOKING BACK
50 YEARS AGO
July 8, 1971 – It would cost $1 million, assuming today’s price estimates of $200,000 per mile, to rebuild the five-mile stretch of U.S. 550 from the swimming pool at Ouray on north to the cemetery. If current plans of the State Highway Department District Office are approved, and construction weren’t delayed too long, that is. Speaking at the public hearing June 30 at Ouray City Hall, Willard Croonenberghs, District 5 engineer, said there could be up to three years of dela...