50 YEARS AGO

February 10, 1972 – “I’ve told you a hundred times that the city will not be blackmailed with that piddly piece of land.” So said Frank Woodrow, Ouray city attorney, at last Monday’s four-hour council meeting. Roland Hinkson wants to build a housing subdivision and trailer park north of town on property that he owns west of the Uncompahgre River. Hinkson owns the Pontiac Mill site parcel, including a short stretch of the old Denver, Rio Grande and Western Railroad right...