The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

Aug. 4, 1917: Taos, N.M. — Taos, with its two famous prehistoric Indian pueblos, its widely known artists’ colony and its undeveloped wealth of copper, gold and silver mines, is to have another banking institution. The First National Bank of Taos was duly organized and incorporated under the national bank act this week with a start-up capital stock of $25,000.00.

At a stockholders’ meeting held last Tuesday in Attorney F.T. Cheetham’s law office, the five following directors were unanimously elected: Alexander Gusdorf of Taos; J.W. Rhoades of Carson; Arthur M. Richardson, recently from Altoona, Kansas; Rev. Isaac W. Dwire of the Taos Pueblo Indian school and Charles Craig of El Prado.

Aug. 4, 1967: “Unless six math teachers walk in my door this afternoon,” Santa Fe Schools may have to resort to what other systems are planning, says Sept. C.C.

Capshaw will start classes Aug. 28 with substitutes in math and other areas that can’t be filled.

“I don’t,” he added, “expect them to walk in before five o’clock.”

On the other hand, just because the system is still 14 teachers short of the 448 needed — including five math teachers at Mid High and one at DeVargas — doesn’t mean it will have to cut classes.

Aug. 4, 1992: The New Mexico Public Service Commission decided Monday to allow the state’s largest electric utility to resume survey and other work on a proposed power line in the Jemez Mountains that has not yet been approved.

In a six-page order, the threemember commission rules that the work, undertaken by the Public Service Company of New Mexico on its controversial Ojo Line Extension project, can proceed because it would not permanently damage the environment.