Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
50 Years Ago, January 17, 1974 - Owner Russell Tracy said Wednesday he expects the new building which will house Tracy Motor Co. to be completed sometime in February. The building, shown above, is located just east of Sundance on U. S. 14. Construction of the 14,000 square foot building was started last spring. The building site contains 5-6 acres. Tracy said such finish work as air and water lines, light fixtures and assembly of parts display tables remains to be completed.
100 Years Ago
January 17, 1924
All stages out of Sundance reverted to sleds Friday. There was nearly a foot of snow which had drifted badly. The weather cleared up Sunday morning and roads are open again.
School News: Contests were given by algebra class. Lillian Stanton won in the girls' contest and Mandron Sterns and Fred Vines won in the boys' contest. The freshman algebra class was defeated by the sophomore class (last year's algebra class) 25-20. The general science class is making astronomical observations this week. The boys on the basketball team took books to study from while on the trip.
75 Years Ago
January 20, 1949
Possibly one of the greatest business casualties of the great snowstorm of 1949 is the forced shutdown of almost all logging operations throughout the country. Since only a limited production of lumber is on hand, practically every sawmill has been shut down. Homestake Co. is still working. Hart Bros. Lumber and Hardware Co. in Sundance has laid off twenty-five men. All highways entering Sundance were temporarily blocked by a third sudden snow fall, accompanied by relatively high winds sub-zero temperatures, January 16.
The snow isolated village of Tinton, on the S. D.-Wyo. line in the high rugged area of the Black Hills, was reached early Tuesday morning of last week by snowplows after two days of road clearing. Supplies for the town's 33 residents, almost completely out of food, came behind the snowplows in a Black Hills Power and Light Co. power wagon. The little town, lying on the Wyoming border, had been cut completely off from the surrounding territory following last week's blizzard. Attempts to drop food from planes had failed because the pilots were unable to safely fly close to the ground. A power wagon of the Black Hills Power and Light Co. was ordered Monday to follow a Lawrence County highway department caterpillar tractor driven by Paul Badger of Spearfish. They took the Spearfish and Beaver Creek Road and reached the village early Tuesday morning after the caterpillar had exhausted its fuel supply about two miles from Tinton. The town had been reached about 11 o'clock Monday evening by a county highway crew which plowed uphill for about 12 miles from Savoy in Spearfish Canyon.
