Back in Time | Aspen

“Back in Time” is contributed by Aspen Historical Society and features excerpted articles and images from past Snowmass Sun/Aspen Times issues. We can’t rewrite history, but we can learn from it! Visit archiveaspen.org to view the vast Aspen Times photographic collection in the AHS Archives.

“Why does some enterprising man not harvest the great crop of piñon nuts that grow on the Roaring Fork?” the Aspen Daily Times questioned on Sept. 29, 1885. “There is a good-sized fortune for the man who will gather them and ship them East. Very few nuts have a better flavor, and if once introduced on the Eastern markets, they would sell like wildfire. The crop in the valley this year is immense. Wild hops abound in the Roaring Fork Valley and are as good as the best hops raised. It is too late to gather them this year, as they are nipped by the frost, but another year a dozen men could line their pockets with silver dollars by gathering them.” 

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