Real estate appraisal card. 319 E. Sackett Avenue, part of lots 8 & 9, block 2, in Salida, Colorado.
This house was built between 1882 and 1886. At the time of the 1910 Census, this was the home of Ulysses and Cora Banks and their three sons. Banks was identified as a car repairer with the railroad and the couple were indicated as owners of the residence. Their oldest son, who was fourteen years old, worked as a wood hauler. Mr. Banks was born in Seymour, Indiana, on 27 March 1864; he married Cora Jacobs, a Kentucky native, when he was twenty years old. The Banks were still living at this address in August 1913, when Mr. Banks died following an accident in the railroad yard. While working with a steam shovel, a cable swept Banks off the top of a freight car and under the trucks of a passing train. Both of his feet were mangled and his legs were amputated below the knees at the Rio Grande Hospital. He died from the strain and shock seven hours after the accident.
A number of Hispanic families lived in this house over the next several decades. In 1922, Mrs. Pauline Cordova and Mrs. Martha Lavato lived here; neither listed an occupation. In 1931, Michael Viallal resided in this house. He was a laborer for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. Joe B. and Ruth Giron (Jiron?) were listed at this address in the 1951 and 1965 city directories. In 1951, Mr. Giron was a miner with the Flourspar Mining Company; by 1965, he worked for the Monarch Quarry. The Girons had three children living with them in 1965. According to an old appraisal card for the property, Angelo Mehos was a former owner.
