“Activity at Independence,” stated a headline in The Aspen Times on July 30, 1881. “On Sunday last, nearly all the male inhabitants of Independence were employed by the Farwell mining company working on the Twin.
“Independence Pass soon open to traffic,” announced the Aspen Times on June 22, 1928. “Motorists can now roll over the ‘top of the world’ via Independence Pass, passageway having been cut thru the various snowslides and the road made passable by the road crew up to the top and down to Mountain Boy Park, the Lake County crew coming up to the Park from the other side.