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Marion Bowman talks about the origins of the Mesa County Peach Administrative Board, an elected body that helped establish fair peach pricing and advocated for the local peach industry. He discusses peach marketing, transportation, inspection, labor, and competition from other peach-growing regions. He recalls agricultural cooperatives involved in the marketing of area produce. Helen Bowman also contributes the occasional insight. The interview was...
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Ann Stokes talks about homesteading on East Orchard Mesa after her family moved to Mesa County, Colorado in 1904. She remembers her father working on the “fancy” masonry for the Grand Junction train station. She recalls living in a one-room log cabin and sharing that cabin with a horse for an evening. She speaks about the development of irrigation on East Orchard Mesa and her father’s peach orchard. She describes walking with her siblings four...