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An irrigation district, founded in 1904, serving the Orchard Mesa area of Mesa County, Colorado. it administers the Orchard Mesa Irrigation District Canal, which provides water to East Orchard Mesa and the Vinelands area of Palisade. The canal takes water from the Grand Valley Diversion Dam in De Beque Canyon. According to oral history interviewee Virgil Hickman, the district began providing customers water on a pro-rated basis beginning around 1940....
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A district that began in 1883, shortly after the formation of Mesa County from territory that had previously belonged to Gunnison County. Previous to the official creation of the district, the first school board was elected on June 1, 1882, before the Grand Junction City Government had even been elected. Harrison Edward Stroud, W.M. McKelvey, and O.D. Russell were members of the first board. Stroud served as the superintendent of schools (1881).
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A utility service that generates distributes and sells electricity in Colorado. Currently, it's a subsidiary of Xcel Energy.
According to William "Bill" Rump, his father Charles Rump served as the local manager in the 1920's or 1930's. According to longtime employee Robert Gustafson, the company consisted of different divisions organized by region. By 1945, when Gustafson was office manager of the Grand Junction division (formed in the late 1920’s...
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A bank founded in 1905. At the time of its inception, J.J. Durkee was the bank president and Herman W. Kluge was a bank director. T.W. Bowman became president of the bank in 1910, shortly after the institution had constructed a new building on Main Street and was in danger of insolvency. He helped keep the bank solvent and remained the president until 1942.
According to oral history interviewee Luella Morgan, who worked for the Producers Exchange...
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The Mesa County Valley School District 51 was formed on November 27, 1950 from sixteen smaller school districts in Mesa County. These smaller districts, in turn, had formed as the result of prior consolidations. With the exception of De Beque and Plateau Valley, which formed their own school districts, every geographical area in the county became part of District 51. The District elected its first school board and appointed its first superintendent,...
