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In a program of the Museums of Western Colorado, William McGuire and Charles Teed talk about the history of Mesa County's Interurban line, which transported people and produce between Grand junction and Fruita, with stops in between. They also discuss the history of the Uintah Railway. This recording is provided by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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In October 1980, he was a guest lecturer of the Museums of Western Colorado on the history of the Uintah Railway and the Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company (Interurban).
4) Charles Teed
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In October 1980, he was a guest lecturer of the Museums of Western Colorado on the history of the Uintah Railway and the Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company (Interurban).
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Marie Nowlan discusses the history of her family in Grand Junction, including her father’s employment as a conductor for the Interurban route, her brother Joey’s involvement as a player for and manager of the Grand Junction Baseball Team, and her memories of the Mesa County Fair. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Rufus Hirons talks about his education in Grand Junction schools, and about teachers and school district employees (including his father, Walter Hirons). He also touches on the Fruita to Grand Junction Interurban line, sheep ranching with his grandfather, and local Italian Americans. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical...
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He moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1909 after leaving Aspen, where he was a miner, for health reasons. Took a job as a conductor with the Rural Interurban Line run by the Grand River Valley Railway Company.
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Dudley Mitchell talks about the election campaigns of U.S. Representative Wayne Aspinall, and the campaign caravans they held in Western Colorado. Mitchell also discusses his work as the “ribbon candy expert” at the Miller Candy Factory in Grand Junction, the history of the Grand Valley’s Interurban line and the Grand Junction streetcar line, working at the Lyceum Theater on Main Street as a young man, and teenage escapades, such as causing...
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A streetcar system that was separate from the Interurban, and that ran within the city of Grand Junction. Its tracks made a figure eight formation through town, running from 2nd to 12th Street, and from South Avenue to Gunnison Avenue.
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Bill Rump talks about his father Charlie Rump and his roll in developing the Redlands in Mesa County, Colorado as a member of the Redlands Company and the Redlands Water and Power Company. He recounts the efforts of those companies in creating orchards and other agricultural enterprises on the Redlands. He speaks about the Redlands School, roads, sports, youth activities, and other aspects of life on the Redlands and in Grand Junction. He remembers...
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The Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company provided the Interurban streetcar route from Fruita to Grand Junction, Colorado. It was run by the Public Service Company. The line in Grand Junction ran from 3rd and Main Streets, where there was a platform behind the Public Service Company building, down Main Street to 2nd Street, down 2nd Street to South Avenue, on South Avenue to 12th Street, on 12th to North Avenue, and then on North...
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It was, perhaps, the first creamery in Mesa County. It was established around 1911. It initially served primarily to take cream cans to the Interurban depot and send them to a more distant creamery. According to oral history interviewee Emma (Berg) Nagel, the creation of the creamery displaced home-butter making and selling operations such as that run by her family in the Highpoint area.
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The Light and Power Company provided electricity to the Grand Valley in the early Twentieth Century. It also owned and operated the Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company, which ran the Interurban line between Fruita and Grand Junction, Colorado. The Light and Power Company was later purchased by the Public Service Company of Colorado. The Public Service Company was in turn a founding partner of Xcel Energy.
14) Orson Adams
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Orson Adams was a Utah rancher in the early 1880's, and an early resident of Grand Junction. He was the head cashier at the Mesa County State Bank, and eventually became the bank president. He was instrumental in establishing the Interurban line from Grand Junction to Fruita. He was convicted of embezzlement in [1913?] and sentenced to prison.
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Morgan Goss describes his days as a cowboy, including daily tasks on a ranch, driving cattle long distances and bull riding. He also talks about his dating and social life, Fruita’s Cowpuncher’s Reunion, riding the Interurban, and farming during the Depression Era. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society....
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Sisters Ana Mcginley and Mae Plunkett describe in detail their household life and childhood growing up on a homestead in the Hunter District of Mesa County, Colorado, with an account of household furnishings, chores, and leisure activities. They also talk about the growth of Grand Junction and of North Avenue as a main thoroughfare, time spent on the Colorado National Monument, Mesa County Fairs, and the Interurban rail line. The interview was conducted...
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Ted Winterburn talks about early rail transportation in the Grand Valley, including the Interurban line that connected Grand Junction and Fruita and the separate Grand Junction streetcar line that ran within the city. He also discusses the early history of the Grand Junction Lion's Club and people and places in Grand Junction’s history. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries...
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Lester Starr talks about going to swim in the Colorado River without adult supervision at five years old, about frequent fist fights with a fellow student on the way to school, and about other aspects of his early childhood near Fruita, Colorado. He also discusses raising apples for cider, about the role the Interurban played as transportation for both produce and people in the Grand Valley, and about the warming of winters over the course of his...
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Early Mesa County resident Asunta Violeta “Susie” Mendicelli remembers her time spent in Atchee, Colorado, Italian American life in Grand Junction, and taking the train and riding bicycles into Grand Junction, Colorado. She also discusses life in Italy, the process of making sausages and capocollo, relationships between immigrants in Mesa County, the usage of midwives during childbirth, and riding the Interurban Line between Grand Junction and...
20) Arthur J. Tufly
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He was born in Iowa in 1888. When he was thirteen years old, his father traded their farm in Iowa for a farm in the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado. Tufly attended the Lobeck school and commuted via the Interurban to Grand Junction for high school, which he did not finish. He wanted to become a cowboy, but his father told him that he would be disowned if he did so. Instead, he began working on Hollis Tyler’s farm at the age of 17. He married...
