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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Mesa County Minerals.
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The large scar on the ridge south of the town of New Castle, near I-70 and the Colorado River, was the scene of three disastrous coal mine explosions that killed scores of miners over several years. The last blast was never extinguished and still smolders today.
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From the late 19th Century through the mid-20th Century, the development of Mesa County has been influenced by our ability to obtain natural resources from the ground. This presentation will cover a history of the different types of mining that occurred in the county.
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Anton Kline describes his life as a rancher, coal miner and artifact collector. He relates anecdotes about his father's saloon in Brooklyn and his hunting experiences.
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Clarence and Ruth Wheeler talk about early life in Columbine and Routt County, Colorado.
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Harry Sylvester Godby discusses his time spent working for and traveling with the Robinson Brothers Circus before moving to Grand Junction, Colorado. Harry also talks about his itinerant childhood moving from place to place, and the wide variety of jobs he worked throughout his life, including construction, mining, blacksmithing and potato farming, and how he was affected by the Great Depression. He shares his discovery of a large pile of boxes with...
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Join us in a brief investigation into Colorado’s mineral endowment and its heyday of extraction. This presentation by Peg Williams will focus on the origin, geographic extent and characteristics of the Colorado Mineral Belt, which hosts Colorado’s wealth of gold and silver resources. The discoveries of precious metals and the evolving methods of mining and processing the valuable ores are the stories that drove the early development and settlement...
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A photograph of Gio Oberto, around 1900, at the Nellie Mine, near Bear Creek, in Telluride, Colorado. Gio spent $30,000 to acquire this mine and ultimately lost the money. Nellie Mine was a gold mine.
Gio has number 5, on his pant cuff, in the photograph.
