"The upper part of the Conger Mesa, looking south-east and across Rock Creek Canyon, From Volcano Ridge. Taken in 1919, it shows the Ebert, Ambos, Johannbroer, Theisen, Abbett and a portion of the Schomers place on the extreme right. Before settlement, a well defined Ute Indian trail crossed over the Mesa from Egeria Park to the Blue River, by way of Yarmony Park. Notice the Crater before its exploitation by commerical interests." McCoy Memoirs, p.215
"Conger Mesa was named for John Conger, one of a party of three, who in 1890 settled a sagebrush tract in South Routt County, a few miles northeast of McCoy. The other two men were J. Baker and Xavier Benoit.
Conger and Baker made the necessary homestead improvements and received the patents for their claims but there is no record now in existence of the Benoit claim. ... They had no irrigation system which so many learned, to their sorrow, in Colorado's semi-arid land is a must. This was no doubt the reason that these early settlers chose to leave their homesteads and move on." --John Ambos in: McCoy Memories, p. 215-216
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.], Dupe 1992.004B.001
