Organizations

: Tri River Area CSU Extension (Colorado); The combined agricultural extension service for Delta, Mesa, Montrose, and Ouray Counties. The service is administered and maintained by Colorado State University Extension. It aids farmers with all kinds of agricultural issues. Originally, each county had its own extension services under the auspices of CSU. According to Richard "Dick" Woodfin, the agricultural agent for Mesa County from 1945 to 1963, the county began its extension service in 1914. Woodfin lists the first agricultural agents for the county as: W.H. Harrison - January 1, 1914 to December 31, 1915 L.P. McCann - June 1, 1919 to August 15, 1924 Ben H. King - August 16, 1924 to June 30, 1927 W.H. Lauck - July 1, 1927 to November 1, 1930 J.C. Foster - November 1, 1930 to August 20, 1934 W.E. Martin - August 21, 1934 to April 30, 1935 C.D. Leonard - May 1, 1935 to June 15, 1935 H.D. Finch - June 16, 1935 to August 30, 1941 Carl G. Davis - September 1, 1941 to November 30, 1945 Richard Woodfin - May 1, 1946 to January 10, 1963 Woodfin recalls that he helped local farmers with many issues, including low crop yields due to the excessive use of irrigation water, and a high water table that leads to high alkali content in the soil. Today, the Tri River Area also administers 4H programs, combats harmful insects, helps to maintain soil health, and holds Master Gardener courses.

: Tri-Y (Grand Junction, Colorado); A Grand Junction High School organization for girls founded in 1920. It was advised by Josephine Biggs, former secretary for the Young Women’s Christian Association, and came out of Biggs’s efforts to begin a YWCA chapter in Grand Junction. Founding members included the Pollard twins, the Hotchkiss twins, and Buffy Copeland.

: Tupper, Smith and Holmes, Attorneys at Law (Grand Junction, Colorado); A former law firm in Grand Junction, Colorado.

: Twentieth Century Club (Grand Junction, Colorado); A women’s club begun by Harriette (Dyke) Ottman, who had moved to the Pomona area from the Midwest by 1900. Lucy (Ferril) Ela states that the club began around 1901. It disbanded after a short time and several members later became members of the Reviewers Club. While professor Don MacKendrick maintains in his lecture on Grand Junction's cultural history that the Twentieth Century Club assisted in the creation of the Grand Junction Public Library, it was the Twentieth Century Club's predecessor, the Grand Junction Women's Club, who instead had a hand in forming the library association in 1894, and that later begat the first library building in 1898.

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