Organizations

: Clifton Lions Club (Clifton, Colorado); The club was organized in 1939 out of a feeling, said founding member Oscar Jaynes, “that the community needed somebody to help with community projects.” After a Mrs. Babock perished in a house fire in February 1941, the club decided to advocate for the creation of fire protection district. They sponsored the founding of the Clifton Volunteer Fire Department by collecting items for a rummage sale, raising $300. In the 1960’s, they provided the funding and labor for the renovation of the Clifton Public Library, which was then located in the Odd Fellows Building at 201 2nd Street. They still fund local causes and promote volunteerism.

: Clinton Insurance Agency (Palisade, Colorado); An insurance agency begun by Claude Montague Clinton of Palisade, Colorado during the 1930’s. According to his wife and oral history interviewee Alice Clinton, Claude did not make enough money from the agency to quit fruit farming at first. Alice worked as a bookkeeper for the agency. Their son Keith Clinton later took over the agency, with his wife Ramona taking over the bookkeeping when Alice no longer could do the work. The agency was open at least into the 1990’s.

: Club 20 (Colorado); A club founded in 1953 in order to represent the interests of Colorado’s Western Slope. Preston Walker, son of Daily Sentinel publisher and Democratic Party member Walter Walker, was a founding member. It is an organization of counties, businesses, communities, individuals, and tribes in Western Colorado.

: Clyde and the Milltailers; Clyde and the Milltailers is an Americana and folk adjacent trio that has featured a rotating line up of musicians since it's formation in 2016. The songwriting and style is heavily influenced by early American swing, folk, and Appalachian old time music. The Project’s core songwriter, Clyde, who also performs solo under “Clyde of the Milltailers,” started writing songs while traveling in his youth. The band name is a reference to the uranium mill tailings that were used for sidewalks and house foundations in his hometown of Grand Junction, Colorado. The first group recorded their first full length, self-titled album in 2016, and the five song EP “.root.” a year later with Taylor Riley of Fusion Audio Solutions. Both albums feature album art by Lindsay Falsone and are available though most streaming platforms. The most recent lineup is currently based out of Portland Oregon and features members of the Bridge City Sinners, King Strang and Lightnin' Luke and the Downpour.

: Colchester Gold & Copper Mining & Milling Company; Office located in Colchester, Ill., mine office located in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. M.E. Foster, president. Organized May 1908 under laws of Colorado, with capitalization $500,000.00. Lands: 4 claims and a tunnel site, unpatented, area 200 acres, on Cleora Mountain, northeast of Salida. Development includes a 40 foot incline shaft and a 165 foot vertical shaft left by former owners, also new tunnels of 55 feet and 110 feet. Property shows ore giving assays of $10 to $63 per ton in gross values from copper, gold, and silver.

: Colescott Brothers (Grand Junction, Colorado); According to Richard “Dick” Williams, who worked for the company in the 1920’s, the Colescott Brothers delivered ice that was produced in an ice plant by the Public Service Company. Colescott Brothers had the contract to deliver the ice to people in Grand Junction and Mesa County. As deliverymen drove through alleyways, people who wanted ice would come out to buy it. Children would often follow the truck and grab pieces of ice that had fallen. Other routes went to Palisade and to rural areas. They operated in the 1920’s and perhaps earlier. It was owned by Hugh and Bob Colescott.

: Collbran Congregational Church (Collbran, Colorado); The Collbran Congregational Church was founded sometime before its first building was constructed in 1902. According to Sunday school teacher loudene Humeston, the church was dedicated on May 17th, 1903. As of 1980, they had a Sunday School with roughly 15 students enrolled.

: Collbran Orchestra (Collbran, Colorado); A rather informal collection of musicians (drums, saxophone, piano, violin, and slide-trombone) who provided music for fortnightly, box social dances in Plateau Valley in the early 1900's. It included Ben Pitts on slide-trombone.

: Colman Freight Service (Grand Junction, Colorado); A trucking line that was owned by Robert Colman during the 1930’s and possibly later. It’s garage was located on Colorado Avenue in what had been the Peerless Garage. Homer Colman, younger brother of Robert, reports in his oral history interview that the company hauled general freight. They ran from Denver to Grand Junction and stopped at small towns in between.

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