Organizations

: Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company (Mesa County, Colorado); 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 Avenue until the tracks veered to the Southwest, out past Patterson Road and onto Fruita. Charles Rump, who also served as the head of Public Service at one point, headed the Railway Company for a time. When the Interurban was decommissioned in 1936, workers dismantled the rails, brought them to Grand Junction, and shipped them to a foundry in Pueblo.

: Grand Junction streetcar line (Grand Junction, Colorado); 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.

: Grand Mesa Little League (Grand Junction, Colorado); The Grand Mesa Little League was formed in 1963. Loyd Files and Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, who lived in a house on 23rd Street just south of North Avenue and east of the Lincoln Park golf course, decided to develop forty acres south of their home into what is now the Mesa Gardens subdivision. The area’s children had been playing baseball in the field and now had nowhere to play. Files, who owned the land between Grand Avenue and North Avenue, and between 28 ½ Road and 23rd Street, donated 10 acres to the east of the Armory at 482 28 Road to the children for baseball. It was then that the Grand Mesa Little League was formed. In 1974, Files traded that land for acreage on 28 ¾ Road, north of North Avenue, where Files Filed was established. The Grand Mesa Little League is still in existence and still utilizes Files Field.

: Grand Mesa Ski Club (Mesa County, Colorado); An organization of skiing enthusiasts that formed in Mesa County on the 1930's. The organization included Roy, Edith and Russel Sisac, who had previously owned and operated Mesa County's first ski area, the Mesa Lakes Ski Run. The Grand Mesa Ski Club founded the Mesa Creek Ski Area, which operated on the Grand Mesa between the 1940's and 1966, when Powderhorn Ski Area opened.

: Grand Valley Aircraft Association (Grand Junction, Colorado); An organization established by Loyd Files, Bill Eberhart, and Tom Wilson. The group sold Piper airplanes. Around this same time, Files built a small hangar and runway on land he had acquired along 28 Road between Grand Avenue and North Avenue. The organization later operated at Walker Field, where they sold planes and had a flying school.

: Grand Valley Drainage District; A drainage district organized by Ben Griffith and William Fry. It came into being with a bill passed by the Colorado State Congress in 1923. The Drainage District was created in order to prevent seep and the alkalization of irrigated waters and soils, thereby protected the Grand Valley's agricultural industry.

: Grand Valley National Bank (Grand Junction, Colorado); A bank organized in part by William J. Moyer, owner of the Fair Store. William Weiser, Moyer's nephew, served as the bank's president for 17 years, ending when the bank was closed by the Federal Government for insolvency, after a run on local banks subsequent to the election of Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency. The bank lost $100,000 in one day in 1933. It reopened as the First National Bank on January 2, 1934.

: Grand Valley Water Users Association (Mesa County, Colorado); An irrigation company begun in Mesa County, Colorado in 1882, and first known as the Grand River Ditch Company. It was then known as the Grand Valley Irrigation District until the 1930's.

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