Organizations

: Mesa Conservation District (Mesa County, Colorado); A soil conservation district that promotes good soil and irrigation practices in agriculture. According to Richard "Dick" Woodfin, who worked as an agricultural extension agent in Mesa County from 1946, the conservation district was set up by the agricultural extension service. The Conservation District has several ongoing projects, including its work in partnership with Mesa County Libraries on the Discovery Garden.

: Mesa County 4-H Clubs (Colorado); A local branch of the national organization that develops youth into leaders in the agricultural industry.

: Mesa County Abstract Company (Grand Junction, Colorado); A title company owned by Joseph Measures in the early Twentieth century. Measures became a local postmaster and sold the company to E.W. Reame in the 1920’s. Reame, in turn, sold the company to Richard Williams in 1943. Williams’s father, Orlo Williams, was an abstractor for the Independent Abstract Company. Richard consolidated the company with the Independent Abstract Company, which he already owned.

: Mesa County Department of Human Services; The Mesa County Department of Human Services, once known as the Mesa County Department of Public Welfare, has delivered several services to Mesa County residents since 1936. The department contains several units, including: Adult Protection, Child Welfare, and Fraud Investigation. According to oral history interviewee Helen (Young) Johnson, who, beginning in late 1940's, worked at the department for 20 years, the Public Welfare Department was once housed in the Mesa County Courthouse at 544 Rood Avenue. Its offices are now at 510 29 1/2 Road.

: Mesa County Farm Labor Association (Mesa County, Colorado); An organization created in 1945 to deal with the agricultural labor shortage in Mesa County. Oscar Winfield Jaynes Jr. was selected as its first head.

: Mesa County Medical Society (Mesa County, Colorado); An organization of doctors, hospitals, and health services in Mesa County. It was founded on July 23, 1903. According to Winifred Bull, Dr. Heman R. Bull's daughter, Dr. Bull received a call from the Colorado Medical Society encouraging him to found a local medical society. He initiated the society’s founding shortly after. A group of local physicians met in his office and established the organization. The first members were Bull, L.F. Ingersoll, A.G. Taylor, Knud Hanson, F.R. Smith, and H.R. Henderson. The Medical Society donated the first obstetrical delivery table to the Plateau Valley Hospital.

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