Organizations

: Mesa Flour Mills (Grand Junction, Colorado); A large business in the early Twentieth century. It milled wheat that farmers produced locally. According to oral history interviewee John Brach, whose family farmed wheat near Loma, it operated during the same time period as the rival Juanita Flour Mill. It purchased wheat at the market rate, milled it, and sold back flour at the market rate. According to oral history interviewee Gladys Gross, it was purchased by Colorado Milling and Elevator Company, who gradually phased out business, presumably as farmers planted less wheat around the valley. The mill itself was located somewhere downtown… probably near South Avenue.

: Mesa School District 9 (Town of Mesa, Mesa County, Colorado); An early school district that preceded the consolidation of districts and the formation of Plateau Valley School District 50 and Mesa County Valley School District 51. It administered the Mesa School.

: Methodist Church (Loma, Colorado); According to the book The Church that Stayed by Virginia Donoho, The Methodist Church in Loma was founded in 1909 with a church building being constructed in 1913. Longtime resident Gertrude Rader moved to Loma around 1920 and became an active member of the church and of the affiliated Ladies Aid Society. The Church seems to have met in the houses of members, at least for a time, and to have had guest ministers. A popular minister was James Baggs Davis, a YMCA-affiliated minister who traveled to Loma to hold services. The Ladies Aid organization raised money for charities by selling dinners for 25 cents to tenant farmers and other people in the community.

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