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- Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company
- The Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company operated the smelter from 1902 until 1920. The company expanded, building smokestacks ever higher to carry away noxious gases. The last remaining stack was constructed in 1917 and was the tallest at 365 feet high. The tall brick smokestack just west of Salida is the most visible reminder of the smelting industry that once employed thousands of workers most of whom lived nearby in Smeltertown.
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- Orchard Mesa Irrigation District (Mesa County, Colorado)
- An irrigation district, founded in 1904, serving the Orchard Mesa area of Mesa County, Colorado. it administers the Orchard Mesa Irrigation District Canal, which provides water to East Orchard Mesa and the Vinelands area of Palisade. The canal takes water from the Grand Valley Diversion Dam in De Beque Canyon. According to oral history interviewee Virgil Hickman, the district began providing customers water on a pro-rated basis beginning around 1940.
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- Orchard Mesa Lions Club (Mesa County, Colorado)
- A Lions Club, based in the Orchard Mesa area of Mesa County, which has served the population of Orchard Mesa and the county since its incorporation in 1971. Founding members include Mesa County Oral History interviewee Dale Luke. In order to fund their charities, they worked the concession stand at the Mesa County Fairgrounds (then Uranium Downs) with the Fruitvale and Redlands Lions (collectively known as the Tri-Lions) during the 1980’s. They continue to volunteer in the community and to support several charities, including: Lions Club International Foundation Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute Colorado Lions Foundation Operation Interdependence Orchard Mesa Little League Colorado Mesa University Scholarship Science & Mathematics Center Hospice and Palliative Center Leader Dogs for the Blind Collbran Job Corp Colorado State KidSight Latimer House Center for Enrichment Tree House Salvation Army (Food & Red Kettle Collection) Roice-Hurst Animal Shelter Orchard Mesa Schools Mesa County 4-H Projects