Organizations

: Public Service Company (Colorado); A utility service that generates distributes and sells electricity in Colorado. Currently, it's a subsidiary of Xcel Energy. According to William "Bill" Rump, his father Charles Rump served as the local manager in the 1920's or 1930's. According to longtime employee Robert Gustafson, the company consisted of different divisions organized by region. By 1945, when Gustafson was office manager of the Grand Junction division (formed in the late 1920’s when it absorbed the Grand Junction Light and Power company), it covered New Castle, Silt, Rifle, Grand Valley, De Beque, Grand Junction, Palisade, and Fruita. The Public Service Company building was located at 3rd and Main Streets.

: Pullman Porter's Union; Formed in 1925 by Pullman Porters, who were African-American porters that worked for the railroad on sleeping cars. It was the first African-American labor union to succeed in brokering a collective bargaining agreement with a major corporation - a win that helped lay the foundation for the future Civil Rights Era.

: Purdy Mesa School District 4 (Mesa County, Colorado); An early school district, begun in 1883, in the Purdy Mesa area near Whitewater, Colorado. It was absorbed into Mesa County School District 51.

: Pyramid Copper Company (Mesa County, Colorado); A mining company with mines located in the Sinbad Valley area of Mesa County, Colorado.

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