People

: Arthur J. Tufly; He was born in Iowa in 1888. When he was thirteen years old, his father traded their farm in Iowa for a farm in the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado. Tufly attended the Lobeck school and commuted via the Interurban to Grand Junction for high school, which he did not finish. He wanted to become a cowboy, but his father told him that he would be disowned if he did so. Instead, he began working on Hollis Tyler’s farm at the age of 17. He married Tyler’s daughter, Salome (Tyler) Tufly, in 1908. He farmed sugar beets, oats, alfalfa and other crops. He worked odd jobs in the Winter, including hauling hay to people’s homes.

: Arthur Mazzuca; He frequented the Biltmore gambling club on Grand Junction, Colorado’s Main Street. There, he witnessed the death of J.W. “Big Kid” Eames, owner of the Biltmore, at the hands of armed robbers.

: Arthur Merle Echternach; He was born to John A. Echternach and Mary (Farquharson) Echternach in Gueda Springs, Kansas. He went to college in Winfield, Kansas in 1905, when he was 21. He took a job with a land company in Winfield in 1906. His work took him to Palisade, Colorado, where he lived in a boarding house and did a little real estate trading as a sideline. After his parents moved to Palisade in 1909, he and his brother Roy were given 20 acres of land in nearby Green River, Utah. Merle left the land company and joined the National Bank in Palisade. He began renting a home in Palisade in 1909 but went to move with his family when his parents built a home on their orchard land that same year. He was elected Mayor of Palisade in 1909 on the Prohibition ticket. The rules of being a mayor stipulated that he had to sleep within city limits, so he took his meals with his family and slept in the bank. He did not run for reelection. He married a woman named Emma in the spring of 1913. They had a daughter named Dorothy. They moved to Casper, Wyoming. Eventually, he and his family traded the Green River orchard for a ranch in Weisner, Idaho. When the family sold that ranch, he moved to Seattle and worked in import/export. He returned to Palisade and became secretary of both the school and ditch boards. He became Secretary-Treasurer of the United Fruit Growers Association, a group he helped to form, in 1920, and held the job until he retired. He became a widower in 1960.

: Arthur Reed Lloyd; He was born in Wales and came to Palisade, Colorado in the 1900’s. He built a ranch house on his land in addition to the adobe building that existed when he purchased the place. He raised Grimes Golden apples and worked in the Palisade Mine for a time. He would often bring home presents for his wife, such as a double-boiler. He also brought home an organ which was eventually replaced with a piano.

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