Pictured here is Great Divide, which was located about 15 miles north of Craig. A partially completed hotel, a post office, mercantile and stacks of new lumber all proclaim that this is a town site that is going to grow. Even the community dump, at far right, is off to a good start. Despite the promoter’s claims that this would be the agricultural center of Northwest Colorado, the small community of homesteaders withered with the return of normal dry years.
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Question of the week
News this week showed snowpack in the Yampa River basin has reached 94 percent of median for the date. Do you think Moffat County is out of the woods as far as drought concerns?
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