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...clothesline down five or six miles of four-lane mainstreet, motels and chain store steak restaurants dangling off the side, was the journey's nadir. Planted in the middle of nowhere--away from the mountains, on the edge of the desert--its only excuse was the conflation of the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers. Like my automobile, the town itself is an escape hatch. Nothing strange penetrates past the jacked-up cars in which everyone cruises...
Colorado's Fruitland Mesa. The $127.9 million dam across the Gunnison River would have stored water, from three creeks flowing into it, in the west-central part of the state. But only 69 landowners now farm the affected area, and the Government's investment would have been about $1.2 million for each family...
Some of the works on Carter's list appear to be more vulnerable than others. The Fruitland Mesa Dam in west-central Colorado, for instance, is designed in part to irrigate 11,940 acres and provide supplemental water for another 6,310 by damming the Gunnison River. The most direct beneficiaries of the $87 million project would be some 60 farms and ranches. In effect, these would be heavily subsidized by the Government, since they are expected to pay back only $3.8 million. (About 84% of the project's total cost would be reimbursed by fees charged...
...shooting a 49-year-old grocer to death. Startling accidents happen, especially around inexperienced gun handlers. A Detroit man heard footsteps in his home, saw the knob of his bedroom door open slowly, leveled his bedside pistol?and fatally drilled his three-year-old daughter through the head. In Gunnison, Colo., Robert Delaney was riding along a dirt road on a motorbike when a shot rang out. His 15-year-old son Kirk, following on another motorbike, tumbled to the ground dead. Then his ten-year-old son was killed. Down the road, Delaney found a middle-aged hunter with...
...uranium. Coursing through the entire region-from Wyoming to Utah and Colorado, on to Arizona, New Mexico and California-is one of the greatest of U.S. river systems. Starting as a trickle in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River sweeps south and west to absorb such tributaries as the Gunnison River, the Roaring Fork and the Frying Pan, until, after a passage of 1,400 miles, it empties with a gout of reddish, mineral-stained water into the Gulf of California...