Congor Mesa, Routt County
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"The Martin Schomers ranch, as it looked in December of 1919. It was the twenty-fifth of April before this snow was all gone." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 263
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"No doubt, quite a number of ranchers still living will remember that Grandaddy of all winters, 1919-1920 when stockmen were forced to start feeding hay a month earlier than usual and only a very few had enough feed to see their stock through the winter and a late, late Spring. Several cattlemen of the McCoy area were out of hay before the first of April, when there was still from twelve to thirty inches of snow on the ground. Rather than seeing their...
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A team of horses (Bill and Tom) pulling a sled of wood in the canyon above Black Mountain Ranch, 1928. Cabins visible in background.
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The John Ambos homestead on Congor Mesa, March 20, 2008 (looking northeast).
"The Ambos ranch buildings on Conger Mesa in 1907. John Schiller, a Yampa carpenter, did the finishing work on the house after the logs were laid up. Members of the Ambos family lived here until 1919. Among others who occupied it after that date were: the Warren Henry and Hugh Norman families; Shorty Anderson and his son-in-law, Patscheck. Charley and Mildred Cock were...
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The John Ambos Ranch on Congor Mesa in the foreground with the Martin Schomers Ranch in the background.
Martin Schomers was among the last to homestead on the Congor Mesa. "Schomers died of tick fever in May of 1940 after being ill only a short time. The children fell heir to his property but since two were still minors, the estate was not settled until 1944. During the intervening time Darrell Ray, who was married to Helen Schomers in 1939, operated...
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Students and teacher at Conger Mesa School, December 1912.
From left, Marie Theisen, Ed Schrupp, Cecil Gray, Emma Theisen, Katherine Ebert, John Ambos, Mary Ebert, Kate Pound (teacher), Ethel Gray, Lena and Emma Schrupp.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
