Yesterday’s shindig at the Quillen’s in Salida was a hoot. The conversation ranged from George E. Ohr (1857-1918), of Biloxi , Mississippi whose break with traditions in potting earned him the moniker, The Mad Potter of Biloxi, to the legitimacy of unelected quasi-governmental water conservancy district boards.
Ed told me that Mike Rosso’s job — Rosso is the owner and publisher of Colorado Central Magazine — was to get the writers to the party. Ed’s role was to invite, “all the old Salida hippies.” The San Luis Valley was well represented as well.
Earlier in the week I was the guest of the Water Supply and Storage Company on a tour of their transmountain facilities. They operate both the Grand River Ditch and the Laramie-Poudre Tunnel. Those projects bring water into the South Platte Basin via the Poudre River. The WSSC representative said that it takes 1100 acre-feet a day to run the system.
