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-18- <br />In 1915, Dinosaur National Monument was created along the <br />~• Green River in Utah and e:cpanded into Colorado to help protect <br />the great bone quarries that had beeli found. The scenic integrity <br />of the land was aaintained and Dinosaur Monument became one of <br />38 <br />the larger tourist attractions in the region. <br />One of the other "discoveries" in northwestern Colorado <br />was that of oil. As early as 1893, oil springs had been <br />located on Oil Creek and by 1902 the first major deep well, the <br />Poole Tdell, was brought in near Rangely. During the 1920's, <br />numerous oil fields were opened including Powder Wash, 6iawatha, <br />Thornburgh, the Iles field, the Moffat field and numerous <br />others. Along the Idhite River modest fields had been producing <br />since 1895. By 1930, new fields such as the Gossard, Axial, <br />Beaver Creek, Sage Creek, Two Creek, Deep Creek, Elk Springs, <br />39 <br />ar.d Snake River fields were producing on a moderate scale. <br />One of the last commercial developments in the northwest <br />was on the agricultural front. As early as 1906, a homestead <br />community had been tried along the Little Snake River. It <br />was called Sdantland and had been developed by an irrigation <br />company under contract from the State of Colorado. At one <br />point there were some 600 people living at ldantland, but by <br />1915, the place 'n ad been abandoned. Irrigation ditches and <br />tunnels were popular during the early 1900's. In 1906, Che <br />Duffy Mountain Tunnel was built to divert the Yampa River. <br />While this was a small private effort, it proved that diversion <br />was practicable. In 1911, the Great Northern Irrigation and <br />- Power Company contracted with the Slate of Colorado to reclaim <br />