Bits and Pieces: Carver Family, by Marie Templeton and the Rimrocker Historical

Society: From and interview with Bill Carver.

Picture Credits: Bill Carver and Ken Bonner

Joe, my granddad, packed ore for Standard Chemical. He packed ore up across Third Park, that is where my dad and mother met, I guess, was there on Third Park. My grandmother was a Patterson. They had a homestead and freight station out on Third Park where the freighters stopped and stayed over night.

The freighters hauled ore from Uravan, which at that time was called the Joe Junior. It was the Standard Chemical Company’s mill. There wasn't a road up the river at that time. They hauled the concentrated ore up over Third Park and into Nucla. I have a big picture of old Joe coming with a string of mules right down by Morgan's and across Tuttle Draw.

They had a freight station down at Naturita and I think they packed that ore down there, then it went on freight wagons to Placerville. Joe might have packed some from the mines into the mill, too.

How did my mother and dad meet? Well, Bob packed ore too, I think that is where they met, he was probably helping Joe. She was out there on the Third Park, at her parent’s home, and he was packing ore.

They got married in Trinidad. It was a little coal-mining town down south, just a little ways from the New Mexico line. They still mine a lot of coal down there. Don't know how come they went down there and got married, but that the way it was.

In the August 10, 2000 edition of the Forum the picture label stated this was Tom Carver and his pack string, actually it is Joe Carver and his pack string. So we are running the picture again with the correct label.

Bob and Tye Carver