Camp Stewart

 

Information comes from Treasured Tidbits of Time Volume I by Jens Patrick Wilde

 

In the spring of 1910 construction was underway on the Telluride canal.  It was an especially bad year of heavy snow and a rapid run off.  Over 1000 head of sheep were killed by drowning near Cokeville.

When the high flow hit the Dingle area, it gorged up and had to be repeatedly cleared.  D C Stewart was in charge of the crews that did the dynamiting.  They were successful in keeping the waters in the channel of Bear River and not in the canal entrance.  After that it was called Camp Stewart.

 

Return to Communities Index