Show Meeker Outstanding Example Of Western Community Culture MEEKER Colo Meeker Is Js known to everyone through studies of recorded history as the scene of the Meeker Massacre the final big Indian uprising Inthe in inthe the west Many easterners visualize visualize alize this far west country as wild woolly and dangerous There are still cowboys in this country the men who ride the range lands looking after alter cattle But Dut they tote guns only to protect protect protect pro pro- their charges from mountain lions and other predatory animals of the high country Too there is much land in this beautiful section of Colorado which has not been completely settled settled only only because it Jt is Js not considered to be productive and therefore is Js not worth the effort required to make it able to produce produce produce pro pro- duce crops Meeker lies at an altitude of feet fee above sea level and boasts a fine year all-year climate cool and inviting in the summer and just the right temperature for multiple winter sports Its streets are hard surfaced surfaced sur sur- faced its houses modern its busInesses businesses businesses bus bus- thriving and modern In goods and store design This is no longer frontier country country coun coun- try but representative of the many hundreds of communities of similar size all over the nation Meeker is a city of homes but one where the visitor finds genuine western hospitality and western culture Here the visitor finds churches of most most of of the representative representative representative denominations which meet the tIle requirements of spiritual life Jile so necessary in any thriving community com com- Too there is a beautiful hospital just recently constructed construct construct- ed and one of the finest equipped in Inthe the state to serve the surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding area Meeker fire equipment and ambulance ambulance ambulance am am- service Is Js housed in the new City Hall building and is 16 manned by the top lop volunteer lire ire department in the west |