Francis and Estelle Engler moved from Rocky Ford and homesteaded-160 acres near Allison in La Plata County in 1904 eleven miles southeast of Ignacio. The Engers raised honey bees while clearing the land  and the first crop was sweet clover that the bees found so favorable in turning into delicious honey. Orchards were developed that produced apples, peaches, pears and black walnuts. Son Paris bought an additional 200 acres raising alfalfa, oats and corn and shipping cream to Durango and clover seed and turkeys by rail to Kansas City.

Clinton Eugene Delong was raised in Illinois but by 1889 had found himself in the Patterson Valley near Rocky Ford in Otero County. By 1899 he homesteaded 160 acres, purchasing an adjoining 80 acres in 1905. Tasks were performed with the help of horse drawn machinery until the first tractor arrived in 1931. In 1927 youngest son Charles brought his new wife to the farm and raised four children, three of whom began farming careers on those 80 acres from 1905.

In 1891 Edward J. Currier purchased, site unseen, land in the Grand Junction area of Mesa County. By 1892 he had purchased 200 acres near Molina, and moved his family there from Iowa. Originally a dairy  concern, the operation was soon expanded to include beef cattle, summering them in the Plateau Valley and on Grand Mesa. Four of Edwards five sons continued ranching in the area, retaining original grazing permits on the Grand Mesa National Forest.

During the 1880's young trail rider Charles Collins traversed the area around Kit Carson in Cheyenne County following cattle herds from Mexico, New Mexico and Texas. He later returned in 1905 to manage a ranch that a Kansas City bank had received through foreclosure, and, after developing a liking for the place, secured a loan in 1907 to purchase the land as his own. He then moved wife Mary and their children to the place and built an adobe ranch house, bunk house, barns and corral.

In 1907, Jacob Friedrich Bauder filed a homestead claim on a piece of land in Logan County, southeast of Sterling. Here he built a 16 x 16 foot sod house that was later fitted with a one room blacksmith shop.  Some time later an adobe house was built along with a barn and windmill and the old sod house became a bunk house for Jacob's sons. The 1920's saw a bumper crop of wheat and changes to the property which included the addition of a new frame house, barn, livestock shelter, granary and garage- all still in use today.

In 1901, Vernon and Orville Wheeler acquired 196 acres in Routt County near Hayden that in 1906 was transferred to Florence Wheeler Jones. The land was passed down to daughter Ayliffe Jones Zehner in 1943 and today son David, wife Judith and their sons David, Darren and families share ownership. Sheep, cattle and wheat have been raised in the past, while today the land produces a hay crop through a land lease arrangement. The farm house is believed to have been built in 1890 and has since 1906 continually housed generations of the Zehner family.

Andre Clyncke was born in Belgium in 1872 and immigrated to Colorado in 1886. In October 1905, Andre purchased 80 acres in Boulder County for farming, but the land also contained a small coal mine. Crops have included alfalfa/grass hay, wheat, and oats, in addition to beef cattle operations. The farm passed down to son Walter and later to his son Robert who with his wife Beverly continue to farm the land. Robert and Beverly’s families have been friends and neighbors for years.

In 1903, Rufus Toyne, purchased 160 acres in Sedgwick county from the Northern Finance Company and began raising sheep, percheron horses and shorthorn cattle. The main house was built in 1918 and could be a Sears and Roebuck kit home. For a few years, as the school was 1⁄2 mile away, the schoolmarm lived in one of the bedrooms. Also at that time a cellar was built to house the 24 volt power plant which was used until R.E.A. power came to the area in 1940. One of the barns was moved to its present location quite literally by horse power in 1936.

Having just turning 21 years old, John Lindgren took out a homestead in November of 1905 on 160 acres in Yuma County and later that next summer built a house. Four miles up the road lived Pearl Reese, a local school teacher who had also homesteaded. By 1910 the two had married and moved Pearl's house to the Lindgren place and attached it to Johns house, joining both their lives and abodes in the process.

In 1906, acting on the advice of a friend in Goodrich, Edward Jones  purchased site-unseen a 60 acre Morgan County farm near Goodrichand Weldona. At the time Jones family was living in Ward and decided that a mining town was no place to raise a family. The trek to Goodrich, which was comprised of wife Nellie, 5 children, 4 horses, two cows and two wagons and a load of lumber took over a week. Early on the family lived in tent houses while crops of wheat and corn were planted.