People

: Ezra Jaynes; Early Mesa County, Colorado fruit farmer. He moved to the Clifton area from Illinois in 1892, after scouting it with John W. Gimple in 1891. He settled instead in the First Fruitridge area of Grand Junction, where, according to his grandson Oscar Jaynes Jr., he owned the land that was later developed by KREX station owner Rex Howell. He later moved to Clifton. Father of Edith Jaynes and Oscar Winfield Jaynes Sr., and grandfather of Velma E. (Borschell) Budin.