Rifle Colorado

Rifle had a Livery Stable about where the Midland Hotel would be built.
It was called the Pioneer Stable and was operated by J. J. Claussen.
It burned in the 1902 fire and was not rebuilt.
Across the street and just east of the Marker Hotel was the Reveille newspaper office. The photo of their building shows the previous business there was named Pioneer something. Wonder if it was tied to the stable?
And note, another stable burned in 1902. It was on the west side of Railroad across from the Winchester, by the alley. It was called Meeker Stable because it was part of the Rifle Meeker stagecoach line. It was not rebuilt.
With those two burned, Rifle only had the Collins Livery remaining, though it was called the Rifle Livery by then.
That created an opportunity and a new brick livery called City Stable was built on west 3rd where the Rex theater would later be. And the Rex was later remodeled into the Moose Lodge.
Believe that City Stable also soon burned. It was replaced right across on the north side of 3rd. That building remains. It soon became a veterinary hospital. Then a machine shop / auto repair shop.
Shortly later Fay Gorham built a new stable a block north of the 2nd City Stable.
The only other stable was The Red Barn at about 5th and Railroad, west side. It was Gorham's first stable. Until his business outgrew it.

Photo about 1920

Rifle High School 1942

Rifle High School 1948

Rifle Band

Rifle Bank

Rifle Ferry

Rifle Graduates

Rifle Phone Directory

1993 Flood in Rifle Colorado ~ Worst Flood Rifle, May 15, 1993.
It came out of the Government Creek Drainage Basin with a wall of water as high as 10 feet in places.
At the confluence of Government and Rifle Creeks, the flow was 2,950 cubic feet per second.

    

                                                                                 

               

                  

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