Loma Supply Company and hotel, Loma, Colorado [1907] 1918 Loma Mesa Colorado USA A general store, hotel and post office run by David M. Brumbaugh and his wife Elizabeth (Beach) Brumbaugh in the early to mid-Twentieth century. The Brumbaughs moved from Dragon, Utah, where they had run a grocery store. The Grand Junction City Directory shows that David Brumbaugh was the manager of the Fruita Mercantile Company in Loma, which changed its name to the Loma Supply Company, by at least 1907. The city directory identifies the store as general merchandise (the Brumbaugh's daughter Cora (Brumbaugh) Henry and her husband Paul Henry refer to it as a grocery store in their oral history interviews). By 1910, Brumbaugh had also become Loma’s postmaster and the post office operated from the same location. According to his daughter Cora (Brumbaugh) Henry, whose husband later managed the store, Chipeta and other Ute often visited the store and hotel. The Ute would apparently tease Elizabeth about her burnt pancakes. Verner Z. Reed, the owner of land in the area, often visited the hotel and store. Many of the hotel’s residents were immigrants and employees of the Holly Sugar Company. The establishment was operated until 1918, when the family closed the hotel and grocery and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska. When they returned to Mesa County it was to Fruita, where they opened the Brumbaugh Brothers grocery store in 1919. yes yes Loma Supply CompanyLoma Post Office