After the footers were poured, Woody Bates, of Wood Creek Carpentry, and Charlie Byerly went to work. They had help from Aaron Kolb, Garth Wagner, Charlie Schmidtmann, Pat Buchanan, Mark Bayshore, Beth Davis, and even Chief Rick Dirr . After ten days on the job, the structure was almost ready for the siding, roof, doors, and windows. Bates is pleased with the design and the materials, and with the progress he and his crew are making. Everything is going very smoothly.
People show up on time, they work hard, and their work is good.
The first of Caribou 's destructive fires burned much of the town. Supposedly, the flames were started by careless campers on Arapaho Peak. A total of forty to sixty houses and mine buildings were leveled by the blaze. It started at Richie's general store, then burned the north side of Idaho Street. Some in town believed the election was illegal and held another one, electing a second Board.