RICO, COLORADO
Grand Master Bridwell issued a dispensation to fourteen brethren of Rico in Dolores County, Colorado, on October 1, 1889, to form a Lodge to be known as Rico Lodge U. D., with Brother David A. Holmes, Worshipful Master; Filer L. Thompson, Senior Warden, and Albert E. Kennedy as Junior Warden. The petition was recommended by San Juan Lodge No. 33.
The Committee on Returns and Works recommended that Rico Lodge be chartered at the Grand Lodge session in Septembcr 1890, since the record showed 11 initiated, 10 passed and 9 raised and all other records were fairly correct. After changing two of the bylaws, the charter was issued to Rico Lodge 79. Grand Master Ernest LeNeve Foster commissioned R.W. Bro. Jethro C. Sanford to constitute Rico Lodge No. 79 which was duly performed on October 14, 1890 with the following installed, Filer L. Thompson, Worshipful Master; Charles F. Middaugh, Senior Warden; and Lewis Clarke, Junior Warden. The charter carried twenty-two other names.
Rico is one of several lodges which had duplicate charters issued. Grand Master DeLong issued and signed a duplicate in 1899 since the original was lost or accidentally destroyed.
