Rockies Oil and Gas, 1995

The Papers of Ronald K. Blatchley consists of documents dated from 1938 and 1963 to 2007. The bulk of the collection is reports by Blatchley Associates. More limited materials also exist from Blatchley's other firms, North Fork Associates and Mountain Mutual Reservoir Company, typically being files of smaller quantity. Reports by the firms of Tipton and Kalmbach and W. W. Wheeler and Associates are also present and identified as such, though it is not clear if Blatchley worked on them. The Blatchley Associates reports were generally for small, individual clients such as subdivisions, school districts, cities, ranches, and other real estate development projects. They were generally located in the Denver metropolitan area or the counties of Park, Teller, Douglas, Jefferson, and Clear Creek. Document types are most often augmentation plans, water rights evaluations, and groundwater studies, but also include data, correspondence, maps, and photographic materials. Many of the augmentation plans include selling shares of the Mountain Mutual Reservoir Company to the clients.