Roy Bandy and Eddy Wilson helped provide career and work opportunities for young people in cadastral land surveying with the General Land Office and its successor, the Bureau of Land Management. Young people from Eldorado Springs and the surrounding area worked for these agencies in the field, with some serving only a few months and others building fulfilling careers of more than 40 years. Cadastral land surveys were and still are the basis for all land ownership and current land transactions on over three fourths of the land in the United States. Beginning in the 1940s, Eldorado Springs appeared so often on the roster of cadastral surveyors as the hometown of many employees that people questioned how so many people from the same area came to be employed there. For a short time in the 1930s, Eddy Wilson worked on Roy Bandy's cadastral survey party before returning to Eldorado Springs. When Roy Bandy needed new recruits for his cadastral survey party, he asked Eddy Wilson to help recruit young people who would commit to this difficult work. For several decades, Wilson encouraged young people from the area to work on the survey parties, and many followed his advice and took advantage of the opportunity.