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Warren's last lumber mill up Wearyman Creek on Flemings' patent (timber claim).
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Fleming's Saw Mill under construction
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Alfred Benson’s property on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. Originally, there were several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site. This was not Benson's main cabin or barn. The main cabin interior walls had been smoothed with an adz or a broad-axe and these are not smooth. The structure is too small to be the barn. This photo was taken on July 26, 2012.
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Durbin McIlnay trimming a log. Across the log at the bottom of the photo is an 8 foot measuring stick. The logs were cut to the same 16-foot length before being loaded on a skid.
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Albert Buffehr standing on sled, holding the reins to a four-horse team. The caption reads "log hauling out of Mill Creek." Albert and his wife, Violet, lived in Minturn and later moved to Edgewater, Colorado. Both are buried in Minturn.
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The Albert Betz Ranch, Gore Valley, viewed from Gore Creek. Buildings in the background are Fleming's Saw Mill. This is current day Vail, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Joy Marfitano standing in front of cut logs at Warren's sawmill on Shrine Pass.
10) Logs
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Logs loaded on a skid, ready to be pulled by a tractor to the sawmill. Logging done at upper Wearyman Creek logging camp; sawmill (Warren Brothers & Robinson) located at lower Wearyman Creek.
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Ron Dump, Theodore "Bud" Beck, Louie "Dutch" Gleiforst and a fourth man standing in front of a trailor house. Ron Dump has his right arm in his right boot (his right foot is bootless but socked) and the men are examining the toe. The men were cutting logs for Ray Earl Warren, owner of the trailer house. Model A Ford in the background; logs, sandwich and canteen in foreground. The site is 3.5 miles up Shrine Pass and was known as Kelly's. It's...
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Buster (on left) and Jack Beck sitting on a felled log at the upper Wearyman logging camp (Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill).
14) Cross-cut saw
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A man, possibly Buster Beck, in snowfield with a cross-cut felling saw, possibly near Fancy Pass.
"A felling saw is generally less stiff than a bucking saw and the backside, as well as the cutting side, is usually curved inward. Felling saws are more often used to cut down standing trees, so the thinner, lighter design is easier to use without gravity holding the blade against the cut." [http://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/htmlpubs/htm77712508/page03.htm]...
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"Built about 1910, this old cabin on the Black Mountain Ranch served as a temporary home for a number of timbermen until 1942. Among them were: Slim Carrington, Fred Schaefermeyer, Shorty Strutzel, Bill Babcock, Al Kearney, Leonard and Maude Hudson, the Herman Bowles family and several others." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 249
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
17) Skid horse "Ben"
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Ray Warren's skid horse "Ben," pulling logs uphill on Shrine Pass. Logging road is to the right of Ben.
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The Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill, first sawmill up Wearyman Creek towards Shrine Pass. Lumber is stacked and there's snow on the ground.
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Stump in the snow. The trail where logs have been dragged through the snow is to the right of the stump.
20) Jack Beck
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Jack Beck using a horse to pull a log on upper Wearyman Creek for Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill.