Smeltertown, Colorado
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Robert Martin Stein, age 7, in front of “My Rock” looking East, and happy in his first suit of homemade clothes.
R.M. Stein Collection.
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A panoramic view of Smeltertown, near Salida, Colorado.
Bob Rush Collection.
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For about 29 months, the 365-foot smokestack did the job for which it was intended, but financial hard times forced the company to close in 1920. The short 85-foot stack beside the tall one was razed in the late 1920’s to provide brick for at least a couple of homes in Salida.
Frank Thomson Collection.
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Arthur Thompson, smelter assistant superintendent, and Emil Bruderlin, structural engineer, perch on the lip of the new smokestack at Smeltertown during the topping-out ceremony. The large material bucket and one leg of the hoisting windlass show how materials reached the top. The wooden construction floor is a plug inserted inside the 17 foot diameter of the smokestack mouth. Bruderlin sits on a stack of bricks used for the last course of masonry....
