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Front view of the Fleming Lumber & Merc. Co., Red Cliff, CO, showing front door and boardwalk. Date in lower right corner: 1/7/1926. R. E. "Eddie" Tippett on left in doorway; Malcolm McLeod on right in doorway. John Fleming on Tippett's right. The children are Blanche, Bernice and Richard Tippett.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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.]
4) 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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Buster (on left) and Jack Beck sitting on a felled log at the upper Wearyman logging camp (Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill).
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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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Ron Dump, seated, and Bruce Beck with axes and hand saw in front of a felled and trimmed log. They are logging on Shrine Pass for Ray Warren, Sr. Buster and Bruce Beck and Ron Dump worked when they were still in school during the summers and falls of the year.
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Bob Warren moving logs at the lower Warren Brother & Robinson sawmill on Wearyman Creek. The mill works are behind him.
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"After a 1933 fire destroyed several downtown buildings, the next business to build in that space was the Independent Lumber Company. The lumber company moved to Chambers Avenue (Across the Eagle River) in the early 1980s. The Eagle Town Hall is now located on the corner where this building once stood." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.110
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Bruce Beck (left) and Ron Dump seated during a break while logging on Shrine Pass. The skid horse pulls the logs.
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1929: Fleming Lumber Co. R. E. "Eddie" Tippett on stool in office.
In the Assessment Roll 1930 Eagle County, Red Cliff School Taxation District 1, Outside, Fleming's holdings are as follows: Saw Mill on Peterson Gulch ($800), Framer on Polar Millsite ($600), Planer on Turkey Creek ($2,200), Sawmill on Turkey Creek ($400).
Fleming also held properties in the Minturn 11, Outside, district.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County...
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Richard Edward "Eddie" Tippett, bookkeeper and secretary-treasurer of the Fleming Lumber and Mercantile Company, seated at a desk. Carpet on floor.
Eagle Valley Enterprise, June 30, 1934 p. 4: from the obituary (Mr. Tippett died June 18, 1934):
"Mr. Tippett came to Red Cliff from Rifle twenty-four years ago and began to work as a bookkeeper for the Fleming Lumber company. He soon became a partner in the firm and for years has been secretary and...
13) Frank Robinson
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Frank Robinson checking the conveyor at the lower Sawmill on Wearyman Creek (Warren Brothers & Robinson). Lumber is stacked to the right of Frank. Snow is on the ground.
14) Kid Hoover
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"Kid" [William A.] Hoover in the office at the Fleming lumber mill, Red Cliff, 1925. Invoices hanging on wall at left; saws hanging on wall at right.
Hoover was a teamster for the Fleming Lumber Company, Empire Zinc Company, and a member of the Leadville fire department. He "...became one of the best teamsters the country ever knew. Perched on a wagon carrying five or six tons of ore or lumber, holding the strings on six or eight 1800-pound horses,...
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Flood waters from Turkey Creek in Fleming Lumber and Mercantile Co. yard during spring runoff June1952.
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The front of the Fleming Lumber & Mercantile Co. Office in Red Cliff, Colorado, January 24, 1919.
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Ilene Ages Warren (wife of Bob Warren) standing next to the sawblade at the Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill at the end of Eagle St. next to the ball field.
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Lumber stacked up at the sawmill on Turkey Creek.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The front of the Fleming Lumber and Mercantile Co. building on Eagle Street in Red Cliff in December 1999. The building is vacant and for rent.
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Bob Warren sitting on lumber at the Warren Brothers & Robinson sawmill. The timbers were used in mine stoping at Gilman. Bob was a partner in the sawmill and was married to Ilene Ages Warren.
