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61) Mill building
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Mill building at the mill pond, head of Cross Creek (Holy Cross Wilderness Area). Two men are examining something by the foundation of the building.
63) Bishop Gulch
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Caption by O. W. Randall: "Bishop Gulch where the proposed auto road would go."
Stamped on back: "Quality BB Print guaranteed not to fade Jun 5 1928"
In 1927, Dr. Randall led Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls up Notch Mountain to see the cross, a trip considered to be the first "pilgrimage." In 1928, another pilgrimage took place and in 1929, President Hoover established the Mount of the Holy Cross Monument.
"All these pilgrimages continued to demonstrate...
64) Tigiwon tents
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Campfires, tents, campers and horses at Tigiwon.
[The number 25 is written on the upper left margin of the photo.]
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 3, 2004, following a spring snow.
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"Homestake Dam. The material from the last Coyote-hole blast is about cleaned up. The shovels are working on the far end of the blast zone. The lower quarry bench and ramp is now covered with water. The upper two benches have been dug out by working from 2 headings on each level and now are used as the haul roads for the far end. Aug. 1966."
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Pilgrims gathered around a campfire at the Tigiwon Post Office, sometime between 1929 and 1934.
Caption by O. W. Randall: "These were times when we had no Community House."
The Tigiwon Post Office was established June 5, 1929. "By 1934 the U.S. Forest Service had built the long-awaited trail up Notch Mountain, first used by the seventh pilgrimage that year. A lodge [Community House] at Tigiwon was also completed by 1934." -- Robert Brown, Holy Cross--the...
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Religious services concluding at the Mount of the Holy Cross. The cross has been
"solidified" in this photo by the addition of white ink on the negative. Rev Edmonds is the man closes to the cross in the light suit.
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The verso of the relief map photo used to visualize possible road routes and ascents for Mount of the Holy Cross pilgrimages. The notes in pencil are in O. W. Randall's handwriting.
Stamped on back: "Quality BB Print guaranteed not to fade Jul 14 1928, 35"
The location of the map in this photo is unknown. The Rev. John P. Carrigan, a Catholic priest from Glenwood Springs, is the reported inspiration for the Holy Cross pilgrimages. F. W. Bonfils,...
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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam of rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff.
The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock.
There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the mountainsides at both ends of the dam.
The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
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"Paving Homestake Dam, October 1966. 1055 PH crane outfitted to perform more than one operation."
72) Kelley's place
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Kelley property up Homestake Rd., Forest Service Road 703. Ray Kelley had built a two story house and several other cabins between 1947 and his death in 1978. He had several mining claims in the area. The Forest Service dismantled the two story house after his death.
Ray Kelley walked into Red Cliff in the 1940s, pulling a red wagon, to do his grocery shopping.
This area is a popular picnic spot, with elk hunting in the big park above the cabin...
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Remains of the mill and adjacent structures at Holy Cross City, which is ten miles south of Minturn or eleven miles north of Tennessee Pass. By the time this photo was taken, Fleming Lumber Co. had removed the main steam engine and one of the boilers from the mill to use in a saw mill. [Courtesy of Ted Beck]
74) Relief map photo
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The relief map photo used to visualize possible road routes and ascents for Mount of the Holy Cross pilgrimages, without O.W. Randall's annotations.
Stamped on back: "Quality BB Print guaranteed not to fade Jul 14 1928, 35"
The location of the map in this photo is unknown. The Rev. John P. Carrigan, a Catholic priest from Glenwood Springs, is the reported inspiration for the Holy Cross pilgrimages. F. W. Bonfils, a Denver publisher, was also...
75) Holy Cross City
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A cabin standing at the abandoned town of Holy Cross City, Colorado, taken in August 2001.
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Dedication of the John P. "Jack" Elliott Dam, Homestake Project, on June 18, 1967. Speakers were from Aurora and Colorado Springs.
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Man resting in the shade of an overhang with pack mules and dog at the top of Fancy Pass.
"I recall that little mine way up on Middle Mountain, I think it was the Blossom. I know that when you stuck your head up over Fancy Pass that little mine was staring your right in the face although at some distance. As most of the places we looked into, there was no trace of any mineral on the premises." -- Bud Beck Jan. 2010
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"Homestake Dam first coyote-hole blast to open the quarry for the dam's rock fill material; consumed 13 ton of explosives."
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Perlita Knight [Gauthier] working at a table while camping at French Creek. Tent in background.
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A close-up view of the Mount of the Holy Cross. The photo was printed July 3, 1940.
