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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.
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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
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4) Red Cliff
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Houses in Red Cliff in the 1930s. The Fleming Lumber Company is the white roof at midfield. The railroad tracks and walkover are above the Lumber Company.
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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.
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Joy Marfitano standing in front of cut logs at Warren's sawmill on Shrine Pass.
7) 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).
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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
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11) 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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"Another old cabin on the Black Mountain Ranch that served as a temporary home for people who made all or part of their livelihood doing timber work from 1914 to 1930. Leonard and Maude Hudson spent part of their honeymoon here during the winter of 1919-1920 when Leonard was hauling timber products for Fred Hall. Clyde and Mae Gilbert lived here, while Clyde was working for Dick Webb in 1923 and 1924. It was named the Honeymoon Cabin. The aspens...
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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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Carl Eaton in small boat, fishing at Beaver Lake (sawmill camp in background).
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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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Sawmill at Beaver Lake with logs in foreground.
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Leo Cunningham standing by the Haas house at Sandstone Creek. Leo worked at the Fleming Saw Mill in what is now Vail. Dog at right midground.
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