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"The Frontier Historical Society Jeep caravan at the Little Annie Mine on July 27, 1969." -- verso
The Little Annie Mine is in Little Annie Basin (backside of Aspen Mountain).
"From 1882 through the 1940s, various silver-mining groups struggled there. ... In the 1960s and ’70s, two ski area developments in the basin failed. By the 1990s, landowners there cobbled together mining claims and threatened to build massive homes unless the county bought...
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Harry Mize standing next to a 1954 Jeep. There is an elk draped over the hood.
Harry (1908-1980) retired as a Maintenance Foreman for the New Jersey Zinc Co. in 1973 and moved to Salida. He was an avid hunter/family guide.
The Jeep is still running in Arizona.
The photo is looking toward Highway 24. The white house was a New Jersey Zinc company house rented by Foster and Virginia Witthauer. Virginia was a nurse and Foster was head of the mill...
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Mining camp for the Red Cliff contingent, Wilson Mesa, Utah, 1953. They were mining uranium. Two jeeps, several trucks, a tractor, tent and cookhouse are visible.
