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MacDonald Knight standing on abandoned lumber on Francy Pass. The lumber was intended for the Gold Bug Mine gold mill building. When the bottom dropped out of mining in the area, supplies and equipment were abandoned in place. Front: "lumber on Fancy Pass;" verso: "lumber was for Gold Bug gold mill building. Don in picture."
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Fancy Pass in the Holy Cross Mining District. The Mt. of the Holy Cross is marked with an x. Verso: "Fancy Pass, head of Cross Creek looking down toward Mt. of the Holy Cross" "Beyond the first hill, the Fancy Pass trail climbs up the hillside above Fancy Lake. On the top, the rocky cut is Fancy Pass, a nineteenth-century crossing that was named for Joseph Fancy, a prospector active in the Holy Cross country in the early 1880's. Originally,...
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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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Climbing Fancy Pass to the Holy Cross Mining District. From left: Harold Stoner, Buster Beck and MacDonald Knight. The Holy Cross District covered 100 square miles of the intervening country between the headwaters of Cross and Homestake Creeks. Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps. Verso: "Big'un Stoner, Buster Beck, Don Knight climbing Fancy Pass 1939" "Harold Stoner was known by his Missouri Family as 'Big'un.' He had...