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MacDonald Knight standing on trailer attached to his jeep. He's looking at lumber in front of an abandoned cabin at Holy Cross City. There are wildflowers in the foreground.
"The one picture of Don Knight's jeep shows some boards. Buster [Beck] said there was two piles of boards on this side of Francy Pass. Why & from where he does not know. SInce they are on this side of Fancy Pass he is sure they did not come from the saw mill at Cross Creek."...
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Stump in the snow. The trail where logs have been dragged through the snow is to the right of the stump.
4) Buster Beck
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Buster Beck with a cant hook log roller, positioning cut and trimmed logs into a pile. A piece of lumber is being used as a wedge.
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Mayo Lanning exhibiting size of logs used in the "beaver dams at Gold Park (down the mountain from Gilman, Colorado)" [verso of photograph].
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Distant view of the Peterson Creek tramway, used to transport lumber from the Peterson Creek sawmill to the railroad at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon. The picture was taken from the Champion Mine at Bell's Camp. The steep terrain is testimony to the difficulty in logging in this area.
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"Railroad problems" -- caption from Edwards School Scrapbook, page 16. The scrapbook was created as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955.
Several large logs appear to have fallen or rolled at the Eagle Mine in Gilman, Colorado. Miners are coming down the hill (right, center). The railroad line and a railroad car are directly to the left of the mess.
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Jack Beck standing behind a log which the horse is pulling through the snow.
