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The arrastra has been used since the Phoenicians to grind ores, most often gold or silver. The construction involves a circular pit paved with flat stones. Large flat-bottomed drag stones are connected to a center post by a long arm. Using horse, mule or human power, the arm drags the large stones over the ore, crushing it. This arrastra at the Gold Bug Mine was powered by a waterwheel, clearly evident in the photograph. It is a cheap but effective...
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Charley Horn and Harry Groh, with horses, preparing to go prospecting.
"When their [Frank and Mary Groh's] first child, Harry, was born in 1891 he had what was always considered a fine distinction in a new settlement. He was the first white child born in a new pioneer community. Olive was born in 1893 and Frank Jr. in 1901." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 125
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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From left to right, Joe Fear and Don Knight at the entrance to Knight's silver claim in Marble Joe Fear is putting loaded ore buckets on the aerial tram down to the loading area. Don Knight is readying a carbide lamp to go in the mine and drill for the next shot.
"Don Knight, the eternal prospector, approached Buster Beck and me, Joe Fear, at the beginning of mud season for the logging business. He could get some lease rights to xome silver claims...
6) Poorman Mine
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Verso: "Don [MacDonald Knight] at the Poorman Mine which we once owned below Gilman."
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Sean Whelan with Clarence Dubach and Barbara Gabelman, locating claims at the New York cabins, in July 1966.
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Buster Beck below the silver mine emptying the "ore buckets" into a dump truck.
"Since the mine was about 100 yards above the end of the road where we had to park the dump truck, we had to build an aerial tram to ge the ore down to the trucks. Don was able to find an old model A hand brake, some cable and some 5 gallon buckets and we were in business. We loaded our ore into the dump truck, hauled it off the mountain, down river to the railroad at...
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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."
10) Silver Mine
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Don Knight's silver mine at Marble, Colorado. The dump truck is in the foreground with the aerial tram running between it and the mine portal at the tope of the photo. One of the prospectors is standing in the mine portal.
"We mined and hand picked for silver for 4 to 6 weeks. We worked on a fairly large portal with hand steel and powder until the ore vein gave out. Then we took a dishpan and a prospector's pick to a couple of small openings in...
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MacDonald Knight on left with Harold Stoner and pack burros. This was the first prospecting trip in 1939. Knight taught school during the year and had his summers free to prospect.
Front: "1st trip in '39 Gold Park, Don, Stoner"
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Verso: "Pete Mann who ran the pack string 12 miles from the Glengary mine to Gold Park; 22 tons packed out summer 1939"
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MacDonald Knight and friends, prospecting in Gold Park.
Front" "H.C.City gold rush '41;" Verso: "shot in Gold Park"
16) Stamp Mill
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MacDonald Knight standing at the stamp mill house at Cross Creek in 1940.
Verso: "stamp mill house Cross Creek 1940;" stamp: "Empire Zinc Div, the New Jersey Zinc Co., Gilman, Colorado"
17) Mine Shaft
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Charles Eichaker, posed at a mine shaft at Homestake Creek. The ore car rails run up to the shaft.
Front: "C. Iaker;" verso: "Mine shaft across Homestake Creek at Gold Park; we never worked it. Don"
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Boyle Brothers drill on location in Upper Town of Fulford, Colorado. Photo dated October 1966.
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MacDonald Knight standing at the door of his cabin at Gold Park. To the left and behind the cabin is the ore bin. Ore was packed out on burros from the Glengary [Glengarry] mine to the ore bin and then transported by truck from there to Leadville.
Verso: "our shack at Gold Park, ore bin in back of it; end of the line for pack string from the Glengary 1940 Don"
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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...
