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Battle Mountain as seen from Gilman. The numerous streaks near the mid point of the mountain mark mine openings above Belden. These represented small mining claims from the late 1800's. The photo is oriented east toward Red Cliff with Windy Point in the top center. U.S. Highway 24 is toward the top of Battle Mountain.
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Mine on hillside, possibly Salida.
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Photocopy of a postcard, the photo for which was taken by R. R. Cooper. Miners arriving for "Ole's Shift," standing in front of the bus. From Ted Beck: The Red Cliff bus line was probably started away back, probably in the 1930s, by Mickey Walsh. He got hold of a big old sedan, probably a Cadillac or Pierce-Arrow, that 7 or 8 men could crowd into and started hauling miners to Gilman. I don't think it was much of a success as it kept breaking down....
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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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Sallie Enzenroth, Myra Squires Enzenroth Garnett, Elmer Ottens and Tom Garnett, at the Garnett home in Boulder, Colorado. Tom Garnett, Sir., Albert W. Enzenroth, and Victor Squires all worked for the New Jersey Zinc Co. Sallie Enzenroth is Tom Garnett's stepdaughter. Elmer was an electrician with New Jersey Zinc Co., first in New Jersy and then at Gilman, Colorado. He retired in 1988. He was married to Virginia Lewis, daughter of Pearl Henderson,...
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Studio portrait of Benjamin A. Hart, father of Helen Hart Allen. "His work was centered around some of the most famous gold producers on Battle Mountain--the Champion, Ground Hog, Mable, Percy Chester and Tram Lode groups. For years the Hart properties were the heaviest producers of ore in the district, and the recovery of gold and silver from these properties under Mr. Hart's management over the years ran into six figures." -- EVE Nov. 6, 1931...
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Elmer Ottens behind the wheel of his RV, visiting friends in Boulder, Colorado. Elmer was an electrician with the New Jersey Zinc Co., first in New Jersy and then at Gilman, Colorado. He retired in 1988. He was married to Virginia Lewis, daughter of Pearl Henderson, of Red Cliff.
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The road into Bell's Camp in the summer time. The second house from the left was Eben Young's family house. Eben's father, Eben P. Young, Sr., and Fanny M. Young were very early settlers in Gold Park, before living at Bell's Camp. The Youngs moved to Red Cliff where they are included in the 1910 Federal Census. Eben P. Young Jr. married Virginia Rockwood, the granddaughter of John Wesley Phillips, who built the Gore Creek School, and daughter of...
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Joe S. Sandoval standing next to Jack Elliott [neighbors on Turkey Creek (Red Cliff)]. The men are at the Ground Hog Mine, Nottingham Incline, on Battle Mountain.
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Mine on hillside, possibly Salida.
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One of the old homes in what was once named Poverty Flats, but now part of Bells Camp. The James Collins family lived here and Tom Collins was born here. The Collins family relocated to Red Cliff.
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Red Cliff, Colorado, showing the portion of Horn Silver Mountain where Greiner and DaLee made their first silver strike. The old dump is marked with an X.
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Photo postcard showing the Red Cliff Bridge, opened in 1941. A Denver & Rio Grande train is coming from Red Cliff, headed toward Gilman, alongside the very clear Eagle River. At the left is the Lover's Leap cliffs. On the right is the cut in the lower rocks for the road down to Red Cliff. At the center of the photo above the bridge can be seen the tailings from Hornsilver Mine with Butter Flats (clearing) just above that.
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Remains of the mill and adjacent structures at Holy Cross City, which is ten miles south of Minturn or eleven miles north of Tennessee Pass. By the time this photo was taken, Fleming Lumber Co. had removed the main steam engine and one of the boilers from the mill to use in a saw mill. [Courtesy of Ted Beck]
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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.
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Harold Steinmeyer at the Warren Sawmill on Turkey Creek near Red Cliff and Gilman.
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Battle Mountain as seen from Gilman. The numerous streaks near the mid point of the mountain mark mine openings above Belden. These represented small mining claims from the late 1800's. The photo is oriented east toward Red Cliff with Windy Point in the top center. U.S. Highway 24 is toward the top of Battle Mountain.
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Warren Sawmill on Turkey Creek in Red Cliff. Warren provided some of the mining timber for the mine at Gilman. The timber is being moved through the saw on a cart riding on tracks. The saw had an attachment used to make a special cut that allowed the mining timbers to quickly be put together in the mine. Ike Dump is closest to the camera on the right, feeding logs into the saw.
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Ike Dump banding mining timber at Warren Sawmill in Red Cliff. Safety "chaps" were worn to prevent cuts when working with the saws and the timber. Harold Steinmeyer is supervising.
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Cutting mining timber with a horizontal blade at the Warren Sawmill in Red Cliff. Extra blades are stored on the cutting arm to the right.