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Dick Morgan, panning for gold, and Doc Dewey, standing. Morgan was one of the pioneer prospectors in the Red Cliff region. They are panning near Gold Park on the Homestake Creek.
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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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Several Red Cliff residents prospected uranium on Wilson Mesa, Utah, in 1953. Sitting around the breakfast table in the camp are, from front left: Jeff Taylor, Vic Chitwood, and Johnny Tetreault. At front right, Buster Beck, with two unidentified men standing. Jeff Taylor's grandsons currently [2010] mine uranium in Moab, Utah.
5) Bus lines
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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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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...
8) Elmer Ottens
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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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The participants in the Easter Monday Ball 1910 at Monarch, Colorado. The young lady in the center is Dessie Tomlin. To her immediate right are her parents, Maggie and A.Q. Tomlin. Dessie married Ira Earl Beck and moved to Red Cliff in 1921. They had six sons, T.R. (Bud), Buster, Quinn, Bruce, Jack and Russell.
This photograph was damaged when the roof and second floor of the Beck house burned in about 1929. A photo of that fire is: 2012.016.001....
13) The Young Family
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Fanny M. and Eben P.Young, parents of Eben Young, Jr., in their first home in Gold Park, where they were early settlers. Their home was the second cabin built there. On the wall are pictures, skis and a fishing pole.
14) Rex Flats
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"Red Cliff"
A view of Red cliff, looking to the northeast. Turkey Creek drainage is at left. The Ft. Arnett rockpile is at center.
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Easter Day, 1949, on Eagle Street, Red Cliff. The Ivan Dump children are in their front yard with Easter baskets lined up on the boardwalk. From left to right, Betty Mae Dump Elsberry, Ed Dump Dumph, and Ernie Dump Dumph. Len Dump Dumph is perched on the fence post. Mine tailings are visible on East hill side of Eagle Street.
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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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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]
18) Mica mining
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Theodore "Bud" Beck and Ron Dump carrying a wheelbarrow at Cleveland Lake (in the Holy Cross Wilderness Area). They were mining mica (Don Knights's venture).
The wheelbarrow "was obviously on its way to the Cleveland Lake Mica Mine & the ground was in no shape for it to be pushed."--Theodore "Bud" Beck
19) Uranium mining
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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.
20) Cordilia Lovato
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Cordilia "Cordy" Lovato standing in her yard in Red Cliff, November 2012. She was 90 years old at the time. She and her husband, Virgilio "Red" Lovato, moved to Red Cliff from New Mexico.
"Virgilio worked at the New Jersey Zinc Mine in Gilman for 30 years. He doubled as an amateur barber at the mine, cutting of of his co-workers' hair. ... He married the former Cordilia Leyba Lovato in 1940. The couple raised nine children." -- Vail Daily Oct....
