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Robert Maloit and his mother, Pearl Maloit, sitting on the boardwalk that led from the doorway of their house in Gilman to the coal shed. At the right are the 56 steps that lead up to the main road through Gilman.
The photo was taken after Robert graduated from Colorado School of Mines and before WW II.
62. Repair area
66. Iron Mask Mill
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At the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon below Gilman, Belden is situated on the railroad. Ore was loaded on train cars here. The surface tram ran from Gilman down to Belden. The debris from the downpour covers the railroad tracks at midfield. The water was 8 ft. deep between the compressor house and the loading tipple during the cloudburst.
The compressor house had been at Belden for many years. "There was one huge Ingersoll-Rand piston-type...
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Aerial view of Gilman, Colorado, in the 1950s, looking down Rock Creek. The nose of the point was locally known as "Rocky Point," and for many years was the town dump. Rocky Point aims at Fall Creek, giving an idea of the terrain between Belden, in the Eagle River Valley below, and Lake Constantine..
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"Eagle River Canon, Colo., D. & R. G. Ry." Tinted photo postcard shows mine cribbing and mine buildings above Belden with the rail tracks and Eagle River at the bottom.
Verso: No. C8708 Published by The Colorado News Company, Denver, Colo., Dresden-Leipzig-Berlin. Trademark [Corson #632] for American News Co., New York, NY, Litho-chrome process.
74. Loading tipple
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The loading tipple is at far left where products would be transferred to railroad cars for shipment. The "Bull Gang" managed loading and maintenance in the Eagle River canyon. Robert E. Riggle was Bull Gang chief at one point.
The stairway at center goes into a mine entrance at about the 17 level. There are 80 feet between levels in the Gilman mine.
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"The Frontier Historical Society Jeep caravan at the Little Annie Mine on July 27, 1969." -- verso
The Little Annie Mine is in Little Annie Basin (backside of Aspen Mountain).
"From 1882 through the 1940s, various silver-mining groups struggled there. ... In the 1960s and ’70s, two ski area developments in the basin failed. By the 1990s, landowners there cobbled together mining claims and threatened to build massive homes unless the county bought...
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Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps in the Holy Cross Mining District. Man with shovel at center foreground.
"Apparently, there were two mills at Holy Cross City. The first, located just below the town, on the west side of the road, was called simply the Holy Cross Mill. It was owned by the Gold Park Mining and Milling Co. which also maintained a similar installation down below. ... Both mills were connected by a direct 2...