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1929: Fleming Lumber Co. R. E. "Eddie" Tippett on stool in office.
In the Assessment Roll 1930 Eagle County, Red Cliff School Taxation District 1, Outside, Fleming's holdings are as follows: Saw Mill on Peterson Gulch ($800), Framer on Polar Millsite ($600), Planer on Turkey Creek ($2,200), Sawmill on Turkey Creek ($400).
Fleming also held properties in the Minturn 11, Outside, district.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County...
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Richard Edward "Eddie" Tippett, bookkeeper and secretary-treasurer of the Fleming Lumber and Mercantile Company, seated at a desk. Carpet on floor.
Eagle Valley Enterprise, June 30, 1934 p. 4: from the obituary (Mr. Tippett died June 18, 1934):
"Mr. Tippett came to Red Cliff from Rifle twenty-four years ago and began to work as a bookkeeper for the Fleming Lumber company. He soon became a partner in the firm and for years has been secretary and...
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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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Fleming Lumber Company framing mill in Red Cliff, Colorado. Man in midground is working on framing timbers. Steps and fence in foreground. Equipment on top road in background was being used to prepare road for the construction of the Red Cliff bridge (Hwy 24).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
12. Kid Hoover
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"Kid" [William A.] Hoover in the office at the Fleming lumber mill, Red Cliff, 1925. Invoices hanging on wall at left; saws hanging on wall at right.
Hoover was a teamster for the Fleming Lumber Company, Empire Zinc Company, and a member of the Leadville fire department. He "...became one of the best teamsters the country ever knew. Perched on a wagon carrying five or six tons of ore or lumber, holding the strings on six or eight 1800-pound horses,...
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Jack Nye and the Fleming Lumber Company team in front the Burbank house in Red. Cliff.
"The Frank Burbank home--an early day landmark in Red Cliff was burned to the ground Monday evening--the third disastrous fire in that Eagle County town in as many months.
The home was owned by a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Burbank, Eleanor McIlnay and her husband, Ira.
Mrs. McIlnay said there was no way to how how the blaze started....The Red Cliff firemen...
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Victor Dump at the reins of the horse team and Otto Bergman sitting on lumber from the Fleming Lumber mill. The lumber is on a skid drawn by a horse team.
"The breast strap of the team is threaded through both rings, with the pole strap loop captured between them. This arrangement virtually eliminates the tendency for the end ring sleeve to be pulled off the end of the neckyoke. Simple, but good insurance." -- Stu Dykstra
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Buster Beck (L) and Bob (Charles Robert) Warren on horseback on Water Street, Red Cliff. "Twin houses" in right background. Fleming Lumber Company at upper left background.
"Lou Brady was the last owner of the twin houses. He lived in one and was tearing down the other one for firewood. After he died, Alan Albert, school teacher, helped tear down the one Brady lived in and they found some money hidden in the wall."--Angela Beck