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California fire fighters parked their trucks at Benson's sawmill on Turkey Creek to fight a fire around Shrine Pass, September 2, 1996.
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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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"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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Interagency Fire Management truck parked at Benson's (up Turkey Creek towards Shrine Pass) while fighting a forest fire, September 2, 1996.
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Ft. Arnett in Red Cliff taken in November 1984. Early Days on the Eagle, by MacDonald Knight and Leonard Hammock, p. 17: "In September, 1879, word reached the infant settlement that the Utes were on the warpath. A rumor made the rounds that a band of Indians had been seen coming up the Eagle. Hurriedly, the men of the town constructed a small fort of stone, high on a projection of quartzite at the junction of Turkey Creek and Eagle River. Rohm...
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Photographed from the Beck Family house in Red Cliff, a train pulls through town.
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Ruby Dump Crye on a motorcycle in front of the Victor and Blanche Dump home on Turkey Creek (Red Cliff).
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Flood waters from Turkey Creek in Fleming Lumber and Mercantile Co. yard during spring runoff June1952.
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Lumber stacked up at the sawmill on Turkey Creek. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Water from Turkey Creek floods the grounds of the Fleming Lumber and Mercantile Co. during June 1952. Spring runoff was high.
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Grandmother Blanche Dump Gay with grandchildren, from left to right: Ruby Dump (Crye) holding infant Ernie Dump (Ivan Ernest "Ernie" Dump Dumph). Betty May Dump (Elsberry) holding her grandmother's hand. The are next to Turkey Creek Rd. in Red. Cliff.
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Harold Steinmeyer at the Warren Sawmill on Turkey Creek near Red Cliff and Gilman.
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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.
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The Victor Dump family, standing in front of their house on Turkey Creek Rd. in Red Cliff, 1918. Back row: Blanche Gay Dump, Victor, baby Ethel Front row: Clarence, Ivan and Pearl