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41. Mucking machine
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Air operated mucking machine. The scoop goes over the mucking machine and empties the ore into the car behind. Miners also used these cars to move mining timbers throughout the mine. The machines and cars ran on rail tracks.
42. Gilman
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Gilman from above U.S. Highway 24, showing entrance into the town. The main mine shaft is at left in the center of the photograph. There are no stairs up to the road for the bottom row of houses so this may be during their construction.
43. Jack Johnson
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Jack Johnson, surveyor, checking calculations at his desk. Survey crews worked both in the Gilman Mine and at Belden, as well as on the general property of New Jersey Zinc, Gilman.
44. Gilman Christmas
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Christmas night on Main Street in Gilman, Colorado.
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Underground machine shop at the Gilman Mine with John "Smiles" Doyle on the left and Bob Enzenroth on the right. An open forge is on the left.
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Frank Jones using one of the lathes to cut centers on the shaft of a bucket elevator tail pulley used in the Milling Department.
47. Gilman
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Looking down at Gilman and Windy Point, with the Eagle River Canyon below.
48. William A. Jude
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William A. Jude, Superintendent , Gilman Mine.
49. Flotation area
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Floation area for the zinc ore at Gilman. Flotation tables were used to seperate the zinc and lead from the waste in the mining process. Further processing separated the lead and the zinc.
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The main company office for New Jersey Zinc at Gillman.
51. Adjusting valves
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Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner discussing the adjustments to equipment. A good view of the headlamp attachment to the battery pack carried on one's belt.
52. Rail ore cars
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Ore cars full of ore lined up on the rails, waiting to go to the crushers.
53. Gilman
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Gilman taken from the other side of the Eagle River Canyon. The main mine shaft is at right of center.
54. Belden
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Facilities at Belden, some abandoned. Gilman is visible at the top of the cliff. Mine buildings are at right, midfield.
55. Repair shop
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More steel milling machiner in the repair shop. The lathe at center is approximately 20 feet long.
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Gilman taken from U.S. Highway 24 which curves around and continues at the upper left. The main shaft of the mine is at the far left.
57. Gilman
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Main entrance to Gilman, a company town of New Jersey Zinc Co., from Highway 24.
58. Gilman
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Gilman showing housing at left, mine buildings at right.
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Installing transformers and connecting terminals to main power line.
60. Zinc dryer
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The dryer building for zinc is at the far right. The zinc slurry would be heated and dried, leaving a very fine zinc powder. The powder was shipped in sealed box cars as it was so fine it would blow away in an open car. The rail line for shipping runs through the Eagle River Canyon (Belden area) so the final products for shipping were finished at this level.