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The loading tipple at Belden, after a heavy snowfall.

22. Gilman

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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998. Residences are on the left and town/community buildings are on the right. Hwy 24 is the curved road at the extreme left. Autobiography of Mayo W. Lanning, p. 29: "The mining camp was laid out in rows of houses along streets paralleling the highway above us on the slope of Battle Mountain. Our fist home was a little white bungalow just above the camp hospital. The previous tenant had...
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A locomotive at Belden, after a heavy snowfall.
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An unidentified man standing at the back door of the bachelors' quarters in Gilman. Behind him [follow the arrow] is the Gilman Hospital. Both Alan Knight and Patricia Knight Hoffman were born in that hospital. Front: "Hospital where Trish and Alan were born, Gilman looking north" Verso: "Back door of bachelor house in Gilman"
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The stairway leading up from the bachelors' quarters at Gilman. It had to be cleared routinely in the winter.
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Crane lifting transformers into place at Gilman.
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Crane at Gilman power plant moving transformers. The building in the left background housed the post office, mercantile, and grocery store.
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Transformers being lifted into place by a Weicker crane at Gilman. The main power line came over Turkey Creek (near Red Cliff) to Gilman.
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Weicker crane being "blocked" during transformer unloading operations at the Gilman power plant. Smiling onlookers at right.
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Installing new transformers at Gilman. The tanks at the back of the unit are for cooling purposes.
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Transformers that were replaced being hauled by Weicker at Gilman.
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Power company employees supervising the installation of transformers at Gilman.
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Ramond M. "Hap" Fletcher plowing snow after a slide at Belden in the winter. Fletcher was a heavy equipment operator for the New Jersey Zinc Co. The vehicle was tracked for better performance in the heavy snow in the Eagle Canyon near Belden.
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Hap Fletcher pushing snow with a dozer after a snow slide near Belden.