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Front view of the Fleming Lumber & Merc. Co., Red Cliff, CO, showing front door and boardwalk. Date in lower right corner: 1/7/1926. R. E. "Eddie" Tippett on left in doorway; Malcolm McLeod on right in doorway. John Fleming on Tippett's right. The children are Blanche, Bernice and Richard Tippett.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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"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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Joel James Fitzgerald III, standing on a framer's pole at Warren's mill, near Cole Creek, up Shrine Pass, Forest Service Rd. no. 709. The kiln in the background was used to make charcoal for the smelters in Leadville.
Joel was the son of Loryne Fitzgerald, a teacher at Red Cliff Union High School. They lived next door to the Beck family in Red Cliff.