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Warren's last lumber mill up Wearyman Creek on Flemings' patent (timber claim).
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Joy Marfitano standing in front of cut logs at Warren's sawmill on Shrine Pass.
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Frank Robinson standing in his kitchen in Buena Vista, Colorado. The photo was taken by John Martinez.
Frank was the son of Harold Robinson, Safety man for the New Jersey Zinc Co. He had a brother, Fred, and a sister, Jane. Frank lived in Red Cliff and was in a logging company, Warren Brothers & Robinson. He had M.S. for years and died in 2009.
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Bruce Beck (left) and Ron Dump seated during a break while logging on Shrine Pass. The skid horse pulls the logs.
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1921: Interior of the Fleming Sawmill, Red Cliff, Colorado. Emil Erlandson is leaning on a log; another worker is in the left midground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Marie and Ray Warren standing across the street from their home at 567 Eagle St., Red Cliff. Mr. Warren owned a sawmill and was in the logging and lumber industry.
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From left, Ray tippett, Buster Beck, Bud Beck, and Don Knight, resting on the Holy Cross City Road. Wuinn Beck may be seated just above Buster in the photo [difficult to see].
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Piles of lumber in the Fleming Lumber yard, as seen from Joe Beck's back yard. Water Street runs between Beck's and the lumber yard.
9. 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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Everett Warren sitting on lumber at the Warren Brothers & Robinson sawmill. The timbers were used in mine stoping at Gilman. Everett was a partner in the sawmill and, in later years, worked for Vail Associates cutting runs in summer and driving a snowcar in winter. Everett married Lorna Hargreaves, whom he met in Australia when he was serving in the U.S. Army during World War II.
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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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An unidentified couple is sitting on Lover's Leap (Battle Mountain) with Red Cliff behind them.
Starting at the distant hillside behind the couple, we see Vic Dump Woods. Vic Dump had the contract from the Forest Service to cut timber on that hillside. The white "line" on the hillside, is the skid trail. Horses pulled logs to the skid trail where the logs were then sent down the skid trail. At the bottom of the trail, horses were again used to...
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The front of the Fleming Lumber & Mercantile Co. Office in Red Cliff, Colorado, January 24, 1919.
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Ilene Ages Warren (wife of Bob Warren) standing next to the sawblade at the Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill at the end of Eagle St. next to the ball field.
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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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The front of the Fleming Lumber and Mercantile Co. building on Eagle Street in Red Cliff in December 1999. The building is vacant and for rent.
18. Loading timber
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Harold Steinmeyer at the Warren Sawmill on Turkey Creek near Red Cliff and Gilman.
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Bob Warren sitting on lumber at the Warren Brothers & Robinson sawmill. The timbers were used in mine stoping at Gilman. Bob was a partner in the sawmill and was married to Ilene Ages Warren.