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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.
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Bob Warren moving logs at the lower Warren Brother & Robinson sawmill on Wearyman Creek. The mill works are behind him.
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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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From left, Buster Beck, Durbin McIlnay, and Frank Robinson at a logging camp on the upper Wearyman Creek.
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Buster (on left) and Jack Beck sitting on a felled log at the upper Wearyman logging camp (Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill).
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Durbin McIlnay trimming a log. Across the log at the bottom of the photo is an 8 foot measuring stick. The logs were cut to the same 16-foot length before being loaded on a skid.
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Everett Warren stacking logs at the lower sawmill on Wearyman Creek.
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The front of the Fleming Lumber & Mercantile Co. Office in Red Cliff, Colorado, January 24, 1919.
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1929: Fleming Lumber Co. R. E. "Eddie" Tippett on stool in office.
In the Assessment Roll 1930 Eagle County, Red Cliff School Taxation District 1, Outside, Fleming's holdings are as follows: Saw Mill on Peterson Gulch ($800), Framer on Polar Millsite ($600), Planer on Turkey Creek ($2,200), Sawmill on Turkey Creek ($400).
Fleming also held properties in the Minturn 11, Outside, district.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County...
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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.
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Fleming's Saw Mill under construction
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
12) Frank Robinson
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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.
13) Frank Robinson
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Frank Robinson checking the conveyor at the lower Sawmill on Wearyman Creek (Warren Brothers & Robinson). Lumber is stacked to the right of Frank. Snow is on the ground.
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Gustav (Gust) Benson sitting on sled loaded with logs and pulled by a horse team. Benson worked at Benson's (no relation) sawmill at Pando.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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.
16) Jack Beck
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Jack Beck using a horse to pull a log on upper Wearyman Creek for Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill.
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Jack Beck standing on logs at Benson's sawmill, Shrine Pass. Benson's barn in is the background. Bensons had a saw mill at Pando but after they moved their logging operation up Shrine Pass, they hauled their logs to Smith's Lumber Co. in Leadville.
Logging in that area was done at Shrine Pass, Tates Gulch, WIllow Creek, Lime Creek and Wearyman. Names of people involved in logging: Alfred Benson; Gus Benson (no relation); John Magunson (a blacksmith...
18) 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,...
19) Logs
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Logs loaded on a skid, ready to be pulled by a tractor to the sawmill. Logging done at upper Wearyman Creek logging camp; sawmill (Warren Brothers & Robinson) located at lower Wearyman Creek.
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"Where Frank Figgins works in Portland, Oregon". (caption from photo)
No other information provided. It appears to be a lumber yard; there are stacks of lumber and logs and accompanying machinery. Workers can be seen in the building to the left.
