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"Paving Homestake Dam, October 1966. 1055 PH crane outfitted to perform more than one operation."
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John Mueller, Angela Beck and Buster Beck fishing at the Homestake reservoir on August 2, 2004.
47) Hunky Dory Lake
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Looking down on Huky Dory Lake, Holy Cross Wilderness area, September 1935.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
48) Jack
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Part of the MacDonald Knight prospecting team.
Verso: " 'Jack' the male member of the pack string 1939"
49) Kelley's place
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Kelley property up Homestake Rd., Forest Service Road 703. Ray Kelley had built a two story house and several other cabins between 1947 and his death in 1978. He had several mining claims in the area. The Forest Service dismantled the two story house after his death.
Ray Kelley walked into Red Cliff in the 1940s, pulling a red wagon, to do his grocery shopping.
This area is a popular picnic spot, with elk hunting in the big park above the cabin...
50) Lake Constantine
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A view of Lake Constantine, located in the Holy Cross Wilderness Area near the Mount of the Holy Cross.
51) MacDonald Knight
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MacDonald Knight holding his fishing pole and his catch, standing with his right foot on the running board of an automobile.
Caption: "D. & his fish"
52) Mica mining
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Theodore "Bud" Beck and Ron Dump carrying a wheelbarrow at Cleveland Lake (in the Holy Cross Wilderness Area). They were mining mica (Don Knights's venture).
The wheelbarrow "was obviously on its way to the Cleveland Lake Mica Mine & the ground was in no shape for it to be pushed."--Theodore "Bud" Beck
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Micheline and Don Knight with baby Patricia, taken during the trip to Holy Cross City. The Hound is in the foreground.
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Remains of the mill and adjacent structures at Holy Cross City, which is ten miles south of Minturn or eleven miles north of Tennessee Pass. By the time this photo was taken, Fleming Lumber Co. had removed the main steam engine and one of the boilers from the mill to use in a saw mill. [Courtesy of Ted Beck]
56) Mill building
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Mill building at the mill pond, head of Cross Creek (Holy Cross Wilderness Area). Two men are examining something by the foundation of the building.
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Outbuilding next to the mill building at Cross Creek. [The mill building is just to the left, out of the frame.] There is a person with a dog at midfield.
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A mother and child pose for a picture near the Mount of the Holy Cross. Date unknown.
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A close-up view of the Mount of the Holy Cross. The photo was printed July 8, 1932.
