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The main shaft house for the New Jersey Zinc Co. is the tall building at far right. The stacked lumber is for mine stoping. This view is facing north.
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Front: "Main Office E.Z.;" verso: "Mine office at Gilman, Healy's Grocery to the right"
E.Z. noted above was "Empire Zinc Co., formed in 1902 to search for and develop zinc mines in the west. The Eagle mine, operated by the Empire Zinc Division of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado, thirty miles west of the Continental Divide, was acquired in 1915." -- The First Hundred Years of the New Jersey Zinc Company, p.29
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83) Night view
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Continuing construction of the top level of the Madden Dam taken at night.
The Panama Canal was opened on August 15, 1914. The first major capital improvement was the Madden Dam and Power Project. Completed in 1935, it controlled the flow of water from the Chagres River into Gatun Lake and created its own reservoir, Lake Madden. [That name was changed to Alajuela Lake in 1999 when the Canal Zone was returned to Panama.] Hydroelectric power and...
84) Notch Mountain
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Notch Mountain in the background, with Fall Creek flowing into the Eagle Canyon. Parts of Gilman can be seen in the immediate right foreground.
Verso: "Notch Mt. from Gilman. Fall Creek and Eagle Canyon in foreground"
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An ore car sitting on mine tracks at the Glengarry Tunnel at Cross Creek, 1939.
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Perlita Knight [Gauthier] working at a table while camping at French Creek. Tent in background.
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Perlita Knight Gauthier, sister of MacDonald "Don" Knight, with a pack mule, walking up Fancy Pass (Homestake area).
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Verso: "Perlita [on left] & Mary Howard at Powderhorn 1942"
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Perlita Knight [Gauthier] standing at the new Red Cliff bridge on Battle Mountain highway.
The dedication was held at noon on Sunday, August 3, 1941. Governor Ralph L. Carr and other officials attended. The bridge and six miles of new highway built over Battle Mountain cost a total of $636,405. The bridge is 470 ft. long, 209 ft. high; the roadbed is 30 ft. wide and has two 18-inch curbs. It is listed on the Historic Bridge Inventory, Colorado Historical...
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Verso: "Pete Mann who ran the pack string 12 miles from the Glengary mine to Gold Park; 22 tons packed out summer 1939"
91) Pioneer Woman
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Verso: The 'Pioneer Woman' showed to us by Mrs. Olesen when she visited us after we bought the ranch. She is visible from the corrals of the ranch."
92) Poorman Mine
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Verso: "Don [MacDonald Knight] at the Poorman Mine which we once owned below Gilman."
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Verso: "Don, Tom, Sam Anderson, and Harold Stoner at Gold Park cabin loading ore from the Glengarry Mine to be hauled to the Leadville smelter."
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Front: "Don single jacking, Glengarry mine"
MacDonald knight using a hammer and drilling steel to create holes in rock.
From the USDA Forest Service website:
"Single jacking involves an individual holding a drilling steel in one hand and hitting it with a hammer held in the other. The single jacks have 3- or 4-pound heads and 10-inch handles. The short handle helps you place blows accurately and resists breaking better than longer handles. Engineer's...
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Front: " '40, miners Glengarry June 1st, 1940"
Removing ore in an ore cart at the Glengarry [Glengary] Mine tunnel, June 1, 1940. Macdonald Knight is at left. Snow on the ground on June 1 is not that unusual for Cross Creek, given the altitude.
96) Ralph Fridley
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Ralph Fridley, part of the mining group, on the way out of the Glengarry Mine on June 1, 1940, in typical Colorado spring weather. Fridley is leaning on a two-man, cross-cut saw.
97) Ranch entrance
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The entrance gate to the Glen Schmidt ranch with the boxed reverse G brand at the top right.
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Red Cliff Union High School band getting ready to play at the viaduct opening. The viaduct carries Pine Street over the railroad tracks and the Eagle River.
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Man resting in the shade of an overhang with pack mules and dog at the top of Fancy Pass.
"I recall that little mine way up on Middle Mountain, I think it was the Blossom. I know that when you stuck your head up over Fancy Pass that little mine was staring your right in the face although at some distance. As most of the places we looked into, there was no trace of any mineral on the premises." -- Bud Beck Jan. 2010
100) Shoveling out
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Front: "4th & Main Gilman, Colorado [photo postcard] [house is at far right, where electrical lines end] Unidentified people shoveling snow after a heavy snowfall in Gilman.
