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Standing above the cavern in the Gilman mine where the ball and rod mills are housed. The mills are on an incline for gravity feed down to the loading docks.
At the center right of the photo, steel rods are stacked for use in the rod mill.
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At 16 level, the ore train would dump rock into the large pit (Grizzly) at the bottom of which was located a jaw crusher. The crusher would send the ore into the ball mill and rod mill where the ore was pulverized to a fine powder.
Inside the ball mill, there would be ore and steel balls, approximately 10 in. in diameter. As the mill rotated, the ore was crushed by the balls. Eventually, the balls would wear down and Bob Riggle remembers his dad...
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At right is the ball mill. At left is the rod mill. The mills are on an incline for gravity feed down to the loading docks.
At the center right of the photo, steel rods are stacked for use in the rod mill.
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Casts for pouring bearings in the mill. The idea of the machine shop and mill was to make the Gilman Mine as self sufficient as possible in terms of repair and renovation of equipment.
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Dorothy Hughes when she was five years old, standing on a platform at the Belden mill (below the town of Gilman). Mr. Spear, team tender, is standing on the right. Tram tracks are above Spear's head. A mudslide came down the hill and blocked the railway and river. The Hughes family lived at Belden from 1919 to 1922.
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Cabin belonging to Charles Fredrick Eichaker at the mineral mill at Cross Creek. The Knight and Beck familes used the cabin at various points in time.
"Even had an outhouse"--Angela Beck.
[information from Buster Beck]
Bill Burnett mentions Charlie Eyacher [sic.] in The Eagle on Battle Mountain at Gilman, Colorado and My Life as I Remember, although Bill locates the cabin at Fall Creek p.7: "Old Charlie had a house on the far side, eastside,...
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Remains of the cabin owned by Charles Eichaker at the mill at Cross Creek. The mill pond is visible in the right background. The cabin was used by the Knight and Beck families at various points in time.
[information from Buster Beck]
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The arrastra has been used since the Phoenicians to grind ores, most often gold or silver. The construction involves a circular pit paved with flat stones. Large flat-bottomed drag stones are connected to a center post by a long arm. Using horse, mule or human power, the arm drags the large stones over the ore, crushing it. This arrastra at the Gold Bug Mine was powered by a waterwheel, clearly evident in the photograph. It is a cheap but effective...
10) Gold Park Mill
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The Gold Park Mill building, taken in the 1890s. Along with Holy Cross City, Gold Park was a small mining camp located in what is today the Holy Cross Wilderness.
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A unidentified individual drives a wagon away from the mill and blacksmith shop at Gold Park.
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Joel Fitzgerald, shop foreman, boring a bearing for an electric motor which operates Marcy Mill in the Milling Department.
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Documenting the landslide onto the D&RG tracks in Eagle River Canyon. The numbers on the photo correspond to the descriptions below.
"1. Loading tipple; 2. Service tunnel to mill stope. Note how completely the slide buried it" [written by Tom Knight]
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Documenting the landslide onto the D&RG tracks in Eagle River Canyon. The numbers on the photo correspond to the descriptions below. The old mill is at far right.
Verso: "1. New House Station on tram; 2. Eagle River; 3. Slide on D&RG; 4. An old mill, note the cribbing underneath the building" [written by Tom Knight]
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Documenting the landslide onto the D&RG tracks in Eagle River Canyon. The numbers on the photo correspond to the descriptions below.
Verso: "1. Compressor house; 2. Tram landing; 3. New House tunnel station on tram; I am working on a level with the New House Tunnel, but about ½ miles in the Mtn. Notice how steep the tram is; it's steeper yet before it reaches Gilman." [written by Tom Knight]
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Looking south along the railroad tracks at Belden towards the Belden mill. Destroyed cribbing on the left and debris on the tracks in the background.
17) Mill
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The mill building at Holy Cross City.
Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps in the Holy Cross Mining District.
"Apparently, there were two mills at Holy Cross City. The first, located just below the town, on the west side of the road, was called simply the Holy Cross Mill. It was owned by the Gold Park Mining and Milling Co. which also maintained a similar installation down below. ... Both mills were connected by a direct 2...
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The Belden mill and tram in Eagle Canyon, below Gilman. Railroad tracks at bottom right in photo. Taken after the 1919 landslide.
19) Mill area
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Part of the mill area in the Gilman mine, showing separation tanks for lead, copper and zinc.
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"A group of people from the eastern part of the country heard about a copper mine near McCoy and formed the Copper King Mine and Milling Company with headquarters at Copper Spur and began promoting the mine on a large scale. They sold stock mostly to eastern investors, but a few Colorado people thought they saw a good thing and bought in. By 1916 the mine located about two miles northeast of Copper Spur was in production and the ore being milled,...
