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1) Assay office
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Photo postcard of Gilman with Belden at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon. Ore cars are lined up on the tracks and the surface tram is clearly visible.
"Eagle River Canyon and Gilman from Battle Mt. Highway Sanborn W-1102"
2) Assay office
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The distinctive roofline of the Assay Office at Gilman (midfield) pinpoints the identification of this photo. Mining timbers are stacked at right. Other buildings are at left.
Stamp on verso: "Quality BB Print Guaranteed Not to Fade May 23, 1928"
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An unidentified man standing at the back door of the bachelors' quarters in Gilman. Behind him [follow the arrow] is the Gilman Hospital. Both Alan Knight and Patricia Knight Hoffman were born in that hospital.
Front: "Hospital where Trish and Alan were born, Gilman looking north"
Verso: "Back door of bachelor house in Gilman"
4) Belden
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Looking toward Belden in the Eagle River Canyon. Tram to Gilman visible at midground.
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Climbing Fancy Pass to the Holy Cross Mining District. From left: Harold Stoner, Buster Beck and MacDonald Knight. The Holy Cross District covered 100 square miles of the intervening country between the headwaters of Cross and Homestake Creeks. Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps.
Verso: "Big'un Stoner, Buster Beck, Don Knight climbing Fancy Pass 1939"
"Harold Stoner was known by his Missouri Family as 'Big'un.' He had...
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MacDonald Knight standing on trailer attached to his jeep. He's looking at lumber in front of an abandoned cabin at Holy Cross City. There are wildflowers in the foreground.
"The one picture of Don Knight's jeep shows some boards. Buster [Beck] said there was two piles of boards on this side of Francy Pass. Why & from where he does not know. SInce they are on this side of Fancy Pass he is sure they did not come from the saw mill at Cross Creek."...
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A view of the Eagle River Gorge, showing Belden at the bottom of the gorge and Gilman on the cliff above the gorge. The Belden tram is in the mid field of the photo.
[One of a series of ten photographs included in postal mailer: Frashers Quality Photos, Ten Scenic Views souvenir from Canon City to Leadville, Colo. Frashers, Inc., Pomona, Calif. Required 2 cents postage.]
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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,...
12) Fancy Pass
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Fancy Pass in the Holy Cross Mining District. The Mt. of the Holy Cross is marked with an x.
Verso: "Fancy Pass, head of Cross Creek looking down toward Mt. of the Holy Cross"
"Beyond the first hill, the Fancy Pass trail climbs up the hillside above Fancy Lake. On the top, the rocky cut is Fancy Pass, a nineteenth-century crossing that was named for Joseph Fancy, a prospector active in the Holy Cross country in the early 1880's. Originally,...
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Frank Figgins, with the pipe in his mouth, stands with another man in Breckenridge. Frank is holding a bucket and wearing a work jumpsuit and hat. The unidentified man is wearing a suit, and leaning against a beam. There is various equipment in the building and around the men including two wheels and a bucket.
Frank & Birdie Figgins ranched in the Sweetwater Valley before Frank took work in Breckenridge at a gold mine as the Dredge Master. The couple...
15) Fulford Camp
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Fulford Camp near East Brush Creek. Undated. Fulford, Colorado is located 18 miles south of Eagle and was once a bustling mining town. The Fulford family were influential in local hotels, stores, and mines of the time. Today, many cabins and homes are there with trails and recreation, although the area could be considered closed during the winter months. This photograph was printed on a postcard.
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Looking west toward Fulford with Porphyry Mountain in the background.
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A view of Fulford, Colorado, in 1928.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
18) Gilman
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Photographic postcard of the main street in Gilman. Two men are at left, in front of a storefront. A team of horses is tethered in front of a building at midfield.
19) Gilman
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Gilman, Colorado, December 25, 1948, taken from the "u" turn in Hwy. 24.
Autobiography of Mayo W. Lanning, p. 30:
"Gilman was close to the top of Battle Mountain at 9,000 feet above sea level. Since a great deal of my day was spent in the mine I was several thousand feet lower, but the only time Trudie got below this was when we drove down off the mountain. Over the top and about 3-4 miles away (mostly down), was Red Cliff and Turkey Creek, both...
20) Gilman
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The town of Gilman looking south toward Belden. Belden would be in the Eagle Canyon, which
is below the last buildings in the center of the photo. [related to negative 2012.006.062]
