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This is the bottom of 18 level where water has been allowed to infiltrate the lower levels beneath it.
42) Cap Lamp Room
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From left, Bill Burnett, Hawkeye (Gordon) Flaherty, and Ella Burnett are standing in front of cap lamp units at 16 level in the Gilman mine. Alberta Limatta is at far right.
The shaft house had a 2 cage lift system, taking miners between levels. It could work with one cage going up and the other down, or with just one isolated cage moving. Cap lamps were put on before going into the mine and returned upon coming out.
43) Cap lamp room
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Berniece Chadwick, Alberta Limatta, and Ella Burnett with Hawkeye and Jean Flaherty behind them in the cap lamp room. The belts visible on Berniece and Ella hold a battery pack on the back with a power cord attaching to the lamp. Each lamp had 2 filaments so that if one burned out, the power could be switched to the second.
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Carl Garner reconstructing a mine hoist used for moving ore and supplies in the mine.
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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.
46) Charlie Francis
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Charlie Francis (center), sent from the New York office during union negiotiations, at Maloit Park.
47) Chemical storage
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Lime, soda ash and copper sulfate (used in the zinc ore processing) stored beneath the mill at Gilman. Tracks used by timber trucks and ore cars run down the center of the picture. [Same as 2007.008.123]
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Staging area in the mill at Gilman for the chemicals used to process the mined ore. The fork lift was used to lift pallets of the chemicals for use in the mixing machines. [Similar to 2007.008.072]
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Ronnie Jenkins (hands in pockets) stands behind a chopping Eddie Duffy, while Tony Karwacki holds a log in place. Others are unidentified. The wood pile is at the fireplace in the background.
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Bill May adjusting the controls on the compressor at Belden; Harold Steinmeyer supervising.
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Harold Steinmeyer and Bill May in the compressor room at Belden. Compressor equipment in the background is Ingersoll-Rand. During the spring and summer months, power for the compressors was provided by using Pelton Wheels (turbines) situated in nearby Fall Creek to generate electricity.
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Harold Steinmeyer (left) and Bill May in the compressor room at Belden. Prior to the electrical power plant at Gilman, much of the electricity for the mine (compressors) was supplied by the use of Pelton wheels (turbines) powered by the water from Fall Creek at Belden.
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Installing new transformers at Gilman. The tanks at the back of the unit are for cooling purposes.
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From left, Frank Maloit (head down), Eddie Duffy and George Gillian conversing at the New Jersey Zinc picnic at Maloit Park. Automobiles are parked in the background.
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From left, Frank Maloit (head down), Eddie Duffy and George Gillian conversing at the New Jersey Zinc picnic at Maloit Park. Automobiles are parked in the background.
56) Cordilia Lovato
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Cordilia "Cordy" Lovato standing in her yard in Red Cliff, November 2012. She was 90 years old at the time. She and her husband, Virgilio "Red" Lovato, moved to Red Cliff from New Mexico.
"Virgilio worked at the New Jersey Zinc Mine in Gilman for 30 years. He doubled as an amateur barber at the mine, cutting of of his co-workers' hair. ... He married the former Cordilia Leyba Lovato in 1940. The couple raised nine children." -- Vail Daily Oct....
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Crane at Gilman power plant moving transformers. The building in the left background housed the post office, mercantile, and grocery store.
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The cyanide injecting machine inside the mill at Gilman. Cyanide was used to clean the ore for processing. A pressure gauge is seen at the top of the injectors.
59) Cyanide mixing
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Cyanide mixing machine in the mine at Gilman. Cyanide was shipped to the mine in 50 gallon drums and required the use of rubber gloves in handling.
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Darrell Barnes supervising the play at Maloit park. Darrell was the chief accountant at Gilman for many years.
