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Alfred Benson’s property on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. Originally, there were several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site. This was not Benson's main cabin or barn. The main cabin interior walls had been smoothed with an adz or a broad-axe and these are not smooth. The structure is too small to be the barn. This photo was taken on July 26, 2012.
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Durbin McIlnay trimming a log. Across the log at the bottom of the photo is an 8 foot measuring stick. The logs were cut to the same 16-foot length before being loaded on a skid.
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Albert Buffehr standing on sled, holding the reins to a four-horse team. The caption reads "log hauling out of Mill Creek." Albert and his wife, Violet, lived in Minturn and later moved to Edgewater, Colorado. Both are buried in Minturn.
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Joy Marfitano standing in front of cut logs at Warren's sawmill on Shrine Pass.
6) Logs
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Logs loaded on a skid, ready to be pulled by a tractor to the sawmill. Logging done at upper Wearyman Creek logging camp; sawmill (Warren Brothers & Robinson) located at lower Wearyman Creek.
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Ron Dump, Theodore "Bud" Beck, Louie "Dutch" Gleiforst and a fourth man standing in front of a trailor house. Ron Dump has his right arm in his right boot (his right foot is bootless but socked) and the men are examining the toe. The men were cutting logs for Ray Earl Warren, owner of the trailer house. Model A Ford in the background; logs, sandwich and canteen in foreground. The site is 3.5 miles up Shrine Pass and was known as Kelly's. It's...
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Buster (on left) and Jack Beck sitting on a felled log at the upper Wearyman logging camp (Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill).
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Ray Warren's skid horse "Ben," pulling logs uphill on Shrine Pass. Logging road is to the right of Ben.
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Stump in the snow. The trail where logs have been dragged through the snow is to the right of the stump.
11) Jack Beck
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Jack Beck using a horse to pull a log on upper Wearyman Creek for Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill.
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Ron Dump, seated, and Bruce Beck with axes and hand saw in front of a felled and trimmed log. They are logging on Shrine Pass for Ray Warren, Sr. Buster and Bruce Beck and Ron Dump worked when they were still in school during the summers and falls of the year.
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Front view of a remaining cabin on Alfred Benson’s property on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. Originally, there were several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site. This photo was taken on July 26, 2012.
14) Buster Beck
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Buster Beck with a cant hook log roller, positioning cut and trimmed logs into a pile. A piece of lumber is being used as a wedge.
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Everett Warren stacking logs at the lower sawmill on Wearyman Creek.
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Bob Warren moving logs at the lower Warren Brother & Robinson sawmill on Wearyman Creek. The mill works are behind him.
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Gustav (Gust) Benson sitting on sled loaded with logs and pulled by a horse team. Benson worked at Benson's (no relation) sawmill at Pando.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Bruce Beck (left) and Ron Dump seated during a break while logging on Shrine Pass. The skid horse pulls the logs.
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Sawmill at Beaver Lake with logs in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
