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141) Steam control valves
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Steam control valves at the mill in Belden. These were located between the dryer and the loading tippel.
142) Steam controls
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Steam room controls located between the dryer building and loading tippel at Belden.
143) Surface tram
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Unidentified man [Tom Knight?] standing on the surface tram, looking from Belden toward Gilman.
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Tearing down the existing tailings pipe and stands at the tailings pond below Gilman. Once enough sediment had been released through the bottom of the pipe, new stands were erected to lift the pipe to a higher elevation. Harv Collins is in the center of the photo wearing light colored coveralls.
145) Tailings pond
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The tailings pond below Gilman (south east of Maloit Park). Mine wastes were piped approximately four miles down into the settlement area. The tailings pond kept mine wastes from flowing into the Eagle River.
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Ed Chockie (with baseball hat), Bill Jude (holding cup), Ed Miller (right), and Frank Sherwood with his back to the camera, at Maloit Park.....others are unidentified.
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Looking across the railroad tracks at Belden, the tram house is white, midground; the surface tram cable is running up the cliff on the right. Cribbing visible at center.
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Charlie Francis (right center), Bill Jude (left center), and others at a NJZ picnic at Maloit Park.
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Corrine Chockie helps Frank Sherwood unload food from a station wagon, while Dorothy Sherwood (center) and Bill Jude assist. Jude is holding a camera.
151) Unloading new dryer
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Men jockeying the new dryer from the flatbed rail car to the dryer building.
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Conveyor unloading zinc from the dryer at Belden. The zinc was then taken to the loading tippel to be loaded on railcars. Durbin McIlnay is monitoring the process.
153) Used transformers
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Transformers that were replaced being hauled by Weicker at Gilman.
154) Weicker crane
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Weicker crane being "blocked" during transformer unloading operations at the Gilman power plant. Smiling onlookers at right.
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Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. Willie Bowman, Virginia Caddy Bowman and Marjory Caddy.
156) Zinc dryer
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The dryer building for zinc is at the far right. The zinc slurry would be heated and dried, leaving a very fine zinc powder. The powder was shipped in sealed box cars as it was so fine it would blow away in an open car. The rail line for shipping runs through the Eagle River Canyon (Belden area) so the final products for shipping were finished at this level.
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Moving the zinc dryer from a railroad car into the dryer building at Belden. A wall section approximately 60 feet long has been removed in the dryer building to move this equipment
into the facility.
158) Zinc dryer system
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Part of the zinc dryer system at the mill in Gilman. The dryer was heated by a firebox under the rotating cylinder. Tumbling action of the dryer coupled with full length fins dried the zinc for loading into rail cars.
