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California fire fighters parked their trucks at Benson's sawmill on Turkey Creek to fight a fire around Shrine Pass, September 2, 1996.
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Joe S. Sandoval standing next to Jack Elliott [neighbors on Turkey Creek (Red Cliff)]. The men are at the Ground Hog Mine, Nottingham Incline, on Battle Mountain.
3) Rex Flats
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"Red Cliff"
A view of Red cliff, looking to the northeast. Turkey Creek drainage is at left. The Ft. Arnett rockpile is at center.
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Interagency Fire Management truck parked at Benson's (up Turkey Creek towards Shrine Pass) while fighting a forest fire, September 2, 1996.
5) Ft. Arnett
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Ft. Arnett in Red Cliff taken in November 1984.
Early Days on the Eagle, by MacDonald Knight and Leonard Hammock, p. 17:
"In September, 1879, word reached the infant settlement that the Utes were on the warpath. A rumor made the rounds that a band of Indians had been seen coming up the Eagle. Hurriedly, the men of the town constructed a small fort of stone, high on a projection of quartzite at the junction of Turkey Creek and Eagle River. Rohm...
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Photographed from the Beck Family house in Red Cliff, a train pulls through town.
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Ruby Dump Crye on a motorcycle in front of the Victor and Blanche Dump home on Turkey Creek (Red Cliff).
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Flood waters from Turkey Creek in Fleming Lumber and Mercantile Co. yard during spring runoff June1952.
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Lumber stacked up at the sawmill on Turkey Creek.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Water from Turkey Creek floods the grounds of the Fleming Lumber and Mercantile Co. during June 1952. Spring runoff was high.
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Grandmother Blanche Dump Gay with grandchildren, from left to right: Ruby Dump (Crye) holding infant Ernie Dump (Ivan Ernest "Ernie" Dump Dumph). Betty May Dump (Elsberry) holding her grandmother's hand. The are next to Turkey Creek Rd. in Red. Cliff.
12) Loading timber
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Harold Steinmeyer at the Warren Sawmill on Turkey Creek near Red Cliff and Gilman.
13) Warren Sawmill
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Warren Sawmill on Turkey Creek in Red Cliff. Warren provided some of the mining timber for the mine at Gilman. The timber is being moved through the saw on a cart riding on tracks. The saw had an attachment used to make a special cut that allowed the mining timbers to quickly be put together in the mine. Ike Dump is closest to the camera on the right, feeding logs into the saw.
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Ike Dump banding mining timber at Warren Sawmill in Red Cliff. Safety "chaps" were worn to prevent cuts when working with the saws and the timber. Harold Steinmeyer is supervising.
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Cutting mining timber with a horizontal blade at the Warren Sawmill in Red Cliff. Extra blades are stored on the cutting arm to the right.
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The Victor Dump family, standing in front of their house on Turkey Creek Rd. in Red Cliff, 1918.
Back row: Blanche Gay Dump, Victor, baby Ethel
Front row: Clarence, Ivan and Pearl