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Remains of the mill and adjacent structures at Holy Cross City, which is ten miles south of Minturn or eleven miles north of Tennessee Pass. By the time this photo was taken, Fleming Lumber Co. had removed the main steam engine and one of the boilers from the mill to use in a saw mill. [Courtesy of Ted Beck]
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View of Red Cliff and the smoke from the Holy Cross Garage fire on March 21, 1963.
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Residents and onlookers watching fire fighting efforts on March 21, 1963, as the Holy Cross Garage and adjoining house burn. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Owen had purchased the property from Mickey Walsh and had recently remodeled the residence. Sheriff Jim Seabry investigated the fire as a possible arson.
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The front of the Holy Cross Garage in flames on March 21, 1963.
Eagle Valley Enterprise, March 21, 1963 p.1: "An historic landmark in Red Cliff was burned to the ground and an adjoining building destroyed in a blaze early this morning and two young men are being quesioned in connection with a reported break in at the garage.
The Holy Cross Garage and adjoining house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Owen went up in smoke. The residence was just remodeled...
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From left, Ray tippett, Buster Beck, Bud Beck, and Don Knight, resting on the Holy Cross City Road. Wuinn Beck may be seated just above Buster in the photo [difficult to see].
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Joseph H. Fear standing in front of his business, the Holy Cross Garage, in Red Cliff, Colorado. Christine Fear, his daughter, is in the automobile on which he is leaning. Christine graduated from high school in 1957 and worked as her dad's bookkeeper.
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The Ford tow truck from the Holy Cross Garage in Red Cliff, with car in tow. The Walsh family owned the garage.
8) Buster Beck
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Buster Beck standing in front of the doors of the Holy Cross Garage in Red Cliff. "The doors in the background were used every day so it can be assumed that the accumulation of ice took place over night." -- T. Bud Beck
9) Julia's Deck
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Mount of the Holy Cross Overlook, also known as Julia's Deck, on the Shrine Pass Road [FSR 709], a maintained dirt road, connects Vail and Red Cliff. The overlook was built as handicapped access to the overlook by volunteers representing PAWS, an organization providing recreational facilities for handicapped people.
The photo was taken in July 1994. Quinn and Buster Beck are getting a great view of the Mount of the Holy Cross in the Sawatch Range...
10) Red Cliff, Colo.
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Image depicting the town of Red Cliff as it appeared in the 1920s or 1930s. Postcard labeled: Sanborn w.38 in lower right hand corner.
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This plaque is at the Mount of the Holy Cross Overlook, also known as Julia's Deck, on the Shrine Pass Trail. Shrine Pass Road [FSR 709], a maintained dirt road, connects Vail and Red Cliff
The first section is Psalm 104:24 and the prayer following is unattributed. Interestingly enough, these same quotations are on plaques at the Grand Canyon and the Bronte Waterfall (England).
O Lord,
How manifold
are Thy works!
In wisdom hast
Thou made them...
13) Mica mining
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Theodore "Bud" Beck and Ron Dump carrying a wheelbarrow at Cleveland Lake (in the Holy Cross Wilderness Area). They were mining mica (Don Knights's venture).
The wheelbarrow "was obviously on its way to the Cleveland Lake Mica Mine & the ground was in no shape for it to be pushed."--Theodore "Bud" Beck
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Studio photograph for the wedding of Mickey and Mamie Carolyn Snow Walsh, August 11, 1920. Mr. Walsh owned and operated the Holy Cross Garage and Auto dealership in Red Cliff. Mamie Walsh was active in Neighbors of Woodcraft, Catholic Daughters and the Democratic party.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
15) Harold Stokes
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Harold "Lefty" Stokes, July 1966. Mr. Stokes worked on the Homestake Dam project, along with Harry Snyder (Whitey), Kelly Bissell, Sy Piedmont (Project Manager), Chuck Kincaid, Van Wiley (Safety), Harry Lentz, Jack Trepto, Buster Beck (Drill & Powder Foreman). The work crews lived in trailer homes at Pando.
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Mining equipment on wagon being moved by horse teams; eight horses in front, two at rear of wagon. Inscription on back of original photo [held by Town of Red Cliff]: "Cripple Crick; picture owned by Will McCune, great-uncle of Mary Barber Albert, showing how large equipment was moved to remote mining areas such as Holy Cross City, etc. 78-2-20; 0388"
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Marker for: "Marcella A., wife of G. Olmstead, born July 13, 1869, died April 19, 1904, aged 34 yrs. 9 ms. 6 ds.," Greenwood Cemetery. At the bottom is inscribed: "Erected by the Women of Woodcraft."
"Monuments have been erected in Greenwood cemetery, at Red Cliff, by the Head Circle, Women of Woodcraft, over the graves of Mrs. Marcella A. Olmstead and Mrs. Nettie Y. Nelson, deceased members of the order.
Mrs. Olmstead was a member of Kinnikinick...
18) O. W. Daggett
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O. W. Daggett, standing in timber.
"Mr. Daggett came to Colorado in 1882, and was one of the first to homestead land in the Eagle river valley. He owned and operated the Red Rock ranch and the Daggett store in Gypsum until 1897, when he went to Fulford, as postmaster and store operator. ..Later he was employed in the Eagle river canon. ... In 1891 he started publication of the Holy Cross Trail, and continued the publication of that paper until 1940."...
19) Kid Hoover
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"Kid" [William A.] Hoover in the office at the Fleming lumber mill, Red Cliff, 1925. Invoices hanging on wall at left; saws hanging on wall at right.
Hoover was a teamster for the Fleming Lumber Company, Empire Zinc Company, and a member of the Leadville fire department. He "...became one of the best teamsters the country ever knew. Perched on a wagon carrying five or six tons of ore or lumber, holding the strings on six or eight 1800-pound horses,...
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An interior view of the lobby and dining room of Shrine Lodge. Shrine Lodge was located in Red Cliff. It's slogan was that it was the "Starting place for Mt. Holy Cross." The lodge opened on June 10, 1928. Josephine Stevenson was the first proprietor of the lodge. She sold the lodge in September of 1943, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Malmborg of Chicago. By April of 1944, the lodge had been sold to Kathryn Holmes, who in turn sold the lodge to Mr. and...
