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Installing transformers and connecting terminals to main power line.
122. 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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Gilman taken from a mountainside perspective. U.S. Highway 24 is at the upper left; the main entrance to Gilman from Hwy 24 is below it.
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One entrance to the Lady Belle Mine on Horse Mountain. The distinctive cedars on the hillside are markers found in other photographs of the area.
The Lady Belle Mine, "discovered in 1912, was a relatively limited pocket of ore that kept miners busy for only a short time. The mine operated until 1918, and although it never lived up to expectation of the local community, historical sources report the Lady Belle produced anywhere from $450,000 to $1...
125. Mine on hillside
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Mine on hillside, possibly Salida.
126. Vanance Favre home
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The Vanance Favre home is on part of what once was the H. B. Gillespie ranch. Gillespie made his fortune at the Molly Gibson Mine at Aspen, Colorado.
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Approaching Belden at the end of the surface tram. Mine facilities and equipment are visible as are the Eagle River and the railroad tracks across the river.
128. Main Street Gilman
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Main Street in Gilman after a heavy snowfall. The license plate on the first car may read 1934. Storefronts show business names and products.
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Front: "Main Office E.Z.;" verso: "Mine office at Gilman, Healy's Grocery to the right"
E.Z. noted above was "Empire Zinc Co., formed in 1902 to search for and develop zinc mines in the west. The Eagle mine, operated by the Empire Zinc Division of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado, thirty miles west of the Continental Divide, was acquired in 1915." -- The First Hundred Years of the New Jersey Zinc Company, p.29
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Ramond M. "Hap" Fletcher plowing snow after a slide at Belden in the winter. Fletcher was a heavy equipment operator for the New Jersey Zinc Co. The vehicle was tracked for better performance in the heavy snow in the Eagle Canyon near Belden.
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Underground machine shop at the Gilman Mine with Carl Garner (l) and Gus Peterson.
132. French Creek Falls
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Unidentified man standing at the top of French Creek Falls.
133. Mill Repair Crew
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The mill repair crew at Gilman seated in front of cribbing next to the tram rail.
134. Gilman in the snow
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A view of Gilman in the snow [1930s] with some mine facilities and housing.
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Frank Maloit, holding a hula hoop, conversing with guests at his retirement party from New Jersey Zinc Co.
"Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maloit were guests of honor at a cocktail-dinner party in Gilman Saturday, when 115 guests--employees of the New Jersey Zinc Company and other friends gathered to extend their best wishes to the Maloits who are leaving Gilman Nov. 20 to make their home in Grand Junction." -- Leadville Herald Nov. [?] 1958.
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136. Soda ash machine
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Platform leading to the soda ash machine at the Gilman Mine. Soda ash (also called washing soda, sodium carbonate Na2CO3) was one of the chemicals used to clean the ore. The large pipe on the left is for ventilation of the soda ash work area.
137. Adjusting valves
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Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner adjusting the valves on equipment.
138. New dryer
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The new dryer in place for the Gilman mine.
139. Ore cart
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An ore car at right, going out to the main pit (Grizzly). Once it arrives at the pit, the rocker wheel on the cart is elevated by the track and dumps the contents of the cart into the pit.
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Gilman, Colorado, in the snow, looking north towards the Shaft-house.