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Fleming's Saw Mill under construction
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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,...