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Durbin McIlnay trimming a log. Across the log at the bottom of the photo is an 8 foot measuring stick. The logs were cut to the same 16-foot length before being loaded on a skid.
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Buster (on left) and Jack Beck sitting on a felled log at the upper Wearyman logging camp (Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill).
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Jack Beck using a horse to pull a log on upper Wearyman Creek for Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill.
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Frank Robinson standing in his kitchen in Buena Vista, Colorado. The photo was taken by John Martinez. Frank was the son of Harold Robinson, Safety man for the New Jersey Zinc Co. He had a brother, Fred, and a sister, Jane. Frank lived in Red Cliff and was in a logging company, Warren Brothers & Robinson. He had M.S. for years and died in 2009.
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Ron Dump, seated, and Bruce Beck with axes and hand saw in front of a felled and trimmed log. They are logging on Shrine Pass for Ray Warren, Sr. Buster and Bruce Beck and Ron Dump worked when they were still in school during the summers and falls of the year.
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Everett Warren stacking logs at the lower sawmill on Wearyman Creek.
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Bob Warren moving logs at the lower Warren Brother & Robinson sawmill on Wearyman Creek. The mill works are behind him.
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Gustav (Gust) Benson sitting on sled loaded with logs and pulled by a horse team. Benson worked at Benson's (no relation) sawmill at Pando. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Bruce Beck (left) and Ron Dump seated during a break while logging on Shrine Pass. The skid horse pulls the logs.
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From left, Buster Beck, Durbin McIlnay, and Frank Robinson at a logging camp on the upper Wearyman Creek.
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Bob Warren sitting on lumber at the Warren Brothers & Robinson sawmill. The timbers were used in mine stoping at Gilman. Bob was a partner in the sawmill and was married to Ilene Ages Warren.
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Jack Beck standing on logs at Benson's sawmill, Shrine Pass. Benson's barn in is the background. Bensons had a saw mill at Pando but after they moved their logging operation up Shrine Pass, they hauled their logs to Smith's Lumber Co. in Leadville. Logging in that area was done at Shrine Pass, Tates Gulch, WIllow Creek, Lime Creek and Wearyman. Names of people involved in logging: Alfred Benson; Gus Benson (no relation); John Magunson (a blacksmith...