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Buster Beck below the silver mine emptying the "ore buckets" into a dump truck.
"Since the mine was about 100 yards above the end of the road where we had to park the dump truck, we had to build an aerial tram to ge the ore down to the trucks. Don was able to find an old model A hand brake, some cable and some 5 gallon buckets and we were in business. We loaded our ore into the dump truck, hauled it off the mountain, down river to the railroad at...
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Don Knight's silver mine at Marble, Colorado. The dump truck is in the foreground with the aerial tram running between it and the mine portal at the tope of the photo. One of the prospectors is standing in the mine portal.
"We mined and hand picked for silver for 4 to 6 weeks. We worked on a fairly large portal with hand steel and powder until the ore vein gave out. Then we took a dishpan and a prospector's pick to a couple of small openings in...
