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Underground machine shop at the Gilman Mine with John "Smiles" Doyle on the left and Bob Enzenroth on the right. An open forge is on the left.
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Frank Jones using one of the lathes to cut centers on the shaft of a bucket elevator tail pulley used in the Milling Department.
123) Railroad bridge
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Verso: "railroad bridge down below Belden and Gilman"
The bridge crosses the Eagle River in the Eagle River Canyon.
124) Tram at Belden
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Close up looking up the tram at Belden toward Gilman; supports at midfield.
125) Belden
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Looking down the Eagle River toward Belden. Railroad tracks in foreground; Gilman buildings are visible at the top.
128) Flotation area
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Floation area for the zinc ore at Gilman. Flotation tables were used to seperate the zinc and lead from the waste in the mining process. Further processing separated the lead and the zinc.
129) Sophie Knight
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Actor Janice Tonz portraying Sophie Knight, wife of Thomas Knight, both prospectors in the Holy Cross Mining District.
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The main company office for New Jersey Zinc at Gillman.
131) Plowing Gilman
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A General Excavator is moving snow at Gilman. The shovel has "Summit County" on the side.
132) GIlman in the Snow
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Gilman in the winter looking toward the main street, c1899. Note the snow depth on the house to the right.
133) Adjusting valves
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Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner discussing the adjustments to equipment. A good view of the headlamp attachment to the battery pack carried on one's belt.
134) Rail ore cars
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Ore cars full of ore lined up on the rails, waiting to go to the crushers.
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Assay Office constructed by the Silverwave Mining Company in about 1882. (A. F. Graham, carpenter, was the father of Ollie Graham Meyer of Red Cliff.) Torn down in 1938 after many years of disuse. "It was said that the reason it was built on the edge of the dliff was so that men working at the assay office could signal to the loading station on the railroad in the canyon below."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical...
136) Post Office
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The Post Office in Gilman, Colorado, with Postmaster Harry White sitting on the boardwalk in front of it. An automobile is parked up the street.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
137) Gilman
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Gilman taken from the other side of the Eagle River Canyon. The main mine shaft is at right of center.
138) Jude residence
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Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. Photo of the William Jude residence, occupied by the Jude family during the late 1930s to the early 1940s.
139) Belden
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Facilities at Belden, some abandoned. Gilman is visible at the top of the cliff. Mine buildings are at right, midfield.
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Mabel, Carol "Bobbye," and Don Ginther posed in front of automobile. Donald Burdett Ginther was born Nov. 3, 1910, in Belvidere, Nebraska. He married Mabel Gehr on June 30, 1930. They lived in Minturn while Don worked as a miner at Gilman.
Carol Ginther married Russell Beck.
