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The main shaft house for the New Jersey Zinc Co. is the tall building at far right. The stacked lumber is for mine stoping. This view is facing north.
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Automobiles parked at Gilman along the main road into the town. Housing in left background. The building at the far right is the one-story part of the shaft house. Stacked mine timbers can barely be seen above the roofline. This appears to be taken prior to the bus line that ran from Minturn.
Notch Mountain is visible at the upper left.
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The New Jersey Zinc Company office in Gilman, Colorado. The cinder block portion, which was the newer portion of the office, was constructed in approximately 1953. [license plate 1953]
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View of Gilman, Colorado, from the highway in winter. Company housing is visible in the center of the photo.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Iron Mask Mine near Gilman before it was destroyed by a fire in 1886. Wood is scattered at the upper right from a house that was blasted to prevent a fire from spreading.
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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
New Jersey Zinc...
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A view of Gilman in the snow [1930s] with some mine facilities and housing.
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Gilman, Colorado, in the snow, looking north towards the Shaft-house.
14) Gilman
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Mine buildings at Gilman, ca. 1915. Cribbing employed in an effort to stabilize the slope.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Gilman Mine engineering and laboratory employees entering a building. Automobiles are parked in front.
16) Boarding House
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Verso: "Boarding house in Gilman where Tom [Knight] stayed until we moved up from Canon City. Alan stayed there one summer while he worked to earn money for college."
18) Belden
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Looking toward Belden in the Eagle River Canyon. Tram to Gilman visible at midground.
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With Battle Mountain in the background, the shaft house of the main entrance to the Gilman mine on Highway 24 is at midground. The waste dump from the mine is below the shaft house with the Rock Creek settlement to the left of the dump.
[picture cut from magazine]
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Frank Maloit's 1930 Hupmobile during spring mud season. The road from Red Cliff to Leadville wasn't paved until the mid-1930s. [The Hupmobile was produced from 1909-1940 by the Hupp Motor Company in Detroit.--Wikipedia]
Over the left rear of the Hupmobile is the roof of the old Powder House. Beyond that is the Mine Warehouse where Jim Walsh was storekeeper. Beyond that is the head frame for the mine hoist.
