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Wood framing used to support walls and overhead in the mine at Gilman, known as "Mitchell Sets"
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Mine Safety Meeting ("Fundamentals of Accident Prevention for Supervisors") at the Gilman Mine. Participants are standing and seated around a table with a table sign: "United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines." Other signs visible say, "Think," and "Attitude." Pictured, (l-r, standing) Bureau of Mines instructor, Vernon Andrews, Darrell Barnes, Bernard Schlegel, Jack Johnson, Harold Stienmier, Thomas Jeffries, (safety manager)...
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A sideview of the mantrip. Barry and Shirley Evans are at the back, Lucille Riggle in blue is facing the camera in front of them. Pete and Ella Burnett and Terry Pierson are in front.
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Berniece Chadwick, Alberta Limatta, and Ella Burnett with Hawkeye and Jean Flaherty behind them in the cap lamp room. The belts visible on Berniece and Ella hold a battery pack on the back with a power cord attaching to the lamp. Each lamp had 2 filaments so that if one burned out, the power could be switched to the second.
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Loading up for transportation to lower levels in the mine. The 16-10 incline goes down to the 18 level (at one time it went all the way to the 24 level). Transporting people was called a mantrip. In the front seat are Terry Pierson, Ella and Pete Burnett. Victor Pierson is standing at left in the yellow helmet.
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From left, Bill Burnett, Hawkeye (Gordon) Flaherty, and Ella Burnett are standing in front of cap lamp units at 16 level in the Gilman mine. Alberta Limatta is at far right. The shaft house had a 2 cage lift system, taking miners between levels. It could work with one cage going up and the other down, or with just one isolated cage moving. Cap lamps were put on before going into the mine and returned upon coming out.
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Joel Fitzgerald, shop foreman, boring a bearing for an electric motor which operates Marcy Mill in the Milling Department.
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Roy Tippett (L) and Buster Beck on horseback, posed in front of stacked mine timbers for the Gilman Mine. The house in the background belongs to the framer who worked for Fleming Lumber Company.
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Dick Sayers (l) and John Skinner (r) at the pumping station on 20 level at Gilman. "Water for the mine came directly from the Eagle River from the pump house, which was just across the ramp coming down the mill incline. About 50 tons of ore per hour went through the mill during each eight-hour shift." Eagle River Valley, p.38
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The Hart mining Camp, "Poverty Flats," east of Gilman, Colorado, and just below Bell's Camp on Battle Mountain. A group of adults appear to be playing tennis while children in the background are swinging. Two children are sitting on a pony at far right. At far left, people are seated under a shelter. Buildings are visible in the background. From left to right: Ben Hart, 2. Jodi Beverly, 3. Albert Kuhn, 4. Mary McCormick, 5. not known, 6. Susan...
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Emmet Flaherty preparing to pre-heat two blank pieces of hollow drill steel. In the background is an automatic oil-fired forge which will bring these blanks to an exact temperature for forging. From the hollow drill blanks, finished pieces of lugged steel are formed for use in rock drills.
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A cabin at Holy Cross City. The entrance to the Mollie Tunnel is visible in the background. An explosion occurred in the Mollie Tunnel on December 16, 1896. "The accident was caused by the explosion of a shot in a missed hole. Five men were in the drift at the time, and two, Eugene Belmont and P. O. Sullivan, both of Kokomo, were so badly injured in the face and eyes that it is likely they will lose their sight." -- The Aspen Tribune, December...
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A contour sketch map of the Eagle Vanadium Company's consolidated mines, located along Brush Creek. This map was created in August of 1915. Charles G. Walker, a mining engineer and surveyor, may have drawn the map. According to Alda Borah, Charles "Chas" G. Walker was in charge of surveying all the mines on Salt and Brush Creek.
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The Pelican shaft house at Gold Park. The shaft was created around 1881. A pile of rocks and sandbags are visible near the building.
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A group of miners stand inside a mine at Holy Cross City. A track for minecarts is visible. Holy Cross City was a short-lived mining camp located in what is today the Holy Cross Wilderness. A mining camp in the Holy Cross Mining District, Holy Cross City reached a population of 300 between 1881 and 1883. The town included a post office, two general stores, saloon, assay office and hotel, called the Timberline Hotel. There were reportedly two mills...
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A mine located in Holy Cross City. Taken in the 1890s. Holy Cross City was a short-lived mining camp located in what is today the Holy Cross Wilderness. A mining camp in the Holy Cross Mining District, Holy Cross City reached a population of 300 between 1881 and 1883. There were reportedly two mills in operation at Holy Cross City, the Holy Cross Mill, and the Treasure Vault Mill. Both mills were connected by a two-and-a-half-mile long flume. The...
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A mine entrance located near Elbow Creek. Taken in 1914. Mining equipment is visible to the right of the entrance.
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An unidentified individual stands next to a mine entrance near Horse Mountain.
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A tunnel house at Holy Cross City. It's possible that this is the Mollie Tunnel. Holy Cross City was a short-lived mining camp located in what is today the Holy Cross Wilderness. A mining camp in the Holy Cross Mining District, Holy Cross City reached a population of 300 between 1881 and 1883. The town included a post office, two general stores, saloon, assay office and hotel, called the Timberline Hotel. There were reportedly two mills in operation...
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Team installing a new dryer at the New Jersey Zinc Co. facilities at Belden. From Left: Don Ginther, Lynn Walker, [unknown], Homer Sultzer, Buck Hickman, Forrest Witthauer. [Courtesy of Theodore Beck]