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MacDonald Knight standing on trailer attached to his jeep. He's looking at lumber in front of an abandoned cabin at Holy Cross City. There are wildflowers in the foreground.
"The one picture of Don Knight's jeep shows some boards. Buster [Beck] said there was two piles of boards on this side of Francy Pass. Why & from where he does not know. SInce they are on this side of Fancy Pass he is sure they did not come from the saw mill at Cross Creek."...
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"At Craig, Colo. in 1960. Billy [William Woodruff] Booco, 92, and his three sons, Jack, Gordon and Gern." -- McCoy Memoirs p.184
"The Booco family certainly was a pioneer family of Colorado; they settled on the Western Slope in 1878. ... The family settled on the Eagle River and a small town sprang up around them which residents were soon calling Booco, the name later changed to Minturn. Boocos sold their holdings in 1887 to the Rio Grande Railroad...
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Alfred Benson’s property on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. Originally, there were several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site. This was not Benson's main cabin or barn. The main cabin interior walls had been smoothed with an adz or a broad-axe and these are not smooth. The structure is too small to be the barn. This photo was taken on July 26, 2012.
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Three two-horse teams pulling a sled loaded with mine timbers on Battle Mountain. One man driving the teams, seated on the timbers. Snow on ground.
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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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Front view of the Newquist Family cabin. Log construction with roof collapsing. Sagebrush surrounding the site. A spring was located on the slope below the cabin; water was hauled up to the cabin routinely.
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Albert Buffehr standing on sled, holding the reins to a four-horse team. The caption reads "log hauling out of Mill Creek." Albert and his wife, Violet, lived in Minturn and later moved to Edgewater, Colorado. Both are buried in Minturn.
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Taken from the hill above the Newquist Family log cabin, the deterioration of the roof structure and back wall is clearly visible. Additional structure visible in left background is a root cellar.
11) Warren's Sawmill
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Joy Marfitano standing in front of cut logs at Warren's sawmill on Shrine Pass.
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Hauling logs on a sled using a two-horse team.
"James P. Gates was a very good carpenter, and decided to build a stage coarch inn on their new land, which as a stop on the stage line between Kremmling and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. So the cutting and hauling of logs began. J.P. knew hoe to use a broad axe to shape the logs he used for building so that they fit together evenly and firmly." -- The Gates Genealogy
13) Logs
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Logs loaded on a skid, ready to be pulled by a tractor to the sawmill. Logging done at upper Wearyman Creek logging camp; sawmill (Warren Brothers & Robinson) located at lower Wearyman Creek.
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Ron Dump, Theodore "Bud" Beck, Louie "Dutch" Gleiforst and a fourth man standing in front of a trailor house. Ron Dump has his right arm in his right boot (his right foot is bootless but socked) and the men are examining the toe. The men were cutting logs for Ray Earl Warren, owner of the trailer house. Model A Ford in the background; logs, sandwich and canteen in foreground. The site is 3.5 miles up Shrine Pass and was known as Kelly's. It's...
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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).
16) Skid horse "Ben"
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Ray Warren's skid horse "Ben," pulling logs uphill on Shrine Pass. Logging road is to the right of Ben.
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Maybelle Yandell and Doug Hughes are standing next to each other with Bert Yandell standing behind them. A log building is in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A work crew is hauling telegraph poles with a truck and trailer.
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Stump in the snow. The trail where logs have been dragged through the snow is to the right of the stump.
