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102) Surface tram
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Unidentified man [Tom Knight?] standing on the surface tram, looking from Belden toward Gilman.
103) Darrell Barnes
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Darrell Barnes in Navy uniform. He was employed by New Jersey Zinc at Gilman after college graduation and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1943. He served as a radioman for 32 months and then returned to New Jersey Zinc. He became chief accountant at the Gilman office and assisted New Jersey Zinc offices in Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
104) Main Street Gilman
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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
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Ramond M. "Hap" Fletcher plowing snow after a slide at Belden in the winter. Fletcher was a heavy equipment operator for the New Jersey Zinc Co. The vehicle was tracked for better performance in the heavy snow in the Eagle Canyon near Belden.
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Underground machine shop at the Gilman Mine with Carl Garner (l) and Gus Peterson.
108) Mill Repair Crew
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The mill repair crew at Gilman seated in front of cribbing next to the tram rail.
109) Gilman in the snow
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A view of Gilman in the snow [1930s] with some mine facilities and housing.
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Frank Maloit, holding a hula hoop, conversing with guests at his retirement party from New Jersey Zinc Co.
"Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maloit were guests of honor at a cocktail-dinner party in Gilman Saturday, when 115 guests--employees of the New Jersey Zinc Company and other friends gathered to extend their best wishes to the Maloits who are leaving Gilman Nov. 20 to make their home in Grand Junction." -- Leadville Herald Nov. [?] 1958.
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111) Soda ash machine
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Platform leading to the soda ash machine at the Gilman Mine. Soda ash (also called washing soda, sodium carbonate Na2CO3) was one of the chemicals used to clean the ore. The large pipe on the left is for ventilation of the soda ash work area.
112) Adjusting valves
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Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner adjusting the valves on equipment.
114) Gilman School
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MacDonald Knight standing in the playground area of the Gilman School.
Verso: "Gilman elementary school where Mom [Sophie Knight] and Perlita [Knight Gauthier] taught and BJ [Betty Jo Knight Schmidt] and Don [MacDonald Knight] went. Battle Mtn. behind 1938." Print stamp: Jan. 10 1936.
115) Ore cart
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An ore car at right, going out to the main pit (Grizzly). Once it arrives at the pit, the rocker wheel on the cart is elevated by the track and dumps the contents of the cart into the pit.
116) Tamping dynamite
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Tamping in dynamite prior to blasting a section at Gilman. Holes that have been prepared are shown with electrical connections to the blasting caps and the dynamite. Joe Fear prepared the blasting caps on the surface. Bottom series of holes were detonated first to keep the miners from having to work so much loose debris - a true demonstration of the principle of gravity.
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Verso: "Don headed for Evening Star Mine at Gilman"
Behind Don [wearing his head lamp] is a stack of mining timbers.
118) Moving mine timbers
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Using a lift to move mine timbers at the Gilman mine. They are in bundles of 9 timbers which fit vertically in the main shaft cage for transport to lower levels. The Minturn bus is in the background.
120) Abandoned drift
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"All horizontal or subhorizontal development openings made in a mine have the generic name of drift. These are simply tunnels made in the rock, with a size and shape depending on their use—for example, haulage, ventilation, or exploration." -- Encyclopedia Brittannica
This drift is at the 16 level in the Gilman mine and has been abandoned. Water dripping through the ceiling carries minerals, forming stalagtites and stalagmites.
