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Warren's last lumber mill up Wearyman Creek on Flemings' patent (timber claim).
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Fleming's Saw Mill under construction
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Albert Betz Ranch, Gore Valley, viewed from Gore Creek. Buildings in the background are Fleming's Saw Mill. This is current day Vail, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Joy Marfitano standing in front of cut logs at Warren's sawmill on Shrine Pass.
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The Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill, first sawmill up Wearyman Creek towards Shrine Pass. Lumber is stacked and there's snow on the ground.
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Carl Eaton in small boat, fishing at Beaver Lake (sawmill camp in background).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Bob Warren moving logs at the lower Warren Brother & Robinson sawmill on Wearyman Creek. The mill works are behind him.
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Sawmill at Beaver Lake with logs in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Frank Robinson checking the conveyor at the lower Sawmill on Wearyman Creek (Warren Brothers & Robinson). Lumber is stacked to the right of Frank. Snow is on the ground.
10) Kid Hoover
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"Kid" [William A.] Hoover in the office at the Fleming lumber mill, Red Cliff, 1925. Invoices hanging on wall at left; saws hanging on wall at right.
Hoover was a teamster for the Fleming Lumber Company, Empire Zinc Company, and a member of the Leadville fire department. He "...became one of the best teamsters the country ever knew. Perched on a wagon carrying five or six tons of ore or lumber, holding the strings on six or eight 1800-pound horses,...
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Everett Warren sitting on lumber at the Warren Brothers & Robinson sawmill. The timbers were used in mine stoping at Gilman. Everett was a partner in the sawmill and, in later years, worked for Vail Associates cutting runs in summer and driving a snowcar in winter. Everett married Lorna Hargreaves, whom he met in Australia when he was serving in the U.S. Army during World War II.
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Ilene Ages Warren (wife of Bob Warren) standing next to the sawblade at the Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill at the end of Eagle St. next to the ball field.
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Lumber stacked up at the sawmill on Turkey Creek.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
14) Loading timber
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Harold Steinmeyer at the Warren Sawmill on Turkey Creek near Red Cliff and Gilman.
15) Warren Sawmill
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Warren Sawmill on Turkey Creek in Red Cliff. Warren provided some of the mining timber for the mine at Gilman. The timber is being moved through the saw on a cart riding on tracks. The saw had an attachment used to make a special cut that allowed the mining timbers to quickly be put together in the mine. Ike Dump is closest to the camera on the right, feeding logs into the saw.
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Ike Dump banding mining timber at Warren Sawmill in Red Cliff. Safety "chaps" were worn to prevent cuts when working with the saws and the timber. Harold Steinmeyer is supervising.
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Cutting mining timber with a horizontal blade at the Warren Sawmill in Red Cliff. Extra blades are stored on the cutting arm to the right.
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Bob Warren sitting on lumber at the Warren Brothers & Robinson sawmill. The timbers were used in mine stoping at Gilman. Bob was a partner in the sawmill and was married to Ilene Ages Warren.
19) Fleming Sawmill
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The old Fleming sawmill on the "potato patch" in Gore Creek. Highway 6 is visible in the background, as well as Red Sandstone Rd. The sawmill burned on August 31, 1954.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
