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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam or rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff.
The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock.
There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the ountainsides at both ends of the dam.
The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
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The completed Homestake Dam and reservoir in 1995.
"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam of rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff.
The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock.
There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the mountainsides at both ends of the dam.
The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete,...
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Standing on the dam after the dedication, John P. "Jack" Elliott Dam, Homestake Project, on June 18, 1967. Standees were the Beck children and their grandparents, Joe H. and Johanna Fear.
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An automobile and a snow plow parked next to each other on Tennessee Pass. Several men are standing next to the automobile and it appears to be snowing.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Buildings at Rex, Colorado, between Red Cliff and Tennessee Pass.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard of U.S. Hwy 24 at the top of Tennessee Pass (Alt. 10,240 ft,) between Leadville and Red Cliff, Colorado. [Sanborn W-1181] There is snow on the ground.
9) B & B Boys
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"B & B Boys, Tennessee Pass." They are at the tunnel entrance at Tennesse Pass, most likely on the east side, not far from the depot location. This is the tunnel that collapsed under the highway in July 2012.
Tom Gill is at far right. There are three people standing on scaffolding which is pulled on wheels by a horse along the tracks through the tunnel. The scaffolding is used to do work inside the tunnel. [Information courtesy of Jimmy Blouch]...
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 28, 2003.
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Road maintenance machinery on Tennessee Pass in winter. George Nimon and unidentified man standing next to the plow; an unidentified woman standing on the plow.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
13) Homestake Dam
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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam or rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff.
The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock.
There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the ountainsides at both ends of the dam.
The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
14) Road Maintenance
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Road maintenance equipment in the winter on Tennessee Pass, Eagle County, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam or rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff.
The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock.
There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the ountainsides at both ends of the dam.
The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 3, 2004, following a spring snow.
17) Charcoal kilns
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"Char-coal kiln used in making charcoal for smelter 1890 in Colo." -- verso
Three kilns located next to a railroad track and boxcar for the transportation of the finished charcoal. Wood stacked at left, prior to loading the kilns. A. P. Rundell is standing on top of the first kiln with four other men visible.
From Jimmy Blouch on location: "My first guess is Mitchell, on Tennessee Pass.
Mitchell is/was on the west side of Tennessee Pass. As one...
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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam of rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff.
The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock.
There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the mountainsides at both ends of the dam.
The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
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1940-1945: View of Camp Hale from a distance showing buildings and training areas. Taken during World War II. Writing on photo: "Camp Hale - Tennesse [sic] Pass between Leadville and Red Cliff, Colo."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
