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Photo taken February 8, 2013, during the bleeding of the water system at Red Cliff. "The town was plagued by low water pressure." -- Angela Beck
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Bridge over the Eagle River on Eagle Street, in Red Cliff. Taken on June 8, 1959, the spring runoff is quite hight and debris is collecting on the bridge pier. A dog appears to have found something of interest.
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Dedication of the John P. "Jack" Elliott Dam, Homestake Project, on June 18, 1967. Speakers were from Aurora and Colorado Springs.
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"Homestake Dam first coyote-hole blast to open the quarry for the dam's rock fill material; consumed 13 ton of explosives."
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 3, 2004, following a spring snow.
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John Mueller, Angela Beck and Buster Beck fishing at the Homestake reservoir on August 2, 2004.
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1930s: Holmes Reservoir, Missouri Heights, Eagle County, Colorado, showing four people (three children) and three dogs at the base of a pump station.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Lorna Warren (Mrs. Everett) is holding her son, Ted Warren, and Len Dump Dumph is holding the pole. They are balanced on a handmade raft at the beaver ponds near the old ball field at the end of Eagle Street (several hundred yards south of the D&RG section house) in Red Cliff.
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Thirteen men with shovels and wearing boots, overalls, and hats, doing the annual ditch cleaning on Gypsum Creek. Ed Erickson is next to the end on the right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
50) Lower Brady Lake
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Lower Brady Lake with pine trees in midground. Located in the Homestake-Fancy Pass area.
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Lower Homestake Lake, current site of Homestake Reservoir [2009].
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"Scene in Kansas, where we fish, swim, and boat ride" (caption from photo)
54) Dead Horse Creek
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"Mount at Dead Horse Creek in Grand Canyon east of Glenwood Colo near Hanging Lake, 1914" - caption on verso, Alda Borah. Dead Horse Creek begins high in the mountains above Glenwood Canyon, feeding into the now-infamous Hanging Lake. The creek forks into an east/west at Hanging Lake before meeting the Colorado River at the bottom of the canyon.
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Bridal Veil Falls, 1917. The waterfall can be viewed on the way to Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon.
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"Brush Creek Valley, Township 5 South, Range 84 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, the area at hte mouth of Breek Creek between the Eagle River and the railroad tracks and west of Brush Creek. Ditch is Lower Rule, Priority #137, Spring in 1884 by H.E. Rule. The ditches are located by right bank or left bank and this is determined by facing downstream. This is supposed to be the original settlers of the Brush Creek Valley."
Ditch digging and irrigation...
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Winter scene of Brush Creek flowing between snowy banks, below the bridge.
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"In 1906 John Ambos filed on a reservoir site on what isnow a part of the Black Mountain Ranch and a year later built this cabin to camp in while the dam was under construction. Built for temporary use at an elevation 8,500 feet where four feet of snow is nothing unusual, the little 8'x12' cabin is still standing...." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 240.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Ambos homestead cabin and Ambos Reservoir. "In 1906 John Ambos filed on a reservoir site on what is now a part of the Black Mountain Ranch and a year later built this cabin to camp in while the dam was under construction. Built for temporary use at an elevation of 8,500 feet where four feet of snow is nothing unusual, the little 8' x 12' cabin" was still standing in 1977. --McCoy Memoirs p.240
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A postcard with a photograph of Shoshone Falls Power Plant located in Glenwood Canyon near the Hanging Lake tunnels. The power plant is still in operation; the best view is from I-70 westbound. Alda wrote a message to her mother while visiting in Glenwood Springs on the back postmarked August 24, 1915: " Dear mother, got here about 1:30. We tried to get you from Eagle but the --- was out. Mrs. Collins isn't here yet. I met Helen Shyrack on the street....
