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Eight Boy Scouts standing in a lake near Eagle, Colorado, August 1930. [Possibly nine scouts if there is a foot behind the head of the center scout...]
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Homestake dam, some 2nd shift personnel. Left to right: Duane--end dump skinner; Jack Treptow--Shift Supervisor; Chad Bane--Dozer Hand; Kelly Stone Bissell--General Quarry Foreman, Fall of 1966."
Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc. (MK) was the construction company that did the work under the supervision of Bechtel Corporation, which provided the engineers and construction managers for the project.
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"April 3, 1966, Leadville, Colo. Homestake Dam. M-K Co., Inc. [Morrison-Knudsen]. Coyote Shot, 850,000 cubic yards."
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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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"Red line [midfield, left], estimated shot area; 3,800' of coyote hole explosives in 4 months."
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Hay barn on west side of Beaver Creek at the Wiltshire (Eaton) Place. One of the Eaton men is drinking from the stream by balancing on his stomach on a rock .
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
8) Salt Well
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The Salt Well southeast of McCoy. "Early settlers gave it this name because of the waters salty taste. It is a deep natural spring about forty feet in diameter with a steady year-around flow of water which remains at approximately the same temperature in all seasons. Another mystery of the spring is that it has been sounded to a depth of 1,500 feet without finding bottom." -- McCoy Memoirs p.90
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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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John Gabelman pans for gold in Nolan Creek behind Forrest Cave's cabin at Fulford, Colorado. Photograph is dated July of 1948.
11) Homestake Dam
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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.
12) Gypsum cliffs
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A view of the gypsum cliffs with the Fleck Ditch flume in foreground and the road running below the ditch.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Carlson IGA Store and the Basalt Post Office, located about midblock of main street (Railroad Avenue) Basalt. A public water fountain is located between the two buildings.
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Austin Offerson and Eileen Holland Randall in pond in front of Offerson house, looking west.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
15) Tom Knight
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Front: "French Creek falls, me in 1930" [written by Tom Knight] Verso: "French Creek Falls, Gold Park"
16) Rowboat on lake
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Rowboat with oars extended, gliding across glassy lake. Images of the boat, the shoreline and clouds are reflected in the water.
17) Trapper's Lake
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Photo taken from Plateau Peak of Little Trappers Lake on August 4, 1888. A part of Trappers Lake is in the background. Both lakes are found in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area.
Caption on verso:; "The small lake is Trappers lake or just the upper part of same. The other Lake lies at foot of Platteau Peak. North side. View was taken from top of Platteau Peak Aug. 4, 1888. It's a fine picture considering a small camera. Notice the clouds in the sky."...
18) Sweetwater Lake
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Photo postcard of Sweetwater Lake, Colorado. [Caption: 402 Sweetwater Lake, Colo.]
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Three girls with pantlegs rolled up, wading in Lake Constantine.
Caption by O. W. Randall: "Lake Constantine, Randall's & Mathew's girls. Wading in snow water after a long hike."
O. W. Randall and his wife, Irene, had two adopted daughters, Shirley and Paula.
