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21) 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.
22) Adjusting valves
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Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner adjusting the valves on equipment.
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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.
25) Gilman
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Mine buildings at Gilman, ca. 1915. Cribbing employed in an effort to stabilize the slope.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
26) Adjusting valves
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Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner adjusting the valves on equipment.
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At right is the ball mill. At left is the rod mill. The mills are on an incline for gravity feed down to the loading docks.
At the center right of the photo, steel rods are stacked for use in the rod mill.
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With Battle Mountain in the background, the shaft house of the main entrance to the Gilman mine on Highway 24 is at midground. The waste dump from the mine is below the shaft house with the Rock Creek settlement to the left of the dump.
[picture cut from magazine]
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Men jockeying the new dryer from the flatbed rail car to the dryer building.
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The town of Gilman showing the main shaft down into the mine in the left center of the picture. Mining timbers are stacked in the yard to the immediate right of the main shaft. Highway 24 is on the far left going toward Red Cliff.
33) Examining ore
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Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner, closely examining ore in the ore cars. Both men are wearing headlamps.
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"D. & R.G. Railroad" - caption from Edwards School Scrapbook, page 16. The scrapbook was created as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955.
The railroad would haul zinc out of the mines at Gilman for several decades. Three buildings are visible, including one perched on the mountainside. At far right, a sign says "Eagle Mines of the Empire Zinc Co". A tailings pipe appears to be dumping into the Eagle River (midground). The town of...
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The New Jersey Zinc Company office in Gilman, Colorado. The cinder block portion, which was the newer portion of the office, was constructed in approximately 1953. [license plate 1953]
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Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner adjusting controls at the pump station on 20 level at the mine in Gilman.
37) Signal pulleys
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Signal pulleys to let the hoistman, who operated the cage, know when to raise or lower the cage.
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Moving mining timber at the surface level near the main shaft at Gilman. Timber was stored outside until needed in the mine and loaded vertically into the main cage for unloading on 16 level.
39) Mucking machine
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Air operated mucking machine. The scoop goes over the mucking machine and empties the ore into the car behind. Miners also used these cars to move mining timbers throughout the mine.
40) Mucking machine
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Mucking machine picking up a load of ore at Gilman. The machine ran on rails and pulled ore cars behind for loading.
