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42) Zinc dryer
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The dryer building for zinc is at the far right. The zinc slurry would be heated and dried, leaving a very fine zinc powder. The powder was shipped in sealed box cars as it was so fine it would blow away in an open car. The rail line for shipping runs through the Eagle River Canyon (Belden area) so the final products for shipping were finished at this level.
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Gilman taken from a mountainside perspective. U.S. Highway 24 is at the upper left; the main entrance to Gilman from Hwy 24 is below it.
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Approaching Belden at the end of the surface tram. Mine facilities and equipment are visible as are the Eagle River and the railroad tracks across the river.
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Front: "Main Office E.Z.;" verso: "Mine office at Gilman, Healy's Grocery to the right"
E.Z. noted above was "Empire Zinc Co., formed in 1902 to search for and develop zinc mines in the west. The Eagle mine, operated by the Empire Zinc Division of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado, thirty miles west of the Continental Divide, was acquired in 1915." -- The First Hundred Years of the New Jersey Zinc Company, p.29
New Jersey Zinc...
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A view of Gilman in the snow [1930s] with some mine facilities and housing.
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Gilman, Colorado, in the snow, looking north towards the Shaft-house.
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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.
50) 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.]
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Belden as seen from Gilman. On the left are the loading tippel, steam room and dryer. Loading tippel is extended over the railroad cars to be filled with ore. A surface tram carrying ore ready for loading is visible behind the loading tippel.
53) Tram at Belden
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Close up looking down the tram at Belden toward Gilman. Train at opposite side of the Eagle River at the bottom.
56) Belden
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Looking toward Belden in the Eagle River Canyon. Tram to Gilman visible at midground.
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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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Frank Maloit's 1930 Hupmobile during spring mud season. The road from Red Cliff to Leadville wasn't paved until the mid-1930s. [The Hupmobile was produced from 1909-1940 by the Hupp Motor Company in Detroit.--Wikipedia]
Over the left rear of the Hupmobile is the roof of the old Powder House. Beyond that is the Mine Warehouse where Jim Walsh was storekeeper. Beyond that is the head frame for the mine hoist.
59) Assay office
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The distinctive roofline of the Assay Office at Gilman (midfield) pinpoints the identification of this photo. Mining timbers are stacked at right. Other buildings are at left.
Stamp on verso: "Quality BB Print Guaranteed Not to Fade May 23, 1928"
