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61) New zinc dryer
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Quinton Sagrillo performing maintenance on the new zinc dryer. Sagrillo was a dryer operator for New Jersey Zinc.
Sagrillo served in World War I and then lived in Telluride and Denver. He and his wife Rose then managed the State Agricultural Farm Experiment Station at Avon for four years. He accepted employment with New Jersey Zinc, working there for 20 years before retiring in 1959.
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Quinton Sagrillo or Frank Jones or Mike Chockie lubricating part of the zinc dryer at Belden.
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Looking down at the Eagle River in Eagle Canyon, at a portion of the railroad tracks at Belden.
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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.
66) Belden
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The Belden processing and shipping area for the ore that was mined at Gilman Mine. The loading tippel is the first building on the left (white); next is the steam room and then the dryer.
Box cars are lined up on the tracks by the loading tippel. The box cars at the center of the photo are underneath the Ben Butler Mine.
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Harold Steinmeyer and Bill May in the compressor room at Belden. Compressor equipment in the background is Ingersoll-Rand. During the spring and summer months, power for the compressors was provided by using Pelton Wheels (turbines) situated in nearby Fall Creek to generate electricity.
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New dryer being put in place at Belden. Drying fins are seen in the inside of the dryer.
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Moving the zinc dryer from a railroad car into the dryer building at Belden. A wall section approximately 60 feet long has been removed in the dryer building to move this equipment
into the facility.
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Moving a dryer section into place by blocking and chaining. Small sections pf pipe were also used to move the dryer.
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Section of the zinc dryer being fitted into place at Belden. Chains and blocks are used to move the equipment into the building.
72) Transportation
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A sideview of the mantrip. Barry and Shirley Evans are at the back, Lucille Riggle in blue is facing the camera in front of them. Pete and Ella Burnett and Terry Pierson are in front.
73) Cap lamp room
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Berniece Chadwick, Alberta Limatta, and Ella Burnett with Hawkeye and Jean Flaherty behind them in the cap lamp room. The belts visible on Berniece and Ella hold a battery pack on the back with a power cord attaching to the lamp. Each lamp had 2 filaments so that if one burned out, the power could be switched to the second.
74) Mantrip
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Loading up for transportation to lower levels in the mine. The 16-10 incline goes down to the 18 level (at one time it went all the way to the 24 level). Transporting people was called a mantrip.
In the front seat are Terry Pierson, Ella and Pete Burnett. Victor Pierson is standing at left in the yellow helmet.
75) Cap Lamp Room
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From left, Bill Burnett, Hawkeye (Gordon) Flaherty, and Ella Burnett are standing in front of cap lamp units at 16 level in the Gilman mine. Alberta Limatta is at far right.
The shaft house had a 2 cage lift system, taking miners between levels. It could work with one cage going up and the other down, or with just one isolated cage moving. Cap lamps were put on before going into the mine and returned upon coming out.
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Team installing a new dryer at the New Jersey Zinc Co. facilities at Belden.
From Left: Don Ginther, Lynn Walker, [unknown], Homer Sultzer, Buck Hickman, Forrest Witthauer. [Courtesy of Theodore Beck]
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Harold Steinmeyer (left) and Bill May in the compressor room at Belden. Prior to the electrical power plant at Gilman, much of the electricity for the mine (compressors) was supplied by the use of Pelton wheels (turbines) powered by the water from Fall Creek at Belden.
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Drills and lathes in the repair area. Welders and machinists were employed by New Jersey Zinc to maintain and recycle equipment. During the 1950s, there were three shifts working each day to maintain production levels.
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Conveyor unloading zinc from the dryer at Belden. The zinc was then taken to the loading tippel to be loaded on railcars. Durbin McIlnay is monitoring the process.
