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Despite a schedule that included overseeing construction of the big Ohio and Colorado smokestack in 1917, getting married, and being promoted to superintendent at the smelter, Arthur Theodore Thompson (in the chair at the right) took time for a shave and a haircut at Manful’s Barbershop at 109 F Street in Salida.
Frank Thomson Collection.
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Trees on Tenderfoot Mountain are alive and well when this photograph was taken March 20, 1895. They began dying shortly after the smelter opened – upwind – in 1902, and by 1917 there were almost none left. Two foot paths up the mountain were used by hundreds of visitors who wanted to get a view of the city while they waited to change trains. The mountain was a favorite picnic spot for locals as well.
The Denver & Rio Grande Depot, F Street...
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Denver & Rio Grande Western Panoramic Special, ca. 1920.
Leonard Perschbacher Collection.
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Construction of the backshop and roundhouse, dated August 28, 1923.
Harry Williams Collection.
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Vaughn's was a wholesale dealer in farm implements, buggies and wagons, hardware, and feed at 126 G St.. When they moved into 136 G Street in 1922, they began selling groceries.
Bob Rush Collection.
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Photograph of unidentified family sitting on bridge.
Janice Pennington Collection.
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A group of women lead a procession of what looks to be a funeral train on F Street in Salida, Colorado.
Bob Rush Collection.
29) Smeltertown
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The smelter, on the slag dump looking East at the power house, and the smokestack. Note the center plant in front of the smokestack. The overhead cables supplied electricity. The slag engines were evidently motorized, not steam mules as in other smelters.
R.M. Stein Collection.
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In 1898, the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Depot was rebuilt and enlarged from the original 1880 stone depot to be “the finest and most commodious on the entire great system” outside the larger cities of Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo.
Bob Rush Collection.
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Major fires, two years apart spurred Salidans into a spate of brick construction that eventually saved the town from more devastating damage. A couple of brick yards were in operation before the 1886 fire, but within a year after the 1888 conflagration, there were at least four in production. Clay, sand and water are stirred into a stiff mud before it is packed into molds. It was repetitive, back-wrenching work, but it was lucrative for many years....
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Major fires, two years apart spurred Salidans into a spate of brick construction that eventually saved the town from more devastating damage. A couple of brick yards were in operation before the 1886 fire, but within a year after the 1888 conflagration, there were at least four in production. Clay, sand and water are stirred into a stiff mud before it is packed into molds. It was repetitive, back-wrenching work, but it was lucrative for many years....
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Increased mining activity – and some small financial successes in the late 1890’s – prompted a spate of prospecting by Salida businessmen and even a few children. They swarmed up the gulches northeast of town with picks, shovels and a little dynamite seeking “color.” They weren’t disappointed – at first – because they found showings of gold, silver, copper and lead. For a time during the winter of 1895-96, many businesses closed early...
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Automobile touring near Garfield, Colorado.
Josephine Soukup Collection.
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This train wreck occurred January 23, 1918 near Pando, Colorado. The engineer, Fred C. Graham, and the brakeman, Roy Foster Leininger, were killed. Leininger’s body was buried under tons of wreckage and crushed beyond recognition.
Nellie Ellis Collection.
38) The Salida Band
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The Salida Band at the pavilion at Alpine Park.
Bob Rush Collection.
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Robert Martin Stein, age 7, in front of “My Rock” looking East, and happy in his first suit of homemade clothes.
R.M. Stein Collection.
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Tombstone of Albert Edmund Hanks, buried at Fairview Cemetery in Salida, Colorado.
Haley-Bratton Collection.
