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Ron Dump, Theodore "Bud" Beck, Louie "Dutch" Gleiforst and a fourth man standing in front of a trailor house. Ron Dump has his right arm in his right boot (his right foot is bootless but socked) and the men are examining the toe. The men were cutting logs for Ray Earl Warren, owner of the trailer house. Model A Ford in the background; logs, sandwich and canteen in foreground. The site is 3.5 miles up Shrine Pass and was known as Kelly's. It's...
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Buster (on left) and Jack Beck sitting on a felled log at the upper Wearyman logging camp (Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill).
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Ron Dump, seated, and Bruce Beck with axes and hand saw in front of a felled and trimmed log. They are logging on Shrine Pass for Ray Warren, Sr. Buster and Bruce Beck and Ron Dump worked when they were still in school during the summers and falls of the year.
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Bruce Beck (left) and Ron Dump seated during a break while logging on Shrine Pass. The skid horse pulls the logs.
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Distant view of the Peterson Creek tramway, used to transport lumber from the Peterson Creek sawmill to the railroad at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon. The picture was taken from the Champion Mine at Bell's Camp. The steep terrain is testimony to the difficulty in logging in this area.
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From left, Ray tippett, Buster Beck, Bud Beck, and Don Knight, resting on the Holy Cross City Road. Wuinn Beck may be seated just above Buster in the photo [difficult to see].
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Buster Beck and Virginia (Jimmie) Horan in front of the Beck house in Red Cliff. Jimmie is seated on Pal. Fleming Lumber's framing house is at right; Tib Montoya's house is in the background (it later burned down).
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Scruffy, Mike and Smoky (the dog) on the steps at the Beck house. Fleming Lumber's framing house is behind them. In the left background is Tib Montoya's house.
At upper right is a good example of fingerprinting on photographs.
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Jack Beck standing on logs at Benson's sawmill, Shrine Pass. Benson's barn in is the background. Bensons had a saw mill at Pando but after they moved their logging operation up Shrine Pass, they hauled their logs to Smith's Lumber Co. in Leadville.
Logging in that area was done at Shrine Pass, Tates Gulch, WIllow Creek, Lime Creek and Wearyman. Names of people involved in logging: Alfred Benson; Gus Benson (no relation); John Magunson (a blacksmith...
