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Hauling logs on a sled using a two-horse team.
"James P. Gates was a very good carpenter, and decided to build a stage coarch inn on their new land, which as a stop on the stage line between Kremmling and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. So the cutting and hauling of logs began. J.P. knew hoe to use a broad axe to shape the logs he used for building so that they fit together evenly and firmly." -- The Gates Genealogy
2) Katie Gates
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Catharine "Katie" Lemley Gates seated at a writing table.
James P. Gates..."married Catharine J. "Katie" Lemley in Monrow county, Ohio, on the 22d of October, 1868. Katie was born in 1842. They moved to Hebron, Nebraska, and started a family. A son George Albert was born August 15, 1872, in Hebron, Neb. Their second known child, Clark Lemley, was born August 21, 1878, in Hebron. James P. and Catharine had at least 2 more boys and twin girls,...
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James P. Gates seated, reading.
"J. P. had heard about gold being found in Routt county, and also that land could be filed on for homesteading in both Routt and Eagle counties in the state of Colorado. So he loaded up his family and headed west. They arrive in Routt county about 1885. James P. filed on some land on Rock Creek. Then he found a place for the family to stay in Yampa, Colo. George Albert, 13, and Clark Lemley, 7 years old, went to school...
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The finished Rock Creek stage stop with horses and pack horses in the yard.
"J.P. passed his knowledge down to his sons, Bert and Clark. They were both good carpenters. The whole family helped to buld their new stage inn home." -- The Gates Genealogy
