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Mill pond for the mineral mill at the top of Cross Creek. The mill serviced the Treasure Vault Mine. Later, the pond had some great fish for fishermen.
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Cabin belonging to Charles Fredrick Eichaker at the mineral mill at Cross Creek. The Knight and Beck familes used the cabin at various points in time.
"Even had an outhouse"--Angela Beck.
[information from Buster Beck]
Bill Burnett mentions Charlie Eyacher [sic.] in The Eagle on Battle Mountain at Gilman, Colorado and My Life as I Remember, although Bill locates the cabin at Fall Creek p.7: "Old Charlie had a house on the far side, eastside,...
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A view of the Eagle River Gorge, showing Belden at the bottom of the gorge and Gilman on the cliff above the gorge. The Belden tram is in the mid field of the photo.
[One of a series of ten photographs included in postal mailer: Frashers Quality Photos, Ten Scenic Views souvenir from Canon City to Leadville, Colo. Frashers, Inc., Pomona, Calif. Required 2 cents postage.]
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MacDonald Knight standing on trailer attached to his jeep. He's looking at lumber in front of an abandoned cabin at Holy Cross City. There are wildflowers in the foreground.
"The one picture of Don Knight's jeep shows some boards. Buster [Beck] said there was two piles of boards on this side of Francy Pass. Why & from where he does not know. SInce they are on this side of Fancy Pass he is sure they did not come from the saw mill at Cross Creek."...
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From left to right, Joe Fear and Don Knight at the entrance to Knight's silver claim in Marble Joe Fear is putting loaded ore buckets on the aerial tram down to the loading area. Don Knight is readying a carbide lamp to go in the mine and drill for the next shot.
"Don Knight, the eternal prospector, approached Buster Beck and me, Joe Fear, at the beginning of mud season for the logging business. He could get some lease rights to xome silver claims...
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Several Red Cliff residents prospected uranium on Wilson Mesa, Utah, in 1953. Sitting around the breakfast table in the camp are, from front left: Jeff Taylor, Vic Chitwood, and Johnny Tetreault. At front right, Buster Beck, with two unidentified men standing. Jeff Taylor's grandsons currently [2010] mine uranium in Moab, Utah.
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Buster Beck below the silver mine emptying the "ore buckets" into a dump truck.
"Since the mine was about 100 yards above the end of the road where we had to park the dump truck, we had to build an aerial tram to ge the ore down to the trucks. Don was able to find an old model A hand brake, some cable and some 5 gallon buckets and we were in business. We loaded our ore into the dump truck, hauled it off the mountain, down river to the railroad at...
11) Bus lines
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Photocopy of a postcard, the photo for which was taken by R. R. Cooper. Miners arriving for "Ole's Shift," standing in front of the bus.
From Ted Beck:
The Red Cliff bus line was probably started away back, probably in the 1930s, by Mickey Walsh. He got hold of a big old sedan, probably a Cadillac or Pierce-Arrow, that 7 or 8 men could crowd into and started hauling miners to Gilman. I don't think it was much of a success as it kept breaking down....
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View of Gilman, Colorado, from the highway in winter. Company housing is visible in the center of the photo.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
13) Silver Mine
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Don Knight's silver mine at Marble, Colorado. The dump truck is in the foreground with the aerial tram running between it and the mine portal at the tope of the photo. One of the prospectors is standing in the mine portal.
"We mined and hand picked for silver for 4 to 6 weeks. We worked on a fairly large portal with hand steel and powder until the ore vein gave out. Then we took a dishpan and a prospector's pick to a couple of small openings in...
14) Holy Cross City
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Abandoned cabins of Holy Cross City in the foreground, mountains in background. [photo damaged with ink]
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Service tram going from upper level, Gilman, to Belden in Eagle River Canyon. Cribbings visible, holding hillside in place. Train tracks in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Remains of the mineral mill at the head of Cross Creek . The mill serviced the Treasure Vault Mine.
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The participants in the Easter Monday Ball 1910 at Monarch, Colorado. The young lady in the center is Dessie Tomlin. To her immediate right are her parents, Maggie and A.Q. Tomlin. Dessie married Ira Earl Beck and moved to Red Cliff in 1921. They had six sons, T.R. (Bud), Buster, Quinn, Bruce, Jack and Russell.
This photograph was damaged when the roof and second floor of the Beck house burned in about 1929. A photo of that fire is: 2012.016.001....
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Remains of the cabin owned by Charles Eichaker at the mill at Cross Creek. The mill pond is visible in the right background. The cabin was used by the Knight and Beck families at various points in time.
[information from Buster Beck]
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Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. Ellie (Elinora Williams) Beck [Mrs. Theodore] and Carol (Ginther) Beck [Mrs. Russell] chatting.
