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The main shaft house for the New Jersey Zinc Co. is the tall building at far right. The stacked lumber is for mine stoping. This view is facing north.
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[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Air operated mucking machine. The scoop goes over the mucking machine and empties the ore into the car behind. Miners also used these cars to move mining timbers throughout the mine. The machines and cars ran on rail tracks.
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The dryer building for zinc is at the far right. The zinc slurry would be heated and dried, leaving a very fine zinc powder. The powder was shipped in sealed box cars as it was so fine it would blow away in an open car. The rail line for shipping runs through the Eagle River Canyon (Belden area) so the final products for shipping were finished at this level.
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Using a lift to move mine timbers at the Gilman mine. They are in bundles of 9 timbers which fit vertically in the main shaft cage for transport to lower levels. The Minturn bus is in the background.
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Mine buildings at Gilman, ca. 1915. Cribbing employed in an effort to stabilize the slope. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Men jockeying the new dryer from the flatbed rail car to the dryer building.
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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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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]