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121) New dryer placement
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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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Moving the zinc dryer from a railroad car into the dryer building at Belden. A wall section approximately 60 feet long has been removed in the dryer building to move this equipment
into the facility.
123) Zinc dryer system
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Part of the zinc dryer system at the mill in Gilman. The dryer was heated by a firebox under the rotating cylinder. Tumbling action of the dryer coupled with full length fins dried the zinc for loading into rail cars.
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Moving a dryer section into place by blocking and chaining. Small sections pf pipe were also used to move the dryer.
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Section of the zinc dryer being fitted into place at Belden. Chains and blocks are used to move the equipment into the building.
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Bill Jude (hat and glasses, on the left) and Alberta Jude (smoking), standing in the shelter at Maloit Park. Bill May is looking toward Alberta. Madeline Steinmeyer and Phyllis Jenkins (r) are in the foreground.
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Romain Stein (at left) and Frank Maloit at a company picnic at Maloit Park. Romaine was the purchasing agent for NJZ, Gilman. Frank was the Western Manager of Mines for New Jersey Zinc.
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John Caddy (center) ready to catch a fastball; others are unidentified (boy could be John Bowman).
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Ida Doyle (far left), Mary Duffy and Ed Duffy at Maloit Park........others are unidentified.
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Enjoying a beverage at a New Jersy Zinc Company picnic. Bill May is in the right center foreground with the hat, looking at camera.
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Bill Jenkins, (center seated) , Alberta Jude (far right standing) at Maloit Park with others from New Jersey Zinc Company. They're gathering at the park shelter for lunch.
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Dick Sayers (l) and John Skinner (r) at the pumping station on 20 level at Gilman.
"Water for the mine came directly from the Eagle River from the pump house, which was just across the ramp coming down the mill incline. About 50 tons of ore per hour went through the mill during each eight-hour shift." Eagle River Valley, p.38
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Emmet Flaherty preparing to pre-heat two blank pieces of hollow drill steel. In the background is an automatic oil-fired forge which will bring these blanks to an exact temperature for forging. From the hollow drill blanks, finished pieces of lugged steel are formed for use in rock drills.
134) Installing new 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]
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Harold Steinmeyer (left) and Bill May in the compressor room at Belden. Prior to the electrical power plant at Gilman, much of the electricity for the mine (compressors) was supplied by the use of Pelton wheels (turbines) powered by the water from Fall Creek at Belden.
136) Tailings pond
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The tailings pond below Gilman (south east of Maloit Park). Mine wastes were piped approximately four miles down into the settlement area. The tailings pond kept mine wastes from flowing into the Eagle River.
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Conveyor unloading zinc from the dryer at Belden. The zinc was then taken to the loading tippel to be loaded on railcars. Durbin McIlnay is monitoring the process.
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Tearing down the existing tailings pipe and stands at the tailings pond below Gilman. Once enough sediment had been released through the bottom of the pipe, new stands were erected to lift the pipe to a higher elevation. Harv Collins is in the center of the photo wearing light colored coveralls.
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New section of pipe and stands for the tailings pond. Trusses with new sections of pipe are being built. Later a safety cable was added along a catwalk , which was used by employees to remove the plugs in the pipe and drain the tailings. Tailings were piped from Gilman as a slurry and, as the slurry dried, it became the same consistency as a fine sand.
