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The main shaft house at Gilman, midfield at left, with employee housing at right.
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Verso: "Don and Tom on Battle Mt. Highway 1930s"
The highway was then unpaved and was the only route for workers going to the mine at Gilman.
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Verso: "Mom [Sophie Knight] above Lost Lakes on Homestake Peak in 1931 or 32. Dog's name is Pal"
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Tom Knight, with Hound and pickup at Gilman, showing the depth of the snow.
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Verso: "Perlita [on left] & Mary Howard at Powderhorn 1942"
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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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Perlita Knight Gauthier, sister of MacDonald "Don" Knight, with a pack mule, walking up Fancy Pass (Homestake area).
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From back left, MacDonald Knight, Perlita Knight, Tom and Sophie Knight. In front are Betty Jo Knight Schmidt and Glenn Schmidt.
Verso: "Minturn 1944 by M&R Café, Don, Perlita, Mom, Tom, Me and Glen BJS" [June 1984 copy]
10) Don at the peak
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Front: "Donald on top peak H.C. Mt." "My Uncle Don standing at the very top of Mount Holy Cross!"
There is a dog right below MacDonald Knight on the peak.
12) Tom Knight
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Tom Knight standing in front of his home in 1959. [print copy date June 1984]
"Thomas Knight was born near French Lick, Ind. May 28, 1886 and completed his education at Central Normal College, Ill. He first came to Colorado with his parents and brother, Robert in 1908. ... He first came to Eagle County in 1929 from Canon City and went to work for the Empire Zinc...until his retirement in 1949." --Eagle Valley Enterprise Aug. 11, 1960
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Verso: "Gold Park and our cabin and ore bin, Mom [Sophie Knight] and Don" [copy made in 1984]
14) Christmas 1938
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Gilman, Colorado, on Christmas morning 1938, taken from the Knight family's front door. Stacks of mine timbers are visible at right foreground and left midfield.
Verso: "view from our front door on Xmas AM, Gilman 1938"
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Front: "timber yard 'Hound' on duty; verso: "Gilman on Little Chief Mine dump, Fraysur [Froysur, Frasier?] in picture
16) Knight home
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Verso: "our home on the Chief Mine dump, Gilman 1941"
Marked with an arrow, the house sits next to a garage. Mine timbers are stacked to right and left. "Dump" refers to the disposal of earth left after ore is extracted.
Additional housing is located above the Knight home.
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Verso: "Don, Tom, Sam Anderson, and Harold Stoner at Gold Park cabin loading ore from the Glengarry Mine to be hauled to the Leadville smelter."
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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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Tom Knight with his grandson, Jack Schmidt, in Minturn. Parked next to the house is the pickup Tom bought from Frank "Frenchy" Tetrault.
Eagle Valley Enterprise, Oct. 30, 1942, p.5:
”Frank Tetreault and son, John, of Gilman and Red Cliff, were business visitors in town Tuesday and paid this office a pleasant visit. Frank is one of the old time miners on Battle Mountain, for years working leases in the canon, sometimes getting out a car of ore...
