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With riches inches ahead in mine shafts or tunnels, men were impatient and work often continued in deep winter snow and sub-zero temperatures near timberline. There was an insatiable demand for mine and construction timbers. Although work was brutal, the rewards were good enough that men such as this fellow at Garfield were willing to risk snow slides and frostbite to snake timber up dangerously narrow trails even in the dead of winter. Miners working...
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The F.C. Watson Store in Garfield, built in 1920 and burned down in 1929. Nellie Ellis Collection.
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Colburn Jay, Mrs. Dunmire, Fred Watson, at Garfield. Nellie Ellis Collection.