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"Five o'clock at Gilman, Colorado." The company town of New Jersey Zinc in the afternoon sunlight. The main shaft entrance, the first building upon entering the town, is at the center of the photo; stacked mine timbers are directly to the right of the main shaft.
2. Mine office
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Office of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado.
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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."...
4. Main St.
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Photo postcard looking west on Main Street, Gilman.
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Automobiles parked at Gilman along the main road into the town. Housing in left background. The building at the far right is the one-story part of the shaft house. Stacked mine timbers can barely be seen above the roofline. This appears to be taken prior to the bus line that ran from Minturn.
Notch Mountain is visible at the upper left.
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The New Jersey Zinc Company office in Gilman, Colorado. The cinder block portion, which was the newer portion of the office, was constructed in approximately 1953. [license plate 1953]
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MacDonald Knight sitting on a parked car in the snow at Gilman. He's holding a camera and is underneath a sign for Coca-Cola.
Front: "sitting on top a parked car" [Gilman]
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Main Street in Gilman after a heavy snowfall. The license plate on the first car may read 1934. Storefronts show business names and products.
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Front: "Main Office E.Z.;" verso: "Mine office at Gilman, Healy's Grocery to the right"
E.Z. noted above was "Empire Zinc Co., formed in 1902 to search for and develop zinc mines in the west. The Eagle mine, operated by the Empire Zinc Division of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado, thirty miles west of the Continental Divide, was acquired in 1915." -- The First Hundred Years of the New Jersey Zinc Company, p.29
New Jersey Zinc...
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Gilman, Colorado, in the snow, looking north towards the Shaft-house.
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From left, Frank Maloit (head down), Eddie Duffy and George Gillian conversing at the New Jersey Zinc picnic at Maloit Park. Automobiles are parked in the background.
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Gilman Mine engineering and laboratory employees entering a building. Automobiles are parked in front.
13. Gilman School
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Verso: "Gilman school house where we went to school for a month. Later Mom and Perlita taught here -- Betty Jo Schmidt"
The Gilman School was in School District 6 in Eagle County, Colorado.
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Easter Day, 1949, on Eagle Street, Red Cliff. The Ivan Dump children are in their front yard with Easter baskets lined up on the boardwalk. From left to right, Betty Mae Dump Elsberry, Ed Dump Dumph, and Ernie Dump Dumph. Len Dump Dumph is perched on the fence post. Mine tailings are visible on East hill side of Eagle Street.
15. Bus in snow
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A Battle Mountain Transportation bus in the snow at Gilman. The license plates reads 1936.
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Frank Maloit's 1930 Hupmobile during spring mud season. The road from Red Cliff to Leadville wasn't paved until the mid-1930s. [The Hupmobile was produced from 1909-1940 by the Hupp Motor Company in Detroit.--Wikipedia]
Over the left rear of the Hupmobile is the roof of the old Powder House. Beyond that is the Mine Warehouse where Jim Walsh was storekeeper. Beyond that is the head frame for the mine hoist.
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The New Jersey Zinc Company office in Gilman, Colorado. The cinder block portion, which was the newer portion of the office, was constructed in approximately 1953. [license plate 1953]
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Ed Miller checking the food. Bill Jude to Ed's left. George Gillian (center), Ed Chockie (baseball cap) and Ed Duffy, enjoying the afternoon.
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Ed Chockie (with baseball hat), Bill Jude (holding cup), Ed Miller (right), and Frank Sherwood with his back to the camera, at Maloit Park.....others are unidentified.
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Ronnie Jenkins (hands in pockets) stands behind a chopping Eddie Duffy, while Tony Karwacki holds a log in place. Others are unidentified. The wood pile is at the fireplace in the background.