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"Homestake dam, some 2nd shift personnel. Left to right: Duane--end dump skinner; Jack Treptow--Shift Supervisor; Chad Bane--Dozer Hand; Kelly Stone Bissell--General Quarry Foreman, Fall of 1966."
Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc. (MK) was the construction company that did the work under the supervision of Bechtel Corporation, which provided the engineers and construction managers for the project.
3. Truck wreck
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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...
9. Convoy
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Purley Bertroch and Ellis Bearden (on right) standing in front of a pickup truck. Purley worked on the family farm in Gypsum until World War II, when he served in the First Cavalry, U.S. Army. After that, he worked as a carpenter, general contractor and developer throughout Eagle County.