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Alfred Benson’s property on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. Originally, there were several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site. This was not Benson's main cabin or barn. The main cabin interior walls had been smoothed with an adz or a broad-axe and these are not smooth. The structure is too small to be the barn. This photo was taken on July 26, 2012.
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"Built about 1910, this old cabin on the Black Mountain Ranch served as a temporary home for a number of timbermen until 1942. Among them were: Slim Carrington, Fred Schaefermeyer, Shorty Strutzel, Bill Babcock, Al Kearney, Leonard and Maude Hudson, the Herman Bowles family and several others." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 249 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill, first sawmill up Wearyman Creek towards Shrine Pass. Lumber is stacked and there's snow on the ground.
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Front view of a remaining cabin on Alfred Benson’s property on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. Originally, there were several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site. This photo was taken on July 26, 2012.
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Outbuilding next to the mill building at Cross Creek. [The mill building is just to the left, out of the frame.] There is a person with a dog at midfield.
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Mildred and Everett Howard at their Bachelor Gulch home on a load of logs from McCoy Park. The load is on a sled pulled by a 2-horse team. Mildred is seated and Everett is standing holding the reins to the horse team. The sled bobs with bolsters are clearly visible. Mertz cabin in left background; Howard house in right background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Alfred Benson's log cabin (hewn inside) on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. His skid horse in harness for pulling logs is standing outside. There are several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site.
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1921: Interior of the Fleming Sawmill, Red Cliff, Colorado. Emil Erlandson is leaning on a log; another worker is in the left midground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Piles of lumber in the Fleming Lumber yard, as seen from Joe Beck's back yard. Water Street runs between Beck's and the lumber yard.
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The front of the Fleming Lumber & Mercantile Co. Office in Red Cliff, Colorado, January 24, 1919.
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Lumber stacked up at the sawmill on Turkey Creek. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The front of the Fleming Lumber and Mercantile Co. building on Eagle Street in Red Cliff in December 1999. The building is vacant and for rent.
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Jack Beck standing on logs at Benson's sawmill, Shrine Pass. Benson's barn in is the background. Bensons had a saw mill at Pando but after they moved their logging operation up Shrine Pass, they hauled their logs to Smith's Lumber Co. in Leadville. Logging in that area was done at Shrine Pass, Tates Gulch, WIllow Creek, Lime Creek and Wearyman. Names of people involved in logging: Alfred Benson; Gus Benson (no relation); John Magunson (a blacksmith...
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"In February of 1933 there was no snow at the John Ambos sawmill on the east rim of Rock Creek Canyon and very little anywhere in the McCoy area, for that matter. But a year later, there was plenty of it. The A frame just to the right of the mill shed, supports a heavy aerial cable that Frank Haddon had stretched across the canyon for a log hoisting operation in 1930 which was a dismal failure." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.245 [Title supplied from catalog...
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"Father picture taken in the '80s before father was married to Mary Grant" - Alda Borah. "Father" would be Alfred Borah. The photo is double printed on a cardboard postcard; verso reads Denver, Colorado.
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Cut timber is loaded onto a semi-flatbed trailer at the Kaibab Sawmill. Located in the area of Eagle now known as the Lower Kaibab Subdivision, near the Bluffs subdivisions and current Eagle Valley Elementary and Middle Schools, it was in operation from the 1940s to 1980s before its closure by the EPA, citing emissions from the burner affecting air quality.
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An exterior shot of the Kaibab Sawmill. Located in the area of Eagle now known as the Lower Kaibab Subdivision, near the Bluffs subdivisions and current Eagle Valley Elementary and Middle Schools, it was in operation from the 1940s to 1980s before its closure by the EPA, citing emissions from the burner affecting air quality.
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An exterior shot of the Kaibab Sawmill. Located in the area of Eagle now known as the Lower Kaibab Subdivision, near the Bluffs subdivisions and current Eagle Valley Elementary and Middle Schools, it was in operation from the 1940s to 1980s before its closure by the EPA, citing emissions from the burner affecting air quality.
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An exterior shot of the Kaibab Sawmill. Located in the area of Eagle now known as the Lower Kaibab Subdivision, near the Bluffs subdivisions and current Eagle Valley Elementary and Middle Schools, it was in operation from the 1940s to 1980s before its closure by the EPA, citing emissions from the burner affecting air quality.
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An exterior shot of the Kaibab Sawmill. Located in the area of Eagle now known as the Lower Kaibab Subdivision, near the Bluffs subdivisions and current Eagle Valley Elementary and Middle Schools, it was in operation from the 1940s to 1980s before its closure by the EPA, citing emissions from the burner affecting air quality.