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Front view of the Fleming Lumber & Merc. Co., Red Cliff, CO, showing front door and boardwalk. Date in lower right corner: 1/7/1926. R. E. "Eddie" Tippett on left in doorway; Malcolm McLeod on right in doorway. John Fleming on Tippett's right. The children are Blanche, Bernice and Richard Tippett.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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
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"Another old cabin on the Black Mountain Ranch that served as a temporary home for people who made all or part of their livelihood doing timber work from 1914 to 1930. Leonard and Maude Hudson spent part of their honeymoon here during the winter of 1919-1920 when Leonard was hauling timber products for Fred Hall. Clyde and Mae Gilbert lived here, while Clyde was working for Dick Webb in 1923 and 1924. It was named the Honeymoon Cabin. The aspens...
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"After a 1933 fire destroyed several downtown buildings, the next business to build in that space was the Independent Lumber Company. The lumber company moved to Chambers Avenue (Across the Eagle River) in the early 1980s. The Eagle Town Hall is now located on the corner where this building once stood." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.110
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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...
15. Kaibab Sawmill
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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.
16. Kaibab Sawmill
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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.
17. Kaibab Sawmill
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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.
18. Kaibab Sawmill
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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.
19. Kaibab Sawmill
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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.
20. Kaibab Sawmill
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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.