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Joy Marfitano standing in front of cut logs at Warren's sawmill on Shrine Pass.

2. Logs

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Logs loaded on a skid, ready to be pulled by a tractor to the sawmill. Logging done at upper Wearyman Creek logging camp; sawmill (Warren Brothers & Robinson) located at lower Wearyman Creek.
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Ron Dump, Theodore "Bud" Beck, Louie "Dutch" Gleiforst and a fourth man standing in front of a trailor house. Ron Dump has his right arm in his right boot (his right foot is bootless but socked) and the men are examining the toe. The men were cutting logs for Ray Earl Warren, owner of the trailer house. Model A Ford in the background; logs, sandwich and canteen in foreground. The site is 3.5 miles up Shrine Pass and was known as Kelly's. It's...
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Buster (on left) and Jack Beck sitting on a felled log at the upper Wearyman logging camp (Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill).
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Ray Warren's skid horse "Ben," pulling logs uphill on Shrine Pass. Logging road is to the right of Ben.
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Ron Dump, seated, and Bruce Beck with axes and hand saw in front of a felled and trimmed log. They are logging on Shrine Pass for Ray Warren, Sr. Buster and Bruce Beck and Ron Dump worked when they were still in school during the summers and falls of the year.
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Bob Warren moving logs at the lower Warren Brother & Robinson sawmill on Wearyman Creek. The mill works are behind him.
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Bruce Beck (left) and Ron Dump seated during a break while logging on Shrine Pass. The skid horse pulls the logs.
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Sawmill at Beaver Lake with logs in foreground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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Distant view of the Peterson Creek tramway, used to transport lumber from the Peterson Creek sawmill to the railroad at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon. The picture was taken from the Champion Mine at Bell's Camp. The steep terrain is testimony to the difficulty in logging in this area.
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Ilene Ages Warren (wife of Bob Warren) standing next to the sawblade at the Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill at the end of Eagle St. next to the ball field.
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The old Fleming sawmill on the "potato patch" in Gore Creek. Highway 6 is visible in the background, as well as Red Sandstone Rd. The sawmill burned on August 31, 1954. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Eagle Lumber Co. loading shed for the Denver & Rio Grand railroad at Peterson Creek gulch in the Eagle River Canyon (about .5 mi. from Red Cliff and 2 mi. from Belden). The logs were sent down on the surface tram running down the gulch in this photo and then loaded on train cars. There is another set of main line tracks across the Eagle River (at the bottom of the photo). The small building at the right is the tram house. Above that, there...
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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.
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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.