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45. Zinc dryer
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The dryer building for zinc is at the far right. The zinc slurry would be heated and dried, leaving a very fine zinc powder. The powder was shipped in sealed box cars as it was so fine it would blow away in an open car. The rail line for shipping runs through the Eagle River Canyon (Belden area) so the final products for shipping were finished at this level.
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One entrance to the Lady Belle Mine on Horse Mountain. The distinctive cedars on the hillside are markers found in other photographs of the area.
The Lady Belle Mine, "discovered in 1912, was a relatively limited pocket of ore that kept miners busy for only a short time. The mine operated until 1918, and although it never lived up to expectation of the local community, historical sources report the Lady Belle produced anywhere from $450,000 to $1...
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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
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The mineral mill [located at the head of Cross Creek] for the Treasure Vault Mine. The mill is adjacent to the mill pond, about 2 miles from the mine.
"The mill was at the pond...because a mill takes a lot of water. They hit one pocket of good ore, gold, and then it petered out."--Buster Beck