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3. Hoist house
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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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6. Surface tram
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Verso: "Tramway from Gilman to Belden. Tom took me down it when I was about 10 and scared me to death." [BJS: Betty Jo Schmidt]
"The surface tram on the east side of Gilman was just below the carpenter shop and the surface electric shop. The tram was operated by a hoist just like in the inclines in the mill with bell signals for the hoist man to go up or down with the car. You could ride the tram from Gilman to Belden, or they used it to bring machinery,...