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Austin Offerson and Eileen Randall on the small pond on the Offerson place. Present location of Beaver Creek reception center and helipad. View to the southwest of "Gyp Cliffs."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Carl Eaton in small boat, fishing at Beaver Lake (sawmill camp in background).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
23) Boy Scout Camp
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Boy's at Boy Schout Camp, end of the road at Tigiwon. The scoutmaster was H. G. Bayer.
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 28, 2003.
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View of the Minturn rail yard from U.S. Hwy 24, looking east, showing iced water tanks at center. The depot is on the right with the Taylor addition neighborhood in the background.
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Restoring the Brooks Water Wheel in the fall of 1993.
"This past week, while Comer was reading a morning newspaper in his home, he heard a major crashing noise and immediately knew his beloved water wheel was taken out by the mighty high waters of the Colorado River." -- Raymond Bleesz, History in Need of Repair, Vail Daily June 4, 2014 p.A2
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Harry and Marie Nottingham seated on some rocks enjoying a picnic at Bolts Lake, south of Minturn.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
29) Homestake Dam
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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam or rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff.
The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock.
There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the ountainsides at both ends of the dam.
The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam or rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff.
The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock.
There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the ountainsides at both ends of the dam.
The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
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East Homestake pipeline delivering water to the Homestake Dam reservoir on May 3, 2004, following a spring snow.
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"Homestake Dam. The material from the last Coyote-hole blast is about cleaned up. The shovels are working on the far end of the blast zone. The lower quarry bench and ramp is now covered with water. The upper two benches have been dug out by working from 2 headings on each level and now are used as the haul roads for the far end. Aug. 1966."
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The Sweetwater Lake Ranger Station, White River National Forest, with Sweetwater Lake in the background. Three men, two in ranger uniforms, are standing outside of the station.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"A photo of the Brooks water wheel as it appeared in Empire Magazine about 1972. John Comer, the owner of the former Brooks ranch, is standing in front of it." -- McCoy Memoirs p.153
1962 is written on the front of the photo.
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Marie Nottingham and friend in a rowboat on Bolts Lake, south of Minturn.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
36) Salt Well
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The Salt Well southeast of McCoy. "Early settlers gave it this name because of the waters salty taste. It is a deep natural spring about forty feet in diameter with a steady year-around flow of water which remains at approximately the same temperature in all seasons. Another mystery of the spring is that it has been sounded to a depth of 1,500 feet without finding bottom." -- McCoy Memoirs p.90, photo on p.91
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"Aurora and Colorado Springs are building a huge dam of rock on Homestake Creek southwest of Red Cliff.
The dam will have an upstream impervious face of asphalt laid on a blanket of gravel atop the rock.
There is a concrete curtain extending below the dam foundation into fock formations and into the mountainsides at both ends of the dam.
The asphalt face is technically known as asphaltic concrete, the asphalt being binder instead of cement in what...
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"Paving Homestake Dam, October 1966. 1055 PH crane outfitted to perform more than one operation."
39) Van Horn wheel
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"This wheel was installed by Howard Van Horn to generate electric power, when he lived on the former Groh ranch. It was set up in an irrigation ditch at a point where the water had sufficient drop to revolve it. The ditch, built by Frank Groh in 1905 has been abandoned for many years and the wheel with it." -- McCoy Memoirs p.130
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
40) Missouri Lake
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Verso: "Missouri Lakes from top of Missouri Pass"
The photo is stamped: : "Empire Zinc Div, The New Jersey Zinc Co., Gilman, Colorado"
