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The main company office for New Jersey Zinc at Gillman.
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Tom Doran (on left) of Eagle, Colorado, and Chuck Shaw of Minturn, Colorado, with pack horses at Holy Cross City. Six buildings and the remains of other structures are visible in the background. "By 1881, Holy Cross City was, itself, a reality. In a meadow, 11,407 feet above sea level, were "'two rows of houses facing each other with other buildings wherever a level spot could be found.' ...Between 1881 and 1883, Holy Cross City could boast...
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Assay Office constructed by the Silverwave Mining Company in about 1882. (A. F. Graham, carpenter, was the father of Ollie Graham Meyer of Red Cliff.) Torn down in 1938 after many years of disuse. "It was said that the reason it was built on the edge of the dliff was so that men working at the assay office could signal to the loading station on the railroad in the canyon below." [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical...
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Mabel Colerick at the back door of "Mabel's Madhouse" that Dick Turgeon built for her after the 1949 fire. Early 1950's. The temporary "step" nailed on the roof boards indicates that some roof construction was still in progress. -- Rich Perske Aug. 2014
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Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. Photo of the William Jude residence, occupied by the Jude family during the late 1930s to the early 1940s.
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Looking across the railroad tracks at Belden, the tram house is white, midground; the surface tram cable is running up the cliff on the right. Cribbing visible at center.
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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998, showing downtown Gilman.
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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998. Housing for workers at the Gilman Mine is shown in the center of the photograph. The Lanning family lived in the center of the top row of houses, just below Hwy 24, which curves into the background. Water tanks are visible adjacent to Hwy 24.
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Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. From left, Alex and Mary Frances Baldo, Tom Garnett, Charlie Jude, Shirley Wenziker Washburne, Marie and Bill Belina. The white house on the right behind the groups was occupied by Bob and Myra Enzenroth when they were first married.
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Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. Caddy's house with Marie Belina, two unidentified reporters from the Vail Trail, Bill Belina and Charlie Jude. The Belina's father worked at Gilman and they lived either in Caddy's or Maloit's home.
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Unidentified man [Tom Knight?] standing on the surface tram, looking from Belden toward Gilman.
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Main Street in Gilman after a heavy snowfall. The license plate on the first car may read 1934. Storefronts show business names and products.
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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 New Jersey Zinc...
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A view of Gilman in the snow [1930s] with some mine facilities and housing.
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MacDonald Knight standing in the playground area of the Gilman School. Verso: "Gilman elementary school where Mom [Sophie Knight] and Perlita [Knight Gauthier] taught and BJ [Betty Jo Knight Schmidt] and Don [MacDonald Knight] went. Battle Mtn. behind 1938." Print stamp: Jan. 10 1936.
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Gilman, Colorado, in the snow, looking north towards the Shaft-house.
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Remains of the mineral mill at the head of Cross Creek . The mill serviced the Treasure Vault Mine.
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Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. The Gilman grade school yard fence, with outbuilding at left.

59. Gilman

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Mine buildings at Gilman, ca. 1915. Cribbing employed in an effort to stabilize the slope. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Gilman Mine engineering and laboratory employees entering a building. Automobiles are parked in front.