View of the Great Flume in American Gulch, located on Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1896. The mill, originally built for the Victoria Gold Mining Company in 1887, is in view on the steep hillside.
Sin títuloMen stand outside the Minnie Mine and Mill boardinghouse on Mineral Hill in French Gulch, east of Breckenridge, Colorado. The one-and-half story log building featured a shingled, side gable roof and exterior wooden stairs. A wooden boardwalk fronts the building. The Minnie Mine and Mill was owned by the Blue Hill Mining Company from 1890-1904.
Sin títuloA man stands near the edge of a pond on a hill, with a view of the Brooks-Snider Mine and Mill in the distance. A buck and rail fence borders the property. On the left is a log cabin. Near Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1890s-1900s.
Sin títuloMen outside the buildings at the Groundhog Mine, west of Breckenridge, Colorado. Some of the men are identified by a handwritten number on the photograph: 1. Scott Cooke; 2. Bert Walker; 3. Vene; 4. Frank Brooks. Circa 1898-1913.
Sin títuloCarl Fulton stands outside the log-reinforced portal to the Hot Air Mine. He holds the end of a rope looped around the neck of a small deer with antlers. In the background is a large log structure, probably a mill, on the steep hillside. Near Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1880s-1900s.
Sin títuloThe Wellington Mine upper and lower mills in the 1920s. The mills temporarily closed from late October 1920 through 1924 due to a reduced demand for lead and zinc. Looking northeast, in French Gulch near Breckenridge, Colorado.
Sin títuloMine waste dumps or mine tailings at the Wellington Mine in French Gulch east of Breckenridge, Colorado. In the background is a view of the snow-covered peaks of the Tenmile Range.
Sin títuloOffice in the Gold Pan Mining Company building on South Ridge Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, circa early 1900s. A heavy wood table with six chairs centers the room, and two roll top desks are placed against adjacent walls. Windows flank a sideboard with a desk lamp, and under one window is a tufted leather chaise couch. Framed portraits or prints hang on the floral patterned walls.
Sin títuloA cableway transports excavated boulders from the Gold Pan Pit at the Gold Pan Mining Company operations just south of Breckenridge, Colorado. Boulders larger than 8 inches were lifted from the pit by rectangular metal platforms edged on three sides called "stone boats". The cableway transported and disposed the rocks from the pit, and carried heavy pipes and equipment into the pit. Circa early 1900s.
Sin títuloThe Gold Pan Mining Company office building on South Ridge Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa early 1900s. The two-story multi gable wood frame building with dormer windows featured five offices on the main floor, with bedrooms and a bath upstairs. A man dressed in a waistcoat and necktie stands on the covered porch. Boulders line the dirt walkway to the entrance. In the background is the elevated scaffold that carried rocks away from the Blue River and Gold Pan excavation pit.
Sin títuloCompany manager George H. Evans (left) and shops superintendent Robert "Bob" Gore (right) stand beside the water diversion headgate run by the Gold Pan Mining Company, south of Breckenridge, Colorado. An unidentified man stands on top of the wooden frame. The nearly four mile long Gold Pan Ditch and connecting pipeline brought water from Indiana Gulch, Pennsylvania Gulch, and the Blue River, to operate the Evans hydraulic elevator system. Circa 1900s.
Sin títuloGold Pan ditch under construction. Men use shovels and a horse-drawn dirt scraper to dig the four foot deep trench from May to November, 1900. The ditch ran north collecting water from the Blue River and Pennsylvania and Indiana Creeks and was used for the Gold Pan Mining Company hydraulic operations south of Breckenridge, Colorado. Stands of dead trees cover the dirt hillside.
Sin títuloSpruce Creek hydroelectric plant, almost 4 miles south of Breckenridge, Colorado (on present day Highway 9). Built in the summer and fall of 1900, the plant generated electricity for the Gold Pan Mining Company pit and the Goldpan shops. By summer 1901, the town of Breckenridge and independent mine companies began purchasing electricity. In view is a water ditch and diversion headgate, and a large pile of stacked square logs.
Sin títuloMen stand on the engine and processing house or behind the bucket line of the Reliance dredge after renovations. Circa 1909. At French Gulch east of Breckenridge, Colorado. The Reliance, built under Ben Stanley Revett and the Reliance Gold Dredging Company, started operations in 1905. By 1906 it was working between the Wellington and Country Boy Mines in French Gulch. It changed over from steam to electric power in 1908.
Sin títuloMen stand on the engine and processing house, or sit on the platform below, of the Reliance dredge after renovations. Circa 1909 at French Gulch east of Breckenridge, Colorado. The Reliance, built under Ben Stanley Revett and the Reliance Gold Dredging Company, started operations in 1905. By 1906 it was working between the Wellington and Country Boy Mines in French Gulch. It changed over from steam to electric power in 1908.
Sin títuloTwo Bucyrus dredges, the Colorado I (right) and Colorado II (left), in the Swan River Valley at Valdora, north of Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa April 1908. The Colorado I dredged down the Swan River and turned up the Blue River, where it broke down in 1910 and sat idle until 1914. It operated on and off on the Blue River from 1914-1942. The Colorado II went up the Swan River where it operated continuously until 1919. In 1914, both dredges were purchased by the Tonopah Placers Company and renamed Tonopah No. 1 and Tonopah No. 2.
Sin títuloA gold dredge operating in the snow, probably near Breckenridge, Colorado. Along the dredging route are snow-covered boulder and rock piles. Snowy mountains in the background.
Sin títuloView of the trough used to carry excavated rock and debris waste from Bucyrus No. 4 gold dredge, on the Swan River, east of Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa early 1900s.
Sin títuloA well-dressed man, woman, and boy stand on lumber scattered on the side of the Swan River, overlooking Bucyrus No. 4 dredge. Behind the boy is a large stack of wood for the dredge's boiler. Excavated rocks and boulders line the opposite side of the river, following the dredging route. In the background are tree-covered hills. Circa early 1900s.
Sin títuloEzra Stewart stands with other men on top of the rotary snow plow clearing the railroad tracks on its way into Breckenridge, Colorado, in April 1899, during the Big Snow event of 1898-1899. View of Bald Mountain in the background.
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