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Six people sitting on port of "Thirteen" house, Burns, Colorado. From left to right: Frank Benton, Marie Durbin Bainum (cousin to Grace), Grace Benton (Mrs. Frank), T. Harry Benton (son), unidentified man, Charles Mann. (The latter two men are from the Mann Livestock Commission Co.)
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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One of the 13 cabins built by a man from Chicago by the name of Kenner who came to the Burns area each summer in the 1890's. The place was known as "Thirteen." The log cabin has a very ornate window and a sod roof.
"Thirteen" was bought by Frank Benton in 1907. Mr. Benton took the windows and built them into his frame house, still on the ranch in Burns.
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Commissary on Benton Ranch in Burns, Colorado. This building was used from 1912 to 1970 to hold food supplies for ranch hands. View shows the two story building with upper porch. Rail fence evident at midground.
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10. Burns Stockyards
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Burns Stockyards, October 1939, showing cattle in loading pens going up the ramp to rail cars on shipping day. Steam engine at left background. Four horses in foreground with dog.
The yards were built in exchange for the right of way needed by the railroad to go through the Benton Land & Livestock Company property. It was a great help to local ranchers and, when the railroad no longer would ship cattle by rail, it caused hardship for the ranchers...
16. Bailey School
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Bailey School at Burns, Colorado. The log structure is above the "21" Ditch across from the T. Harry Benton home and west of the present Ben Wurtsmith home (formerly known as the Bailey Place). Martha Gates was the teacher as well as Margaret Porter (nee Brooks). Martha is now Mrs. Garland Godbold (1986).
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One of the log houses on "Thirteen" in Burns, Colorado. The area is now part of the "Twenty-one" Ranch belonging to Benton Land & Livestock Co. The houses are no longer in existence. The sod roof on the log building is clearly visible.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
19. Burns School
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Burns school in 1976 (abandoned). Mrs. L. K. Toomer was one of the last teachers. Freda Lowe was the last cook. The Gates, Albertson, Benton, Toomer, Strubi, Luark, Schlegel, Wheelock, and Wurtsmith children went to this school (grades 1 through 8).
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School house situated at the mouth of Sunnyside Creek, Burns, Colorado, during the early 1900s. T. Harry Benton rode his horse to this school as did the children of George Benton. Evelyn Evans was the teacher. She married a local cowboy. Evidence of the schools is totally gone.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]