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2. Freighters
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"A train of freight wagons like these were a common sight on the road between Wolcott and Routt County points, before the advent of the Moffatt Road. By traveling together freighters could lend assistance to one another in case of an equipment breakdown, encountering a mudhole or a steep grade, of which there were many. This photo was taken about a mile north west of McCoy, by A. B. Noyce of Steamboat Springs in the spring of 1903. The three freighters...
3. McCoy Lane
4. Loading wool
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"At the time the mail route was still run by way of the McCoy ferry, Whipple purchased two Concord stages from a mail contractor in Oklahoma. The double-decker coaches were slung on heavy leather straps instead of strings. They could carry fifteen to twenty passengers as the above picture shows. The stage route came into being from Wolcott in 1887 and continued to operate for the next twenty years or more." -- The Gates Genealogy
10. Early Gypsum
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Early Gypsum where tents provided original services: hotel, stores, saloon, restaurant. Meals at the Eagle Hotel were 35 cents, a bed was 25 cents. All of these services were located across from the train depot. The location is close to present day Railroad Ave. and Second Street.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Victor Dump at the reins of the horse team and Otto Bergman sitting on lumber from the Fleming Lumber mill. The lumber is on a skid drawn by a horse team.
"The breast strap of the team is threaded through both rings, with the pole strap loop captured between them. This arrangement virtually eliminates the tendency for the end ring sleeve to be pulled off the end of the neckyoke. Simple, but good insurance." -- Stu Dykstra
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