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Howard G. Bayer was born at Lower Meaghers Grant, Nova Scotia, August 23, 1885. He was trained as an engineer and was at one point affiliated with the Stearns-Roger Company. He came to Eagle County in 1917, marrying Ethel Boies of Red Cliff in 1918. After a mining accident, he became a carpenter and decorator, living in Minturn. He was well-known as an active leader in the Boy Scouts and any activities involving children. He died in Glenwood...
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Purley Bertroch and Ellis Bearden (on right) standing in front of a pickup truck. Purley worked on the family farm in Gypsum until World War II, when he served in the First Cavalry, U.S. Army. After that, he worked as a carpenter, general contractor and developer throughout Eagle County.
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David Marion "Skeet" Koger, standing in the rain next to the old Jesse Sherman house. Photo printed April 11, 1940 at Ping's Station.
"He arrived in Eagle County in 1899 and was first employed in the now nonexistent Hockett Sawmill on Hardscrabble south of Eagle. Within the next few years following, Skeet worked around Eagle vicinity, joining the Sherman Brothers Red Mountain Ranch east of Eagle in the early 1900s, becoming a permanent member of...
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Continuing construction of the top level of the Madden Dam. An "x" marks an object in the whitewater formed by the sluice gate. No caption.
The Panama Canal was opened on August 15, 1914. The first major capital improvement was the Madden Dam and Power Project. Completed in 1935, it controlled the flow of water from the Chagres River into Gatun Lake and created its own reservoir, Lake Madden. [That name was changed to Alajuela Lake in 1999 when...
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The Panama Canal was opened on August 15, 1914. The first major capital improvement was the Madden Dam and Power Project. Completed in 1935, it controlled the flow of water from the Chagres River into Gatun Lake and created its own reservoir, Lake Madden. [That name was changed to Alajuela Lake in 1999 when the Canal Zone was returned to Panama.] Hydroelectric power and fresh water for Panama City were also benefits of the project.
Thomas Knight...
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Tom Knight's caption on verso: "From the cement dock level, looking into the canon. Showing the power house and the white water from the sluice gates."
Scaffolding visible on the dam face, with men working on it.
The Panama Canal was opened on August 15, 1914. The first major capital improvement was the Madden Dam and Power Project. Completed in 1935, it controlled the flow of water from the Chagres River into Gatun Lake and created its own reservoir,...
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Continuing construction of the top level of the Madden Dam taken at night.
The Panama Canal was opened on August 15, 1914. The first major capital improvement was the Madden Dam and Power Project. Completed in 1935, it controlled the flow of water from the Chagres River into Gatun Lake and created its own reservoir, Lake Madden. [That name was changed to Alajuela Lake in 1999 when the Canal Zone was returned to Panama.] Hydroelectric power and...
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"The Yarmony Park School under construction in 1918. The Carpenters are Claude Branson, Dave Clow, and Floyd Cates. Ben and Kate Butler are visitors from Conger Mesa. The building was finished and opened for the first term of school that year." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 49
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ernest W. Hicks talks about early life in Missouri and in Egypt, where his father was a missionary. He also discusses his work as a carpenter in Mesa County, Colorado, his passion for crafting muzzle-loading rifles and hunting, and his friendship with the artist Harold Bryant. Harriett Hicks talks about her work in the Kuner Canning Company in Appleton. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County...
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Edwin “Ted” Winterburn talks about the many Grand Junction, Colorado buildings built by his father, Samuel E. Winterburn, including the Majestic Theater (now the Mesa Theater). He discusses growing up in Grand Junction and working as an electrician and car mechanic. He speaks about moving around the country a great deal and working various electrician jobs at the start of World War ll, then returning to the Grand Valley area to retire in the...
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Walter Flasche talks about his birth in Nebraska and moving to De Beque, Colorado with his parents via covered wagon around 1908. He remembers life in the Roan Creek area, severe drought and heavy snows. He recalls battles between cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers in the area. He speaks about his work as a logger and his work in the nascent oil shale industry. He describes how hard the life of a rancher and oil shale worker was, and how his wife...