Gilsonite Mines and Mining

File — Box: 1, Folder: 4

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Scope and Contents

48: Two trucks on road
49: Smoke at gilsonite mine
50: Gilsonite vein
51: "Miners at Black Dragon Mine 1908"
52: "Rainbow Mine"
53: "Starting 'Davis' shaft on Thimble - rock"
54: Six fires burning
55: "'Davis' Thimble - rock, exploded from shots and burned"
56: Truck with four dozen bags on it
57: Two unidentified men
58: "Looking down the Pride of West Shaft - Neal No. 2 Shaft"
59: Bags of gilsonite at mine site
60: Small building
61: "Mack, Colo. - Rod Francke, Tom Davis, C.J. Neal - Gilsonite Storage Area"
62: "Trucks headed to Mack, Colo. over old Uintah Railway Trail"
63: Three trucks loaded with gilsonite bags
64: "Neal No. 2 shaft, Rainbow"
65: "Starting Neal No. 1 - First load shipped from Rainbow number 2"
66: "J.P. Mulville, locating engineer for Bamberger R.R. Co."
67: "Rainbow number 2 Shaft"
68: "Undeveloped vein on west end of Thimble Rock - Discovery: east end Turtle Claim - Friday , Nov. 13, 2:00p.m."
69: Unidentified mine site
70: "The west part of the Tennessee Claim west of the Rainbow Camp after the gilsonite has been removed"
71: "Gilsonite trucks C. J. Neal's mine"
72: "First house for the Neal family being moved to Pariette Mine. Before this they lived in huge tents."
73: "Thimble Rock Gilsonite Mine - notice faulted vein - Rainbow Shaft number 1 looking east at Thimble Rock" Rainbow Mine number 3
74: "Rainbow Mine" Rainbow Mine number 4
75: "Crossing Evacuation Creek at Watson, Utah - Trucking from Rainbow Gilsonite Mines, 1940" Watson
76: Rainbow Mine number 2
77: "Parrielle Mine 1905"

Dates

1900-1920s

Conditions Governing Access

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