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Gulch Mine, The
Arthur Lakes Library Colorado Digitization Project Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
Arthur Lakes Library
Colorado Digitization Project
Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
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1940?-1949?
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Postcard showing a prospector and his burro (image of prospector and burro pasted into photograph) standing below the Gulch Mine northwest of Garfied. The caption on photograph NMHFM-231 identifies this person as Frank Gimlet (aka Frank E. Gimlett), the hermit of Arbor Villa (i.e. Arbourville). The Gulch Mine, which is located on the north slope of Clover Mountain (Gunnison County near the border with Chaffee County) at an elevation of about 13,500 feet, was discovered by Ralph Walden. Forty men, who lived in a bunkhouse, worked the mine for its gold and silver deposits. In December of 1891 an avalanche wiped out the mining camp, killing the single miner who had stayed at the camp. The mine was never reopened.
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