Cars unloading at the Treasury Tunnel dump

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Author
Barbre, Thos. J.
Date
1940?-1949?
Keywords
Underground mining -- Colorado
Mining -- Machinery and equipment
Mine dumps
Lead mines and mining -- Colorado -- Ouray County
Silver mines and mining -- Colorado -- Ouray County
Miners -- Colorado -- Ouray County

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https://hdl.handle.net/11124/173663
Abstract
Caption reads: "No. 4205. Treasury Tunnel. Ouray, Colorado. Muck is dumped in cars of 90 cubic foot capacity at the dump a few hundred feet from the portal of the bore. Cars are of Granby type and are dumped by means of an extended, removable arm which runs over a movable ramp."
Men operate cars to dump muck at the Treasury Tunnel dump.
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