03-10-2009, 11:22 PM
MountainMan Wrote:Great photos! any idea where thewy were taken?
I've seen old Colorado photos of men with shovels clearing forty foot snow drifts the same way - lifting one shovel full at a time up to the next level so the next guy can lift it and so forth, until finally the last guy shovels it off to the side. Labor was cheap, shovels were available and there wasn't any other practical way to do what had to be done. I wonder how many calories a day it took to perform that kind of labor.
My grandfather was a double-bladed axe logger, and he averaged around 3,000 calories per meal.
faintly written on the back in pencil it looks like Las Animas with a question mark. where are the ovens in your photo from ?
Steam Trains in browns park(moffat county0 Colorado there are two or three beehive coke ovens that they used in a copper smelter there have a pic some where will look for it .
Jim