Mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado – Historic Print
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A window into the past: Mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado
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The Camp Bird Mine sat high in the steep San Juan Mountains above Ouray, and its mill stood where ore from the workings could be crushed and sorted before shipment. The mine became one of the most productive gold and silver operations in the district, and it was owned for a time by Thomas Walsh, whose family later became widely known. Mills like this one were the heart of Colorado's hard-rock mining boom, where the work of separating valuable metal from rock was done in noisy, dusty buildings often built on tight mountain slopes. The picture shows how a mill was fitted into the terrain, with the labor and machinery needed to turn raw ore into something worth selling.
| Original scan | 4,730 × 3,350 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1a34181u Mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado |
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