Re: Another Oil tank...

Posted by Chris Walker on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Another-Oil-tank-tp1112p1227.html

Continuing with this discovery, I may hasten to add that Bitumen was also used widely in the preservation of steel water pipes and the Gold Pan Shops were located in Breckenridge, many miles of pipe were constructed there to allow water to be brought to the Giant Nozzles in the various hydraulicking operations. That operation was underway in 1899, these shop buildings completed around 1900, which may explain the disappearance of both the tank and the adjacent building that seemed in too good of repair in the later image taken from the opposite side of the valley.


http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/15077/rv/singleitem/rec/51

Note the Tanker that was visible in the first post...EDIT: which looks more like a Boiler now. Ha Ha  :)



http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/2506/rv/singleitem/rec/302



Sidenote: That Privy at left of picture is where the Dredge rests in the upper post picture