Re: Mills of Fall River. Connecting the Dots.

Posted by Chris Walker on
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I never thought that through my research, I would ever get to provide some clarification of the work of the great Mac Poor.

In the fabulous Pictorial Supt. to D.S.P.&P. by Mac Poor, there appears this picture taken at Fall River that provides us with yet another view of the SectionHouse(and environs), the fledgling Rising Sun(later part of Hoosac Tunnel) Mine in the rear and foremost the UP's Piledriver in action inserting new Piles for the new 16ft long Bridge # 17.

Mac Poor speculates in the caption that there was need put in a drainage culvert at this location.


from Mac Poor's Pictorial Supplement to D.S.P.&P.  Rocky Mountain Railroad Club Abr. Edition. pg321.

Lachlan McLean took several unremarked photographs of construction of the Wooden Stave Conduit to the Stanley Consolidated Mines Powerhouse, two of those appear in the above posts, of these pictures only a few are dated by the DPL at 1894, one more specifically at 1894 October, more will appear in the Stanley Consolidated Mine (installment).

Just downstream of the Plutus Concentrator Mill this busy scene shows the UPD&G trackage in the background, unfortunately there is no sign of the Plutus Con. siding.  On the North bank of Clear Cr. can be seen a small Mine that also shows in Jeff Ramsey's Postcard view above.


from http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/80207/rv/singleitem/rec/23

Still further downstream the Conduit passes under the siding to the Stanley Mines opposite the Lincoln Mines.  This undertaking must have been some really hard work digging that trench by hand through the gravelbed.


http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/80204/rv/singleitem/rec/625