A survey team breaks camp near Fourmile Creek in Fremont County, Colorado. Burros are loaded with equipment, bedrolls, and a table. A team of railroad surveyors stand interspersed with the burros. One man holds a stadia rod in his hand. A canvas tent and other equipment are in the distance.
Date
[between 1881 and 1884?]
Notes
Accession number: 95.200.513; History Colorado.; Handwritten on back of mat board: "Breaking camp where I took supplies 3 weeks ago. 5 tents on Four Mile Creek 6 miles north of Canon at R. R. cut off to Denver making road 60 miles shorter. At the mouth of Canon, the camp through which I was much interested 2 miles beyond camp are the oil wells which supplied this country with oil for years. I spent an hour, here I saw the black oil on the water: this was the cause of its discovery in 1865. At the head of canon cam out in the --- open ground called Garden Park. Here 9 miles from home I rested in a large house with a large cabinet of mineral curiosities mostly from points only a few miles distant. The bones petrified of large size, curious rocks of all descriptions. Very many things of interest. I could not stay."; Handwritten on envelope: "C-Burros."; Inked on label: "R. R. Surveyors.; Photographer information on label on mat board reads: "Colorado Views, On the D. & R. G. Railway, Reading Room Gallery, (One Door West Post Office), Canon City, Colorado, A. W. Dennis."; Title supplied.; R7200045816
Physical Description
1 photographic print ; 11.5 x 17.5 cm. (4 1/2 x 7 in.) mounted on mat board.
Fourmile Creek (Fremont County and Custer County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Fremont County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Camping--Colorado--Fremont County--1880-1890.; Donkeys--Colorado--Fremont County--1880-1890.; Packtrains--Colorado--Fremont County--1880-1890.; Surveyors--Colorado--Fremont County--1880-1890.
