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Placer gold fields, Russell, Colo.

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Call Number	X-13236
Title	Placer gold fields, Russell, Colo.
Creator(s)	Davis, O. T.
Summary	View of Russell, Costilla County, Colorado, includes dwellings, outbuildings, mining sheds, Sangre de Cristo Creek and Denver and Rio Grande railroad engine, freight cars and passenger coach. Identified locations are: "1. Spanish Basin Placers, 2. Placer Creek, 3. Sangre de Cristo, 4. Grayback Gulch placers, 5. Grayback Mountain (iron mines and gold projects), 6. Stern's Ridge and Peak, 7. old toll-road gate at 8 (H T Seftar [?] Store Russell P.O.), 9. D & R G (narrow gage) Ry Depot, 10. Roundhouse mixed train alongside, 11. Section house, 12. Rio Grande Hotel, 13. school house church etc."
Date	1897
Notes	Additional information on duplicate print: "1887 Russel was the division piont on the old narrow gauge [narrow-gage] line over La Veta Pass. Narrow gauge line abandoned wht the standard guage line was built over the Sangre de Cristo range 6 miles south of La Veta pass, this crossing was called Veta Pass. US 160 - Colo 10 Highway now covers old roadbed. This town not to be found on modern maps, el. 8318 ft. is a very short distance west of La Veta pass. Data come from W. A. Anderson of Miami, Florida, who died June 1947.; Formerly F40210.; Inked in front margin: "1897."; Inked on back of photoprint: "Placer mining district 1897 Russell Colo just below junction of Sangre De Christo and Placer Creeks" "#66;" and identification of locations, "9,10,11,12 all removed Railway's right of way's line State Highway, 1933" "O.T.D."; Numbers for identification inked on photoprint.; Title block lettered on original.; R7100132361
Physical Description	1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 21 x 26 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Subject	Russell (Colo.)--1890-1900.
Rights	Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes (digital reproduction)
Type of Material	Film negatives.; Photographic prints.; Imaged.; Image
Relation	Image File: ZZR710013236
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	F40210 DPLW
Filename	10013236.tif

Placer gold fields, Russell, Colo.

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