A gold mine in the Elizabethtown mining district, the deep tunnel at the foot of Old Baldy Mountain in the Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, altitude about 10,000 feet
A gold mine in the Elizabethtown mining district, the deep tunnel at the foot of Old Baldy Mountain in the Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, altitude about 10,000 feet
Date
1896
Summary
View shows a gold mining complex, probably the Red Bandana Mine, in the Moreno Valley at the foot of Baldy Mountain, Colfax County, New Mexico.
Description
1 copy negative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 21 x 26 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Subject
Mine buildings--New Mexico--Colfax County; Baldy (N.M.); Baldy Mountain (Colfax County, N.M.); Colfax County (N.M.); Red Bandana Group (Colfax County, N.M.); Gold mining--New Mexico--Colfax County; Mining--New Mexico--Colfax County
Format-Medium
Photograph
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR710062630
Notes
Formerly F23334.; Hand written on back of print: "Baldy. A country post office in Colfax Co., 59 miles southwest of Raton, the County Seat, and 8 miles north of Ute Park, on the Rocky Mt. & Santa Fe Ry; the shipping point, and 18 miles northwest of Cimarron, the banking point. Mining is the principle industry. Population 200. Altitude 10,000 ft."; Title printed on label attached to front of original.; R7100626302
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