Book Cliff Mine Entrance
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Book Cliff Mine Entrance

Photograph -- Black-and-White Photograph

Identifier:
2022.4.5
Description
Frank Dean photo taken of the entrance to the Book Cliff Mines. 

"The entrance to the Book Cliff Mine, circa 1915, showing the friction brake system used to lower loaded cars over the tramway to the tipple. The weight of the loaded cars going down would pull the returning empties back to the mine adit. A section of four-rail track allowed the cars to pass each other in transit." ***see publication history
Content Date:
1915
Related Publications:
The Little Book Cliff Railway: The Life and Times of a Colorado Narrow Gauge, by Lyndon J. Lampert and Robert W. McLeod. Page 119. Credited to the Museum of Western Colorado Collection. Photo's caption was used in the description.

Related person
Frank E. Dean [1864-1947] (creator)
Related place
Little Book Cliff Mines (depicts)