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Ore processing buildings on a steep slope in San Juan County, Colorado. This Iowa Mill complex consists of multi-story, frame stamp mill buildings, smokestacks and support structures located in the Arrastra Basin near Silverton, Colorado. Benjamin W. Thayer and James H. Robin were involved in the development and operation of this facility in the late 1880s and 1890s. Photo Courtesy of Cindy Buckner
Robin Iowa Mill
From the December 5, 1896 edition of the Silverton Standard: PLAGUE ON THE CITY: DIRTY-FACED BRATS.
The majority of Silverton kids are polite and well behaved, yet there are a few among them of the dirtiest faced and most impudent brats that were ever weaned on a bottle. Those fellows make it a point to stand on some street corner and with a ready snow ball in hand to hit any p...
