DRGW The RGS Story, Vol 5

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    The RGS Story Vol. 5
    Rico and the Mines
    Sundance Publications Ltd
    1996
    ISBN 0-913582-61-1
    496 pages

    The RGS Story

    Contents

    1. Charles Miller Engel, Rico Resident
    2. The Story of Dunton
    3. Coke Ovens to Rico's Yard Limits
    4. Rico's Trail Blazers
    5. RGS Rail Arrives in Rico
    6. RGS Enterprise Branch
    7. The Pro Patria Mill
    8. The Flood in October of 1911
    9. St. Louis Mine Period

    RGS Station Maps of Rico

    1893-1900
    1902
    1910
    1911-1920
    1921-1930
    1931

    Map List

    Route Map of RGS - Montrose to Durango
    U.S. Geological Survey Map - Rico and the enterprise Branch
    Dunton and the Mines Northwest of Rico
    Kibbe's "The San Juan Mining Region - 1881"
    Sanborn - Pasadena Reduction Company - 1886
    Sanborn - Rico - 1886
    Sanborn - Rico - 1890
    Sanborn - Grand View Mining & Smelting company - 1886
    U.S. Geological Survey Map - 1898 - Rico and the Enterprises Branch
    Sanborn - Block 15 - 1893
    Enterprise Branch - Jim Key - 1892-1900
    Sanborn - Grand View Mining & Smelting Company - 1893
    U.S. Geological Survey Map - 1930 - Rico and the Mines East of Town
    Sanborn - Enterprise Mining Company - 1899
    Sanborn - Colorado Milling & Concentrating Company - 1898
    Sanborn - Grand View Mining & Smelting Company - 1898
    Sanborn - Rico Public sampling Works - 1899
    Sanborn - Colorado Light & Power Company
    Rico Station Grounds - 1910 - Proposed Changes
    Sanborn - Rico - 1899
    Sanborn - Block 23 - 1893
    Sanborn - Block 14 - 1893
    Sanborn - Block 6 - 1893
    Sanborn - Blocks 1 and 13 - 1893
    Livestock Pens at Rico

    An interesting look at what it was like living and working in the area.
    Before and after the railroad arrived.

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