South Ark Funnies

Toilet planters

Cactus Jack's View

Map of South Park coal mines

Stone masonry base mountings for steam engine at head of #5 King Coal Mine. Mine mouth spoil heap above with tops of Boreas Mountain to right and Little Baldy and Silverheels mountains to left. The view is to the northwest.

Stone housing for steam winch lift system at #5 Mine. Spoil mound from #1 Mine is immediately to south behind the stonework

The coal mines at King were often referred to as the " lower coal banks of Como." The location of Section 2, T. 9 S., R. 76 W. clearly places the mine at King and not Como where only one mine was constructed. There were at least 6 mines at King. This old Department of Natural Resources map depicts the workings of the #5 Mine as it was being worked in 1885. North is indicated. The scale is difficult to read but approximately 3/8 inch equals 100 feet on this reduced copy. Just north of the word Como are the rectangles indicating the steam engine mountings at the head of the #5 Mine. Photographs on the previous page show what is left of those mountings. The spindle-shaped loop at the mine head shows the railroad branch where the coal cars were 1oaded. There are eight separate levels of mine workings. Since the coal seams are inclined 45 degrees to the east, each level stairsteps downward. Level 1 is just below the surface at Park Gulch whereas Level 8 is approximately 1,100 feet below the ground surfa

Stone foundation at abandoned King Mines looking south from the #4 Mine toward the spoil mounds at the heads of the #2 and #6 mines

Christo’s 1972 "Valley Curtain" in Rifle Gap was blown apart by wind after just 28 hours.(Photograph by Leo T. Prinster)

Cartoon with Slim Wolfe's letter

Jim MacManus with his work

Portion of Silverton, 30 in. x 24 in., pen and ink with watercolor on bristol vellum

Digger, pen and ink on paper, 8.5 in. x 11 in.

Elk, pen and ink on paper, 11 in. x 17 in.

Cricket, portrait of friend's dog, pen and ink on paper, 8.5 in. x 11 in.