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• <br />• <br />'.. <br />I <br />!~ <br />t <br />n <br />i~ <br />1~ <br />t~ <br />1" <br />i <br />~~ <br />State Site Number - SDT1053 <br />MINING FCATURC FORM <br />(Page 3 of4) <br />Temporary Site Number - <br />(19 cont.) <br />The power plant building. completctl in 1922. is a 3.5-story brick and concrete structure that <br />measures approximately 55 feet by IO0 lest. I[ contained hvo boilers in the east room. and two 375 <br />kilow_tttt, AC turbine-driven generators in the west room. It replaced DC generating~lant that was <br />built in 1915. <br />The lower mule bam which stands on the south side of the old State I Iighway 133 is shown in <br />the colored photo raph from the 1930's, but its original date of construction is unknown. It is a <br />IarFe. 2-stow, wood-framed. metal-roofed stmcaire measuring approximately 60 feet by 40 feet It <br />has an associated I ~-lest-tall. 20-feet-diameter metal teed silo- a corral and field area for the mules. <br />Mules were an essential part of the work force at the mine until 1956 when mechanization tinallX <br />replaced all but one of these sturdy animals <br />[31ack powder used in the mine was stored in the powder house [3uilt in 1914 it is existing end <br />in Bond condition It is a one-story ~0 by ~0-foot-squire concrete building with ~ steel roof end is <br />located in a small drainatLe west of the shop All that remains of the shop area is a foundation <br />measuring about RO feet by 45 feet <br />A complex that contained a hoist house. a small hoist shed a building for asteam- oR vexed <br />ventilation fan. a water tower and a mule barn made up the mine portal area The hoist house (about <br />35 by 30 fcetl and foundation for the fan/luxtsing~about 30 by 60 I'eetl are still existing Mules were <br />used in the mine until 19>6~ however slopes in the mine were so steep that the mules could not Qull <br />a loaded car. In 1909 a steam engine-powered hoist was added to pull cars t}om those areas The <br />steam-powered ventilation tan was installed in the east air course in 191 I Prior to that ventilation <br />was provided by a furnace and stack in the west air course <br />20. Average Number of Cmployees - 30 (max. of 110) <br />21. New Technology - <br />22. Disposition of Minc: Dismandcd `C Abandoned X Leased _ Sold X <br />23. I-listory of Mine/ Additional Inlonnation/ Signilicant Gvents - It is located on a terrace on the <br />north side of the North Pork of the Gunnison River about 300 meters east of the original townsite <br />of Qowie. The mine buildings are within an area measuring ~pnro~imately 500 meters N-S by 300 <br />meters C-W (Figure 31 The lower building complex is on a river terrace at elevation 5980 feet <br />while the mine portal complex is on asouth-facing mountain slope at 6590 feet elevation <br />The mine was owned by the Juanita Coal and Coke Company incorporated in 190 in Pueblo <br />Colorado That year the company purchased land six miles east of Paonia because of the proposed <br />extension into the area of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad The mine took its name from A T <br />King a corporation directorand/or his brother H B King the second general manager ofthe mine <br />In 190(, Alexander Bowie invested in the Juanita Coal and Coke Com~nv and was hired as the <br />t!eneral manager "that same year the railroad was completed as a broad gauge line from Delta In <br />July of 1907. the tramway was completed and the first coal was delivered The mine produced coal <br />IJ <br />