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Section Crew size

March 09, 2008 12:00PM
In the early days of the San Juan Extension, was there a standard complement for a section crew?

From east to west, after Antonito they were located at:

Big Horn (bunk house retired 1952, foreman's house retired 1966)
Sublette
Toltec (retired 1938)
Osier (bunk house retired between 1950 and 1962)
Los Pinos (retired 1927)
Cumbres (bunk house retired approximately 1954)
Cresco (retired 1920s)
Chama (foreman's house replaced by railroad hotel ca. 1900)

So lets look at roughly 1920. There's a house for the section foreman and his family, and a bunk house for the hands. Questions:

Was there a standard number of hands? Would the number of men bunked at a camp vary by the seasons, or by the location?

If one of the hands was married, would his wife and children be welcome in company housing? (Along these lines, Max Pacheco was born in the Sublette section housing - does that mean his father was the foreman, or was he a laborer?)

JAC
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