Re: Durango Flour Mill

Here's a very early photo of the old Graden Mill building taken from across the river...



Courtesy of the La Plata County Historical Society, with permission

River looks high...

And the wonderful photo that Rich mentions is at DPL, follow the link...

[digital.denverlibrary.org]

Anyone want to venture a guess as to what color the mill was at this time, I wanna say brown maybe, looks too light to be the later oxide red. But could be a lighter oxide red... looks red in the top photo.

Then there's this photo from 1886 in the Dorman collection...

[ngtrainpics.photoshelter.com]

Shows the elevator before the addition of extra bins.

Mike McKenzie
Frankfort IL