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Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company System, Wooden Tainter Gates, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO

Library of Congress · Documentation compiled after 1968 · Jet Lowe, photographer, for the Historic American Engineering Record

A weathered timber gate frame with a hand-crank shaft sits on a plank deck over a dry channel, sagebrush all round and a wooded ridge behind under a streaked sky.
From the archive · Library of Congress · Documentation compiled after 1968 Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company System, Wooden Tainter Gates, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO Jet Lowe, photographer, for the Historic American Engineering Record

Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HAER COLO,42-DOL.V,5D-1 No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights

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Wooden Tainter gates on the Montezuma Valley system, radial gates cranked by hand, of a kind built across the West in the 1880s and rarely surviving.

Shows: The timber gate construction and hand gear of a nineteenth-century radial gate.

What this does not let you conclude: Whether these gates still control water; the channel is dry in the photograph. HAER's compilation date; the record gives initial construction as ca. 1885. Photograph 1 of 2, by Jet Lowe.

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