Skeletons of this raging industrial complex still exist along side I-25, in Pueblo Colorado. CF & I (Colorado Fuel & Iron Company) was at one time, the largest Consolidated Steel Mill West of the Mississippi employing thousands of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Asia… The company owned and operated over 60 mines and quarries spread across Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma, Wyoming and New Mexico. It also claimed some of the most important water rights along the Arkansas River to quench its many blast furnaces… With a pretty colorful and violent history - the Steel Mill is still in operation, on a smaller scale, now owned by a Russian company known as Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel Mill.
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Neighborhood across from Mill…
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Photo mistake which came out kinda-cool at the CF&I Museum across from the Mill…
*Decades-old Camera busted after this roll - which is a long story!
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler