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| Events Both Days | Time | Information |
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| 7:00 Am at the Fire Dept. on Colorado Blvd. | For $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for kids, enjoy a wonderful breakfast with the firefighters. | |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm | Glass, Needlework, Turquoise, + More! | |
| 10:00 AM | Free Childern get to use real firefighter gear! They Go though a course where have to put out fake fires and save someone(A Dummy) in the end. |
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| 9:00Am - 5:00Pm | Fee: $3.00 Get up close to some animals! | |
| 9:00Am - 5:00Pm | Fee: $3.00 Let your childern ride a real donkey! | |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm | Free Pan for some real gold! (At the Elks Lodge) | |
| Buy your package there! | Tour the Henderson(First 20 adults to buy a package), Edger, Argo, Phoenix & the new Silver Queen mine! The Henderson tour is on a set date, you must RSVP. The Edger tours are Monday - Friday, you must RSVP with them aswell. | |
| Saturday Events At And Around The Elks Lodge | Time | Information |
| 9:00AM | Entry fee: $40.00 Per Person 1st Place: $900.00 |
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| When previous event is finished | Entry Fee: $30.00 Per Person 1st Place: $250.00
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| When previous event is finished | Entry Fee: $20.00 Per Person 1st Place: $180.00 |
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| When previous event is finished | Entry Fee: $20.00 Per Person 1st Place: $200.00
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| When previous event is finished | Entry Fee: $40.00 Per Person 1st Place: $600.00
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| 2:00pm-5:00pm At The Elks Beer Gardens 8:00pm-12:00AM Upstairs at the Elks Lodge |
Wonderful Band Provided By The Elks Lodge! | |
| All day
| It is open to all this day for tours, it's their 100th aniversery!.
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| 7:00Pm
| Price: $12.00 | The dinner, for members and special quests, will be at the Elks Lodge. |
| 8:00pm
| The dance will be at the Elks Lodge. It is open to all this day, it's their 100th aniversery!.
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| Sunday Events At And Aound The Elks Lodge | Time | Infromation |
| 9:00 Am | Entry Fee: $60.00 Per Person 1st Place: $900.00
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| When previous event is finished | Entry Fee: $30.00 1st Place: $250.00
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| When previous event is finished | Entry Fee: $20.00 Per Person 1st Place: $180.00
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| When previous event is finished | Entry Fee: $20.00 1st Place: $200.00
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| When previous event is finished | Entry Fee: $40.00 Per Person 1st Place: $600.00
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(Want to enter a float?) | 12:30Pm | The Tommyknockers Miningdays Parade! |
(Want to race a burro?) | 1:00Pm After the parade. | The Pack Burro Race! |
| 1:00PM-3:00pm At The Elks Beer Gardens | Wonderful Band Provided By Pacos! |
This is a contest of Stamina and strength. A Technique first used in mining, which one miner will use steel lengths to dill holes in the Silver Plume granite slab to sent the dynamite. The contestant has to use his own steel and hammer. The contestant goes for 5 minutes with several steel changes along the way. The deepest hole in 5 minutes wins.
The Jackleg Drilling
A test to see who can drill two 3 foot holes into the rock the fastest. The drill has to chuck the steel into the drill, pick in up and carry it to the rock. The driller has one high hole and one low hole about 2 feet apart. The driller has to drill both holes and when the steel puller touches the rock he has to pull out and carry the drill back across the 15ft link. The then has to unchuck the steel and set the drill down for a finish time.
Spike Driving
This contest is like timbering the mines. The men drive 260 penny spikes up into an overhead timber. Then they drive 360 penny spikes down a timber. The Women get to drive 260 Penny spikes down, the fastest time wins. One miner will drive two spikes up and three spikes down.
Mucking
Hand:The object of the contest is the see which miner can hand shovel sand or ore, form and "ore" pile into a 1 ton ore card and push the cart to the end of the tracks the fastest.
2B Mucking:
This contest is the see who can fill a rocker hox ore car the fastest using an old over shot mucker the fastest.
Wheelbarrow Race
This is a women's event that takes an antique wheelbarrow thru an obstacle course. The wheelbarrow has several metal balls in it. The contestants have to go thru the course without losing any balls. There are penalties for going out if the course and for losing any balls.
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