Telluride Museum: Davison leads hike to Mayflower Mine
[click "Play" to hear Eileen's interview with historian Rudy Davison] The Telluride Historical Museum will host "Hike into History", Saturday, August 7th" with local historian Rudy Davison guiding a free hike to the Mayflower Mine in Gray's Basin. The Mayflower Mine sits at 11,953 ft in Gray's Basin, directly to the right of Ingram's Peak looking up from Telluride. The mine was founded by prospectors in the 1890s. At one point a tramway was built into Gray's Basin to transport the ore from the Mayflower Mine to below the tailings pile across from the Lone Tree Cemetery in Telluride. It is said to have been the longest aerial tram built in the Telluride area.
Guide Rudy Davison splits his time between Telluride and Durango these days, and is currently part owner of Silver Star Property Management, www.sansophia.com, located on Colorado Avenue in Telluride. From 1975 until 1981 he published the Telluride Times newspaper and afterward became part owner of Telluride Travel Connection. Davison was a long time member of the town planning and zoning committee and HARC, (Historic & Architectural Review Commission).