Of Commerce City, Co
Katherina Hansen Belmain wrote the following to me in the form of a letter
My Mother and father moved to Ruth in 1923, We lived by the boarding house and Bunk house behind the Ruth Mine.
My mother and her sister worked at the boarding house. Aunt Ada meet and married Gus Christianson at this time.
My father worked at the Copper pit and eventually was a shovel runner. We moved to a housing project on what was called the "Dump". A few years later we moved to a new housing project that bordered the highway to Ely. We moved to Las Vegas in about 1930-32.
Besides my family ( the Jack Hansen Family) there were other related families.
Gus and Ada Christianson, they had a boy and girl, Beverly and Buddy.
Uncle Ike and Aunt Annie Carter, who had four boys.
Uncle Bill and Aunt Winnie had to boys and two girls, they are all buried in the Ely Cemetery, We were a very close to this family. Eva the oldest girl married Mike Popovitch. Billy still has family in Ely.
Paul was always a cripple but managed to work at many things. Betty Goen is living in Sparks, Nevada, now and she is the youngest daughter.
When Beverly (Christianson) Fite died her niece, Geri Schnorr of Surprise Arizona, wrote me and send me a great many pictures. I am very grateful to her and you for all these memories.
I have enjoyed the pictures on your website. My dear teachers, Maria Buckmaster, and Lois Epperson. In the Kenyon Collection. Where we lived was the sixth house from the end. I went to school n Ruth a number of years. Grants hill was always part of our life. Likewise was the theatre.
I am eight-six years old and have had great enjoyment recalling this part of my life.
Thank you so much
Katherina (Hansen) Belmain