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Above: The Sound Democrat Mill, thanks to stabilization efforts in the 1990s, now sits intact on a hillside on Placer Gulch northeast of Silverton. Top: The Sound Mill was crumbling before stabilization work.

Courtesy of David Singer

Above: The Sound Democrat Mill, thanks to stabilization efforts in the 1990s, now sits intact on a hillside on Placer Gulch northeast of Silverton. Top: The Sound Mill was crumbling before stabilization work.

It may be unsound now, but the Sound Democrat Mill, nestled at 12,000 feet elevation in the mountains northeast of Silverton, is going to get some needed nips and tucks in the near future.

History Colorado, through the State Historical Fund grants program, last week announced 24 grants for historic-preservation projects. The Sound Democrat, located in Placer Gulch not far from Animas Forks, was among those to get a piece of the $3 million pie.

A major stabilization project was done on the mill over a several-year period in the early- to mid-1990s.

What were going to do is more of a rehabilitation and restoration, said David Singer, owner of Silverton Restoration Consulting, who will manage the project.

Singer helped apply for the grant along with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on behalf of the Mountain Studies Institute. The mill is on BLM land. The state grant is worth $160,800, said Shannon Haltiwanger, spokeswoman with History Colorado. Singer said that money will be combined with a $54,000 matching grant that the BLM gave to the institute.

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