A photograph of Gio Oberto, around 1900, at the Nellie Mine, near Bear Creek, in Telluride, Colorado. Gio spent $30,000 to acquire this mine and ultimately lost the money. Nellie Mine was a gold mine.
Gio has number 5, on his pant cuff, in the photograph., Complaints of the Telluride Historical Museum, in Telluride, Colorado. To obtain a copy of the original, please visit www.telluridemuseum.org