19.07.2022 (09:44:34)
Sullivan Air Drills in Ophelia Tunnel, Cripple Creek, Colo.
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This is sadly not a good image, but this is the best I have for now. This is an interesting view from the at one time breast area of the Ophelia Tunnel.
  One source says the machine drills in view is the Sullivan Air Drills, further stating they were the type ''Class UE-2'' 3-1-8 inch drills.
  Another source use of the image states it to be taken when the breast was 4800 feet in from the entrance. Used in several articles about the Gold Exploration Tunnel, also known as the Ophelia tunnel.
  The image itself is a smaler version of the one I've seen before, where this one show three men posing and there are two machine drills at work.
  So far as of July 2022 I only seen the image three times, all in printed sources, so I never got a good quality of this image, but it is what it is!
 I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was grey-toned, or in common speech black & white. Used an online service and tweaked and worked with image to get what looks best to my eyes at the moment.
My Collection; From page 27 in the July 11, 1907 issue of Mining Reporter. I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was gray-toned, or in common speech black & white.

• Page 26; Mining Reporter July 11, 1907; Volume 56 [LVI], no. 2 - Published in 1907.

I-02437
Photograph/Image [#487]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#48719.07.2022 (09:44:00)
The Heading—Showing Muck Pile, Car and Sheets in Ophelia Tunnel.
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This is sadly not a good image but coming from a 1907 printed source and being not a full page image it has its limitations due to the way it was made, but I guess this is the best I can hope for. It is still an interesting view from operations at the breast area of the Ophelia Tunnel, also known as the Gold Exploration Tunnel.
  I assume this is a staged view showing five of the seven men shift crew that the source this image came from/appears in talks about; The method used in a shift was essentially as follows:
  -> As soon as the smoke resulting from the shooting done by the previous shift was cleared, the new shift of drillmen, helpers and ''muckers'' all went to work, and the broken rock from the face was thrown back sufficiently to allow the columns for mounting the drills to be put in place. The two drillmen worked together, and the two helpers worked together in pairs, relieving each other at intervals; the ''muckers'' going immediately to work, getting the 'muck' into the cars and on its way to the dump. When the helpers were working on the muck pile, the drillmen were back of the work; looking up equipment; seeing that all the machine drills, steel, hose, tools, blocking, etc., that would be required for the shift's work were on hand, and, if anything was found missing, taking steps to secure it. When the drillmen were working on the muck pile, the helpers were employed in bringing the required material up to the face, where it would be readily available.
  I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was grey-toned, or in common speech black & white. Used an online service and tweaked and worked with image to get what looks best to my eyes at the moment.
My Collection; From page 26 in the July 11, 1907 issue of Mining Reporter. I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was gray-toned, or in common speech black & white.

• Page 26; Mining Reporter July 11, 1907; Volume 56 [LVI], no. 2 - Published in 1907.

I-02436
Photograph/Image [#486]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#48619.07.2022 (09:21:08)
Air Drills in Operation at the Breast of Tunnel 4800 Ft. From Entrance
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This is sadly not a good image but coming from a 1903 printed source and being not as a large image either, but a smaller one on a page, I guess this is the best I can hope for. It is still an interesting view from the at one time breast area of the Ophelia Tunnel. One source says the machine drills in view is the Sullivan Air Drills, further stating they were the type ''Class UE-2'' 3-1-8 inch drills. Another source use of the image states it to be taken when the breast was 4800 feet in from the entrance. Used in several articles about the Gold Exploration Tunnel, also known as the Ophelia tunnel.
The image itself show five men posing and there are two machine drills at work, and one of the men holds a candle holder with what appears to be two candles on it. So far as of July 2022 I only seen the image three times, all in printed sources, so I never got a good quality of this image, but it is what it is!
I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was grey-toned, or in common speech black & white. Used an online service and tweaked and worked with image to get what looks best to my eyes at the moment.
My Collection; From page 71 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was gray-toned, or in common speech black & white.

• Page 71; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.
• Page 406; Mining Reporter; Volume XLIV, no. 21 - Published in 1901.

I-01994
Photograph/Image [#384]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#38412.11.2021 (11:54:50)
Lower Gold Hill with Ophelia Tunnel at Its Base, Railroads and Pointer Mine Up Left Near Top.
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This view of lower Gold Hill is interesting in several ways as it shows several mines and three railroad lines.
* At bottom front is the Ophelia Tunnel seen, also later known as Moffat tunnel, or also known as the Gold Exploration tunnel, with its large crib wall and big power plant and tunnel house.
* Above the Ophelia is seen first the roadbed of the 3-foot narrow gauge F. & C.C with a trestle at left-hand side and a fill near right hand-side where a trestle used to be.
* Further up the hill then come the standard gauge M.T. railroad, with a trestle near right-hand side, which was later filled in and is today known as the ''Million Dollar Fill.''
* Near upper left is the roadbed of the Low Line, it enters into a large cutting somewhere left of the Pointer mine, sadly I am unable to pick out that cut and it has puzzled me for years why I can't see it.
* Near upper left is also the Pointer mine structures, and by looking at the PPLD view at 100% one can actually read the name Pointer on the ore-house of this mine and Pointer Mine on their shaft house!
* Just uphill, behind the Pointer, is another mine, they appear to have a head frame in front of their hoist house, I think that would be the Keystone Mine, but I am not certain. It could be a shaft on the Independence claim as that actually fits better with a claim map and a shaft on that, but I still think this mine would been known as Keystone.
* Left of the Pointer mine, up top at edge of view, there is the mine I know as Index Mine, but I also seen it as the Mint Mine before the Index mine came along, and possible this might been known as Keystone, Irish Molly or Goddard in early days as I think it is on one of those claims. This is before they built the large ore-house along the side-spur of the Short Line, branching off from the Low Line behind the hill so to speak.
* Also left of the Pointer, further down from the Index, is what I believe a structure on the Red Spruce, a small shed like, possible a hoist house, on the upper of two small dumps just above the M.T. roadbed.
* Just right off the Pointer mine is the structures of the Maggie No. 2 mine, the dump of the Pointer almost seems to engulf the small triangular head frame they seem to have on their property.
* Almost middle of view sideways, uphill from the Ophelia tunnel structure, there is a mine structure between the F. & C.C. and M.T. mainlines, quite a big head frame, hoist house and shed, water-tank and smokestack so more than a prospect type of mine operation. But I have a hard time placing it on a claim map and find a name for it, as it could on both the Puzzle & Bird claims. Possible others crossing same area, but for now I think it is the Puzzle mine structures.
—> There are more structures, but I am not able to decode things better at the moment.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see. Source was gray-toned, or in common speech black & white. Used an online service and tweaked and worked with image to get what looks best to my eyes at the moment.
From page 241 in the Official Souvenir of the Fifteenth General Assembly, found through Internet Archive.

• page 241; Official Souvenir of the Fifteenth General Assembly - Published in 1905.

• Pikes Peak Library District: ⊞ Image Number: 192-4278
• Internet Archive: ⊞ Page 241_Official Souvenir of the Fifteenth General Assembly - 1905
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Colored View of This Scene, Based on the PPLD Image Number 192-4278

I-00761
Photograph/Image [#70]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#7012.11.2021 (09:37:33)
Inside the Tunnel 3300 Ft From Entrance | Thirty-Three Hundred Feet From Entrance to Tunnel
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This is sadly not a good image but coming from a 1903 printed source and being not as a large image either, but a smaller one on a page, I guess this is the best I can hope for. It is still an interesting view as it is said to be inside the Ophelia Tunnel, 3300 feet from the Entrance, which I guess is the lighter spot about center of image.
  Kind of hard to accept that this is really this far inside the tunnel as the opening seems too large to be that far away, but whatever the truth is, I still have a view inside the tunnel saying this is a double-tracked tunnel, with a pipeline both up in the roof part on the right-hand side going out, and another one on left-hand side, following the ground.
  I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was grey-toned, or in common speech black & white. Used an online service and tweaked and worked with image to get what looks best to my eyes at the moment.
My Collection; From page 70 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was gray-toned, or in common speech black & white.

• Page 70; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.
• Page 404; Mining Reporter; Volume XLIV, no. 21 - Published in 1901.

I-01993
Photograph/Image [#435]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#435

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