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Info Database Last Updated 13.12.2021 (Entity News entries: 8)
Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Morning Times. Volume: 5 [V]Info Publication Date:
September 2, 1897Info found on page:
1Info Title:
Midget in Rich Ore
MADE TWO STRIKES.
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Midget Mining Company Reported to Be in Rich Ore.
Colorado Springs, Sept. 1 - President J.F. Burns of the Midget company, returned from Cripple Creek this morning, where he has been examining the Midget property. He confirms the report that two big strikes have been made on the Midget during the last few days.
Mr. Burns is enthusiastic over the prospect of the company and believes that the Midget will eventually equal in value the Anchoria-Leland and Moon-Anchor properties.
Above Info was Last Updated on 30.10.2020 (11:04:30)
Above Info was First Seen 07.02.2019
Type/Category of Info:
Article
Info Source From:
The Morning Times. Volume: 7 [VII], Issue No. 231Info Publication Date:
August 30, 1899Info found on page:
3Info Title:
Midget Shaft House Burned
SHAFT HOUSE BURNED
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Fifty Thousand Dollar Blaze Yesterday Morning.
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ESCAPE OF THE MINERS
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WENT OUT THROUGH THE CONUNDRUM SHAFT—RESCUE PARTY FROM GOLD HILL TUNNEL PENETRATED THE FIERY WORKINGS.
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The Midget shaft house caught fire yesterday morning at 5:45 and was completely destroyed.
Just how the fire started none know, and it is believed that the watchman was not in the building when it started. At the time the graveyard shift was in the mine at the seventh level.
It has been the custom for the engineer when he leaves at 12 o'clock to lower the graveyard shift when the 4 o'clock shift comes to the surface, and the mine after that is in charge of the watchman until the day engineer comes and relieves the graveyard shift when the day shift goes down at 8 o'clock.
The fire spread rapidly after it started and the heavy air current soon carried the smoke into the workings.
Ed Campbell, one of the five men in the mine, detected the odor of burning pine and he expressed the belief that something was wrong. Going to the shaft they saw the burning framework of the collar and at once comprehended the danger.
The sump was filled with burning debris and the station about to catch fire, which would have shut off escape.
Connecting with the workings of the Midget is the Gold Hill tunnel, also the Conundrum shaft below the Moon-Anchor dump.
Mr. Campbell and his companions lost no time in getting to the old shaft of the latter property, and after considerable trouble and much danger, they all got safely to the surface after climbing 400 feet of ladders.
C. L. Varney, employed on the graveyard shift on the Moon-Anchor, with several others of the Moon-Anchor force, realizing the danger of suffocation, hastened to the mouth of the Gold Hill tunnel, broke in the bulkhead and penetrated the Midget workings.
The tunnel was dense with smoke, but the men persevered, making headway by keeping close to the floor of the drift where air was pure. They found that the men had left the mine, and supposing that egress had been sought by way of the Conundrum, hastened to that portion of the property and found that the men had all gotten out safely.
Mr. Varney and his companions went to the burning building, turned on the water from the pipes utilized some time ago by the city during the water famine, but the water could not be used effectively, so the plan of flooding the burning shaft was abandoned, and all day the timbers below kept burning. The smoke has also permeated the Moon-Anchor workings, and during the day kept pouring from the Gold Hill tunnel.
The shaft is 700 feet deep and is timbered to the bottom.
The Midget is the property of a company controlled by J. F. Burns, John Harman and other Portland people. John Trevarthen, up to the time of his transfer to the Portland, was superintendent at the Midget.
The mine is one of the most valuable in the camp. Although not shipping, the property is being developed. The loss on the shaft house and machinery aggregates $15,000.
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Above Info was Last Updated on 10.10.2021 (18:51:24)
Above Info was First Seen 21.12.2020
Type/Category of Info:
City Briefs
Info Source From:
The Morning Times. Volume: 9 [IX]Info Publication Date:
February 24, 1900Info found on page:
1Info Title:
C.S. & C.C. Rw. Co. Righ-Of-Way Deeds
RIGHT-OF-WAY
The Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek Railway company yesterday filed deeds for right-of-way over the following mining claims:
* Southern Boy
* Robert E. Lee
* Blanche
* Lucky Corner
* Union Spy
* National Belle
* Pointer
* Shark
* Little King
* Yellow Bird
* Cotton Tail
* Reno
* Pet
* Bon Ton
* Midget
* Sunnyside
* Maryland
* Cumberland
* Reno Merit
* Red Coes
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Above Info was Last Updated on 30.10.2020 (11:04:30)
Above Info was First Seen 17.02.2019
Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 92 [XCII], Issue No. 19Info Publication Date:
November 4, 1911Info found on page:
913Info Title:
Gold Hill Tunnel Used by Lessees on Midget-Bonanza
Midget Bonanza—Carr & Co., lessees on a block of the ground owned by this company, are shipping good mill ore through the Gold Hill tunnel.
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Above Info was First Seen 27.03.2019
Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Mining and Scientific Press. Volume: 118 [CXVIII], Issue No. 5Info Publication Date:
February 1, 1919Info found on page:
162Info Title:
Midget Consolidated Co. Mines to Resume Operations
Operations will be resumed on the Midget and Bonanza King mines of the Midget Consolidated on Gold hill by the Backof Leasing Co., of St. Louis, early in February. The property has been closed since December 1917.
The old sublessees, nine sets, who were in ore when the mine was closed, will return to work.
Above Info was Last Updated on 30.10.2020 (11:04:30)
Above Info was First Seen 03.03.2020
Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Mining and Scientific Press. Volume: 118 [CXVIII], Issue No. 10Info Publication Date:
March 8, 1919Info found on page:
331Info Title:
Backhoff Leasing Company Resumed Operations
The Backhoff Leasing Co., operating the properties of the Midget Bonanza company on the western slope of Gold hill, has resumed production after a shut-down lasting from December 1917. Ten sets of sub-lessees are at work.
Above Info was Last Updated on 30.10.2020 (11:04:30)
Above Info was First Seen 04.03.2020
Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Mining and Scientific Press. Volume: 118 [CXVIII], Issue No. 11Info Publication Date:
March 15, 1919Info found on page:
365Info Title:
Midget Will Ship During March
The Midget mine on Gold hill will re-enter the shipping list during March.
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Above Info was First Seen 04.03.2020
Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Mining and Scientific Press. Volume: 118 [CXVIII], Issue No. 11Info Publication Date:
March 15, 1919Info found on page:
365Info Title:
Midget Mine Gas Accident
Denver, Colorado
Gas in Cripple Creek Mines.
The peculiar effect of atmospheric conditions upon mining in the Cripple Creek district is again brought to our attention in two fatalities that resulted on February 12 in the Midget mine.
During a heavy snowstorm the barometric pressure became so low as to permit an undue amount of the residual nitrogen gas from the extinct volcano to exude into the workings. Such phenomena were discussed by Lindgren and Ransome in Professional Paper 54 of the U. S. Geological Survey, published in 1906.
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Above Info was First Seen 05.03.2020