28.01.2023 (21:57:01)
Electric Hoist at Los Angeles Mine.
Unknown
Source of image was not in good quality sadly, but it is what it is, I have worked with it as best as I could. This view is one such example of having to work with what I have. It shows an Electric Hoist in use in the District.
The source said this is the hoisting apparatus in use on the Los Angeles mine of which Senator B. Clark Wheeler is superintendent. The electric motor is of 30 horsepower capacity and was manufactured by the Westinghouse company. By means of a hoist, supplied by the Denver Engineering Works, it raises in an inclined shaft a bucket carrying 1,000 pounds from a depth of 700 feet.
I did procure the colored version of this image as I think it is nicer. Source is 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 for the moment.

• Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900 (page 47) - Published in 1900.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 47; Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900

I-00138
Photograph/Image [#524]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#52430.10.2021 (10:00:05)
Bull Hill Mines as Seen From the Portland No. 3 Shaft
Unknown [1899]
Image is marked with ''Bull Hill, 1901 Wm. B. James Residence'' in handwritten note below the image, which actually is one photo pasted on top of another unknown photo below it - wonder what that story is about... But that date is wrong, as this image appears in a early 1900 publication and there is snow on ground, it has to be from the winter 1899/1900 making me assume 1899, possible December.
Quality of photo is bad on the sides, unsharp and reminds me of many Harlan shots. I've also seen this view in a Portland Annual, making me think this is an Andrew James Harlan photo as he took most of those... Came with a cardboard frame which is cropped from the view I share.
Many Mines are visible, in the foreground are a windlass which is on the Lost Anna lode, also known as Portland No. 3 Shaft. Above there is the mainline of the Golden Circle 3-foot railroad, crossing the High Line grade of the Electric Trolley system and later the Short Line branch line. Just to the left after that bridge is the location of the Hawkeye Mine operations, with the Los Angeles, Colorado City mines further up on the hill at left, about 1/3 down from top of view.
The Power station of Colorado Electric Power Co. is also visible, same is the structures at the Last Dollar mine, which is seen at about 2/5 down from top at right-hand side. The Blue Bird mine also hugs the side, left-hand side, hiding sort of. The Lucky Guss west Shaft house is marked out about 6/27 from top, with Orpha May just to the left further into the view and at top, in the background about 5/17 in from left-hand side, the American Eagle structures are as a dark blob. More mines, I don't have their names yet, are also seen.
I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was grayish, 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; Photographs. Cropped, enhanced version of my 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page ?; Annual Reports, Portland Gold Mining Co. - 1900 - Published in 1900.

P-02899
Photograph/Image [#413]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#413

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