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Monte Christo Lode
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Being the image source is of print type, the quality is not always the best, but it is what it is, I have worked with it as best as I could. This view is titled 'Monte Cristo Mine', meaning it is located on the Monte Christo claim on Beacon Hill. Comparing maps I am as certain as I can that I have found it on the 1903 USGS at this <a href='http://www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/maps/1903topo_district.php?lat=29.468297&lng=-100.469971&zoom=6.6' title='Link to Monte Christo Mine on USGS 1903 topo-map' target='_blank'>location</a>. In the foreground of the image is small square wood post with a peaked top that looks like a mile-marker, or possible it is a claim corner post, either way, I used that and the shape of the hill in the background, in addition to the shaft mark on the USGS map with a marked dump to think that just outside the view at right-hand is a passing road. But, I might be wrong and this is the Discovery Shaft, very hard to tell, and I jump a little from two locations on the USGS map… Either way, the train seen I background left-hand side is a F. & C. C. Ry. Passenger train to Victor from Cripple Creek, making the hill in background Guyot Hill as seen from west towards east. That means the Midland Terminal mainline is also on that hill, about middle top/down is it visible as a line with another line above it which is a road terminating at the Dan MacDonald mine as per USGS-map, and I think I see top of a headframe at that end location against the sky just over the NW corner of the hoist house of the Monte Christo mine. Between the angle supports and the vertical posts of the Monte Christo is barely seen the headframe and hoist house of an operation on Guyot Hill on the Beacon Hill-Ajax, a site that for a brief moment in time around 1906, at least a year from this image timeframe or more, had an extensive trestle and ore house built to reach a spur alongside the F. &. C. C. Ry., not seen in this image. The larger dump and hence operation further up the hill, above the M.T. roadbed and further to the left is as far as I can tell another shaft on the Beacon Hill-Ajax, at least when comparing maps, even if it is not shown on a El Paso claims map I have with lot of underground workings and some shafts shown.The Monte Cristo Mine, on Beacon Hill, Being Worked by James Murphy.
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My Collection; From page 30 in Seeing Cripple Creek, March 1905 (Vol. 4, No. 4).
Media ID: 510
Id No. (Mine / 1902 map):
847
Type:
Lode
Date Located / Formed:
24.01.1892
Location:
Beacon Hill
Location Map Description:
Discovery / Formed by:
    Status:
    Unknown
    Fate details:
    Owned by:
    • K. McKenzie
      -> 1893-12-19 [claim Map]
    • Magnet Rock Gold Mining Company
      -> 1900 [reported As Owner]
    Known claims:
    • Monte Christo lode - 8501
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    0
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    0
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      General notes:
      Plat Map is not that interesting but it shows several shafts, including the Discovery Shaft spread around on the claim, also there is a cut marked out. Split into 2-pieces, a north and south part. Seems to hold several working shafts, and seems to be also known as Magnet Rock mine.