06.08.2017 (09:40:25)
A View East From Mill Trestle at the Cripple Creek Homestake Mill Site, with the 1000-Ton Mill Foundation Into Ironclad Hill in Background
J.E. Stimson [1903]
While the image quality is not that great due to the very limited size of the digital image, I still recognize this as a view on Ironclad Hill at the location of the Cripple Creek Homestake property.
Taken from the trestle going to the 100-ton mill, being the right partner of two images, this view is looking east at the foundation for the new 1000-ton mill they were building here. The Smokestacks for the powerplant structure, also holding Air Compressors, as per info of the 1908 edition of Sanborn for Cripple Creek, sheet 26, is seen, and yet again they hide what I think is the Office structure and any Shafts that might have been visible in this view.
Further up the hill at left-hand side, about 1/3 down from top, the original High Line grade is seen, the trolley line climbing the hill from left to right. Sadly, the lousy image size with its 480-pixel wide view makes it hard to pick out much details, but there appears to be a partly build structure at the new mill.

• Wyoming State Archives Photo Collection: ⊞ Stimson Collection (STIM/830B)

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www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#23606.08.2017 (08:54:46)
A Closer Look at Two Smokestacks at the Cripple Creek Homestake Mill Site, with the Foundation for New 1000-ton mill Into the Hillside of Ironclad Hill Further into the Image
J.E. Stimson [1903]
While the image quality is not that great due to the very limited size of the digital image, I still recognize this as a view on Ironclad Hill at the location of the Cripple Creek Homestake property.
In foreground, two large smokestacks are seen erected there, I've seen a structure over them in a later image from a different direction – more looking towards the location of J.E. Stimson in this photo here. Used for some form of Powerhouse I think, Sanborn Sheet 26 of the Cripple Creek 1908 set, say that there was Air Compressors here and the chimneys was 50-foot iron ones, apparently that was the height above the roof, and the height of the structure is said to be 16-foot.
Sanborn also indicates that the structures seen at left-hand side about middle top/down was blacksmith for the one cut of, and a storage for the one just behind the tank like structure into the hillside, with an Office as the more whitish structure further back into the hill. A Shaft should also be in this area, around the area hiding behind the smokestacks.
Further up the hill at left-hand side from the before mention structures are the original High Line grade, climbing the hill from left to right, and behind the smokestacks near the skyline the new roadbed from Hoosier Pass should be located there, used by the steam trains of the Short Line to serve mines further up in the hills south of this location I assume.

• Wyoming State Archives Photo Collection: ⊞ Stimson Collection (STIM/823A)

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www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#23405.08.2017 (19:23:27)
A Broad Overview at the Cripple Creek Homestake Mill Site, with Upper side of the 100-ton Mill at Right and Foundation for New 1000-ton mill Further into Image, with Ironclad Hill in Background
J.E. Stimson [1903]
While the image quality is not that great due to the very limited size of the digital image, I can still pick out that this is a view on Ironclad Hill towards the top which is about center of image near the top of image. Taken at the location of the Cripple Creek Homestake property.
In foreground, lower right, the upper end of the 100-ton Ironclad-Homestake Cyanide Mill is seen, with a trestle connecting it into a possible open cut or a mine in that location on the hillside as where the trestle enters. Two large smokestacks are seen there, I've seen a structure over them in a later image from a different direction – more looking towards the location of J.E. Stimson in this photo here.
Behind the smokestacks, which is about 1/3 in from the left-hand side, is the foundation works for the larger 1000-ton Homestake Cyanide mill. The image is too small to make out any details, sadly, but there appears to have been a combination of a cut into the hill and fill out the hill to create a flat ground for possible putting down a concrete slab as a ground floor for the structure.
In the background is the top of Ironclad Hill seen, lot of trees on it still, and again, had the image size been into the thousands of pixels instead of the louse 480 pixels, one might have been able to see that there are two roadbeds seen below the top of ironclad hill. This small image gives up a road at the lowest level with the original High Line seen further up the hill, going behind a couple of trees and meeting up with the new High Line coming in from Hoosier Pass almost at the top of the ridge from left-hand side and in between many trees before meeting with the original High Line at Midway, seen almost at the right-hand side against the sky. At the right-hand side of the image at the upper part, I think the Wild Horse shaft house tower is seen, as there is something poking into the sky from the hillside of Bull Hill and that is the only mine I can think of in that area with that shape.
The appearance of a road or roadbed in the foreground bottom must be a road as the photo is dated 1903 and the original High Line in this area was abandon early in 1905, and this surface here clearly have no tracks on it, hence it must be a road.

• Wyoming State Archives Photo Collection: ⊞ Stimson Collection (STIM/821A)

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www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#23303.08.2017 (17:55:07)
200-Ton Mill and New 1,000-Ton Mill of C. C. Homestake Company
Unknown
  As this image is used in an December 1904 article it can't be younger then November, early December 1904, but I have lot of doubts it is that young, I think it is up to at least half/to a year older. But it is hard to tell, nothing in the view to date it from. Though, I have seen from a different source an image that is linked to this one, and which is said to be from 1903 and linked to a J.E. Stimson, which was a photographer of Cheyenne, Wyoming it seems. On that other view, the structure in the foreground on this one, is seen as under early construction and the two smokestacks seen poking out of the roof of the structure seen near center top is seen without a house around them. Hence, as this structure here seem to be still under construction it is possible they are from near same timeframe and possible also same photographer.
  The view itself is of a printed bad quality type showing the new and the old cyanide mills of the Cripple Creek Homestake Company on their Ironclad Hill property. The old smaller mill is seen on the left part of this view. I have a postcard showing two mills her as well, but on that the closest structure looks way different and I wonder if it was tore down, or just massive rebuilt as I have a hard time seeing anything alike except the location on the hill seems more or less the same.
  In the background top right is seen the original High Line I would think, as I can't make sense of this view and other similar views if I think of it as the new High Line coming from Hoosier Pass.
My Collection; From page 645 in the December 31, 1904 issue of The Mining World; scaled from a 600dpi scan.

• Page 645; The Mining World (Volume 21, No. 27) - Published in 1904.

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www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#228

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