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17.04.2024 (11:36:25)
Rosebud Mill with in Mound City Structures in Foreground
Harry H. Buckwalter [19.12.1893]
This is a Colored, Scaled, Cropped view of a CHS photo I years ago found at the DPL site as Call Number CHS-B335 {but at time of writing this, that number leads to nothing at the DPL site when checking Apr. 2024, still, the image used as Courtesy of the Colorado Historical Society].
This is a view of the large Rosebud Mill, looking passed the settlement known as Mound City, up the Squaw Gulch valley from the valley where the creek named Cripple Creek is running. Taken December 19, 1893 by photographer Harry H. Buckwalter the source said.
The full image this crop is from has appeared several places, I seen it years ago at the Cripple Creek District Museum webpage as id 99-68, also no longer findable when checking in April 2024. It also appears in the 2002 book by Allan C. Lewis on page 74, whereas he has mistaken it to be the Brodie Mill. He did the same mistake on page 73 in same book, where there is a view showing the Rosebud Mill under construction, with Mound City spread out in the foreground.
This mill, the Rosebud, was also known as the French Mill, as it was at owned by a French Syndicate, who also owned the Deerhorn mine on top of Globe Hill at one time. Mill was a very large Stamp Mill, I seen it referenced as both having 50 and 60-stamps, and it have at least grown two times as there is an earlier view in a 1895/1896 book where the upper part was there, so this is the latest version of the mill I presume before it burned down late in July 1894, never to come back again.
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.
Cropped, Colored view of a CHS photo, found years ago at the DPL site as Call Number CHS-B335. Courtesy of the Colorado Historical Society. I did procure the colored version of this image. When making this entry in Apr. 2024, image can no longer be found at Denver Public Library Site.
Copyright restrictions apply to use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Colorado Historical Society 1300 Broadway Denver, Colorado 80203.

• page 74; Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad - Forty Miles to Fortune Book by Allan C. Lewis - Published in 2002.

I-00284
Photograph/Image [#548]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#548
Rosebud Mill [aka the French Mill] - 401   08.04.2024 (15:07:42)
Bolivia Mine (Line Drawing)
Unknown
This is not a photo per say, more like a line drawing of people posing in front of the shaft house of the Bolivia Mine.
Image is from an article on page 20 in the Morning Times newspaper edition of January 1st, 1898.

• Page 20; Morning Times [Cripple Creek newspaper] - Published in 1898.

Photograph/Image [#1]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#1
Bolivia [aka Bolivar Mine] - 14   08.04.2024 (14:21:20)
12:30 at the Victor, Feb 16, 93, Cripple Creek, Colo.
William J. Gillen [16.02.1893]
This is a Colored, Scaled, Cropped view of a DPL photo {Call Number X-62589, Courtesy of the Denver Public Library Special Collections] of miners posing outside the office of the Victor Mine on Bull Hill. Titled to possible be the 12:30 Shift at the mine, posing outside in the snow as this was taken February 16, 1893 by photographer William J. Gillen.
The area is also known as Bull Cliff, which would been somewhere at the left, unsure how much the photographer would have turned to be able to capture the 'cliff face' though. In background right are seen part of the Pike's Peak range of mountain terrain.
I did procure the colored version of this image, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. 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.
Colored, Scaled, Cropped view of a DPL photo; Call Number X-62589, Courtesy of the Denver Public Library Special Collections. I did procure the colored version of this image.
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.

• Denver Public Library: ⊞ Call Number: X-62589

P-01853
Photograph/Image [#547]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#547
Victor Mine - 224   Victor Lode [Bull Cliff] - 3054   07.04.2024 (13:41:33)
Victor, Colo. View Across Hills Southeast of the Town, Passed the Great Central Mining & Milling Company's Maggie Mine
Schedin & Lehman
This overview of Victor as seen from somewhere in South-East has been credited to several photographs, Schedin & Lehman is written on an Image seen at DPL, where also Julia Skolas has her name, but as this view is from after the 1899 fire which took out much of Victor, but before the head-frame of the Gold Coin was covered sometime in 1900/1901 timeframe, I can't see how she can have actually have taken this photo, so I think she bought it and the rights to it – and possible others – from the Schedin & Lehman company after she arrived at the District.
The usefulness of this image is really on the DPL view, as most of the mines are deep into the image and some of them are really not much to actually see anything other than knowing they are in this view in order to help place them in a mental map of the District/area.
* In the foreground left is the mine I've seen a close-up off from the other side, where it then was marked as "Great Central Mining & Milling Co.", and from other sources I have it linked as being named/known as the Maggie Mine.
* About middle bottom/top along the right-hand side is the top part of the Shaft-house of the Strong Mine, with the Victor High-School in front of it.
* About 2/5 down from top and about center left/right is the large smokestack of the Gold Coin mine, with the Head-frame at right of the smokestack – best seen on the DPL large image. This helps date the image except I don't know the date the head-frame was enclosed in the brick structure most common known as the Gold Coin mine.
* Above the smokestack of the Gold Coin, high up on Squaw Mtn. is a dump area seen, there is a small Shaft-house there, again I refer to the DPL as best view, that is the Nellie V. mine.
* About 1/4 in from right-hand side, and about 1/3 down from top, is the large Ajax Mine complex seen, with the big dump out over the hillside of Battle Mountain. Looking at the DPL view one can actually see they are extending the Ore-house towards right in this view.
* Just right of the Ajax is the upper shaft of the Dead Pine, located along the Golden Circle, they did as the Portland Mine did, they have a tunnel over the tracks of the Golden Circle narrow gauge line, except here it is made of wood, not steel as on the Portland property. Can't say it is on the view, I know it is there, seen as a dark spot between Ajax and Dead Pine, but it is too far away to be of any use at all.
* Further to the right, just left of the massive Portland dumps, where the hill curves, there lays the Granite Mine, seen with its Shaft-house and power house, smokestack and all, albeit at a to large distance to be of any good use for a model work, it helps in determining where in the area it was located.
* The Dillon Mine has actually two shafts seen in this view, again it is the DPL view that is really of any use to such image research, a slight distance left of the shaft-house of the Strong mine on the right-hand side, there is a small Head-frame and small hoist house seen on the hillside with a dump – that is located on the Dillon claim. Further up the hill, more hidden away due to distance and such, is the more commonly associated boxy type of Shaft-house of the Dillon seen where it lays just below the mainline of the M.T. climbing the hills towards the Portland mine area outside the view at right. Seen best on the DPL view at a 100% look, or try the 200% and go near right-hand corner, the only shaft-house in this area with lettering on the side of the structure.
* Again, the DPL is of help to locate the Ore-house of the Mary Cashen Mine, as it is poking up among the roofs of Victor structures, about halfway between the Strong and the Gold Coin mines.
* Also, on the DPL Image the Fortuna Mine is seen quite well in the 100% view, just where the word 'Skolas' is written about 2/5 up from bottom and about 1/3 in from right-hand side. Showing a small Head-Frame west of the Hoist & Power House, with what might have been the loo west of the head-frame or possible a shed for dynamite?
My Collection; From page 17 in the 1904 Annual Edition of the Colorado State Journal.

• Page 17; Colorado State Journal; 1904 Annual Edition - Published in 1904.
• Page 76; Program of Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress - Cripple Creek, Colorado, July 16, 17, 18, 19, 1901 - Published in 1901.

• Denver Public Library: ⊞ Call Number: CHS.X7925
• My Website; Album Page View: ⊞ Books; Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress 1901 [Pic 79]

I-01131
Photograph/Image [#174]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#174
Maggie Mine - 893   Strong - 271   Gold Coin - 288   Nellie V. - 277   Ajax - 275   Dead Pine - North Incline Shaft [Battle Mtn] - 414   Granite - 261   Dillon [aka W.C. Dillon] - 268   Mary Cashen - 272   Fortuna - 292   07.04.2024 (13:41:10)
THE GOLCONDA MINE—from the South. Showing Squaw Mountain. | The Golconda Property Showing Squaw Mt. Shafts & Mines Along the Vein.
Unknown
Sadly not a quality great view, but still a great view as it is a rare view at the Golconda Mine Shaft no.1 operation on Squaw Mountain! This view also has marked out a Shaft no. 2 and no. 3 and I think one of those might also be the Discovery Shaft on the Golconda lode claim. Sometime after 1896 the main working shaft moved away from the structure in this view here, to further up the hill, don't know why.
Victor town is located outside the view at right, the view shows all three railroad spurs that was on Squaw Mountain, with the mainline of the F. & C. C. making up the lower one just beyond the ridgeline of the roof for the Golconda structure in left foreground. About 2/3 up from bottom is the Victor branch from the M. T. mainline seen a little bit further up the hill, where a string of boxcars marks a siding along the east slope of Squaw Mtn near upper right.
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.
My Collection; Cropped from 300dpi scan of page 86 in a book named Wonderful Cripple Creek District by J. F. Manning. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 86; Wonderful Cripple Creek District: A Historical, Descriptive, Pictorial and Biographical Work on the Resources of the Greatest Gold Camp on Earth. (J. F. Manning ©1896) - Published in 1896.

I-02129
Photograph/Image [#499]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#499
Golconda - 287   April Fool lode - 823   Nellie V. - 277   Dead Pine - North Incline Shaft [Battle Mtn] - 414   07.04.2024 (13:39:34)
Battle Mountain Mines From Southeast
Unknown
To me this view here is informative and nice. Sadly, the original image is quite faded, but I been able to work around most of that and got some details better visible. Dating this image is helped by lack of the Short Line grade into Victor from east; making this photographed from before latter half of 1901 as by November that year, some of what is seen in this image would have had to give way make room for the Short Line and new High Line grade. And being the original High Line trestle is seen near upper right on Battle Mountain, this view has been taken after December 1, 1897, as that is the date the rails and catenary was in place on the route to Victor. This gives a near 4-year span on when this image was photographed by someone unknown.
Against the sky at about 1/3 in from right-hand side is an earlier edition of the later more famous large Portland No.2 Shafthouse, only dumps are seen up there so the large orehouse often seen in images are yet to come, as those seems linked to the still to come Short Line branchline, also a late 1901 happening.
Further downhill the quite familiar shafthouse of the Portland No.1 Burns Shaft is seen, with 5-smokestacks, long orehouse, and various larger structures linked to that mine. Looking at high-resolution scans I see three large round watertanks linked to the Portland mines, and I see the Scranton shafthouse on the hillside above and to the right of the Portland No.1 shafthouse.
I also see the lower tunnel opening of the famous Golden Circle Steel Tunnel that was built to be covered by the Portland dump, an article in a journal named 'Engineering' was published September 17, 1898 talking about that tunnel and showing images that would suggest this image to be from after that time, taking us down to a 3-year span in the dating department.
To the left of the Portland No.1 dumps on the high-resolution scans I can pick out the upper Granite Mine structures, but at my 2400dpi scan I still can't say for sure if I see structures along a long dump on the hillside above the Granite, structures that if I read my maps, like the 1903ish topographic USGS one, is mostly on the Lowell lode claim, there seems to be some structures but to far away to tell for sure.
The Ajax mine is seen against the sky near upper left side of the image, with the north, or upper, shafthouse structures of the Dead Pine mine operations to the right of the Ajax, with what appears to be a string of boxcars parked on the 3-foot Golden Circle railroad just to the right of those structures.
Further downhill and to the left of the easy to spot old shafhouse of the Strong Mine a smaller headframe with hoisthouse to the right of it is seen, I often wonder about it, and this might be the location of the W. C. Dillon lode claim discovery shaft, but I have no good maps to tell me for certain as the only possible marking on the 1903ish topo-map is also close to the Strong lode sideline, but most likely it is just a shaft operation on the W. C. Dillon.
Strong Mine has been mentioned, it is the older tower-like easy to spot shafthouse, with its still standing today ore-house seen in front of and somewhat to the left of the shafthouse.
Going to the right from the Strong one passes the Stratton's Independence dump and what might still be some left-over structures of the original Discovery Shaft of the Independence lode claim, not easy to tell for certain.
Also not easy to tell for sure, but just to the lower left of the easy to spot orehouse of the Independence mine there is a small dump and some structures on that dump that fits with the location of the Discovery Shaft of the Washington lode claim, but the structure fail to fit the only known image of the Washington mine, so I can't compare views and verify through that.
Talking about the Stratton's Independence, that mine has three larger ore-houses spread out along the M.T. grade, and the large Shafthouse of the Independence No.2 is seen in the background left of the large Independence Orehouse and the huge belching smoke smokestack of the Independence.
The old Taylor-Brunton Sampler that was along the M.T. mainline below the Portland Mine is also seen near right-hand side of the image about halfway up from bottom right.
In addition to those mining-based structures, the roadbed of the Florence & Cripple Creek is seen here and there, with some boxcars parked alongside a longer structure just where the Golden Circle trackage has melted into the F. & C. C. tracks, possible a coal shed and storage area for many products, but to be gone later as it is not seen on the 1903ish topo-map.
There is a dump on the hillside below that before mention shed and boxcars string, about 1/3 up from bottom and 2/5 in from right-hand side, this I believe was around the Discovery Shaft, most likely on a secondary shaft south of it, on the Corrigan Chief lode claim, with what feels like some sort of mining structures type small mill below that again, being two structures at two levels being connected and having some smokestacks. This structure also does not seem to appear on the 1903ish topo-map so could have been gone by the time that map was prepared. For now, this would be one of many unknowns, unless it is the Robert McCools Foundry, that is shown on Sheet11 of the Victor 1900 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, as that fits the image somewhat well!
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see, 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.
My Collection; Photographs.

• My Website: ⊞ Battle Mountain Mines From Southeast
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Battle Mountain Mines From Southeast [Enhanced; Colored]

P-04750
Photograph/Image [#544]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#544
Strong - 271   Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   T. and B. Sampler, at Portland Mine - 263   Stratton's Independence No. 2 - 265   Portland No. 1 - 262   Scranton Shaft [Battle Mtn] - 1058   Portland No. 2 - 259   Granite - 261   Dead Pine - North Incline Shaft [Battle Mtn] - 414   Ajax - 275   Washington - 353   Corrigan Chief Lode [Battle Mountain] - 1788   07.04.2024 (13:38:18)
Ajax Mine, Victor, Colorado.
Julia Skolas
This view near top of Battle Mountain show a scene around the Ajax Mine where part of the Ajax Mill is seen as a structure at far left, partly visible, then lot of various structures follows as eyes walk right on the image. The Ajax Mine is about 1/3 in from right hand side, having the Portland No. 1 at its right and the Portland No. 2 about middle top of image.
This been a popular view by Julia, as by last check of my database on July 1, 2022, I counted/know of 12 uses of this scene for various postcard editions/crops and postcard folders.
My Collection; Postcards.

• Postcard by unknown; seen post-stamped June 25, 1906 - Published in ????.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ Ajax Mine, Victor, Colorado.

P-00207
Photograph/Image [#484]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#484
Colburn Mill [aka Colburn-Ajax, aka Ajax Mill] - 925   Ajax - 275   Portland No. 2 - 259   Portland No. 1 - 262   Dead Pine - North Incline Shaft [Battle Mtn] - 414   Granite - 261   28.12.2023 (18:22:43)
Anchoria Leland Mine, Seen From Below, Looking Southeast
Unknown
To me, getting this view felt like a bonus, even if it as an image is not a very informative and nice one as it is sadly somewhat faded as bought photograph and the scene itself is not showing much. I been able to work around the less pleasant view part and got some details better visible. Dating this image is not easy, I can assume it comes from same source as two other images listed by seller, and they were in a timeframe of around April 1901 to September 1903. This view however, by the showing of a single trolly pole and overhead wire along the old tight balloon loop below the Anchoria-Leland shafthouse, date this to be before September 1903; as by middle of that month, the original High Line was closed, and trolley cars ran over the Short Line mainline instead. But, having only this pole makes this photo have up to 6-year span for when someone unknown photographed this image, as I have to go back to the start of this line up Gold Hill from around December 1897.
I do not know who that man sitting among the rock near middle top/down on the right half of the image, but most likely he is linked to the photographer in some form. The rails is not visible, making me think the roadbed is somewhat sunk into the ground in this area, and I was making the mental impression this was at the lower part of the loop, but looking at other known images I have from near this area, I now know this is showing part of the upper leg after the loop, and had the photographer turned 180-degree and even 90-degrees to the right, I would have been very pleased with views telling me more about this area!
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see, 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.
My Collection; Photographs.

• My Website: ⊞ Anchoria Leland Mine, Seen From Below, Looking Southeast
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Anchoria Leland Mine, Seen From Below, Looking Southeast [Enhanced; Colored]

P-04752
Photograph/Image [#546]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#546
Anchoria-Leland - 61   27.12.2023 (19:58:37)
Mary McKinney Mine, Anaconda & Gold Hill as Seen From North Slope Guyot Hill
Unknown
To me this view is informative and nice, even if it sadly is quite faded as bought photograph. Thankfully, I been able to work around most of that and got some details better visible. Dating this image is helped by not only the showing of the Low Line grade running alongside Gold Hill, but also with the mainline Short Line higher up on same hill. The Short Line grade date this photographed to be after March 23, 1901, as that is the date of the last spike ceremony in the Cripple Creek yard. Also, the showing of the town of Anaconda says this is before the 1904 fire that wiped out most of town. But, using the high-resolution scan at 2400dpi, I also see trolly poles along the old tight balloon loop below the Anchoria-Leland shafthouse, and with the lack of poles along the Short Line mainline, dating this to be before September 1903; as by middle of that month, the original High Line was closed and trolley cars ran over the Short Line mainline partly seen in this view. All this gives a max of 2.5-year span for when someone unknown photographed this image.
The photographer stood on the northern slope of Guyot Hill, looking towards the Anchoria-Leland mine on western slope of Gold Hill, that mine is seen against the sky about 1/3 in from right-hand side. Just to the right of the large shafthouse of the Anchoria-Leland, the Lexington Orehouse and trestle connecting it to the mine surface building are seen. Slightly lower on what is southern slope of Gold Hill, another long shafthouse are seen, with a high smokestack, sadly for me, I have not been able to pinpoint if this is yet another shaft on the Gold King lode claim, or part of the Tom Gough lode claim, as the maps I have access to at the time of this writing (Dec. 27, 2023) gives me no definite answer to share here.
In fact, this photo has many smaller workings on this side of Gold Hill shown, many small dumps, smaller structures, and a nightmare to ID all of them at this time, but interesting for me to have, as this photo comes close to what the old 1903ish topomap from USGS shows.
Further to the right and lower on the hill is seen most of, but where another slope is hiding lower parts of the structures, we see the surface structures belonging to the E. Porter Gold King operations on the east end of the Gold King lode, that is seen about 1/5 in from right-hand side and about 1/5 down from top side.
Going down the hill about 1/5 in from right-hand side, about 2/6 from top, there is a small structure showing on what I think of as the east end of the Superior lode claim, but again, there are so many claims and holes in the ground that it is hard to track it all.
About 1/3 down from top alongside the right-hand side, there are more mine operations seen just below the Low Line grade, which seems to be various lessees on Mary McKinney ground. One is known as Howard shaft, both on the 1903ish topomap and the 1906 USGS Principal Underground Workings map.
Further left, about 1/3 in from right-hand side and about 3/7 down from top are the Virginia M. mine structures; a hoisthouse and a head/gallows-frame, where one of the posts is perfectly extended up from the pole on top of the Mary McKinney shafthouse. Further to the right again seems to be the location of an open cut in the ground that has appeared on some images about the Anaconda Mine/Tunnel operations, there are two dark spots on top of each other with a small dump in front of the lower hole, just above the Midland Terminal cut into the hillside.
The M.T. depot structure is shown just to the left of the prominent fir tree at almost edge right-hand side, and the town of Anaconda is stretching down Squaw Gulch at left.
About dead center of the image is the Florence & Cripple Creek Station structure, with a large orebin across the track tucked in between various cribbed walls, and the larger and still standing in the 1950's – but alas gone by time I visited area in 1998 – orehouse of the Anaconda Mine. The old Blacksmith shop structure of the Anaconda, which survived at that location till the Open Pit Mining Company of modern times could destroy this area as well, in the hunt for gold and other minerals to earn money.
The Mary McKinney large shafthouse and orehouse in combination are seen in foreground right, with the town of Anaconda spreading out in the gulch below it at left and right. A 3-passenger car F. & C. C. train is coming into Anaconda station, enroute to Florence. The hillside below and above that train has adit mines seen spotted here and there.
In the gulch about center right-left in the upper half of the image, there is a head/gallows-frame and a small hoisthouse seen just to the left of the road about 2/5 down from top, that is the marked Superior Shaft on the 1903ish topomap, while only the dump area is seen of the marked Fauntleroy shaft of same topomap is seen behind a tree in the gulch and another shaft on the Little Fauntleroy lode claim is seen with its large smokestack, hoist-and work house connected to a head/gallows-frame closer to the M.T. mainline, these surface structures are clearly seen in the photo, encircled by a road and with a dump area towards the M.T. low trestle.
Further up the before mention gulch, just below the Low Line, about 1/3 down from top and almost at center sideways is the shafthouse of the Alamo mine, also marked on the 1903ish topomap. Further to the left, across the gulch from that mine, is a large tent town I have no idea what was there for, I count 5 large house formed tents in a row, then a large in form of long row butted together end to end, before a single tent ends/closing the 'town' at the lower butt-end of this flatter ground. Lots of smaller dumps say there have been lot of exploring here but lack of structures tells the story of not striking rich.
Up on Gold Hill again, above the Low Line roadbed, there is seen a structure at the Hillside mine, has the looks of a hoisthouse, but I fail to see a visible headframe, so it is most likely a shafthouse covering an incline shaft as per 1906 USGS Principal Underground Workings map. This claim, the Hill Side lode, had a whopping 11-Shafts and 2-Cuts marked out on its 2.41 Acres large Plat Map dated February 15, 1899! That map also had an Engine House structure showing just to the left of where the working shaft of 1906 is and that is also near/at the location of a marking on the 1903ish topomap of a mine here.
Moving up on Gold Hill against the sky and a bit more to the right, another narrow but high shafthouse is poking into the sky, this is the shafthouse of the Lillian Leland lode claim, hard to tell if it is the one on the Discovery Shaft or to the east of that, as while the Plat Map of that lode has only the Discovery Shaft marked, the 1903ish topomap has two more shaft markings on it, so which of those three the shafthouse is on, I do not know.
Moving back down the southwest slope of Gold Hill to below the Short Line mainline again, there is visible a smaller structure among the dumps, but at this time I struggle too much figuring out which lode claim this is at, I think it is on the Moonlight lode, but it could also be on the Robert E. Lee lode, so, I leave this for later.
I started my text description with the location of the photographer, and I think he, most likely a he, was at the ore case/bin of the Ross lease on the Republic lode of the Mary McKinney company, as the 1906 USGS Principal Underground Workings map has a shaft marked named Ross, and it falls on the named lode claim, and the 1903ish topomap has some mine markings and a road there, which also the foreground of the photo shows in lower left.

I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see, 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.
My Collection; Photographs.

• My Website: ⊞ Mary McKinney Mine, Anaconda & Gold Hill as Seen From North Slope Guyot Hill
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Mary McKinney Mine, Anaconda & Gold Hill as Seen From North Slope Guyot Hill [Enhanced; Colored]

P-04751
Photograph/Image [#545]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#545
Anchoria-Leland - 61   Lexington - 63   E. Porter Gold King - 65   Alamo - 70   Superior - 71   Fauntleroy [aka Little Fauntleroy] - 72   Virginia M. - 73   Howard - 74   Anaconda - 92   Mary McKinney - 136   Hill Side - 468   Clara D. Lode [Gold Hill] - 1203   Gold King Lode [Gold Hill] - 1655   Lillian Leland Mine [Gold Hill] - 1851   28.09.2023 (20:23:20)
Mining Scene Around the Golden Cycle Mine, Including Samplers on Victor Pass and La Belle Power Plant
Unknown
This view seems to have been taken from the road northeast of the Rigi mines group on Battle Mountain. At first I thought the small structure just to the right of the center in foreground, with the toilet shack a little bit further uphill/closer to the camera, might be a covered shaft on the J. I. C. Lode Claim.
* But further checks say it is more likely a home just north of that shaft, as the 1903ish USGS topo-map has a small square representing a structure, and a mining operation marking a bit further east, downhill; and they fit quite nicely with the foreground view. If I am right, that foreground 'hole in ground' is on the Clyde lode claim.
* Going from same base, there is a larger dump seen more to the left, about middle from the small home and left side of image, a powerpole is sticking up from the bottom of the image, and almost touch that dump, and if I am right, that dump is the Discovery Shaft of the Gracie Darling Lode Claim, also marked on the 1903ish map, as a shaft, not a prospect. The photo has more smaller dumps showing, and they are showing up on the Plat Map of the Clyde Lode Claim, so I buy into my own understanding of the image here. :-)
The timeframe of the view is about sometime after April 1902 and at least till August of 1908, and it holds quite much varied hints about that timeframe in this area of the District. I see the T. & B. Sampler structure being marked so on Victor Pass, and that structure was later renamed Copeland Sampler, sold to them in August 1908.
—> I came to look more at this image due to it showing something that might me think this might be more 1905ish as the Ide lode claim workings that is visible do appear on the USGS 1903ish topo-map, published with the 1906 Geology Report of the District.
* In this view both workings on the Ide Lode Claim, on northwestern slope of Big Bull Mtn, has their structures visible. Both the Discovery Shaft, that is the upper structure and appears to be a small log structure with a flattish roof, and it's southern working, just north of the Eagle Sampler branch of the Short Line spur.
—> Both can be seen best on the 1200dpi scan where the southern workings can be seen behind two smokestacks of what I believe to be the Theresa mine, and about 75mm more up to the left, along the Short Line mainline, is the lower, more flatter structure at the Discovery Shaft of this lode claim.
My Collection; Photographs; 300dpi.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Mining Scene Around Golden Cycle Mine, Including Samplers on Victor Pass and La Belle Power Plant
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ A Look Towards the Vindicator Mine Area with Huge Dumps [Straightened; Cropped; Colored 300dpi]

P-00370
Photograph/Image [#543]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#543
Black Sampler [aka Cripple Creek Sampler or Bull Hill Works] - 230   T. and B. Sampler - 231   Christmas - 236   Golden Cycle - 244   Anna J. Lode [Bull Cliff/Hill] - 1845   Aluminum lode [Bull Hill] - 1085   La Bella Power Plant - 955   Theresa - 245   Ide Lode [Victor Pass/East Bull Hill] - 1444   Gold Knob - 250   24.06.2023 (20:10:29)
Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek District, Equipped with Parkison Furnaces.
Unknown
While my source is a negative, the source of the negative is still an image of print type, so the quality could have been better, but it is what it is! I have worked with it as best as I could. This view is in easterly direction, on Bull Hill, looking alongside the Golden Circle and Midland Terminal tracks toward the Vindicator No. 1 Mine structures, with the Lillie Mine structures seen to the left of the smokestack, further into the image. There is a bit of dual trackage seen in this view.
I did procure the colored version of this image, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. 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.
My Collection; Photo-Negative from page 120 in the Jan. 25, 1912 issue of Mining Science. I did procure the colored version from a cropped 300dpi scan.

• Page 120; Mining Science, Jan. 25, 1912; Volume 65 [LXV], no. 1669 - Published in 1912.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 120; Mining Science, Jan. 25, 1912; Volume 65 [LXV], no. 1669

P-01383
Photograph/Image [#542]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#542
Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Lillie - 234   24.06.2023 (20:00:06)
Center of the Cripple Creek Mining District
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1909]
Sadly my panoramic postcard has many flaws to it, it has been bended in its lifetime and also have dents and cracks in addition to being partly faded and using a photo print process making darker spots just dark! But it is what it is! I have worked with it as best as I could. This view is of the southeastern slope of Bull Hill.
In foreground lower right is barely seen some of the houses in the town of Goldfield, while the La Bella Power Plant structure with its smokestack is at lower left. Many of the mines are marked out, and I've seen this view being used to demonstrate the wonders of the Parkison Furnace that was used by many mines in the District. Seen as absence of smoke from the smokestacks of the properties using those furnaces.
I did procure the colored version of this image, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. 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.
My Collection; Postcards; Colored, scaled up, cropped 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ The Isabella Mill {Colored; Cropped; Scaled 300dpi]

P-00983
Photograph/Image [#541]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#541
American Eagle - 312   La Bella Power Plant - 955   Delmonico Mine [Bull Hill] - 1065   Findley - 216   Golden Cycle - 244   Hull City placer - 321   Lillie - 234   Pharmacist - 318   Theresa - 245   Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Vindicator No. 2 - 232   Zenobia - 319   24.06.2023 (19:07:01)
Afer Installing Parkison Furnace at Gold Coin Shaft of the Granite Gold Mining Company, Victor, Colorado.
Unknown
Being the image source is of print type, the quality is not the best, but it is what it is! I have worked with it as best as I could. The direction of this view is east, looking along the Florence & Cripple Creek mainline into Victor, unto the Gold Coin Mine structures of the Granite Gold Mining Company. This image shows how the mine chimney was no long smoking after installing the Parkison Furnace installed!
I did procure the colored version of this image, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. 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.
My Collection; From page 117 in the Jan. 25, 1912 issue of 'Mining Science'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 117; Mining Science, Jan. 25, 1912; Volume 65 [LXV], no. 1669 - Published in 1912.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 117; Mining Science, Jan. 25, 1912; Volume 65 [LXV], no. 1669

I-03051
Photograph/Image [#540]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#540
Gold Coin - 288   24.06.2023 (19:04:03)
Before Installing Parkison Furnace at Gold Coin Shaft of the Granite Gold Mining Company, Victor, Colorado.
Unknown
Being the image source is of print type, the quality is not the best, but it is what it is! I have worked with it as best as I could. The direction of this view is east, looking along the Florence & Cripple Creek mainline into Victor, unto the Gold Coin Mine structures of the Granite Gold Mining Company. The image with the smoke is how it looked before the mine got the Parkison Furnace installed; it was smoking dark thick smoke! The other image shows it is no longer smoking at all!
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. 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.
My Collection; From page 117 in the Jan. 25, 1912 issue of 'Mining Science'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 117; Mining Science, Jan. 25, 1912; Volume 65 [LXV], no. 1669 - Published in 1912.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 117; Mining Science, Jan. 25, 1912; Volume 65 [LXV], no. 1669

I-03051
Photograph/Image [#539]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#539
Gold Coin - 288   24.06.2023 (19:01:05)
Large Reduction Plant of the Golden Cycle Mining Co, Colorado City. Equipped with 27 Parkison Furnaces, Attached to Edwards Roasters and Three Under Boilers.
Unknown
While my source is a negative, the source of the negative is still an image of print type, so the quality could have been better, but it is what it is! I have worked with it as best as I could. This view is in southerly direction, looking at the immense Golden Cycle Mill in Colorado City.
I did procure the colored version of this image, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. 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.
My Collection; Photo-Negative from page 116 in the Jan. 25, 1912 issue of Mining Science. I did procure the colored version from a cropped 300dpi scan.

• Page 116; Mining Science, Jan. 25, 1912; Volume 65 [LXV], no. 1669 - Published in 1912.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 116; Mining Science, Jan. 25, 1912; Volume 65 [LXV], no. 1669

P-01381
Photograph/Image [#538]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#538
Golden Cycle Mill - 920   22.06.2023 (17:54:19)
Morning Glory Shaft of the Doctor-Jack Pot.
Andrew James Harlan
This view is showing the Morning Glory mine up close. It was titled Doctor-Jack Pot Estate in a copy I have from a January 25, 1912 printed source – hence the date on this view can't be from after that date. Middle top you see the orehouse and hoist house of the Index Mine, while the small shaft house of the Union Bell is seen about half width towards the right-hand side, just above ad slightly to the left of the two smokestacks. Also seen, the side spur to the Index are climbing the hillside, and somewhat further down the railroad fill seen belongs mainline named the Low Line, sort of cutting through the upper part of the Morning Glory smokestacks, as the mine in the foreground are named.
I did procure the colored version of this image, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. 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.
My Collection; From PPLD image, cropped to fit on on page 95 in the January 5 1912 issue of 'Mining Science'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Mining Science, Jan. 25, 1912; Volume 65 [LXV], no. 1669 (page 95) - Published in 1912.

• Pikes Peak Library District: ⊞ Image Number: 402-6

P-01257 + I-01208
Photograph/Image [#14]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#14
Union Bell - 68   Mint (aka Index Mine) - 69   Morning Glory - 138   15.06.2023 (19:41:31)
Dump Ore Stacker at the Ajax Mine.
Unknown
Being the image source is of print type, the quality is not the best, but it is what it is! I have worked with it as best as I could. The direction of this view west with a slightly northern to it. The main focus is the high mast in foreground, which is a Dump Ore Stacker at the Ajax mine near top of Battle Mountain. In the background, operations on the Coriolanus lode claim is seen, several shafts are seen. Also, the mainline of the 3-ft narrow gauge Golden Circle railroad with a switch back towards the mill are seen, heading up into a curve taking it climbing the sides of Battle Mtn., after passing a trestle that might be a mine trestle or a road to other mines on Squaw Mtn., which is the hill at left-hand side.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. 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.
My Collection; From page 441 in the Nov. 9, 1911 issue of 'Mining Science'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering; Vol.13 No.3; March 1915 (page 142) - Published in 1911.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 441; Mining Science, Nov. 9, 1911; Volume 64 [LXIV], no. 1658

I-03049
Photograph/Image [#537]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#537
Coriolanus - 276   Ajax - 275   15.06.2023 (19:38:43)
View of the Ajax Gold Mining Co. Property Showing the New Colburn Mill on the Left.
Unknown
Being the image source is of print type, the quality is not the best, but it is what it is! I have worked with it as best as I could. The main focus of this view is to tell the location of the then new Ajax or Colburn Mill near top of Battle Mountain and its closeness to the Ajax Mine itself. Mill is seen at left foreground and the Ajax mine structures at right hand side, where the smokestack of the mine powerplant is seen spewing out dark smoke. Direction of view is northeast.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. 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.
My Collection; From page 440 in the Nov. 9, 1911 issue of 'Mining Science'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering; Vol.13 No.3; March 1915 (page 142) - Published in 1911.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 440; Mining Science, Nov. 9, 1911; Volume 64 [LXIV], no. 1658

I-03048
Photograph/Image [#536]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#536
Colburn Mill [aka Colburn-Ajax, aka Ajax Mill] - 925   Ajax - 275   15.06.2023 (18:11:23)
Isabella Mine and Mill, Cripple Creek, Colo. Owns About 120 Acres on Bull Hill. Mill Capacity, 450 Tons Daily. Cyanide Process Used.
Unknown [19??]
Source of image was not a good quality sadly, but it is what it is, I have worked with it as best as I could. I scaled the cropped & colored view up a little. This image is the only ever view I have seen of this elusive mill. I first saw and bought the postcard this is from in January 2008, and till this day, June 15, 2023, I have not come across any other images of this mill, or even a better-looking postcard. The source card was a bluish print quality image on a postcard, advertising for Henry Sachs, Stocks and Bonds.
View is taken looking down at the mill from, I presume, a location near the Lee Shaft of the Isabella Co., and I think it was through a adit/tunnel, as seen entering the open ore bin near center of the view.
I did procure the colored version of this image as I think it is nicer. Source is bluish ink, 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.
My Collection; Postcards; Colored, scaled up, cropped 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ The Isabella Mill {Colored; Cropped; Scaled 300dpi]

P-00314
Photograph/Image [#535]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#535
Isabella Mill - 1028   04.03.2023 (13:57:07)
#3058; El Paso Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
Unknown
This image is a good one, in spite of the quality being too dark and that it sadly is of the printed type. But, the scene it shows makes it great as it shows the short-lived Switchback branch of the Florence & Cripple Creek that went down Beacon Hill to the Henry Adney & Old Gold mines in the valley below the impressive El Paso Mine, seen with its light colored large ore house and partly built in head frame about 1/3 from top at center of image.
A little below that at left is the C.K. & N. Mine, seen about middle top/down and in lower right-hand corner is the Henry Adney mine with a couple of F. & C. C. boxcars standing on the track nearby.
This image dates to a timeframe 1908-1917 due to the showing of part of a Orehouse in lower right that was built at Henry Adney around January 1908, till the branch line was abandoned sometime in 1917.
My Collection; Postcards.

• Postcard; Published by H.H.T. Co.; Numbered 3058, titled El Paso Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo. - Published in ????.
• Postcard; Published by H.H.T. Co.; Numbered 3058, titled El Paso Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo. -> slighlty different cropped from source negative - Published in ????.
• no. 5; Souvenir Postcard Folder with Unknown name as there was no front on my copy - about the Cripple Creek District - Published in ????.

• My Website: ⊞ Postcards Overview; #3058 - El Paso Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
• My Website: ⊞ Album Page View (Unknown, No front - about the Cripple Creek District)

P-03293
Photograph/Image [#244]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#244
C. K. & N. - 126   El Paso - 127   Henry Adney - 332   02.03.2023 (08:18:07)
The Independence Mine
Unknown
This image here is part of a series of images which I only have this one. The Series seems to be called ''Wonders of America'' and this was Number 32. It was manufactured by Chicago Projecting Co. I think it might be an Andrew James Harlan photo but not confirmed it yet by 02.06.2019 when this note is written.
Scene is in eastern part of Victor, looking up passed some townlike structures and the eastern end of the F. & C. C. railroad yard. The sort of focus is the building of the larger Ore-house of the Independence, with its Experimental mill already in place to the right of the new Ore-house, as seen as whitish structures which roofs meet in a form of V.
In background left, about center top/down there is a whitish Shaft House of quite large size, this is the Independence No. 2 Shaft, not sure when that got out of use, but it is marked on my USGS 1903 topographic map, so I guess it lasted into the earlier 1900's at least.
In front of the dump out from the Independence shaft house, to the left of the orehouse they are building, along the rails coming from the M. T. railyard outside the view at left, about 1/3 in from left-hand side and 1/3 up from bottom of the view, there is what appears to be a loading platform standing, and for a time I was thinking that is a left-over from the Old Independence mine, also known as the Discovery Shaft on the claim known as Independence, but, that is not true!
The shaft structure and ore house of that Discovery Shaft is gone already, it was located closer to the yellowish orehouse under constructing in this image, zooming in on my local high resolution scan I might see some cribbing that might be left-over from cribbing at the Discovery Shaft, but hard to tell for sure.
My Collection; Magic Lanterns. Cropped 600dpi view without the frame.
G-00101
Photograph/Image [#349]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#349
Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Stratton's Independence No. 2 - 265   21.02.2023 (21:52:41)
The Gold Issue Mill
Tomer Jacob Hileman [19??]
To me this view here is a Pearl or a Gem! When I saw it listed on eBay, I just had to get it! It is a really rare view of one of the short-lived mills in the outskirts of the productive District. Named Cold Issue Mill by the photographer Hileman I know it as Gold Issue Mill, possible it might also be the same as the Wishbone mill, as of Feb. 2023 that is still impossible to find a final answer to! If it is the Wishbone, it has also been know under the name Midget-Bonanza Mill, and there is what appears to be an aerial tram coming in on the hillside to the long structure in upper left, making this appearing to be the same mill a greater chance I think.
The Gold Issue Mill is said to be on either Mineral Hill or Carbonate Hill, the sources I have are given both names as a location, on the northeast slope it is said. It was a Cyanide Mill, burned down I think, but looking at the image one of the house like structures at lower right has some brick wall to it so possible that can still be found as a ruin left-over if one knew where to look for this mill.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ The Gold Issue Mill
• My Website; Postcards Backsides: ⊞ The Gold Issue Mill
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ The Gold Issue Mill {Twisted; Colored; Cropped; Scaled 300dpi]

P-03659
Photograph/Image [#534]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#534
Gold Issue Mill [Mineral Hill/Carbonate Hill] - 1061   20.02.2023 (23:08:37)
The Findley Mine
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill] [19??]
I think this view past the Findley Mine is one great image as it sort of capture the District, as in front lower left you have houses and habitats for humans, you even see at least one outhouse for the toilet need! Then you have the dumps and structures of the reason for the humans to be there, the mining operations footprint so to speak, with many smaller dumps where each mark a mining hole that was someone's dream and hope for a better life, and then you have the large dumps like the Findley one from mines that was in gold and at least impacted some people's life for the better!
In background against the sky you see the various dumps and mine structures making up the area around the former town of Altman, still seems to be some structures left of the town up there, and on the slope down towards the photographer there are these smaller log-cabins and homes of miners, among the mining dumps and Gallows-frames and other needed mining structures making up this photo.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ The Findley Mine
• My Website; Postcards Backsides: ⊞ The Findley Mine
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ The Findley Mine {Twisted; Colored; Cropped; Scaled 300dpi]

P-03660
Photograph/Image [#533]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#533
Findley - 216   19.02.2023 (12:46:25)
View Index Mine & Ore House on Gold Hill
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill] [19??]
This view here of the surface structures for the Index Mining & Milling Company is a view that has some fame to it as it has been used in several postcards crop-versions and I have seen it used in one postcard folder during the timeframe from when it was taken sometime before April 1916 when this postcard was mailed. From one of the other postcards I've seen the stamp box has a look that dates it around 1910.
In regard to the view itself; I personally love it as it shows the former Mint mine on Gold Hill in all its glory! This mine was connected to the Low Line/Short Line branch through a spur that might have been meant to go all the way up to a connection at the Anchoria-Leland mine, seen a map that even drew the rails all the way but as far as I know it only came to be a roadbed without rails, with rails only at each end serving the mines there. This mine had its connection down along the Low Line at the so-called Alamo Junction, about halfway between Cripple Creek and Anaconda, named so from the nearby Alamo mine, which never really grew big...
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ View Index Mine & Ore House on Gold Hill
• My Website; Postcards Backsides: ⊞ View Index Mine & Ore House on Gold Hill
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ View Index Mine & Ore House on Gold Hill {Straightened; Colored; Cropped; Scaled 300dpi]

P-03658
Photograph/Image [#532]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#532
Mint (aka Index Mine) - 69   18.02.2023 (20:51:11)
#M-467; Near Cripple Creek, Colo. 1920's | Mary McKinney Huge Dump Scene
Unknown
A view in Squaw Gulch towards the huge dump of the Mary McKinney Mine who's structure is popping up behind the dump, against the backdrop of Raven Hill with still a couple of mine ruins standing here and there. Image is marked to be from the 1920's, and in lower left it is still visible some flat parts, like terraces, from structures in the former town of Anaconda.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ #M-467; Near Cripple Creek, Colo. 1920's
• My Website; Postcards Backsides: ⊞ #M-467; Near Cripple Creek, Colo. 1920's
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ #M-467; Near Cripple Creek, Colo. 1920's {Colored; Cropped; Twisted 300dpi]

P-04739
Photograph/Image [#531]
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Mary McKinney - 136   16.02.2023 (22:19:56)
Portland Mine + Mill Victor Colo.
William H. Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
A view at the cramped hillside below the Independence Mine, and the Portland Mines, as the space been used for making quite a large mill, with what appears to be a slime dam in the foreground. Seems like this has obliviated the roadbed of both the Golden Circle and the Short Line/High Line railroad beds, but maybe not fully, hard to tell for sure.
Sadly though, the Portland No. 2 Mine, seen against the sky in upper right top, this mine is out of focus and not much useful to much more than for location purposes as the shape of it can be seen between the blurred view in that area of this postcard view.
The Independence Mine has lost its Shaft House and has an open Head-Frame, so that might help date this image, same as with the large mill in the foreground, by time of this image being photographed this mill has been bought by the Portland Company, even though it originally was part of the Independence Operations, making this view after 1915 and before July 1924 as this card is stamped that month.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ Portland Mine + Mill Victor Colo.

P-04710
Photograph/Image [#530]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#530
Portland No. 2 - 259   Portland No. 1 - 262   Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Independence Mill {Stratton's on Battle Mt] - 921   Portland Independence Mill [Battle Mt] - 1921   16.02.2023 (14:27:40)
Portland Mine + Mill Cripple Creek Dist
William H. Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
A view at the cramped hillside below the Independence Mine, and the Portland Mines, as the space been used for making quite a large mill, with what appears to be a slime dam in the foreground. Seems like this has obliviated the roadbed of both the Golden Circle and the Short Line/High Line railroad beds, but maybe not fully, hard to tell for sure.
Sadly though, the Portland No. 2 Mine, up in upper right top is way out of focus and not useful at all except for location purposes as the shape of it can be seen between the very blurred view in that area of this postcard view. The Independence Mine has lost its Shaft House and has an open Head-Frame, so that might help date this image, same as with the large mill in the foreground, by time of this image being photographed this mill has been bought by the Portland Company, even though it originally was part of the Independence Operations.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ Portland Mine + Mill Cripple Creek Dist
• My Website: ⊞ Portland Mine + Mill Cripple Creek Dist [enhanced]

P-03661
Photograph/Image [#318]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#318
Portland No. 2 - 259   Portland No. 1 - 262   Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Independence Mill {Stratton's on Battle Mt] - 921   Portland Independence Mill [Battle Mt] - 1921   15.02.2023 (10:18:08)
View Up at Independence and Portland Mines From Near Short Line Victor Yards
Unknown
Not much to say to this card, I find it quite self-explaining. It is a view looking uphill at a couple of Battle Mountain mines; the Stratton's Independence mine at foreground right and the Portland No. 2 Shaft against the sky in background left. View is taken from around the Short Line yard in Victor, Colorado, and on top of the rock-wall seen in lower left is the old railroad yard of the Florence & Cripple Creek, most likely gone by the time this card was photographed, impossible to tell for sure in this view here, all I can see in my 1200dpi scan is rails, the gauge can't be picked up due to the angle.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ Scenes of the Col. Spgs. and Cripple Creek Dist. Ry., Portland and Independence Mines, Victor, Colo.

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Photograph/Image [#529]
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Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Portland No. 2 - 259   09.02.2023 (18:57:30)
Tailings From Gold Mines Cripple Creek District | A Look Towards the Vindicator Mine Area with Huge Dumps
Unknown [1914]
This is a view towards the huge operations of the Vindicator Mine as seen from south Bull Hill from a location near the Last Dollar mine, a little bit hard to pinpoint it fully. There are huge dumps seen around the Vindicator and being from late 1914 this view turned out to be among those rare ones in my collection!
This as I have here visible about 1/3 in from right-hand side, and just to the right of the orehouse, the then very new structure used by the Vindicator company for their concentration mill, put in operation October 15, 1914. I think the darker lower structure in front of that mill is their test mill operation, that structure shows in way more views than this new mill structure. Near lower right-hand corner is the mainline of M. T. and their Independence Depot.
Backside has a handwritten note which I used as a title before the | part, with a number 24 and a date of 1914.
My Collection; Photographs; 300dpi.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ A Look Towards the Vindicator Mine Area with Huge Dumps
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ A Look Towards the Vindicator Mine Area with Huge Dumps [Straightened; Cropped; Colored 300dpi]

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Vindicator No. 1 - 233   09.02.2023 (18:49:01)
Vindicator Screening Mill
Unknown
Source of image was not a good quality sadly, but it is what it is, I have worked with it as best as I could. The structure seen near center of this view was in March 1915 when this image appeared in the source article called the new Crushing and Screening Mill of the Vindicator Consolidated Gold Mining Co. It was put in operation October 15, 1914. Located at the Vindicator No. 1 shaft this plant, as built, cost roundly $34,000, and was reported to be treating about 400 tons daily.
The well-known Vindicator ore-house is partly seen on left-hand side, and it was connected to the mill by a conveyor that delivered waste rock from the picking-belt in the ore-house to a large trommel screen in the mill. From there it went through various machinery described in the source article. The arrangement of the plant was simple and convenient.
The screens and picking-belt where placed in the top of the building, above bins and tanks which received the various products. All of the waste rock rejected from the picking-belt and screens was delivered to a common conveyor leading to the dump – as seen in the image. The crusher and rolls where placed below their respective bins and discharged their products onto conveyors leading to the two elevators that serve the rest of the machinery used in the processes in this mill. After the various processes, the final waste was also discharged to the dump.
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.
My Collection; From page 142 in the March 1915 issue of 'Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering; Vol.13 No.3; March 1915 (page 142) - Published in 1915.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 142; Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering; Vol.13 No.3; March 1915

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Photograph/Image [#527]
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Vindicator No. 1 - 233   05.02.2023 (21:18:52)
Ajax Mine & Mill
Victor Studio [1911]
This postcard view focus on the Ajax Mine Operations. From the large sloped structure at upper left which is the main structure of what was called the Colburn Mill, aka Colburn-Ajax Mill, to the Ajax Mine itself seen almost at the right-hand side, with its large Shaft house and orehouse. This is on the south slope near top of Battle Mountain at Victor, Colorado, in the Cripple Creek District. In the background right is seen part of Portland No. 1 Mine, and Portland No. 2 is hiding against the sky in the smoke above the Ajax Mine structure.
The mill was built in 1911, but seems to be gone by the time the Sanborn Fire Insurance people visited the area in preparations for the last set of Fire Insurance maps in 1919 as I have not found it on any such map. I've seen not many images of this mill, but the few I have seen shows that the smaller mill structure between the large sloped one and the mine itself, that structure grows in size over the time of existence, in this view it is how it originally was built. I think, from reading a text description, that this was the Sampler/Crusher for the mill, with a covered belt conveyor running on the ground connecting it to the upper part of the mill.
In addition to the various structures seen in this view there is also shown two aerial tramway towers used for operating the dump, most likely both for scooping it up in the original setup and later for dumping from the mill as I seen text description of the mill giving me that impression.
A lone boxcar is parked along a spur from the 3-foot narrow gauge Golden Circle mainline passing this operation in front of the boxcar. Houses linked to the Ajax is on the slope and various water tanks are seen also on the slope.
My Collection; Postcards.

• Mining Science, Feb. 1, 1912 (page 44 - Backside Advertisement for the Moore Filter Company) - Published in 1912.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ Ajax Mine & Mill
• My Website; Postcards Backsides: ⊞ p-00344_ajax-mine-n-mill_victor-studio_bck.jpg
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Ajax Mine & Mill {Colored 300dpi]

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Photograph/Image [#526]
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Colburn Mill [aka Colburn-Ajax, aka Ajax Mill] - 925   05.02.2023 (12:04:04)
Ajax Mill {aka Colburn-Ajax Mill or Colbun Mill]
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, I've twisted the view in form of rotating/straightening it so the structures look nice, and I therefore had to crop it. The image came with an Advertisement for the Moore Filter Company, found on the backside of the source journal.
The large sloped structure shown is called the Colburn Mill, aka Colburn-Ajax Mill, and was built on south slope near top of Battle Mountain at Victor, Colorado, in the Cripple Creek District. Located on the Ajax Mine grounds, it was just west of the mine, the mine itself would had been visible if we could have turned the view about 90-degree to the right.
The mill was built in 1911, but seems to be gone by the time the Sanborn Fire Insurance people visited the area in preparations for the last set of Fire Insurance maps in 1919 as I have not found it on any such map. In the background mining operation at the Coriolanus Mine are seen, but I do not know if all those shafts seen are part of that mine or if there are others I also need to link it to, I assume the latter though.
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.
From an ad on the backside of the Mining Science, Feb. 1, 1912 issue. I've added the coloring part.

• Backside; Mining Science, February 1, 1912 issue - Published in 1912.

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Photograph/Image [#346]
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Colburn Mill [aka Colburn-Ajax, aka Ajax Mill] - 925   29.01.2023 (15:14:57)
Roanoke 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.
My Collection; From page 171 in the November 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.5; November 1900 (page 171) - Published in 1900.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 171; Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.5; November 1900

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Roanoke Mine [Mineral Hill] - 21   28.01.2023 (21:57:17)
Electric Hoist at Jo Dandy Mine, Raven Hill
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 rig on the Jo Dandy mine, of which Mr. Coe is the superintendent. The property is located on Raven Hill. The Westinghouse motor of five horsepower operates a winze upon the 185-foot level, raising a 500-pound bucket by a half inch cable. The hoist was supplied by the Hendrie and Bolthoff Manufacturing and Supply company of Denver.
But, I have same image in a different printed source, from May 1900, where it is said to be in the Wisconsin Mine on Battle Mountain, and that it is showing a Westinghouse type 'C' induction motor used to run a hoist at an unknown underground level of said Wisconsin mine, including a sign below stating 'Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.'
Making this image a complicated one in terms to where it was taken! 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.
My Collection; From page 47 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• 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

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Photograph/Image [#523]
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Joe Dandy - 195   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

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Los Angeles - 239   28.01.2023 (21:26:22)
Electric Hoist at Morning Glory Claim No. 4, Gold Hill, Near Anaconda
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 plant of the Morning Glory claim No. 4 of the Morning Glory Gold Mining company on the south slope of Gold Hill, near Anaconda. A five-horsepower motor operates a five-horsepower whim made by the F. M. Davis Iron Works company of Denver. It raises a bucket weighing 500 pounds in a shaft about 190 feet deep.
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.
My Collection; From page 47 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• 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

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Morning Glory No. 4 Lode [Gold Hill] - 1171   28.01.2023 (21:17:26)
Electric Hoist at Bonanza King Mine, Gold Hill.
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 from the Bonanza King mine, located on the west slope of Gold Hill, and on which the hoisting plant shown is operated. The motor is a Westinghouse 10 horsepower machine which winds the cable on the drum of a Hendrie and Bolthoff friction hoist, raising a bucket carrying 750 pounds from the depth of about 250 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.
My Collection; From page 47 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• 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

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Bonanza King lode [Gold Hill] - 975   28.01.2023 (21:08:49)
Electric Hoist at Blue Bird Property, Bull Hill
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 plant view is on the Blue Bird property. It consists of a 30 horsepower Westinghouse motor which raises a 1,000-pound bucket from a depth of 575 feet in an inclined shaft, by a three-quarter-Inch cable. The Denver Engineering works supplied the hoist. The Blue Bird is on the south slope of Bull Hill, and is owned by Mr. Johnson of Colorado Springs.
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.
My Collection; From page 46 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900 (page 46) - Published in 1900.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 46; Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900

I-00134
Photograph/Image [#520]
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Blue Bird - 209   28.01.2023 (20:55:00)
Electric Hoist at Arapahoe Claim, Castleman & Raine Lease, Ironclad Hill
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 view shows the hoisting machinery on Arapahoe No. 1 claim of the Castleman & Raine lease on the east slope of Ironclad Hill. The motor is a five horse-power machine operating a geared hoist supplied by the Denver Engineering Works. A bucket having a capacity of 500 pounds is lowered to a depth of about 190 feet by a five-eighths inch cable.
But there are no Arapahoe No. 1 lode here, only an Arapahoe lode! Owned by the Jerry Johnson Co. around the timeframe of the source, and their Jerry Johnson No. 1 lode is sort of an extension of the Arapahoe lode in southeast direction, so possible this lease had a shaft at the border of those two mentioned claims? There is a shaft marked almost at the border to the Arapahoe on the Jerry Johnson No. 1 on their Amended Plat Map of June 20, 1899, and on their original Plat Map much of the Arapahoe ground is also claimed by the Jerry Johnson. Making it also plausible that the shaft was on Arapahoe ground, in the area where both claims overlap.
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.
My Collection; From page 46 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900 (page 46) - Published in 1900.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 46; Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900

I-00133
Photograph/Image [#519]
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Arapahoe - 94   Jerry Johnson No. 1 Lode [Ironclad Hill] - 1651   28.01.2023 (20:07:23)
Electric Hoist at Jack Pot Property of Creston Leasing Co., Raven Hill
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 a view of the Creston Leasing company's hoisting plant on the Jack Pot property on Raven Hill. The 15-horsepower motor is of the Westinghouse type and operates a hoist of the same capacity made by Fairbanks, Morse & Co. The depth of the shaft is about 575 feet. The property is now operated by the Woods Investment company.
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.
My Collection; From page 46 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900 (page 46) - Published in 1900.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 46; Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900

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Photograph/Image [#518]
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Jackpot [aka Jack Pot] - 139   28.01.2023 (19:56:11)
Electric Hoist at Jones Lease, Morning Glory Gold Mining Company
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 rig on the Jones lease of the Morning Glory Gold Mining company, controlled by the Woods Investment company of Colorado Springs and Victor, Colo. The Westinghouse 15 horsepower motor is used for operating a hoist of the same capacity, made by Fairbanks, Morse & Co. The hoist lifts an 850-pound bucket from a depth of about 450 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.
My Collection; From page 46 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900 (page 46) - Published in 1900.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 46; Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900

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Photograph/Image [#517]
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28.01.2023 (19:40:26)
Electric Hoist at Wilson Claim, Free Coinage Company
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 show the hoisting rig on the Carter lease of the Wilson claim of the Free Coinage company. The motor, which is of the General Electric type, is of 5 horsepower and operates a gear hoist made by the Denver Engineering Works, the depth being about 90 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.
My Collection; From page 45 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900 (page 45) - Published in 1900.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 45; Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900

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Photograph/Image [#516]
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Wilson lode claim - 390   28.01.2023 (19:39:25)
Electric Hoist at Wild Horse Gold Mining Company, Bull Hill, Midway.
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 outfit of the Wild Horse Gold Mining company, one of the companies controlled by the Woods Investment company of Colorado Springs and Victor, Colo. The motor is a Westinghouse 30 horsepower winding a three-quarter inch cable around the drum of a hoist made by the Denver Engineering Works, thus raising a cage from a depth of about 375 feet. The property is located on the north slope of Bull Hill at Midway, a station on the Cripple Creek District railway.
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.
My Collection; From page 45 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900 (page 45) - Published in 1900.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 45; Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900

I-00129
Photograph/Image [#515]
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Wild Horse - 99   28.01.2023 (19:27:28)
Electric Hoist at Wisconsin Claim, Portland Gold Mining Company
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 illustrates the hoisting plant on the Wisconsin claim of the Portland Gold Mining company. The motor is a Westinghouse 15 horsepower machine. It raises an 875-pound bucket on a geared hoist made by the F. M. Davis Iron Works company of Denver at a speed of about 350 feet per minute.
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.
My Collection; From page 45 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900 (page 45) - Published in 1900.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 45; Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900

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Photograph/Image [#513]
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Wisconsin Mine - 894   28.01.2023 (19:27:26)
Electric Hoist at Night Hawk Mine, Bull Hill, Stratton Property.
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 a view of the hoisting machinery on the Night Hawk mine, on the west slope of Bull Hill, one of the famous Stratton properties, and located near the well-known John A. Logan. The motor is a Westinghouse 10 horsepower and winds a seven-eighths inch cable around the drum of a friction hoist made by the Hendrie and Bolthoff Manufacturing and Supply company of Denver, Colo.
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.
My Collection; From page 45 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900 (page 45) - Published in 1900.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 45; Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900

I-00128
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Night Hawk Lode [Bull Hill] - 1813   28.01.2023 (19:05:56)
Electric Power in Cripple Creek District. - Trolley Line Through Mining Properties
Edgar A. Yelton [1898]
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 is a view on Gold Hill, showing a meet of two Trolley cars on the original High Line, just above the sharp balloon loop, which can be detected by the cut in the foreground heading out of the view at bottom right and then reappearing again about 1/3 up, still on right-hand side.
This would have made a wonderful short movie-sequence with squeaking wheel sounds due to the small diameter of the curve, had the equipment for filming such scene existed back then! The see the Trolley pass about just in-front of the photographer and then climb the grade, meet the other and the head out of view at left while the other comes down, through the sharp curve and pass the photographer and out of view at lower left would been great!
The source said this illustration shows two trolley cars passing on the double track system that extends through the section occupied by the Anchoria Leland mine. The photograph from which the cut was reproduced shows the buildings of the Anchoria in the background and conveys some idea of the rugged character of the country traversed by the trolley line.
It is the large structures in middle sideway and top view against the sky that is the before mentioned mine, while in foreground right the small operation with the head frame I am not certain about, neither am I of the other smaller mines still on right-hand side up against the sky. This as there are so many claims crossing each-other and who had what and who is a lease on a larger company operation and who is working its own claim can be a nightmare to figure out and I have so far not done that with this view!
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.
My Collection; From page 44 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900 (page 44) - Published in 1900.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 44; Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900

I-00126
Photograph/Image [#512]
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Anchoria-Leland - 61   28.01.2023 (10:44:33)
The Florence Mill {aka Page Mill]
Unknown
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 'The Florence Mill', but this mill used to be known as the 'Page Process Mill' or just 'Page Mill'. Located southeast of the F. & C. C. Depot are in Florence, on a branch off the branch line to Coal Creek. This view is taken in a northerly direction, and is likely from the time the rails was installed, but I have no way to date it better than to say it is from before 1904.
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.
My Collection; Cropped from 600dpi scan of page 34 in a 1904 Book. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 34; Florence and its Environs: Florence | Its Resources | Its Attractions | Its Possibilities | A Conservative Statement of the Advantages Offered the Investor and Home Seeker - Published in 1904.

• My Website: ⊞ Album; Florence and its Environs, About August 1904

I-02686
Photograph/Image [#507]
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Page Mill - 1016   20.01.2023 (14:02:17)
Power Plant of the La Bella Mill, Water & Power Co., Goldfield, Colo., on the Gold Belt Line.
Unknown
Being the image source is of print type, and I took a quick grab through a compact digital camera, the quality is not the best, but it is what it is! I have worked with it as best as I could. The main focus of this view is the La Bella Electric Power Plant in the foreground. It was located in Goldfield, with Bull Cliff, and Bull Hill at far left, as background, in addition to several mines. The railroad cars seen is on the 3-foot narrow gauge Golden Circle railroad.
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.
My Collection; From page 50 in the book named A Trip to the Great Gold District Via the Gold Belt Line [Green Cover]. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 50; A Trip to the Great Gold District Via the Gold Belt Line [Green Cover] - Published in ????.
• Page 52; A Trip to the Great Gold District Via the Gold Belt Line [Brown Cover] - Published in ????.

I-00489
Photograph/Image [#511]
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La Bella Power Plant - 955   20.01.2023 (09:08:31)
The Monte Cristo Mine, on Beacon Hill, Being Worked by James Murphy.
Unknown
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.
My Collection; From page 30 in Seeing Cripple Creek, March 1905 (Vol. 4, No. 4).

• Page 30; Seeing Cripple Creek; March 1905 - Published in 1905.

• My Website; Album Page View: ⊞ Seeing Cripple Creek, March 1905 - Volume 4, Issue 4

I-03027
Photograph/Image [#510]
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Monte Christo lode - 847   15.01.2023 (22:05:17)
The Hummer Mine, on Ironclad Hill, with Homestake Mill in Background.
Unknown
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 'Hummer Mine', and is a sort of overview type of view from slope of Bull Hill towards Ironclad Hill, where Gold Hill is outside the view at left side if the photographer had turned and snapped another view. Or if turned to the right, one would have been able to look uphill towards Midway, along the High Line. In such sense I wish I could been there, but this area is gone, a huge Open Pit made that happen…
In the background, near center sideways and about 1/3 down from top is the large Homestake Mill, the smaller Ironclad-Homestake Mill is also in the view but quality is to bad to really see it, it is to the left of the large mill structure that is visible.
My Collection; From page 14 in Seeing Cripple Creek, March 1905 (Vol. 4, No. 4).

• Page 14; Seeing Cripple Creek; March 1905 - Published in 1905.

I-03003
Photograph/Image [#509]
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Hummer Mine [Ironclad Hill] - 2529   08.01.2023 (19:12:20)
Chlorination Gold Mill of the El Paso Reduction Co., Florence.
Unknown
This sadly bad view of the El Paso Mill in Florence is one of very few known views of this mill that was located southeast of the town of Florence, and which was to treat gold ore from the Cripple Creek Mining District using the Chlorination Process.
While this view appears in an August 1898 publication, I can use the only Sanborn Map that shows this mill, the January 1900 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, to see that the direction of the view is looking southwest. The railroad line in foreground is dual gauge and is the main track for the branch line that served this and a second chlorination mill, in addition to a smelter. I think the outbound track is the spur that goes back to the high narrow structure that Sanborn call the Chlorination Building. The Inbound track is partly seen at left edge about middle top/down, where an oil tank car is seen. On the hill behind that car, outside the view at left, there was an oil-tank according to the Sanborn map, and text in the article where this image appeared.
Building where the 3-smokestacks appears at left are the Power Plant House for most part, and then the large high one is the Crusher and Dryer structure, followed by a structure holding Bedding Floors, Roasters and Cooling area. The even higher, narrower structure more to the right is, as said, marked as being the Chlorination Building with a Belt House and Refinery more towards the photographer. Further right there is a Carpenter and Blacksmith shown as smaller structures, with a more shed like structure closer to the photographer. There is no trace of the Concentrator Building seen on the Sanborn which should been visible at the right-hand side, indicating it was a later construction then this 1898 source had.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; Cropped from 600dpi scan of unpaginated page in the August 19, 1898 edition of 'Engineering'. I did procure the colored version of this image.
I-00784
Photograph/Image [#508]
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El Paso Mill - 891   12.11.2022 (16:15:07)
Zenobia Mine & Town of Altman.
Unknown
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 from the east slope of Bull Hill, looking at the Zenobia Mine with the town of Altman in the background. In the source paper this is erroneous titled as Buena Vista Mine, which threw me off years ago. Being the source is published in May 1895 this pen drawing is from sometime before that, but I do not know when.
  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.
My Collection; From page 543 in the May 1895 issue of 'Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, May 1896 [Vol 39] (page 540) - Published in 1895.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 543

I-00193
Photograph/Image [#506]
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Zenobia - 319   12.11.2022 (16:15:01)
Buena Vista Mine.
Unknown
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 from a northeast slope of Bull Hill, northeast of the town of Altman, looking at the Buena Vista Mine with Pike's Peak Range in the background. Being the source is published in May 1895 this pen drawing is from sometime before that, but I do not know when.
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.
My Collection; From page 540 in the May 1895 issue of 'Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, May 1896 [Vol 39] (page 540) - Published in 1895.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 540

I-00192
Photograph/Image [#505]
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Buena Vista - 110   12.11.2022 (16:14:33)
The Black Sampler or Cripple Creek Sampler of the Cripple Creek Sampling & Ore Co., Up on Victor Pass
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill]
This postcard view shows the Cripple Creek Sampler, aka Black Sampler, of the Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Company at Victor Pass on Bull Hill. Photo is taken from Goldfield side, looking uphill in a north direction from a spot just above the Short Line yard which was below the T. & B. Sampler who would have been about 100 degree to the right.
The Black Sampler was connected to all railroads of the District so there where dual gauge rails at this sampler so the 3-foot narrow gauge Golden Circle could bring cars here, as well as serving both the Midland Terminal and the Short Line tracks. Both samplers at this location had dual gauge, as seen on the parked boxcars about middle top/down on the right-half part of this view, where there are a C.M. boxcar, a F. & C.C. boxcar and a Short Line/M.T. boxcar visible at the yard that was part of the T. & B. Sampler.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ The Black Sampler or Cripple Creek Sampler of the Cripple Creek Sampling & Ore Co.
• My Website; Postcards Backsides: ⊞ p-00346_n29_cc-sampler-bull-hill_h-n-h-studio_bck.jpg
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Black Sampler/C. C. Sampler of the Cripple Creek Sampling & Ore Co., on Victor Pass {Colored 300dpi]

P-00346
Photograph/Image [#493]
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Black Sampler [aka Cripple Creek Sampler or Bull Hill Works] - 230   09.11.2022 (08:35:09)
Golconda Mine. Shaft No. 1 on Squaw Mountain
Unknown
Sadly not a quality great view, but still a great view as it is a rare view from the trackside of the F. & C. C. mainline at the Golconda Mine Shaft no.1 operation on Squaw Mountain! The source is a group photo so the image sort of lacks details here and there, and I cheated a little on the colored version where I copied the tracks to fill out missing info at the lower right and left.
Victor town is located outside the view at left, making the direction of the view in a southeast looking direction, and it appears like they have dug a trench just below the dump and the track, as there is a darker line there that might be a drainage drench for some reason but is more likely a left over from the early exploration of this ground.
This shaft was located at the southern end of the claim, and sometime after 1896 it was abandoned, and the main working shaft moved further up the hill for some unknow reason. The structure and the headframe here are of somewhat large size so the hope and idea of this mine was certainly at this time around 1895-1896 looking prosperous! Being this was so visible from the train it is among those I need to try make a 3D model of some day!
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.
My Collection; Cropped from 600dpi scan of page 87 in a book named Wonderful Cripple Creek District by J. F. Manning. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 87; Wonderful Cripple Creek District: A Historical, Descriptive, Pictorial and Biographical Work on the Resources of the Greatest Gold Camp on Earth. (J. F. Manning ©1896) - Published in 1896.

I-02132
Photograph/Image [#500]
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Golconda - 287   07.11.2022 (19:06:08)
Engine Room of the Golconda Mine, Showing Forge, Storeroom and Front View of Hoisting Engine.
Unknown [1899]
While the views in the prospectus that is the source was not the best in terms of quality, it still is one of the best views I have of one of the many shafts that graced the Golconda lode in its lifetime! Based on research it looks like this image can be from around late September 1899 till early October same year, as by end av third week of September 1899 the company leasing the Golconda had its new machinery and shaft house operational, and as people are posing on these views it sort of make sense to me that they can be from same timeframe, especially as the source prospect talks about 1899 as not ended yet.
I don't understand why the source title on this image say this is the rear view of the hoisting engine, as the photographer is clearly standing in front of the hoist, with the wire going out of the structure from the hoist drum to the headframe barely seen leaving the drum extending out of the top of this view near sideway middle, so I corrected my use of the title.
Other stuff seen in this view is the Forge Station for sharpening drills in left background corner, a tank of some source with unknown content at right background where the man is posing at the doorway out, and at left foreground an angled wall shielding the Storeroom the title mention was in this structure.
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.
My Collection; Cropped from 600dpi scan of page 13 in a 1899 Prospectus. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 13; Prospectus and By-Laws The Philadelphia and Pittsburg Gold Mining Company State of Pennsylvania - Published in 1899.

I-02517
Photograph/Image [#504]
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Golconda - 287   07.11.2022 (19:03:47)
Golconda Mine and Shaft House Looking Southwest.
Unknown [1899]
While the views in the prospectus that is the source was not the best in terms of quality, it still is one of the best views I have of one of the many shafts that graced the Golconda lode in its lifetime! Based on research it looks like this image can be from around late September 1899 till early October same year, as by end av third week of September 1899 the company leasing the Golconda had its new machinery and shaft house operational, and as people are posing on these views it sort of make sense to me that they can be from same timeframe, especially as the source prospect talks about 1899 as not ended yet.
The photographer stood with Squaw Mountain in the back, the town of Victor is outside the view at left, and I wonder if the trestle at lower left might be across the mainline of the F. & C. C. railroad as this shaft was located north of it. After all, there is a substantial dip in the ground here.
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.
My Collection; Cropped from 600dpi scan of page 11 in a 1899 Prospectus. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 11; Prospectus and By-Laws The Philadelphia and Pittsburg Gold Mining Company State of Pennsylvania - Published in 1899.

I-02516
Photograph/Image [#503]
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Golconda - 287   07.11.2022 (19:01:30)
Engine Room of the Golconda Mine, Showing Rear View of the Seven-Ton Gasoline Hoisting Engine.
Unknown [1899]
While the views in the prospectus that is the source was not the best in terms of quality, it still is one of the best views I have of one of the many shafts that graced the Golconda lode in its lifetime! Based on research it looks like this image can be from around late September 1899 till early October same year, as by end av third week of September 1899 the company leasing the Golconda had its new machinery and shaft house operational, and as people are posing on these views it sort of make sense to me that they can be from same timeframe, especially as the source prospect talks about 1899 as not ended yet.
I don't understand why the source title on this image say this is the front view of the hoisting engine, as the photographer is clearly standing at the back end, with the wire going out of the structure from the hoist to the headframe is barely seen extending into this view, so I corrected my use of the title.
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.
My Collection; Cropped from 600dpi scan of page 9 in a 1899 Prospectus. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 9; Prospectus and By-Laws The Philadelphia and Pittsburg Gold Mining Company State of Pennsylvania - Published in 1899.

I-02515
Photograph/Image [#502]
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Golconda - 287   07.11.2022 (18:49:49)
Golconda Mine and Shaft House, Southeast Slope of Squaw Mountain, Adjoining Battle Mountain.
Unknown [1899]
While the views in the prospectus that is the source was not the best in terms of quality, it still is one of the best views I have of one of the many shafts that graced the Golconda lode in its lifetime! Based on research it looks like this image can be from around late September 1899 till early October same year, as by end av third week of September 1899 the company leasing the Golconda had its new machinery and shaft house operational, and as people are posing on these views it sort of make sense to me that they can be from same timeframe, especially as the source prospect talks about 1899 as not ended yet.
The background hill here is Squaw Mountain, west for the town of Victor, and there are two levels of railroad grade visible telling me that this is north of the mainline of the F. & C. C. railroad and that it is only Midland Terminal trackage seen here, the lower one, behind the headframe, being the spur down to the M. T. in Victor.
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.
My Collection; Cropped from 600dpi scan of page 2 in a 1899 Prospectus. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 2; Prospectus and By-Laws The Philadelphia and Pittsburg Gold Mining Company State of Pennsylvania - Published in 1899.

I-02514
Photograph/Image [#501]
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Golconda - 287   30.09.2022 (14:51:04)
View Across Eclipse Gulch at the Works of the Economic Gold Extraction Company
Unknown
This cropped colored view from my larger source image tells me a little more about the mill; there is a roadway coming in back of the two structures at left, entering a trestle on top of the one coming from the tunnel, and going into the Ore Receiving part of the mill structure. And as I see a part of fence and bridge under the covered transportation belt coming from the Ore Receiving Shed for the railroads, this fits the Sanborn Fire insurance Map info indicating the road had a turning for the horses coming in at the upper level, which probably means the tunnel track on the lower level is a shift track only, two tracks parallel.
Sadly, while this is a great view it still is not as sharp as I wish it could have been, it still hides secrets from me and mysteries I need to solve my mind screams at me. I think there are dual trackage on both spurs south of the Ore Receiving Shed, but it is hard to fully see it. There appears to be three tracks at the shed area, with rail connection each sides so a locomotive could run around its train cars put into the shed, but I have a hard time making out how the track arrangement was even if this is the best image I have seen to help learn that mystery!
On the hillside above the Ore Receiving Shed is the mainline of the F. & C.C. railroad, with the Low Line Electric and Steam line as next level above that again, passing the rectangular Water-tank dug into the hillside. Almost at top left is the shelf-like roadbed of the Midland Terminal.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment still though.
My Collection; Photographs. Enhanced, Colored 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.
P-02266
Photograph/Image [#488]
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Economic Mill - 160   30.09.2022 (14:17:29)
View at the Elkton Mine Complex Structures From Behind a M.T. Boxcar
Unknown
This is a snapshot type of photo is taken along the Midland Terminal trackage below the Elkton Mine complex at an unknown time, either a family acting as tourist or someone working here. I see a lady up along the top of the crib-wall on right-hand side.
From what I have been able to gather the high peaked structure in this view is part of a sampler setup running at the mine in connection with the orehouse. The image is not sharp enough to read the number at the end of the boxcar so that is a little sad, but it is what it is. Not sure if this boxcar is along a side spur or if is parked on the mainline, it feels very strange if this is the mainline though.
My Collection; Photographs; 300dpi.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Elkton Mine Complex From M.T. Spur
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Elkton Mine Complex From M.T. Spur [Twisted; Colored 300dpi]

P-00228
Photograph/Image [#497]
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Elkton Mine - 156   30.09.2022 (10:40:01)
The Taylor & Brunton Sampling Company Sampler on Victor Pass
Harry H. Buckwalter
The Taylor & Brunton Sampling Co. had two samplers in the Cripple Creek District, this was the newest one, located on Victor Pass or Bull Hill as it also is reported/said as to be on. This one was erected during 1901 and in operation since April 1902. All three railroads and both gauges could deliver ore to this sampler, as I have seen images with dual gauge at the upper level, but I do not know if the dual gauge extended down to the 'out' end of the Sampler.
In this scene here, by Mr. Buckwalter, several locomotives with crews is posing at the various spurs, and I have seen three different photograph scenes based on this setup so the photographer moved around a little and took several scenes, making me wonder if that happen when the Sampler open for business in 1902?
A slightly more cropped edition of this view appears in a September 1904 publication, so I know it can't be photographed later then August 1904 so in this case I could narrow down the timeframe of the photo to about a period of two and half year.
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.
My Collection; Photographs. Enhanced, Colored 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ The Taylor & Brunton Sampling Company Sampler on Victor Pass [Enhanced; Colored; 300dpi]

P-00640
Photograph/Image [#496]
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T. and B. Sampler - 231   29.09.2022 (23:09:00)
Eagle Sampler
Unknown
Not a great view of the Eagle Sampler, but it is a useful one, and this is the best I can get out of what appeared in the article where the source is from. I spent time working over it from a local copy I had from a negative from an issue of the mining journal this came from. The source was in gray color, but I find it looks better with some form for coloring done to it.
Location of this sampler is east slope of Battle Mountain, and it was connected to all three railroads, so it served two railroad gauges and there must have been some fun shifting of railroad cars from time to time when it came to unloading and loading cars at this sampler.
The view appears in a 1904 publication, so I assume it is from around that timeframe, but it is not an easy task to date this image as there is really very little in it to help with the work. The boxcar seen at the lower level has the feel of those mixed Short Line/Midland Terminal boxcars as there seem to be a lettering on the side that has a curve to it and appears twice on the long side of the car, making the image to be from at least the 1900's.
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.
My Collection; Photo-Negative from page 242 in the September 8, 1904 issue of Mining Reporter. I did procure the colored version from a enhanced, cropped 1200dpi scan.

• Page 242; Mining Reporter September 8, 1904; Volume 50 [L], no. 10 - Published in 1904.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 242; Mining Reporter September 8, 1904; Volume 50 [L], no. 10

P-01379
Photograph/Image [#495]
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Eagle Sampler - 256   29.09.2022 (21:18:23)
Rio Grande Sampling Company Works in Cripple Creek
Unknown
This sadly bad view of the Rio Grande Sampler, former Cripple Creek Sampler, is the best one of the very few known views of this sampler which was located at south end of the town of Cripple Creek. Located just below the mainline of the Florence & Cripple Creek railroad, at the approach to its yard, which would be outside the view at left, behind the structure marked as Office.
This used to be the sampler of the Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Company, but they built a new sampler further up Gold Hill, along the Midland Terminal, and later at Victor Pass on Bull Hill and this sampler here was sold to the Rio Grande Sampling Company.
The view appears in a 1898 publication, so it is too early for the showing of the Short Line loop which will later be on the hill in the background, but I have seen this structure on images with the loop so I know the structure lasted at least into the 1900's, but how long and how successful this sampler was, I do not know as when the few text pieces I find about a Rio Grande Sampler don't say the location it might as well be talking about the one down in Victor.
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.
My Collection; From page 77 in the 1898 Book 'Colorado State Mining Directory'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• The Colorado State Mining Directory 1898 (page 68) - Published in 1898.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 77

I-00391
Photograph/Image [#494]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#494
Cripple Creek Sampler [later the Rio Grande Sampling Company Works or just Rio Grande Sampler] - 455   28.09.2022 (11:51:48)
Anaconda A Mining Town In the Cripple Creek Dist.
Unknown
This is a GREAT view I JUST had to GET!!! Hopefully this is made of better paper than my 2012 edition of this card, as on that one, lots of small sort of bubbles and scan not so sharp and well. In addition there was alot of reflections in it, and, the image is way dark and do not enhance very well.
But, for the view it shows, and the areas I can see it sure beats having no such view at all!! :-)
And, this is still the first image I ever seen showing what I believe is the Anaconda Mill up on Gold Hill above the Low Line grade between the Anchoria-Leland and the Mary McKinney mine in this view!
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ Anaconda A Mining Town In the Cripple Creek Dist.
• My Website; Cropped Postcard View: ⊞ Gold Hill View with Anaconda Mill & Several Mines {Enhanced, Cropped & Colored; 1200dpi}
• My Website; Cropped Postcard View: ⊞ Anaconda Mill on Gold Hill {Enhanced, Cropped & Colored; 2400dpi}

P-03319
Photograph/Image [#490]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#490
Mary McKinney - 136   Anaconda - 92   Le Claire or Sunset [aka Peggy Mine] - 334   E. Porter Gold King - 65   Anchoria-Leland - 61   Lexington - 63   Anaconda Mill [Gold Hill] - 1481   Rittenhouse - 66   28.09.2022 (10:45:16)
#574; Mary McKinney Mine, Cripple Creek District
Julia Skolas
I've seen this image used three times, for this card and another postcard where there are a couple of extra millimeters visible on the right-hand side, plus I've seen it used in a postcard folder.
The view is from the railroad side of the Mary McKinney mine, showing several box cars parked on sidings nearby and at the mine itself. It also shows part of Anaconda at right-hand side about 1/3 up from bottom, the part that survived the 1904 fire, as I see no signs of structures at left side of image, and I believe there should been visible something there if the town was still there.
The tracks in the foreground belong to the Midland Terminal, but the Mary McKinney mine was once served by dual gauge as the F. & C.C was also having a spur to the mine, entering in from left-hand side, running parallel with the Shaft House to serve that and the coal bins at the power plant seen with all those smokestacks to the right of the shaft-house.
Behind the smokestacks of the Power House of the Mary McKinney you can see the Ore House of the Anaconda Mine, located down by the F. & C.C. yard in Anaconda, but image is too bad to really make out any details. Which is sad, as up on Gold Hill seen in the background, there is seen the Shaft House of the Anchoria-Leland about 1/4 in from right-hand side and about same from top, with the Ore-House and trestle of the Lexington Mine seen just to the right of the Anchoria-Leland.
Or even more sad, there is visible a mill on the hill side above the Low Line grade, seen about 1/3 down from top and 1/7 in from right-hand side, a mill I believe might be known as Anaconda Mill, but I might be mistaken where that mill was located as info been a little scarce, but it fit the location of west slope Gold Hill.
My Collection; Postcards.

• no. 4; Souvenir Postcard Folder called VICTOR and CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT Souvenir Folder - "Greatest Gold Camp on Earth" - Published in ????.
• Postcard; Published by H.H.T. Co.; Numbered 574, titled Mary McKinney Mine, Victor, Colorado - Published in ????.

• My Website: ⊞ Postcards Overview; #574; Mary McKinney Mine, Cripple Creek District
• My Website: ⊞ Album Page View (VICTOR and CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT Souvenir Folder)

P-00469
Photograph/Image [#279]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#279
Anaconda - 92   Mary McKinney - 136   Anchoria-Leland - 61   Lexington - 63   Anaconda Mill [Gold Hill] - 1481   24.09.2022 (21:35:23)
Longitudinal Section - Columbine Division - United Mines Tunnel.
J.L. Waid
This is a cool drawing and one that would have made a very cool entryway for a model railroad of the area... The town of Victor and the Gold Coin mine on the right-hand side and the Economic mill at the left-hand side. Includes an illustration of 9 levels in the Gold Coin mine, not sure how many they had.
Cropped and worked somewhat over; From page 2 of the booklet ''Gold Fields of Cripple Creek - Pan American Expo 1901'' by the Woods Investment Company.

• Page 2; Gold Fields of Cripple Creek - Pan American Expo 1901; The Woods Investment Company - Published in 1901.

• My Website: ⊞ Album Page View (Gold Fields of Cripple Creek)

I-00701
Photograph/Image [#128]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#128
Gold Coin - 288   Economic Mill - 160   24.09.2022 (12:19:20)
Sanborn August 1900 Fire Insurance Map; Economic Gold Extration Co.
Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Ltd [08.1900]
This 1900 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map for the Economic Mill of the Economic Gold Extraction Co. of Woods Investment Co. fame is the only one that exist with this type of details! The Mill was built in 1899 and burned early in 1907 so sadly this is all I have.
I have a 1904 claim overview map from an Annual Report which, together with photographs, indicates this Sanborn map to not be fully true in the location of the various structures, but it is the best I have for now. The map is as it was made, except I cropped it out of a larger sheet, and rearranged the location of the Direction Arrow pointing to North, the scale bar and the location info. In addition, I have calculated a scale as per pixels towards meters.
Crop from the Victor, Colo., August 1900, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Sheet No. 9.
Copyright 1900 by the Sanborn-Perris Map Company, Limited
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map [#489]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#489
Economic Mill - 160   19.07.2022 (09:44:34)
Sullivan Air Drills in Ophelia Tunnel, Cripple Creek, Colo.
Unknown
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#487
Ophelia tunnel - 49   19.07.2022 (09:44:00)
The Heading—Showing Muck Pile, Car and Sheets in Ophelia Tunnel.
Unknown
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#486
Ophelia tunnel - 49   19.07.2022 (09:21:08)
Air Drills in Operation at the Breast of Tunnel 4800 Ft. From Entrance
Unknown
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#384
Ophelia tunnel - 49   04.07.2022 (19:13:35)
Scenes of the Col. Spgs. and Cripple Creek Dist. Ry., Portland and Independence Mines, Victor, Colo.
Louis Charles McClure
This view by L. C. McClure from 'inside' 'half-loop' of the F. & C.C. entering the southeast slope of Battle Mountain to get to Victor, seems to be from around 1906-1907 as the large Independence Mill has yet to come into existence, but there area several structures that might be the test mill I've seen reported about in that timeframe. Also, it looks like the No. 1 shaft of the Portland mine is now an open Head frame and I've seen reports of all the surface structures of the Portland No. 1 burning in May 1906, dating this view to be after that timeframe.
In the foreground the fill on the roadbed for the 3-foot gauge Florence & Cripple Creek railroad is seen, passing under the trestle bringing the High Line and the Short Line standard gauge track into Victor outside the view at left. The roadbed of the Golden Circle railroad is partly visible about middle top/down of this view, and then the Stratton's Independence Mine is seen taking up about half width on the left part of this view, while the Ajax Mine is seen with its single smokestack poking up against the sky on the left background.
The Portland Nos. 1 & 2 make up the right half background part of this view, the no. 2 shaft being the upper one, with the long dumps out from each side of the mine structures.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ Scenes of the Col. Spgs. and Cripple Creek Dist. Ry., Portland and Independence Mines, Victor, Colo.

P-03403
Photograph/Image [#485]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#485
Portland No. 1 - 262   Portland No. 2 - 259   Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Ajax - 275   04.07.2022 (19:01:39)
59. Granite Mine, Formerly "Gold Coin", Cripple Creek District
Unknown
This view shows the Gold Coin Mine in Victor in all its glory. Focusing more on the Ore-house than on the more commonly focused Shaft-house, as would have been seen in from the right-hand side of this view. One get to see the foundation walls which still for the most part is still there in Victor, with its brick based shaft-house with the stained-glass windows and tower like part over the top of the head frame. The smokestack is very visible in this view, and in the background, is the Squaw Mountain seen, with the mainline of the M.T. seen just behind the top of the orehouse.
My Collection; Postcards.

• Postcard, Special w/small images inside; Named Seeing Cripple Creek, Colorado.; Copyright by Tichnor Bros., Inc. 1907 - Published in ????.

• My Website: ⊞ Postcards Overview; 59. Granite Mine, Formerly "Gold Coin", Cripple Creek District

P-00048
Photograph/Image [#92]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#92
Gold Coin - 288   23.06.2022 (18:35:27)
Along the Cripple Creek Short Line 1916 - A View Back Towards the Mary McKinney Mine in Anaconda
Unknown [1916]
This is a nice but sadly unsharp view back along the Midland Terminal tracks on the north slope of Guyot Hill, having just passed the Mary McKinney mine sometime in 1916 as the set this negative is from was dated that year. Sadly the image is not sharp so details is hard to get from it, but it clearly is better than having no view at all of this mine structures which this angle has not been seen before!
Gold Hill is seen in left background while Raven Hill is on the right background, making Ironclad and Bull Hill the ones in the middle background.
I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was gray-toned, or in common speech black & white, and being a negative, I had better hope for the quality then what I got. Used an online service and tweaked and worked with image to get what looks best to my eyes for the moment still though.
My Collection; Photographs, negative.
As I own the film negative, I have the physical ownership to this view.P-01038
Photograph/Image [#483]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#483
Mary McKinney - 136   Morning Glory - 138   20.05.2022 (12:52:23)
Works of the El Paso Reduction Co., Florence.
Unknown
This sadly bad view of the El Paso Mill in Florence is one of very few known views of this mill that was located southeast of the town of Florence, and which was to treat gold ore from the Cripple Creek Mining District using the Chlorination Process.
Judging from a 1900 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map and the fact this view appears in a 1898 book I think the direction of the view is looking west, and the main ore deliveries seems to have been outside the view at left, where the closest building at left is the Power Plant House for most part, and then the large high one is the Crusher and Dryer structure, followed by a structure holding Bedding Floors, Roasters and Cooling area. The high narrower structure more to the right is marked as being the Chlorination Building with a Belt House and Refinery more towards the photographer. Further right there is a Carpenter and Blacksmith shown as smaller structures, only half of the Blacksmith is visible.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 68 in the 1898 Book 'Colorado State Mining Directory'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• The Colorado State Mining Directory 1898 (page 68) - Published in 1898.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 68

I-00384
Photograph/Image [#482]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#482
El Paso Mill - 891   20.05.2022 (08:21:47)
The United States Gold Reduction Works, Florence, Colo.
Unknown
This is a view I Just had to Get!!! Being a view of the Union Mill gold ore reduction works on a hill north of Florence, Colorado, south of the Cripple Creek Mining District, it is an important view to help me understand the area better. In regard to the direction of the view in this photo, I am not confident enough to say for certain as I have never seen a footprint of this mill, there are no known Sanborn Fire Insurance Map for instance of it. I have seen this and a couple of other views, and that is it! But, if I were forced to guess I would say this is a northeast view, but I do not know.
What I do know is that this was a huge Chlorination Mill built to handle Cripple Creek ore, and that it had two other neighbors close by of mills, and not a too far distance to the west there was a third competitor in form of a Cyanide mill, located alongside the mainline of the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad while this mill, and its neighbor mills was on a branch line.
My Collection; Postcards.

• Postcard published by SL & Co. - Published in ????.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ The United States Gold Reduction Works, Florence, Colo.
• My Website; Postcards Backsides: ⊞ The United States Gold Reduction Works, Florence, Colo.

P-03347
Photograph/Image [#481]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#481
Union Mill [aka United States Economic Reduction Company Mill] - 454   20.05.2022 (08:17:55)
Union Mill Gold Ore Reduction
Unknown
This is a view I Just had to Get!!! Being a view of the Union Mill gold ore reduction works on a hill north of Florence, Colorado, south of the Cripple Creek Mining District, it is an important view to help me understand the area better. In regard to the direction of the view in this photo, I am not confident enough to say for certain as I have never seen a footprint of this mill, there are no known Sanborn Fire Insurance Map for instance of it. I have seen this and a couple of other views, and that is it! But, if I were forced to guess I would say this is a northeast view, but I do not know.
What I do know is that this was a huge Chlorination Mill built to handle Cripple Creek ore, and that it had two other neighbors close by of mills, and not a too far distance to the west there was a third competitor in form of a Cyanide mill, located alongside the mainline of the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad while this mill, and its neighbor mills was on a branch line.
My Collection; Postcards.

• Postcard by unknown - Published in ????.

• My Website; Cropped Postcard View: ⊞ Union Mill Gold Ore Reduction -> 300dpi [Colored, Scaled; 1800 x 1320 pixels]
• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ Union Mill Gold Ore Reduction [Mill Near Florence, Colorado]
• My Website; Postcards Backsides: ⊞ Union Mill Gold Ore Reduction [Mill Near Florence, Colorado]

P-03346
Photograph/Image [#480]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#480
Union Mill [aka United States Economic Reduction Company Mill] - 454   05.05.2022 (14:20:36)
Argall Roasting Furnace, Cyanide, Colo.
Unknown
View of one of the six tubular roasting furnaces that was in use at the Metallic Mill back in 1897/98 when this image was taken. The tubular roasting furnaces was of the same general design as the dryers; 'which was four steel tubes nested together inside two track-bands and connected at the feed and discharge ends by two hoods. The tubes were lined with fireclay tile and revolve as one cylinder,' they were, however, built much stronger. The discharge was also different.
As the text this image came with said; ''In the standard roaster the tubes are 29 ft. long by 25 in. diameter inside the lining. They make one revolution in 4.8 minutes and average 48 tons per day from 2% to 0.1% sulphur. The roasted ore is discharged continuously through a series of openings in the periphery of the hood. All these except the two over the ore-hopper at any one time are covered with a band of iron which prevents the exit of flame around the top of the furnace. The fire-box is built of steel plate and mounted on wheels. The furnace is driven with friction wheels at each track band, operated through a differential drive which insures an absolutely even motion. These furnaces are patented in the United States and abroad.''
This seems to have been an invention by Philip Argall and hence it is named 'Argall Roasting Furnace'. I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From 'pic'page 370 in the 1898 Book 'The Mineral Industry, Its Statistics, Technology & Trade'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• The Mineral Industry, Its Statistics, Technology & Trade in the U.S. and Other Countries 1898 (page 370 -> Page unnumbered) - Published in 1898.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 370pic

I-02412
Photograph/Image [#479]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#479
Metallic Mill [aka Bi-Metallic Mill] - 440   05.05.2022 (14:14:19)
Argall Drying Furnace, Cyanide, Colo.
Unknown
View of the No. 2 dryer while in process of erection at the Metallic Mill. Its capacity was 180 to 200 tons per day. The dryers this mill used back in 1897/98 when this image was taken was of the tubular pattern. The No. 1 dryer consisted of four steel tubes nested together inside two track-bands and connected at the feed and discharge ends by two hoods. The tubes were lined with fireclay tile and revolve as one cylinder.
As the text this image came with said; ''It will be noticed that the ore is divided into four thin streams and brought into intimate contact with the heated air and gases passing through the 18-in. tubes of the dryer. The motion of the ore advancing in these small tubes is very gentle and regular, and consequently produces but little dust. An improvement in the single cylinder dryer consisted in dividing it into quadrants by plates placed at right angles extending longitudinally through the cylinder. This improvement increased the drying efficiency of the cylinder at the expense of a higher dust loss and greater wear and tear, as the ore is alternately sliding along the plates from the center to the periphery and back to the center again during a revolution of the cylinder. By using four or more small tile-lined cylinders instead of one large cylinder divided into quadrants it was succeeded in again increasing the efficiency and reducing the dust loss and wear at the same time. It will be noticed that this tubular dryer is always in balance, the ore in an ascending tube being balanced by that in a descending one, or very nearly so. The capacity of No. 1 dryer is 80 to 100 tons per day.''
This seems to have been an invention by Philip Argall and hence it is named 'Argall Drying Furnace'. I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From 'pic'page 370 in the 1898 Book 'The Mineral Industry, Its Statistics, Technology & Trade'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• The Mineral Industry, Its Statistics, Technology & Trade in the U.S. and Other Countries 1898 (page 370 -> Page unnumbered) - Published in 1898.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 370pic

I-02414
Photograph/Image [#478]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#478
Metallic Mill [aka Bi-Metallic Mill] - 440   05.05.2022 (13:18:30)
The Brodie Gold Reduction Company's Work, Mound City, Cripple Creek.
Horace Swartley Poley
Horace S. Poley photographed this view around 1895 to be used in a book from that time, and it is a view of either the earliest or about the earliest edition of the Brodie Mill, located at bottom of Squaw Gulch where that valley almost meet the creek valley coming down from Cripple Creek, and where an early settlement named Mound City was located.
  This was a Cyanide Mill from the start, it had some setbacks, fires and so on, but the site was used for a mill operation quite some time but eventually the location outside the main transportation as all the railroads was further east, higher up, I guess that was also not helping this operation.
  Direction of this view is in an easterly direction, Rosebud hill in the background. I did procure the colored version of the image. 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 for the moment.
Colored, Scaled up view of a DPL photo; Call Number P-1923, Courtesy of the Denver Public Library Special Collections. I did procure the colored version of this image.
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.

• Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs Illustrated - 1896 (page 66); Authors Henry L.J. Warren & Robert Stride - Published in 1896.

• Denver Public Library: ⊞ Call Number: P-1923

I-00269
Photograph/Image [#472]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#472
Brodie Mill - 439   05.05.2022 (13:18:24)
Wild Horse Mill at Gleason Shaft, Bull Hill in Background
Unknown
This view is looking at the Wild Horse Mill, or the R. E. A. and A. as it also been named in places. This is located on the north slope of Bull Hill, it is the Gleason shaft of the Wild Horse mine which is the surface structures shown here at the mill, while the original Wild Horse shaft with the horse painted on the side is outside this cropped view at left. Mill was one of the earlier Cyanide Mill operations and seems to have been successful for the most part.
I am not certain which Shaft House is seen against the Sky, on top of Bull Hill almost, as in that area the claims really overlap each other making it a nightmare trying to figure out who has what structure, but indications are that it might be the Grotto claim holding that structure. So, until I have proof it is not the Grotto, I am calling this the Grotto.
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; Cropped from 600dpi scan of page 69 in a book named A Picture Story of The Cripple Creek Trip [Dark Green Coverframe]. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 69; A Picture Story of The Cripple Creek Trip [Dark Green Coverframe] - Published in 1916.

I-01732
Photograph/Image [#473]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#473
Wild Horse Mill - 1068   Gleason - 98   Grotto lode - 962   05.05.2022 (13:18:18)
Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado City, Colo.
Unknown

• Postcard by unknown; post-stamped July 17, 1909 - Published in ????.

• My Website; Cropped Postcard View: ⊞ Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado City, Colo. -> 300dpi [Colored; 1650 x 1050 pixels]

P-00474
Photograph/Image [#474]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#474
Golden Cycle Mill - 920   05.05.2022 (13:18:10)
Elkton Mines, Cripple Creek Dist Colo.
Julia Skolas
This been a popular view by Julia, as by last check of my database on June 27, 2018, I counted/know of 26 uses of this scene for various postcard editions/crops, postcard folders and in other printed materials.
My Collection; Postcards.

• Postcard by unknown; seen post-stamped June 25, 1906 - Published in ????.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ Elkton Mines, Cripple Creek Dist Colo.

P-03406
Photograph/Image [#475]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#475
Elkton Mine - 156   05.05.2022 (13:18:02)
Strong Mine Victor, Colorado.
Unknown
This I always felt was a good view of the Strong Mine in Victor, Colorado. The quality of the painted image is not that great, but you get the feel and size from it, how the 3-foot narrow gauge Florence & Cripple Creek yard tracks fits below the ore house and how the standard gauge M.T. tracks pass right in front of the Shaft House of the whitish Strong Mine.
My Collection; Cropped and sharpen; From a Postcard type of folder named The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth. Souvenir Folding Card of Cripple Creek District.

My Collection; From a Postcard type of folder named The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth. Souvenir Folding Card of Cripple Creek District.

• - Published in ????.

• My Website; Album Page View: ⊞ Album Page View #4 (The Greatest Gold Camp On Earth Souvenir Folding Card of Cripple Creek District
• My Website: ⊞ Album Image Crop; Strong Mine Victor, Colorado. [Colored; 1660 X 1070 Pixels]

A-00135
Photograph/Image [#476]
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Strong - 271   Ajax - 275   05.05.2022 (13:17:19)
General View, Metallic Works, Cyanide, Colo.
Unknown
The works of the Metallic Extraction Co., the Bi-Metallic or just Metallic Mill, was situated at Cyanide, Colorado. A station that was on the Florence & Cripple Creek Railway, about 35 miles from the Cripple Creek District mines and two miles from Florence. Back in 1898 this was the oil center of Colorado, and hence was looked at as an ideal location as that part of the valley of the Arkansas had cheap and abundant supply of coal and oil, and labor was plentiful.
The works was erected on a flat site, following the opinion of Philip Argall that a flat site is preferable to a slope or terrace, since on the former works can be laid out not only to the best advantage but also can be operated at less expense. Ore from the Cripple Creek mines was delivered by the railway company on a double-track trestle that was at the two sampling works in use at this mill 20 ft. above the floor line of the works.
View shows a mill work that covered quite a large site, where the mainline of the F. & C.C. ran in the foreground and the before mentioned trestle can be seen on the right half part of the image, about 1/3 up from bottom.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From 'pic'page 370 in the 1898 Book 'The Mineral Industry, Its Statistics, Technology & Trade'. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• The Mineral Industry, Its Statistics, Technology & Trade in the U.S. and Other Countries 1898 (page 370 -> Page unnumbered) - Published in 1898.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Page 370pic

I-02413
Photograph/Image [#477]
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Metallic Mill [aka Bi-Metallic Mill] - 440   11.03.2022 (11:21:02)
Gold Coin Mine, as Seen From the F. & C.C. Roadbed Southwest of the Mine.
Unknown
This view of the Gold Coin Mine is taken from the roadbed of the F. & C.C. railroad, as seen in lower right corner where a piece of the track is visible. While the sheet this image was pasted into has an 1898 date to it, that is plainly wrong as this is the brick version of the mine, and that only happen after it burned in 1899, so I think this is more like 1900, but I can't date it more precisely, sadly.
The version shown here is enhanced to fix some fading issues on the original, in addition to me using a perspective filter to make the sides of the structures more appealing and level, making me having to crop the image a little of non-important pieces, and I also had to paint in some extra sky and track pieces, but I think it gives the credit to the source image as it should do, a view of the mine as it would have been seen from the Florence & Cripple Creek tracks west of the mine!
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 for the moment.
My Collection; Photographs. Twisted, cropped & enhanced from a 600dpi scan.

• My Website: ⊞ Source Image as Scanned at 300dpi
• My Website: ⊞ Colored Version of This View

P-03455
Photograph/Image [#266]
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Gold Coin - 288   26.12.2021 (13:18:42)
Independence Mine and Mill, Cripple Creek District.
Unknown
This image shows the immense large Independence Mill, which later was sold to the Portland Company and known then as the Portland Mill. But here it is the Independence Mill with the grades of the High Line/Short Line as the middle grade in front of the mill, in front of that grade is a road and in back - closest to the mill - is the grade of the Golden Circle track, a narrow gauge 3-foot railroad connected to the F. & C.C.
My Collection; View is number 4 in a Postcard Folder called Souvenir Folding Card of the Cripple Creek District.

• no. 4; Souvenir Postcard Folder titled Souvenir Folding Card of the Cripple Creek District; undated - Published in ????.

• My Website; Album Page View: ⊞ Album Page View #4 (Souvenir Folding Card of the Cripple Creek District)

A-00437
Photograph/Image [#378]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#378
Independence Mill {Stratton's on Battle Mt] - 921   Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   17.12.2021 (17:20:58)
View of the Clinton Tunnel, Being Driven Under Cow Mountain. [Actually Just an Illustration of a Tunnel Mine, Not the Real Site at All!]
Unknown
This might very much just be an illustration of a Tunnel type of mine, not at all linked to the Clinton Tunnel or even the Cripple Creek District. There is no sign of the Short Line roadbed, and it is hard to say for sure this is the mine or what. But the same image appears in this Seeing Cripple Creek book, claiming to be of the Clinton Tunnel, so possible it might be it is a true image of the tunnel mouth?
Either way, this is a non-profitable mine, laying very much on the outside of the District, close to where the Short Line crosses over Beaver Creek and the railroad has its own route to/from the district after leaving the parallel run from about Cameron with the M.T. roadbed, where the M.T. goes around a hill and head north towards Gillett, and the Short Line heads east.
-> By end of July 2016 the thinking this is the real Clinton Tunnel was very much killed off by a much better view of was called the site of the Clinton tunnel, feeling more real, when comparing to Google Earth view, but even that is not 100% correct as it is still ''doctored'' a little at the mouth of the tunnel itself...
Scenery on this particular view do not match the scenery at the site I think this is located at, here it is to steep and to much trees, feels more like they needed a tunnel mine view and just took what was available at the time the publication went to print.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 39 in the Jan. 1904 issue of Seeing Cripple Creek. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Seeing Cripple Creek, January 1904 (Vol. 2, No. 2) (page 39) - Published in 1904.

I-01107
Photograph/Image [#471]
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Clinton Tunnel {aka Calhoun Tnl} [Cow Mtn] - 1159   17.12.2021 (16:49:52)
West Slope of Cow Mountain, All Owned by the Clinton Co. Beaver Creek Flows Just Below the Dump, the Short Line Railroad a Few Feet Above
Unknown
This view is sadly ''doctored'' somewhat, hence the keyword artistic, as the tunnel mouth is drawn into the image, clearly seen on the rail part that is not real looking at all. Sadly, as I feel the tunnel is really up there at the cabin halfway up the hillside with the Short Line grade seen further up the hill, about 1/3 down from the top.
Not sure why they felt the need to draw in this so-called Clinton Tunnel in this view... What was shown in the source image there? I do not know, but when I compare this view with a Google Earth view I find an area that can look like this somewhat, and which is with a dump about where the structure sits quite same distance down from the old Short Line roadbed.
Either way, this is a non-profitable mine, laying very much on the outside of the District, close to where the Short Line crosses over Beaver Creek and the railroad has its own route to/from the district after leaving the parallel run from about Cameron with the M.T. roadbed, where the M.T. goes around a hill and head north towards Gillett, and the Short Line heads east.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 3 in a about 1903 Prospectus for the Clinton Consolidated Mining Co. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• The Clinton Consolidated Mining Co. and Clinton Tunnel Site Prospectus ca.1903 (page 3) - Published in 1903.

I-01150
Photograph/Image [#470]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#470
Clinton Tunnel {aka Calhoun Tnl} [Cow Mtn] - 1159   16.12.2021 (22:54:09)
Eagle Sampler on Battle Mountain
Andrew James Harlan
This sadly not good quality view at the Eagle Sampler on Battle Mountain is still an important view as it shows how tiny this structure sort of was, seems to be max two railroad cars in length and I've got used to think of samplers as large structures and here it looks so small!
In foreground lower right, the small stretch of track seen is the main-line of the 3-foot narrow gauge Golden Circle Railroad, climbing Battle Mtn., and this sampler was located along a branch-line of the Short Line and also connected to the main-line of the Midland Terminal, in addition to a spur from the Golden Circle, making this Sampler a popular one to get work from all railroads in the District!
Direction of this view is in a northwesterly direction, looking uphill on Battle Mountain, the office is located at the single structure just left of center, and according to a Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from 1900 there was Railroad Scales located on the railroad side of this structure. It would be built upon both the sampler and the office area and area around it by the time the Sanborn people issued its 1908 map, making this image a mix of what is shown in the 1900 and 1908 Fire Insurance Maps.
I did procure the colored version of the image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 106 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 (page 106) - Published in 1903.

I-02024
Photograph/Image [#469]
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Eagle Sampler - 256   16.12.2021 (17:12:29)
The Rio Grande Sampler in Victor
Andrew James Harlan
This panoramic view of the Rio Grande Sampler in Victor, by photographer A.J. Harlan, is quite nice to have access to as it tells a little about the lower railroad side of this structure that over the years had different names and owners, from its start as Victor Public Sampler sometime before the railroad came to town. The structures themselves was reported to have been lost in the 1899 Victor Fire so this view here is how it looked after it got rebuilt.
Direction of this view is in a northwesterly direction, Battle Mountain is in background left, with its transition over to Squaw Mountain at the left-hand side. This Sampler was located just below the Midland Terminal yard in Victor and was served by dual gauge tracks as it served as a switchback entry down to the Strong Ore-house for the M.T. as well as one can see on the foreground dual-track it allowed the F. & C.C. access to the Sampler.
At the left-hand side, about middle top/down, partly seen, is the Ore-House of the Mary Cashen Mine that was also served by the tracks at this location.
I did procure the colored version of the image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 104 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 (page 104) - Published in 1903.

I-02023
Photograph/Image [#468]
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Victor Public Sampler - 1060   Ajax - 275   Mary Cashen - 272   16.12.2021 (16:26:44)
Metallic Plant of U.S. Reduction and Refining Company
Unknown
This somewhat distant view at the structures making up the Metallic or Bi-Metallic Mill located at Cyanide, a stop along the main-line of the F. & C.C. on its route to Cripple Creek from Florence, shows a huge operation that lasted less than ten year. Late 1894 it is reported ground is being broken to create this mill, and in January 1904 it is fully burned down while being dismantled.
I think the direction of this view is in a northwesterly direction. Just north of this location the Vesta branch of the F. & C.C. took off. But this was from the beginning a Cyanide based mill operation, while the other mills along the before mention Vesta branch was more into the Chlorination business from what I been able to understand. In 1903 this plant belongs to the United States Reduction & Refining Co.
I did procure the colored version of the image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 103 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 (page 103) - Published in 1903.

I-02022
Photograph/Image [#466]
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Metallic Mill [aka Bi-Metallic Mill] - 440   16.12.2021 (16:18:27)
National Plant of U.S. Reduction and Refining Company
Unknown
This view across what appears to be prairie land at the structures making up the National Mill located about half a mile southwest of Florence, is said to be along the Coal Creek branch of the D. R.G. Ry.
I think the direction of this view is in a southeasterly direction. This mill was one of three mills, or four processing plants, as there was also a smelter in this area, southwest of Florence. This mill was along the main-line of the Coal Creek branch, while the other two mills, and the smelter was on a branch from the branch-line so to speak, and somewhat closer to Florence. In 1903 this plants belongs to the United States Reduction & Refining Co.
I did procure the colored version of the image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 103 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 (page 103) - Published in 1903.
• Seeing Cripple Creek, January 1904 (Vol. 2, No. 2) (page 42) - Published in 1904.

I-02020
Photograph/Image [#465]
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National Mill - 1046   16.12.2021 (16:12:46)
Union Plant of U.S. Reduction and Refining Company
Unknown
This view across what appears to be prairie land at the many structures making up the Union Mill located north of Florence, on top of hill sort of, overlooking the Arkansas Valley where Florence was looking, I assume, never been there so I might be wrong!
I do not know the direction of this view, but I think it might be in a northerly direction possible. This mill was one of three along the Vesta Branch, at that before mention hilltop, and in 1903 it belongs to the United States Reduction & Refining Co.
I did procure the colored version of the image. 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 for the moment.

• The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 (page 103) - Published in 1903.
• Seeing Cripple Creek, January 1904 (Vol. 2, No. 2) (page 42) - Published in 1904.

I-02020
Photograph/Image [#464]
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Union Mill [aka United States Economic Reduction Company Mill] - 454   16.12.2021 (08:09:24)
Panoramic View of the Standard and Colorado Plants of the United States Reduction & Refining Co., Colorado City
D.D. Robertson
This artistic drawing/painting from no later than 1901 is quite nice even if it is a printed type based view, this due to the large size and the fact it is an artistic view, making it possible to be more raw and still look good! In the background looms the Pike's Peak and its range of mountains, and in the foreground is two large Milling Plants of the United States Reduction & Refining Co., located outside of Colorado City. The plants is the Standard Mill and the Colorado-Philadelphia Mill, why they were so close to each-other I cannot tell, but from what I gather they used a different approach to the treatment of the Cripple Creek ores.
I did procure the colored version of the image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 102 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 (page 102) - Published in 1903.
• Seeing Cripple Creek, January 1904 (Vol. 2, No. 2) (page 26) - Published in 1904.

I-01093
Photograph/Image [#463]
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Standard Mill [aka Colorado-Standard Mill] - 1047   Colorado-Philadelphia Mill [aka Colorado-Philadelphia Reduction Company Works] - 890   12.12.2021 (17:16:05)
The Gold Hills of Cripple Creek. [Northwest Slope of Beacon Hill]
Unknown
This is a view at the northwest slope of Beacon Hill, showing many small mine operations, most without any names linked to the structure seen. Some are thankfully marked out though: like the Kimberly, Orizaba, Fannie B., and the Rocky Mountain, that last one is found all to the right-hand side of the image. Quality is not the best, due to the printed type and the engraver having exaggerated the structures.
I have a feel the one marked Kimberly is in reality the Little May operation, but I do not know, it is just a feel.
My Collection; 300dpi scan from Pages 16-17 in an undated bok named Wonders of Colorado Scenery.

• Undated; Wonders of Colorado Scenery (page 16); Published by The Carson-Harper Company in Denver, Colorado. - Published in ????.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Full Size View [3160 x 820 pixels]
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Rocky Mountain Mine [640 x 640 pixels - Colored]
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Kimberly Mine [750 x 495 pixels - Colored]
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Fannie B. Mine [690 x 621 pixels - Colored]
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Orizaba Mine [800 x 700 pixels - Colored]

I-01644
Photograph/Image [#458]
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Rocky Mt. - 128   Fannie B. Mine/Lode [Beacon Hill] - 1269   Orizaba No. 1 Lode [Beacon Hill] - 1270   Kimberly Mine [Beacon Hill] - 1264   04.12.2021 (22:24:05)
Altman, Highest Incorporated Town in World - Pikes Peak in Distance.
Unknown
This is an enhanced view as source had flaws, a quite a bit faded, spots, discoloration, but I worked over it as best as I could. Town of Altman is seen from southwest, and the Burns Mine & head frame is visible at far left, at the edge of the image. The Shaft House of the Pinto Mine is also clearly seen where it is poking up behind the houses of Altman about 1/3 from the left. At right-hand side, about middle top/down is what I think is mining operation on the Wilson claim of the Free Coinage G.M. Co.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; Photographs. Enhanced, Colored edition of my 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.
P-01722
Photograph/Image [#457]
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Burns - 317   Pinto - 316   04.12.2021 (22:23:46)
View of the Acacia {Burns] and the Pinto Mines with Altman Town in the Background
Andrew James Harlan
I like this Harlan Photo, even if it has many flaws. I assume this is from before the 1904 Fire that took out the town of Altman, but I really do not know. I do know that this view is taken from northwest of Altman, looking towards Bull Cliff seen as the top sticking up over the houses about center of the view sideways and about 1/3 down from top.
* At about center top/down at left-hand side is the Orehouse of the Acacia Co. Burns Mine, with a Headframe and structures around that shaft on the right-hand side, and town of Altman houses into the center so to speak.
* The Pinto Mine Shaft House is seen about 1/3 down from top and about 1/5 in from left-hand side, this is the shaft-house version/look I've seen most often in images/views.
* The photographer stands on the dumping ground of the northern Pharmacist shaft house, from all I can gather of sources when I write this text November 29, 2021. Source had flaws, made on not good paper, somewhat faded, spots, discoloration, not sharp, but I worked over it as best as I could.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
Straightened, Scaled down, Colored view of a PPLD photo; Image Number 402-15, Courtesy of the Pikes Peak Library District. I did procure the colored version of this image.
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• Pikes Peak Library District: ⊞ Image Number: 402-15
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Pinto Shaft House Closeup [Colored; 1980 x 1500 pixels]

I-01204
Photograph/Image [#455]
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Burns - 317   Pinto - 316   04.12.2021 (22:17:57)
Mining Activity on Top of Raven Hill, From Windy Point in 1903
F. L. Ransome [08.10.1903]
I like this USGS Photo from early Oct. 1903 by F. L. Ransome, and just wish it were even sharper and double in size as this is one rare source of mine views on east slope of Raven Hill. My knowledge (Nov. 27, 2021) is still not as great as I wish, but it is what it is.
* In foreground right, partly seen headframe and cradle, I think this is part of the Twin Sister Mine operation, being an abandoned shaft as there are no rails on that trestle, nor are there any wheel on top of that headframe.
* The railroad spur is the Joe Dandy branch of the Short Line, leaving the High Line at Windy Point and going down into the Shaft House of the Joe Dandy, seen just left of the center of view.
* Joe Dandy Shaft House is easy to recognize as it has a special look to it, high, kind of square, high-sloped roof, box-like structure. In this view it appears to be enclosed ore-bins in that structure and that the railroad enters the structure.
* About center top/down and about 1/7 in from left-hand side is the Mary Ann Mine operations. It is a special look as the headframe and hoist house are built high up on scaffolding, but being that mining produces more waste rock then pay rock it makes sense to create an area for dumping by building up the ground around the shaft first.
* Just to the right of the Mary Ann, further into the image, is the Ore-house and Headframe of the Little Frank S. Mine operations, while closer to the photographer but still farther into the image then the Mary Ann, there appears to be a Ore-house or a smaller Shaft House, but I can't tell for sure what it is.
* Just left of the beforementioned Joe Dandy mine is the New Haven Mine, also known as Eclipse Shaft of New Haven Mining & Milling Co., located on the Eclipse No. 1 lode. In 1900 there was a Shaft House here as per a Sanborn Fire Insurance map, but in this view there is an open shaft with a headframe and a Hoist house closer to the photographer while the Ore-bin is further into the view, which when looking at a 1908 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map gives me the feel that the hoist-house in this view started out as a shaft-house, or possible the shaft-house burned and they rebuilt, either way, this is also a headframe put up on scaffolding and filled in below and around it.
* To the right of the beforementioned Joe Dandy, the two Shaft houses of the Ida May is seen, first the north one, smaller, higher, and further into the view and more to the right, the southern shaft house, somewhat larger. Further into the view I am lost to what I see and not see.
* There are many smaller Head-frames in the more foreground, at least one of those is on the Brigadier, but possible also Blue Flag, I really can't tell them apart, but they help convey the feel on how crowded the ground was when all was digging holes in their search for the gold ore! And in-between, we have some homes, and even trees still standing! Also some Out-houses can be picked out.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
View is Scaled down, Colored, Cropped, from the USGS image rfl00508. I did procure the colored version of this image.
This USGS product is considered to be in the U.S. public domain. For further information on the USGS Information Policies and Instructions, refer to the Copyrights and Credits section on this web page: http://www.usgs.gov/laws/info_policies.html

• USGS Photographic Library ID: ⊞ rfl00508
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Little Frank S. Mining Operations in 1903 [Colored; 780 x 540 pixels]

I-02400
Photograph/Image [#453]
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Twin Sisters - 91   Blue Flag Shafts [Raven Hill] - 193   Ida May [Raven Hill] - 194   Joe Dandy - 195   Little Frank - 205   Mary Ann - 207   Eclipse No. 1 - 429   28.11.2021 (09:37:18)
Raven Hill Summit From Bull Hill, with Joe Dandy Mine in 1903
F. L. Ransome [07.10.1903]
I like this USGS Photo from early Oct. 1903 by F. L. Ransome, and just wish it were even sharper and double in size as this is one rare source of mine views on east slope of Raven Hill. My knowledge (Nov. 27, 2021) is still not as great as I wish, but it is what it is.
* From upper right, the small headframe against the sky I think is the Twin Sister Mine operation.
* Further left, about 3/7 from right-hand side, two mines are seen against the sky, the front one is the Red Umbrella Mine with its Shaft House, and the one behind there, up in the sky, is the Mary Ann Mine operations.
* About 1/3 in from left-hand side, still against the sky, is the large Joe Dandy Mine operation, with its easy to recognize Shaft house and large dump extending out in a southernly direction.
* Behind the beforementioned dump of the Joe Dandy, the top of the southern Shaft house of the Ida May is poking up.
* About 1/10 in from left-hand side and slightly below the sightline from the Joe Dandy dump is the Little Frank S. operations, there is a dump there, a Ore-house, but rest is impossible to see as it is too far into the image and zooming gave very little details. Thankfully USGS has another view by Mr. Ransome from another angle saying there is a Headframe at this mine, and from zooming I will claim there is a larger Hoist-house behind that headframe, but sadly that is behind the Joe Dandy dump in the beforementioned other USGS view.
* A little to the right of the beforementioned Joe Dandy is a smaller Headframe operation that is located on the Eclipse No. 1 Lode, also known as Eclipse Shaft of New Haven Mining & Milling Co., or just New Haven Mine. The headframe is seen against the sky, with the Hoist house to the right and an Ore-bin to the left of the dump and the north Shaft house of the Ida May poking up behind the dump.
* I think the Bertha B. Mine is the one with the Headframe, Hoist-house with a high smokestack and a larger dump, seen below and to the left of the Joe Dandy, but identifying Mines further down the hill was harder.
* I think the smaller Headframe, Hoist house and dump seen below and more to the right of the Joe Dandy, and below with slightly to the left of the before mention Red Umbrella, that operation I think is the Kentucky Belle mine, but it is getting harder and harder to tell for sure now what is what.
* In lower left there is a substantial dump and a Adit type of mine, while behind that tree in the foreground I think we would have been able to see a headframe type of operation, both part of the Mary L. Mine, where the USGS 1906 Report has the Adit/tunnel marked as 'Texas Tunnel', which I never found any info about by this date, maybe I will in the future.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
View is Scaled down, Colored, Cropped, from the USGS image rfl00509. I did procure the colored version of this image.
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• USGS Photographic Library ID: ⊞ rfl00509
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Little Frank S. Mining Operations in 1903 [Colored; 1500 x 1200 pixels]

I-02399
Photograph/Image [#451]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#451
Twin Sisters - 91   Ida May [Raven Hill] - 194   Joe Dandy - 195   Red Umbrella - 196   Mary L. - 203   Bertha B. - 204   Little Frank - 205   Mary Ann - 207   Kentucky Belle [Raven Hill] - 323   Eclipse No. 1 - 429   26.11.2021 (20:03:05)
Miners at Work Underground in Candle Light
Unknown
This is not the best quality image, but as I have not seen this view before I am happy to have what I have. There was no info given with this image, but it was used in a text about the Little Frank S. mine on Raven Hill so it might be from that mine operation, though I have my doubts. Personally, I think it was just used as an image to illustrate underground workings, might not even be a Cripple Creek based image…
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 89 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 89; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.

I-02013
Photograph/Image [#450]
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Little Frank - 205   26.11.2021 (14:16:11)
West Side of the Wild Horse Mine on Bull Hill
Unknown
This 'Private Mailing Card' type of Postcard, published by W. A. Loper in Cripple Creek is not the best start point but it is for now the best full view I have of this scene on Bull Hill. Due to the source being a print-type of postcard, and being less than half sized of a normal postcard, also red-inked, the base quality of the view was limiting what I could get out of it, but this view from west side of the Wild Horse Shaft House is still, as said, a great one as it is a rare view, and one I hope to find as a photograph in good quality one day! I have a cropped edition of this view in another printed source also.
Regarding the scene, there are three ore-cars at a dump that is growing and a fourth is standing alone further to the right. The Shaft House has a Horse painted on it together with the name 'Wild' above the horse drawing and 'Consolidated G. M. Co.' below the horse drawing – quite cool! The whole structure is a long narrow one, with the Electric Hoist House at the right-hand side and the Ore House at the left-hand side.
Being this postcard is stamped July 17, 1902, the base pic must be from not later than early July 1902 as it takes time to prepare a postcard print batch with engraving an all. But it is to me impossible to date it further, all I can say is this scene fits the look drawn on a 1900 Sanborn Fire Insurance map, making it possible also to be a late 1899 or 1900 photograph.
My Collection; Postcards.

• Private Mailing Card Postcard by W. A. Loper, Cripple Creek - Published in ????.
• Page 17; Seeing Cripple Creek, January 1904 (Vol. 2, No. 2) - Published in 1904.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ West Side of the Wild Horse Mine | on Bull Hill, Cripple Creek
• My Website; Cropped Postcard View: ⊞ West Side of the Wild Horse Mine -> 720dpi [Colored; 2010 x 1410 pixels]

P-01445
Photograph/Image [#447]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#447
Wild Horse - 99   26.11.2021 (14:15:09)
Bull Hill Mines Victor Colo.
William H. Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
I don't know when the photo was by Lehr was taken, being a postcard there might have been a clue as the backside of the card is marked with a square AZO mark, indicating the card to be from the 1926 to the 1940's, but the image itself is earlier than that timeframe!
Reason it cannot be the timeframe the card is from is that there is no trace of the spur up to the Blue Bird Mine (spur was built in 1903). But the High Line is there so this is from early 1898 till about early 1903, depending on when the Blue Bird spur was created. Another clue to dating this is that the mines of the Gold Sovereign has not became big operations yet. This as I have seen a 1908 image from a different angle showing a totally different scene here, making this an earlier view!
There are lot of work going on in this view though, from the American Eagle against the sky at top to the large dump of the John A. Logan Mine and the Dante Mine dumps partly seen near top right. Near the bottom is the Gold Sovereign operation but I also assume we see the Maggie near bottom left and possible both Draper and Sadie Bell at lower right, very hard to decode what is what.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ Bull Hill Mines Victor Colo.
• My Website; Cropped Postcard View: ⊞ Bull Hill Mines Victor Colo. View -> Gold Sovereign Mine [Colored; 2880 x 1980 pixels]

P-01398
Photograph/Image [#442]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#442
Gold Sovereign; Jackson Shaft [No. 1 Shaft?] - 199   Gold Sovereign tunnel - 200   American Eagle - 312   John A. Logan - 311   Dante - 335   Maggie - 198   26.11.2021 (12:19:52)
The Strong Mine
Unknown
Being this is from a printed source, I do not expect too much clarity, but thankfully the image was filling much of the page, making it at least a useful type of image. By the time I write this text in late November 2021 I know of this view in three printed sources but assume it will show up in more as time goes by and I get myself an even better overview.
Regarding this scene though, in the foreground is the Victor railroad yard of the 3-foot narrow-gauge F. & C. C., with many boxcars, a few gondola type of cars, one locomotive, and at least one flatcar with lumbers on it. The whole yard is in a curve, and at left-hand side a growing dump from the Strong Mine is growing up, access to it is via a long truss-type of bridge from the Ore-house of the Strong Mine, which Shaft-house is seen quite nicely with several structures.
Battle Mountain is the hill in the background, while on the left-hand side background Squaw Mountain fill the sky so to speak. About center, just to the right of it, in the background, against the sky, the huge Shaft-house of the Ajax mine are seen, with a s smaller Head-frame operation seen much closer to the Strong, most likely on the Black Diamond ground, but hard to tell for certain. What I do know, but hard to see in this view, is that the original High Line trolley grade is coming down the hill below that before mention Headframe.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 88 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 88; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.
• Seeing Cripple Creek, January 1905 (Vol. 4, No. 2) (page 33) - Published in 1905.
• Seeing Cripple Creek, July 1905 (Vol. 5, No. 2) (page 33) - Published in 1905.

I-02011
Photograph/Image [#449]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#449
Strong - 271   Ajax - 275   25.11.2021 (11:42:28)
The Economic Gold Extraction Company Economic Mill in Eclipse Gulch

This is a view of the second edition of the massive Economic Mill in Eclipse Gulch, on the west part of Squaw Mountain. First edition stopped at the large wall in lower right with all the windows on it. Around 1903 there would be other changes, the most visible one is that the tunnel portal structure changes from what I her see as a shed like structure into a larger house look with an arched entry.
Regarding this scene though, they have built the Ore-shed up at the railroad yard where the 3-foot narrow-gauge F. & C.C. enters from the left, while from the right, the Short Line had a spur coming in from a sort of switch back as the roadbed of the Low Line and Short Line is seen about 1/3 down from top of image, the second highest roadbed in this view. There is a square Water-tank of 52000-gallons size that was iron-cladded up there alongside the tracks of the Low Line. Above that track is the Midland Terminal, and below is the mainline of the F. & C.C.
The structure all the way at left about middle top/down was a brick structure holding the Office and Assay Office, while the smaller structure about 1/3 in from left-hand side and just up from bottom, the one with the high narrow smokestack on it, as per a Sanborn Fire Insurance map, was also a brick structure holding a boiler and marked as Laboratory. Rest of the structures seen are wood covered in iron-clad sidings, painted.
I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
View is Straightened, Twisted, Colored, from Facebook post Cripple Creek Museum. I did procure the colored version of this image.
Courtesy Cripple Creek Museum, Facebook Page. Colored edition procured by Linda Irene Tingvik

• Page 32; Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs Illustrated; published in 1896 by Warren & Stride. - Published in 1896.

• Facebook Page: ⊞ Cripple Creek District Museum View

I-01556
Photograph/Image [#448]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#448
Economic Mill - 160   25.11.2021 (08:43:11)
Rhyolite Mountain From Summit of Bull Hill.
F. L. Ransome [08.10.1903]
This wonderful 1903 view from near top of Bull Hill is taken in Northwesterly direction and looks across Ironclad Hill where the Londonderry Mine can be seen about 1/3 up from bottom 2/5 in from left-hand side. In addition top part of Globe Hill is seen at about middle top/down left-hand side, with several mines there sort of visible, like what I think is the Plymouth Rock Mine with the Deerhorn or Gold(en) Crater mine and what I think is the Lady Stith Mine, and also some of the structures belonging to the Stratton company. In addition, about middle top/down and 2/5 in from right-hand side there is a string of Box cars along a spur on the Short Line at Hoosier Pass.
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.
View is Enhanced, Cropped, Scaled, Colored, from the USGS image rfl00506. 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.
This USGS product is considered to be in the U.S. public domain. For further information on the USGS Information Policies and Instructions, refer to the Copyrights and Credits section on this web page: http://www.usgs.gov/laws/info_policies.html

• Page ?; Geology and Gold Deposits of the Cripple Creek District; published in 1906 by United States Geological Survey as Geological Survey Professional Paper 54 - Published in 1896.

• USGS Photographic Library ID: ⊞ rfl00506

I-02028
Photograph/Image [#417]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#417
Deerhorn [aka Gold Crater or Golden Crater] - 80   Lady Stith Mine [Globe Hill] - 79   Bedrock Lode [Globe Hill] - 1492   Plymouth Rock No. 2 Mine [Globe Hill] - 82   Londonderry - 97   Hoosier - 33   23.11.2021 (08:38:44)
Portland Mill During Construction
Unknown
This is a scan of a photo-negative that is from some unknown issue of print source of the mining journal known as Mining Reporter. I used my 1200-dpi scan as a base, and scaled it down to 3000 pixels wide in order to get some colors unto it, not the best result, but it is useable as an illustration till I get around to scan the version I am pretty sure I also seen in a Portland Annual source I own in my print-collection. Being a print source, the paper was thin and text from the other side poked through, so I blurred the sky part and that made it break with the rest of the view, but, see past that.
  Scene is from the hills west of Colorado Springs, looking at a close-up of the immense Portland Mill, which is being built in this view, and dating this to be around 1902. I find this image quite interesting as we get to see the skeleton of some of the massive structures, and I like that!
  In the foreground is the mainline of the Short Line railroad climbing the foothills before it disappears from view into the mountains in the background on the way to Cripple Creek. The right most part of the skeleton is the ore-receiving part of the mill and shall be connected to the Short Line outside the view at right, higher up the hill.
  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 for the moment.
My Collection; Photo-Negative from unknown Mining Reporter issue. I did procure the colored version from a straighten, cropped, scaled down 1200dpi scan.

• Page ?; Mining Reporter unknown issue - Published in ????.

P-01406
Photograph/Image [#446]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#446
Portland Mill [Colorado Spring] - 895   23.11.2021 (08:38:37)
Water Ponds with Portland Mill in the Distance
Andrew James Harlan
This is a scan of a photo-negative that turned out to be a copy from a Portland G.M. Co. Annual Report, dated 1902. I've colored the 300-dpi scan, which was not a large size, but it is useable as an illustration till I get around to scan the source as I have that Annual in my print-collection.
  Scene is from the hills west of Colorado Springs, looking at the mountain range that the Short Line climbed on its way to Cripple Creek. Not easy to see in this view, but the Short Line mainline enters this image about center top/down on the right-hand side and climbs almost 1/3 into the image before it climbs passed the immense Portland Mill which is seen from a distance and disappears from view. I assume both those water ponds in the foreground has some relevance to the mill operation but can't recall read anything about it so can't say anything.
  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 for the moment.
My Collection; Photo-Negative from Portland G.M. Co. 1902 Annual Report. I did procure the colored version of the 300dpi scan.

• Page 69; Annual Reports, Portland Gold Mining Co. - 1902 - Published in 1902.

P-01137
Photograph/Image [#445]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#445
Portland Mill [Colorado Spring] - 895   22.11.2021 (21:12:42)
One of the Big Mills. Portland Mill at Colorado Springs
Unknown
This is the large Portland Mill along the Short Line in Colorado Springs, built in 1902. It was a chlorination first, later also a cyanide mill built for the exclusive treatment of Cripple Creek ores. It converted the crude gold-bearing rock into bullion. The Mill closed in 1918, and as with the grade of the Short Line in this area, near impossible to find any traces of it judging from aerial photos I've seen.
My Collection; From page 38 in the 1908 Official Summary of the Certified Reports of Companies Listed on the Colorado Mining Stock Exchange; from a 300dpi scan.

• Page 38; The Official Summary of the Certified Reports of Companies Listed on the Colorado Mining Stock Exchange - January 1908 - Published in 1908.
• Page 84; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.

• My Website: ⊞ 1908 Official Sumary; Certified Reports; Companies Listed on Colo.Mining Stock Exchange as Web Album
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ The Great Portland Mill [Colored Version of 1903 Cripple Creek Times]

I-01535
Photograph/Image [#366]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#366
Portland Mill [Colorado Spring] - 895   22.11.2021 (15:18:14)
The Portland Mines
Andrew James Harlan
This scene is from 1901 to 1902, as the original High Line is seen in this view, running in front of the darker fence seen about 1/3 up from bottom between the house in front and the houses about center of the view. And in the background, up below the Portland No. 2 Shaft, there is railroad cars seen that belongs to the Short Line Portland Spur, hence, the date is in this timeframe.
  Beside the Portland No. 2 Shaft up against the sky, the huge Portland No. 1 is seen a little bit further down the hill, with railroad cars in front of the many Ore-houses at the mine, and the many structures belonging to the mine.
  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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 82 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 82; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.
• Gray-toned Postcard published as No. 2580 by Mc. Gillis Bros., Cripple Creek, Colo.; Printed in Germany - Published in ????.

I-02004
Photograph/Image [#444]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#444
Portland No. 1 - 262   Portland No. 2 - 259   21.11.2021 (16:26:21)
View North on 3rd Street in Victor, showing Battle Mountain Mines in the Background
Schedin & Lehman
This is a view up North Third Street in Victor, Colorado. I knew of this view as a postcard before I got hold of this photocopy, the postcard I had dated to be from not newer than some days before July 10, 1903, as on that date there was a Trolley Line running up this view on Third Street and here there are no visible sign of any Trolley tracks. But, this is after then 1899 Fire that took out much of Victor.
* About 1/3 up from bottom and 1/3 in from left-hand side, there is a text on the roof of a sampler known now as 'Rio Grande Sampler' but I've also seen it in earlier days known as the 'Victor Public Sampler', located between the Midland Terminal and the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad Tracks, served by dual gauge tracks I think.
* Further up the hill – Battle Mountain – there are houses and also the Shaft House of the W.C. Dillon Mine is visible with is special looking Shaft House with its very steep angled roof on the left side, and short steep slope on the right before it goes over to be a low angled roof line, and as the Shaft-house has lot of text, sadly which was unreadable, it is very easy to pick it out in this and other views. Found about center top/down and about 2/5 in from left-hand side.
* Even further up the hill, about sideways center is the large Burns Shaft of the Portland Gold Mining Company, also known as Portland No. 1 Shaft. It replaced the original shaft which was somewhat more to the northeast if I have by bearings right, long gone in this view.
* To the left of the Portland No. 1 there appears to be another smaller Shaft House, one of the older ones that got gulfed up in the Portland group, think it might be the old Shaft-House of the Anna Lee Mine, but I might be wrong.
* Just to the right of the Portland No.1 shaft, up against the sky, is the old Shaft House of the Portland No. 2 Mine, before they made it much larger and the one we all are more used to see in views of Battle Mountain Mines.
My Collection; Photographs.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ View North on 3rd Street in Victor, showing Battle Mountain Mines in the Background
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ View North on 3rd Street in Victor, Battle Mountain Mines in the Background [Straight & Enhanced]
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ View North on 3rd Street in Victor, Battle Mountain Mines [1200dpi; Straight & Enhanced]
• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ North Third Street and Battle Mountain, Victor, Colo.

P-03719
Photograph/Image [#327]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#327
Portland No. 2 - 259   Portland No. 1 - 262   Dillon [aka W.C. Dillon] - 268   Anna Lee [aka Anne Lee; Battle Mtn] - 1871   Victor Public Sampler - 1060   21.11.2021 (16:02:49)
The Blue Stocking Mine
Andrew James Harlan
As this photo appears in a February/March 1896 publication, this dates the photo to no later than early 1896, but more likely to 1895, I doubt 1894 but can't see anything in the view to rule it out either...
Why Mr. Harlan indicates Independence Mine No. 2 as Portland No. 2 I do not know, but this is at least the second image I've seen him do it on. Both are from around 1895/1896, so either that mine used to locally be known as that, or he just has his info crossed... Me think the latter. Other publications from this timeframe say that the structure is the Independence No. 2 Mine, including a Sanborn fire Insurance Map. The Portland No. 2 is further uphill from No. 1, in this view that would be outside the view at top right.
The small mine in the foreground is operations on the Blue Stocking Mine, not sure which part of the claim as per info in Hills 1900 Manual this claim is partly owned by two companies, whereas the Portland Gold Mining Company is one of those. Same is the Black Diamond, the Scranton and the Anna Lee mines, all marked out in this view, all of them also became part of the great Portland Gold Mining company.
About middle of image, top/down, the Midland Terminal roadbed of the mainline along Battle Mountain is seen, and in just a couple of years this scene will change very much as the dumps grows to immense dimensions.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see. 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; From page 28 in the Quarterly Sentinel [Vol. 1 - 1896]. 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.

• Page 28; The Quarterly Sentinel [Vol. 1 - 1896; History of Cripple Creek] - Published in 1896.

I-00536
Photograph/Image [#411]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#411
Blue Stocking Mine [Battle Mtn] - 1073   Stratton's Independence No. 2 - 265   Black Diamond Mine [Battle Mtn] - 1057   Portland No. 1 - 262   Scranton Shaft [Battle Mtn] - 1058   Anna Lee [aka Anne Lee; Battle Mtn] - 1871   21.11.2021 (16:00:57)
South Slope Battle Mountain, with the Granite, Lowell Dump, Anna Lee, Bob Tail & Portland Mines
Unknown
As a nearly identical photo appeared in a February/March 1896 publication, and copyrighted 1895, I assume this photo to been taken no later than sometime in 1895 as well.
This scene on Battle Mountain is an early one, from before the Golden Circle Railroad was built, and the area drastically changed look/character. In foreground left-hand side, almost middle up, is the headframe of the Granite mine, with the dump of the Lowell mine seen about the height of the headframe up the hill. Further up the hill and a little to the right, against the sky, is the Shaft-house, ore-house and dump of the Anna Lee mine. Further downhill to the right, still against the sky, is the Shaft-house, ore-house, dump of the Bob Tail mine, while in the background right is structures belonging to the Portland Mine – possible already the early Burns Shaft of the Portland.
I did procure the colored image; source had a gray-tone image, 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 16 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. 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.

• Page 16; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.

I-01957
Photograph/Image [#385]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#385
Granite - 261   Lowell - 260   Anna Lee [aka Anne Lee; Battle Mtn] - 1871   Bob-Tail Mine - 1056   Portland No. 1 - 262   21.11.2021 (16:00:30)
Independence and Portland Mines, Battle Mountain, Cripple Creek Mining District
William Edward Hook
This view shows several of the earlier mines on Battle Mountain, looking in a westerly direction.
We see near left-hand side and about 1/3 from top-left the East and partly south side of the Old Independence Mine, with the ore-house in front of the shaft house, and partly hiding the west most part of it.
Further up the hill to right is seen the well-known Independence Mine (No. 1) with its large Shaft House.
If we go left about 1/3 from right-hand side, and about 1/4 down from top we see the large Shaft House of the Independence No. 2 shaft, with the M.T. railroad in front of it and not the greatest dump there yet. This makes this view earlier than a H.S. Poley view (My ID I-01172) which is dated around 1895, early 1896.
Further up the hill is seen several shaft houses that shall disappear as the Portland Mine expand and engulf several of them, and in this view the larger ore-house seen in the before mention Poley view, which I have thought of as part of the Portland mine, that is no-where here to be seen below the shaft house of the Bob-Tail mine which is the structure at left of the Independence No. 2 where a single smokestack is poking up near end of the long sloping roof on the right side.
A little left and downhill a tiny bit and more west is the smaller Shaft House of the Lowell Mine.
Just above the Independence No. 2 is the original Portland Mine, just behind the smokestack of the Independence.
The Black Diamond is located just left of the Portland mine, hard to see even in the 100% view of this photo. Hiding mostly also behind the Independence No. 2.
Above the Portland and to the right, near the top is the Anna Lee mine, with a small ore-house in front and a smokestack seems to be located outside the shaft house itself, or at least at the lowest end of the long roof.
Below the Anna Lee is seen the Scranton shaft, with its shaft house extended to make a different slope on the short roof side.

Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.

• Denver Public Library: ⊞ Call Number: X-62585

I-01171
Photograph/Image [#84]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#84
Old/Discovery Shaft Independence Mine - 1055   Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Stratton's Independence No. 2 - 265   Bob-Tail Mine - 1056   Lowell - 260   Black Diamond Mine [Battle Mtn] - 1057   Anna Lee [aka Anne Lee; Battle Mtn] - 1871   Scranton Shaft [Battle Mtn] - 1058   21.11.2021 (15:59:26)
East Victor Showing Strong, Independence, Portland and Anna Lee Mines
Andrew James Harlan
This view is an early one of mines on Battle Mountain as there are hardly any mines to see, and, there is no sight of the yet to come grading of the M.T. railroad.
There is a large X marking the site of the Old Independence Mine where one see the ore-house just right of the X. The ore-house is in front of the shaft house, and partly hiding the western part of the shaft house.
Further up right is seen the well-known Independence Mine, which is under construction or repairs as there is scaffolding along the walls. I think it is just recently been built.
Below the Old Independence, just under the large X, there is a large structure that looks like some sort of a storage hall, yet to figure out what that is as of 25.01.2017.
Further up the hill behind and right of the large shaft house of the Independence there are seen the early beginnings of several mines seen on my ID: I-01171 (DPL Call Number: X-62585, by Hook), with the early Portland mine (with a trestle poking out of a large black door opening) and the Anna Lee mines further up the hill against the sky, the easiest seen mine structures.
I have a hard time finding the Independence No. 2 in this scene, it should be just below the Portland but it seems not to be there. Possible the structure one early Sanborn Fire Insurance map calls Independence No. 4 is one of those two structures seen about half-way between the large Independence and the Portland. There appears to be a horse just below the left-most one of the two seen her, and which is also a structure that is seen in the before mention DPL view by Hook. The right-most is gone in that Hook photo, only leaving a dump.
The Bob-Tail, Lowell, Granite and similar mines are only seen as small dumps and some small shed like structures on the hillside.
I would guess this to a be a late 1893, early 1894 image, but I can't tell for sure except there is dots of snow on the ground so it is in the winter part of the year. The M.T. tracks reached Portland Mine by December 1894, but as I see no sign of any grading here, I am pretty certain this view is from winter 1893/1894.

Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.

• Denver Public Library: ⊞ Call Number: CHS.X4497

I-00439
Photograph/Image [#86]
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Old/Discovery Shaft Independence Mine - 1055   Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Anna Lee [aka Anne Lee; Battle Mtn] - 1871   Portland No. 1 - 262   20.11.2021 (14:42:10)
Ajax Mine
Unknown
This view of the huge structures at the Ajax Mine, which was located on top of Battle Mountain at Victor (Cripple Creek District), Colorado, shows many things of interest, I think.
In foreground lower right is the Crib-tunnel for Golden Circle trackage beneath the dumping ground of the upper Dead Pine operations, and further to the left along the bottom is the cribbing wall holding back some waste dump growing beside the Golden Circle mainline passed the mine.
On the right-hand side is a steep trestle with rails on it to take ore-cars up to a dumping point up along the end of the Short Line spur to this mine, there are cabins and other structures climbing the hill in the background, and there are trees surviving this area even.
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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 80 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 80; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.

I-02002
Photograph/Image [#443]
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Ajax - 275   20.11.2021 (13:18:45)
Ajax Mine Structure
Unknown
This view of the huge structures at the Ajax Mine, which was located on top of Battle Mountain at Victor (Cripple Creek District), Colorado, shows many things of interest, I think.
In foreground lower right is the Crib-tunnel for Golden Circle trackage beneath the dumping ground of the upper Dead Pine operations, and further to the left along the bottom is the cribbing wall holding back some waste dump growing beside the Golden Circle mainline passed the mine.
On the right-hand side is a steep trestle with rails on it to take ore-cars up to a dumping point up along the end of the Short Line spur to this mine, there are cabins and other structures climbing the hill in the background, and there are trees surviving this area even.
From my collection, scan from a negative taken from some unknown print source, possible from an 1903 published issue. I've added the coloring part.
P-01335
Photograph/Image [#364]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#364
Ajax - 275   18.11.2021 (22:49:31)
A View at the Head Frame and Ore House of the Gold Sovereign Mine With Group of Miners Posing on the Dump Bridge.
Unknown
Being from a magazine the quality is sadly not very good so any details been lost to eternity, but as an inspiration for a model this view is quite great! I also for the time being struggle with identifying which shaft on the Gold Sovereign Mine this is from, as I have never seen a map telling me which named shaft was where, I can only assume this is either a shaft down to the Tunnel which seems to be first linked to the Gold Sovereign as per some info about that tunnel talking about a shaft being built, or possible it is the Jackson Shaft also located on the gold Sovereign, or possible an unnamed shaft, I really can't tell. Neither can I say if this is before or after the fire that took down this shaft for a time being.
What I can tell is that in the background about 1/5 in from left-hand side against the sky is seen the Joe Dandy mine with its easy to recognize Shaft/Orehouse. It is on Raven Hill; Gold Sovereign is on Bull Hill.
My Collection; Negative from unknown printed source.
P-01313
Photograph/Image [#216]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#216
Gold Sovereign; Jackson Shaft [No. 1 Shaft?] - 199   Gold Sovereign tunnel - 200   18.11.2021 (17:04:03)
The Gold Sovereign Property, on Bull Hill
Unknown
This is not the best quality image, but as I have not seen this view before I am happy to have what I have. View is at the south west slope of Bull Hill, taken from Raven Hill. It shows many mines and is an illustrative view at how mining looks as there are many small dumps, but also several large ones.
* Up at upper left the American Eagle mine is seen against the sky, while the John A. Logan mine is just below a slightly bit to the left, with a huge dump in-front of it.
* In upper right corner is the Blue Bird mine, also with a huge dump.
* In foreground bottom, about center, I think the Mary L. mine operation is seen.
* Across the gulch, large dump almost at bottom I think the Ben Harrison tunnel operation is seen.
* The Dante mine is about center near top, seen as huge crib-walls, with the dumps of the Orpha May mine seen against the sky above.
* The Gold Sovereign is some of the dumps at the left side, spread up the hill.
I did procure the colored version of the image, 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, including straightening and cropping this view.

• Page 79; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.

I-02001
Photograph/Image [#440]
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Gold Sovereign; Jackson Shaft [No. 1 Shaft?] - 199   Gold Sovereign tunnel - 200   Whisper Shaft - Gold Sovereign Company - 336   American Eagle - 312   John A. Logan - 311   Blue Bird - 209   Trilby - 333   Mary L. - 203   Ben Harrison tunnel - 202   Sadie Bell - 208   Draper - 201   Dante - 335   Orpha May - 215   17.11.2021 (18:40:36)
Anaconda Lode in Andesite Dike
Unknown [07.1897]
  This is from a photograph of the Anaconda lode as seen in an open-cut in July, 1897. The lode at this place forms a part of an andesite dike traversing the breccia. The dike exhibits a multiplication of fractures parallel to its walls, and along these lines of cleavage there occur seams of quartz and fluorite carrying tellurides.
  In the surface workings, the gold liberated from the tellurides occurred pseudomorphic after sylvanite, distributed in yellow patches amid purple fluorite, affording specimens of great beauty.
From an article about Lodes of Cripple Creek found on page 180 of the The Engineering & Mining Journal, Jan. 31, 1903 issue.

• Page 180; The Engineering and Mining Journal, January 31, 1903 issue - Published in 1903.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Anaconda Lode in Andesite Dike [colored; 960 X 1560 pixels]

I-01765
Photograph/Image [#348]
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Anaconda - 92   17.11.2021 (18:38:32)
Scene at the Anaconda Mine in Squaw Gulch with an Ore Bin and an Ore House Seen in Foreground.
Unknown
Due to the visibility of the Low Line grade in the background, about 1/4 down from the top on the right and 1/7 on the left side of this image, this dates to 1900 or later. It is an interesting view as it shows an ore bin in front with a car along the F. & C.C. spotted under it, also boxcars alongside the ore house are seen in this view. Quite a good look at the Anaconda mine structures as well, and in background right part of upper Anaconda town is seen as well.
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 for the moment.
From page 48; Forgotten Men of Cripple Creek by Leslie Doyle Spell. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 48; Forgotten Men of Cripple Creek; Leslie Doyle Spell; Copyright 1959 - Published in 1959.

I-01222
Photograph/Image [#72]
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Anaconda - 92   16.11.2021 (14:21:23)
Thompson Mine Shaft House, Elkton, Colorado
Unknown
This is sadly not a good image but is the best I could get out of my 2400 dpi scan of a glass plate negative looking back at Elkton from Guyot Hill. Making this an extensive zoom-in-view, and I should not complain as it is still the best view I have of the Thompson Shaft House!
Not much more to say, I realized to late that I should really have included the dump extending out of the view at left, but spent too much time already with this view trying to make it as best as I could, from a rude/rough not sharp at all base gray-tone into this colored edition here. Location is said to be on Little Bull Hill, which is the Southwest extension of Raven Hill, and I am not sure of that name was official or not, just seen it used sometimes of this hilltop sticking up. In the background a piece of the western slope of Squaw Mountain is seen. A couple of structures part of the community of Elkton is seen, and the quite large Shaft-house of the Thompson, which was the focus of my crop of the source image.
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 for the moment.
My Collection; Photographs, glass plate negative, Cropped from 2400 dpi scan of my PicDB Ref. G-00133. I did procure the colored version of this image.
As I own the glass plate negative, I have the physical ownership to this view.G-00133
Photograph/Image [#439]
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Thompson Mine [aka Thomson lode] - 157   16.11.2021 (09:56:11)
Elkton Mine and the Kitty Lane Mine
William Edward Hook
I am not 100% sure which mine is seen here in the foreground right, but I've decided (16.11.2021) that this is more likely to be the Kitty Lane Mine group then my thinking of this being part of the Thompson mine. This as I have a glass plate negative give me a shaft-house that fits better to the Thompson, making this better suited to be Kitty Lane looking at the bad view and my old 1903 topographic map, and a 1902 claims overview map where I see railroad lines drawn in. This sadly not great view here indicates an ore-bin just at the tail-end of the M.T. switchback going up the Elkton Mine coal bins. It can of course still be that I am wrong, but I think I am right now, and that this was part of the Kitty Lane operation on the Kittie Lane, and Sitting Bull Nos. 1 & 2 lodes, making up the Kitty Lane group.
This view itself is more about/towards the Elkton Mine in the distance, one of the larger mines in the District, while in the foreground the ore bin and trestle from some mine – as mention, most likely the Kitty Lane Mine can be seen, a small mining operation.
The massive trestle seen is part of the Midland Terminal trackage to get access to the coal bins of the power plant for the Elkton Mine, which also possible was served by the Short Line using the Low Line trolley tracks. A string of boxcars can be seen on that track off to the right of the trestle in the distance.
My Collection; Cropped view from a Group of images published in a Picture Book called O'er Canon and Crag to the Land of Gold, Series 3. Views is copyrighted 1904 by William Edward Hook.
View is Copyright by William Edward Hook through a book published in 1904.

• page 43; O'er Canon and Crag to the Land of Gold, Series 3; Published by The Railroad View Publishing Co. - Published in 1904.

• My Website: ⊞ O'er Canon and Crag to the Land of Gold, Series 3 Album Page View

I-00672
Photograph/Image [#20]
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Kitty Lane [aka Kittie Lane] - 158   Elkton Mine - 156   15.11.2021 (12:22:47)
View in Abe Lincoln Ore House, Showing the Big Crane Washer and Picking Belt.
Unknown
This view of the interior of the Abe Lincoln Ore house in Poverty Gulch shows several men lining up along a Picking Belt to sort ore after is coming out of the Crane Automatic Ore Dresser washer. The noise must have been terrible, all that rock rumbling on steel in the washer and the engine running the machine and so on.
I do not know what was behind the cloth covering the opening at foreground left, maybe it was old openings for ore into the orehouse, before they installed this Ore Dresser/Washer?
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 for the moment.
From page 243 in the Official Souvenir of the Fifteenth General Assembly, found through Internet Archive. I did procure the colored edition of this image.

• page 243; Official Souvenir of the Fifteenth General Assembly - Published in 1905.

• Internet Archive: ⊞ Page 243_Official Souvenir of the Fifteenth General Assembly - 1905

I-00765
Photograph/Image [#438]
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Abe Lincoln - 52   15.11.2021 (11:46:10)
The Crane Ore Dresser and Picking Belt in Operation at the Gold Coin Mine, Victor, Colo.
S.S. Baldwin [1902]
This view is dated to no later than December 1902, as it appears January 1, 1903 in an advertisement type of article text in the Newspaper Cripple Creek Times, and I have seen it as a full size image in all issues I've seen of the publication ''Seeing Cripple Creek'' as an advertisement for the Crane Ore Dresser. The newspaper image gave me the photographer info, just not the date.
Image itself is from operation at the Gold Coin Mine in Victor, Colorado. Making this to be most likely inside the ore-house, as I read all ore was hoisted up and sorted there before being sent back down to level 1 and transportation to the mill via the tunnel. I find it interesting to get this glimpse inside the Ore-house as its exterior don't make it appear to be wood-based, but I notice all the wood in use and yes, the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map draws this Ore-house to be an Iron-clad covered wood structure.
One of the workers along the picking table is almost ladylike in appearance, I like that, as it makes me wonder who that person was, in fact, it is sad none of their names are known, as all these was just trying to make life work as best as possible.
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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 48 in Seeing Cripple Creek, January 1905 (Vol. 4, No. 2).

• Page 76; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 {Different Crop version, same base image] - Published in 1903.
• Page 46; Seeing Cripple Creek; January 1904 - Published in 1904.
• Page 48; Seeing Cripple Creek; January 1905 - Published in 1905.

• My Website: ⊞ Album Page View (Seeing Cripple Creek; January 1904)
• My Website: ⊞ Album Page View (Seeing Cripple Creek; January 1905)
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Colored, Large View at Full Size 4190 x 2775 pixels
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Page 76; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 [Colored]

I-00822
Photograph/Image [#132]
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Gold Coin - 288   14.11.2021 (16:46:51)
Altman Colo. On Summit of Bull Hill. Highest Incorporated Town In the World. Elevation About 11000 Ft Above Sea. Pike's Peak Range in the Distance.
Andrew James Harlan
Image is quite faded, but I was able to enhance it quite OK, and I can make out anything in it I think. The image has two markings on it, left most X marks what is noted on the side of the photo the "New Store" while the right most X marks the "Old Store" of someone in Altman by the time this photo was taken. Also Pikes Peak is marked, and on the backside of the photo it says ''From A.J. Harlan, Photo' Co., Victor, - Colo.''
* Old Pharmacist Mine is seen at far left with a triangular peaked Cupola and a longish narrow structure as a Shaft House, said to be an Incline type of shaft. Quite an extensive dump spread out east of the structure. The Shed poking out towards the photographer is per Sanborn Fire Insurance map of 1900 (Sheet 14, Victor set) for the Blacksmith. The dump in foreground obscuring the west end of the shaft house is part of the Zenobia dump.
* Beyond the Pharmacist, into the image just at right, is the Burns Mine with part of a head frame poking up from the roof. What is in the image is not fully fitting the 1900 Sanborn map, but that mine was not included in the 1896 maps and the 1908 edition shows a different look altogether.
* A rectangular shaped structure and marked with a cross is seen further right, a church in Altman, also seen on the 1908 Sanborn map, marked as R.C. Church, not used by then.
* The structure that was later to hold the Geo. McMillan Grocery Shop marked out in other photo's with an extension not seen in this photo is located at southwest end of the main-street of Altman, or far-right in this cropped view.
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 for the moment.
My Collection; Photographs. Faded 300 dpi Original Scan shown.

• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Original Pharmacist Mine, Burns Mine [Colored]

P-00482
Photograph/Image [#437]
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Pharmacist - 318   Burns - 317   14.11.2021 (13:07:44)
Pharmacist Mining Co. North Shaft House
Unknown
While not the best quality, I have seen way worse views before. Quite a nice view of one of the two Shaft Houses of the Pharmacist Mining Co. Think this is the newer, main shaft, a vertical shaft while the original seems to have been an incline type.
Located north of the original shaft, and seen in a few views marked on the side, that is the left side on this view, as The Marie Mining Co. Or as it says on the 1900 Sanborn Fire Insurance map; The Marie Gold Mining Co. On the Sanborn of 1908 it is marked as Marie Mine, and as being closed.
This indicates this view to be dated to be from around 1898-1906, as it does not show up on the 1896 Sanborn map. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; Scanned 300 dpi Glass Plate Negative; Slightly cropped, straighten, enhanced and colored.
As I own the glass plate negative, I have the physical ownership to this view.

• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Pharmacist Mining Co. North Shaft House [Colored, Scaled 1200 dpi Edition]

G-00050
Photograph/Image [#46]
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Pharmacist - 318   13.11.2021 (22:13:26)
Properties of the Consolidated Mines Company.
Unknown
This view is from Midway along the High Line, or Vista Grande as it also was known as with the end balloon-loop or terminal of the Golden Circle Railroad. It shows a view up Bull Hill towards the Wild Horse Mine at the left and the Gleason Mine at the right. Both part of the Wild Horse Group where the Gleason is known as the Main Shaft, as it is a 3-compartment shaft made on the Bertha lode claim, and was supposed to be connected with a transportation tunnel all the way down to the mill of same company, which never happened.
  Wild Horse on the other hand was a 2-compartment shaft, and had extensive workings as seen on the dumps of the mine as seen on the left-hand side of this view. Dating this view is not easy, it was possible taken winter of 1900, hard to tell.
  I did procure the colored version of this image. 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 for the moment.
My Collection; From page 13 in the 1901 Gold Fields of Cripple Creek Booklet. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 13; Gold Fields of Cripple Creek: Pan-American Exposition Buffalo New York 1901 - Published in 1903.

I-00712
Photograph/Image [#436]
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Gleason - 98   Wild Horse - 99   13.11.2021 (18:42:50)
General View of the C. C. Homestake Mill on Iron Clad Hill.
Unknown
As this image is used in an April 1904 article it can't be younger than March 1904, more likely somewhat older than that, possible I would guess up to at least a year older, hard to tell, nothing in the view to date it from. Though, I have seen from a different source an image from about opposite direction, taken from someplace up on the hill about 1/3 inn from the right-hand side, showing part of this mill and said to be dated 1903 where there is a larger dump out on the trestle going to the mill then it is in this view, so if that other image is correct dated that would make this image to be somewhat older.
Not easy to keep all the mills apart, but a mill called Ironclad Mill, which I think is this one, as I think this is the first experimental Cyanide Mill done by A. H. Heller, is at least dated back to 1902 so it is a possibility this image might also be as old as 1902-ish.
The view itself is of a darker printed quality type so not a good one, showing a large sloped mill structure, which precise location as to which claim(s) it is built upon is not given in the text that came with the image, so I can't fully locate where it was in terms of what else can be seen in this view. I know the original High Line passed this location and I see two pieces of line side trolley poles along the ridge at upper right, which I think is part of the original High Line climbing south slopes of Globe and Ironclad Hills. And out of that, this mill is most likely on the Quartzite claim, possible into the Annex claim as well. Doubt that there are any maps to settle this issue, but maybe I one day will find it out.
In terms of naming this mill, the source text uses the words Homestake Mill, but on Sanborn 1908 (sheet 26 for Cripple Creek) it is called Ironclad Mill while a newer mill is named Homestake, that newer mill is located more where the photographer was standing in this view here.
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.
My Collection; From page 30 in the April 2, 1904 issue of The Mining World.

• Page 30; The Mining World (Volume 20, No. 14) - Published in 1904.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ General View of the C. C. Homestake Mill on Ironclad Hill (Colored)

I-01562
Photograph/Image [#226]
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Ironclad-Homestake Mill - 1050   13.11.2021 (16:49:06)
The Arequa Mill
Unknown
This view shows mainly the Arequa Mill, a large mill operation, it must have been quite a look to see this in person, a mill built upon over time, and in the end it had used both chlorination and cyanidation to treat the ores. In the background, about 1/3 down from top on left-hand side, you can see the Ore-receiving shed of the large Economic Mill, with part of a cooling tower poking up as well. Squaw Mountain is very prominent also where it is looming in the background, together with some mines and railroad grades of all three railroads serving this District.
The view of the Economic mill and the Low Line dates this view to have been photographed between 1900 and middle of April 1903. Reason for that end date is I read that the Arequa mill was fully destroyed by a fire in the Engineering & Mining Journal, published on the 18th of April, 1903.
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 for now.
My Collection; Appears on unknown page in unknown printed book, by unknown.

• Page 332; Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad - Forty Miles to Fortune; Allan C. Lewis - Published in 2002.
• Page 73; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.

• Cripple Creek District Museum: ⊞ ACCESSION 1: A82-414 {Link is Dead - But the Leave it as the Museum Has a Copy]
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ The Arequa Mill (Colored Edition)

P-01259
Photograph/Image [#44]
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Economic Mill - 160   Arequa mill - 310   12.11.2021 (11:54:50)
Lower Gold Hill with Ophelia Tunnel at Its Base, Railroads and Pointer Mine Up Left Near Top.
Unknown
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]
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Pointer - 48   Ophelia tunnel - 49   Mint (aka Index Mine) - 69   Maggie No.2 lode - 533   Red Spruce - 47   Puzzle lode - 534   12.11.2021 (09:37:33)
Inside the Tunnel 3300 Ft From Entrance | Thirty-Three Hundred Feet From Entrance to Tunnel
Unknown
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]
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Ophelia tunnel - 49   10.11.2021 (22:25:06)
Gold King Mining Company's Night Shift Posing in the Shadow From the Blacksmith Shed in Front of the Shaft House
Unknown
This is a great photo, expensive but a good shot of the Night Shift at an unknown time, by an unknown photographer, outside the Shaft House of the Gold King Mining Company's Gold King Mine in Poverty Gulch. The shadow on the wall is from the Blacksmith Shed standing some feet away from the west side of the shaft house, and I so wish I could turn my view and look around, as the view to the right about 90-degree would been wonderful to have been able to watch as I would have seen the orehouse then…
Beside the 20-men making up this Night Shift of the miners working at the Gold King Mine, shown with their miners' candlesticks and work attire, there are seen two young boys seated at far right. Could be their dad sitting next to them, and as seller said, they likely worked at the grass (top side?) helping with tools and such.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see. Source was dark 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.

• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Gold King Mining Company's Night Shift [Colored]

P-01993
Photograph/Image [#434]
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Gold King [aka El Paso Gold King] - 27   10.11.2021 (20:03:36)
Gold King - One of the Best Producers in the CC Dist. Miners Posing with Structures in the Background.
Unknown [189?]
Sadly, this photo has not had the best meeting with time, it has darkened itself, and turned a darker brown with details lost forever. The plate it is glued to has also been cracked/split and overall it is not a good photo, but it might have been at one time. Backside only have the words ''Cripple Creek Co; Circa 1901; Gold King Mine; RSX98'', no names of the miners posing here.
The Gold King Shaft house is the earlier one before they put up the higher cupola over the larger Head Frame they put in at an unknown time, possible around October 1900 as I have seen it reported they closed the mine to put in a new plant that would be a duplicate of one that recently was placed in the Strong mine. I've also seen a postcard with preprinted 190 for the Date with the larger tower in place so I would guess this photo to be from no later than late summer 1900, most likely from before that time though. There are 3 smokestacks in this photo, I've seen four on the more common views of this mine, I suppose that might also have changed in the October 1900 timeframe. I've also have a stereoview with a copyright Date of 1900 with the larger tower seen, so my guess this is a 189x photograph.
Beside the many unknown men in this view, there is seen the upper part of the shaft house with its small cupola for light/air use I think, a shed and the power plant structure with its 3 smokestacks and a vent cupola on its rooftop. In addition, part of the orehouse is in lower left corner with a trestle across to the shaft house, but too damaged to make out any details. Same with the Flag hanging from a pole on top of the shaft house, it is too much blurred into the background to stand out.
My Collection; Photographs.

• My Website: ⊞ Cropped Mine View; Gold King - One of the Best Producers in the CC Dist. [Enhanced]
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ Gold King - One of the Best Producers in the CC Dist. [Colored]

P-03159
Photograph/Image [#220]
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Gold King [aka El Paso Gold King] - 27   10.11.2021 (09:26:31)
ABE LINCOLN GOLD MINING CO.—Gibbons Shaft House
Unknown
This is sadly not so good quality, print-based edition of this view from around 1896, but it is useable to show how this Shaft House was looking in a base form. Do not understand the large side opening where the men are posing, especially as they seem to have a front door opening half the height and more, but there was a reason, I am sure of that! I also know that this view is on Lincoln Hill, in the northern end of the District, northwest of Gillett. I know this is of the Gibbons Shaft House, meaning it is located on the T.F. Gibbons lode, part of a group of two claims that back in 1896 belonged to a company named Abe Lincoln Gold Mining Co. Easy to confuse this with the one in Poverty Gulch… As this other claim is named Abe Lincoln No. 1 lode.
  The scene itself shows four men posing in the before mention high opening at the side of the Shaft House, there is a hint of the gallows/head-frame inside that opening, there is a dump around the structure and there are lot of thin trees making me think of birch trees that we have in Norway where I am located. It is a somewhat large structure, there is a cupola on the top and what appears to be two smokestacks. This is a rare view, glad I have it, as it is the only one that I ever seen!
  I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see. Source was dark 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; From page 150 in a book I think is named Wonderful Cripple Creek District. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 150; Wonderful Cripple Creek District (1896; J.F. Manning) - Published in 1896.

I-02242
Photograph/Image [#433]
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T.F. Gibbon Lode [Lincoln Hill] - 1856   10.11.2021 (08:00:31)
The Lincoln Mine; Exterior of the Shaft House on Lincoln Hill
Unknown
This is sadly not the best quality, but due to the size it is a useable print-based edition of this view from around 1896, showing the Lincoln Shaft House of the Lincoln mine group on Lincoln Hill, in the northern end of the District, northwest of Gillett. Glad I have it, it is the best I have, as it is the only one that I ever seen!
The scene itself shows five men posing with an ore-car and a dog, in front of the entryway into their shaft house, with the Pike's Peak Range in background right. It is a somewhat large structure, two roof shapes, and an open cupola covering the top of the gallows/head-frame, and a high smokestack.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see. Source was dark 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; From page 148 in a book I think is named Wonderful Cripple Creek District. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 148; Wonderful Cripple Creek District (1896; J.F. Manning) - Published in 1896.

I-02239
Photograph/Image [#432]
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Lincoln Mine [Lincoln Hill] - 12   10.11.2021 (07:56:27)
THE LINCOLN MINES. King of Diamonds Shaft
Unknown
This is sadly a bad quality print-based edition of this view from around 1896, showing the shaft house and structures at the King of Diamonds mine of the Lincoln mine group on Lincoln Hill, in the northern end of the District, northwest of Gillett. But still, it is the best I have, as it is the only one that I ever seen!
The scene itself shows a man emptying an ore-car near left side, with a structure to the right that appears to have been built over time as the roof is different from left to right-hand side of the structure that makes up the shaft house of the King of Diamonds. In the foreground a supply of logs, and there appears to be a frame for a structure yet not finished at middle top/down on the right-hand side. Mountains in the background would be the Pike's Peak Range.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see. Source was dark 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; From page 88 in a book I think is named Wonderful Cripple Creek District. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 88; Wonderful Cripple Creek District (1896; J.F. Manning) - Published in 1896.

I-02136
Photograph/Image [#431]
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King of Diamonds lode [Lincoln Hill] - 1144   10.11.2021 (07:42:32)
THE LINCOLN MINES. General View of the Lincoln Mines
Unknown
This is sadly a very bad quality print-based edition of this view from around 1896, showing the location of two or three shafts of the Lincoln mine group on Lincoln Hill, in the northern end of the District, northwest of Gillett.
In regards to what is tried shown here, I thought the left-most structure was the Shaft House known as Gibbons on the T.F. Gibbons lode, but the profile do not match, distance might though, and being in the view I assume it is regarded as part of the Lincoln group of mines but I have no idea which one after I had to disregard the Gibbons. Could be so many claims so for now, it will remain a mystery!
What I do know, is that about 1/3 in from right-hand side the Lincoln Mine Shaft House itself is seen with the smokestack and open cupola, confirmed by another view of that exact shaft house, and to the right thereof is what I assume is the King of Diamonds Shaft House. That last mention structure appears at first glance to be a little different from the other view I have of the King of Diamonds, but the distance is greater, the quality of the view is bad, and there is a blob in this view here that might as well be the cupola on the roof from the other view I have, so I am pretty sure I have decoded the view properly.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see. Source was dark 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; From page 88 in a book I think is named Wonderful Cripple Creek District. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• Page 88; Wonderful Cripple Creek District (1896; J.F. Manning) - Published in 1896.

I-02135
Photograph/Image [#430]
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Lincoln Mine [Lincoln Hill] - 12   King of Diamonds lode [Lincoln Hill] - 1144   07.11.2021 (11:11:28)
Portland Mine, 900-Foot Level, No. 3 Hidden Treasure vein - 35 Feet Wide.
Andrew James Harlan
To be from a printed source I am quite pleased with how I got this one colored, except the men are to yellow for my taste but that is for another time, for now this more gives me association of candle light and what a large flash Mr. Harlan must have used to capture this scene.
View is from the 900-Foot Level in the Portland mine, most likely in grounds belonging to the Hidden Treasure lode claim, as this view was titled to be No. 3 Hidden Treasure (vein), 35 Feet Wide. It shows some mine tracks with a outside the view crossing in foreground, and a tunnel in the background. Four men are posing, one Foreman or important person as he stands apart from the other three men that hangs around a ore-car, all looking to the right so I assume the vein is visible at the right-hand side had we been there.
I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was greyish, 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 36 in a 1901 Annual Report for the Portland G.M. Co. I procured the colored version.

• Page 36; Annual Report, Portland Gold Mining Company; 1901 - Published in 1900.

P-01405
Photograph/Image [#429]
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Portland No. 1 - 262   Hidden Treasure lode - 525   05.11.2021 (07:44:44)
The Anchoria Leland Mine Near Top of Gold Hill
Unknown
I wish this was a better photo but sadly being from a printed source this version of this shot by unknown photographer is not good, but it sure helps that it was a large size filling the whole height of the page it came from in the New Year 1903 issue of the newspaper Cripple Creek Times. The whole page, short text gives me this is more an advertisement type of text feel then an actual article about the company.
View is of the massive Shaft house of the Anchoria-Leland mine on the west slope of Gold Hill, taken from the more south side, and as the text say, this would grab the attention from anyone coming down the hill on the Short Line or using the Trolley system to and from Victor. Based on the angle of the view it can't be far from the Short Line track, but I am pretty sure that if the photographer had turned 180-degree it would be about the same distance to the actual track as there is up to the shaft, except it would be looking down and not up, wish I could have done just that, turn I mean.
I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was greyish, 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 64 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. 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.

• Page 64; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.

I-01989
Photograph/Image [#428]
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Anchoria-Leland - 61   05.11.2021 (07:40:45)
The Elkton Consolidated M. & M. Co. Mine
O.E. Masters
I wish this was a better photo but sadly being from a printed source this version of this shot by photographer O. E. Masters is not very good, taken from the New Year 1903 issue of the newspaper Cripple Creek Times, but it is what I have and it appeared in what is more an advertisement text feel then an actual article about the company.
View is of the more 'modern' version of the Elkton mine structures, with both part of the town of Elkton and Raven Gold Mining Company works visible, as in the shaft house up on the hill in the background, consolidated with the Elkton mine in 1900 as per info in Hill's Manual of June 1900.
I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was greyish, 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 63 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. 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.

• Page 63; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.

P-01377
Photograph/Image [#427]
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Elkton Mine - 156   Raven Mine - 393   Lower Raven tunnel - 154   02.11.2021 (22:48:38)
Bull Hill Sampling Works of The Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Co.
Unknown
Sadly being from a printed source this image is not very good, taken from the New Year 1903 issue of the newspaper Cripple Creek Times, appearing in a group of three pics in what is more an advertisement text feel then an actual article about the company.
  This pic shows the Black Sampler, or Cripple Creek Sampler Bull Hill Works of the Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Co., located at what is, was known as Victor Pass also. It is taken at the south end, and that makes it a rare view as I only seen this before in shots from more southeast, and I like this shot, not because it is a good one, because that it is not, the quality of the image suck!
  But I like it due to it in addition to its being a rather closeup view, it shows better this side of this large imposing structure and while it is hard to make out details, I still get a basic view of this structure normally appearing more in a distance in views from the area. This sampler was served by all three railroads of the area.
  I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was greyish, 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 62 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. 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.

• Page 62; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.

I-00027
Photograph/Image [#426]
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Black Sampler [aka Cripple Creek Sampler or Bull Hill Works] - 230   02.11.2021 (22:45:13)
Cripple Creek Sampling Works of The Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Co.
Unknown
Sadly being from a printed source this closeup shot is not very good, taken from the New Year 1903 issue of the newspaper Cripple Creek Times, appearing in a group of three images in what is more an advertisement text feel then an actual article about the company.
  This pic shows the Cripple Creek Sampler of the Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Co., and several men are posing for some unknown reason. It is taken at the lower end, southwest end, and that makes it a rare view and I like this shot, not because it is a good one, because that it is not, the quality of the image suck!
  But I like it due to it in addition to its being a rather closeup view, it shows better the lower part of this large imposing structure and I get a view of a structure I so far only had seen from a great distance. I see there are 12-numbered chutes, making me wonder how that worked with boxcars which is what is appearing in this view.
  I did procure the colored version of this image. Source was greyish, 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 62 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. 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.

• Page 62; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.

I-00026
Photograph/Image [#425]
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Cripple Creek Sampler [along M.T.] - 456   01.11.2021 (12:33:56)
#X2219 - The Old National Hotel at Cripple Creek, Colo (Now Demolished). In Its Hey Day the Largest Hotel in Colorado.
Unknown
This view of Cripple Creek shows the Cripple Creek Enterprise Mining operation at the City Mine, or Cripple Creek City Mine, or other variations of similar names in foreground left, and the massive National Hotel more in center back. It also has a sign to the right of the hotel reading the name of two photographers Schedin & Lehman up on top front of a structure, which should be helpful in dating the image as there should be a way to learn when they did operate in the District, but I do not possess that info at time of this writing (30.03.2018).
Not the best quality but at that time it was the only one I ever seen so I did not want to complain, and later I saw it in a publication, still not great quality.
My Collection; Postcards.

• Page 60; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 Issue - Published in 1903.

• My Website: ⊞ Postcards Overview; #X2219 - The Old National Hotel at Cripple Creek, Colo (Now Demolished).
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Colored Version of the View in the 1903 Cripple Creek Times Issue [I-00509]

P-00224
Photograph/Image [#276]
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Cripple Creek City Mine [aka City of Cripple Creek Mine] - 896   31.10.2021 (21:52:51)
Group of People Posing in Front of the Newell Tunnel, Cripple Creek District
Unknown
When I bought this I was not 100% certain this was linked to Cripple Creek even if it seems to be as it was stamped with Rex Investment Company on the backside, as a text above the entrance spells out to the words Newell Tunnel, and I have on my 1903 topo map a Newell Tunnel along Arequa creek in Arequa Gulch going into Grouse Hill/Mountain. But later I got it confirmed as of Nov. 12, 2017 this pic was linked to images from Cripple Creek in a September 1898 publications.
View is of nine humans, two of them being ladies, all posing in front of an Adit Portal where the letters 'NEWELL TUNNEL' is written, even if most of the tunnel word is missing in the view. A narrow-gauge track is leading into the portal with an Ore-car standing in the portal and another one laying on its side in left foreground. A Flat-car is lying upside down in foreground right, and a stack of lumber for Square-set building is laying on the ground to the left of the portal.
My Collection; Photographs.

• The Bankers' Magazine; September 1898 [Volume 57, No. 3] (page 448a - Appears on a foldout between Pages 448 & 449) - Published in 1898.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Colored View of the Same Scene

P-01698
Photograph/Image [#424]
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Newell tunnel - 308   31.10.2021 (07:55:34)
#7094. Suspended in the Stopes of a Gold Mine.
Julia Skolas
This was one of those 'can be everywhere...' views, but then September 17, 2013, I saw this same view listed on eBay as a postcard view marked as 'Stope in Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek District.' by Julia Skolas. I also seen the view in a folder marked as being '1800 feet below surface.'
View is of a miner sitting on some form of a stool, on planks, with a machine-drill suspended unto the walls and he is directing it into the roof area to drill out whatever he must do. He is holding a candle holder with his left hand and the machine with his right hand, and I assume it is more for the look then real working condition.
My Collection; View is number 22 in a Postcard Folder called Folding Post Card - Cripple Creek Short Line, Colo.

• no. 22; Souvenir Postcard Folder titled Folding Post Card {Cripple Creek Short Line, Colo. appears on the inside]; undated - Published in ????.

• My Website; Album Page View: ⊞ Album Page View #22 (Folding Post Card - Cripple Creek Short Line, Colo.)

A-00320
Photograph/Image [#423]
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Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Vindicator No. 2 - 232   31.10.2021 (06:49:57)
A View at the Vindicator and Lillie Mines on Bull Hill, with the M.T. Independence Depot in Foreground Right
Unknown
This is sadly a bad quality look due to the print quality and small size, but it shows a view towards the Vindicator No. 1, or main shaft, and the Shaft House and surface structures of the Lillie Mine, seen on the right half side of this view. The Shaft House of the Lillie would when that mine closed be used briefly as an experimental cyanide mill for the Vindicator.
In the foreground left, lower part of the town of Independence is seen, and on the right the mainline of the Midland Terminal railroad is seen, with its depot.
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; From page 58 in the 1903 New Year issue of Cripple Creek Times. 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.

• Page 58; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 - Published in 1903.

I-01984
Photograph/Image [#421]
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Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Lillie - 234   31.10.2021 (06:49:50)
Vindicator Mine Shaft No. 2 and Town of Independence
Andrew James Harlan
Sadly the base for this view is a terrible misprinted quality type of photo, kind of OK on a distance, but then, awful and not sharp at all! Just sad. The view is a cropped view of a photo by A. J. Harlan, and I performed quite some work over it to try bringing out the best possible view from a damaged source.
In the foreground is the middle part of the town of Independence, located on the southeastern part of Bull Hill and the southwest part of Bull Cliff, or East Bull Hill as I also seen it named. In background left is the Shaft House of the Vindicator No. 2 mine, large shaft house that also extended out of the view at left, located at the end of a switchback spur down to the Orehouse of the Vindicator No. 1 seen about 1/3 from top and about 1/3 in from right-hand side. The No. 1 Shaft structures are to the left of said orehouse, and the Lillie Mine structures pokes up behind those again. Several smaller Shaft houses are seen near right-hand side and upper half part. I think the upper one, about 1/3 down from top and in from right-hand side the same length as structure itself, that this is the La Bella Mine, but the other I have no name to offer.
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, straightened, enhanced version of my 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored edition of this image. Source was bad quality.
P-00476
Photograph/Image [#420]
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Vindicator No. 2 - 232   Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Lillie - 234   La Bella - 237   30.10.2021 (10:30:16)
BULL HILL. Delmonico Mine
Horace Swartley Poley
This is one nicely closeup about 1895 photo type of the early Shaft house of the Delmonico Mine on west slope Bull Cliff or eastern Bull Hill, depending on how the area is, was, named. I know this as this image appears in an 1896 book, with views credited to Mr. Poley. Found on the Denver Public Library site (Call Number: P-944). I just worked over the image to create this view, straightened and cropped, colored and played around.
I am pleased with the result, in background left I assume some of the homes linked to Altman is seen, and in the foreground of course the old but still somewhat size over it Shaft house of some operations on the Delmonico claim. I am certain this is the same Shaft house as appears on the Delmonico Plat Map at the more northern end of the lode claim.
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.
View is Enhanced, Straightened, Cropped, Scaled, Colored, from the DPL image P-944. 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.
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.

• Page 43; Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs Illustrated; published in 1896 by Warren & Stride. - Published in 1896.

• Denver Public Library: ⊞ Call Number: P-944

I-00247
Photograph/Image [#408]
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Delmonico Mine [Bull Hill] - 1065   30.10.2021 (10:26:16)
People Roaming Around the Half Moon Mine of Matoa Company in Early 1900's
Unknown
Quite a nice side look of the Matoa Company's Half Moon Mine shaft house near the top of Gold Hill, on the northwest slope. View is mostly in an easterly direction, a little bit northerly too, this being the west side of the structure. The low structure part in front left is ore bins, and there should be a road as per a 1900 Sanborn Fire Insurance map at the low end of it. The top of Globe Hill is seen on the left side of the background, with Ironclad Hill more at right, further back.
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. Source had flaws, spots, much on the sky-part after tweaking the fading of the image, but I worked over it.
My Collection; Photographs. Blackish cardboard frame cropped away version of my 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.
P-01723
Photograph/Image [#9]
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Half Moon - 60   30.10.2021 (10:22:14)
Gold Hill Mines, including the Half Moon & the Anchoria-Leland Mines, and Part of the Original High Line Trolley Line
Unknown
This view of Gold Hill mines are taken from Globe Hill slope below, near the Gold Pass mine, and have captured many of the early mine operations on this part of Gold Hill and hence show the massive amount of mining that went on among the trees. The claims in this area are a confusing mass of crisscrossing each other and I do not know the names of all structures seen, sadly.
In this scene, about 1/3 from top the original High Line roadbed is seen climbing Gold Hill, below the marked Half Moon Mine, making that one easy to spot near upper left. Near upper right it is also easy to recognize the large shaft house of the Anchoria-Leland Mine, but the two shaft houses in front of the Anchoria-Leland is more complicated.
I think one of them, the upper one, is the Mattie L. aka Jefferson mine, maybe the other is the City View mine? Also the Chance, or Anchor might be candidates for those shaft houses, but we also have that small Head Frame operation nearer the track, with a shed over the hoist…
Below the High Line roadbed there are also two shaft houses, one I am certain is the Geneva mine, but one might also be the Jefferson's Co. Mattie L. mine. Other claims are the T.E.M.O.N.J.I., Nada, Tarascon, but also Foggy, Good Enough, Gamma are lodes in this area, and more, so for now (Oct. 23, 2021), this is what I have.
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. Straightened, cropped version of my 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.
P-01276
Photograph/Image [#401]
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Half Moon - 60   Anchoria-Leland - 61   Jefferson Mine [aka Mattie L., Gold Hill] - 415   Geneva Mine [Gold Hill] - 443   30.10.2021 (10:13:02)
Nightingale Mine, Bull Hill, Cripple Creek, Colo.
Unknown
This is a look at Bull Hill mines from nearby Raven Hill with two men operating on the Nightingale Mine in the foreground. A little in near the right-hand side the top of the Headframe at the Maggie Mine is seen, with what I assume is their Ore house poking up at the left of the headframe.
About 1/3 down from top, left-hand side, the Head Frame and Ore House of the Gold Sovereign Mine is seen being built up, I think this is the Jackson shaft, or Main Shaft, or No. 1 shaft, of the Gold Sovereign but has not been able to fully confirm that feel. The Tunnel portal of the Gold Sovereign is in the same area. Either way, this also marks the end of a spur/branch-line of the Short Line down from the High Line, named the Gold Sovereign Branch.
This spur passes also the now large operations on the Trilby Mine, seen about 1/3 from top and 1/3 in from right-hand side where there are both a multilevel Ore house but also a Cyanide Mill, partly seen to the right of the orehouse.
Further uphill, about 1/10 from top and about ¼ in from right-hand side the Dante No. 2 Mine is seen up along the High Line with the Blue Bird looming against the sky just to the left. Further left about 1/3 in from left-hand side the Dante No. 1 shaft is seen with most likely the Gold Sovereign No. 2 Whisper Shaft almost at upper left corner.
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. I know of 11 editions of this view created at one time, two Magic Lantern types and nine Stereoviews as of today Oct. 27, 2021.
My Collection; Magic Lanterns. Cropped 1200dpi view without the frame. 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.
G-00122
Photograph/Image [#414]
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Nightingale lode claim - 907   Maggie - 198   Gold Sovereign; Jackson Shaft [No. 1 Shaft?] - 199   Gold Sovereign tunnel - 200   Trilby - 333   Trilby Mill [Bull Hill] - 1191   Dante - 335   Blue Bird - 209   Whisper Shaft - Gold Sovereign Company - 336   30.10.2021 (10:07:15)
Cripple Creek District Railway Trolley No. 2 - Grace - Climbing Gold Hill Above Poverty Gulch
Edgar A. Yelton
View of the Trolley car named Grace who poses on the 7.5 percent grade on the west slope of Gold Hill, climbing Gold Hill above Poverty Gulch and high above Cripple Creek, along the original steep High Line grade. In 1902 the line was rerouted over a less steep alignment.
* The two Head-frame type of mine operations seen just above the lower end/back end of the Trolley is as far as I can tell operations on the May Queen lode claim on the left and the Granite Hill lode claim on the right.
* About 2/3 up from bottom and about 1/4 in from left-hand side is the structures of the Abe Lincoln Mine, and way down in the gulch one see the M.T. Wye Trestles at the Depot grounds and to the left of them is the spur to the top of the Midland Sampler seen cutting up the hill from a spur a little down from the Abe Lincoln.
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; From page 35 in the book named Centennial State Trolleys. I did procure the colored version of this image.
Source: Centennial State Trolleys; The Life and Times of Colorado's Streetcars; ISBN 0-918654-51-3; LCCN 95-069935; (Yelton photo, E.J. Haley collection)

• Page 35; Centennial State Trolleys: The Life and Times of Colorado's Streetcars - Published in 1995.

• My Website: ⊞ Cropped Mine View; Abe Lincoln Mine Structures
• My Website: ⊞ Cropped Mine View; May Queen Mine
• My Website: ⊞ Cropped Mine View; Granite Hill Mine

I-01627
Photograph/Image [#400]
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Abe Lincoln - 52   May Queen lode - 870   Granite Hill lode - 871   30.10.2021 (10:05:23)
Cripple Creek Dist. - Colo. - ''Pharmacist Town'' Bull Mt. April 20th '93.
William J. Gillen [20.04.1893]
Quite a nice very early view of east side of Bull Hill with some of its mines and the early start of the town of Altman, here called 'Pharmacist Town,' while Bull Hill is called Bull Mountain. Taken April 20, 1893 it feels like a treasure to have, flaws and all!
Near left-hand side the early Shaft house of the Hidden Treasure Mine is seen, while further downhill, the Zenobia, Pharmacist and Burns Shaft houses are marked out, thankfully. There are more mines, but they are not marked out.
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. Source had flaws, somewhat faded, ridges on the photo itself, and it was impossible to bring forward the Pikes Peak Range, but in the end, I worked over it as best as I could.
My Collection; Photographs. Cropped version of my 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored edition of this image.
P-01234
Photograph/Image [#402]
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Hidden Treasure lode - 403   Zenobia - 319   Pharmacist - 318   Burns - 317   30.10.2021 (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]
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Portland No. 3 - 255   Hawkeye Lode [Battle Mountain/Bull Hill] - 1166   Last Dollar - 238   Los Angeles - 239   Colorado City - 240   Blue Bird - 209   Lucky Guss No. 1 - 210   Orpha May - 215   American Eagle - 312   30.10.2021 (09:55:40)
Snapshot from Short Line down Poverty Gulch with Midland Terminal Trestles Down In the Gulch
Unknown
This is a snapshot type of image, taken most likely from a moving Train, as the foreground is rather blurred. Overall it is not a very sharp image either, but it shows a scene that is the first I have seen from this angle, so I'm happy I got it, even if seller manage to sell me it twice as somehow the seller was able to create negatives from this source image and pass that also along as original image, which it was not per say, negative was even worse in quality.
In the foreground is the homes of people maybe fitting the name Poverty Gulch, as these are mainly smaller older Log Cabins or shed like structures, but there are some framed houses as well. About center of the colored view the structure of the Lillie Mine, holding the hoist and whatever else they needed, is seen with its headframe to the right. In the background the town of Cripple Creek spreads out.
The dump of the Abe Lincoln is seen extending into the image from about center top/down right-hand side, and nearly at left-hand side about 13 down from top the upper part of the Midland Sampler structure is poking up its head, with the Midland Terminal wye tracks crossing Poverty Gulch on its characteristics trestles.
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, straightened, enhanced version of my 600dpi scan. I did procure the colored edition of this image.
P-00177
Photograph/Image [#406]
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