Cripple
Creek District Museum website has a image showing a tunnel opening with
men around and a structure in left foreground - nice image, just it's to
little to make real use for me.
Not the mine itself, but on page 38 in a book by Leslie Doyle Spell
called Forgotten Men of Cripple Creek there is a image of
Squaw Gulch looking north from fall of 1891 where one can see the newly
built boarding house and the shed used as a Blacksmith shop for the Blue
Bell company.
In addition, there are a few more structures shown in the picture.
In page 62 of Forgotten Men there is another image of Squaw
Gulch, now showing what was called Anaconda, and in lower left part of the
picture it is mention that the boarding house can been seen, while the bunk
house is just outside of the picture. The Blue Bell log cabin is nearly
impossible to be made out of the picture due to the dots the picture are
made out of. The boarding house is a little easier seen, but neither of
these are good pictures.
Again from the book called Forgotten Men, on page 72 this
time, there is a picture showing the town of Barry in 1893, and in low left
front one can see the Blue Bell boarding house quite up close.
In a book by Allan Lewis called 40 Miles to Fortune,
on page 68, there is a image of what is claimed to be the Blue Bell Mine. At
least that is how I read the picture, as a structure is shown with a
smokestack sticking up in one corner of the structure.
If this is indeed part of the Blue Bell Mine, which I'm not sure of being
that Blue Bell is claimed to be a tunnel site - with as shaft though - and
this look to be a shaft type of mine, there is also another image showing
this structure. That image appear in the USGS Annual Report from the
District in 1894-95, showing Anaconda, appearing on page 175, with the same
structure in the lower left of that image. Being I'm not familiar with
this time frame and area very well, I will not claim either one, just list
the info as I find it.
On page 69, upper picture, of the40 Miles to Fortune book, you can see what I believe the same
boarding house, and what then is the bunk house in front of it, near lower
center of picture, just where the road turns right.
A better and bigger version
of the picture from page 72 ofForgotten Men, can be
seen on page 70 & 71 of the 40 Miles to Fortune book,
making the structure on lower left being a very good look of what is given
in the Spell book to be the
boarding house of the Blue Bell Mine. Spell gives this image the date of 1893, while Lewis date it
to be 1894, either way, the image in the Lewis book is cropped on the
right side, leaving out a part showing on the Spell used image
(Denver), which together with the Lewis used picture spell out the
name of BARRY MID TER RY BUCKWALTER PHOTO DENVER - making this a image taken
by Buckwalter, for Midland Terminal Railway.