Thanks
to a web page
by USGS where they have collected a lot of the photographs taking by them
over the years and then
freely shown on the Internet (in 3 different sizes! J) I have now found
a 4th picture of this mine!(6) Still not a
perfect shot, but way better then the ones I had found
earlier, except for the
one that made me start this project that is. J
I also have
seen a tiny piece of the other sidewall then the one
that made me decide to model this mine, so I have in
a way a 5t picture, also from the same USGS
web page.
That
wall is pictured here on my left, not much to be cheerful
for maybe, but I think it is cool and nice and in the
end that is all that matters... J I'm
very happy that USGS have decided to share it's pictures
like they have, having access to such a great picture
size online is almost like heaven for me and makes me
dream of more.
But, alas, good things has an end, and this I think is
all I can manage to find about this mine, and while it
is enough to warrant an update to my model I also think
that is it.
25.08.2005 I found a second confirmation
that this mine had a shaft house fire 1898! According to a book I
have called "Riches to Rust"(5); Three miners where
killed in 1898 when the shafthouse caught fire and they where
trapped below, with no means to get out. They had been at work
drilling blastholes deep in the mine [which according to the book
was situated in the heart of the Cripple Creek District] when
somehow the shaft house caught fire. As the surface crew didn't
manage to contain the flames, the shaft was in a short time
filling up with smoke, spreading out to the workings and
ultimately suffocating all life underground.
What a way to
go, my heart goes out to this men and all the other miners killed
in similar/same type of accident, and as the book says, ultimately
it was accidents like this that made the use of shaft houses being
banned in the western US states during the 1910s and 1920s.
28.04.2005
Thanks to a ebay purchase I got hold of 5 old journals called "The
Engineering & Mining Journal", and in one of the issues I found a
small little paragraph about this mine under news (J),
in the issue of February 28, 1903, page 345 I could read the following:
Londonderry.
- Quite a little work is being done preparing for the lawsuit with the
Wild Horse. The controversy is over extralateral rights, each side
claiming the apex of the vein from which some of the ore in the Wild Horse
is taken. A reciever appointed by the court looks after the ore in
controversy and the expense of taking in out, etc. This suit bids fair to
be an important one.
So, at least I now know there where some working on it in 1903! J
21.02.2005
At
left you can see that I tried adding some sort of a night light to
the mine - and yes, I know Sanborn told me that there where no
light... J Having never seen a
kerosene or oil lamp in my life I have no idea how it should look -
think this is sort of workable though. Not sure about that
cone thing in the orehouse - much polygon for maybe not as good
look...
20.02.2005 Very little work has been done since end of November, I got a
problem with some bleeding
due to Trainz render problems with transparency - and the fact that I went
to Colorado for a week or so in December, and later other private matters
- all "helped" on me not finished of this model.
But, this weekend I spent working on it, I found a solution to my window
problem, even if it ended up with some more polygons and not as nice
"old dirty" looking windows on the orehouse.
The solution was to make the window see-through on the glass part by
using just white and black on the alpha part, then having the texture
single sided in gmax, add a second plane about 2,5cm behind the windows,
with a greenish and darken texture set up as double sided in gmax, and a
copy of the plane making up the window used about 2,5cm behind the glass
part so I have a window visible from the inside of the orehouse too.
The glass part covers all windows on one wall - so I ended up with 8 extra
polygons for the glass part, then another 16 for the inside windows - but
I think it is worth it!
There are lot's of small things I could have done, more details, better
looking stuff and so on, but I'm sort of getting tired of having yet
another "non finished" model so I have also spent quite much
time reducing the polygon count for two extra versions of this to be used
with something called LOD (Level Of Detail)
as the mine is built to be great looking up close!
And, I normally is not that close to it...J
In fact, for the timeframe I want to model it is non working, abandon
so to speak, but I use some modelers license to look away from that fact. J
After all, it's my model, not a true historical recreation as that would
be impossible for me to do alone! If you compare the picture of the model
you will also see that I never made the shed part (at left, behind the
small tank) like it looks on the picture below (the one attached to the
Sanborn map) because I was trying to save on the polygon side.
Still, the main model at this point is at 1889 polygons - which is rather
high, but I have other models that are even higher so...J
Well, I think this is it, I need to see if I can reduce the texture size
and still have a comfortable look of it (in my eyes) - other then that, I
think this is finished.
It is not industry active for Trainz, it never had a train connection,
orehouse is probably wrong, but due to no other pictures then those at
bottom of page I have done my best.
Someone is making a horse driven ore wagon for Trainz, and I might update
my model later to work with that sort of set up, but before I have access
to those models, nothing will happen. Below is the latest screenshots from inside of Trainz!
Taken a couple of days ago.
Inside the orehouse
"Miners" and the owners... (Actually just some figures
from another creator)
Another look of the mine buildings
And another look
No ore, but a chat is always nice...
27.11.2004
First build & look inside Trainz
Mostly done...
After new windows - trouble...
26.11.2004 The
Londonderry or London Dairy Mine as I also seen it called on the Sanborn
map/index gets to be my fifth attempt of buildings/structures of the
Cripple Creek District. Reason this time is just a wish to do something
simple, and since I had a picture I found of this mine showing me an end
side it would leave much up to me to decide. So,
I thought, this one looks nice and easy/simple, let me see if I can find a
Sanborn of it...
Which
I did, Sanborn for Victor 1908 had a map/drawing of it, picture said
it was from 20-03(or08)-1898, and a search on Internet told me a
mine called Londonderry in Colorado (not more specified so it can be
another mine) had a shafthouse fire in 1898 as it listed two men
that was killed.
Other
then that, I haven't found much more info, a quick look in the
"Cripple Creek Manual" didn't gave me more info either,
but until I get that book scanned and OCR'ed so I can search for
words in it, it can be hard to find some things. I
checked my other source for info, the 1906 Geology book I have, and
to my surprise actually found a few words about this mine - even if I
look at is as 1 of the smaller mines! :-) But,
should you, the reader of this have any other info, please, let me
know.
The
info I found was that in 1906 at least it was called "Londonderry
Mine"(1). It was
located on Ironclad Hill, close to Midway. When the book was prepared, the
mine had not been worked on for many years, and very little ore has been
extracted from it. (Which confirms my feeling of it one of
the smaller mines yes. J)
The shaft is/was 300 feet deep, and the mine had it's collar at an
elevation of 10550 feet. It was sunk in granite and schist, and some
drifts run on a vein presumably parallel to and west of the Wild Horse.
The workings also extended a few hundred feet east to the Wild Horse vein.
When
I checked a map last night I saw where this mine was located, and I
knew I had at least 1 more picture showing that area, and just had
to check to see if that mine was on that picture... Sure, it
was just that, but, typical my luck, it was in the dark so I
couldn't make out any details... Just
enough to see that my initial idea was wrong, and that it was a
orehouse I had seen on the Sanborn, and not a small house like I
pattern it after that I could see from the picture I had. That house
was further away, something for a later project.
Picture source(3)
- James L. Ehernberger Collection
I
even found a third picture, this one was most likely from an old
brochure or so as it was very rough and made up of these big dots
that they printed pictures with in the old days. Not much hope for
getting good details out of that one either... :-(
Picture source(2)
- Evelyn and Robert L. Brown Collection
Sources:
1 - Geology and Gold Deposits of Cripple
Creek District by Lindgren & Ransome (page 367)
2 - Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad -
Forty Miles To Fortune [ISBN 0-913582-72-7] by Allan C.
Lewis (page 321)
3 - Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad -
Forty Miles To Fortune [ISBN 0-913582-72-7] by Allan C.
Lewis (page 322-323)
4 - Sanborn map from own collection - picture at map, unknown
source (probably Internet)
5 - Riches to Rust - A Guide
to Mining in the Old West [ISBN 1-890437-60-3] by Eric
Twitty (page 258)
6 - Part of a picture from USGS
website, photograph by Ransome, F.L. & courtesy of the
U.S. Geological Survey. The picture is named rfl00506
and is of Rhyolite Mountain from summit of Bull Hill, October 8, 1903
7 - Part of a picture from USGS
website, photograph by Ransome, F.L. & courtesy of the
U.S. Geological Survey. The picture is named rfl00531
and is of Bull Cliff and Bull Hill from Ironclad Hill, October 8, 1903
8 - Official Manual of Cripple Creek
1900 by Fred Hills (page )
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