General info More detailed info List of known images Model page Share/Add info
My Known Images:
Half Moon Mine
This is a hidden text,
acting just like a spacer
type of text in order to
push the Entity info
down on the page. Sorry to have wasted your time/ear to listen to this, I was just trying to get a layout work like I wanted.
This page has a total of 4 images, as of 17.04.2024 (11:36:32).
Most Recent added/changed image is on top.
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.
Media Info Last Updated:
30.10.2021 (10:26:16)
Title on Image:
People Roaming Around the Half Moon Mine of Matoa Company in Early 1900's
Photographer [Date]:
Unknown
Description:
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.
graphic for visual presentation of text 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.
Image Note:
My Collection; Photographs. Blackish cardboard frame cropped away version of my 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.
Source ID, My Collection:
P-01723
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#9]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#9
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.
Media Info Last Updated:
30.10.2021 (10:22:14)
Title on Image:
Gold Hill Mines, including the Half Moon & the Anchoria-Leland Mines, and Part of the Original High Line Trolley Line
Photographer [Date]:
Unknown
Description:
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.
graphic for visual presentation of text 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.
graphic for visual presentation of text 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…
graphic for visual presentation of text 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.
graphic for visual presentation of text 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.
Image Note:
My Collection; Photographs. Straightened, cropped version of my 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.
Source ID, My Collection:
P-01276
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#401]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#401
Sadly, being of type Snapshot this image is not the best one around in terms of quality such as sharpness and bring forward what hides in the more darker parts of the image, but the overall scene is quite a nice one, and a workable look at the Surface Structures of the Abe Lincoln Mine in Poverty Gulch with Gold Hill in the background. I do not see any signs of the Short Line Roadbed, but I do see a Trolley high up on the high Line, I think it is coming down the line, but the image quality is not good enough to find the Trolley roof pole and see where it is raised up to the wire to tell for sure the direction. But, this helps date this image to be from sometime between January 3, 1898 (when regular Trolley Service to Victor started) and middle of September 1903 when the Original High Line section of the track where the Trolley is located was closed/abandoned.
Media Info Last Updated:
14.07.2018 (09:02:13)
Title on Image:
Abe Lincoln Mine Cripple Creek
Photographer [Date]:
Unknown
Description:
Sadly, being of type Snapshot this image is not the best one around in terms of quality such as sharpness and bring forward what hides in the more darker parts of the image, but the overall scene is quite a nice one, and a workable look at the Surface Structures of the Abe Lincoln Mine in Poverty Gulch with Gold Hill in the background.
graphic for visual presentation of text I do not see any signs of the Short Line Roadbed, but I do see a Trolley high up on the high Line, I think it is coming down the line, but the image quality is not good enough to find the Trolley roof pole and see where it is raised up to the wire to tell for sure the direction. But, this helps date this image to be from sometime between January 3, 1898 (when regular Trolley Service to Victor started) and middle of September 1903 when the Original High Line section of the track where the Trolley is located was closed/abandoned.
graphic for visual presentation of text
Image Note:
My Collection; Photographs.
Source, Internet (Found/Seen/Known):
Source ID, My Collection:
P-03655
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#330]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#330
Not the best photo, hand-colored and not very sharp in the first place. Blurred edges left and right, quite many scratches and damages to the photo itself, but still a good idea on how Gold Hill looked around September 1899 when this photo was taken. There is handwriting saying Copyright 1899 by E.A. Yelton, Photographer at 357 E. Bennett Ave., with what appears to be written Sunday Sep. 20-99 below there, but September 20, 1899 was a Wednesday, August same year has a Sunday 20th, but I am not sure what to trust, the date or the day, hence I went for the date and thought the Day was just a calculating error from whoever wrote the date. * Near lower left-hand bottom/corner is the Cripple Creek Depot structure of Midland Terminal. * Near lower right-hand side is seen part of the Midland Sampler with a string of boxcars in front of, and its Office Structure east of the Sampler building. * Up on top of Gold Hill, is seen the Half Moon Mine structure, nearly 2/5 in from left-hand side and a small bit more than 2/5 up from bottom. Painted reddish and seen partly sideways, with some lighter shades of some image damages poking into the sky from it. * Further to the right of the Half Moon is the structures of the Anchoria Leland Mine seen about middle of view sideways and a small bit more than 2/5 up from bottom. It's look make it an easy mine to spot I think. * Even further to the right, a little lower than ridgeline of Gold Hill, is seen the Moon-Anchor Mine, a little bit more than 1/3 in from right-hand side and about 3/8 up from bottom. Several other shaft houses are seen, but their names escape my memory for the time being, neither them, or any other the structures in this view, is really useful for any other purposes then to see where on God Hill they was located, hard to use them for a modelling purpose for instance and there is not much details to see.
Media Info Last Updated:
25.05.2017 (12:01:07)
Title on Image:
Sunrise From Cripple Creek, Colorado [View Towards Top of Gold Hill From Near M.T. Station]
Photographer [Date]:
Edgar A. Yelton [20.09.1899]
Description:
Not the best photo, hand-colored and not very sharp in the first place. Blurred edges left and right, quite many scratches and damages to the photo itself, but still a good idea on how Gold Hill looked around September 1899 when this photo was taken. There is handwriting saying Copyright 1899 by E.A. Yelton, Photographer at 357 E. Bennett Ave., with what appears to be written Sunday Sep. 20-99 below there, but September 20, 1899 was a Wednesday, August same year has a Sunday 20th, but I am not sure what to trust, the date or the day, hence I went for the date and thought the Day was just a calculating error from whoever wrote the date.
graphic for visual presentation of text* Near lower left-hand bottom/corner is the Cripple Creek Depot structure of Midland Terminal.
graphic for visual presentation of text* Near lower right-hand side is seen part of the Midland Sampler with a string of boxcars in front of, and its Office Structure east of the Sampler building.
graphic for visual presentation of text* Up on top of Gold Hill, is seen the Half Moon Mine structure, nearly 2/5 in from left-hand side and a small bit more than 2/5 up from bottom. Painted reddish and seen partly sideways, with some lighter shades of some image damages poking into the sky from it.
graphic for visual presentation of text* Further to the right of the Half Moon is the structures of the Anchoria Leland Mine seen about middle of view sideways and a small bit more than 2/5 up from bottom. It's look make it an easy mine to spot I think.
graphic for visual presentation of text* Even further to the right, a little lower than ridgeline of Gold Hill, is seen the Moon-Anchor Mine, a little bit more than 1/3 in from right-hand side and about 3/8 up from bottom.
graphic for visual presentation of textSeveral other shaft houses are seen, but their names escape my memory for the time being, neither them, or any other the structures in this view, is really useful for any other purposes then to see where on God Hill they was located, hard to use them for a modelling purpose for instance and there is not much details to see.
Image Note:
My Collection; Photographs.
Source ID, My Collection:
P-03192
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#187]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#187