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Wild Horse Mine
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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.
Media Info Last Updated:
28.01.2023 (19:39:25)
Title on Image:
Electric Hoist at Wild Horse Gold Mining Company, Bull Hill, Midway.
Photographer [Date]:
Unknown
Description:
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.
graphic for visual presentation of text 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.
graphic for visual presentation of text 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.
Image Note:
My Collection; From page 45 in the August 1900 issue of 'Modern Machinery'. I did procure the colored version of this image.
Source, Printed Items (Found/Seen in/Known):
  • Modern Machinery; Vol.8 No.2; August 1900 (page 45) - Published in 1900.
Source, Internet (Found/Seen/Known):
Source ID, My Collection:
I-00129
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#515]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#515
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.
Media Info Last Updated:
26.11.2021 (14:16:11)
Title on Image:
West Side of the Wild Horse Mine on Bull Hill
Photographer [Date]:
Unknown
Description:
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.
graphic for visual presentation of text 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.
graphic for visual presentation of text 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.
Image Note:
My Collection; Postcards.
Source, Printed Items (Found/Seen in/Known):
  • 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.
Source, Internet (Found/Seen/Known):
Source ID, My Collection:
P-01445
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#447]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#447
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.
Media Info Last Updated:
13.11.2021 (22:13:26)
Title on Image:
Properties of the Consolidated Mines Company.
Photographer [Date]:
Unknown
Description:
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.
graphic for visual presentation of text  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.
graphic for visual presentation of text  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.
Image Note:
My Collection; From page 13 in the 1901 Gold Fields of Cripple Creek Booklet. I did procure the colored version of this image.
Source, Printed Items (Found/Seen in/Known):
  • Page 13; Gold Fields of Cripple Creek: Pan-American Exposition Buffalo New York 1901 - Published in 1903.
Source ID, My Collection:
I-00712
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#436]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#436