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]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#48824.09.2022 (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#12824.09.2022 (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#48925.11.2021 (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#44813.11.2021 (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]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#4404.04.2018 (10:58:24)
#96; Economic Mill, Cripple Creek District.
Unknown
This postcard I've seen in two editions, one with a red/pink color on the text with the Number and Title of the card, and with a more washed out hinting towards reddish coloring on the image part of the card itself, and then this version her, with a Blue color on the text with the Number and Title of the card. I've included link to both cards in the weblink section of this listing.
The scene is of the massive Economic Mill climbing the hillside of Squaw Mountain on the slopes down into Eclipse Gulch with connection to both road and railroads. The F. & C.C. served the mill from the left-hand side with a siding, while the Short Line, using its Low Line route, would have a siding in from the right-hand side of the mill in this view. The long Ore-shed structure with the sort of black opening about 1/3 down from top was laid with dual gauge tracks to allow all railroad cars to deliver ore. In addition, there was a double level trestle entering the main structures, seen about middle of the view, where the lower level was holding the 18-inch gauge tracks coming from the Gold Coin mine in Victor through the Columbine-Victor Tunnel, while the upper level would allow horse drawn ore-wagons to deliver its ores to the mill.
This mill changes its looks over the years it existed, and this is among the latest looks it had before it sadly burned early in 1907 and to be never rebuilt and just fade away in the history of the district as a failure due to the choice of Chlorination process where Cyanide would have been a better choice it turned out.
My Collection; Postcards.

• Postcard; Published by unknown; titled 96-Economic Mill, Cripple Creek District; Red Title Text, with Embossed Image part - Published in ????.
• Postcard; Published by unknown; titled 96-Economic Mill, Cripple Creek District; Blue Title Text - Published in ????.

• My Website: ⊞ Postcards Overview; #96; Economic Mill, Cripple Creek District. [Red Text Color; Embossed]
• My Website: ⊞ Postcards Overview; #96; Economic Mill, Cripple Creek District. [Blue Text Color]
• My Website: ⊞ Cropped Mill View; Economic Mill, Cripple Creek District. [Blue Text Color]

P-03276
Photograph/Image [#222]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#22207.08.2017 (09:07:13)
A View at the Immense Economic Mill of the Economic Gold Extraction Company in Eclipse Gulch
J.E. Stimson [1903]
While the image quality is not that great due to the very limited size of the digital image, I still recognize this as a view west looking east towards Squaw Mountain in the background, and with the immense Economic Mill of the Economic Gold Extraction Company laying near its base into Eclipse Gulch!
Sadly, the lousy image size with its 480-pixel wide view makes it hard to pick out much details. But, I like that this is dated in 1903 as it will help understand other images I have as to when they might be from. It looks to me like this mill is already her as large as it would be, but again hard to tell due to the very limited size of this image.
I think the image was taken from near the F. & C.C tracks as it rounds the hill south of Elkton, moving from Eclipse Gulch into Arequa Gulch so to speak.

• Wyoming State Archives Photo Collection: ⊞ Stimson Collection (STIM/815A)

I-01601
Photograph/Image [#237]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#23723.02.2017 (14:15:12)
Eclipse Gulch Scene Across Railroads About 1899.
Unknown
This view was taken just above the M.T. trestle crossing Eclipse Gulch, and it shows on the left side of both images an early look at quite a large shaft house of the Eclipse Mine, and how it is located between the roadbeds of the M.T on the upper side and the F. & C.C. on the lower side. It also shows a moving train on the F. & C.C. with some of the settlement known as Eclipse below the railroad grade, including an unknown mine and of course the Economic Mill way down the Eclipse gulch at the right-hand side of both images making up this stereoview.
Photographed around 1899/1900, as the mill was built in 1899, and as I see no traces of the Low Line, which was built in 1900, this was photographed in that timeframe.
My Collection; Stereoview
S-00036
Photograph/Image [#32]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#32

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