24.06.2023 (20:00:06)
Center of the Cripple Creek Mining District
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1909]
Sadly my panoramic postcard has many flaws to it, it has been bended in its lifetime and also have dents and cracks in addition to being partly faded and using a photo print process making darker spots just dark! But it is what it is! I have worked with it as best as I could. This view is of the southeastern slope of Bull Hill.
In foreground lower right is barely seen some of the houses in the town of Goldfield, while the La Bella Power Plant structure with its smokestack is at lower left. Many of the mines are marked out, and I've seen this view being used to demonstrate the wonders of the Parkison Furnace that was used by many mines in the District. Seen as absence of smoke from the smokestacks of the properties using those furnaces.
I did procure the colored version of this image, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. 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.
My Collection; Postcards; Colored, scaled up, cropped 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ The Isabella Mill {Colored; Cropped; Scaled 300dpi]

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Photograph/Image [#541]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#54120.02.2023 (23:08:37)
The Findley Mine
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill] [19??]
I think this view past the Findley Mine is one great image as it sort of capture the District, as in front lower left you have houses and habitats for humans, you even see at least one outhouse for the toilet need! Then you have the dumps and structures of the reason for the humans to be there, the mining operations footprint so to speak, with many smaller dumps where each mark a mining hole that was someone's dream and hope for a better life, and then you have the large dumps like the Findley one from mines that was in gold and at least impacted some people's life for the better!
In background against the sky you see the various dumps and mine structures making up the area around the former town of Altman, still seems to be some structures left of the town up there, and on the slope down towards the photographer there are these smaller log-cabins and homes of miners, among the mining dumps and Gallows-frames and other needed mining structures making up this photo.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ The Findley Mine
• My Website; Postcards Backsides: ⊞ The Findley Mine
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ The Findley Mine {Twisted; Colored; Cropped; Scaled 300dpi]

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Photograph/Image [#533]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#53315.07.2018 (08:56:34)
Southwest Slope of Bull Hill, Cripple Creek District
Julia Skolas
This view at mining operations on Bull Hill, is hampered sadly by the fact that the paper this postcard is made on is one of those not so good one, and while it scanned useful it is not very good as the dark areas are just dark, and there is some silvery like parts in those darker area, also messing with my scan.
The scene itself is an interesting one, as it captures and identifying some of the mines at this area of Bull Hill, also shows the Golden Circle trackage in this area, with lots of small mine operations around on the ground, with homes and houses spread around and growing huge dumps.
In upper right corner the American Eagle Shaft House and mine operation is seen marked as 'Eagles' while further down along the right-hand side, the Ore-House of the Shurtloff No. 2 Mine is seen about 2/5 down – this had a side-spur, leaving the mainline of the Golden Circle about halfway up the route around Bull Cliffs on the south side, pieces of that spur is seen in lower foreground just above the word 'Cripple' in the card's title text along the bottom of this postcard view.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website; Postcards Overview: ⊞ Southwest Slope of Bull Hill, Cripple Creek District
• My Website: ⊞ Southwest Slope of Bull Hill, Cripple Creek District [Enhanced, Straightened]

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Photograph/Image [#331]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#33130.03.2018 (11:18:57)
Findley Mine, Cripple Creek District
Unknown
I never seen this view as a photograph, only as the printed image used for this postcard and two kind of postcard folders, where there where small images included inside one larger postcard view. This is a nice view of the large operations going down at the Findley Mine, with several smaller dumps seen in the distance, all on Bull Hill, looking westerly.
In the foreground several railroad cars on spurs belonging to the Golden Circle 3-foot railroad can be seen, and I would suspect the home seen in lower right is considered to be part of the Independence townsite even if I can't really see the town itself as that is outside the view at bottom.
The first two tracks from bottom up is sidings used to collect ore from horse run wagons from the many smaller mines in the area, while the spur just going to the bottom part of the right-hand bottom corner is a spur I've seen being connected to mine named Deadwood No. 2 if I've read images I've seen correctly. While the track going of into the right-hand side of the lower right bottom, that is part of the Golden Circle mainline that used to run passed the Independence Depot and unto the end loop at Vista Grande, sort of outside the view twice the width or so of this card to the right, higher up, behind the hill.
My Collection; Postcards.

• no. ?; Souvenir Postcard titled Serie 877. Souvenir of Cripple Creek, Colo. altitude 9600 feet. - Published in ????.

• My Website: ⊞ Postcards Overview; Findley Mine, Cripple Creek District

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Photograph/Image [#274]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#274

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