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This view of the town of Victor is taken from Squaw Mountain looking east, southeast. It is an interesting view due to many reasons, please check out the 100% view on the DPL site if your curious, as that is a good one to see. About middle up on the far left you see the massive Shaft House of the Strong Mine and just of center to the right you have the massive Gold Coin Mine complex. In the lower left corner, there is an interesting and fun thing to observe, one actually get to see the entrance to a Trolley tunnel under a dump along the original Trolley roadbed into Victor, as marked on one of the earlier Sanborn maps, but not showing any rails on the Sanborn map, I am uncertain if there are any on this photo.
Media Info Last Updated:
25.02.2017 (11:50:57)
Title on Image:
Victor, Colo.
Photographer [Date]:
Alexander P. Martin [1900]
Description:
This view of the town of Victor is taken from Squaw Mountain looking east, southeast. It is an interesting view due to many reasons, please check out the 100% view on the DPL site if your curious, as that is a good one to see.
graphic for visual presentation of textAbout middle up on the far left you see the massive Shaft House of the Strong Mine and just of center to the right you have the massive Gold Coin Mine complex. In the lower left corner, there is an interesting and fun thing to observe, one actually get to see the entrance to a Trolley tunnel under a dump along the original Trolley roadbed into Victor, as marked on one of the earlier Sanborn maps, but not showing any rails on the Sanborn map, I am uncertain if there are any on this photo.
Image Note:
My Collection; Photographs.
Source, Printed Items (Found/Seen in/Known):
  • Page 23; Gold Fields of Cripple Creek - Pan American Expo 1901; The Woods Investment Company - Published in 1901.
Source, Internet (Found/Seen/Known):
Source ID, My Collection:
P-00179
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#108]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#108
This is a photoprint version of a glass negative that I also have, it is a shot of Victor from the area on Battle Mountain closing in on Squaw Mountain. There is an unknown mine to me at the time of this writing [18.02.2017] in the foreground center bottom, then the Midland Terminal main track comes on a filling crossing over from the Battle Mtn. to the Squaw Mtn. hill side. Further downhill, about 1/3 in from left-hand side, and about same from bottom, one see a crib-wall in a curve and this is where the original High Line entered Victor town, track is seen there as well. To go to this location, the trolley had to use a tunnel to cross the ground of the Dead Pine mine with its dump and a big crib wall - I have seen on a Sanborn map an indication of a tunnel there too, and for me, this picture helps now to show how it looked in that area. One another thing I like with this photo is the fact that I can see Gold Coin under construction, I can see the Head Frame, the top of the brick structures is open, and only thing that is covered is the ore house. Way down, in topology below the Gold Coin but in this image, about an inch above the Gold Coin, to the right of the smokestack, is the Shaft-house of the St. Patrick Mine visible as well.
Media Info Last Updated:
25.02.2017 (11:50:40)
Title on Image:
Overview Victor From Battle Mountain, With Gold Coin and Other Mines Visible
Photographer [Date]:
Unknown
Description:
This is a photoprint version of a glass negative that I also have, it is a shot of Victor from the area on Battle Mountain closing in on Squaw Mountain. There is an unknown mine to me at the time of this writing [18.02.2017] in the foreground center bottom, then the Midland Terminal main track comes on a filling crossing over from the Battle Mtn. to the Squaw Mtn. hill side.
graphic for visual presentation of textFurther downhill, about 1/3 in from left-hand side, and about same from bottom, one see a crib-wall in a curve and this is where the original High Line entered Victor town, track is seen there as well. To go to this location, the trolley had to use a tunnel to cross the ground of the Dead Pine mine with its dump and a big crib wall - I have seen on a Sanborn map an indication of a tunnel there too, and for me, this picture helps now to show how it looked in that area.
graphic for visual presentation of textOne another thing I like with this photo is the fact that I can see Gold Coin under construction, I can see the Head Frame, the top of the brick structures is open, and only thing that is covered is the ore house.
graphic for visual presentation of textWay down, in topology below the Gold Coin but in this image, about an inch above the Gold Coin, to the right of the smokestack, is the Shaft-house of the St. Patrick Mine visible as well.
Image Note:
My Collection; Photographs.
Source ID, My Collection:
P-00622
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#103]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#103
This view I have a very hard time understanding how can be seen from the Short Line being that the railroad had no grades in this area... I know that around 1903 there was a connection between the Short Line grade near Goldfield over to the M.T. grade allowing trains to cross over to the M.T, and use it's Victor depot and roadbed into Cripple Creek, but this view is taken up near the Ajax Mine and only Short Line track up there was a branch line ending at the Ajax Mine... The roadbed seen below the cribbing is the mainline of the M.T. bypassing Victor higher up on Battle Mountain, using a switchback downhill further west to reach its station partly visible among the dumps at about middle left. It is a somewhat common view of Victor though, showing the Gold Coin Mine rebuilt in brick after the 1899 fire, and further downhill the shaft house of the St. Patrick Mine can be seen, suggesting this image has been photographed sometime between 1900 to 1907.
Media Info Last Updated:
25.02.2017 (11:49:01)
Title on Image:
VICTOR - The City of Mines, as Seen From the Short Line. Note Granite Mine in the Center of the City.
Photographer [Date]:
Unknown
Description:
This view I have a very hard time understanding how can be seen from the Short Line being that the railroad had no grades in this area... I know that around 1903 there was a connection between the Short Line grade near Goldfield over to the M.T. grade allowing trains to cross over to the M.T, and use it's Victor depot and roadbed into Cripple Creek, but this view is taken up near the Ajax Mine and only Short Line track up there was a branch line ending at the Ajax Mine...
graphic for visual presentation of text The roadbed seen below the cribbing is the mainline of the M.T. bypassing Victor higher up on Battle Mountain, using a switchback downhill further west to reach its station partly visible among the dumps at about middle left.
graphic for visual presentation of text It is a somewhat common view of Victor though, showing the Gold Coin Mine rebuilt in brick after the 1899 fire, and further downhill the shaft house of the St. Patrick Mine can be seen, suggesting this image has been photographed sometime between 1900 to 1907.
Image Note:
My Collection; View is cropped from page 15 in a Souvenir Folding Book called Wonderful Scenery and Precious Gold.
Source, Printed Items (Found/Seen in/Known):
  • no. 15; Souvenir Folding Book called Wonderful Scenery and Precious Gold | The Worlds Grandest One Day Trip - Published in ????.
  • no. 19; Souvenir Folding Book called A Pictorial Souvenir | Scenes Along The Short Line | Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek - Published in ????.
  • no. 10; Souvenir Postcard Folder called The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth. Souvenir Folding Card of Cripple Creek District. - Published in ????.
  • no. 9; Souvenir Postcard Folder called Souvenir Folding Card of the Cripple Creek District. - Published in ????.
  • no. 18; Souvenir Folding Book called O'er Canon and Crag to the Land of Gold; ca 1903 - Published in 1903.
  • Postcard; Published by The Souvenir Publishing and Mercantile Company - Published in ????.
  • Postcard; Published by Mc. Gillis Bros.; Numbered 2576 - Published in ????.
  • Postcard; Published by E.C. Kropp Co.; Numbered C. 2016 - Published in ????.
  • Postcard, unknown publisher - Published in ????.
Source, Internet (Found/Seen/Known):
Source ID, My Collection:
I-00018
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#91]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#91