30.01.2006
Model can now be found and downloaded from the Trainz Download Station - Look up KUID2:77573:25024:1. Or use my main Downloads page (TRS2004 or newer only) for a link to the file at the Trainz Download Station.
Or, you can just click here on this Direct Link, need Download Helper and installs direct into Trainz, or Content Manager if TRS2006 or newer.
28.01.2006
Thanks to a few pictures found on the Internet, and from my own collection, plus a Sanborn map I have now made one more of the small mines that there where so many of in the District.
I wasn't able to dig up any info at all of this mine from the newspaper site I use, but as that site only go to march 1900 for the one Cripple Creek newspaper available, I had no hope either to find anything. Reason for that is the fact that this mine don't show on the 1900 version of the Sanborn maps for Victor, and while it show up in the 1908 issue of the maps it is also labeled as closed and with machinery removed.
In addition to the mystery, the mine is not showing up on my 1902 map either listing the mines & mills of the District, but there are mines in the same area shown so I think it maybe changed the name or something from one of the other mines - my guess, the "Jolly Jane" as that seems to fit the best to the location. Of course, I could be dead wrong, so until I have proof I will not testify that it is the same mine. LOL Further Research and info dug up in 2013 shows this mine to be on the Maggie lode, SE of Victor, Mineral Survey No. 9020. It used to be know as the Broken Hill Gold Mining Company.
Neither is the company listed under the 1900 "Official Manual of Cripple Creek" that is suppose to list all companies working the District in 1900.
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So, there are very little, or actually, no info about this mine's name other then the fact that I have a Sanborn map listing it and a picture showing the mine with the name on the roof. The other pictures I have seen have no such name as far as I can tell - and in order to save on polygons and the fact that it's not always easy to match a name texture on a model to a picture of the real thing I decided to not put it in on my model.
Also due to the fact that I have no other information of the mine, no name on it makes it therefore more useful other places too. LOL
I must admit however that I'm not 100% sure the Sanborn is of the same mine as I have the pictures of, or that the pictures all show the same structure, but I'm as near 100% as I can possible be.
Even if Sanborn shows a extension on the back (south side) that don't show up in the one picture I have of that side. - An extension I have intentional left out as I can't get my head around to imagine what it can have been.
The structure it self has this special look (the raised peaked roof on about 1/3 of the structure), a look that makes me feel I can recognize it from most of the other mines in the area just for the look of it. At least from all the pictures I have seen - I reserve the right to change my mind if someone shows me a picture I never seen before though. LOL
Anyway, I'm sure you would like to see some pictures of this mine, so below is how my model looks, and then a couple of the real mine:
The model as it looks in TOE - with some info.
Victor from Squaw Mtn. October 3, 1903
By F.L Ransome (No. 519)
image courtesy of the USGS(1.) - larger image
A View of the model from inside of Trainz.
A View from inside of Trainz, similar to the view below.
Image courtesy of the Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado.(3.)
A View from inside of Trainz, similar to the view below.
Victor, Colo. from the southeast
Image courtesy from the Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library(4.)
- From a USGS website I found some time ago featuring a lot of mine photos from their own publications & photographers.
- My own collection, a so-called Cabinet picture of the Gold Coin mine had this part included. Unfortunately the image I bought of eBay is not the best quality...
- Found in the George H. Stone Collection part of the Colorado College website, glass plate negative #366.
- Victor, Colo. from the southeast, 1895(?) Denver Public Library website