• Up
Books:
• Various Books
• Mining Companies Related
• Various Annual Reports
• Business Directories of the District
• Seeing Cripple Creek
• The Short Line
  Blue Books

Brochures & Folders:
• Rails of the District
• The District
• Rest of the Region
• Complete List

Image Themes:
• All Entity Images
• Postcards Album

21.02.2023 (21:49:00)
The Gold Issue Mill
Tomer Jacob Hileman



P-03659 [#6316]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6316
To me this view here is a Pearl or a Gem! When I saw it listed on eBay, I just had to get it! It is a really rare view of one of the short-lived mills in the outskirts of the productive District. Named Cold Issue Mill by the photographer Hileman I know it as Gold Issue Mill, possible it might also be the same as the Wishbone mill, as of Feb. 2023 that is still impossible to find a final answer to! If it is the Wishbone, it has also been know under the name Midget-Bonanza Mill, and there is what appears to be an aerial tram coming in on the hillside to the long structure in upper left, making this appearing to be the same mill a greater chance I think.
The Gold Issue Mill is said to be on either Mineral Hill or Carbonate Hill, the sources I have are given both names as a location, on the northeast slope it is said. It was a Cyanide Mill, burned down I think, but looking at the image one of the house like structures at lower right has some brick wall to it so possible that can still be found as a ruin left-over if one knew where to look for this mill.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see, 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.

Gold Issue Mill [Mineral/Carbonate Hill] - 1061   
26.03.2018 at USD 48.021.02.2023 (21:16:45)
View Index Mine & Ore House on Gold Hill
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill]

1916-04-16; one week before stamped card

P-03658 [#6315]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6315
This view here of the surface structures for the Index Mining & Milling Company is a view that has some fame to it as it has been used in several postcards crop-versions and I have seen it used in one postcard folder during the timeframe from when it was taken sometime before April 1916 when this postcard was mailed. From one of the other postcards I've seen the stamp box has a look that dates it around 1910.
In regard to the view itself; I personally love it as it shows the former Mint mine on Gold Hill in all its glory! This mine was connected to the Low Line/Short Line branch through a spur that might have been meant to go all the way up to a connection at the Anchoria-Leland mine, seen a map that even drew the rails all the way but as far as I know it only came to be a roadbed without rails, with rails only at each end serving the mines there. This mine had its connection down along the Low Line at the so-called Alamo Junction, about halfway between Cripple Creek and Anaconda, named so from the nearby Alamo mine, which never really grew big...
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see, 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.
Short Line Related   
Mint (aka Index Mine) - 69   
20.02.2023 (15:08:19)
The Findley Mine
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill]



P-03660 [#6317]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6317
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.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see, 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.
Altman Townsite   Independence Townsite   
Findley - 216   
26.03.2018 at USD 62.018.02.2023 (20:42:25)
Near Cripple Creek, Colo. 1920's | Mary McKinney Huge Dump Scene

1920-01-01
1929-12-31
Rocky Mountain View Company
P-04739 [#8614]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#8614
A view in Squaw Gulch towards the huge dump of the Mary McKinney Mine who's structure is popping up behind the dump, against the backdrop of Raven Hill with still a couple of mine ruins standing here and there. Image is marked to be from the 1920's, and in lower left it is still visible some flat parts, like terraces, from structures in the former town of Anaconda.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see, 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.
Midland Terminal Related   
Mary McKinney - 136   
23.12.2022 at USD 4.517.02.2023 (19:12:50)
Goldfield Colo. July 27, 1897
H.D. Webster & E.A. Yelton [27.07.1897]
1897-07-27; Dated on view
1897-07-27; Dated on view

P-04641 [#7597]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#7597
This is a view I Just had to try Get!!! One reason is that it is dated! Sadly, being a reprint of a photograph, it has some issues, but still, it is way better to have this than not to have it! The dating can be useful in understanding the various pieces in this image, from the structures making up Goldfield to the smaller head-frames popping up here and there in this view, to the rails of the Golden Circle Railroad with its loop and yard visible here in this view.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Golden Circle Related   Goldfield Townsite   

25.06.2021 at USD 6.9916.02.2023 (14:40:00)
Portland Mine + Mill Victor Colo.
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]

1924-07-04; As 14-days before earliest PC Stamp

P-04710 [#8359]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#8359
A view at the cramped hillside below the Independence Mine, and the Portland Mines, as the space been used for making quite a large mill, with what appears to be a slime dam in the foreground. Seems like this has obliviated the roadbed of both the Golden Circle and the Short Line/High Line railroad beds, but maybe not fully, hard to tell for sure.
Sadly though, the Portland No. 2 Mine, seen against the sky in upper right top, this mine is out of focus and not much useful to much more than for location purposes as the shape of it can be seen between the blurred view in that area of this postcard view.
The Independence Mine has lost its Shaft House and has an open Head-Frame, so that might help date this image, same as with the large mill in the foreground, by time of this image being photographed this mill has been bought by the Portland Company, even though it originally was part of the Independence Operations, making this view after 1915 and before July 1924 as this card is stamped that month.

Portland No. 2 - 259   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Independence Mill {Stratton's on Battle Mt] - 921   Portland Independence Mill [Battle Mt] - 1921   
23.08.2022 at USD 14.9516.02.2023 (11:17:37)
View Up at Independence and Portland Mines From Near Short Line Victor Yards


1919-09-01; Give 1 week process time for Postcard

P-04682 [#8172]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#8172
Not much to say to this card, I find it quite self-explaining. It is a view looking uphill at a couple of Battle Mountain mines; the Stratton's Independence mine at foreground right and the Portland No. 2 Shaft against the sky in background left. View is taken from around the Short Line yard in Victor, Colorado, and on top of the rock-wall seen in lower left is the old railroad yard of the Florence & Cripple Creek, most likely gone by the time this card was photographed, impossible to tell for sure in this view here, all I can see in my 1200dpi scan is rails, the gauge can't be picked up due to the angle.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Victor Town   
Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Portland No. 2 - 259   
18.12.2021 at USD 25.5315.02.2023 (10:19:48)
Snow Scene on Bennett Avenue at Corner with North Third Street, Looking East, After the Great Front Range Snow Storm of Dec. 4-6, 1913
[12.1913]
1913-12-06; aftermat of the Great Snowstorm of 1913
1913-12-07; aftermat of the Great Snowstorm of 1913

P-04674 [#7660]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#7660
This is a snow scene in Cripple Creek, Colorado, after the Great Front Range Snowstorm of Dec. 4-6, 1913. The storm dumped up to eight feet of snow along the front range from Walsenburg to the Wyoming line. The image shows an easterly view on Bennett Avenue with piles of snow on the street, which has not yet been plowed.
Two women are posing/walking through the snow across the street to some businesses. Three people are standing on the sidewalk near a sign for Boughton and Alter, Attorneys. A drug store with Kodak and Camera Supplies is next door. A Telegraph Office and a Store which advertising postcards/flowers, etc. are further down the street. The corner door has markings indicating some sort of Bank business.
Cripple Creek Town   

03.09.2021 at USD 15.009.02.2023 (07:31:46)
Granite Mine, Cripple Creek, Colo. No. 2---February 1st. '07.



Henry Sachs, Stocks and Bonds
P-04743 [#8950]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#8950

Midland Terminal Related   Victor Town   
Strong Mine - 271   
01.02.2023 at USD 19.9508.02.2023 (07:56:21)
Portland Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
O.E. Masters

1904-08-01; As I've seen a postcard stamped 14th.

P-00115 [#119]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#119
This is sadly not a good view of the Portland Mines due to the printed type of image used on this card, and a similar card published by W.A. Loper using same image and layout, but this is the only known to me source of this photo that O.E. Masters took sometimes before July 1905.
There appears to be still the grade of the original High Line running through the Portland Properties in this view, as there is what appears to be a bridge on left-hand side on the image part, about 1/4 up from bottom, and that would date this to be in the 1898 to 1903 timeframe as the High Line was then abandoned on the direct down Battle Mountain route.

Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Portland No. 2 - 259   
23.10.2009 at USD 22.8202.03.2017 at USD 3.031.03.2018 at USD 4.9905.02.2023 (21:17:59)
Ajax Mine & Mill
Victor Studio [1911]
1911-06; Mill estimated to be in operation
1912-01-01; Seen Published Date Feb. 1, 1912
The Top of the World Foto Company
P-00344 [#431]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#431
The large sloped structure at upper left is the main structure of what was called the Colburn Mill, aka Colburn-Ajax Mill, and which was built on south slope near top of Battle Mountain at Victor, Colorado, in the Cripple Creek District. Located on the Ajax Mine grounds, which mine structure are seen almost at right hand side, with part of Portland No. 1 making up the background at right-hand side, and Portland No. 2 is hiding against the sky in the smoke above the Ajax Mine structure. Also, in background right is the upper shaft of the Dead Pine mine operations.
The mill was built in 1911, but seems to be gone by the time the Sanborn Fire Insurance people visited the area in preparations for the last set of Fire Insurance maps in 1919 as I have not found it on any such map. I've seen not many images of this mill, but the few I have seen shows that the smaller mill structure between the large sloped one and the mine itself, that structure grows in size over the time of existence, in this view it is how it originally was built. I think, from reading a text description, that this was the Sampler/Crusher for the mill, with a covered belt conveyor running on the ground connecting it to the upper part of the mill.
In addition to the various structures seen in this view there is also shown two aerial tramway towers used for operating the dump, most likely both for scooping it up in the original setup and later for dumping from the mill as I seen text description of the mill giving me that impression.
A lone boxcar is parked along a spur from the 3-foot narrow gauge Golden Circle mainline passing this operation in front of the boxcar. Houses linked to the Ajax is on the slope and various water tanks are seen also on the slope.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see, 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.
Golden Circle Related   Short Line Related   
Ajax - 275   Colburn Mill [aka Colburn-Ajax; Ajax Mill] - 925   Dead Pine - North Incline Shaft - 1037   Portland No. 2 - 259   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   
05.02.2023 (09:23:44)
Ajax Mine, Victor, Colorado.
Julia Skolas

1915-06-27; A week before earliest seen post stamp
H.H.T. Co.
P-00207 [#273]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#273
This view near top of Battle Mountain show a scene around the Ajax Mine where part of the Ajax Mill is seen as a structure at far left, partly visible, then lot of various structures follows as eyes walk right on the image. The Ajax Mine is about 1/3 in from right hand side, having the Portland No. 1 at its right and the Portland No. 2 about middle top of image.
This been a popular view by Julia, as by last check of my database on July 1, 2022, I counted/know of 12 uses of this scene for various postcard editions/crops and postcard folders.
Golden Circle Related   
Colburn Mill [aka Colburn-Ajax; Ajax Mill] - 925   Ajax - 275   Portland No. 2 - 259   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Granite - 261   Dead Pine - North Incline Shaft - 1037   
12.07.2015 at USD 8.7726.02.2018 at USD 7.516.01.2023 (01:57:25)
A View at the Strong Mine on the Southeastern Part of Victor
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-04743 [#8944]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#8944
Based on the ending price on this card I can see I was too crazy for it, as the other fellow was more keen then I had imagined and I should have respected that one, but I feel for the need to have feel as I do feel this image is helpful to me to understand better how the railroads changed over the years as this view do show how the old narrow gauge yard of the F. & C.C. has three lines of standard gauge tracks on them, filling in some blanks I have got after some other views from further west, looking more like southernly while this view is more westerly.
Sadly, the left side of this view is more blurred then the rest, seen very easily on the higher resolution scans. I can see there are some railroad spurs there, and it looks like there is only a road surface on Diamond Avenue which dates this to be after the street track of the Trolley was ripped out, otherwise I should have been able to get a glimpse of tracks on left-hand edge about 1/3 up from bottom left.
The Strong Mine is easily seen with its exposed Head frame and Ore-House in the foreground right, showing mine tracks crossing the Midland Terminal between the Head-Frame and the Ore-House.
In the background, high up on Squaw Mountain is seen the dump of the Nellie V. Mine, about 1/8 down from top, while the huge dumps to the upper right belongs to the massive operations at the Ajax Mine.
Midland Terminal Related   Victor Town   
Strong Mine - 271   
16.01.2023 at USD 40.015.01.2023 (14:43:40)
A View at the Strong Mine on the Southeastern Part of Victor
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03597 [#6242]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6242
Based on the ending price on this card I can see I was too crazy for it, as the other fellow was more keen then I had imagined and I should have respected that one, but I feel for the need to have feel as I do feel this image is helpful to me to understand better how the railroads changed over the years as this view do show how the old narrow gauge yard of the F. & C.C. has three lines of standard gauge tracks on them, filling in some blanks I have got after some other views from further west, looking more like southernly while this view is more westerly.
Sadly, the left side of this view is more blurred then the rest, seen very easily on the higher resolution scans. I can see there are some railroad spurs there, and it looks like there is only a road surface on Diamond Avenue which dates this to be after the street track of the Trolley was ripped out, otherwise I should have been able to get a glimpse of tracks on left-hand edge about 1/3 up from bottom left.
The Strong Mine is easily seen with its exposed Head frame and Ore-House in the foreground right, showing mine tracks crossing the Midland Terminal between the Head-Frame and the Ore-House.
In the background, high up on Squaw Mountain is seen the dump of the Nellie V. Mine, about 1/8 down from top, while the huge dumps to the upper right belongs to the massive operations at the Ajax Mine.
Midland Terminal Related   Victor Town   
Strong Mine - 271   
05.01.2023 (18:55:21)
Lake Broadmoor from Point Sublime, Cripple Creek Short Line, Colorado.
Andrew James Harlan



P-03324 [#5830]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5830
[B] LAKE BROADMOOR FROM POINT SUBLIME, CRIPPLE CREEK SHORT LINE.
A fashionable suburb three miles southwest of Colorado Springs, with its public casino, where dances, concerts, boating and polite flirtations flow on unceasingly as the brock, and quite as happily.
Short Line Related   

29.12.2022 (12:46:28)
Picturesque Phantom Canon, Colorado.




P-03426 [#5943]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5943

Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

12.11.2017 at USD 0.515.12.2022 (18:40:25)
The Depths of North Cheyenne, from Point Subline, Cripple Creek Short Line.



E.C. Kropp Co.
P-03651 [#6308]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6308
I'm not familiar enough with the area to tell where this view is, but I wonder if it might be taken near the Point Sublime, which then would be outside the view at right? The painted in train at right-hand side about 1/4 down from top right gives me that feel.
Short Line Related   

15.12.2022 (18:19:46)
State Capitol, Denver, Colo.



Detroit Publishing Co.
P-00323 [#409]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#409



14.12.2022 (12:25:07)
St. Peter's Dome on the C.S. & C.C. Short Line, Colorado
William Henry Jackson [1901]
1901-01-01; Having a 1901 Copyright to the card indicates this to be a 1901 image
1901-12-31; Having a 1901 Copyright to the card indicates this to be a 1901 image
Detroit Publishing Co.
P-00513 [#613]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#613
While I am not 100% certain this photo is by W.H. Jackson, I still put his name down as the company having the copyright on this image is linked to him, so I assumed it was he that did this image of a Short Line Passenger Train steaming uphill after passing the siding with the same name as that massive St. Peter's Dome looming in the background.
Short Line Related   

28.11.2022 (14:01:02)
Lake Broadmoor from Point Sublime, Cripple Creek Short Line, Colo.
Louis Charles McClure


Great Western Post Card & Novelty Company
P-03180 [#5320]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5320
Yet another of the many slightly different postcard editions of this base photo/negative whereas I only have like 1mm difference at top/down edges from another know postcard to me, but which to me makes this into a different postcard made at a different time from the other known one.
Scene is the same, at Point Sublime along the Short Line, looking across the roadbed down into the Plains where the Lake Broadmoor can be seen about center of the card. From what I been able to gather, the trestle partly seen, indicated, on the left part of the view, that would be Bridge No. 6-B, and also known as the Second Twin Bridge at Point Sublime. Trestle was according to page 156 in the Colorado Rail Annual No. 16 book 119 feet long and 13 feet high.
Short Line Related   

28.11.2022 (13:54:48)
Devil's Slide, Cripple Creek Short Line, Colo.
Louis Charles McClure



P-03323 [#5829]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5829
This card appears to have been cropped a mm or two above the bottom of the other known card, hence I make it a different copy.
Short Line Related   

28.11.2022 (13:52:53)
Devil's Slide, Cripple Creek Short Line, Colorado
Louis Charles McClure


The Great Western Post Card Co.
P-03351 [#5861]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5861
This location was also a common one used for views of the Short Line. I've seen some variations of it, but mainly it is this angle showing the Devil's Slide in the background, about 1/4 in from left-hand side and middle top/down.
-> This card edition is at minimum 1mm less at the bottom part, compared to at least one of the other know postcard editions from the source negative.
Short Line Related   

24.09.2017 at USD 1.028.11.2022 (13:41:50)
Mountain Top to Mountain Top on Cripple Creek Short Line



Homemade; Pasted Brochure Image on Postcard
P-03792 [#6452]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6452
This turned out to NOT be a regular postcard, which I thought it to be, bought with 7 other cards, where they all came from a Cripple Creek Short Line Brochure where there are views on one side and maps and info text on the other side, and where the image parts have been cut and pasted unto some unknown postcard and the saved for posterity in that way.
This particular card is pasted unto a postcard marked on the backside as 'CARDINELL VINCENT CO MFG. SAN FRANCISCO', and hand written in a pencil the number 169. Looking at other cards, I think this was done as a memory of a trip to some form of California Exposition.
-> This view is a doctored view from a view near top of Stove Mountain, I think, looking towards St. Peter's Dome seen about 1/4 down from top and about 2/5 in from right-hand side. A train is painted in to the left of that top, coming out if tunnel 8 going uphill, and the line of the Short Line is seen as various levels down the mountains sides, with the portal of tunnel 6 seen as a small black hole about 1/3 down from top and about 2/5 in from left-hand side.
⊞ Mountain Top to Mountain Top on Cripple Creek Short Line {Large Pixels 600dpi}   
Short Line Related   

13.10.2022 (21:22:42)
Birds-Eye View of Elkton, Colo.


1908; As postcard is mailed sometime that year.

P-03287 [#5704]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5704
While the image quality is not that great due to the age and distance and all that, it still is a very important image to have! I struggle a little dating it as while it has a post stamp of 1908, I am unable to find the switchback from the M.T. up to the coal bins of Elkton Mine, which is shown on a USGS topographic map dated 1902/1903, which together with the showing of the Low Line which dates this after 1900, should narrow the timeframe down quite much, but the Elkton Mine structures gives me the impression this is way later then near 1900.
This due to the fact Sanborn 1900 (CC Sheet 17) shows a different structure here, while photo matches better with Sanborn 1908 map (CC Sheet 30). But then again, that later map fails to show some of the mine structures seen here so that suggest this view predates it. And as my USGS map show a spur not here I must admit that this is from a timeframe of less than 3-years. More research is needed.
Near bottom of this view lays a row of houses which forms the upper part of the settlement know as Eclipse, along Eclipse Gulch, stretching from about where F. & C.C. crosses the gulch and to around where the Economic Mill was further down the gulch at left, as far as I know.
The grade of the F. & C.C. is seen about 1/4 up from the bottom, with a passenger train near right-hand side, heading towards Cripple Creek. There are several mine operations seen below and above that grade, but my knowledge is way too limited to tell anything about any of them.
The town of Elkton is seen on the lower slope of Raven hill in the right-most half of the photo around middle of view top/down, where the large Elkton Mine makes up about center of this card, with the railroad grade of the M.T. running just left of the mine.
The Low Line is seen about 1/3 up from bottom near right-hand side, climbing the hill towards left and about middle top/down and about 1/3 in from left-hand side it changes directions and goes towards right, cross over the M.T. on trestle and passes the Elkton mine on the right side.
The Thompson large Shaft House (I think) is seen about center of view top/down and about 1/5 in from left-hand side, sadly I don't know of any Sanborn map of this structure, not that I can recall at the time of this writing [08.08.2017].
There is also another mine structure at right foreground of the Thompson, left of the Low Line grade, but I dare not guestimate a name for that mine, nor do I dare take a stab at the name of the ones seen inside the town of Elkton either. One is easy to spot, just right of the mainline of M.T. with a large dump area, the other is more hidden among houses, still with a dump though. One day I hope to learn all this, one day.
Raven Hill has it shares of mines as well, but the one I sort of care about is the Bostwick Shaft House, seen about 1/3 down from top and slightly right of center of view sideways, up from right-hand side of the Elkton mine.
08.08.2018; Elkton Public School is seen about 1/3 in from right-hand side and about middle top/down, seen as a lighter painted structure with space around it and built upon over the years so roof is in various directions.
26.09.2021; I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see. Source was grayish, or in common speech black & white. Used an online service and tweaked and worked with image to get what looks best to my eyes at the moment.
13.10.2022; Don Mine is seen somewhat as an headframe and dump almost at corner of the lower street coming from the Elkton Mine area and towards Eclipse Gulch, just before road dips down to cross the M.T. tracks.
Eclipse Townsite   Elkton Townsite   Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   Trolley Related   
Elkton Mine - 156   Bostwick - 155   Thompson Mine [aka Thomson lode] - 157   Don Lode/Mine [Elkton Townsite] - 2477   
07.10.2022 (08:16:11)
Sangre de Christo Range from Bull Hill, C. C. Short Line, Colo.
Louis Charles McClure



P-03427 [#5944]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5944

Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   

30.09.2022 (18:38:37)
The Black Sampler or Cripple Creek Sampler of the Cripple Creek Sampling & Ore Co., Up on Victor Pass
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill]


H. & H. Studio
P-00346 [#440]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#440
This postcard view shows the Cripple Creek Sampler, aka Black Sampler, of the Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Company at Victor Pass on Bull Hill. Photo is taken from Goldfield side, looking uphill in a north direction from a spot just above the Short Line yard which was below the T. & B. Sampler who would have been about 100 degree to the right.
The Black Sampler was connected to all railroads of the District so there where dual gauge rails at this sampler so the 3-foot narrow gauge Golden Circle could bring cars here, as well as serving both the Midland Terminal and the Short Line tracks. Both samplers at this location had dual gauge, as seen on the parked boxcars about middle top/down on the right-half part of this view, where there are a C.M. boxcar, a F. & C.C. boxcar and a Short Line boxcar visible at the yard that was part of the T. & B. Sampler.
I did procure the colored version of this image if that is what you see. 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.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Golden Circle Related   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   
Black Sampler [aka CC Sampler Bull Hill] - 230   
30.09.2022 (11:25:50)
Elkton [Mine and Townsite Area]
Julia Skolas



P-01656 [#2512]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2512
This view by Julia, as by last check of my database on June 27, 2018, I counted/know of 5 uses of this scene for various postcard editions/crops and as 1 photo one. This is the only postcard I've been able to get hold of though, as they been listed with too asking price… Sadly though, this view here has some lightning issues, especially on the left-hand side.
The Scene is from a location along the Midland Terminal Switchback up to the Powerhouse of the Elkton Mine, the mine is the main focus here, but Raven Hill looms in the background and part of the houses in the townsite of Elkton is also visible. In addition, there are several railroad cars seen on the railroad business side of the mine.
The Tornado Shaft House is seen up on the more northern slope of Raven Hill, about 1/4 down from top and about 2/7 in from left-hand side, with a sort of a cupola on top of the roof line. There used to be more shaft-houses seen on the hillside behinds the Elkton, but none seems to be there anymore.
Elkton Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   
Elkton Mine - 156   Tornado - 152   
30.09.2022 (11:11:31)
Elkton Mines, Cripple Creek Dist Colo.
Julia Skolas



P-03406 [#5918]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5918
This been a popular view by Julia, as by last check of my database on June 27, 2018, I counted/know of 26 uses of this scene for various postcard editions/crops, postcard folders and in other printed materials.
Elkton Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   
Elkton Mine - 156   Tornado - 152   
13.11.2017 at USD 1.0528.09.2022 (12:20:25)
Street Scene Woodland Park, Colo.


1910-03-09; Seen a postcard stamped one week later

P-04705 [#8223]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#8223

Victor Town   

22.06.2022 at USD 43.8828.09.2022 (12:20:19)
Victor Ave - Looking West.


1907; Seen a postcard stamped that year.

P-04704 [#8222]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#8222
I've seen the base photo/negative be used for three postcard uses by the time of this writing [14.04.2018], this being the Real Photo one, with an another being in B&W and not filling the whole front of the card, and there is also a painted/colored version of this scene.
The view is Looking West up on Victor Avenue in Victor, Colorado, looking up to the Intersection with Third Street, and beyond that, in right-hand side of street, the high structure seen is the Bank Block, today the Victor Hotel. The lady seen crossing the street about center sideways and about 1/3 up from bottom of card, is to cross the tracks for the Trolley, seen just in front of her.
Victor Town   

21.06.2022 at USD 37.028.09.2022 (11:57:00)
Anaconda A Mining Town In the Cripple Creek Dist.


1909-08-01; Postage Stamp used was Issued from December 1908, and 190(9?) appears barely to lower right of stamp.

P-03319 [#5824]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5824
This is a GREAT view I JUST had to GET!!! Hopefully this is made of better paper than my 2012 edition of this card, as on that one, lots of small sort of bubbles and scan not so sharp and well. In addition there was alot of reflections in it, and, the image is way dark and do not enhance very well.
But, for the view it shows, and the areas I can see it sure beats having no such view at all!! :-)
And, this is still the first image I ever seen showing what I believe is the Anaconda Mill up on Gold Hill above the Low Line grade between the Anchoria-Leland and the Mary McKinney mine in this view!
Anaconda Townsite   Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   Trolley Related   
Mary McKinney - 136   Le Claire or Sunset [aka Peggy Mine] - 334   Anaconda Mine - 92   E. Porter Gold King - 65   Anchoria-Leland - 61   Anaconda Mill [Gold Hill] - 1481   Lexington - 63   Rittenhouse - 66   
12.09.2022 (18:15:16)
Broncho Busting Labor Day Victor [Looking Northerly]




P-03139 [#5263]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5263
Just below top is the railroad grade of the M.T. with a passenger car partly obscured by a water tank roof about 1/5 in from right-hand side.
Further below are several boxcars seen on the F. & C.C., from right-hand side to about middle of image, but many are obscured by the appearance of the Short Line Depot structure on the next railroad level down, several people are standing on a platform on the rear side of that structure, about 1/3 in from right-hand side and 1/5 down from top.
I think top part of the ore-house of the Mary Cashen Mine is seen near upper left, about 1/5 in from left-hand side and 1/10 down from top.

Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   Victor Town   
Mary Cashen - 272   
23.08.2022 (22:52:52)
Portland Mine + Mill Cripple Creek Dist
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03661 [#6318]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6318
A view at the cramped hillside below the Independence Mine, and the Portland Mines, as the space been used for making quite a large mill, with what appears to be a slime dam in the foreground. Seems like this has obliviated the roadbed of both the Golden Circle and the Short Line/High Line railroad beds, but maybe not fully, hard to tell for sure.
Sadly though, the Portland No. 2 Mine, up in upper right top is way out of focus and not useful at all except for location purposes as the shape of it can be seen between the very blurred view in that area of this postcard view. The Independence Mine has lost its Shaft House and has an open Head-Frame, so that might help date this image, same as with the large mill in the foreground, by time of this image being photographed this mill has been bought by the Portland Company, even though it originally was part of the Independence Operations.
⊞ Portland Mine + Mill Cripple Creek Dist {Enhanced}   

Independence Mill {Stratton's on Battle Mt] - 921   Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Portland No. 2 - 259   
17.08.2022 (11:33:09)
APPROACHING DUFFIELD. Colo. Springs & Cripple Creek Short Line.
Louis Charles McClure


The Souvenir Publishing and Mercantile Company
P-00688 [#1015]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1015
This view is from a top of Tunnel No. 8 on the Short Line, looking uphill towards Duffields, and is a popular view to show off the Short Line railroad. This and similar vies have been used over and over in publications, postcards, image books etc., to sell the railroad trip to tourists.
Short Line Related   

18.09.2010 at USD 2.317.08.2022 (11:33:09)
Approaching Duffield on C.C. Short Line, Colo.
Louis Charles McClure



P-03356 [#5866]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5866
Has at least 3-4mm less at the left-hand side from the other know card.
Short Line Related   

24.09.2017 at USD 1.017.08.2022 (11:33:09)
Duffields, Cripple Creek Short Line, Colorado.
Louis Charles McClure


The Great Western Post Card Co.
P-02115 [#3641]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3641
This view is from a top of Tunnel No. 8 on the Short Line, looking uphill towards Duffields, and is a popular view to show off the Short Line railroad. This and similar vies have been used over and over in publications, postcards, image books etc., to sell the railroad trip to tourists.
Short Line Related   

06.07.2013 at USD 1.5424.09.2017 at USD 1.016.08.2022 (19:21:03)
Cathedral Rocks, Clyde Park, C. C. Short Line, Colo.
Louis Charles McClure



P-03355 [#5865]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5865
This is a very common view when it comes to views of the Short Line. I've seen some variations of it, but mainly it is this angle showing the trestle and the strange formations making up the background. Those are the famed Cathedral Park rocks, a very special rock formation, Google it to read up on the geology behind it if you want.
BTW, this bridge was named Bridge No. 30-A, it crossed Bison Creek and was filled in prior to 1911 according to page 46 & 156 in Colorado Rail Annual No. 16.
-> This card edition is at minimum 2mm less at the bottom part, compared to at least one of the other know postcard editions from the source negative.
Short Line Related   

24.09.2017 at USD 1.016.08.2022 (19:20:33)
Cathedral Rocks, Clyde Park, C. C. Short Line, Colo.
Louis Charles McClure


H.H.T. Co.
P-03322 [#5828]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5828
[B] CATHEDRAL PARK.
At Clyde, on the road to Cripple Creek, a most wonderful exhibition is seen at Cathedral Park. The mass of richly colored rocks, torn by tempests of a thousand years, rear their heads in all manner of fantastics shapes, towers, steeples, vaulted cones, leaping arches and the forms of mighty buildings brushing each other in wild disorder.
Short Line Related   

16.08.2022 (19:17:14)
Cathedral Rocks and Clyde Park, Colorado.
Louis Charles McClure


The W.H. Kistler Stat'y Co.
P-03308 [#5745]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5745
This is a very common view when it comes to views of the Short Line. I've seen some variations of it, but mainly it is views from his angle showing the trestle and the strange formations making up the background. Those are the famed Cathedral Park rocks, a very special rock formation, Google it to read up on the geology behind it if you want.
BTW, this bridge was named Bridge No. 30-A, it crossed Bison Creek and was filled in prior to 1911 according to page 46 & 156 in Colorado Rail Annual No. 16.
Short Line Related   

24.09.2017 at USD 1.015.07.2022 (08:11:15)
Flow of Water Making a Waterfall at the Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel Portal Site




P-03721 [#6378]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6378
This view is of water making a small waterfall below the portal area of the Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel, which I know it is at, as I had compared this with other known views of the flow of water from the Roosevelt Drainage tunnel, and it match views from that location when looking at the middle part on this view where there is a log on the right-hand side...
⊞ Flow of Water Making a Waterfall at the Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel Portal Site {Enhanced}   

Roosevelt Tunnel - 916   
08.07.2022 (07:29:11)
Gold Coin Mine, Cripple Creek District


1906-08-28; as in 1 week before seen post stamp of Sep. 4, 1906

P-00239 [#306]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#306
This is not the best views of the Gold Coin mine, due to the print type of process behind this postcard. It did not scan well and details are lost to the dots making up the image. But, it does show yet another image that at least at one time did exist out there as a negative, with three mines visible. Also, we see some train activity on the F. & C.C. tracks at the lower left part of the view.
In the prominent place about center of view we of course see the massive brick structures of the Gold Coin mine!
In foreground, lower part right-hand side of the view, we see part of the cribbing of the Mary Cashen mine, and its dump area inside the crib-wall.
In lower right-hand corner one also see a piece of the Victor Public Sampler structure, rest is outside the view in this card.
A little less than 1/3 left from the right-hand side, about 1/3 down from the top, behind the roof part of the engine room part of the Gold Coin, the head frame of the Golconda mine is poking up among the roof tops of the houses in the background.
Victor Town   
Mary Cashen - 272   Golconda - 287   Gold Coin - 288   
04.04.2010 at USD 10.2515.09.2010 at USD 16.5906.12.2010 at USD 10.6102.07.2012 at USD 21.0104.08.2013 at USD 6.53511.05.2015 at USD 24.512.07.2015 at USD 26.6606.03.2016 at USD 9.4921.12.2016 at USD 13.4905.07.2022 (13:06:35)
Summit Along the C.S. & C.C.D., on the Way to Cripple Creek, Colo.




P-03912 [#6589]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6589
This is a nice view of the Summit Lunch House along the Short Line to Cripple Creek. I've seen it before, so this was probably made as more then 1 card, even if the two girls posing gives it the feel of a more personal type of card. There is no publisher given, nor a photographer, but I think the card been displayed and sold there at the Lunch House for tourist to buy and send a note to friends just like the sender of this card has done, even if it lacks a stamp this card.
There was a 10-minuttes stop for Lunch her at Summit, was also a meet place for East and West bound trains, as evidenced by the two sets of tracks seen here, making me believe the children seen are two living up here with their parents who runs the Lunch House as there are no trains visible making it less likely to be tourists.
Short Line Related   

13.11.2012 at USD 29.6904.08.2017 at USD 13.005.07.2022 (13:03:56)
The Summit Lunch Room CS & CCD at Rosemont, Colorado




P-01806 [#2821]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2821
This is a nice view of the Summit Lunch House along the Short Line to Cripple Creek. I've seen it before, so this was probably made as more then 1 card, even if the two girls posing gives it the feel of a more personal type of card. There is no publisher given, nor a photographer, but I think the card been displayed and sold there at the Lunch House for tourist to buy and send a note to friends just like the sender of this card has done, even if it lacks a stamp this card.
There was a 10-minuttes stop for Lunch her at Summit, was also a meet place for East and West bound trains, as evidenced by the two sets of tracks seen here, making me believe the children seen are two living up here with their parents who runs the Lunch House as there are no trains visible making it less likely to be tourists.
Short Line Related   

13.11.2012 at USD 29.6904.08.2017 at USD 13.001.11.2020 at USD 20.504.07.2022 (19:01:31)
Granite Mine, Formerly ''Gold Coin'', Cripple Creek District




P-00048 [#53]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#53
This postcard view shows the Gold Coin Mine in Victor in all its glory. Sadly, being of the painted/colored printed type of postcard, the quality is not that great, but I've done what I can to make the view as best I can.
Focusing more on the Ore-house than on the more commonly focused Shaft-house, as would have been seen from the more common view-angle looking into mine from the right-hand side of this view. One gets to see the stone foundation walls of the orehouse which still for the most part is still there in Victor, with its brick-based shaft-house with the stained-glass windows and tower like part over the top of the head frame. Sadly, the brick part of the structure is gone today, same is of course the smokestack which in this view is very visible.
In the background, Squaw Mountain is seen, with the mainline of the M.T. visible with some boxcars and other railroad cars just behind the top of the orehouse, most on the left side of the card.
Victor Town   
Gold Coin - 288   
04.06.2013 at GBP 1.7517.02.2014 at USD 4.510.12.2017 at USD 4.501.04.2018 at USD 5.006.07.2018 at USD 1.3404.07.2022 (18:50:30)
Independence Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
Schedin & Lehman


E.C. Kropp Co.
P-03405 [#5917]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5917
This view of the large Independence Mine has been a popular one as I've seen it appearing on lots of postcards where there are tiny differences in where the sides been cropped, and that goes for both the B&W card and the ones like these, that has been colored/painted. Also shown up in printed materials and postcard folders.
The scene shows some Midland Terminal tracks in lower left, passing by and serving the Ore-House with the dark shades up the side of the structure due to the steam train used back then. A map I've seen also indicates that Ore-house to have had 3-rails, as in dual gauge, as to be served by the Golden Circle Railroad also.
Further into the image, in from right-hand side and about middle top/down there is another Ore-House and the before mention map (page 301 in the 40-Miles to Fortune book by Allen Lewis) also say that this was served by dual gauge track. That map also says that the structure between those before mention ore-houses is a Mill – the one with the twin peaked roofs meeting each other, before going into a third peaked roof 90-degree turned from those two.
In the background, up against the sky, is the Portland Mine No. 1 seen in from the right-hand side, while about center sideways is the Ajax Mine visible against the sky.
Midland Terminal Related   
Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Ajax - 275   
04.07.2022 (18:46:46)
Scenes of the Col. Spgs. and Cripple Creek Dist. Ry., Portland and Independence Mines, Victor, Colo.
Louis Charles McClure



P-03403 [#5915]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5915
This view by L. C. McClure from 'inside' 'half-loop' of the F. & C.C. entering the southeast slope of Battle Mountain to get to Victor, seems to be from around 1906-1907 as the large Independence Mill has yet to come into existence, but there area several structures that might be the test mill I've seen reported about in that timeframe. Also, it looks like the No. 1 shaft of the Portland mine is now an open Head frame and I've seen reports of all the surface structures of the Portland No. 1 burning in May 1906, dating this view to be after that timeframe.
In the foreground the fill on the roadbed for the 3-foot gauge Florence & Cripple Creek railroad is seen, passing under the trestle bringing the High Line and the Short Line standard gauge track into Victor outside the view at left. The roadbed of the Golden Circle railroad is partly visible about middle top/down of this view, and then the Stratton's Independence Mine is seen taking up about half width on the left part of this view, while the Ajax Mine is seen with its single smokestack poking up against the sky on the left background.
The Portland Nos. 1 & 2 make up the right half background part of this view, the no. 2 shaft being the upper one, with the long dumps out from each side of the mine structures.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   
Sundown lode - 27_884   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Portland No. 2 - 259   Ajax - 275   
13.11.2017 at USD 0.9901.07.2022 (20:45:41)
Union Mill Gold Ore Reduction [Mill Near Florence, Colorado]


1907-09-16; Seen a Postcard Stamp 1 week later

P-03346 [#5856]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5856
This is a view I Just had to Get!!! Being a view of the Union Mill gold ore reduction works on a hill north of Florence, Colorado, south of the Cripple Creek Mining District, it is an important view to help me understand the area better. In regard to the direction of the view in this photo, I am not confident enough to say for certain as I have never seen a footprint of this mill, there are no known Sanborn Fire Insurance Map for instance of it. I have seen this and a couple of other views, and that is it! But, if I were forced to guess I would say this is a northeast view, but I do not know.
What I do know is that this was a huge Chlorination Mill built to handle Cripple Creek ore, and that it had two other neighbors close by of mills, and not a too far distance to the west there was a third competitor in form of a Cyanide mill, located alongside the mainline of the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad while this mill, and its neighbor mills was on a branch line.
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 the moment.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   
Union Mill [aka U.S. Economic Reduction Co.] - 454   
20.05.2022 (09:05:28)
The United States Gold Reduction Works, Florence, Colo.


1907-09-16; Seen a Postcard Stamp 1 week later
SL & Co.
P-03347 [#5857]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5857
This is a view I Just had to Get!!! Being a view of the Union Mill gold ore reduction works on a hill north of Florence, Colorado, south of the Cripple Creek Mining District, it is an important view to help me understand the area better. In regard to the direction of the view in this photo, I am not confident enough to say for certain as I have never seen a footprint of this mill, there are no known Sanborn Fire Insurance Map for instance of it. I have seen this and a couple of other views, and that is it! But, if I were forced to guess I would say this is a northeast view, but I do not know.
What I do know is that this was a huge Chlorination Mill built to handle Cripple Creek ore, and that it had two other neighbors close by of mills, and not a too far distance to the west there was a third competitor in form of a Cyanide mill, located alongside the mainline of the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad while this mill, and its neighbor mills was on a branch line.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   
Union Mill [aka U.S. Economic Reduction Co.] - 454   
03.05.2022 (08:42:29)
Birds Eye View Cripple Creek, Colo. Showing Pikes Peak in Distance.




P-03862 [#6538]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6538

Cripple Creek Town   

15.08.2018 at USD 2.2630.04.2022 (18:31:42)
Roosevelt Deep Drainage Tunnel
L.J. Oakes
1907; The year this drainage tunnel was started.
1912-08-14; This due to another copy of this card seen post stamped the day after this date.
The Top of the World Foto Company
P-03502 [#6059]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6059
This postcard was to lovely to miss out, even if I have another copy of it... A great view of the Portal of the great Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel, marked as photo by L.J. Oakes while my other copy says Victor Studio, and they both are marked as a ''The Top of the World Foto Company'' postcard on the backside. One of my cards is post marked August 15, 1912 so that help date this image as it must have been taken at least the day before that date, most likely months, possible even year(s) before.
The scene is showing the water rushing out from the tunnel so the work on it must somehow have either stopped for a while, or even be looked upon as finished, I do not know. There is a lot of water coming so possible there is a story behind this image.
What I see when I compare this to another postcard that did show people and equipment is that the large pipe for compressed air that was running out from the tunnel, connecting to the structure just right of the tunnel, that is missing in this scene.

Roosevelt Tunnel - 916   
17.04.2022 (09:26:00)
Portland Mine Cripple Creek District, Col.
Julia Skolas


E.C. Kropp Co.
P-03074 [#5140]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5140
The base photo/negative seems quite popular to use to show the Portland Mines, as I've seen it used by time of writing this [09.04.2018] 13 times, mostly postcards from B&W to painted/colored ones, but I also have it in one postcard folder. Some views are like this one, from a printed image source, others are real photo but sadly I never been able to get hold off one of those at an OK price.
This view of the great Portland Mine shows in the foreground the Number 1 shaft (aka Burns Shaft) where the shaft house seems to be gone, and the head frame is exposed for some reason. As there is still a shaft house over the Number 2 shaft in upper right background, I am not sure if this is from the time frame when shaft houses were banned due to their fire hazard, or some other reason.
Either way, the operation here is massive by just judging it by the huge crib-wall along the center of the view, and the enormous piles of waste rock filling the area around the structures.
View shows in addition to the two shafts, just below right-hand side center the Portland Ware House and then the Office structure is the large building between shaft 1 and warehouse. The old Shaft House behind/uphill from the office is the old Scranton shaft or hoist as Sanborn 1896/1900 calls it.

Portland No. 2 - 259   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Scranton Shaft - 1058   
15.04.2022 (13:04:24)
A View at the Vindicator and Lillie Mines on Bull Hill, with the M.T. Independence Depot in Foreground Right
Julia Skolas

1908-07-03; Seen a printed/lithograph type of postcard dated July 10, which gives at least 1 week to process/create, hence the latest date used.

P-03544 [#6189]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6189
This unmarked postcard view here is the same as marked postcard views by Julia Skolas in my possession, but this seems to be the best of the ones I've seen, even if it is a smaller crop from the source image then the other versions I've seen.
In lower left part of the lower Independence town is seen, with the Midland Terminal Depot seen in lower right, and strangely enough, what appears to be dual gauge tracks on the curve closest to the depot structure, wonder if it is true dual or just guard rail for the curve…
Above the M.T. depot at top right is the old Lillie Mine Shaft Structures seen in all its glory, but I can't tell if this is before or after it was closed as a mine and reused as a Mill for the Vindicator Mine, seen to the left, about center sideways and about 1/3 down from the top. Poking out from the Vindicator Ore-House is seen yet another structure and that leads to a chute down to the M.T. tracks and some form of Ore-Bin down there, presumable some form of mill operations.
Near upper left a string of railroad cars appearing to be passenger cars can be seen, not quite understanding that as that should be on the High Line grade and if they are parked there, that makes this after the Trolley Services closed in 1919, but I am not sure why they are up there or not. Studying a 1200dpi scan it appears the cars may be located below the High Line tracks as there appears to be a line pole a little bit higher up, so maybe the cars are standing on what was a siding there, after all, the track appears to be level where the cars are standing.
Independence Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   High Line   
Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Lillie - 234   
05.03.2022 (12:09:19)
Reduction Works, Colorado City, Colo.




P-02181 [#3713]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3713
This postcard view of the massive Colorado-Philadelphia Mill, and the Standard Mill helps give the impression on how huge these mills can be, laying in the outskirts to the west of Colorado City, with what I believe is the mainline of the Colorado Midland seen along the bottom edge.
If I am correct the structures to the right are part of the Standard Mill, while the ones furthest away, left side of the card, those are the structures of the Colorado-Philadelphia Mill.
Colorado City   Colorado Midland Related   Midland Terminal Related   
Colorado-Philadelphia Mill - 890   Standard Mill [aka Colorado-Standard Mill] - 1047   
06.04.2010 at USD 13.519.07.2010 at USD 6.017.02.2022 (08:35:36)
People Crowd in Streets at the National Hotel in Cripple Creek Regarding Western Federation of Miners Union trial




P-00154 [#179]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#179
This view up North 4th Street in Cripple Creek town, from corner of Bennett Avenue, with the National Hotel in background right, is dating to the time of the Trial of the Western Federation of Mines leaders during the Labor Wars around 1903. Writer of the card mention no specific date, nor a year, neither was he able to find himself in the image it seems. He sent this to his mother I gather from some other cards I got from same seller, Ernest something.
Sadly, there is some issues with dark spots and finger marks on the image, and I was unable to fix the darken area, so what is happening in the dark area on the left-hand side, no idea. Still, it is a nice shot of the west side of the National Hotel.
Cripple Creek Town   

16.01.2022 (16:35:43)
Cripple Creek, Colo. [Overview Victor From Squaw Mountain]

1900; As the Bank Block structure is visible and that was completed by December 1899
1902; Image lacks the Catholic Church, which was started building in 1902
Sanborn
P-01046 [#1667]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1667
Sadly, this is a printed view, but I feel it is an important view as it fails to show the brick Shaft House of the Gold Coin Mine, only the covered walkway from shaft to the ore house is standing there. The head frame though feels wrong for the one that was put up after the fire, inside the shaft house, which made me first think this is was a later image, after they tore down the shaft house of the Gold Coin around end of 1920.
But then a friend, La Jean Greeson, pointed out to me that the Catholic Church, across from the Washington School – a church still standing in Victor – is not yet built in this view, and that dates this to be before they started building the church in 1902. Thanks La Jean! The before mention Washington School can be seen about 1/3 in from the right-hand side, and about half bottom/top, and the church shall be built left of this school structure, at the corner of 2nd Street and Portland Avenue.
The use of this smaller head frame and wood structures for the Gold Coin tells how important it was to get the mine up and running again, but they certainly have changed things allot in the ground where Gold Coin was located. As I have a dated photo from July 1901 with a completed Gold Coin in brick, this image here must be from around 1900, not sure exact but the Bank Block structure, later to be Victor Hotel, was completed by end of December 1899 – this structure can be seen as the large 4 story corner building behind the smokestack of the Gold Coin, about 1/3 up from bottom and same in from the right-hand side.
Up near the F. & C.C. railroad yard, depot, near lower left corner, the Elks Lodge structure at corner of 3rd street and Diamond Avenue, seems to either being rebuilt or built, as it is clearly in this view a more ruin looking structure then the nice-looking structure it is.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Victor Town   
Gold Coin - 288   Jefferson - 290   Maggie Mine - 893   
13.04.2011 at USD 35.5510.01.2022 (11:56:08)
Drawing Rations, Camp Goldfield, Colorado
E.A. Yelton & M.A. Wisda [1903]



P-00161 [#223]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#223
This view, also found at Denver Public Library as a true photograph, of bad quality due to being a printed type of image on a postcard, is credited to been photographed at Camp Goldfield during the Labor War in early 1900's, and being there is dual gauge seen at the junction in front left, this has to be close to the Portland Mine No. 1 as that is the only dual gauge I know of in that area. At a time, there was some dual gauge along part of the M.T. mainline near the original T. & B. Sampler below the Portland and I've heard there where dual gauge at the Eagle Sampler, but all this is close to the Portland Mine in my book.
What all this leads to is me saying I can't say exact where this image was photographed! All I can say that is shows several soldiers standing among the tracks, and there is at least two, but I think might be three, cows with them, whereas two of the men seems to try milk one of the cows.
Golden Circle Related   Midland Terminal Related   

10.01.2022 (11:30:42)
The Denver City Troop, Camp Goldfield, Colorado.
E.A. Yelton & M.A. Wisda



P-03552 [#6197]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6197
While not being a great quality wise card on the image part, it still is an important view as it names the group of soldiers posing for the base negative of this scene, and to me that was important as I have a photograph from a slight different angle, same group of men, and now, thanks to this card, I have a link to who they might have been! Even of there is still confusion as I also know about a photograph of this scene, as found on Denver Public Library website as Call Number CHS.X9304.
This card also helped me dig up the name of the Shaft House seen about straight up from the hat of the Officer up front, as that is the Chesapeake Shaft House, while those further back is too hard to make out. Cut off at the top more left, is the bridge carrying the Golden Circle track across the Midland Terminal tracks, and that is the info I have.
Golden Circle Related   Midland Terminal Related   
Chesapeake - 264   
25.11.2021 (12:52:09)
Bull Hill Mines Victor Colo
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-01398 [#2208]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2208
I don't know when the photo was by Lehr was taken, being a postcard there might have been a clue as the backside of the card is marked with a square AZO mark, indicating the card to be from the 1926 to the 1940's, but the image itself is earlier than that timeframe!
Reason it cannot be the timeframe the card is from is that there is no trace of the spur up to the Blue Bird Mine (spur was built in 1903). But the High Line is there so this is from early 1898 till about early 1903, depending on when the Blue Bird spur was created. Another clue to dating this is that the mines of the Gold Sovereign has not became big operations yet. This as I have seen a 1908 image from a different angle showing a totally different scene here, making this an earlier view!
There are lot of work going on in this view though, from the American Eagle against the sky at top to the large dump of the John A. Logan Mine and the Dante Mine dumps partly seen near top right. Near the bottom is the Gold Sovereign operation but I also assume we see the Maggie near bottom left and possible both Draper and Sadie Bell at lower right, very hard to decode what is what.
Trolley Related   Original High Line   
Jackson Shaft of the Gold Sovereign - 199   Gold Sovereign tunnel - 200   American Eagle - 312   John A. Logan - 311   Dante - 335   Maggie - 198   
25.11.2021 (12:45:35)
West Side of the Wild Horse Mine | on Bull Hill, Cripple Creek


1902-07-10; One Week before a stamped postcard
W.A. Loper
P-01445 [#2257]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2257
Due to the source being a print-type of postcard, and being less than half sized of a normal postcard, 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 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 was used on a postcard stamped July 17, 1902, this 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.
I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see. Source was red-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.

Wild Horse - 99   
22.07.2015 at USD 17.9508.09.2017 at USD 9.025.11.2021 (05:36:41)
Victor, Colo.
Julia Skolas



P-00498 [#597]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#597
This view is after the Victor fire as I see the Gold Coin mine is made of brick, and I see the large smokestack. Not the best view of the Gold Coin mine as it is only seen partly on the left-hand side under some smoke. But it helps tell the story on how the ground outside of it appeared at the time of this photo. Just too bad there is not a known date to this image.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Victor Town   

21.11.2021 (15:56:57)
North Third Street and Battle Mountain, Victor, Colo.
Schedin & Lehman
1899-09-11; Being only 3 weeks after the Victor fire I highly doubt Victor was looking this nice, but I had to find a date & this is the best guess.
1903-06-31; is my best guess as by July 10th the last rail up this street was put in for the Trolley, and it's not in this view.
H.H. Rosser
P-01401 [#2211]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2211
This view looking up North Third Street in Victor from Intersection with Victor Avenue appears to be from before the Trolley line up the street was made in July 1903, as I see no signs of the tracks. In the background several of Battle Mountain Mines can be seen, for instance the one with all the smoke is the No. 1 Shaft of the Portland Gold Mining company.
Victor Town   
Portland No. 2 - 259   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Dillon [aka W.C. Dillon] - 268   Anna Lee [aka Anne Lee; Battle Mtn] - 1871   Victor Public Sampler - 1060   
15.11.2011 at USD 7.3319.01.2012 at USD 14.9914.06.2015 at USD 23.4913.11.2016 at USD 3.004.11.2021 (09:22:26)
Mines at Goldfield, Cripple Creek, Colo.
Tomer Jacob Hileman



P-03404 [#5916]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5916
Slightly different cropped on left side, possible 1mm
Golden Circle Related   Goldfield Townsite   
Golden Cycle - 244   La Bella Power Plant - 955   
13.11.2017 at USD 0.9904.11.2021 (09:22:03)
Gold Mine, Independence, Colo Elev 9800ft. 51 Miles From Colo Springs. [A View at Huge Dumps Around the La Bella Mill/Powerplant and the Golden Cycle Mine]
Chas. F. Lemic [07.10.1920]



P-03423 [#5937]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5937
Backside has stamped what I think is the name of the photographer, and also some handwritten notes:
NB10, 10-7-20 - 50-11 - 11:25 AM M.T. @
STAMPED:
Chas F. Lemic
214 Oregon St.,
Corliss Sta., Pittsburgh, Pa.
----

Golden Circle Related   
Golden Cycle - 244   La Bella Power Plant - 955   
30.10.2021 (09:43:23)
The John A. Logan Mine. Cripple Creek, Colo.
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1908]
1908-01-01; Date is a guestimate due to postcard appearing to have that date on it as a Copyright Applied For entry.
1908-12-31; Date is a guestimate due to postcard appearing to have that date on it as a Copyright Applied For entry.

P-03842 [#6517]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6517
Date is a guestimate, I have a card where there is written something about Copyright Applied for in bottom right, name Hileman and what appears to be an 8 in front of that, sadly that card is partly messed up in that area so can't read it fully. And this card here seems to have 08 barely visible on the backside where the stamp is, impossible to make out though…
The focus is the large shaft House of the John A. Logan Mine, also known as the Logan Shaft of the Stratton Cripple Creek Mining & Development Company. I've often wondered why there was not a spur to the Ore House as the High Line/Short Line branch line to the Blue Bird Mine was just below it, but I never ever seen evidence for such a spur.
To show how close they were, the Blue Bird Branch-line is partly seen climbing the hill in lower right, just above the title text of the card, and passing behind the small mine operation with the big trestle work in lower left. The trestle itself crosses the mainline of the High Line track, the two legs at left corner is across the tracks and they dumped their waste down the hill from the west (opposite) side of the Trolley and Steam train used track.
⊞ The John A. Logan Mine. Cripple Creek, Colo. {Large Pixels 900dpi; Straightened}   
Short Line Related   High Line   
John A. Logan - 311   
23.06.2018 at USD 3.030.10.2021 (08:54:24)
Poverty Gulch, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
Julia Skolas


The Great Western Post Card and Novelty Co.
P-00189 [#255]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#255
This view looking up Poverty Gulch is credited to Julia Skolas but has had some text scratched out from the source negative making me wonder if this is one of those she bought the right for from an earlier photographer that I've seen evidence of before.
It is an earlier view, the original High Line is still running up Poverty Gulch and I see no trace of the still to come Short Line grade up Gold Hill so this dates the view to be from before 1900, and she was not in the area then. Either way, it captures the feel of the area, how mining and living was on top of each other and there are many mines visible, whereas I only have names of a few of them.
In foreground is the Lillie Mine, then a small windlass type of operation, before Abe Lincoln No. 2 and No. 1 can be picked up on the left side, with the Chicago Tunnel structures seen behind the named Shaft house of Abe Lincoln main shaft. Up to the left of those are the operations on the May Queen lode claim on the left and the Granite Hill lode claim on the right, more behind. Further up the larger Shaft house of the Rebecca Mine with its easy to recognize cupola on the roof is seen, with the C. O. D. Mine to the left hardly visible, and behind the bend at left, outside the view from this angle would the Gold King mine be.
The Shaft houses at right, about 1/3 from top, I am not certain about as it is so cramped with claims in this area, but I know the Blue Chime, Clayton E. and T.E.M.O.M.J. lode claims was in this area so I assume it is one of those, but I do not know as per today so I dare not say so and so.
So far, as of Oct. 26, 2021 I know of this view used as 10 postcard editions, where there are slightly differences in each card, from different backside, publisher, or any of the four sides can have variations of a millimeter or more where it is cropped from the source. Also, the coloring, paper quality or darkness in the view helps with differentiation these editions.;
Colored view; print-type, not the best look (this postcard).
B/W; photo-type, great quality look, not dark but a little washed out maybe, and the text put on by Julia Skolas is all visible. But card shows that source image is scratched and damaged a little on left side where the Orehouse of Abe Lincoln is shown.
B/W; photo-type, dark view, 'Poverty' part of text at bottom cut off at bottom of y making 'Gulch' part more or less unreadable. Same damage left side and paper used makes the dark parts dark.
B/W; photo-type, even darker view, hard to make more visible, 'Gulch' part of text at bottom partly cut off but is readable. Same damage left side and paper used makes the dark parts dark.
B/W; photo-type, great quality look, not dark, and the text put on by Julia Skolas is all visible with about text height of space below. Same damage on left side.
Colored view; print-type, not the best look, has a couple of millimeters more view at bottom, compared to my other card.
B/W; photo-type, slightly brighter card, one gets to see some of the details a little better. The text put on by Julia Skolas is all visible with about half text height of space below. Same damage on left side.
B/W; photo-type, card appears washed out somewhat, and paper used makes it appears not as a good quality card. The text put on by Julia Skolas is all visible with about half text height of space below. Same damage on left side, it actually appears to be prominent.
Colored view; print-type, not the best look, colored differently, has a couple of millimeters less view at bottom, and the right, compared to the other cards.
Colored view; print-type, appears to be brighter, maybe the best look, colored differently, and is cut at bottom a couple of millimeters below top of roofline.
Short Line Related   Trolley Related   
Abe Lincoln - 52   Lillie [aka Lilly or Lily]; Poverty Gulch - 53   Rebecca Mine - 1000   Chicago Tunnel [aka Chicago & Cripple Creek] - 51   May Queen lode - 870   Granite Hill lode - 871   C.O.D. [aka Cash On Delivery] - 29   
29.03.2011 at USD 8.7602.12.2012 at USD 2.9902.03.2013 at USD 5.9921.03.2013 at USD 3.3328.04.2013 at USD 3.99524.11.2014 at USD 15.013.07.2015 at USD 8.507.08.2017 at USD 35.030.10.2021 (08:12:43)
Bennett Ave. Cripple Creek Colo.

1938; License plate on car front right has 1938 visible on top of the plate.


P-03622 [#6276]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6276
Sadly, yet another not so sharp postcard. But, this one has a couple of nice things over it, from the 1938 date on the license plate on the car in lower right, to the fact there is visible a larger mill like structure up on what I think is Globe Hill about 2/5 in from left-hand side and on top of ridge against the sky, and I wonder if that is the Globe Mill I've heard about. Never noticed it on this card before when I've seen the card for sale on eBay.
I've seen that mill named as Stratton Mill, but also as the Cripple Creek Milling Co. Mill, and of course as Globe Mill, and when I compare the few known views I have to the structure up there on the hill in the background my mind agree that it is the same mill, cool as now I have a location for it!
Rest of the card is not that interesting, a view east along Bennett Avenue, showing a single Light Pole at the corner where the road to Victor leaves, the old M.T. Depot in the background at end of street, lots of cars, a Lunch Wagon/Shed mostly hiding behind the before mention car in front right, and what appears to be snow on the ground of the hills east of town.
I've seen this image used for at least 11 editions of postcards, small differences in where the cropping has taken place most of the time, a couple of them has more words added to the front but it is the same negative making up the source image.
Cripple Creek Town   
Stratton Mill [Globe Hill] - 1831   
18.02.2018 at USD 2.58306.10.2021 (18:58:35)
''Goldfield'' Near Victor, Colo.
Shurick Photo Service [?]



P-03350 [#5860]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5860

Goldfield Townsite   
Gold Knob - 250   
02.10.2017 at USD 25.006.10.2021 (18:58:35)
''I Helped Build Pike's Peak Railway.''




P-01893 [#3273]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3273
I fell for the cuteness of this card... And as seller had several Cripple creek district cards listed, I tried my luck on all of them, but this was the only one I got hold of… Oh well, they are quite cute those two donkeys, posing along the Pikes Peak Cog Railroad track.


06.10.2021 (18:58:35)
''Narrows'' - Phantom Canon, Colo. On Florence & Cripple Creek R. R.




P-03435 [#5965]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5965
This is slightly different one one of the sides from the other known editions of this view.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

06.10.2021 (18:58:35)
St. Peter's Dome, Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek Short Line. ''The One Day Trip That Bankrupts the English Language.''
Louis Charles McClure



P-02172 [#3704]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3704
Another print of this mighty popular and almost overused view along the Short Line with the mighty St. Peter's Dome looming in the background an a train climbing up the grades. This has to be the most common view along the Short Line, ever, countless postcards, folders, book images and so on tell that story!
Short Line Related   

06.10.2021 (18:58:34)
CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO - Bennett Ave. At First St. - July, 1893 ''Population 10,000''
[07.1893]
1893-07-01; Postcard had July 1893 on backside as a date of Image, making the exact day an unknown one.
1893-07-31; Postcard had July 1893 on backside as a date of Image, making the exact day an unknown one.

P-00546 [#715]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#715
Scene is looking East on Bennett Avenue from just below the crossing with First Street, date is most likely 4th of July but that is not said anywhere so it might be any other day, but postcard say it is July 1893 and people look dressed up, so I assume they gather for the celebrations. Town looks large already.
Cripple Creek Town   

06.10.2021 (18:58:34)
CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO - Bennett Ave. at First St. July, 1893 ''Population 10,000.''
[07.1893]



P-00677 [#984]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#984

Cripple Creek Town   

06.10.2021 (18:58:34)
Carlton Mill, Between Cripple Creek and Victory Colorado. Here the Ore From This District, ''The World's Greatest Gold Camp'' Is Treated



Sanborn Souvenir Co., Inc.
P-00290 [#365]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#365



06.10.2021 (18:58:34)
Cripple Creek, Colo. ''Altitude 9505 feet.''
William Henry Jackson


Detroit Publishing Co.
P-01057 [#1678]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1678
This postcard is based on a photographic view that is from around 1900 as there is grading done on the Short Line grade which is to be climbing Gold Hill where the photographer is standing, overlooking central towards northern end of Cripple Creek town.
The View is from two source images actually, about 1/4 of the right side is from one glass plate negative and the rest is from another one, and one can see the line running through the card of one look for it, it crosses the east side of the M.T. trestle across Poverty Gulch for instance.
Cripple Creek Town   Short Line Related   

26.04.2012 at USD 7.508.11.2014 at USD 6.502.08.2015 at USD 8.7706.06.2018 at USD 0.9906.10.2021 (18:58:34)
Great slopes filled with old mines and mine dumps at Cripple Creek, Colorado. ''The World's Greatest Gold Camp.''



Sanborn Souvenir Co., Inc.
P-00933 [#1314]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1314
This postcard had the numbers & title text on backside, but even that was not really useful for saying where in the District this view was located. Today this is gone for good, being in Squaw Gulch at the former site of Anaconda town, looking at the saddle between Raven Hill at left and Guyot Hill at right. The former grade of the Florence & Cripple Creek, later the main road between Victor (coming in at right) and Cripple Creek, is seen below the massive Crib-wall of the Mary McKinney mine at the right side of this view.
Lots of Gold in these hills, seeing they have open-pitted the whole area in modern day operations…
Anaconda Townsite   

18.11.2010 at USD 0.506.10.2021 (18:58:34)
Mines in Cripple Creek District | ''A Flock of Cripple Creek Mines''
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1908]
1908-01-01
1908-12-31
C.E. Cole
P-00989 [#1457]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1457
This view is not the best edition of this 1908 photo/negative by Hileman that I've seen, but it is one of the ten I so far has a record of [10.04.2018] and they all share the same view at western Slope of Bull Hill with the railroad cars seen near bottom being at the end of the Gold Sovereign branch/spur off the High Line/Short Line grade seen about 1/3 down from the top. Blue Bird Mine is at the top of the image, against the sky.
Further down, to the right, along the Short Line/High Line grade is the Dante operations taking place with two boxcars seen below their Crib-wall, and then about center of view is the Trilby Mine operation and the Trilby Mill seen to the right of the mine.
Near bottom left is one of the many Shafts on the gold Sovereign, where I so far have been unable to learn which shaft is where, so I dare not say other then that one of the shafts has been burned and only the left-overs are seen in this view.
Short Line Related   High Line   
Blue Bird - 209   Dante - 335   Trilby - 333   
06.03.2011 at USD 1.24527.01.2013 at USD 11.6123.04.2014 at USD 6.526.01.2016 at USD 23.518.06.2020 at USD 14.506.10.2021 (18:58:34)
Victor, Colo. ''Two Miles High.''
William Henry Jackson


Detroit Publishing Co.
P-00287 [#362]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#362
This view of Victor from Battle Mountain is a nice one when looking at the online sources of the non-postcard view. It holds so many goodies it is hard to describe them all.
The Gold Coin mine is seen in quite a nice look, just to the left of the center of the view.
Further up front is also seen the Ore-house of the Mary Cashen mine, with a near square head frame and part of the cribbing to hold the waste rock in place as they had not the same luxury as Gold Coin to transport waste away through a long tunnel.
At left of the orehouse is the structures of the Victor Public Sampler, located just below the M.T. spurs and sort of sandwiched in between that and the switchback spur down to the orehouse of the Strong Mine further to the left, outside this view. Piece of the tail-end of that spur is seen along the cribbing and head frame of the Mary Cashen when looking near right hand side where the Victor depot of the M.T. is seen.
Way of in the background, right of the Gold Coin but sort of just over the south part (left) part of the Gold Coin Club structure, the Golconda structures can be seen on the Internet sources when fully zoomed into the view. That mine is hard to find good images of.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Victor Town   
Mary Cashen - 272   Gold Coin - 288   
03.01.2016 at USD 2.2901.06.2016 at USD 5.2516.05.2018 at USD 11.6124.03.2020 at USD 8.9906.10.2021 (18:58:34)
Victor, Colorado - ''The City Of Mines'' | Victor Colo. City of Mines.
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill] [1909]


Noble Inc.
P-00305 [#391]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#391
Part of a small Album of 10 Postcards one could rip out and send to someone.
This view of Victor is looking north from Straub Mountain area. Photographed in 1909 by the H. & H. Studio in Cripple Creek, it was taken by either Hileman or Hill, impossible to tell for sure as the view is credited to them both. Being this is from a printed card in a small more modern postcard folder it is not the greatest quality, but one gets an idea of the town and the many mines in and around it.
* Gold Coin, here marked as Granite Mine on the south facing ore-house, is seen about middle top/down and about 1/5 in from left-hand side.
* Just behind the huge smokestack of the Gold Coin is the main shaft of the Dead Pine, named Oliver Shaft for some reason. The dump is much easier seen then the mine itself.
* Straight up from the Gold Coin smokestack, in the distance; against the sky; sticking up from the hill, is the shaft-house of the American Eagle.
* The Ajax Mine is about 1/4 down from top left, about 1/6 on from left-hand side.
* Further to the right of the Ajax would been upper shaft of the Dead Pine, the Granite (original shaft/mine) - seen about 1/3 in from left-hand side - and the Burns (main) shaft of the Portland mines, with the Portland No. 2 seen just off to the right for the center of the upper quarter in this view.
* Towards the right-hand side is seen the Strong Mine, about half top/down and 2/3 in from the left-hand side.
* The Independence Mine is just right of the Strong mine, seen with its huge dumps and structures.
* The Vindicator Mine, shaft 1, is seen above the Independence mine, about 1/3 down from top.
Victor Town   
Gold Coin - 288   Dead Pine - Oliver Shaft - 274   American Eagle - 312   Ajax - 275   Granite - 261   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Portland No. 2 - 259   Strong Mine - 271   Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   
06.10.2021 (18:58:34)
Victor, Colorado - ''The City of Mines'' (Early 1900's)
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1911]


Noble Inc.
P-00307 [#393]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#393
Part of a small Album of 10 Postcards one could rip out and send to someone.
This view of Victor is looking north from Straub Mountain area. Photographed in 1911 by the Hileman as the view is credited to. Being this is from a printed card in a small more modern postcard folder it is not the greatest quality, but one gets an idea of the town and the many mines in and around it. In addition, in this view they are marked out, even if there is at least one error in that marking.
* In upper left quadrangle is the Portland No. 1 & No. 2 marked out, but the location of the No. 2 shaft of the Portland is NOT where this image gives it! Portland No. 2 shaft is in this view above the No. 1 shaft, seen a little left of the center of this view sideways. No. 2 Shaft of Portland is seen against the sky with No. 1 just below it, with the huge dumps where No.1 is written. The Granite, original shaft, is located where this card has written the No.2 text.
* Just behind and left of the huge smokestack of the Gold Coin shaft, marked in this view as Granite, is the main shaft of the Dead Pine. The dump is much easier seen then the mine itself.


06.10.2021 (10:45:53)
''Narrows'' - Phantom Canon, Colo. On Florence & Cripple Creek R. R.




P-01122 [#1745]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1745
I have seen till now [08.04.2018] eleven uses of this scene for postcards, where there often is just a millimeter or two of differences along the edges, making it into different crop editions, and I been able to buy some of those quite cheaply so that is kind of cool.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

03.10.2021 (23:16:48)
Tunnel on Phantom Canon Highway, Colorado



H.H.T. Co.
P-03365 [#5876]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5876
[B] PHANTOM CANON HIGHWAY
Phantom Canon proper extends from near Florence, Colo., to the Cripple Creek district. For ruggedness and scenic beauty it is unsurpassed. Linked up with it is the trip over the Sky Line Drive and to the top of the Royal Gorge.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

26.09.2021 (19:22:13)
4th Street, Victor - - Pub. By W. A. Loper, Cripple Creek, Colo.



W.A. Loper
P-00975 [#1441]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1441

Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Victor Town   

14.12.2011 at USD 52.9901.05.2015 at USD 14.9917.05.2015 at USD 20.529.09.2015 at USD 4.28512.11.2017 at USD 6.5926.09.2021 (12:07:49)
Washington School, Victor Colorado

1902; This as the Catholic Church in Victor is seen and that has this as Build Year.


P-03624 [#6278]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6278
This is one of those views I know I just must have as it is so informative to show how one structure looked, in this case the Washington School in Victor! The brick Catholic Church is seen partly in background left, while on background right some houses are seen, but the focus is the side of the school lining the South Second Street – quite a handsome structure!
Also, on the background right, hidden by the school except for a piece of the south eastern dump part, is the Fortuna Mine, but no indication of the mine itself as the school hides it, still, cool that I now know what that is, seen best in my 1200dpi scan, but can be seen about 1/3 up from bottom and about 1/8 in from right-hand side – between the school's backside and the houses seen at the right-hand side.
26.09.2021; I did procure the colored version of this image, if that is what you see. Source was grayish, or in common speech black & white. Used an online service and tweaked and worked with image to get what looks best to my eyes at the moment.
Victor Town   

16.09.2021 (10:26:14)
The Old National Hotel at Cripple Creek, Colo (Now Demolished). In Its Hey Day the Largest Hotel in Colorado | Also Showing the Cripple Creek City Mine



Sanborn
P-00224 [#290]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#290
This view of Cripple Creek shows the Cripple Creek Enterprise Mining operation at the City Mine, or Cripple Creek City Mine, or other variations of similar names in foreground left, and the massive National Hotel more in center back. It also has a sign to the right of the hotel reading the name of two photographers Schedin & Lehman up on top front of a structure, which should be helpful in dating the image as there should be a way to learn when they did operate in the District, but I do not possess that info at time of this writing (30.03.2018).
Not the best quality but it is the only one I ever seen so Is hall not complain.
Cripple Creek Town   
Cripple Creek City Mine [aka City of CC Mine] -896   
12.09.2009 at USD 17.3804.05.2011 at USD 56.011.08.2021 (08:44:33)
Portland Mine | A View Also Showing the Coal Shed/Powerhouse of the Granite Mine and Several of Portland No. 1 Structures




P-04605 [#7539]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#7539
Showing the Coal Delivery Track of the Golden Circle to the Granite Mine in the foreground left, and Portland No. 1 mine in the background.
Golden Circle Related   
Granite - 261   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   
25.04.2021 at USD 7.511.08.2021 (08:44:17)
Miners Posing at Head Frame, Possible at Portland Mine




P-04606 [#7540]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#7540
Showing the Coal Delivery Track of the Golden Circle to the Granite Mine in the foreground left, and Portland No. 1 mine in the background.


25.04.2021 at USD 7.506.08.2021 (07:51:12)
Cripple Creek, Colo.
Julia Skolas



P-04299 [#7108]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#7108
Yet another version of this view... Must been a popular view for being re-issued as a card so many times!
View is from Gold Hill and has a OK overview of the town.
⊞ Cripple Creek, Colo. {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Enhanced}   
Cripple Creek Town   

05.02.2020 at USD 6.004.08.2021 (09:12:45)
El Paso {A View at the New Ore House and Head Frame/Gallows Frame of the El Paso Mine on Beacon Hill]
Julia Skolas



P-04175 [#6933]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6933
To me this was a 'Get It!' type of view, hard to explain why though, but the feel was just that strong!
⊞ El Paso {A View at the New Ore House and Head Frame/Gallows Frame of the El Paso Mine on Beacon Hill] {Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened; Twisted}    ⊞ El Paso {A View at the New Ore House and Head Frame/Gallows Frame of the El Paso Mine on Beacon Hill] {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Enhanced; Straightened; Twisted}   


13.09.2019 at USD 35.026.05.2021 (08:38:07)
CITY OF VICTOR, COLORADO. Colo. Springs & Cripple Creek Short Line. | CITY OF VICTOR, COLO.
William Edward Hook

1904; as the base image appears in a book Copyrighted 1904

P-00002 [#2]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2
This photo is possible from 1904 as it appears in a book from that timeframe with a Copyright note of 1904 by Hook, the photographer. The town of Victor is seen from Battle Mountain, not exactly sure where, but located at the left-hand side is the Fourth Street.
The Gold Coin Mine and Gold Coin Club is seen about 1/5 in from the left, and the mine structure partly hidden by the hill, with its double smokestack and head frame about 1/5 in from the right and 1/3 up from bottom is the north-east side of the Oliver shaft, or the main Dead Pine shaft, as confirmed by looking at the 1908 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map.
Victor Town   
Dead Pine - Oliver Shaft - 274   Gold Coin - 288   
14.02.2010 at USD 4.9928.02.2010 at USD 5.9923.03.2010 at USD 3.2514.04.2010 at USD 2.66718.04.2010 at USD 6.9504.05.2010 at USD 0.9921.11.2010 at USD 3.027.03.2011 at USD 0.99525.10.2011 at USD 9.9515.05.2021 (07:33:55)
Independence Mine, Victor, Colorado.
Julia Skolas

1912-07-31; As I've seen a postcard stamped August 1 the negative must be at least 1 day earlier due to time to develop & make a postcard out of it.

P-03364 [#5874]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5874
This is the third crop version I've seen of this card.

Independence Mill {Stratton's on Battle Mt] - 921   Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   
25.03.2021 (12:02:07)
A Foot of Snow Covering Ground and House No. 126, Most Likely in Cripple Creek Town on June 17, 1912
[17.06.1912]



P-04551 [#7478]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#7478
Image shown on the postcard is a mirror image of what it should been, easy to see in the 1200 dpi scan as the number 126 on the house was only able to be read after mirroring the image. Hence, I share the correct image, NOT how in appear on the postcard!
I do not know if this is in Cripple Creek town, but postcard is stamped in Cripple Creek and I imagine that Victor had a post-office back in June 1912 so it would make no sense to go to Cripple Creek to post this card, and as it is postmarked in Cripple Creek I estimate this to be in the town of Cripple Creek.
⊞ A Foot of Snow Covering Ground and House No. 126, Most Likely in Cripple Creek Town on June 17, 1912 {Cropped; Enhanced}   


18.01.2021 at USD 14.9924.12.2020 (21:19:36)
Cameron Mine & Mill

1926 -> AZO Stampbox marking
1949 -> AZO Stampbox marking

P-03771 [#6431]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6431
I assume this Cameron Mine is the same Cameron mine that I have read was controlled by the Woods Investment Co. in 1901 and which property the Cameron Gold Mines, Inc., produced from 1935 through June 1942, when operations ceased. Golden Cycle acquired the property in 1944, and although intermittently operated through the late 1940's, it became a principal shipper for Golden Cycle.
Image shows a postcard that has a stamp-box mark that fits the 1926 till 1940 timeframe so 1930's fits, not being an automobile person though, the cars don't help me date anything.
I think this view is looking north, northwest, with part of Galena Hill at left.


Cameron Mine [Bull Hill] - 1077   
13.05.2018 at USD 16.0523.12.2020 (08:59:10)
Bennett Ave. Cripple Creek Looking West From Depot
Young



P-03619 [#6273]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6273
This view taken from the hill just east of the Midland Terminal Depot structure in Cripple Creek is not the sharpest version I've seen of this scene as a postcard, but it is a nice card showing how the town used to look back in the possible 1940's, not sure when the photograph was made/taken.
Cripple Creek Town   Midland Terminal Related   

18.02.2018 at USD 2.58323.12.2020 (08:50:12)
Elkton Gold Mine Cripple Creek, Colo.




P-03844 [#6519]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6519
This view at the northern side of the Elkton Mine complex is a quite nice one, but it has faded a little and appears washed out. There is an automobile parked at the old Shaft House where only the north portion of it still stands, the Head-Frame is in the Open air so to speak, but they kept the landing area and covered trestle over to the Ore-House Structure. A man is standing with a small hand ore-car at the door out of the orehouse on the trestlework to the dump areas. There is also a single Midland Terminal Gondola parked almost under one of those dump track trestles.
Town of Elkton is partly seen behind the mine with a couple of houses visible, and along the right-hand side, about halfway up from bottom, there appears to be an Adit/Tunnel Portal into the hillside in the distance which I think would be Battle Mountain in terms of name of the hill, while the Adit I do not know, but this might be part of the Eclipse-Queen Mine operation.
⊞ Elkton Gold Mine Cripple Creek, Colo. {Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened; Twisted}   
Elkton Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   
Elkton Mine - 156   
23.06.2018 at USD 3.019.12.2020 (07:33:25)
A Summer Snow on the Cripple Creek Trip, C.C. Short Line, Colorado.


1911-04-24; Which is 1 week before the earliest known postage stamp date on a postcard seen stamped May 1, 1911

P-01542 [#2366]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2366
I've seen this scene marked both as ''Around the Mountain Tops - The Cripple Creek Trip'', ''Scene on the Cripple Creek Trip'', ''A Summer Snow Scene - The Cripple Creek Trip'', or variations of those. Whatever it is marked/titled, the view is still one that was photographed looking easterly back towards the tunnel known as Tunnel No. 8, near Duffields along the Short Line.
Short Line Related   

21.03.2012 at USD 2.0724.09.2017 at USD 1.007.11.2020 (07:55:39)
The Crags, Phantom Canon Highway.



H.H.T. Co.
P-04043 [#6737]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6737

Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

02.11.2020 (12:48:15)
Mary McKinney Mine, Cripple Creek District



H.H.T. Co.
P-00469 [#568]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#568
I've seen this image used three times, for this card and another postcard where there are a couple of extra millimeters visible on the right-hand side, plus I've seen it used in a postcard folder.
The view is from the railroad side of the Mary McKinney mine, showing several box cars parked on sidings nearby and at the mine itself. It also shows part of Anaconda at right-hand side about 1/3 up from bottom, the part that survived the 1904 fire, as I see no signs of structures at left side of image, and I believe there should been visible something there if the town was still there.
The tracks in the foreground belong to the Midland Terminal, but the Mary McKinney mine was once served by dual gauge as the F. & C.C was also having a spur to the mine, entering in from left-hand side, running parallel with the Shaft House to serve that and the coal bins at the power plant seen with all those smokestacks to the right of the shaft-house.
Behind the smokestacks of the Power House of the Mary McKinney you can see the Ore House of the Anaconda Mine, located down by the F. & C.C. yard in Anaconda, but image is too bad to really make out any details. Which is sad, as up on Gold Hill seen in the background, there is seen the Shaft House of the Anchoria-Leland about 1/4 in from right-hand side and about same from top, with the Ore-House and trestle of the Lexington Mine seen just to the right of the Anchoria-Leland.
Or even more sad, there is visible a mill on the hill side above the Low Line grade, seen about 1/3 down from top and 1/7 in from right-hand side, a mill I believe might be known as Anaconda Mill, but I might be mistaken where that mill was located as info been a little scarce, but it fit the location of west slope Gold Hill.
Anaconda Townsite   Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   
Mary McKinney - 136   Anaconda Mine - 92   Anchoria-Leland - 61   Lexington - 63   Anaconda Mill [Gold Hill] - 1481   
12.06.2011 at USD 11.6129.06.2013 at USD 9.9912.10.2020 (12:44:37)
CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO - 1896, ''The Big Fire''
Edgar A. Yelton



P-00679 [#986]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#986
A view on Bennett Avenue under the massive 1896 Fire that took out much of the town of Cripple Creek.
Cripple Creek Town   

27.11.2010 at USD 0.9910.10.2020 (14:51:36)
Victor High School
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1909]
1909-01-01
1909-12-31

P-03104 [#5182]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5182
I felt this was a nice look at the High School Structure in Victor, and while it may not be that useful I do enjoy the fact the view is signed with a name and a year as a date on the view.
Victor Town   

23.09.2020 (09:05:47)
Cripple Creek Colo - Looking down Poverty Gulch At the Short Line Trestle By the Gold King Mine




P-01975 [#3386]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3386
This view across Poverty Gulch, towards the town of Cripple Creek, is photographed on Gold Hill a little uphill from the C.O.D. mine. The Short Line main line is climbing the hill via the curved trestle seen on left-hand side, and the original High Line electric trolley line is partly seen, after gone through the trestle, about 1/3 up from bottom and about 2/5 in from left-hand side, as it is going on its big climb up Gold Hill.
* The Reno Mine is seen beyond the Short Line trestle, almost center bottom/top and about 2/5 in from left-hand side. Near the upper end/right-hand side of the Short Line trestle.
* The old shaft house of the C.O.D. mine is seen from behind, about 1/3 up from bottom and a bit more than 1/3 in from left-hand side.
* The Gold King, or the El Paso Gold King Mine, is seen center bottom/top about 1/5 in from right-hand side, in the darker shades of this image sadly.
Short Line Related   
Gold King [aka El Paso Gold King] - 27   Reno - 28   C.O.D. [aka Cash On Delivery] - 29   
17.09.2020 (10:45:31)
Garfield School, Showing Houses Along 5th Street in Victor
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03694 [#6351]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6351
Another Postcard View across houses along Fifth Street in Victor towards the Garfield School structure. I know about 4 editions of this view, three as postcards and the fourth is a photograph, and luck have made me the holder/owner of those for the foreseeable future!
Card is damaged in upper right, on the sky part, no big issue, but is also rather light on the right-hand side of the card and that been hard to fix. There appears to be snow patches on the ground, but other then that there are no identification markers on this view as to when it was photographed by Lehr.
Victor Town   

02.08.2020 (08:56:37)
Intermediate Shaft
Tomer Jacob Hileman



P-03031 [#5053]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5053
This is an interesting view of the operation at the so-called Intermediate Shaft for the Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel, taking during winter as there is snow on the ground and a little on the peaked roof on the hoist-house/powerplant structure. There also appears a dump car on the trestle that looks like one of those that could be self-running using a motor, wonder if that is one such car?

Roosevelt Tunnel - 916   
01.08.2020 (09:02:22)
North Fourth Street Victor Colorado
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]

1924; There are what appears to be rails visible on Victor Avenue, Low Line was abandoned 1923, hence they would not last too long afterwards.

P-03138 [#5262]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5262
I am pretty sure there is still Trolley tracks in Victor Avenue by the time this photo was taken as there appears to be some visible as the 4th street crosses over Victor Avenue, just above the text giving the title of the postcard view. There are several signs visible, like the one for the 'Monte Carlo Bar' hanging on the Bank Block Structure that is to be Victor Hotel in modern times. There is also a 'H.H. Rosser Pool Cigars' sign and into the view at right, large lettering on side of wall along Diamond Avenue is a lettering saying 'Victor Studio', seen about 1/4 up from bottom.
Trolley Related   Victor Town   

01.02.2017 at USD 29.9918.07.2020 (09:57:40)
Economic Mill, Cripple Creek District.


1905-09-03; Seen a postcard dated Sept. 10, 1905 so given at least 1 week to create this card this date must be the latest.

P-03276 [#5688]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5688
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 an Embossed Image Part, and then this version her, with a Blue color on the text with the Number and Title of the card and no embossed image.
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.
-> I've seen this postcard dated July 11, 1906 on a different card.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   Trolley Related   
Economic Mill - 160   
12.07.2020 (10:50:47)
Gold Camp Highway



Sanborn Souvenir Co.
P-03800 [#6462]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6462
[B]
Gold Camp Highway from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek via North Cheyenne Cañon and St. Peters Dome.
Corley Mtn Highway Related   Short Line Related   

24.06.2019 at USD 0.502.07.2020 (15:42:29)
Last Dollar Mine on Bull Hill; Published by W. A. Loper, Cripple Creek, Colo



W.A. Loper
P-02141 [#3672]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3672
Image quality on this card is not good, being made up of little dots as it is a printed type of image. But it shows the large surface structure operation of the Last Dollar Mine enough to make out pieces here and there. It also shows that the tracks running below the ore-bins are dual gauge in this image, which is interesting as I always thought of those tracks as Golden Circle only, but, was it the M.T. or the Short Line that shared the dual gauge in this image, that I can't tell. I know the High Line Trolley, and thence the Short Line, did cross the Golden Circle tracks a little northeast of the Ore-house of the Last Dollar, so I assume it is the Short Line sharing the roadbed.
The tracks in lower right is the Golden Circle mainline going towards Vista Grande.
Golden Circle Related   

30.06.2013 at USD 11.2514.12.2015 at USD 15.012.11.2017 at USD 13.4716.07.2019 at USD 9.9919.12.2020 at USD 12.030.06.2020 (21:50:20)
Log Bungalow in Cripple Creek. The House Knut's Children Were Born In


1911-01-03; This due to the card being dated January 10th, 1911 and I presume 1 week processing time from photographic negative to postcard.

P-04218 [#7004]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#7004
Knut is the name of one of the men, Karl Elliot is the other, as this card mention a 'Mr. Elliot' and another card listed May 2020 on eBay mention 'Karl and I' and both been signed by Knut so this makes this one man fully known... Knut might possible has Brown as his last name as this card was sent to a H.W. Brown and titled ''Dear Pop''.


07.12.2019 at USD 9.028.06.2020 (10:59:53)
Snow Plowing With Rotary on the Trolley Line in the Cripple Creek District After the Big Snow Storm Around Dec. 3, 1913
[12.1913]
1913.12
1913.12.24; Postmarked the next day.

P-04216 [#7002]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#7002
I believe this to be along the High Line somewhere, but I am not certain, it might as well be on the Low Line. I do however know it is along the Trolley lines as there is visible Trolley Poles and wire!
Short Line Related   Trolley Related   

30.11.2019 at USD 26.027.06.2020 (11:36:02)
Cliffs in Phantom Canon on Hwy. 67 from Cripple Creek and the Pikes Peak Region to the Royal Gorge and Canon City.



Sanborn Souvenir Co.
P-03890 [#6567]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6567
Scene shows cliffs in Phantom Canon along Highway 67. This was former roadbed of the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad but converted to road around middle of the 1910's when the railroad washed out and was closed for good.
Phantom Canon/Canyon   

01.10.2018 at USD 0.521.06.2020 (12:55:01)
Altman, Colo., (Altitude 11,000 Feet) | Altman, Colo - Highest Incorporated Town In the World. Pike Peak In the Distance.
S.S. Baldwin [19.08.1900]
1900-08-19; Written on image negative.
1900-08-19; Written on image negative.
W.A. Loper
P-00471 [#570]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#570
This postcard, published my W.A. Loper of Cripple Creek, is of the type 'Private Mailing Card', and shows on part of the front side a view towards the town of Altman as it looked August 19, 1900 when the photographer Baldwin took the base image this postcard is made from.
While the quality of the image part of card is not much too happy about, I have the same base image in another version and from that I can say that the Old Pharmacist Mine is seen at far left, about 1/4 up on the image part of the card, shown with a triangular peaked Cupola. Other mines are also visible further to the right, but this card and its quality really don't give any useful view of any.
Altman Townsite   

30.05.2015 at USD 8.9909.12.2015 at USD 4.021.06.2020 (12:54:01)
Altman, 11,000 feet elevation, the highest incorporated City in the World. Cripple Creek District. | Altman, Colo - Highest Incorporated Town In the World. Pike Peak In the Distance.
S.S. Baldwin [19.08.1900]
1900-08-19; Written on image negative.
1900-08-19; Written on image negative.

P-03835 [#6500]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6500
This postcard has an unknown publisher, it was mailed from Manitou, Colorado on August 15, 1903 though. Part of the card front shows a view towards the town of Altman as it looked August 19, 1900 when the photographer Baldwin took the base image this postcard is made from.
While the quality of the image part of card is not much to be happy about, I have the same base image in another version and from that I can say that the Old Pharmacist Mine is seen at far left, about 1/4 up on the image part of the card, shown with a triangular peaked Cupola. Other mines are also visible further to the right, but this card and its quality really don't give any useful view of any.
Altman Townsite   

02.07.2018 at USD 8.9815.04.2020 (18:54:26)
Economic Mill, Cripple Creek District.


1905-09-03; Seen a postcard dated Sept. 10, 1905 so given at least 1 week to create this card this date must be the latest.

P-00003 [#3]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3
This postcard I've seen in two editions, this one with a red/pink color on the text with the Number and Title of the card, and with an Embossed Image Part, and then a version with a Blue color on the text with the Number and Title of the card and no embossed image.
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.

Economic Mill - 160   
09.06.2009 at USD 9.9915.11.2009 at USD 5.006.04.2010 at USD 0.49521.03.2011 at USD 4.9907.04.2011 at USD 7.527.10.2011 at USD 2.9913.11.2011 at USD 6.9525.03.2020 (07:56:24)
Cripple Creek Colo and Sangre De Cristo Range
Young



P-03621 [#6275]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6275
Quality of card is not the best, it scanned not very sharp, and it feels like a copy more then a good quality card. The view seems to be from a dirt road crossing over from Hoosier Pass towards the normal road into Cripple Creek, but I am not 100% certain about it.
Cripple Creek Town   

18.02.2018 at USD 2.58307.03.2020 (01:01:43)
Cresson Mine C.C. District, Colo.
Leslie



P-03772 [#6432]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6432
This is a different look from what I am used to see the Cresson Mine as, sadly it is sort of faded on the sides and not the sharpest view around, but still I was able to enhance it a little bit. Based on the whitish stuff hanging on the water-tank seen about 1/3 down from top and about 4/9 in from right-hand side, this is a winter-shot as I can't understand that whitish stuff as anything but ice!
Raven Hill makes out the background, and once more I am stuck in what is the name of that mine having the Ore-House seen near top and just to the right of the Cresson Head-Frame… So, I went hunting and comparing various views and my ca. 1903 topographic map from USGS with many numbers linking to mines, I am pretty confident that this is the Mary L. Mine with its dump, Head-Frame and Ore-House seen in so many Cresson Mine views.
And info I have also indicates that the Cresson Mine is located on the central block of the Mary L and Draper claims, making this scene most likely showing two claims on the same group of mines.
⊞ Cresson Mine C.C. District, Colo. {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Cropped; Enhanced}    ⊞ Cresson Mine C.C. District, Colo. {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Cropped Mining Entity; Enhanced}   

Cresson - 186   Mary L. - 203   
01.03.2020 (08:02:36)
Birds Eye View Cripple Creek, Colo. Showing Pikes Peak in Distance.




P-00650 [#947]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#947

Cripple Creek Town   

11.11.2019 (16:39:29)
Mary McKinney Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
O.E. Masters

1904-12-13; Seen a postcard Dated Dec. 12, 1904

P-00633 [#923]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#923
Sadly, this view is not a good quality view, neither on this card or the other postcard I've seen used for from the source negative by O.E. Masters. No date is given with this view, and I can't tell if there are dual gauge tracks or not along the mine structure, but I see several boxcars on the M.T. siding opposite the mine so the view is at least while the railroad is still active in the District.
There is a Franklin 1-cent Green Stamp on the backside, but no postmark, neither any writings on the card so no date help there either.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   
Mary McKinney - 136   
20.02.2012 at GBP 17.6604.08.2019 (08:42:03)
Moon Anchor Mine - Issued by C. C. & Gold Hill Ry. Co.



C. C. & G. H. Ry. Co.
P-01185 [#1819]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1819
Sadly, a not that great printed image of the Moon-Anchor mine structure on Gold Hill. One can see the shape and count windows, and that there are several structures seen here, but not much of details can be seen. I think the smaller peaked roof structure seen just below the ore-house part of the Moon-Anchor is the old Anchor Shaft House.
In the background, just left of the two large smokestacks, the shaft house of the Anchoria-Leland is seen poking up from behind a dump, and the card is preprinted with 190 so it is made from 1900 onward, and possible the image dated then to 1899 or early 1900.

Moon Anchor - 56   Anchoria-Leland - 61   
16.07.2011 at USD 24.007.02.2012 at USD 16.514.07.2015 at USD 9.9923.09.2015 at USD 9.9918.04.2018 at USD 18.018.06.2018 at USD 18.0218.01.2021 at USD 5.2423.07.2019 (14:11:23)
Phantom Canon Highway Between Cripple Creek District and Canon City, Colo. | On Big Circle Trip to Royal Gorge



Sanborn Souvenir Co.
P-01481 [#2297]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2297
[B] PHANTOM CANON so called because of weird appearance of white bridges by moonlight. The highway is constructed on the foundation of a former railway grade. A drive over this route makes one of the most picturesque trips in Colorado.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

29.01.2012 at USD 0.9905.03.2017 at USD 0.530.10.2017 at USD 0.527.11.2017 at USD 1.2520.07.2019 (16:30:43)
A Glimpse of Manitou From Ute Pass, Colorado.



The W.H. Kistler Stat'y Co.
P-03352 [#5862]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5862
A different look of the old road in Ute Pass, most views I've seen has been looking up the narrow valley in this area.


10.07.2019 (08:28:10)
Southwest Slope of Bull Hill, Cripple Creek District
Julia Skolas

1914-01-04; Seen a postcard stamped January 5th, so Day Photographed can't be closer than at least one day earlier.

P-03840 [#6515]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6515
Sadly 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.
⊞ Southwest Slope of Bull Hill, Cripple Creek District {Enhanced; Straightened}   
Golden Circle Related   Independence Townsite   
American Eagle - 312   Findley - 216   Delmonico Mine [Bull Hill] - 1065   Shurtloff No. 2 - 221   
23.06.2018 at USD 35.2522.06.2019 (20:33:53)
Early Days Victor Colo 1895
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr] [1895]



P-00974 [#1440]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1440
This reproduction card of an old about 1895 photo, possible by Bill Lehr as I think it say Lehr before the Foto part of the tittle written at bottom of this view, is a nice one of the pre-fire Gold Coin mine, showing a massive wood structure and crib-wall and all. The Ore-house also appears to be quite big.
In the foreground is the old pre-fire Depot of the Florence & Cripple Creek, with lot of trains around it.

Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Victor Town   
Gold Coin - 288   
18.06.2019 (13:27:20)
Victor Mine, Isabella Mine and Bull Cliffs
Julia Skolas



P-03503 [#6060]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6060

Golden Circle Related   
Lee Mine [aka Isabella Mine] - 111   Smuggler - 225   Victor Mine - 224   
02.06.2019 (11:51:24)
Anchoria Leland Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
Tomer Jacob Hileman



P-03341 [#5850]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5850
I have the known postcard versions of this view marked as a Tomer Jacob Hileman photo, but I am unable to find my source for that, so I think that I might be mistaken in that credit to him as a photographer. So, I would say that the image source is from an unknown photographer, at least till I find my source, or a card view with his name on it.
The view itself is of the massive Shaft House of the Anchoria Leland Mine, up on Gold Hill, with a dump trestle in the foreground and partly seen roof of the Ore-house on the right-hand side in the foreground. I have a little bit of hard time understanding the 1896, 1900 and 1908 Sanborn maps showing this mine structure, as the north direction changes on the 1908 map, and the scale of the structure changes as well, but mostly I think this structure was more or less looking like this from at least 1896 till passed 1908, as it don't show up on the 1919 Sanborn map from the District.

Anchoria-Leland - 61   
21.04.2019 (13:28:42)
The Million-Dollar Phantom Canon Highway.


1927-07-15; I've seen a postcard stamped 22.07.1927
H.H.T. Co.
P-03169 [#5306]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5306
I've never driven Phantom Canon road, so I have no info about this location, but it looks rather dramatic.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   

14.03.2019 at USD 0.2504.03.2019 (11:34:35)
Mary McKinney Mine & Anaconda in foreground, with Guyot Hill in the Background with More Mines.
Julia Skolas



P-00339 [#426]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#426

Anaconda Townsite   Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Trolley Related   
Mary McKinney - 136   Anaconda Mine - 92   
31.01.2010 at USD 15.7511.12.2010 at USD 62.013.12.2010 at USD 54.9925.06.2011 at USD 22.0608.01.2013 at USD 33.030.05.2015 at USD 41.005.02.2019 (10:46:28)
View Towards Brind Mountain, southeast of Victor Colorado. F. & C.C. Tracks Can Be Seen Near the Base of the Mountain.




P-03763 [#6422]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6422
This image here is a puzzling one to me, as it appears to be an image that has been cut out from some other image due to the sort of shading seen on the sky part, just above the top of the hill, as there is seen an older sky (sort of), that is grayer just on the part closest to the hill, on the left part that is. On the right part, there appears to just have been cut into the hillside, no tree line into the sky or anything, making it very hard to know how it should look as it does appear to be something missing. But, on the postcard itself, there is no indication of this being two views, so it must be made as a second view from the first view, and then reproduced as this postcard.
Card was marked on the backside as to be Shortline tracks near Victor, but to me, it did not look like any scene I was able to recall along the Short Line, so for all I knew, this could have been just as well a different place. But, then, an Internet friend of my, Ryan Grant, he found an image on DPL showing a mountain looking like this one on a Victor view and I do agree with him, this do look like it is from an area southeast of Victor where the visible mountain is named Brind Mountain!
This makes the single line of track visible being part of the mainline of the Florence & Cripple Creek, between Hollywood and Alta Vista. You can see the track/roadbed about 1/4 up from the bottom, and 1/3 in from left-hand side is it best visible as it is on a fill there, but exactly where along that stretch I can't tell, as looking at this from a modern view like the satellite view on a Google Map makes it hard to match fully, but I do think my friend Ryan had found the right mountain top! Thanks!
⊞ View Towards Brind Mountain, southeast of Victor Colorado. F. & C.C. Tracks Can Be Seen Near the Base of the Mountain. {Enhanced}   


20.12.2018 (10:02:48)
Cripple Creek in 1908 | Cripple Creek in 1941
Young



P-03620 [#6274]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6274
Quality of card is not the best, it scanned not very sharp, and it feels like a copy more then a good quality card. I can't tell for certain that the below image is really from 1941 as stated on this card, as 've seen the dates 1938 and 1946 also used and to me they look the same so possible only the text changes from year to year while the images stay…
It also is not a good match in location either, but still, it helps show the difference in size of the town of Cripple Creek in those 30+ years between the two images.
Cripple Creek Town   

18.02.2018 at USD 2.58319.12.2018 (20:23:07)
Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek Colo.
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1908]



P-03335 [#5843]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5843
I know by time of this writing [08.04.2018] of 24 uses of the base negative/photo seen here on this painted/colored postcard view, so this view has been a popular one!

* 23.04.2018 I saw a note on Facebook with a Newspaper clipping from February 10, 1969 where the writer said the Trolley turned up Third Street from Myers, down Bennett to stop at corner with Second, before down 2md Street to Myers.
Cripple Creek Town   Trolley Related   

19.12.2018 (16:01:40)
The Gold King Mine and High Trestle on High Line, Cripple Creek, Colo.
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1909]


The Albertype Co.
P-00900 [#1275]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1275

Short Line Related   Trolley Related   
Gold King [aka El Paso Gold King] - 27   
24.08.2015 at USD 11.515.02.2019 at USD 12.9806.10.2018 (10:22:38)
The Independence Mine, Victor, Colo. | Independence Mine F & CCRR
Schedin & Lehman

1907-05-10; As I seen the source images used on a postcard stamped that year.
Mound City Post Card Co.
P-02238 [#3797]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3797
This view of the large Independence Mine shows some Midland Terminal tracks in lower left, passing by and serving the Ore-House with the dark shades up the side of the structure due to the steam train used back then. A map I've seen also indicates that Ore-house to have had 3-rails, as in dual gauge, as to be served by the Golden Circle Railroad also.
Further into the image, in from right-hand side and about middle top/down there is another Ore-House and the before mention map (page 301 in the 40-Miles to Fortune book by Allen Lewis) also say that this was served by dual gauge track. That map also says that the structure between those before mention ore-houses is a Mill.
In the background, up against the sky, is the Portland Mine No. 1 seen in from the right-hand side, while about center sideways on the image part is the Ajax Mine visible against the sky.
Midland Terminal Related   

18.11.2013 at USD 12.8804.10.2018 at USD 9.9920.08.2018 (11:06:17)
Cripple Creek, Colo.
Julia Skolas



P-03572 [#6217]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6217
Yet another version of this view, this card being one of the longest views of this scene as seen on the house near upper right being far in from right-hand side... Must been a popular view for being re-issued as a card so many times!
View is from Gold Hill and has a good overview of the town.
⊞ Cripple Creek, Colo. {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Enhanced}   
Cripple Creek Town   

05.06.2018 at USD 2.520.08.2018 (09:06:38)
Bennett Ave, Cripple Creek, Colo.
Julia Skolas



P-03806 [#6468]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6468
This is the 9th crop version I've seen of this view, all nearly identical to each-other but with slightly till a little bit easier seen differences on one or more sides. Like this one, this is almost identical to another copy I've seen on eBay, back in April 2018 by postchris; it was very hard to make sure they are different ones, but I feel there is a slight difference at top on the pole part and there appears to be a tiny bit at the left-hand side... Clearity/paper wise they appear quite different though. Sadly, I do not own that card though, as it was listed at a way to high cost of USD 48 and in a bit worse shape…
Must been a popular view for being re-issued as a card so many times!
⊞ Bennett Ave, Cripple Creek, Colo. {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Enhanced}   
Cripple Creek Town   

05.06.2018 at USD 12.020.08.2018 (08:28:20)
Bennett Ave, Cripple Creek, Colo.
Julia Skolas



P-00472 [#571]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#571
I've seen this view by Julia Skolas by time of writing [01.04.2018] as 6 postcard editions – variations of what is cropped from the source negative – and 1 photograph I recently won on eBay. Neither of them gives me any dating info.
View is east on Bennett Avenue, in the distance is the Midland Terminal Depot and there is shown a Trolley Car turning the westerly curve on Bennett Avenue.
* 23.04.2018 I saw a note on Facebook with a Newspaper clipping from February 10, 1969 where the writer said the Trolley turned up Third Street from Myers, down Bennett to stop at corner with Second, before down 2nd Street to Myers.
Cripple Creek Town   

19.08.2018 (08:16:00)
Higest Point Corley Highway Altitude 1050 Ft and Pikes Peak. [3]
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1929; The License Plate has 'Colo 1929' at the bottom, so it can't be from before that year.


P-03864 [#6540]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6540
Yet another version/copy of this not that interesting buy, but way better than my first copy of this scene along the Corley Mountain Highway, or Gold Camp road as it is known as in the modern time live in. This copy is not as sharp as my second version, as it is not as easy to read the date of 1929 on the License Plate on the automobile…
The scene is said to be the highest point along the Corley Mountain Road, mentioning Pike's Peak which I then assume is in the background. But other than that, where along the former Short Line, re-used as the Corley Mountain Highway, a toll-road, I can't tell as I only been on the Gold Camp Road towards Cripple Creek one time in my life, and I can't recall a scene like this, but then again, we drove towards the District, I think this view is taken north-east and would have been in our rear-view mirror and hard to make out location of as a memory of a view I hardly can recall.
Corley Mtn Highway Related   

11.06.2018 at USD 0.219.08.2018 (08:10:09)
Higest Point Corley Highway Altitude 1050 Ft and Pikes Peak. [2]
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1929; The License Plate has 'Colo 1929' at the bottom, so it can't be from before that year.


P-03776 [#6436]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6436
Another not that interesting buy, but way better than my first copy of this scene, as on this copy of this view I found it to be much sharper around the car and I got to see a what appears to me to be a date of 1929 on its License Plate!
The scene is said to be along the Corley Mountain Road, mentioning Pike's Peak which I then assume is in the background. But other than that, where along the former Short Line, now the Corley Mountain Highway, a toll-road, I can't tell as I only been on the Gold Camp Road towards Cripple Creek one time in my life, and I can't recall a scene like this, but then again, we drove towards the District, I think this view is taken north-east and would have been in our rear-view mirror and hard to make out location of as a memory of a view I hardly can recall.
I also played around coloring the view using some automatic coloring program, and then play around with that again to the create the painted/colored view, just for fun!
⊞ Higest Point Corley Highway Altitude 1050 Ft and Pikes Peak. [2] {Large Pixels 600dpi; Enhanced}   
Corley Mtn Highway Related   

21.05.2018 at USD 0.0919.08.2018 (08:09:45)
Higest Point Corley Highway Altitude 1050 Ft and Pikes Peak. [1]
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1929; The License Plate has 'Colo 1929' at the bottom, so it can't be from before that year


P-03670 [#6327]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6327
Another 'why on earth' buy, especially that feel become strong when I scanned the card and got to see how out of focus and shaky looking, unsharp view this turned out to be! Make me glad I got another copy of this card later, hope that will be a better one of this scene.
This scene is said to be along the Corley Mountain Road, mentioning Pike's Peak which I then assume is in the background. But other than that, where along the former Short Line, now the Corley Mountain Highway, a toll-road, I can't tell as I only been on the Gold Camp Road towards Cripple Creek one time in my life, and I can't recall a scene like this, but then again, we drove towards the District, I think this view is taken north-east and would have been in our rear-view mirror and hard to make out as a memory.
07.08.2018 -> Scanned another copy of this view and that was much sharper around the car and I got to see a date of 1929 to its License Plate.
Corley Mtn Highway Related   

18.08.2018 (09:24:37)
Vista of Pike's Peak



Frank S. Thayer
P-03866 [#6542]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6542
There is nothing to say about this image, it is self-explained I think.


11.06.2018 at USD 0.217.08.2018 (08:07:56)
The Royal Gorge, Grand Canon, Colo.



Frank S. Thayer
P-03867 [#6543]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6543
Not the best Royal Gorge view card, but it is based on a nice one by what I believe is a McClure photo, showing the dual gauge line along the river down in Royal Gorge along the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad on the route west via Tennessee Pass from Canon City.


11.06.2018 at USD 0.215.08.2018 (08:45:18)
Cripple Creek, Colorado.

1901-03: I see rails on the Short Line grade on Gold Hill, which was laid around March 1901.
1903-09; This as the abandonment of the original High Line seen in the foreground of this view dates to September 1903.

P-00634 [#924]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#924
This view and variations of it is among the very top most used views when it comes to postcards and images in books and other printed sources to show the town of Cripple Creek, or even the District itself. The stage/scene is Gold Hill, with Mt. Pisgah in the background/distance, just left of the sideway center.
In foreground left, about 1/3 up from bottom and about 1/7 in from left-hand side is the surface structures of the Moon-Anchor mine, with the roadbed of the High Line electric, and the Short Line railroad, in this side of the structure, not the best view to pick those out though.
Cripple Creek Town   Short Line Related   High Line   
Moon Anchor - 56   
30.08.2015 at USD 2.511.06.2018 at USD 0.1913.08.2018 (08:04:24)
Donkey in Doorway with Lady, Structure is Marked 'Variety Store' Above the Doorway

1945-1973; As per the Stampbox Markings


P-03782 [#6442]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6442
Not much to say here, card is not the best, looks somewhat out of focus, paper looks not to be able to produce a sharp image and the Stamp-Box -Markings dates this to 1945-1973 dating, so I would imagine this possible to be around the middle of the 1940's in the dating part.
It was sold to be with the Lehr collection, but there is no info on it, so it can be anywhere even if I do wonder if this is not a Victor or Cripple Creek Scene due to the Donkey.
⊞ Donkey in Doorway with Lady, Structure is Marked 'Variety Store' Above the Doorway {Enhanced}   


21.05.2018 at USD 0.0812.08.2018 (08:20:45)
Road to Garden of the Gods
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1906-1915; Dating from Stamp-Box-Markings and Google Search


P-03780 [#6440]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6440
Nothing special to write here, scene is at one of the Entrances to the Garden of the Gods, it is signed by Lehr and card has not had the best of life from when it was made sometime around 1906-1915 based on the Stamp Box Mark on the backside, and till I got hold of it, as it has lot of dirt and smudges on it.
The coloring is done via a program that did it automatically for me, and then I've transferred it into my 600dpi version, and I think it looks rather good actually, it for sure made a different look to this straightened version of my scan of the card.
⊞ Road to Garden of the Gods {Large Pixels 600dpi; Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened}   


21.05.2018 at USD 0.0911.08.2018 (08:39:33)
Colorado Springs, Colorado.



H.H.T. Co.
P-03781 [#6441]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6441
---[B]---
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
Colorado Springs is an all-year-round resort for the tourist, to whom it affords all the conveniences of modern city life, it is a city of wide, shaded avenues, of charming and elegant homes of culture and refinement. It has grown until now it numbers over 40,000 inhabitants, and is recognized as holding a unique place among the world's resorts.
--- --- ---
-> A view of Colorado Springs from an unknown location, probably a hotel overlooking the city and towards the Front Range. Antlers Hotel is in background right, about middle top/down and about 1/3 in from right-hand side.
Colorado Springs   

21.05.2018 at USD 0.0810.08.2018 (08:28:32)
Two Ladies Posing in an Automobile in a Photographers Studio, Sign Saying 'Leaving Denver'

1904-1918; Based out of the Azo Stamp-box and a Google Search.


P-03779 [#6439]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6439
There is no info on the card to who these two ladies might been, they might be linked to the Lehr Family, this might be a Lehr photo, no idea. View is of two ladies posing in an automobile in a Photographers Studio, a Sign say 'Leaving Denver' is standing on the footplate, and there is in the background a drawn image of houses and possible State Capitol.
⊞ Two Ladies Posing in an Automobile in a Photographers Studio, Sign Saying 'Leaving Denver' {Large Pixels 600dpi; Cropped; Enhanced]   


21.05.2018 at USD 0.0909.08.2018 (08:43:13)
No-3 - Serpentine Drive - Near Colorado Springs, Colo.


1921-09-19; Seen this view postmarked the day after so gave it 1 day to make this postcard as the minimum time from photographing it.
Wesley Andrews Co
P-03778 [#6438]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6438
I have no words to share about this card, I got it as part of a deal with postcard said to be linked to William Henry Lehr, out of Victor Colorado, but if this is one of his cards I do not know. It has a Publisher in Baker, Oregon though, so that is a little bit strange I feel, but there is a story there.
Where this road is located I do now know, a quick search via Google gave no hit as it led me to a modern road not fitting this location, all I know is this is near Colorado Springs.
⊞ No-3 - Serpentine Drive - Near Colorado Springs, Colo. {Enhanced}   


21.05.2018 at USD 0.0908.08.2018 (08:40:43)
Pikes Peak (From Bull Hill in Cripple Creek District)
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1920-1945; Due to the Use of the Stamp Box marked DEFENDER which Google Search indicates was used in this Time Frame.


P-03777 [#6437]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6437
This is not a good view, it's been either retouched or some chemical reaction has happened to it. It is very black around edges, there was nothing in the view to work with either so overall not a good card but still, it has some form of Historic Value.
The View is towards Pikes Peak from Bull Hill, and I wonder if this is part of a try to duplicate a Hileman view from this place years earlier?


21.05.2018 at USD 0.0906.08.2018 (08:01:25)
Flowers in Vase on a Table, Possible in Lehr Residence [5] | Colorado Wild Flowers
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1910-1920; This due to the use of the DEFENDER Stamp box Mark on the backside of the card, which Google help say is known in the 1910-1920 period.


P-03786 [#6446]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6446
There is no info with this Flower Shot, but seller meant this was a Lehr Photograph and most likely from his Residence in Victor, Colorado. To bad it is in B&W, even a hand-colored view would be been better as this is after all only flowers in a vase…
-> So I used a program to create my own color version, not great but for now it works.
⊞ Flowers in Vase on a Table, Possible in Lehr Residence [5] | Colorado Wild Flowers {Enhanced}   


21.05.2018 at USD 0.0805.08.2018 (08:49:53)
Flowers in Vase on a Table, Possible in Lehr Residence [4] | Colorado Wild Flowers
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1910-1920; This due to the use of the DEFENDER Stamp box Mark on the backside of the card, which Google help say is known in the 1910-1920 period.


P-03785 [#6445]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6445
There is no info with this Flower Shot, but seller meant this was a Lehr Photograph and most likely from his Residence in Victor, Colorado. To bad it is in B&W, even a hand-colored view would be been better as this is after all only flowers in a vase…
-> So I used a program to create my own color version, not great but for now it works.
⊞ Flowers in Vase on a Table, Possible in Lehr Residence [4] | Colorado Wild Flowers {Enhanced}   


21.05.2018 at USD 0.0805.08.2018 (08:49:09)
Flowers in Vase on a Table, Possible in Lehr Residence [3]
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1925-1934; This due to the use of the VITAVA Stamp box Mark on the backside of the card, which Google help say is known in the 1925-1934 period.


P-03784 [#6444]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6444
There is no info with this Flower Shot, but seller meant this was a Lehr Photograph and most likely from his Residence in Victor, Colorado. To bad it is in B&W, even a hand-colored view would be been better as this is after all only flowers in a vase…
-> So I used a program to create my own color version, not great but for now it works.
⊞ Flowers in Vase on a Table, Possible in Lehr Residence [3] {Enhanced}   


21.05.2018 at USD 0.0803.08.2018 (08:03:54)
Flowers in Vase on a Table, Possible in Lehr Residence [2] | American Beauties
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03783 [#6443]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6443
There is no info with this Flower Shot, but seller meant this was a Lehr Photograph and most likely from his Residence in Victor, Colorado. To bad it is in B&W, even a hand-colored view would be been better as this is after all only flowers in a vase…
-> So I used a program to create my own color version, not great but for now it works.
⊞ Flowers in Vase on a Table, Possible in Lehr Residence [2] | American Beauties {Large Pixels 600dpi; Cropped; Enhanced]   


21.05.2018 at USD 0.0802.08.2018 (09:52:51)
Flowers in Vase on a Table, Possible in Lehr Residence [1]
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03725 [#6382]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6382
There is no info with this Flower Shot, but seller meant this was a Lehr Photograph and most likely from his Residence in Victor, Colorado. To bad it is in B&W, even a hand-colored view would be been better as this is after all only flowers in a vase…


21.05.2018 at USD 0.0801.08.2018 (11:09:58)
A View at the Ore House of the Index Mining & Milling Company

1900; Due to the apperance of the Low Line tracks


P-03809 [#6474]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6474
To me this was a 'Get It!' type of view, hard to explain why though, but the feel was just that strong! For the first time in my life I have a view if this Ore-House in a way that I can visualize where it was photographed from, and with the Deep Cut of the Low Line partly visible in the foreground, this was an informative type of image, even for its faded view.
It is also an informative view as the dump trestle out from the Ore-House going across the side-spur of the Low Line is seen here as very long unsupported trestle, so to create support, they did a 'wire down into a frame below the middle and back up again' type of supporting the long span, and I've not seen that before so that was a great treat to see that detail!
⊞ A View at the Ore House of the Index Mining & Milling Company {Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened; Twisted}    ⊞ A View at the Ore House of the Index Mining & Milling Company {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Enhanced; Straightened; Twisted}   
Short Line Related   Low Line   

15.06.2018 at USD 34.3331.07.2018 (08:06:32)
Altman, Altitude, 11,000 Ft. - Issued By the C.C. & G.H. Ry. Co.



C. C. & G. H. Ry. Co.
P-01324 [#2047]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2047
This sadly badly printed type of postcard is interesting due to several factors, for instance it is based on a great shot of Altman Town and street layout, and the mines around it.
* Shaft house of the Pharmacist Mine, also known as the Marie Mining Co., is seen near lower left corner.
* Just passed the upper portion of the Shaft House of the Pharmacist is the location of the Burns Mine, the Shaft House is hard to be picked out, even on my 600dpi scan, but is located just below the center top/down of the image part, and just left of the sideway center of the image part.
* The Pinto Mine is harder to pick out due to the printed quality of this card, but it is located about 1/3 in from left-hand side of the image part, and just above the top/down centerline.
Altman Townsite   
Pinto - 316   Burns - 317   Pharmacist - 318   
22.11.2011 at USD 9.9911.11.2012 at USD 9.9522.05.2015 at USD 12.512.12.2015 at USD 4.9914.06.2020 at USD 5.030.07.2018 (10:02:09)
Altman, Colo. The Highest Incorporated Town in the World, Elevation 11,000 Ft.




P-03787 [#6447]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6447
This sadly badly printed type of postcard is interesting due to several factors, for instance it is based on a great shot of Altman Town and street layout, and the mines around it.
* Shaft house of the Pharmacist Mine, also known as the Marie Mining Co., is seen near lower left corner.
* Just passed the upper portion of the Shaft House of the Pharmacist is the location of the Burns Mine, the Shaft House can be picked out on my 600dpi scan and is located just below the center top/down of the image part, and just left of the sideway center.
* The Pinto Mine is harder to pick out due to the printed quality of this card, but it is located about 1/3 in from left-hand side of the image part, and just above the top/down centerline.
⊞ Altman, Colo. The Highest Incorporated Town in the World, Elevation 11,000 Ft. {Large Pixels 600dpi; Cropped; Straightened}   
Altman Townsite   
Pharmacist - 318   Burns - 317   Pinto - 316   
29.07.2018 (13:23:39)
Mary McKinney Mine




P-03770 [#6430]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6430
This card was even better then I though it was when I fought hard for it on eBay as it was clearer in the background part from what I had expected, which I am glad for as this came at a hefty price-tag! If I should complain about anything it is the part that the structure is not straight on the card but at an angle, so it feels like the photographer is either falling or was just lazy with the camera…
Main focus is the massive Shaft Structure of the Mary McKinney Mine, here marked as Mary McKinney Mining Company, but one also see part of their Coal House at the right-hand side and even their Office can be glimpsed at the right-hand edge with its darker sidewall and a single window visible. Looking at the structure it has had some years to it as the roof is starting to look not that nice.
Of other things to mentioned, the Ore-House of the Anaconda Mine is visible about 1/7 in from right-hand side and about halfway up from bottom, with the until not too many years ago still standing Blacksmith Structure partly visible behind it and covered much by the smokestack of the Coal House of the Mary McKinney.
The Roadbed of the Midland Terminal is also just behind the Anaconda Orehouse, while the Low Line roadbed can be seen about 1/5 down from the top in upper right area. The High Line/Short Line grade up Gold Hill is also partly visible almost into the sky area, also in upper right area. In the foreground some M.T. railroad Gondola cars are visible, but the only one I feel I see number off is the one most to the left which is numbered 171, which appeared quite nice on my 1200dpi scan.
⊞ Mary McKinney Mine {Large Pixels 1200dpi(Scaled down); Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened}   
Anaconda Townsite   Short Line Related   High Line   Low Line   
Mary McKinney - 136   Anaconda Mine - 92   
28.07.2018 (09:45:26)
Cripple Creek District - Cripple Creek Short Line
Louis Charles McClure
1900-09-09; This day the Low Line Started Regular Services, and as part of its roadbed at Squaw Mountain is visible, it can be earlier.
1907-01-29; As by early morning the next day, the Mill burned down and never got rebuilt.
Homemade; Pasted Brochure Image on Postcard
P-03797 [#6457]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6457
This turned out to NOT be a regular postcard, which I thought it to be, bought with 7 other cards, where they all came from a Cripple Creek Short Line Brochure where there are views on one side and maps and info text on the other side, and where the image parts have been cut and pasted unto some unknown postcard and the saved for posterity in that way.
This particular card is pasted unto a postcard marked on the backside as 'The San Diego on Broadway' with details, including a specific Panama-California Exposition San Diego Logo. Also, hand written in a pencil is the number 178. Looking at other cards, I think this was done as a memory of a trip to that specific California Exposition, which was from January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1917.
-> View is from western slope of Bull Hill, near the High Line where it passes by the Logan mine, looking down Eclipse Gulch, passed one of the shafts on the Gold Sovereign Mine, with the Cresson Mine seen at the bottom about 1/3 up from bottom and 1/4 in from right-hand side. Further up Raven Hill the Moose Mine is seen about halfway down from top right and about 1/5 in from right-hand side. The train seen on the tracks near upper left is drawn in on the Golden Circle main line circling around Battle Mountain.
⊞ Cripple Creek District - Cripple Creek Short Line {Large Pixels 600dpi}   
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   High Line   Low Line   
Moose - 185   Cresson - 186   
28.07.2018 (09:13:22)
Three Elevations of Track Cripple Creek Short Line



Homemade; Pasted Brochure Image on Postcard
P-03794 [#6454]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6454
This turned out to NOT be a regular postcard, which I thought it to be, bought with 7 other cards, where they all came from a Cripple Creek Short Line Brochure where there are views on one side and maps and info text on the other side, and where the image parts have been cut and pasted unto some unknown postcard and the saved for posterity in that way.
This particular card is pasted unto a postcard marked on the backside as 'The San Diego on Broadway' with details, including a specific Panama-California Exposition San Diego Logo. Also, hand written in a pencil is the number 172. Looking at other cards, I think this was done as a memory of a trip to that specific California Exposition, which was from January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1917.
-> View is from near St. Peter's Siding, looking up at a Short Line Train (near top) coming downhill from having passed Duffields, and is about to entering Tunnel No. 8, before it will go around Rock Creek Loop and later emerge from Tunnel No. 6 seen about 2/5 down from top and almost at left edge.
⊞ Three Elevations of Track Cripple Creek Short Line {Large Pixels 600dpi}   
Short Line Related   

28.07.2018 (00:34:44)
A Wonderful Engineering Feat on Cripple Creek Short Line
Hook/McClure


Homemade; Pasted Brochure Image on Postcard
P-03796 [#6456]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6456
This turned out to NOT be a regular postcard, which I thought it to be, bought with 7 other cards, where they all came from a Cripple Creek Short Line Brochure where there are views on one side and maps and info text on the other side, and where the image parts have been cut and pasted unto some unknown postcard and the saved for posterity in that way.
This particular card is pasted unto a postcard marked on the backside as 'CARDINELL VINCENT CO MFG. SAN FRANCISCO', and hand written in a pencil the number 168. Looking at other cards, I think this was done as a memory of a trip to the Panama-California Exposition, which was from January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1917.
-> This view is taken near Duffields, looking down towards the Rock Creek Loop, showing the Old Stage Road in about middle of image and two trains climbing the grades. The train at most right is about to entering Tunnel No. 7 while the train near/just left of middle top of image has left Tunnel No. 8 and is climbing towards Duffields where the very last glimpse of the Plains will be seen going uphill.
⊞ A Wonderful Engineering Feat on Cripple Creek Short Line {Large Pixels 600dpi}   
Short Line Related   

27.07.2018 (01:33:48)
On the Road to Cripple Creek Cripple Creek Short Line



Homemade; Pasted Brochure Image on Postcard
P-03795 [#6455]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6455
This turned out to NOT be a regular postcard, which I thought it to be, bought with 7 other cards, where they all came from a Cripple Creek Short Line Brochure where there are views on one side and maps and info text on the other side, and where the image parts have been cut and pasted unto some unknown postcard and the saved for posterity in that way.
This particular card is pasted unto a postcard marked on the backside as 'CARDINELL VINCENT CO MFG. SAN FRANCISCO', and hand written in a pencil the number 165. Looking at other cards, I think this was done as a memory of a trip to the Panama-California Exposition, which was from January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1917.
-> This view is taken from near the top of St. Peter's Dome, looking down on the Short Line roadbed and cabins down below, and the grade of the Short Line climbing uphill, first through some curves, over a bridge and into Tunnel No. 6, then later emerging from Tunnel No. 8 where the train is seen and continuing the journey up passed Duffields which is hiding behind the large rock at right hand side of this image.
⊞ On the Road to Cripple Creek Cripple Creek Short Line {Large Pixels 600dpi}   
Short Line Related   

26.07.2018 (09:32:03)
St. Peter's Dome - The Cripple Creek Trip
Louis Charles McClure


Homemade; Pasted Brochure Image on Postcard
P-03793 [#6453]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6453
This turned out to NOT be a regular postcard, which I thought it to be, bought with 7 other cards, where they all came from a Cripple Creek Short Line Brochure where there are views on one side and maps and info text on the other side, and where the image parts have been cut and pasted unto some unknown postcard and the saved for posterity in that way.
This particular card is pasted unto a postcard marked on the backside as 'The Southern Pacific Building' with lots of other text, including a specific Southern Pacific Railroad Logo. Also, hand written in a pencil is the number 175. Looking at other cards, I think this was done as a memory of a trip to some form of California Exposition.
-> View is of a Steaming Short Line Train coming up the line with the famous St. Peter's Dome seen in the background. While not as common as the other view from the small cut, along the track looking at the train coming up against you, this angle here has also been used quite many times to describe the Short Line trip.
⊞ St. Peter's Dome - The Cripple Creek Trip {Large Pixels 600dpi}   
Short Line Related   

26.07.2018 (07:41:41)
Climbing the Backbone of the Continent - Cripple Creek Short Line



Homemade; Pasted Brochure Image on Postcard
P-03791 [#6451]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6451
This turned out to NOT be a regular postcard, which I thought it to be, bought with 7 other cards, where they all came from a Cripple Creek Short Line Brochure where there are views on one side and maps and info text on the other side, and where the image parts have been cut and pasted unto some unknown postcard and the saved for posterity in that way.
This particular card is pasted unto a postcard marked on the backside as 'The Southern Pacific Building' with lots of other text, including a specific Southern Pacific Railroad Logo. Also, hand written in a pencil is the number 164. Looking at other cards, I think this was done as a memory of a trip to some form of California Exposition.
-> View is from just east of where the road up North Cheyenne Canon crossed the railroad grades. The tunnel near the bottom is the number 2 tunnel, coming from Colorado Springs.
⊞ Climbing the Backbone of the Continent - Cripple Creek Short Line {Large Pixels 600dpi}   
Short Line Related   

26.07.2018 (07:41:31)
Into the Heart of the Rockies - Cripple Creek Short Line



Homemade; Pasted Brochure Image on Postcard
P-03790 [#6450]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6450
This turned out to NOT be a regular postcard, which I thought it to be, bought with 7 other cards, where they all came from a Cripple Creek Short Line Brochure where there are views on one side and maps and info text on the other side, and where the image parts have been cut and pasted unto some unknown postcard and the saved for posterity in that way.
This particular card is pasted unto a postcard marked on the backside as 'CARDINELL VINCENT CO MFG. SAN FRANCISCO', and hand written in a pencil the number 177. Looking at other cards, I think this was done as a memory of a trip to some form of California Exposition.
-> View is at Point Sublime, the Observation car seen is on a train that is climbing the grades towards Cripple Creek.
⊞ Into the Heart of the Rockies - Cripple Creek Short Line {Large Pixels 600dpi}   
Short Line Related   

23.07.2018 (15:20:28)
St. Peter's Dome, Colorado, C. C. S. L.
William Edward Hook


The Colorado News Company
P-03850 [#6525]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6525
I've seen the base image for this view used in several places, mostly as postcards of various painted/colored parts and as this B&W card here, where I've seen it as two versions where the only difference I see is the location of the Title text where it has moved up or down a little in terms of the edge of the image part and the edge of the card. I also seen it in one of the O'er Canon and Crag image books, hence I know it was copyrighted in 1904 by William Edward Hook.
There are some train differences on some of the uses, but the scenery is identical I would say so I am confident it is the same base view in use!
⊞ St. Peter's Dome, Colorado, C. C. S. L. {Large Pixels 600dpi; Cropped}   
Short Line Related   

06.06.2018 at USD 0.9923.07.2018 (15:13:32)
Cresson Mine 1938
[1938]
1938-01-01; Only year is known, so it could have been this day…
1938-12-08; Seen postcard view post-stamped December 9, so can't been photographed later than the 8th of December 1938

P-01898 [#3279]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3279
Not the best postcard view as it did not scan that well at high resolution, but I've done my best with it and it is what it is, at least I get some details out of the card. Not that it helps me, as I still have no better info about the various structures seen here, as of July 21, 2018.
This is the 8th postcard I've seen using the base image this is from, this is one of those editions where the text 1938 appears under the words 'Cresson Mine' in lower right. Raven Hill is in the background and sorry, no, I've yet to figure out what mine has that Ore-House seen near upper left, seen just above top of the Cresson Smokestack.
⊞ Cresson Mine 1938 {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Cropped; Enhanced}   

Cresson - 186   
28.09.2010 at USD 3.9923.09.2011 at USD 10.2729.01.2012 at USD 13.1623.07.2018 (15:11:43)
Portland Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.




P-03843 [#6518]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6518
Not the best-looking card, damage in upper left corner where part of the number 3 making out the first number is missing, and the whole card is dark and not very sharp at all. But so far till now middle of July 2018 I've only seen this scene as a type of printed/lithograph type of view, and of the 8 I so far know about two are colored postcards, four are B/W postcards and two are postcard folder images.
This is a rather close-up view of the Portland No. 1 Mine with the Portland No. 2 in the background on top of the hill, and it tells the story quite well on how big a mine can grow. There is quite a lot of dump materials here, held up by the massive crib walls seen, lot of structures, ore houses built in stages and enlarged and so on.
The Short Line branch to Ajax Mine runs along the large cribbing seen in the background about 1/3 down from top, that crib-wall is supporting the large dumps around the Portland No. 2. Mine.
To the right of the No. 1 Shaft and below the No. 2 Shaft, is the smaller Shaft House of the Scranton Shaft, somehow that must have been used for something as that structure is on so many views of this area and on would think that an old shaft house would just have been tore down if it was not used…
⊞ Portland Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo. {Large Pixels 600dpi; Cropped; Twisted}   
Short Line Related   
Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Portland No. 2 - 259   Scranton Shaft - 1058   
23.06.2018 at USD 3.023.07.2018 (15:03:20)
Maroney Saw Mill Scene




P-03731 [#6388]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6388
This is said to be Maroney Mill by someone writing on the backside, and that is a Saw Mill but other than that I have no info about this view. If this is even in the Cripple Creek District I can't tell you, it might be inside, nearby or a totally different place, I really have no idea. I bought it in case it later turns out to be linked to the District.
Scene itself is of a quite flat valley with grass, wooden hillside, lot of cut lumber stacked, raw lumber logs visible and an open Saw Mill Shed like structure with an enclosed power house and work area attached.
⊞ Maroney Saw Mill Scene {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Cropped; Enhanced}   


23.07.2018 (15:00:29)
St. Peter's Dome - The Cripple Creek Trip
Louis Charles McClure



P-03764 [#6423]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6423
I've seen by time of writing this on June 23, 2018 this scene used 20 times in my Collection, but I know there are more uses of this quite popular view by McClure of a Short Line Passenger Train steaming up past St. Peter's Dome, on its way to the Cripple Creek Mining District. Mostly used for various postcards, but also as postcard folders, Magic Lantern image, images in printed materials.
⊞ St. Peter's Dome - The Cripple Creek Trip {Large Pixels 600dpi(Scaled down); Cropped}   
Short Line Related   

23.07.2018 (14:55:23)
St. Peter's Dome, on the Cripple Creek Short Line



Frank S. Thayer
P-01219 [#1928]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1928
Showing a Short Line Train Steaming up past St. Peter's Dome was a popular view back in the days, this is among those more seldom seen scenes. Sometimes the artist making the cut for the printing block can get to artistic, so it is not always possible to link together all editions from 1 base image, but I think I've today [June 22, 2018] have found this view only one other place in my collection, and that was in printed materials. An image book named ' Wonders of Colorado Scenery', on page 22, what year the book was published is unknown.
⊞ St. Peter's Dome, on the Cripple Creek Short Line {Large Pixels 600dpi; Cropped}   
Short Line Related   

30.04.2018 at USD 1.023.07.2018 (14:55:02)
Garfield School, 5th Street and Houses in Victor, Colorado
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03757 [#6416]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6416
My third Postcard View across houses along Fifth Street in Victor towards the Garfield School structure. I know about 4 editions of this view, three as postcards and the fourth is a photograph, and luck have made me the holder/owner of those for the foreseeable future!
Card has some damages, like those hairs/spots seen, they all are part of the card and can only digitally be removed. Also, it is sort of faded, darker in spots like the north side of the School Structure, which appears in more shadows. There appears to be snow patches on the ground, but other than that, there are no identification markers on this view as to when it was photographed by Lehr.
The view itself is a nice one towards the Garfield School in Victor, located along South 5th Street on the west side of the street, and West Spicer Avenue on the north side of the street. That avenue is behind the School structure in this view. Seeing several of the houses lining Fifth street, and two of them on the east side has clothes hanging on the back porch, while the front garden on some of the west side houses appears to have patches of snow on the ground. The School have a flag hanging from a pole standing along the street.
⊞ Garfield School, 5th Street and Houses in Victor, Colorado {Enhanced; Straightened}   
Victor Town   

23.07.2018 (14:53:53)
Scenery View, Showing Dead or Burnt Trees In/Near the Cripple Creek Mining District




P-03664 [#6321]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6321
One of those 'Why on Earth' did I bother buy this one, and at the cost I did pay… I have no idea at all where this view may have been photographed, possible it is what was left of a Forest Fire as it looks rather barren with dead trees poking up?
⊞ Scenery View, Showing Dead or Burnt Trees In/Near the Cripple Creek Mining District {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Cropped; Enhanced}   


23.07.2018 (14:53:13)
Cripple Creek & Victor Elk's Pinic Clyde Sunday August 6th 1933
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr] [06.08.1933]



P-03662 [#6319]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6319
Not that much to say here, what ever I can say is already written at the front of this card, that it is a Picnic scene, taken at Clyde along the Corley Mountain Highway, back in August of 1933. I think the Fish Lakes are in the background left, making this north of the road if I am not fully screwed up in my directional sense. Photographer Lehr stands possible beside the road when he took this image?
⊞ Cripple Creek & Victor Elk's Pinic Clyde Sunday August 6th 1933 {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Enhanced}   
Corley Mtn Highway Related   

23.07.2018 (14:52:52)
Big Snow Victor Colo April 15, 1921
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr] [15.04.1921]



P-03587 [#6232]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6232
This turned out to sadly be a very out of focus view, blurred and not good at all! Made me happy I lost the other copy I've seen of this the first time around, as that appeared to be a duplicate where I found no differences on neither side from this one, and that one sold even higher then I paid for my copy. Quality of view is not the best, but as I both can tell it is in Victor looking up towards Battle Mountain in the distance, and this being a dated view, I am happy enough with it.
I see one sign I can read; J.E. Hardy Music Co., and from the background I think this is a view up Third Street, as that peaked roof shape seen about half 'Hardy sign' width to the left of the sign, looks very much like the Aerial Tram Terminal/Ore House of the Granite Gold Mining Company, where it is connected to their Shaft No. 2, which I think is the old Dillon Mine Shaft House.
⊞ Big Snow Victor Colo April 15, 1921 {Large Pixels 600dpi; Enhanced}   
Victor Town   

05.03.2018 at USD 46.9909.04.2018 at USD 22.4923.07.2018 (14:52:17)
Swedish Church in Victor.
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1905; as the cornerstone of the Swedish Church indicates it was built in 1905.


P-03720 [#6377]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6377
Yet another version of this Lehr photograph towards the Swedish Church at corner of Portland Avenue and Second Street in Victor, Colorado. In this version the whole scene is tilted way much to the right-hand side, with blank spot in upper left, indicating that this might be a copy card from way back then and not the best one made so to speak.
Not much to describe, I see the crib-wall behind the church structure at right is coming to an end at the corner where it stops towards the edge of South 2nd Street, with what appears to be billboard advertisement hanging on the side towards the street. The cribbing belongs to the Rexall Mining Company, operating the Spicer lode claim.
⊞ Swedish Church in Victor. {Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened; Twisted}   
Victor Town   
Spicer lode [aka Rexall Mine; Victor Town] - 808   
23.07.2018 (14:51:29)
Skaguay Dam/Lake/Reservoir




P-03717 [#6374]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6374
One of those 'Why on Earth' did I bother buy this one, and at the cost I did pay… I have a nearly identical view that appeared to be a partly colored view of this view of the Skaguay Dam. I think the direction is towards north and it is possible the Pikes Peak Range in the distant background.

⊞ Skaguay Dam/Lake/Reservoir {Large Pixels 1200dpi(Scaled down); Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened}   


23.07.2018 (13:58:37)
Automobile at Corner Where the Swedish Church is Located

1905; as the cornerstone of the Swedish Church indicates it was built in 1905.


P-03695 [#6352]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6352
Card is marked on the backside as 'Elks Parade Car', but there are no name/dates written. I had to try get this view I felt as while the flower decorated automobile with a smaller girl in the backside holding an umbrella is the main focus, I was more after the background view.
Foreground right background is the Swedish Church at corner of West Portland Avenue and South Second Street, with some of the structure fronts that lined Portland Avenue seen on left side of card, views I've never seen before and hence I had to try get hold of this card!
⊞ Automobile at Corner Where the Swedish Church is Located {Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened; Twisted}   
Victor Town   

23.07.2018 (13:57:46)
Posing Ladies; Some Men; Lots of Children; Automobile, Possible Elks Picnic at Clyde




P-03696 [#6353]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6353
Only Info I have of this view is what is given on the backside, where it is claimed this is an Elks Picnic. No location, names, dates or anything useful really is given. The view is of a whole lot of people posing with 1 automobile behind them, but they can't all have come in that one so there must be other transports outside the view. Wooden hill land behind them indicates possible Clyde as a location as that seems to have been a common place to go to, and the scenery can fit that location.
There are mostly children/kids up front, then ladies and at last there are some men scattered among the posing people, so I wonder what the occasion are, and sad no-one at that time felt the need to writer it down on the backside of this view.
Sold with other views marked as by Lehr, so possible this is also one, but no markings on it so can't tell. I've uploaded a 1200dpi enhanced version of this view, in case any visitors to my page can help ID some faces, link is just below this text.
⊞ Posing Ladies; Some Men; Lots of Children; Automobile, Possible Elks Picnic at Clyde {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Enhanced}   


23.07.2018 (13:53:12)
Victor Scene at Corner Of Victor Avenue and 4th Street, Looking at the Old Bank Block, Later Victor Hotel.




P-03692 [#6349]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6349
A view at the Bank Block on the corner of Victor Avenue and Fourth Street, in Victor, Colorado, somewhere around 1910/1920's I assume as I still see Trolley Tracks in the street in lower foreground, and as they belonged to the Low Line tracks, who services shut down around 1919 and tracks must have been ripped out sometime after that.
In background left, about halfway up and just in from right-hand side, there is mining operations visible and my mind claim the one seen to be the Portland No. 2 Mine, mainly, as I do see some of the smokestacks of the No.2 shaft further into the view, at left of the structures of the No. 1.
Lot of signs visible, from left to right the readable ones are:
'Victor Studio'
'Isis 10¢' or 'New Isis' as I think it say above the doorway
'The Brunswick'
'H.H. Rosser | Pool | Cigars'
'Bar' -> other images indicates there should possible be the text of 'Monte Cristo' above it, but I've been unable to say for sure it is either there or not above the letters of the 'BAR' so maybe this is from before that name came into play?
'Bank Blk Rooms'
'Davis & Byler [?] Mining Engineers' as it stands in one of the windows out unto Victor Avenue
'?. Freshw??' 'Diamonds' 'Jewelry'; Williams [?] seems to be written on one of those walkway covers which is coming out of the wall so to speak.
⊞ Victor Scene at Corner Of Victor Avenue and 4th Street, Looking at the Old Bank Block, Later Victor Hotel. {Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened; Twisted}   
Victor Town   
Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   
23.07.2018 (13:52:27)
Granite Mine Ruins, Victor, Colo.




P-03691 [#6348]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6348
This is a view at what was left of the Granite Mine after the explosion January 8, 1911. Or possible some days/week after, not sure if the Head-frame is put up after wrecking of the original one, or if this was what was in use at time of the explosion that wrecked the Engine/Hoist House seen at left side.
The crib-wall seen in foreground is holding the ground back from the Golden Circle trackage that ran in the cut at the bottom. While behind the headframe is seen another railroad track, almost halfway down from the top on the right-hand side, this is the Short Line Ajax branch-line.
Dump at upper right I assume is part of the Portland No. 2 dumps, while the mine seen more to the left near top of image is at the moment of writing this [28.05.2018] a mystery mine to me, actually both, as there is one more even higher up…
⊞ Granite Mine Ruins, Victor, Colo. {Large Pixels 1200dpi(Scaled down); Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened}   
Short Line Related   
Granite - 261   
23.07.2018 (13:51:47)
Granite Mine Victor Colo
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03688 [#6345]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6345
This is one of those 'Had to get it' type of postcards as it helps fill in some of the blanks as to how the area evolved into what is left there today. Not that it is easy anymore as thing has changed drastic from this possible 1930's view to how it looks now in 2018, with the open Pit Operation eating away and dumps been hauled away earlier, I think I would struggle finding this location today.
Scene shows the smaller more 'modern' Granite Mine as it was looking at the time of the photo, with the dumps of the Portland No. 2 in upper left and the Lumber Work House of the Portland No. 1 seen about 1/3 down from top and center sideways, while the Head-Frame is seen near right-hand side. The old grade of the Golden Circle ran in the 'cut' seen in lower right quadrangle – having come out from the Steel Tunnel below the Portland No. 1 dumps, part of the crib-walls is still seen in this view.
There appears to still be track on the Short Line Ajax branch as well, seen below the Portland No. 2 dumps in upper left, track is seen about 1/3 down from top, from left-hand edge to about 2/5 into the view towards right, where it curves out of out view.
⊞ Granite Mine Victor Colo {Enhanced; Straightened}    ⊞ Granite Mine Victor Colo {Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened}   
Golden Circle Related   Short Line Related   
Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Portland No. 2 - 259   Granite - 261   
23.07.2018 (13:50:18)
Elkton Mine View During Winter, Seen From Northwest

1919-09; As this appears as a fully enclosed structure on an August 1919 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map


P-03642 [#6299]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6299
A winter view at the partly exposed Head-Frame part of the Elkton Mine on Raven Hill, looking from the north and west side. Snow covers the ground and in the background is the saddle between Battle Mountain on left and Squaw Mountain on right if I am not mistaken.
* The Carbonate Queen Head-frame and surface structures are seen in the background left, about center top/down and about 1/5 in from left-hand side. Quite some dumps in that area it seems.
⊞ Elkton Mine View During Winter, Seen From Northwest {Large Pixels 1200dpi(Scaled down); Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened}   
Elkton Townsite   
Elkton Mine - 156   Carbonate Queen - 192   
23.07.2018 (13:48:53)
Phantom Canon [Automobile Partly in a Curve]
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03641 [#6298]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6298
Another 'Nice to Have' image, but nothing else. Photographed at unknown time/date at unknown location, along the now automobile road running on the former Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad grade in Phantom Canon. Somewhat blurred and a bit out of focus also make it a waste of money and way to costly, stupid me!
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

23.07.2018 (13:47:33)
A View at the Slime Dam East of the Independence Mill, with Bull Hill/Bull Cliffs in the Distance




P-03640 [#6297]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6297
Sadly, not the best quality view, blurred, possible due to the copy nature of this view? The view itself is from the Slime Dam below/east of the Independence Mill, possible by time this view was made, also known as the Portland-Independence Mill – can't tell for sure as I have no date on this view. It is looking up the valley where Wilson Creek ran, Bull Hill/Cliffs in distant background.
* The covered Head-Frame of the Vindicator No. 1 Mine appears to be visible about center sideways and about 2/5 down from the top.
* Smokestack of the La Bella Powerplant Structure is also seen, just left and below of the before mentioned Vindicator.
* The Black Sampler, or Cripple Creek Sampler upon Victor Pass is seen about 2/5 down from the top and about 3/7 in from the right-hand side.
* The Eagle Sampler is seen also about 2/5 down from the top and about 1/4 in from left-hand side, seen as a whitish structure against the background hill.
* I feel I can see both the Golden Circle roadbed and the Short Line/High Line roadbeds in this view, about 5/11 down from top along left-side, there appears to be line-side poles on the lower Short Line grade, with the Golden Circle tracks above it if they still are there when the photo this is based on was made.
⊞ A View at the Slime Dam East of the Independence Mill, with Bull Hill/Bull Cliffs in the Distance {Cropped; Enhanced}   
Golden Circle Related   Short Line Related   High Line   
Eagle Sampler - 256   Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Black Sampler [aka CC Sampler Bull Hill] - 230   Independence Mill {Stratton's on Battle Mt] - 921   
23.07.2018 (13:46:43)
Specimen Mine, Bull Hill, Easterly View
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1919+; After the High Line is removed as it is missing in the background


P-03639 [#6296]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6296
From another nearly identical copy of this view I know this is on Bull Hill with the Specimen Mine surface operations on foreground, and far in the background right – behind the Ore-House seen in foreground – is the Vindicator No. 1 Shaft operations visible. So, why whoever wrote different on the backside, I have no idea why, all I can tell it is wrong the part in blue writing claiming this to be 'Strong Mine'.
⊞ Specimen Mine, Bull Hill, Easterly View {Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened}   


23.07.2018 (13:46:02)
Hull City Mine, Bull Hill in the 1930-40's ?




P-03634 [#6291]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6291
This has always felt like a Bull Hill, eastern slope, type of mine to me, and this being the second version of this view I've seen/got hold of. I been searching high and low to try find proof to that feel though, but all has failed until when I did a comparison with two other images in my collection found at DB-Ref. P-02385 & P-02386. With those, I figured it out!
Location is at the place of the former larger Hull City Mine, the cribbing seen further uphill in the background was part of the large Findley Dump and is also found in those two mentioned views. What happened to the much larger and well-known Hull City Mine I have no knowledge about, maybe it burned? Maybe it got tore down?
Either way, as far as I can tell this view is at that location of the Hull City, so that is how it shall stay until that day someone can point out to me where I got mistaken. :-) But, why someone could mistake this for the Mary McKinney Mine is beyond my ability to understand, but someone wrote sometime in the past of this postcard's history on the backside a handwritten note claiming this to be the Mary McKinney Mine but that is plainly just wrong! That mine looks way different.
If I compare this to P-02386 I need to look at the 1200dpi scan and there I find it about 1/3 down and about center sideways, where I look direct to the Ore-House part, with the Head-Frame to the right and the cribbing about twice the distance to the right there again – but it is impossible to tell the depth from this postcard view. If I compare the postcard to P-02385 I still need to look at the 1200dpi scan where I find it about 2/5 down from top and about 1/8 from right-hand side. Angle is about the same as on the other photo, can't say I get a better look either, both photographs are not sharp at this resolution.
Back at the postcard view itself, the old Golden Circle Mainline is seen about 2/5 down from top, entering the view at left-side, climbing a little, hide behind a dump at the crib-wall, then being visible a little again before exiting behind a new dump at the right-hand side. Below the crib-wall, almost at middle down/top is the old grade of the High Line, and the Short Line Portland branch – long gone in this view as I see no line side poles, so this help dating the view to be after the demise of the Trolley Service in late 1919.
* About 2/7 down from top and nearly 1/7 in from left-hand side, against the sky, is the top of the Head-frame at the Specimen Mine seen with its wheel about center of the top frame from right to left in this view – very hard to make out on the postcard scan, easier to see on my 1200dpi scan.
* About 1/7 down from top and about 1/7 in from right-hand side is another Head-Frame seen, and I keep wondering if this might not be the eastern Lucky Guess shaft? Very hard to tell, the old shaft house is long gone.
⊞ Hull City Mine, Bull Hill in the 1930-40's ? {Enhanced; Straightened}    ⊞ Hull City Mine, Bull Hill in the 1930-40's ? {Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened}   
Independence Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   
Hull City placer - 321   Specimen - 412   
23.07.2018 (13:44:51)
Phantom Canon Road Victor Colo [Planked Former F. & C.C. Trestle at Lone Tree]




P-03638 [#6295]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6295
Not the most interesting view I have, but I still felt it was important as it is showing the now planked trestle bridge at the so-called Lone Tree location in Phantom Canon, along the former Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad Grade, now a road for automobiles to use. I always thought of this as a downhill view, but as I've never been here myself I was sadly hugely mistaken and should be ashamed of myself. Again, a friend and visitor to my page set me straight, thank you Ryan!
This is a view going uphill, towards North, and that is a very useful information Ryan gave me as I have more views at this location, both as postcards and as photographs and thanks to his friendly nudge in the right direction I can now better put those images into the right position in my head! And if any of you reading this has been mislead by my former text, my apologies!
⊞ Phantom Canon Road Victor Colo [Planked Former F. & C.C. Trestle at Lone Tree] {Enhanced}   
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   

23.07.2018 (13:44:11)
Clyde Mine C.C. Dist.
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03637 [#6294]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6294
This is a nice shot of one of the many smaller mine operations, easy to see as there are lot of junk around but not huge dumps – compared to the dumps around the Last Dollar Mine seen in background left against the sky, where the dumps hide the hoist house quite much and the large shaft structure also is partly hidden in the dump area.
One other fun thing with this view of the Clyde Mine I saw much better in my higher resolution scan, there is actually a man standing at top of the Head frame, seen on the right-hand side, his legs covered by one the braces making up the frame where the wheel are.
Dating this view is hard, but I would think this view to be from around the 1920's to 30's. I see no view of the Lucky Guess Shaft House; possible the lone Head-frame seen against the sky about 2/7 in from right-hand side and about same down from top is where the eastern shaft house of the Lucky Guess was located.
The American Eagle Shaft House and Mine is seen against the sky about 4/9 in from right-hand side and about same from top. While between the forefront Head-frame of the Clyde and the background of the Last Dollar Mine, also against the sky, is the tower and roof part of the Orpha May Mine poking up, seen about 4/9 in from left-hand side and about same from top.
⊞ Clyde Mine C.C. Dist. {Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened}   

Clyde - 243   Last Dollar - 238   American Eagle - 312   Orpha May - 215   
23.07.2018 (13:43:22)
Men Around Midland Terminal Motor Coach No. 101, In Victor [?]




P-03633 [#6290]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6290
Not sure if this is at Victor Depot grounds or up in Cripple Creek, or at a different location, as sadly the background is too faded away to tell for sure. But I think this view is photographed at the Victor Union Depot, as there appears to be a hill shape in background top-left that sort of fits.
Midland Terminal Related   Victor Town   

23.07.2018 (13:43:05)
Lots of Children of Victor Posing at/on the Steps to the Presbyterian Church




P-03632 [#6289]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6289
The saddest part of this postcard view of a huge number of Victor Children on the step up to the Presbyterian Church in Victor is the fact there are no records of any names on the backside of the card, no nothing! No info about occasion, what year, who they were, why they are posing, the only thing I get from the view is that the same Pastor as on my other postcard view of the Presbyterian Church – Rev. M.G. Milligan - has his name on the sign up on the side of the church, and, I get to see a little bit closer details of the side of the house at right. Figured that was enough to buy the card and give it a home!
⊞ Lots of Children of Victor Posing at/on the Steps to the Presbyterian Church {Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened; Twisted}   
Victor Town   

23.07.2018 (13:37:12)
Victor Rodeo at Ballpark/Playgrounds with Lots of Spectators Around, Looking Southeast




P-03630 [#6287]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6287
A Victor, Colorado, Rodeo type of View, we are looking south from the west end of the Ballpark/playground area, and the banking/filling seen about 1/3 down from top on the left side, that is along Victor Avenue.
It is hard to tell, even from my 1200dpi scan, but based on the way the man is posed/standing, I wonder if this event was not captured on a moving type of film as well, as there is a man standing with a camera on a stand – seen about middle top/down and at about 1/3 in from right-hand side.
⊞ Victor Rodeo at Ballpark/Playgrounds with Lots of Spectators Around, Looking Southeast {Enhanced; Straightened}   
Victor Town   

23.07.2018 (13:36:36)
Prize Hand Drilling Contest Victor Colo
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03631 [#6288]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6288
To me this was somewhat of an important view as at on the top, towards the right part, there is seen partly a mine named Jefferson Mine, and while not the best view it still provides a view towards a mine not often seen in images from the District.
The focus of this view for the photographer Lehr was however the man with the hammer nailing down some stick another man kneeling is holding, I suspect, being this was a Hand-Drilling Contest scene. In the background a wood planked fenced is seen with lot of text on it, various advertisement messages, with houses up the hill east of that fence, as this is a view facing east. Victor Avenue can be seen at the cut north of the Victor Highschool.
⊞ Prize Hand Drilling Contest Victor Colo {Enhanced; Straightened}   
Victor Town   
Jefferson - 290   
23.07.2018 (13:07:25)
Skagway Dam [Structures Seen at Left Side of a Waterfal Running Into a Dam]




P-03627 [#6281]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6281
While I had no info, a man named Steed Lopez on the Facebook Group; ' My Obsessions, Family History and Victor Colorado' was so kind to tell me, us, that this view is looking up from the south end of Skaguay Dam and the structures at left is the Care Takers House and buildings. This view predates the disastrous 1964 flood that ruined so much from what I gather. A Huge Thank You Steed!
The Care Takers House is seen with a small cute Bay-window towards the small waterfall running down the hill/fill side on what appears to be some form of a controlled waterway as there are some form of fences along the stream at the sides, mostly the bottom part. This would link this scene to the Skaguay Power Plant as that was connected to the Skaguay Dam, and I am glad I spent the money to get hold of this view.
I think this card is from the 1920/30's, and thanks to the 1964 flood and possible other natural changes of over the years gone by, this scene would not be possible to recreate today, as the area has changed a lot thanks to the flood. Writing a little bit with Steed, I learned that if one looks at the south end of the dam in for instance Google Aerial View, the house would be at the location where there today is a parking lot along the road going down the valley/gulch where the dam ends. As he said, it looks considerable different since that faithful 1964 flood came through and wrecked everything!
⊞ Skagway Dam [Structures Seen at Left Side of a Waterfal Running Into a Dam] {Large Pixels 1200dpi; Cropped; Enhanced; Straightened}   


23.07.2018 (08:55:55)
St. Peter's Dome, Colorado, C.C.S.L.
William Edward Hook


The Colorado News Company
P-03325 [#5831]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5831
I've seen the base image for this view used in several places, mostly as postcards of various painted/colored parts, often with very little/minute changes but still there are differences and that to me means it was a second card, either a reprint or some other reason for the differences. I also seen this as two B&W cards, and I also seen it in one of the O'er Canon and Crag image books, hence I know it was copyrighted in 1904 by William Edward Hook.
There are some train differences on some of the uses, but the scenery is identical I would say so I am confident it is the same base view in use!
Short Line Related   

21.07.2018 (22:53:26)
Mary McKinney Mine Cripple Creek Colo.
Young



P-03846 [#6521]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6521
This is the third crop edition of this photograph by Young, not sure if the source image is of better quality, but this postcard is not the best and the 1200dpi resolution scan kinda shows it as nothing is really sharp.
I dare not date this view, but think it might be from the 1940's, the dumps around the Mary McKinney are huge and that massive crib-wall that used to stand along the road – both who been gone for a few years now when this is written in July 2018…
⊞ Mary McKinney Mine Cripple Creek Colo. {Enhanced}   
Anaconda Townsite   
Mary McKinney - 136   Morning Glory - 138   
23.06.2018 at USD 3.021.07.2018 (22:44:52)
Mary McKinney Mine Cripple Creek Colo.
Young



P-00478 [#577]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#577
This view of the massive dumps at the Mary McKinney Mine at the former site of Anaconda town I think was photographed from the road to Cripple Creek, but I might be wrong, and it was taken from a hillside closer to the mine dump, hard to tell as all this is gone now.
Raven Hill is seen in the background, and I see some mine structures still stand on the hill side. I would guess this view to be from around late 1930's to early 1940s, not sure when the photographer Young was active in the District, and I see no dating help in this view that appears to be a slightly cropped down along three edges postcard.
Anaconda Townsite   
Mary McKinney - 136   
21.07.2018 (17:49:34)
Cresson Mine [1938]
[1938]
1938-01-01; Only year is known, so it could have been this day…
1938-12-08; Seen postcard view post-stamped December 9, so can't been photographed later than the 8th of December 1938

P-03845 [#6520]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6520
Sadly this postcard is not a good quality one, it is rather dark, did not scan that well at high resolution and what is dark is dark, there are no way to enhance this view the way I sometimes are able to get somewhat better look at details.
This is the 8th postcard I've seen using the base image this is from, this is an edition where the text 1938 has been cut from the view, it stands under the words 'Cresson Mine' in lower right. Raven Hill is in the background and sorry, no, I've yet to figure out what mine has that Ore-House seen near upper left, seen just above top of the Cresson Smokestack.

Cresson - 186   
23.06.2018 at USD 3.021.07.2018 (09:10:43)
MOLLIE KATHLEEN GOLD MINE CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO



Butler Enterprises, Inc.
P-03847 [#6522]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6522
[B] MOLLIE KATHLEEEN GOLD MINE CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO
Discovered by a lady Prospector in 1891 and still producing.
--- End Backside Text ---

This is the second crop edition of this photograph by an unknown photographer, which I dare not trying to date, but think it might be from the 1940's till the early 1950's. View is of a road going down passed a large flat dump area used as a parking place and with signs telling the visitor that the mine trip is worth a stop by.

Mollie Kathleen - 26   
23.06.2018 at USD 3.016.07.2018 (11:43:37)
The John A. Logan Mine
Tomer Jacob Hileman
1908-01-01; Date is a guestimate due to postcard appearing to have that date on it as a Copyright Applied For entry.
1908-12-31; Date is a guestimate due to postcard appearing to have that date on it as a Copyright Applied For entry.

P-02498 [#4220]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#4220
Date is a guestimate, I have a near identical card, almost same angle, and the dumps looks to be the same size. In fact, all looks so alike that at first, I thought they were the same card – except when I put them side by side I suddenly noticed there was one difference in the foreground bottom where the other card had a structure where this card lacks that structure! But, as all rest looks so alike I think those two are photographed not that far apart in time. My other card has some text written with something about Copyright Applied for in bottom right, name Hileman and what appears to be an 8 in front of that, but sadly that card is partly messed up in that area so can't read it fully. Still, it makes me believe this is same year…
The focus of the image is the large shaft House of the John A. Logan Mine, also known as the Logan Shaft of the Stratton Cripple Creek Mining & Development Company. I've often wondered why there was not a spur to the Ore House as the High Line/Short Line branch line to the Blue Bird Mine was just below it, but I never ever seen evidence for such a spur.
To show how close the Ore-House is to the track, the Blue Bird Branch-line is partly seen climbing the hill in lower right, from about 1/3 in from right-hand side and till the right-hand side and is passing behind the small mine operation with the big trestle work in lower left. The trestle itself crosses the mainline of the High Line track, and they dumped their waste down the hill from the west (opposite) side of the Trolley and Steam train used track, outside this postcard view.
⊞ The John A. Logan Mine {Enhanced}   
Short Line Related   High Line   
John A. Logan - 311   
01.03.2012 at USD 20.016.07.2018 (11:26:44)
Stratton C.C.M. & D. Co. Logan Shaft in the Cripple Creek Mining District
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1908]
1908-01-01; Date is a guestimate due to postcard appearing to have that date on it as a Copyright Applied For entry.
1908-12-31; Date is a guestimate due to postcard appearing to have that date on it as a Copyright Applied For entry.

P-00789 [#1154]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1154
Date is a guestimate, there is written something about Copyright Applied for in bottom right, name Hileman and what appears to be an 8 in front of that, sadly card is partly messed up in that area so can't read it fully.
The focus is the large shaft House of the John A. Logan Mine, here known as the Logan Shaft of the Stratton Cripple Creek Mining & Development Company, and I often wondered why there was not a spur to the Ore House as the High Line/Short Line branch line to the Blue Bird Mine was just below it.
A tiny piece of the Blue Bird Branch is seen in lower right-hand corner, before it hides behind the dump materials from the small mine operation with the big trestle work in foreground left. The whole branch has a steep climb up the hill behind the foreground mine operation. The trestle itself crosses the mainline of the High Line track, the two legs at left corner is across the tracks and they dumped their waste down the hill from the west (opposite) side of the Trolley and Steam train used track.

John A. Logan - 311   
15.07.2018 (14:10:59)
Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
Julia Skolas

1908-07-03; Seen a printed/lithograph type of postcard dated July 10, which gives at least 1 week to process/create, hence the latest date used.

P-00064 [#68]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#68
This is one of my earliest bought postcards, all the way back to August 2005, and it took till today; July 15, 2018; before I learned a little bit more about it, like the fact this is a Julia Skolas photo! And so far, I know about 19 uses of the base negative/photo, many used for this postcard here in various crop editions, so I think it was a popular view and printed many times by both the same and various postcard publishers as I've seen various versions of this one.
There appears to be some form of snow on the ground in the foreground and on the hills and mountains in the distance background right, this gives the impression this might be a late winter photograph, possible 1908 as a year, as this postcard has a date of July 10, 1908 on its text message.
* About 1/3 down and almost at left-hand edge is the Vindicator No. 2 Shaft-House; in this colored postcard version it is not as white as it is on other colored postcard versions.
* Vindicator No. 1 is seen also about 1/3 down from top and about 2/5 in from right-hand side, consisting of a Shaft House, large Powerplant, huge Ore-House; and lot of dumps.
* Just to the right of the Vindicator No. 1 is the (on this view) large dark green with red colored roof Shaft House of the Lillie/Lilly/Lily Mine. This structure of the Lillie was later used as an experimental Mill for the Vindicator mine.
* In the foreground lower right there is unknown mine structure, which I wish was easy to say which mine it is, but my brain refuses to work, and I do not know currently (15.07.2018]. I been wondering if it might be on the Longfellow claim, but I am not sure, it feels located wrong though, too far south of what is now a reduced Independence Townsite, seen about middle of the image extending uphill towards your left.
Independence Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   
Vindicator No. 2 - 232   Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Lillie - 234   
05.06.2009 at USD 5.5512.07.2009 at USD 9.9917.09.2013 at USD 3.5315.07.2018 (13:11:03)
Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
Julia Skolas

1908-07-03; Seen a printed/lithograph type of postcard dated July 10, which gives at least 1 week to process/create, hence the latest date used.

P-03841 [#6516]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6516
I never seen this view as anything but as a printed/lithograph type of postcard, or in a postcard type of folder, but when I scanned this one I noticed that this is having the same base image as a couple of photo type of postcards that I have, which I found cool as suddenly I could say this is a Julia Skolas photo! And so far, I know about 19 uses of the base negative/photo, many used for this postcard here in various crop editions, so I think it was a popular view and printed many times by both the same and various postcard publishers as I've seen various versions of this one.
Wish it was as easy to say which mine is up front in lower right, but my brain refuses to work, and I do not know currently (15.07.2018]. I been wondering if it might be on the Longfellow claim, but I am not sure, it feels located wrong though, too far south of what is now a reduced Independence Townsite, seen about middle of the image extending uphill towards your left.
* Known mines count the Vindicator No. 2; the whitish single shaft house far left, about 2/5 down from top and about as much in from left-hand edge as the Shaft-house is wide.
* Vindicator No. 1 is seen also about 2/5 down from top and about 2/5 in from right-hand side, consisting of a Shaft House, large Powerplant, huge Ore-House; all white in this view; lot of dumps.
* Just to the right of the Vindicator No. 1 is the (on this view) large red colored shaft house of the Lillie/Lilly/Lily Mine. This structure of the Lillie was later used as an experimental Mill for the Vindicator mine.
* About center top/down and about 1/5 in from right-hand side is the Midland Terminal Independence Depot and tracks visible. There appears to be some form of snow on the ground in the foreground and on the hills and mountains in the distance background right, this gives the impression this might be a late winter photograph, possible 1908 as a year.
Independence Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   
Vindicator No. 2 - 232   Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Lillie - 234   Longfellow Mine - 235   
23.06.2018 at USD 3.015.07.2018 (12:14:30)
Vindicator Mine and Area
Julia Skolas

1908-07-03; Seen a printed/lithograph type of postcard dated July 10, which gives at least 1 week to process/create, hence the latest date used.

P-00156 [#181]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#181
This titled postcard view by Julia Skolas is not of Cripple Creek per say, as indicated by the title below the name of the photographer, but of the Vindicator Mine complex, and possible of the Lillie Mine if it still was in operation when this image was photographed, both located on Bull Hill in the Cripple Creek District.
In lower left part of the lower Independence town is seen, with the Midland Terminal Depot seen in lower right. Above the M.T. depot at top right is the old Lillie Mine Shaft Structures seen in all its glory, but I can't tell if this is before or after it was closed as a mine and reused as a Mill for the Vindicator Mine, seen to the left, about center sideways and about 1/3 down from the top. Poking out from the Vindicator Ore-House is seen yet another structure and that leads to a chute down to the M.T. tracks and some form of Ore-Bin down there, presumable some form of mill operations.
Just left of the Vindicator Mine complex, a string of railroad cars appearing to be passenger cars can be seen, not quite understanding that as that should be on the High Line grade and if they are parked there, that makes this after the Trolley Services closed in 1919, but I am not sure why they are up there or not. Studying a 1200dpi scan it appears the cars may be located below the High Line tracks as there appears to be a line pole a little bit higher up, so maybe the cars are standing on what was a siding there, after all, the track appears to be level where the cars are standing.
In the foreground left, several structures in the town of Independence is seen, and clearly many of them is vacant and not livable so this is clearly a declining town by the time this image was made.
Independence Townsite   
Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Lillie - 234   
08.07.2018 (09:20:49)
Victor, Colorado. The City Of Gold. Elevation 9735 Feet.



Adolph Selige Publishing Co.
P-03032 [#5054]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5054
View Victor from Squaw Mountain, made from same negative as some other known cards.
Midland Terminal Related   
Gold Coin - 288   St. Patrick - 297   
03.07.2018 (11:49:33)
Skaguay Dam/Lake/Reservoir [Colored Partly]




P-03663 [#6320]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6320
One of those 'Why on Earth' did I bother buy this one, and at the cost I did pay… It appears to be a partly colored view of the Skaguay Dam, I think direction is towards north and possible Pikes Peak Range in the distant background somewhere.
⊞ Skaguay Dam/Lake/Reservoir [Colored Partly] {Enhanced}   


03.07.2018 (11:48:20)
Steam Shovel Working with Vintage Truck, Doubtful In the Cripple Creek District




P-03669 [#6326]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6326
One more view at this Steam Digger and an early Dump Truck, photographed somewhere in Colorado I think. Sold as being in the District, and fearing it might be right, I did spend money on this and at least two others, but so far as writing this [24.05.2018] I am not able to understand where this might be. It does not feel like the District, but I might be wrong.
⊞ Steam Shovel Working with Vintage Truck, Doubtful In the Cripple Creek District {Enhanced}   


03.07.2018 (11:47:27)
Above the Clouds Victor Colo
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03665 [#6322]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6322
One of those 'scratch my head, trying to figure out where' views. In a way it is a cute one, there appeared to be snow on the ground, with some human activity below as there is a structure, several power poles or what the poles are used for, appears to be almost like a saddle between two hills, where there are even lower grounds the further into the view as you go.
⊞ Above the Clouds Victor Colo {Enhanced}   


03.07.2018 (11:43:57)
Phantom Canon Road Victor Colo [Planked Former F. & C.C. Trestle at Lone Tree]




P-03730 [#6387]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6387
Not the most interesting view I have, but I still felt it was important enough that I have two copies, this being my second edition of this scene, which is showing the now planked over trestle bridge at the so-called Lone Tree location in Phantom Canon, along the former Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad Grade, now known as the Phantom Canon Road, a road for automobiles to use and no more trains! I used to think this was looking downhill, but I've been wrong due to me never been there myself, but now I know thanks to a friend and visitor to my page who set me straight, thank you Ryan!
This is a view going uphill, towards North, and that is a very useful information Ryan gave me as I have more views at this location, both as postcards and as photographs and thanks to his friendly nudge in the right direction I can now better put those images into the right position in my head! And if any of you reading this has been mislead by my former text, my apologies!
By the Way, Ryan shared with me a recent photo he took a couple of years ago, the bridge is much wider now, the 'Lone Tree' is long been 'No Tree' but there appears to possible be a new 'Lone Tree' coming up as I see a green dot on his photo, close to where that tree is on this postcard view of mine here.
⊞ Phantom Canon Road Victor Colo [Planked Former F. & C.C. Trestle at Lone Tree] {Enhanced}   
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

03.07.2018 (11:34:49)
Cathedral Rocks. Corley Highway
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03716 [#6373]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6373
Card is sadly not a good quality card, as it has issues with not being all sharp, quite blurred in the distance left for instance, also it has quite the staining on the right-hand side of the card of what appears to be water damages.
Scene is in Cathedral Park, along the Corley Mountain Highway, the former Short Line Railroad Grade, photographed at the filling that replaced the trestle (Bridge no. 30-A), that used to be here till some unknown date prior to 1911 when it got filled in and used almost a decade more before the whole roadbed turned into a Toll Road, and later into the Gold Camp road of today.
⊞ Cathedral Rocks. Corley Highway {Enhanced}   
Corley Mtn Highway Related   Short Line Related   

07.05.2018 at USD 2.003.07.2018 (10:52:11)
View Out of Tunnel Along Corley Mountain Road, Former Short Line




P-03690 [#6347]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6347
This was marked on the backside as being between Divide and Cripple Creek, but that is just wrong info as this is a tunnel along the former Short Line Railroad, here part of the Corley Mountain Highway Toll-road. I dare not say which tunnel as mind is refusing to work that well…
What I can say is that a near identical image appears as a front to a book by Doris Wolfe named 'The Gold Camp Road' on the 'Revised Edition' of this 'Photo-Guide Book' about the former Short Line railroad grade, hence why I know the text on the postcard is wrong!
⊞ View Out of Tunnel Along Corley Mountain Road, Former Short Line {Enhanced}   
Corley Mtn Highway Related   

03.07.2018 (10:51:32)
Phanton Canon [at Rock Point]
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03689 [#6346]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6346
A view along the Phantom Canon road, on the former roadbed of the Florence & Cripple Creek railroad, and while it did look familiar to me, I was never able to connect the view in my head, until a friend and visitor to my page came to my rescue, thank you Ryan!
This is a view facing/looking north, towards Alta Vista, Victor, at the upper end of the Wilbur Loop area, at the place called Rock Point. For some unknown reason, the photographer Lehr decided not to show the Rock Walls at this location but instead focus on the showing of what appeared as a cutting, and how the road curves towards it.
Studying the image after I know what to look for, I can say that there is a small piece of the Rock Wall seen below the road, it can be picked out about 1/3 in from right-hand side with the top of that wall about 1/3 up from bottom.
⊞ Phanton Canon [at Rock Point] {Enhanced}   
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

02.07.2018 (09:09:22)
Three Elevations of Track, Colorado On Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek Railway



The Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., Ltd.
P-03179 [#5319]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5319
Sadly, this postcard broke nearly in half in the mail from the USA over to me here in Norway, so it ended up as a bad card, but a very nice seller insisted on refunding me the whole amount even if I did ask him not to do that! Thank You Aaron! I hope to find a new copy one day in better shape.
The scene is along the Short Line at St. Peter's Siding, looking towards the railroad climb that is using the Rock Creek area to climb way up into the near skyline area seen on right-side top. Train seen coming down track about 1/3 from top on left-hand side has just left Tunnel No. 6, while Tunnel No. 8 is on the hill seen about below the words 'Springs and' and one can see how the roadbed is hanging on the hillside to the right using large fills on its climb towards what is known as Duffields which is about 1/4 down from top and about 1/6 in from right-hand side of the image part of this postcard.
Short Line Related   

03.03.2017 at USD 1.9914.05.2018 at USD 0.526.06.2018 (07:50:13)
Point Sublime on the Corley Mountain Highway, Colorado Springs, Colorado.



The Puffer Mercantile Co.
P-03801 [#6463]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6463
This is a scene that seems to have been somewhat 'doctored' for this card as the road appears a little bit flawed in the scale and such, here at the old roadbed of the Short Line, now known as the Corley Mountain Highway, a Toll-Road using the old railroad grade, and here shown how Point Sublime was presented as a road view. The Plains are visible in the background, view is similar to many of the earlier known Short Line R.R. views, most likely that was the idea as well.
Corley Mtn Highway Related   

04.06.2018 at USD 0.523.06.2018 (08:00:43)
St. Peter's Dome on the Cripple Creek Trip, Colo.
Louis Charles McClure


H.R. Schmidt & Co.
P-02180 [#3712]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3712
[B] St. Peters Dome, Colorado. A massive dome-shaped mountain surmounted by a huge cap of solid rock. As the train rounds the curve, a surpassingly magnificent view is had, both of the Dome and outlying district.
Short Line Related   

20.06.2018 (09:27:21)
Cripple Creek Sampler, Blue Hill R.R. Terminal & Eagle Sampler
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill]



P-00065 [#69]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#69
Title of this card is partly very badly written, not sure why, but as the scene is from Bull Hill, the use of the words Blue Hill is most likely due to a typo at one part on the process of this view first time around, and then it been stuck with this view forever…
If you could have walked into the view, you would find that not far past the steam engine seen about center of this view, you would see down along the railroad climb up from Cameron, which ended here, and if you turned towards the photographer, you would see the downhill tracks towards Victor. I think of this area as Victor Pass, but name might be from more modern time.
The Midland Terminal had a wye up here and a small yard, behind the Sampler Structure seen towards the right-hand side of this view. The Short Line railroad did also have a yard here for a time, the yard of Short Line is seen about middle of this view, on this side of the structure near right-hand side, which I know as the Taylor-Brunton Sampler on top of Bull Hill – on this card named as the Eagle Sampler for some unknown reason. M.T. had its yard on the higher side, behind the T. & B. sampler and outside the view at right-hand side.
On the left-hand side of this view can be seen the very large Bull Hill works of the Cripple Creek Sampler, and that one was at one time being served by all three railroads with some dual gauge tracks to it, and same was the T. & B. Sampler at one time, and I keep wondering, is that a Steam Engine on the Golden Circle 3-foot narrow gauge, which is seen about center of this view?
The spur seen curving near lower left-hand corner is part of the Short Line mainline, but also used for the High Line tracks for the Trolley, coming down towards Victor through the town of Goldfield, way down left if the photographer had turned towards left in about a 180-degree turn.
Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   
Black Sampler [aka CC Sampler Bull Hill] - 230   T. and B. Sampler (Bull Hill) - 231   
09.02.2011 at USD 0.9927.05.2011 at USD 3.9904.11.2011 at USD 5.7505.02.2012 at USD 4.9909.11.2014 at USD 6.6806.06.2015 at USD 6.8803.11.2016 at USD 3.5517.06.2018 (12:26:44)
Strong Mine
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1909]
1909-01-01; Postcard scene dated only with 1909 opens up the whole year as a possible date
1909-12-31; Postcard scene dated only with 1909 opens up the whole year as a possible date

P-03506 [#6063]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6063
This view of the Strong Mine is quite a good one to tell how it looked sometime in 1909 when T.J. Hileman took the photo which was the base for this postcard view presented here. Down left is the yard of the F. & C.C. railroad, while the mainline of the Victor branch of the M.T. is shown entering the scene along the right-hand side, where there is also a side-spur for delivering coal to the powerplant of the Strong Mine for their operations, seen here with a single M.T, boxcar (no. 211) parked on the trestle, while the mainline where passenger trains was running is this side of that trestle, dropping downgrade to reach the Depot not seen in this view due to be behind the Strong Mine Ore-house.
Just behind the before mention ore-house is the Ore-house and headframe of the Mary Cashen Mine seen, with dumps around it and some of their cribbing's is seen behind the big truss bridge coming out of the Strong Mine Ore-House, extending across the F. & C.C. yard unto another smaller bridge and taking it to a rock-house outside this view which delivered dump ore to Short Line cars to be used as ballast, fill-mass and similar along the lines, from what I have understood it as.
Up near right top corner the dumps and Shaft House of the Ajax Mine is seen poking up into the sky, and about center left-right and about 1/5 down from top, there is the dump of the Nellie V. Mine with a smaller two-post Head Frame and a hoist house and shed together as a long structure from what I can gather in a high dpi scan of this view. This do not match what Sanborn 1908 say the Nellie V. mine was to look like, as that say it is a shaft house type of structure.
I wonder if I see the Columbine Tunnel or if it is another one which is seen a distance to the left of the extension of Diamond Avenue up to the M.T. tracks in the higher dpi scans. Seen about 1/5 in from the left-hand side and 2/5 down from the top, a dump is there in addition to a tunnel portal and some sheds to the left of the adit opening.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Victor Town   
Strong Mine - 271   Ajax - 275   Nellie V. - 277   Mary Cashen - 272   
17.06.2018 (12:04:45)
Lone Tree Rock, Phantom Canon Highway, Colorado.



Curt Goerke
P-03313 [#5799]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5799
[B] LONE TREE ROCK, PHANTOM CANON HIGHWAY, COLO.
Lovers of nature never tire of the many beautiful and interesting scenes along this magnificent highway, which is a part of the Big Circle Trip. This canon was well named. From start to finish weird and unique formations fill one with awe and admiration. Out of the top of this huge rock grows a pine tree without apparent nourishment or moisture.
------ End Card info ------
This view is looking downhill/south at the location known as Lone Tree Rock or just as Lone Tree. There is a planked over Trestle hiding behind that rock formation in foreground, while the automobile in the foreground seems to be facing north, going up towards the photographer.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

16.06.2018 (12:17:31)
Sentinel Rock, Clyde Park, Colorado On Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek Railway
Louis Charles McClure


The Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., Ltd.
P-00061 [#65]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#65
This scene along the Short Line I've mostly seen used as postcard views, but I also know it used as a photograph type of view. This particular edition of the card, I've seen with what appears to be same front part, but where the backside has the stamp box on my card here cut off at right-hand side. But I also seen another one where the same box for stamp is a small distance from the right-hand edge.
I can't tell which direction this view is taken towards, but I think it is towards the east, away from the District, but I might be wrong. Neither can I tell which bridge number that trestle had. It might possible have been Bridge No. 29-B, across Middle Beaver Creek, as that is said to be near Clyde Station, but it might as well be a different number. Till I get/find a map where all trestles are marked in with their numbers and I can match that to a bridge image, I dare not say which bridge this is.
Short Line Related   

31.07.2010 at USD 2.5918.08.2012 at USD 0.9904.06.2018 (08:17:26)
The Swedish Church in Victor, at 203 Portland Avenue.
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1905; as the cornerstone of the Swedish Church indicates it was built in 1905.


P-03581 [#6226]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6226
I can't help but find this little Church Structure cute, the Swedish Lutheran Church at 203 West Portland Avenue at the corner with South Second Street. Found it on the Sanborn 1908 Victor Fire Insurance Map, on Sheet 5, block 22. It also appears on the 1919 Sanborn Fire Insurance map, but not on the 1900. It seems to have occupied part of lot 15 & 16, with street number 203 along Portland Avenue. The structure to the left is Number 207 and is marked as a Dwelling on the Sanborn maps, making it most likely some form of an apartment building.
The Ore-chute seen poking out of the crib-wall on the right-hand side is part of the mining operations done by the Rexall Gold Mining Company, which is linked to the Spicer claim (Survey No. 8682), but same ground is crossed by another claim named Mt. Rosa claim (Survey No. 7407).
Victor Town   
Spicer lode [aka Rexall Mine; Victor Town] - 808   
04.06.2018 (08:16:44)
Swedish Church Victor Colo
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1905; as the cornerstone of the Swedish Church indicates it was built in 1905.


P-03105 [#5183]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5183
This small brick Church was the Swedish Lutheran Church according to the info on the Sanborn 1908 Victor Fire Insurance Map, found on Sheet 5, block 22. Located on the corner of West Portland Avenue and South Second Street, it also appears on the 1919 Sanborn Fire Insurance map, but not on the 1900. It seems to have occupied part of lot 15 & 16, with street number 203 along Portland Avenue. The structure to the left is Number 207 and is marked as a Dwelling on the Sanborn maps, making it most likely some form of an apartment building.
The Ore-chute seen poking out of the crib-wall on the right-hand side is part of the mining operations done by the Rexall Gold Mining Company, which is linked to the Spicer claim (Survey No. 8682), but same ground is crossed by another claim named Mt. Rosa claim (Survey No. 7407).

Victor Town   
Spicer lode [aka Rexall Mine; Victor Town] - 808   
30.05.2018 (09:19:35)
Garfield School in Victor, Colorado
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03549 [#6194]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6194
This is a nice view towards the Garfield School in Victor, located along South 5th Street on the east side and West Spicer Avenue on the south side, behind the structure in this view. Seeing several of the houses lining the street, and two of them on the east side has clothes hanging on the back porch, while the front garden on some of the west side houses appears to have patches of snow on the ground. The School have a flag hanging from a pole standing along the street.
Victor Town   

21.05.2018 (17:35:00)
Hull City Mine, Bull Hill in the 1930-40's ? [darker]




P-03546 [#6191]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6191
This has always felt like a Bull Hill, eastern slope, type of mine to me, this being the first ever version of this view I've seen/got hold of. I've been searching high and low to try find proof to substantiate that feel though, but all had failed until I did a comparison with two other images in my collection found at DB-Ref. P-02385 & P-02386. With those, I figured it out! :-)
Location is at the place of the former larger Hull City Mine, the cribbing seen further uphill in the background was part of the large Findley Dump and is also found in those two mentioned views. What happened to the much larger and well-known Hull City Mine I have no knowledge about, maybe it burned? Maybe it got tore down?
Either way, as far as I can tell this view is at that location of the Hull City, so that is how it shall stay until that day someone can point out to me where I got mistaken. :-) But, why someone could mistake this for the Mary McKinney Mine is beyond my ability to understand, but someone wrote sometime in the past of this postcard's history on the backside a handwritten note claiming this to be the Mary McKinney Mine but that is plainly just wrong! That mine looks way different.
If I compare this to P-02386 I need to look at the 1200dpi scan and there I find it about 1/3 down and about center sideways, where I look direct to the Ore-House part, with the Head-Frame to the right and the cribbing about twice the distance to the right there again – but it is impossible to tell the depth from this postcard view. If I compare the postcard to P-02385 I still need to look at the 1200dpi scan where I find it about 2/5 down from top and about 1/8 from right-hand side. Angle is about the same as on the other photo, can't say I get a better look either, both photographs are not sharp at this resolution.
Back at the postcard view itself, the old Golden Circle Mainline is seen about 1/3 down from top, entering the view at left-side, climbing a little, hide behind a dump at the crib-wall, then being visible a little again before exiting behind a new dump at the right-hand side. Below the crib-wall, almost at middle top/down is the old grade of the High Line, and the Short Line Portland branch – long gone in this view as I see no line side poles, so this help dating the view to be after the demise of the Trolley Service in late 1919.
* About 5/22 down from top and about 1/7 in from left-hand side, against the sky, is the top of the Head-frame at the Specimen Mine seen with its wheel about center of the top frame from left to right in this view – very hard to make out on the postcard scan, easier to see on my 1200dpi scan.
* About 1/15 down from top and about 1/7 in from right-hand side is another Head-Frame seen, and I keep wondering if this might not be the eastern Lucky Guess shaft? Very hard to tell, the old shaft house is long gone.
Independence Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   
Hull City placer - 321   Specimen - 412   
20.05.2018 (13:51:03)
Specimen Mine Cripple Creek Dist
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]
1919+; After the High Line is removed as it is missing in the background


P-03545 [#6190]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6190
Direction of this view is east, northeast, on Bull Hill, just west of the surface structures of the Specimen Mine operation, with an open Head-Frame and Hoist-house and shed linked to it, and a small Ore-house to the right down the hillside a small bit.
In the distance, up from the orehouse, the surface structures of the Vindicator No. 1 Mine are seen with a large Head-frame and Ore-house down into massive dumps, impossible to tell if it still is linked to a railroad or not in this view. Further on in the distance to the left, a big string of railroad cars say that the Midland Terminal is still in operation, but there is no trace of the High Line Electric Division, as where that should be I only see a road surface – cutting almost the headframe of the Specimen Mine in two so to speak.
Image is not sharp enough to tell if there are any rails left on the old Golden Circle tracks seen climbing Bull Hill, or is it Bull Cliff, about 1/4 down from top and about 1/4 in from left-hand side, but I do think the standard gauge M.T. tracks are there still when this photo was taken by Lehr many years ago.

Specimen - 412   Vindicator No. 1 - 233   
12.05.2018 (09:04:46)
Independence Mine and Mill
Julia Skolas

1912-07-31; As I've seen a postcard stamped August 1 the negative must be at least 1 day earlier due to time to develop & make a postcard out of it.

P-03625 [#6279]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6279
I've seen the base negative photo of this view by time of writing this [12.05.2018] used seven times where 5 is as postcard edition with three of them in type colored/painted while the other two been as B&W postcards, like this one here. I've also seen the view used twice as B&W prints in Postcard Folders, and going from experience, there is at least yet another photo type of this postcard with a better paper quality as this card here is not the best one, dark is just dark, and there is sort of dots in the paper reducing sharpness and ability to enhance the view to bring out details. Also, this is the first card I've seen signed by Skolas where she has put the J through the S in her name, quite cool actually!
For the View itself, this is on lower Battle Mountain where J. Skolas has photographed the huge in area Independence Surface type of Operation with the massive Mill Structures on the left and sideways center part, with the No. 1 Shaft of the Independence Mine itself seen towards the right-hand edge. In front of those structures there are still houses seen, belonging to Workers and so on I assume.
The railroad lines of the Short Line/High Line and the Golden Circle mainline is seen in the 1/3 bottom part where the Short Line is the lower one, with roads further down should you wonder. Up around the mine itself, about 1/2 up from bottom and about 1/4 in from right-hand side, this is where the Midland Terminal has its tracks and where passenger trains on the Short Line shared tracks in order to reach the M.T. Victor passenger terminal after they started to cooperate using the from then on known as the Union Depot, after 1905, when a connection between the Short Line and the Midland Terminal was made east of Victor, and the M.T. was running on Short Line tracks from a place called Vindicator Junction, but as that is entirely on the High Line route, there must been a connection from someplace at Victor Pass area from the M.T. tracks over unto the Short Line tracks.
Golden Circle Related   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   High Line   
Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Independence Mill {Stratton's on Battle Mt] - 921   
10.05.2018 (08:45:56)
A View at Many Children Around Backyard of Houses with Sacks (Potatoes?) and Wagons, Laundry is Hanging on Lines.




P-03612 [#6266]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6266
There is a story to this image, but what it is I do not know. It appears to be in a back alley, most likely in Victor as it looks quite hilly/steep, lot of cloths hanging out in lines, and there are many children and almost grown-ups around with two wagons visible and at least one horse hitched to one of those. There appears to be lot of stuff on one of the wagons and there are many sacks around, including two on the other wagon. The backside of this card says this is potato sacks, but why all this buzz and crowd like feel? I wish I knew as it looks like it meant a lot to those posing for the photographer.
Victor Town   

09.05.2018 (08:21:17)
A View at Men on a Supply Wagon, Said to Be at the Teller County Mining Company




P-03610 [#6264]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6264
Another mishandled card, a huge crack/fold is running across most of the card, making this sadly into a not so good card in terms of the quality, and, for what it shows it is not that huge great either as the scene is of two men standing up from the ground, one on a wagon connected to two horses, with a barrel behind the man, and the other man more likely standing on a loading platform at a brick structure that is said to be the Teller County Mining Supply Company structure, which I have understood as to be in Victor, Colorado.


08.05.2018 (17:33:12)
A View at a Boy-Scout/Man on a Horse on Hillside Near Eastern End of Spicer Avenue, with Houses, High School, Mines in the Background




P-03609 [#6263]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6263
This is one of those images my mind say is important as it has a view up from a street in Victor to Battle Mountain in the background, giving some of the feel living in Victor must have had on those growing up and living there at the time frame this image is from. Something I can't imagine other than studying images like this one. But, figuring out exact where this view is taken, that has been a challenge!
I think I am at the eastern end of Spicer Avenue, and that the mine seen with its Head-Frame behind the head of the rider in the foreground is the Fortuna Mine, but I might be off as this been hard to decode fully.
In background top right, about 1/10 down from top and about 1/6 in from right-hand side there is seen a trestle type poking into the image, with an Ore-House further to the left, and this is belonging to the Independence Mine, and about same down from top but 1/3 in from right-hand side is the brick structure of the Victor High School seen blocking most of the view to the Shaft House of the Independence Mine.
Even harder to see is the Strong Mine seen mention on the backside of this card where someone has really not known their town view very well as this is clearly not on neither Victor Avenue nor 7th Street… The Strong Mine upper part of the Shaft House with a small cupola or awning poking out of the roof can be seen behind the wood posts seen near upper left. About 1/6 in from left-hand side and about 1/7 down from the top that part can be plucked out due to the awning/cupola and the window+door+window part making sort of a face on the side facing the photographer – this makes it distinct and easy to pick out.
The Rider in the foreground looks to me to a Boy-Scout but that is due to the hat and the scarf, might just be a man out in the snow getting his photo taken in this gulch where there are lot of garbage around, many tin-cans are seen in the snow at lower right.
Along the top left-half there is seen the massive dumps of the Portland Mines and part of the Crib-wall below the No. 2 Shaft is seen, so yes, the mines really set their feel on town.
Victor Town   
Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Strong Mine - 271   Fortuna - 292   
07.05.2018 (11:02:27)
Group of Unknown Miners Posing at the Headframe of the Cameron Mine




P-03608 [#6262]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6262
Another image I did not know where was at the time I bought it, but which I still wanted. And while I have this little bit uncertainty in me still, I do however strongly feel that this is at the Cameron Mine, where 5 men are posing for the photographer, standing in front of a Head-Frame, with the Hoist-House and shed type of structure in background left and a chute down from the Head-Frame in front right. I've seen a marked postcard with the same head-frame and hoist-house look as here, hence the strong feel this being the Cameron Mine, located in Cameron/Grassy Valley in the District.

Cameron Mine [Bull Hill] - 1077   
06.05.2018 (16:28:56)
A View At the Empire State, aka Empire Lee Mine, North Slope Bull Hill, Cameron Valley and Pikes Peak Range in Background




P-03607 [#6261]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6261
This was one of those unknown mines I could not fully say where was. Spent hours searching and then, on page 16 in a Book by Bill Munn (titled 'A Guide to the Mines of the Cripple Creek District'), I found it!! As I already had seen, the Pikes Peak Range is in the background, and while snow covers lot of the ground, the valley below is the one I think of as Cameron Valley, where the crossing between the Short Line and the Midland Terminal tracks can be seen about 1/3 in from the left-side on the image part of the card and about 2/5 down from top of same image part.
To me that put this in the area of the Isabella, but a feel sneaked into me that maybe, just maybe this is operation around the old location of the Victor Mine? I had no idea, but in the end I did find out that this is actually the Empire State, or as it was known as from 1923; the Empire Lee Mine, located on the North Slope of Bull Hill, where the Golden Circle mainline ran below the mine, down between the dumps seen about middle top/down on the right-hand side of the image part. There was Extensive Underground connections between the Lee shaft of the Isabella and this mine, hence the name changes according to the book.
The view is a winter view, quite a big Head-Frame is seen with a not so long Ore-house to the left of it, several smaller shed like structures are seen to the right of the Head-frame, and the photographer stood on the dump of another mine, possible Orphan Boy, as there is a shadow of a smaller Head-frame seen near lower right corner.

Empire State - 315   
06.05.2018 (08:11:18)
Group of 11 Unknown Workers/Miners Posing at Unknown Mine, Possible the Independence Mine?




P-03606 [#6260]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6260
This is one of several cards I really should now have spent lot of money on getting as there are no information about who these young and old men are, and where they have been photographed, neither who did the photo or when it was taken, hence, the usefulness only lays in that I can share it on my website and possible, in the future, somehow, a name pops up from someone seeing it and writing me…
There are 11 men here, a couple looks quite young, one looks much older, there appears to be dual gauge tracks running into the structure they sit in front of, but based on the two legs of one man, it appears to be small 18-inch gauge on the smaller one at right, making it a possible 3-foot gauge in the full width… Might be at one of the mines, Portland springs to my mind then but no idea really, can be almost everywhere possible… In upper left there is partly seen a sign with some text on it, hidden behind the post I only see what might be ''DENCE MINE'', which might make this into workers/miners at the Independence Mine? Backside of card is only marked as ''Victor Crew''.


06.05.2018 (08:03:23)
A View at 3 Men on Donkeys Along Victor Avenue in Victor, Looking West




P-03611 [#6265]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6265
I fell somewhat for this view as this is looking west on Victor Avenue in Victor, just not sure at which block. I see the Trolley tracks is visible on the street at left, and there is a slope on the street, so I wonder if it is between Third & Fourth Street, but I am not certain/sure.
Victor Town   

06.05.2018 (08:02:21)
Skaguay Powerplant Structures and Area Behind with the Incline Tracks




P-03605 [#6259]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6259
While there is some damage to the card with a big fold/crack across more then upper third part going from sky into the hillside, I still felt I should give this a chance to come live with me as I have a feel for the Skaguay/Skagway Power Plant that one time long ago was part of the Woods Brothers empire, and this image for sure captured the remote feel and part of the incline leading down to the base of operations.


06.05.2018 (08:01:59)
Donkey Love, View of a Two Donkeys/Mules, in Front of Victor City Hall




P-03604 [#6258]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6258
Not the best quality, it looks out of focus, blurred, think the hand holding it was not as steady as it should have been. View is of two donkeys, one seems to have its head under the other one making me think it is mom and a kid that someone, possible Lehr, has snapped a shot of in front of the doors/arches of Victor City Hall. I was able to identify the 'not that easy to see what structure behind the animals is' as the text in the window at left behind the head of the whitish donkey I think is saying something about City and hence I went looking for views of the known City Halls of the District and the one in Victor fits what I can see, so it must be there.


06.05.2018 (08:01:25)
Donkeys/Mules, One with a Hat on Its Head, Possible Along Victor Avenue




P-03602 [#6256]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6256
I fell for the cuteness of this view but scanning it and seeing hos out of focus it is, not very sharp, I am a little bit sad as I am not able to bring out any details of the background and that makes it hard to decode where this might have been photographed. I think it might be looking west on Victor Avenue in Victor, but I am not certain/sure.


06.05.2018 (08:01:02)
View of a Man Holding a Stick in Front of a Donkey/Mule with a Wagon Behind It, a Lady is Seated On the Wagon




P-03601 [#6255]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6255
This was a cute card, not sure why, but I felt it should come to me with others to get a good home even if I have no idea who those two people are, the man with the stick luring the donkey to drag the small wagon where his sweetheart is sitting and smiling for the photographer. There is nothing in the view to ID where in the District this was photographed except there is some form of a small stone wall behind the posing ones, and they them self appears to be on some form for road with some exposed rocks in the background.


06.05.2018 (08:00:30)
A Steam Shovel at Work at an Unknown Location, Said to Be in the Cripple Creek District [Wider View]




P-03600 [#6254]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6254
Sadly, this image postcard here was in way worse condition then seller had sold it as via his listing, in it out of focus, not sharp at all on the left side, and really not a smart buy by me… I also have high doubts this is at all in even linked to the Cripple Creek District, but as seller was so sure it was a hard thing not to take the opportunity but looking back, I kind of regret this and the other one as I am unable to find anything to locate the area this is at… Seller had some Boulder County views, possible this scene is up there?
It looks like an early steam digger on belts, not on a railroad car as I first had in mind. The wall at front right is a curious one as it angles outward, built of stone, with many support posts with brace down into the ground on the side of the wall I would think was the outside but I now wonder might be somethings that should be filled in a bit later and we see the inside so to speak of a support wall?
Not that it helps me figuring out what they are working on, is it making a road for car use which I suspect, or is it a potential railroad use, or something else! Also, still not idea where this is at, no idea!


06.05.2018 (08:00:07)
A Steam Shovel at Work at an Unknown Location, Said to Be in the Cripple Creek District




P-03598 [#6243]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6243
I have high doubts this is at all in even linked to the Cripple Creek District, but as seller was so sure it was a hard thing not to take the opportunity but looking back, I kind of regret this and the other one as I am unable to find anything to locate the area this is at… Seller had some Boulder County views, possible this scene is up there?
It looks like an early steam digger on belts, not on a railroad car as I first had in mind. There is a small wall at front lower right built of stone I think, and it looks like they are working on making a road for either car use which I suspect, or potential railroad use, but where this is at, no idea!


03.05.2018 (08:27:12)
Mary McKinney Mine Cripple Creek-Victor Road.
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03585 [#6230]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6230
This view is from along the Victor-Cripple Creek road, running on the former roadbed of the Florence & Cripple Creek, looking towards the Mary McKinney Mine about center sideways and its huge crib-wall. If one could have walked into the view and hitched a ride with the automobile seen one would have ended up in Cripple Creek.
The Hill in distance left-hand side is part of Gold Hill, and I wonder if part of the old Short Line roadbed is visible up there near the skyline. I can't sadly see anything though in a high-resolution scan of 1200dpi, as there is just too much blur, and overall the whole card is sadly not in a good shape due to someone at some time in the past having spilled something over it.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   
Mary McKinney - 136   
02.05.2018 (23:56:53)
A Scene Looking West at Divide with the Big Cut for the Former Grade of the the Colorado Midland




P-03584 [#6229]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6229
This view made me scratch my head as it was listed as being in the District, but that it can't be as no place in the Cripple Creek District do it look like this, but, it got my head go looking and I ended up with this is a scene looking west up at Divide, Colorado! The cut seen must be the former grade of the Colorado Midland, where there still is a spur to some form of Industry as there is a planked trestle way to get to the top of those boxcars standing at end of the spur.
Colorado Midland Related   Divide Town   Midland Terminal Related   

01.05.2018 (05:51:40)
Big Snow Victor Colo April 15, 1921
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr] [15.04.1921]



P-03583 [#6228]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6228
A view I had not intended to win really, as it is not that great, but it did end up with me where I did lose out on others I wanted more, but at least this is a dated view, which I am happy for, even of the background is not that great, and hard to tell where it is in Victor – lots of snow, that is for sure!
Victor Town   

30.04.2018 (10:31:02)
A View at Southwestern Part of Victor, Looking Down South 5th Street

1920; The Lack of Garfield School should help dating, I chose 1920 as I know the school Operated the 1919-1920 season, no idea if it lasted longer.


P-03582 [#6227]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6227
I felt I had to get this view as it is helpful in showing Victor on the western part of town and how it changes as in this view the Garfield School house is gone, but there are still many houses around and some of them still are there today and that is quite cool I think. I assume this view is into the 1920's or possible into the 1930's, hard to tell for me giving I have nothing I know date of that I can compare it with.
In addition, there are blurred feel out on each of the sides, so image was not that great after all…
Victor Town   

27.04.2018 (05:54:12)
Corley Fish Lakes Corley Highway
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03580 [#6225]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6225
This is a scene unknown to me from along Corley Highway, which I assume means Corley Mountain Highway, or in more modern days, the Gold Camp Road, which to me is still the grade of the Short Line Railroad. I think this might be at Clyde, but this and another view I did not win was the first time I seen views like this, so I can't tell for sure if those dams I see north of the Gold Camp Road at Clyde is those pictured here on this card, but to my eyes, using Google Maps with the Satellite view, and the 3D effect, they sure looks similar so I would say it is the same location, place.
That means the road, and former railroad grade, is outside the view to the right in this card view, one would have had to turn right at least about 45-degree to be able to see the former Short Line grade/Gold Camp Road/Corley Mountain Highway in a more distant view.
Corley Mtn Highway Related   

26.04.2018 (12:28:13)
Presbyterian Church in Victor Colorado, Located at 213-215 South Second Street




P-03579 [#6224]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6224
While not the most interesting image it still is a useful one showing the street side of this Church structure that once was located at 213-215 South 2nd Street in Victor. I wish I had such views of every single structure in Victor, and of as many sides as possible, from back in the days and in more modern times.
This structure no longer stands in Victor as per info I found through Internet in a pdf file about 'Historic Building Survey for Victor 1998', where I did learn that the Presbyterian Church, located at 213-215 South Second Street, was moved to Simla, Colorado. The Source just did not say when that happen.
Victor Town   

26.04.2018 (11:09:25)
The Anchoria Leland Mine, on Gold Hill
Julia Skolas



P-03270 [#5682]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5682
This view towards the Anchoria Leland Mine on Gold Hill is marked as a Julia Skolas photo, but I saw on my 1200dpi scan that there is some text that is scratched out in the dump part below the small cabin about 1/5 up from bottom. I can't read it though, the job was very well done, but it either hold just a text info about this scene, or possible another name as I've seen it happen before, and I am a little unsure if this is really a Julia Skolas photo or if she only got the rights for it. I wonder this due to the fact I can see the Trolley hanging wire in foreground right, and this part of the loop on the original High Line that was below the Anchoria Leland mine was abandoned in 1903, but Julia Skolas did not arrive in the District before about 1906-1908. The sources various a little, most say 1907, one says 1906/1907 and one say 1908. Hence, I wonder a little if she took this herself or bought the rights from whoever took it a few years earlier…
Either way, it is a good view of the side of this structure, and while my card has some damages to it, it is not that severe thankfully. The Head Frame in foreground right, lower right-hand corner, is at this time of writing [06.07.2017] one of the many unknown smaller mine operations.

Anchoria-Leland - 61   
25.04.2018 (09:51:03)
View Up 5th Street in Victor Towards Battle Mountain Mines




P-03578 [#6223]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6223
This was an important view to me as it has so many things in it, but sadly, it is not that sharp and on the higher dpi scans it is not that great to look at… Still, having this view up South Fifth Street in Victor from 1920's onward makes me happy, as it also allows me to share it with the world via my website, so others can maybe also get some use of it.
About 1/3 up from bottom is the intersection with Portland Avenue and about 2/5 down from top and about center sideways is Victor City Hall shown, with the Ajax Mine operations just to the left and up against the sky behind the hall.
The head-frame of the exposed/torn-down Gold Coin Mine is seen to the right of the City Hall, a little bit more then 1/3 in from right-hand side, while the Portland No. 2 Shaft is seen exposed against the sky about 1/6 in from right-hand side with the Portland No. 1 Shaft just below and to the right.
Victor Town   
Ajax - 275   Gold Coin - 288   Portland No. 2 - 259   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   
23.04.2018 (22:49:19)
A View Along the Former Roadbed of the F. & C.C. Into the Town of Cripple Creek

1918; As the road here is the former F. & C.C. roadbed, abandoned sometime in 1917 and I see not trace of railroad, it indicates some time has passed.


P-03577 [#6222]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6222
Sadly this image did not shed much light unto what did happen with the area the old Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad used for its yard in Cripple Creek, town which is seen in the background, making me wonder who and why that person wrote Victor on the backside of this postcard, as whoever have some basic knowledge of the District should not be able to do such a mistake in location!
Either way, by time this image is taken there are no railroad structures left, I can see the flattish ground where the station used to sit, about center top/down and about 1/3 in from left-hand side, and there appears to possible be a small lake or something further left as I see what appears to be a small waterfall, almost as wide as high, but I did not know there was a stream in that area.
I got this card as I had hopes it might shed light on the left overs after the railroad grade was abandoned by 1917 between Cripple Creek and Victor, but I guess the years that went by and the reusing the grade as a road has wiped out what was left before the photographer took this view sometimes in the 1920's I think.
Cripple Creek Town   Florence & Cripple Creek Related   

22.04.2018 (10:53:37)
View West From Gold Hill Passed Houses and Across Trestle on M.T. Unto Town of Cripple Creek


1917; This year the F. & C.C. line between Victor & Cripple Creek is abandoned, but there is railroad cars seen at the Depot, so before line closed.

P-03576 [#6221]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6221
Sadly, this view was not very sharp, did not scan well and while I get the overview this provides from a place on Gold Hill overlooking southwest part of Cripple Creek, I can't get much details out of it, which is sad as I had my hopes up when I got this!
In foreground there are several houses on each side of a street named Whiting Avenue on a Sanborn 1908 map, leading down to the Florence & Cripple Creek Depot seen about 1/3 up from the bottom of the image part of the postcard and about 1/4 in from the left-hand side of the same image part.
The trestle/bridge seen about 1/3 up from bottom of postcard and about 2/5 in from right-hand side of postcard edge, is bringing the Midland Terminal across a gulch and what looks like to be the alley on the Sanborn map between Whiting and Irene Avenues. Behind the trestle the Railroad Yard of the Short Line can be seen with top of a Trolley seen to the left of the trestle, and the Short Line Depot seen a distance to the right of the trestle – neither turning up any great at the 1200dpi scan.
I think the houses lining the right-side of Whiting Avenue is from near lower right-hand corner; No. 441, No. 437, No. 435, No. 433, No. 431, No 429 and No. 427 closest to the railroad, but its hard to make them fit what I see on the Sanborn 1908 map (Sheet 19).
The fact I see railroad cars standing down at the F. & C.C. Depot say that this view is at least within the timeframe there was rails to the Depot ground in Cripple Creek, which would say not after sometimes in 1917 when the line was abandoned between Victor & Cripple Creek.
Cripple Creek Town   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   

16.04.2018 (05:03:23)
Elks Building and Hall, Victor, Colo.



H.H. Rosser
P-01899 [#3280]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3280
Sadly, the quality of this card in terms of the image part of it quite poor, being first of all a rather raw printed type with clearly seen dots making up the image part! With that said however, I think the digital filter I put on it do help the looks of it, and while details are hard to pick out I can see the broader parts.
By time of writing this [13.04.2018] I've not researched this image and where in Victor this was, if the structure still stands, and so on, but they sure look like someone put lot of effort in making them nice looking back then! Lot of styling, especially in the left one with those huge bay-like windows and the top sort of border at top of structure.
* 16.04.2018, David Brant said via Facebook; P.S. this is building is no longer standing. It was located across from City Hall. The building on the left with Pruett sign is the Victor Mall.
Victor Town   

24.03.2020 at USD 73.8715.04.2018 (13:39:57)
View East on Victor Avenue with Trolley Tracks in Middle of Street, Some Form of Festivities Going on, Possible 4th of July




P-03575 [#6220]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6220
The enhanced version of this postcard was made as the original was more sort of dull and this become a better-looking copy of it. Image shows Victor Avenue, Victor, looking east along the single Trolley track in the middle of the street, there are some form of festivities going on – someone wrote 4th of July on the backside of the card but I do not know if that is correct as all those strange-looking banner-like flags hanging down make it feel more like something else.
Sadly the image is not very sharp, it did not scan that well, but a look at a higher resolution scan do not give more answers as while there appear to be someone walking for some form of banner along the tracks about 1/3 up from bottom of view, I wonder if that not is a form for flag hanging on some of the wires crossing the street instead, I can't fully make it out but see not clear legs so I don't think it is a person walking. That would make all those people lining the street waiting for something else, I wonder what that else was.
The Gold Coin Mine is seen in upper left, with a flag at top of the Shaft House, and that dates this image to be before the mine was tore down at least, but I see no smoke from the huge smokestack, so it may not run, or at least burn something that produces smoke the day this image was made! Sadly, a pole covers the side of the Ore-House, so I can't see of there is any lettering on it, so can't tell if this is marked Granite or not.
Low Line   Victor Town   
Gold Coin - 288   
15.04.2018 (08:48:45)
El Paso Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.



H.H.T. Co.
P-03293 [#5725]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5725
This image is a good one, in spite of the quality being too dark and that it sadly is of the printed type. But, the scene it shows makes it great as it shows the short-lived Switchback branch of the Florence & Cripple Creek that went down Beacon Hill to the Henry Adney & Old Gold mines in the valley below the impressive El Paso Mine, seen with its light colored large ore house and partly built in head frame about 1/3 from top at center of image.
A little below that at left is the C.K. & N. Mine, seen about middle top/down and in lower right-hand corner is the Henry Adney mine with a couple of F. & C.C. boxcars standing on the track nearby.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   
El Paso - 127   C. K. & N. - 126   Henry Adney - 332   
14.04.2018 (11:24:02)
Goldfield, Colo.
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03336 [#5844]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5844
This is a view I Just had to Get!!! Various reason, like for instance, up on Victor Pass in the background is seen the still standing structures of the old Taylor & Brunton Sampler for instance... Sadly the camera-lens used has issued on the left and right hand sides where they are blurred and not very sharp, neither is the background sharp so details are not that easy to pick out.
The town of Goldfield is seen in all its glory so to speak, from the church near right-hand side along what is known as Victor Avenue, to the dumps of the Golden Cycle mine on the left-hand side, and the huge structure making up the Jefferson School in foreground left, with its huge high and wide roof and massive chimneys or what those 4 tower-like parts poking up from the roof really was. Independence Avenue is seen running up the valley towards Victor Pass behind the school.
Jefferson School was mention as torn down during the timeframe 1928-1929 in the booklet ''Gold Camp Indian Summer'', which would date this image to be taken some time before that, but exact when is an unknown.
Goldfield Townsite   Short Line Related   Trolley Related   
Gold Knob - 250   T. and B. Sampler (Bull Hill) - 231   
14.04.2018 (11:17:39)
View of a Parade Float in a Street in Goldfield, Colorado




P-03144 [#5268]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5268
This is one of those many 'I wish I knew more' type of cards, but alas, I have no info other then seller saying this is on a street in Goldfield and me agreeing as it do feels like Goldfield. There seems to be preparations for some sort of Parade going on, or more like gathering, as there are so many on that wagon with the 4 horses at front.
The hill in center background is the Bull Cliff part of Bull Hill.

Goldfield Townsite   

14.04.2018 (11:08:42)
View of Parade Preparation Along Between 9th & 10th Street on Victor Avenue in Goldfield, Colorado, with City Hall in Background Right & the Roman Catholic Church Front Right.




P-03143 [#5267]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5267
This is one Great Card I think! Do not know the occasion but people are gathering preparing for some form of a Parade here in front of the Roman Catholic Church in Goldfield, seen partly at Front Right. This are putting them on Goldfield's Victor Ave., between 9th & 10th Street, in the distance we see the City Hall with the High Line/Short Line grade seen nearly halfway down from top left corner just to the left. Quite much planked walkways visible in this view, love it!
Goldfield Townsite   Short Line Related   Trolley Related   High Line   

14.04.2018 (10:54:42)
Broncho Busting Labor Day Victor [Looking Southeast]


1911-10-03; Day before the dated text on a postcard.

P-03140 [#5264]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5264
I think it is Jefferson Mine that is partly seen at top left, with the road cut going up passed Victor High School structure just to the right and behind the Head-frame seen. That would mean that the crowd of people seen about 1/3 down from top and in from right-hand side into the image is standing on Victor Avenue.
Victor Town   

14.04.2018 (10:06:15)
A Summer Snow View Up Ninth Street of Goldfield, Colorado
[17.06.1912]
1912-06-17; date given at front of postcard image.
1912-06-17; date given at front of postcard image.

P-03142 [#5266]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5266
This was one of those postcards I never would have imagined I would happen over, so that makes it a little bit of a treasure even if the scene is not that great and it is somewhat faded. Some research has made this to be looking up 9th Street in Goldfield, where there has come a layer of snow this day of June 17, 1912 and covered up everything! Of markings I've been able to find on this view I've seen a sign saying 'Coors Golden Hofbrau' on the left-hand side of the street, about 2/5 up from bottom, with another one further into the view, same side, saying 'A.W. Flanigan Real Estate' on the sign. On the right-hand side of the street, the structure closest to the photographer there is a big marking on top of sidewall saying 'Herman - One Price Clother', with a sign at street level saying, 'New Second-Hand Bought Goods Sold' while the post holding up that sign there is written the text 'Plumbing'
Goldfield Townsite   

14.04.2018 (09:38:14)
Jessie & Lon Brockshire Posing at the Depot Along the High Line/Short Line in Goldfield, Colorado




P-03141 [#5265]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5265
When I got a change to get hold of this view I just had to take the opportunity, came at a high cost but it is as dearly to me as I think it was to the couple Jessie & Lon Brockshire who is Posing here at the Goldfield Depot along the High Line/Short Line grade through Goldfield, Colorado.
Goldfield Townsite   Short Line Related   Trolley Related   

14.04.2018 (08:59:18)
Victor Ave - Looking West.


1907; Seen a postcard stamped that year.

P-03137 [#5261]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5261
I've seen the base photo/negative be used for three postcard uses by the time of this writing [14.04.2018], this being the Real Photo one, with an another being in B&W and not filling the whole front of the card, and there is also a painted/colored version of this scene.
The view is Looking West up on Victor Avenue in Victor, Colorado, looking up to the Intersection with Third Street, and beyond that, in right-hand side of street, the high structure seen is the Bank Block, today the Victor Hotel. The lady seen crossing the street about center sideways and about 1/3 up from bottom of card, is to cross the tracks for the Trolley, seen just in front of her.
Victor Town   

01.02.2017 at USD 44.9914.04.2018 (08:42:36)
Midland Terminal Engine #55 on Excursion Train at Yard in Cripple Creek
Horace William Spencer Pontin


Horace William Spencer Pontin
P-03106 [#5184]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5184
Sadly, this is not a very sharp card, it scans blurred and it is impossible to enhance out the details of the number on the engine. The front seems to fit the given info of No. 35, but the side under the engineer gives me the feel of a No. 25 more than the number 35, so it makes me wonder what engine it really was. Neither Numbers Existed on the Midland Terminal so in the end, after talking with a friend, we ended up it being No. 55.
Location is at the M.T. Cripple Creek Yards, part of the Freight House can be seen behind the locomotive on the right, and the Engine House and Water-tank can be seen in background left.
Cripple Creek Town   Midland Terminal Related   

13.04.2018 (22:50:35)
Firewagon with 2 Horses at the Cripple Creek Fire House No. 3




P-01627 [#2459]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2459
A view at the small Fire Station No. 3 in Cripple Creek around 1910. Made out of brick, it certainly dwarfs the much smaller structure on the right, but against the man sitting on the Fire Wagon being hitched to two whitish horses, it doesn't look that big. An interesting time witness type of card. I can't tell which street this is in as I've not researched it.
Cripple Creek Town   

04.04.2012 at USD 80.002.01.2017 at USD 39.9913.04.2018 (18:44:41)
Portland Mine. Portland No. 2
Tomer Jacob Hileman



P-03337 [#5845]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5845
I do not know the source of the photographer's name, so it might be a wrong link I made at one time, but for time being I let him stay linked to this image so to speak! The view is a nice one of the Portland Mines, No.1 (Burns) Shaft in foreground and the No. 2 Shaft in the background more right. Between them is the old Shaft House of the Scranton, where the text 'No.2' is written. Behind that shaft-house and the cribbing there is a spur belonging to the Short Line terminating at the Ajax mine way outside the view at left.

Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Portland No. 2 - 259   Scranton Shaft - 1058   
13.04.2018 (16:19:54)
Independence Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
Schedin & Lehman


E.C. Kropp Co.
P-03278 [#5690]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5690
This view of the large Independence Mine has been a popular one as I've seen it appearing on lots of postcards where there are tiny differences in where the sides been cropped, and that goes for both the B&W card and the ones like these, that has been colored/painted. Also shown up in printed materials and postcard folders.
The scene shows some Midland Terminal tracks in lower left, passing by and serving the Ore-House with the dark shades up the side of the structure due to the steam train used back then. A map I've seen also indicates that Ore-house to have had 3-rails, as in dual gauge, as to be served by the Golden Circle Railroad also.
Further into the image, in from right-hand side and about middle top/down there is another Ore-House and the before mention map (page 301 in the 40-Miles to Fortune book by Allen Lewis) also say that this was served by dual gauge track. That map also says that the structure between those before mention ore-houses is a Mill – the one with the twin peaked roofs meeting each other, before going into a third peaked roof 90-degree turned from those two.
In the background, up against the sky, is the Portland Mine No. 1 seen in from the right-hand side, while about center sideways is the Ajax Mine visible against the sky.
Midland Terminal Related   
Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Ajax - 275   
13.04.2018 (12:43:23)
Cripple Creek, Colo. [Goldfield Area]



Barkalow Bro's. Publishers
P-03191 [#5341]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5341
This is a very artistic rendering with dramatic effect/exaggerations of the scenery around the town of Goldfield and should really have had a better title then the card maker chose as this is quite a distance from the town of Cripple Creek. In foreground right, the Short Line Loop in lower Goldfield is drawn in, with only part of the Golden Circle seen as there is a spur crossing under the before mentioning Short Line near lower left which here is just ending in Goldfield deep in the valley drawn, while it used to climb the hill seen on left side of this view. But, it is an artistic rendering, so I should not judge to hard.
Goldfield Townsite   

13.04.2018 (11:53:38)
Steer Roping Contest Victor Colo. [Rodeo and Bronco Riding in Victor Below the Strong Mine]
Victor Studio

1912-09-06; This as card is post stamped the day after and taking the photo and creating the card takes some time.
Victor Studio
P-03046 [#5074]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5074
This view, from possible 1912 Labor Day Festivities, or earlier, is taken in what I look upon as eastern Victor, with several houses seen. Also, many spectators are looking from behind a fence in safety while several men on horses rides around working so to speak. Up in upper left corner a small part of the Independence Mine can be picked out from the dumps seen, possible part of the Ore-House, while a long string of F. & C.C. Boxcars lines the hillside further down.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Short Line Related   Victor Town   

13.04.2018 (09:52:08)
Scene Along the Line of the Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek Short Line




P-03040 [#5068]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5068
While strictly not a Postcard I've included this with my Postcards Web album. This as there is on the Backside a time table from Denver to Cripple Creek, and while someone has scrabble something in a form for handwritten note I can't read, I still think it is important to show this to the World for anyone who might find this as interesting like I did.
Short Line Related   

11.04.2018 (16:38:41)
Looking Up Eclipse Gulch Towards Mines on Bull Hill in the Background, Possible Near the Old Site of the Mill I Love.
[1918]



P-02999 [#4999]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#4999
I am pretty certain this is on the former main road between Victor (behind and to the right) & Cripple Creek (into image towards left) where it went over the hills and valleys at a lower elevation then the railroads. I further believe this is as the road turn down into Eclipse Gulch, and that the valley up on the right-hand side is the Eclipse Gulch.
* The dump seen about 1/3 down from the top sticking into the view from right-hand edge would be the huge dump left after the Economic Mill burned down, at least that is what I think the dump is.
* Near the same edge, against the sky, the Blue Bird Mine can be seen as a darker spot, while the American Eagle is almost faded into the sky further to the left, about 1/4 in from right-hand side.
* The Shaft House of the old Bostwick Mine can be seen about 1/3 down from top and about 2/7 in from left-hand side.

Bostwick - 155   Blue Bird - 209   
11.04.2018 (15:51:15)
Looking Towards Victor and the Mines on the Hills Surrounding Her, From Near Phantom Canon Road
[1918]



P-02996 [#4976]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#4976
I think of this view as from the former grade of the Florence & Cripple Creek, here used as the Phantom Canon road, looking ahead at the town of Victor as she lies along Squaw Mountain at left and Battle Mountain at sideways center of this view, with Bull Hill making up the rest against the sky in the distance right. Lots of dots marking out dumps for the many mines in the area, but quality of postcard is so bad they are all useless and out of focus and not sharp at all so nothing useful can be pulled out from this far away.
Victor Town   

11.04.2018 (15:45:11)
Looking Up Towards a Short M.T. Train Along Squaw Mountain as Seen From 7th Street in Victor
[1918]



P-02958 [#4901]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#4901
This must be along 7th Street in Victor, as there is a hanger for a trolley wire clipped off by the damaged part of this postcard. Sadly, it got damaged either in the photographing or in the making process, but still quite nice to have... Not the sharpest view but still a link back to days long gone.
In background left, up on Squaw Mountain a short Midland Terminal train is out with 3 ore gondola type of cars, and just in front of that train there is a smaller Head-Frame poking up, which I believe is part of the Golconda Mine, as that is the only mine I know about in that area.

Victor Town   
Golconda - 287   
11.04.2018 (15:45:04)
Looking Up Arequa Valley/Gulch Towards Saddle Between Guyot & Beacon Hills in 1918
[1918]



P-02957 [#4862]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#4862
When I first saw this view, I knew I had to try my best to win it as to me it was the first look at this part of the District that I ever seen! The hill in background left is the eastern slope of Beacon Hill, making the hill in distance right Guyot Hill. About center sideways and about 2/7 down from the top the Gold Dollar Mine operations are seen, with its high/tall Head-Frame and quite long Ore-House to the right of the head-frame.
I think this view is taken along the original road between Victor [located sort of behind to the right] & Cripple Creek [located sort of straight into the image], and which ran the hills in Arequa Gulch where this view is from. I also think that the quite large two-story house seen about 3/8 down from top and about 1/4 in from right-hand side is the same house which appears at the top side of the old Arequa Mill images I've seen, making the hillside to the left of the house the former site of the mill. Making this postcard view even more interesting as it links something old to a more modern time, before all this in my modern time is all gone by the huge tailings of the Open Pit Operation in the district…

Arequa Townsite   
Arequa mill - 310   Gold Dollar - 173   
11.04.2018 (11:56:21)
Summit of Pike's Peak Altitude 14,147 Ft.




P-01894 [#3274]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3274
I got this as a free gift from a seller who had several Cripple creek district cards listed, I tried my luck on all of them, but lost all of them and only got a cute card of ''workers'' posing along the Pikes Peak Cog Railroad track, so to get this card view of old structure on top of Pikes Peak was just a great gesture and cool companion as in this view we have the steam train coming to the top house!


10.04.2018 (18:05:05)
Up Cripple Creek Route - Hill Scene with Small Farm Below Some Railroad Tracks




P-03014 [#5022]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5022
Hill Scene with Small Farm, I'm not fully certain that this view is in Colorado, as there is a Cripple Creek on the East Coast, and possible this might be over in that area, and not along the Short Line to Cripple Creek Railroad. But, if it is along the Short Line, this would most likely be at Summit, as it has that feel to it. But, I do not know, so, if you happen to know, please contact me at linda@cripplecreekrailroads.com.
Short Line Related   

10.04.2018 (16:56:58)
Lake Broadmoor from Point Sublime, Colo. C.S. & C.C. Short Line.
Louis Charles McClure



P-02622 [#4391]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#4391
Yet another of the many slightly different postcard editions of this base photo/negative, where there can be as little as 1mm difference at either of the edges from another know postcard to me, but which to me makes this into a different postcard made at a different time from any of the other known ones.
Scene is the same, at Point Sublime along the Short Line, looking across the roadbed down into the Plains where the Lake Broadmoor can be seen about center of the card. From what I been able to gather, the trestle partly seen, indicated, on the left part of the view, that would be Bridge No. 6-B, and also known as the Second Twin Bridge at Point Sublime. Trestle was according to page 156 in the Colorado Rail Annual No. 16 book 119 feet long and 13 feet high.
Short Line Related   

10.04.2018 (16:13:14)
Cathedral Park Spires, Cripple Creek Short Line, Colorado.
William Edward Hook



P-02459 [#4140]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#4140
The base photo/negative have been used in a 1904 book named ''O'er Canon & Crag'', where it was credited to W.E. Hook, but this particular postcard has a very bad printed edition of that view and is not a very good one. The trestle the train is on was called Bridge No. 30-A, it was 276 feet long and 56 feet high and got filled in prior to 1911.
Short Line Related   

27.08.2014 at USD 16.403.05.2015 at USD 0.010.04.2018 (15:34:32)
The Devil's Slide. Colo. Springs & Cripple Creek Short Line.
Louis Charles McClure



P-01439 [#2250]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2250
This view been quite popular to use, so far [10.04.2018] I know of 16 applications of the source photo/negative into 8 postcard variations, 5 postcard folders and rest in various printed media like books etc. Seen it in two variations, one like this one, and the other with a Train up on the Short Line grade about 1/3 down on the image part, and with a horse driven wagon down on the road to the right of the telegraph pole casting shadow across the road near lower right.
Short Line Related   

12.12.2011 at USD 1.9510.04.2018 (13:05:03)
Victor Avenue, Victor, Colorado


1907; Seen a postcard stamped that year.

P-01908 [#3289]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3289
I've seen the base photo/negative be used for three uses using postcards by the time of this writing [10.04.2018], this being one, and there is also a painted/colored version of this, but I also own a real photo type of postcard where most of this scene is shown.
The view is Looking West up on Victor Avenue in Victor, Colorado, looking up to the Intersection with Third Street, and beyond that, in right-hand side of street, the high structure seen is the Bank Block, today the Victor Hotel.
Victor Town   

07.09.2016 at USD 9.9910.04.2018 (12:32:12)
Cripple Creek City Mine. National Hotel in Background, Cripple Creek, Colo.



Mound City Post Card Co.
P-01907 [#3288]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3288
This view of Cripple Creek shows the Cripple Creek Enterprise Mining operation at the City Mine, or Cripple Creek City Mine, or other variations of similar names in foreground right, and the massive National Hotel more in distance right. Not the best quality but I have one even worse, so I shall not complain. Another use of the same negative has this shaft/mine named the Miesse Shaft, appearing in a Mining World December 31, 1904 issue publication.
Dating this is not easy, as this image is used in an December 1904 article it can't be younger than November 1904, but I have lot of doubts it is that young, I think it is up to at least a year older. But it is hard to tell, nothing in the view to date it from. Though, I have seen from a different source an image that is similar to this one, and that is said to be from 1903 and linked to a J.E. Stimson, which was a photographer of Cheyenne, Wyoming it seems. The dumps on those two views looks identical so I assume they are from same timeframe and possible same photographer, other views from same time frame used in the publication Mining World was from his hand.
The view itself is of a printed quality type, showing several men posing on the dump in front of what is generally known as the Cripple Creek City Mine, a Head-Frame used to get down into the ground below the city, located south of the National Hotel seen in background left. Myers Avenue with its trolley line/tracks would be in the foreground, outside this view, possible the pole seen is a line-side pole for the Trolley.
Cripple Creek Town   
Cripple Creek City Mine [aka City of CC Mine] -896   
07.01.2013 at USD 7.9917.02.2014 at USD 4.51710.04.2018 (11:44:08)
Bennett Ave. From M.T. Depot




P-01174 [#1808]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1808
Sadly, this being a printed type of image it is not useful for other then a snapshot of how the eastern end of Bennett Avenue once looked, with some Hardware type of business seen at lower right as there are some mining stuff standing on the street from an ore-car to what appears to be mine buckets or similar. The still standing today Colorado Trading & Transfer Company Structure/Office is seen in the foreground on the left side.
Following Bennett Avenue west into the view, we see the big National Hotel raising up with its Tower on the right-hand side of the street, the split on Bennett Ave. is also visible in same area.
Cripple Creek Town   

05.07.2011 at USD 27.9912.07.2015 at USD 23.5916.07.2017 at USD 6.502.04.2018 at USD 5.014.06.2020 at USD 6.509.04.2018 (18:39:24)
Anaconda Scene Showing Main Street & F. & C.C. Trackage | Anaconda 1908




P-00649 [#946]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#946
When I first got this, I did not believe the date of 1908 on it, but I've come to believe it as years went by and I did learn more about the District. Anaconda was said to be totally burned up in the 1904 fire that took most of the town, but I believe this upper portion, just below the Florence & Cripple Creek line, was saved from the flames and it was the lower portion of town that perished. I've seen an Anaconda view I know is after the fire and there are structures in this area here, looking rather sad and empty, but still standing and as many of them look the same as views from before fire they must have survived the fire.
The quality of this card is not that good, I got hold of a better copy years later, but that also had issues with fading and damages, so I never got a great view of this scene! This view is taken from below the F. & C.C. grade, looking across the town towards Guyot Hill on the right part of this view and more like Raven hill on the left side of the image.
Anaconda Townsite   Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   

10.08.2009 at USD 77.008.08.2020 at USD 14.509.04.2018 (18:39:24)
Midland Terminal Engine #59 and Train Final Run 1949 Between Divide & Midland
[06.02.1949]



P-00652 [#949]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#949
This view is from February 6, 1949 and the final M.T. Passenger run between Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek, a Rocky Mountain Railroad Club special. The seller said this is a slightly painted up Midland Terminal #59 Consolidation, crossing Colorado highway 67 just south of Divide. He also said that he rode this engine from Colorado Springs to Bull Hill in 1946, and it was a thrill for him.
Midland Terminal Related   

09.04.2018 (18:39:24)
The Center of The Great Mining District, Cripple Creek, Colo.
Tomer Jacob Hileman


H.L. Woehler
P-00284 [#354]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#354
This negative/photo being the base for this card was a popular view, as I've seen it by time of writing this (08.04.2018) a whopping 15 times, used for various postcards folders & postcards, using two different titles; ' The Center of the Great Mining District, Cripple Creek, Colo.' and ' Mines at Goldfield, Cripple Creek, Colo.'
I assume I shall find more as time goes by, as for the postcards they really are only two types, this B&W card and a colored/painted one, and then various crop editions of those again, where there are from one to a few millimeters differences on either of the sides, and sometimes also at the bottom – the sky part is impossible to tell so I leave that one out .
The view itself is of the town of Goldfield in the foreground, Independence town up the hill in the distance, town of Altman in sideways center against the sky in the distance top, and lots of mines scattered around on what is essential Bull Hill all over. Mines and rails!
Golden Circle Related   Goldfield Townsite   

09.04.2018 (18:37:38)
Along the Rim of Cheyenne Canon on the Cripple Creek Short Line, Colo.



Great Western Post Card & Novelty Co.
P-03332 [#5838]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5838
This view from down the road into Cheyenne Canon has the man on the bridge fence look up at a Short Line Passenger Train crossing over the low trestle up on Point Sublime, as seen about 1/4 down from the top and about center sideways.
Short Line Related   

09.04.2018 (17:38:41)
Climbing Out of North Cheyenne Canon - The Cripple Creek Trip
Weeks



P-03058 [#5089]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5089
I think this view is taken from the so-called High Drive, seen behind the wood fence at bottom, left of the sideway center. The Short Line grade would be outside the view down at left, circling around the sides of the mountains going from left to right hand side of the image within the lower third of the image, going sort of into the image at the right-hand side and climbing the grades back to the left-hand side where we see a train steaming uphill about a third down from the top.
Short Line Related   

09.04.2018 (17:19:38)
LAKE BROADMOOR, FROM POINT SUBLIME. Colo. Springs & Cripple Creek Short Line.
Louis Charles McClure


The Souvenir Publishing and Mercantile Company
P-00745 [#1093]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1093
This was a popular view, seen it used many times, counted 16 times when this is written [09.04.2018], ranging from various postcards, postcard folders and into picture books and folders, and also as a plain photograph.
Short Line Related   

01.11.2011 at USD 7.007.12.2014 at USD 0.506.05.2016 at USD 0.626.12.2016 at USD 0.509.04.2018 (17:12:27)
Broadmoor From Point Sublime, Colorado.
Louis Charles McClure


The W.H. Kistler Stat'y Co.
P-03353 [#5863]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5863
This location was also a common one used for views of the Short Line. I've seen some variations of it, but mainly it is this angle showing the Broadmoor Lake in the background. BTW, the bridge just barely seen towards the left was, from what I can gather, named Bridge No. 6-B. This was the second twin bridge at Point Sublime and it was 119 feet long and 13 feet high according to page 156 in the Colorado Rail Annual No. 16.
Short Line Related   

24.09.2017 at USD 1.009.04.2018 (16:06:54)
Curved Bridge, Phantom Canyon Highway, Colorado



H.H.T. Co.
P-03199 [#5349]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5349
[B] PHANTOM CANON HIGHWAY
Phantom Canon proper extends from near Florence, Colo., to the Cripple Creek district. For ruggedness and scenic beauty it is unsurpassed. Linked up with it is the trip over the Skyline Drive and to the top of the Royal Gorge.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   

11.09.2017 at USD 0.509.04.2018 (13:56:59)
Ute Pass Manitou Colorado



Thayer Publishing Co.
P-01910 [#3291]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3291
This is an early view of the road up through Ute Pass, a popular photo location and I have seen several views like this appear in various forms of media. Different versions also, but this is the one I have in my possession. Looks to be a thrilling road to ride.


09.04.2018 (13:34:31)
Cripple Creek Colo
Young



P-01909 [#3290]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3290
When I first saw this view, my mind was intrigued and curious about that partly log structure in foreground left, with the sort of second floor square tower like structure and I was wondering if it might had been linked to the Short Line which I knew at one time had a yard here. I never been able to confirm that feel, but I still like this view from the old Short Line Yard grounds in Cripple Creek town.
Cripple Creek Town   Short Line Related   

09.04.2018 (02:59:58)
Elk's Club Building, Victor, Colorado.



H.H.T. Co.
P-00795 [#1160]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1160
I've seen by time of this writing [09.04.2018] seven editions of this photo/negative used for postcards, whereas five of them is variations of this colored/painted printed image postcard and two is real photo type of postcards. They all have small differences along the edges from each other, like a millimeter or two type of cropped differently from the source compared to the others.
I've decided to show this card straight along the short sides right & left, as those was closest to see the structure straight, even if that made the text title of this card look rather strange being all angled as it is more parallel with the top/bottom edges.
The structure itself still stands in Victor, Colorado, located at the intersection of North Third Street and Diamond Avenue, and was at one time also known as the 'Tomkins Hardware Supply Company'.
Victor Town   

05.08.2010 at USD 2.008.04.2018 (18:08:00)
View in Phantom Canon, Colorado.




P-03333 [#5839]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5839
[B]
VIEW IN PHANTOM CANON, COLORADO
This wonderful highway, a part of the Big Circle Trip, is one of the most beautiful and scenic in America. The road is a steady 4% grade practically the entire distance of forty miles. It is known as "The Million Dollar Road". There are fifty-three bridges on this road, all constructed of heavy railroad bridge timbers. These bridges add much contrast to the natural environs and are all painted white.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

17.06.2018 at USD 0.508.04.2018 (18:03:05)
The Dome, Phantom Canon Highway, Colorado.




P-03154 [#5282]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5282
[B]
THE DOME,
PHANTOM CANON HIGHWAY, COLO.
All thru this beautiful and picturesque scenic highway, the towering cliffs remind one of ancient castles and ruins of by-gone days. The rugged and hue-stained granite walls, contrasted with the evergreen, pines, shrubs and flowers, form a picture in the mind that cannot be portrayed by photo or painting, and words cannot express the grandeur of this mountain drive.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

29.01.2017 at USD 1.2510.12.2017 at USD 1.008.04.2018 (13:10:49)
[B] Observation Point. The Cripple Creek Trip.

1900-12; The Short Line railhead is near Summit, making this a possible view and hence the painted in train as no Regular train runs yet.
1902-06; as seen it used in a July 1902 Publication.
Barkalow Bros. News Co.
P-02988 [#4957]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#4957
This view is taken from top of Tunnel No. 8, direction towards Devil's Slide which is seen in the background left, about 1/3 down from top and almost halfway in from left-hand side. This viewpoint is also often used in various views along the Short Line, most often a different shot, but generally same direction view, often labelled as approaching Duffields. This particular photo/negative, I've seen by the time of writing this [08.04.2018] being used 6 times, twice in printed sources, twice as photographs and twice as postcards.
There is a possibility this is early view from before the Short Line fully opened, and that is why the train seen is painted into the scene, running downhill closing in on the location known as Duffields, which if memory serve me right is, outside the view to the right. I've seen it used in the July 1902 Short Line Blue Book for instance.
Short Line Related   

07.04.2018 (17:24:15)
Dr. Jackpot Mine. Mary McKinney Mine. Cripple Creek, Colo.



SL & Co.
P-01291 [#2013]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2013
This view across Squaw Gulch towards Raven Hill Mines starts out with the huge Crib-wall of the Mary McKinney near bottom with two railroad cars on the Florence & Cripple Creek seen below the wall. The Mary McKinney is the huge Shaft-house seen dominating the right-hand side about middle top/down. Further up on same side the grade of the Low Line can be seen about 1/5 down from top, with several smaller Shafts of the Work Company seen spread around the hill.
On the left-hand side, about 1/3 down from top the Morning Glory is seen with its big dump out on the hillside with Dr. Jackpot Operations seen further up the hill with an Ore-house about 1/5 down from top and about 1/4 in from left-hand side.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Trolley Related   

21.09.2011 at USD 35.013.10.2011 at USD 15.007.05.2013 at USD 34.3307.04.2018 (16:54:35)
Gold Mines in Cripple Creek District.
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1908]


SL & Co.
P-03367 [#5878]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5878
This is a clearer edition of the card then my previous buy of this scene from this publisher of this card.
This is a scene on western slope of Bull Hill, the more southern part of it, showing how compact the whole scene could be. Sadly, the card is of the darker type so not easy to make it better to look at, but I do have another somewhat better-looking postcard of same scene so overall it is not that important to me that this is not the best view. Actually, the base image was somewhat popular as I've seen it used for 9 postcard editions and at least in one printed source – a picture book for Short Line railroad.
There are many mines seen in this view, where the mine just right of center top is the Blue Bird Mine, while Dante Mine is the next mine below with its Number 1 & 2 Shafts if I am not too much mistaken seen about 1/4 down from the top at left and right-hand sides.
The Trilby Mine is seen about center top/down and just right of the sideway center, below the Blue Bird, this mine also has a small mill as seen towards the right-hand side. To the left of the Trilby is various Gold Sovereign Mine operations, the main shaft has burned in this view, but one of the other Head Frames are standing near lower left corner, at the end of the siding known as the Gold Sovereign Branch, leaving the High Line/Short Line grade outside this view some distance outside the view at right.
Short Line Related   Trolley Related   
Blue Bird - 209   Dante - 335   Trilby - 333   
07.04.2018 (16:54:23)
Gold Mines in Cripple Creek District.
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1908]


SL & Co.
P-01911 [#3292]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3292
This is a scene on western slope of Bull Hill, the more southern part of it, showing how compact the whole scene could be. Sadly, the card is of the darker type so not easy to make it better to look at, but I do have another somewhat better-looking postcard of same scene so overall it is not that important to me that this is not the best view. Actually, the base image was somewhat popular as I've seen it used for 9 postcard editions and at least in one printed source – a picture book for Short Line railroad.
There are many mines seen in this view, where the mine just right of center top is the Blue Bird Mine, while Dante Mine is the next mine below with its Number 1 & 2 Shafts if I am not too much mistaken seen about 1/4 down from the top at left and right-hand sides.
The Trilby Mine is seen about center top/down and just right of the sideway center, below the Blue Bird, this mine also has a small mill as seen towards the right-hand side. To the left of the Trilby is various Gold Sovereign Mine operations, the main shaft has burned in this view, but one of the other Head Frames are standing near lower left corner, at the end of the siding known as the Gold Sovereign Branch, leaving the High Line/Short Line grade outside this view some distance outside the view at right.
Short Line Related   Trolley Related   

25.09.2016 at USD 6.507.04.2018 (14:58:13)
INDEPENDENCE MINE - Issued By the C.C. & G.H. RY. CO.

1903-02; Visible trolley line poles means electrification of the Short Line grade is done, which was done by about middle of February.

C. C. & G. H. Ry. Co.
P-00112 [#116]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#116
This is NOT a good view of the Independence Mine only because of the print process used to make the postcard, as this a very crude looking image. Had it been a photograph it would been a great view as it shows this area before the dumps grow enormous, and before many of the houses seen here gives way to a large mill. All this makes it among the earlier views of the massive structures at the Independence Mine, but photo is from middle February 1903 onward as there is visible trolley line poles meaning the Short Line and the High Line electric is running on the same tracks by time this image was photographed, and as the electrification of that line was done by about middle of February 1903 it can't be earlier.
Short Line Related   High Line   

18.12.2009 at USD 17.501.07.2011 at USD 33.016.07.2011 at USD 6.0507.04.2018 at USD 16.023.05.2018 at USD 9.9515.12.2019 at USD 9.9907.04.2018 (11:10:48)
Isabella Mine looking uphill against Victor Mine in background
Tomer Jacob Hileman



P-00439 [#537]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#537

Golden Circle Related   
Lee Mine [aka Isabella Mine] - 111   
06.04.2018 (16:30:58)
View East From Upper Independence Town Towards Vindicator Mine

1910; As that is the year it is said the Vindicator No. 1 changed to the Steel framed Head-Frame seen in the image


P-03538 [#6183]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6183
For me this was a view I had to get hold of as it is a very informative postcard view showing/sharing many things! There are so many things in this view I have no words, but I shall try my best to talk about them.
In foreground right I am pretty certain that the street seen is the continuation of the Montgomery Avenue in Independence town, passing by the High Line Independence Shelter structure seen about 1/4 up from bottom and about 1/5 in from right-hand side, with the High Line seen running through the upper portion of Independence from right to the left going down the grade to a loop not visible in this view, turning 180-degree and running back towards right on the hidden side of the Vindicator No. 1 Shaft which is seen in the distance nearly center/middle of this view – slightly to the right and above center.
About 1/6 in from left-hand side and about 1/3 up from bottom, crossing the before mention High Line grade, on a curve, is the Craigue Avenue of Independence, running downhill passed the two-story Public School and ending at the intersection with 3rd Street as below that intersection the Hose House and Hall, Fire-station I think, is located on what should have been the street, with railroad spurs connecting to Vindicator shafts beyond/below that.
The before mentioned Public School is seen just right of the center/middle of image and just below same, with the Hose-house seen with is tower like structure just right of the white large school structure. Beyond the Hose-house one can see the Ore-house of the Vindicator No. 1 Mine, with blackish soot up above the arched opening into the ore-house for train cars and engines as clearly, they have also run into the house or else it would not have been that dirty above the opening.
Vindicator No. 2 Shaft is seen with its smaller but quite high structure about 1/5 in from right-hand side and about 2/5 up from bottom with the Gloriette/Glorietta/Glorieta Shaft seen just in front and to the right with a Head-Frame seen, easier to see on a higher resolution scan.
In front of the before mentioned Hose-house there are railroad tracks with dual gauge (3-rails), part of the Golden Circle spur that once served the now gone Lillie Mine seen as a larger Dump beyond the No. 1 Vindicator Shaft structure, and at one time run all the way to the Cripple Creek Sampler on Bull Hill/Victor Pass (Sampler as also know as the Black Sampler). The dual gauge also served Vindicator No. 2 and might possible have gone down to the No. 1 Ore-house, but not sure.
Golden Circle Related   Independence Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   High Line   
Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Vindicator No. 2 - 232   
05.04.2018 (18:18:45)
Nearing Summit Elevation 10,000 Ft. On the Cripple Creek Short Line, Colo.




P-00704 [#1052]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1052
Not much I can say about this view, there is a party of people standing at two hand cars, waiting for a Short Line Passenger Train to pass by them and into the Lunch Stop at Summit while they are to take the journey downhill on the hand cars, which must have been quite a thrill!
Short Line Related   

08.07.2009 at USD 14.529.08.2009 at USD 21.5518.10.2010 at USD 2.5622.05.2011 at USD 12.025.08.2011 at USD 15.504.04.2018 (23:38:21)
Vindicator and Lillie Mines, Bull Hill District, Cripple Creek District, Colo.


1907-12-31; The base image appears in a special Postcard folder with a 1907 Copyright to it, so the image can't be photographed later than this date.
Jas. A. Jones
P-00468 [#567]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#567
I've seen this image two times, this card and as a small view in a special type of Multiview postcard, that last one has a Copyright date of 1907 so that did help make this image even older than the date on this postcard view did.
In foreground left bottom several houses of Independence Town are seen, with the Midland Terminal Depot down at the tracks. The massive dumps of the Vindicator, and the Lillie, dominates the scene, and while the paper and image quality is not that great being a printed card, the huge square like structure of the Lillie Mine is easy to pick out in this view, where it is located about center of the card, with the Vindicator No. 1 Shaft to left with its 3 smokestacks sending darker smoke to the sky.
Independence Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   
Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Lillie - 234   
11.03.2013 at USD 13.0727.12.2017 at USD 8.9905.03.2018 at USD 4.7504.04.2018 (12:24:40)
Independence Mine | Prospect Shaft




P-03126 [#5233]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5233
Quality wise is this not a good image card with scenes from the Cripple Creek District, but, it still is one among the many hundred scenes used for postcards with links to the District! The two views; the Independence Mine on the left side and an unknown Prospect Shaft on the right-hand side is really showing the span of the reason for the whole District. It could go from right to left – from hoping to hit the jackpot, to actually find it – or it could go the other way, from rich to poor.
Neither views are that good due to the nature of this printed card, but still I wanted to share it, and possible, one day I learn more about the view on the right-hand side…

Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   
03.04.2018 (23:32:56)
Portland Mines Victor Colo. Cripple Creek Gold District
Young



P-03249 [#5659]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5659
Backside marked with: 1-25-1939
Lester Ropen Jr. (?)
--- Description ---
This card has a date of January 25, 1939 written by hand on the backside with a name that appears to say Lester Ropes Jr. below it, but other than that, dating this view is not that easy I feel. There are huge dumps, also it appears to be some sunken earth in the foreground, and two large mine operations with Portland No. 1 – the Burns – Shaft at the left-hand side and the Portland No. 2 Shaft near upper right-hand corner. Huge crib-wall below the No. 2 Shaft hold back massive dumps, I also see several structures further down the slope of Battle Mountain. Sadly, the card is not the sharpest I've seen, and the contrast against the sky is not the best for smaller details, it scanned OK but not great.


Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Portland No. 2 - 259   
03.04.2018 (23:31:05)
AB. Lincoln Mine Cripple Creek Colo
Young



P-03248 [#5658]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5658
While this card is not marked, the Text Title has same type of writing as another card with the Young name on it, so I assume it is taken by the photographer named Young.
The Scene is in lower Poverty Gulch, looking towards Gold Hill in the background, with the large dump and operations of the Abe Lincoln Mine seen at the edge of the left-hand side, going into the image towards right. The Dump with a hole in the foreground I can't say at this moment in time [13.06.2017] which claim it was located on, so sorry I can't help with that.
What I can say is that I assume this view to be in the 1930's or so, and there are seen two switch-stands about middle top/down on the right-half-part of this view, where I think the one closest to the right-hand edge is the one for a siding at the M.T. Wye below the old Midland Sampler site, while the one to the left is the one for the upper spur that went to the top side of the same Sampler. There also appears to have possible been a loading dock of woods at the end of the spur near the end of the mine dumps of the Abe Lincoln.
Midland Terminal Related   
Abe Lincoln - 52   
03.04.2018 (22:48:05)
Mary McKinney Mine, Cripple Creek, Colo.



Auburn Post Card Manufacturing Company
P-03174 [#5313]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5313
This is not the best view of this area, due to the print type of process behind this postcard. It will never scan well and details are lost to the dots making up the image. But, it does show yet another image that at least at one time did exist out there as a negative, with several mines visible. Also, we see what appears to still be left standing two structures down in what once was the town of Anaconda – seen about center nearly at bottom edge – one with a false front type towards left.
* In the foreground, along bottom part, is structures belonging to the Anaconda Mine, I think the long surviving Blacksmith shed is the one at lower right-hand corner.
* The Mary McKinney Mine is seen about 1/3 down from top and covers about the left part of this image, from center where the large/massive Shaft House is seen with its big dump and large crib-wall down towards the road that used to be the F. & C.C. roadbed.
* The Katinka Mine, often seen named as the Chicken Hawk Mine – even if most of the Chicken Hawk claim is as far as I can tell on the other side of Guyot Hill – is seen about 1/3 in from right-hand side quite near top of the card with the top of Guyot Hill behind it. It possible may also lay on another claim, but at time of writing [29.05.2017] I just go with what my old USGS map with numbered mines on them gives me of info, one day I may learn more/better info and will fix it then.
* Not sure what mining operation is seen above the Mary McKinney and to the left of the Katinka, may be same mine operation, some other mine, so, for time being, I just leave it be.

Anaconda Mine - 92   Mary McKinney - 136   Katinka [aka Chicken Hawk Mine] - 149   
03.04.2018 (18:08:51)
Independence Mill [Portland Independence Mill]




P-03197 [#5347]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5347
Dating this image of the Independence/Portland Independence Mill is not the easiest part, according to my husband the automobile seen is one from the 1920's due to its shape he said, and Sanborn 1919 map fits the railroad track quite well, so I would assume this is in middle to late 1920's. The track in the foreground still has trolley poles and hangers along the line, but the Golden Circle tracks is gone and only the roadbed is seen, with a switch from the High Line/Short Line roadbed up to a piece of the old Golden Circle roadbed, and then it will turn away to serve some part of the mill outside the view at left, according to the Sanborn map on Sheet 9 of the Victor 1919 set.
The Trolley system in the District suffered a major fire in the Cripple Creek barn in 1919 and closed its operation that year, but that do not mean all poles, wires etc., was removed at once, hence not that useful to date with. But, I also see that the High Line was abandon in 1923, making this possible to be around that time frame. Info I have do indicate that a switchback spur existed from the location known as Taylor to the Portland Independence Mill till 1930, possible this might be part of that; hence, I can't tell for sure at this moment in time [27.05.2017]. I am not even sure where Taylor is, if it is the location near M.T. Bull Hill yards at Victor Pass, or the old location below the Portland No. 1 mine, info is a little scarce for me, but I think it is the one on Victor Pass.
Midland Terminal Related   
Independence Mill {Stratton's on Battle Mt] - 921   
03.04.2018 (11:52:47)
Interior of the Cripple Creek Colorado Power Company




P-03376 [#5888]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5888
I do not know where in the Cripple Creek District this view is photographed, or even if it is a District view, as all I have is a seller saying that, and the car being handwritten on the back in pencil saying this is 'Cripple Creek Power Co.'


03.04.2018 (11:33:26)
Independence Mine and Battle Mountain, Cripple Creek District.




P-01132 [#1755]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1755

Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Short Line Related   Trolley Related   
Stratton's Independence No. 1 - 270   Ajax - 275   Portland No. 1 [aka Burns Shaft] - 262   Portland No. 2 - 259   
02.06.2012 at USD 0.49518.07.2013 at USD 3.004.08.2013 at USD 2.513.11.2017 at USD 0.9903.04.2018 (11:28:00)
Altman, Cripple Creek District, the Highest Incorporated Town in the World - The Cripple Creek Trip
Andrew James Harlan



P-00683 [#1010]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1010
[B] *Don't fail to stop at Colorado Springs and take The Cripple Creek Trip* would be a good suggestion to make to purchasers of Pacific Coast Tickets.

P.S. The Grandest One Day Trip in the World.
-----
All the above was typed in on the backside of the card, then some handwriting but that is of no use.
--------------
The card when it was printed suffered from a slight shifting of the printing plates so it has some visuals flaws in it making it very unsharp and bad looking.
Altman Townsite   

03.04.2018 (11:05:20)
Cripple Creek Sampler, Blue Hill R.R.Terminal & Eagle Sampler
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill]


Noble Inc.
P-00312 [#398]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#398
Part of a small Album of 10 Postcards one could rip out and send to someone.
Title of this card is partly very badly written, not sure why. The scene is from Bull Hill, where the climb up from Cameron is ended and the downhill trip towards Victor is starting, I think this area is named Victor Pass in more modern time, at least I think of it as that name.
The Midland Terminal had a wye up here and a small yard, same did Short Line for a time, the yard of Short Line is seen about middle of this view, this side of the structure I know as the Taylor-Brunton Sampler on top of Bull Hill – on this card named as the Eagle Sampler for some unknown reason. M.T. had its yard on the higher side, behind the T. & B. sampler and outside the view at right-hand side.
On left-hand side of this view can be seen the very large Bull Hill works of the Cripple Creek Sampler, and I think at one time it was served by all three railroads with some dual gauge tracks to it.
The spur seen curving near lower left hand corner is part of the Short Line mainline, also High Line tracks for the Trolley, coming down towards Victor through the town of Goldfield, way down left if the photographer had turned towards left in about a 180 degree turn.
Golden Circle Related   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   
Black Sampler [aka CC Sampler Bull Hill] - 230   T. and B. Sampler (Bull Hill) - 231   
03.04.2018 (10:55:27)
Scene Near Cripple Creek, Colorado



Noble Inc.
P-00309 [#395]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#395
Part of a small Album of 10 Postcards one could rip out and send to someone.
The mine seen here in the lower half of the center of this view, is located along the old F. & C.C. line, now the road to victor from Cripple Creek, just as it started its trip into Squaw Gulch. My old 1903 topo-map has a structure in that area, and a look at Google Map gives a structure ruin and dump in that area. And from that I could figure out that this is the Alpha and Omega mine, situated on the Omega lode claim withy the Alpha lode claim further down into the Squaw Gulch area downhill at right. If the photographer of this view had turned more towards right, we should also have been able to see down to the Caledonia mine structures, which is outside the view at lower right corner, too bad the view was not that wide to encompass that area as well.
--- Cropped View ---
This cropped view from a postcard of not the best quality shows the surface structures of the Alpha and Omega Mine in a more modern time then what I did mark the view on left-hand side as. I think there is a road and not a railroad in the source image, but in order to help understanding the location I decided to mark in in red the location of something that still is there as in the District, the Victor road from Cripple Creek, here marked as the F. & C.C. Roadbed. Looking at Google Maps from around 2015 there is only ruins left, and a dump which resembles this view.

Alpha and Omega Mine - 575   
03.04.2018 (10:54:47)
Early Day Victor, Colorado Scene [error, it is Really a Scene in Cripple Creek, Looking East at Gold Hill]



Noble Inc.
P-00306 [#392]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#392
Part of a small Album of 10 Postcards one could rip out and send to someone.
This view of Gold Hill from a street in southern Cripple Creek is mislabeled to be an early Victor scene for some unknown reason. Being this is from a printed card in a small more modern postcard folder it is not the greatest quality, but one gets an idea of the area it pictured. I've been unable to pinpoint the street in the foreground, but I think it might be the First Street, possible south Colorado Ave., but I doubt it as this don't look that far up the hill.
* Either way, about center left/right and 1/3 down from top, behind the two-story house in foreground, on get to see the north half of the Cripple Creek Sampler, located up along the M.T. roadbed, with the Short Line railroad below it, having come around the hill at right hand side. Incidentally, the original locating of the sampler was along the F. & C.C. grade seen just below the top/down center on the right-hand side, and would have been hidden by the same two-story house.
* About 1/3 down from top, and 1/3 from left-hand side, a long structure will be seen, that is the Trolley Barn for the High/Low Lines of the Electric System of the Short Line railroad. The big dump just right of the Trolley barn I think is part of the Cripple Creek & Gold Hill Deep Mining & Development Company operations.
* Straight up from the chimney on the before mention 2-story house there is a big dump that I think is part of the Midget operations.
* About center left/right and not fully 1/6 down from top, above the before mention Midget, is the characteristic shape of the large Shaft-House of the Anchoria-Leland mine seen against the sky at top of Gold Hill.
Cripple Creek Town   Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   
Midget - 57   Anchoria-Leland - 61   Cripple Creek Sampler; along M.T. - 456   
03.04.2018 (10:54:39)
Mine Scene In Cripple Creek - Victor District



Noble Inc.
P-00308 [#394]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#394
Part of a small Album of 10 Postcards one could rip out and send to someone.
This sort of common view of the Gold King Mine is showing quite a large Shaft-House, and one can even see how it at one time have been expanded upon with raising an extra tower like structure on top of the original shaft house, to house a bigger headframe. In the foreground is the Ore-House, to be used with horse driven wagons, as while the Short Line ran quite near this mine, and I even seen a spur/siding nearby, as far as I know they never redid the orehouse to connect directly with the railroad for some reason.

Gold King [aka El Paso Gold King] - 27   
02.04.2018 (18:25:36)
City of Victor Colo, Altitude 9747 Ft.
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-02931 [#4769]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#4769
This view of Victor from Battle Mountain up near the Ajax mine is possible from the 1930's, I am not sure, as there are no dates to go from. The postcard has a EKC stamp box on the backside, and Google gives info that this is from the 1939-1950 timespan, so late 1930's might be a safe bet. There are still rails seen, with railroad cars, so I would guess the M.T. is still running, making this also fit the late 1930's and very early 1940's timeframe.
In foreground towards lower left is the head frame and hoist house of the Oliver Shaft of the Dead Pine mine seen, with its big dump stretching out towards the town and the rails of the M.T., which depot can be seen left of the head frame.
An exposed more modern version of the Gold Coin head frame can be seen about middle top/down and about 1/3 in from the right-hand side of the card, with the ruins of the brick walls seen around it, check out the image in the Gold Coin base image view, as number 7.
In a sort of continued line from the head frame of the Dead Pine through the Gold Coin, one can see the dump area of the St. Patrick mine about 2/7 in from right-hand side and about 2/5 from top. Best seen as a cropped version of a higher resolution scan of this card, check out view 7 in the St. Patrick Base page image view.
Victor Town   
Dead Pine - Oliver Shaft - 274   Gold Coin - 288   St. Patrick - 297   
02.04.2018 (15:27:54)
Birdseye View of Victor, Colorado



H.H.T. Co.
P-00066 [#70]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#70
Yet another interesting view from Battle Mountain towards the Gold Coin mine in Victor, as it is getting rebuilt after the 1899 fire that destroyed the old mine and lot of the town itself. Just too bad that all edition of this view that I've seen is from printed sources, from the bad quality printed postcard this view is from, to an even worse in a Souvenir folding book published to promote the Midland Terminal.
While it is really hard to tell, it appears possible that in this view not even the Ore-house has been rebuilt yet, but it is too darn hard to tell for sure. I see the smokestack, the head frame can be picked out as exposed, and it looks like there is a wooden frame around the area where brick walls are known to have been. It may also be in the time frame around 1920/1921 when they tore down the Gold Coin, I really can't tell from this single image!
In the foreground, right, is the distinctive Ore-house of the Mary Cashen seen, and outside the view to the right would the head frame for that mine be.
Victor Public Sampler is the long structure just left of the Mary Cashen, with its cupola on the roof and with part of it outside the view at right.
The mine seen with its small head frame and hoist house at lower left is for the moment a mystery to me at the time of this writing [19.02.2017].
Victor Town   
Gold Coin - 288   Mary Cashen - 272   
14.11.2010 at USD 5.16722.07.2011 at USD 3.9102.04.2018 (13:21:10)
Birdseye View of Victor.


1908-07-12; Seen a postcard dated the day after this day, and as making the card takes time it must be at least a day earlier this was photographed.

P-00470 [#569]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#569
As the postcard is dated July 13, 1908 on the backside this photograph must be older than that date... Sadly the image itself is rather dark and while it is a photo type of card, it has lots of reflections to it and is hard to clean up.
The view itself is yet another view of the town of Victor from up on Squaw Mountain, this time the Gold Coin mine is not as centered as it often was.
Off to the right hand-hand side, a little further up then 1/3 from the bottom, is the largest edition of the Shaft House of the St. Patrick mine that I have seen, with a growing dump north of it, which will say to the left.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Victor Town   
Gold Coin - 288   St. Patrick - 297   Maggie Mine - 893   Jefferson - 290   
02.04.2018 (11:57:54)
Portland Mine, Victor, Colo.



H.H. Rosser
P-02021 [#3485]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3485
While not a good quality on the image part due to this being a printed type of postcard view, it still is a good view as it is quite close to the massive structures at the Portland No. 1 (Burns Shaft) Mine, with the Portland No. 2 up against the sky in the background right.
In the foreground left the mainline for the Golden Circle passes by the mine, seen in front of the cribbing seen near lower left.


30.08.2015 at USD 16.002.08.2017 at USD 9.9502.04.2018 (11:40:46)
City of Victor - Colo.



H.H. Rosser
P-02827 [#4619]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#4619
Another view of Victor from Squaw Mountain, with the Gold Coin mine nearly in center of view. Photo is from before April 1906 as I have seen a postcard with the date using this view.
Victor Town   

30.08.2015 at USD 16.002.04.2018 (02:30:32)
Victor, Colo. Elevations 9735 Feet.



H.H. Rosser
P-01872 [#3248]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3248
Another view of Victor from Squaw Mountain, with the Gold Coin mine nearly in center of view. Photo is from before April 1906 as I have seen a postcard with the date using this view.
Victor Town   

01.04.2018 (19:51:17)
Victor City of Mines
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-00626 [#931]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#931
The right part of this image is so blurred it is impossible to get anything useful out of it. Overall it is not a very sharp photo when scanned in high resolution, but it is among the better ones.
The date of this is after the sale of the Gold Coin Mine to the Granite company, as the ore house of the Gold Coin has Granite written on it, making this after 1905 if memory serve me right.
One fun thing is that you can actually see a glimpse of the American Eagle Mine, seen about 2/9 in from left-hand side and about 1/6 down from top of image, against the sky. In addition, lots of mines are seen and it is easy to see why Victor is dubbed City of Mines!
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Victor Town   
Gold Coin - 288   Dead Pine - Oliver Shaft - 274   
01.04.2018 (12:46:45)
Fox Canyon, Cripple Creek District, Colo.




P-00547 [#716]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#716
Not very much I can say, I wonder if the 'Fox Canyon' part is a spell error for a drive called 'Box Canyon' or if it was/is a place called Fox Canyon in the District. Postcard has no clue, dates or anything.
The scene is a two-horse driven wagon with a roof on it and two persons, a lady at left and a man on the right, coming towards the photographer standing on a curved road with rock sides in the background and trees and green stuff everywhere.


01.04.2018 (11:35:20)
Gleason Mine 1902
[1902]
1902
1902; as that is what postcard say [or, 1916; As it appears in a book published that year.]
Triangle Distributing
P-00507 [#608]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#608
I've used a somewhat enhanced view of this Postcard, as it was then easier to read the handwritings in both top corners where the left one says Wild Horse Shaft and an arrow is pointing down towards what little is shown of the shaft structures at the left-hand edge against the sky. The other one says Gleason Mine and also REAAA Mill if I read it correct and points down towards the Gleason shaft of the Wild Horse mine operations, seen about 3/7 in from right-hand side and about 1/3 down from top. The before mention mill, also known as Wild Horse Mill, is the structure below the Gleason shaft, and was a small cyanide mill. All fenced in behind a large wood fence.
This view is from the dump of the Londonderry Mine if I am not mistaken. A tiny, not really visible, part of the Golden Circle Loop at Vista Grande is seen at corner bottom left. While this more modern postcard is marked as Gleason Mine 1902, I can't verify the date of this view, and the postcard itself had no marking to help date it either.
Golden Circle Related   

21.09.2009 at USD 3.2801.04.2018 (09:02:16)
Golden Cycle Mine.




P-00240 [#307]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#307
This image is quite wonderful as it shows quite well the railroad trackage around the Golden Cycle Mine. Like for instance how the Short Line branch up to the Eagle Sampler curves around the mine, seen passing under the dump trestle about 1/3 in from right-hand side and 1/3 up from bottom. It also shows how the M.T. switchback coming down the hill on the left-hand side, almost comes to the same level as the Short Line grade, as it heads down into the ore house of the Golden Cycle. Also, the M.T. branch to the power plant and coal drop of the Golden Cycle Mine is seen, passing through a gate and a wooden fence - just lovely to watch. I also see the Powder House of the Golden Cycle at that gate.
In distance right, upper part of Goldfield is seen, and behind the before mention dump trestle, partly hiding behind it, is the Gold Knob Mine structures and Crib-wall seen.
Goldfield Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   

23.02.2012 at USD 19.9921.06.2015 at USD 18.9931.03.2018 (23:17:57)
The Portland Mine, Victor, Colo. | The Portland Mine GCRR
Schedin & Lehman


Mound City Post Card Co.
P-00184 [#247]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#247
Even if the listing on eBay claimed this to be a real photo print card, I would say it is not - I can clearly see the dots making up the picture, and when scanning it, it become even more visible. But, I've reworked it as best as I can. The image itself is a little dark, but useable as a description of how it once looked in the area.
In the front you see just a tiny bit of a railroad bridge – this belongs to the original High Line Trolley line down Battle Mountain and crossing over the Midland Terminal tracks which is down in a cut here. There is also seen a footbridge crossing the same cut on the M.T. roadbed.
Then you have the usual look of the Portland No. 1 Shaft & Ore-Houses up on the hill, with structures, some people, several logs & lumber spread around on the ground, and some houses, all below the mine.
Midland Terminal Related   Trolley Related   

20.01.2013 at USD 16.4910.10.2013 at USD 3.2505.01.2017 at USD 6.531.03.2018 (12:01:53)
Victor, Colo., City of Mines
Tomer Jacob Hileman



P-00511 [#612]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#612
This view of Victor town is taking from east, looking west, sometimes after December 1905 as that month saw the sale of the Gold Coin Mine to the Granite Gold Mining Company, which in this photo is now marked as Granite Mine. The mine is seen about 1/5 in from right hand side, and about 1/3 down from the top.
Further down from the Gold Coin is seen the tracks of the Short Line/High Line and the Florence & Cripple Creek, and the Golden Circle track is also seen. The Short Line is the left most, on a big fill after crossing the F. & C.C. track outside the view at right lower about 1/4 up from bottom. The yard of the Short Line is seen better in my postcard copy then in this bad print view. The Golden Circle track leaves the F. & C.C. at left of the text reading the title of this view, and is the part first seen under the title text at right hand side of this view.
The group of buildings/houses inside the fence in the foreground right is the Stratton's Home when he was staying in the District after making his millions as per Mr. Spell in his book.
Somewhere at left of center of the photo is the dump of the Spicer/Rexall mine seen, in my postcard view I can see it a little bit better but not that easy, appears to be a crib wall around it. It would be located just below a line between the Garfield School (the large structure with the tower about 1/4 in from left-hand side and 1/3 from top) and the Gold Coin mine so to speak, about 1/4 on that line towards the Gold Coin.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Golden Circle Related   Short Line Related   Trolley Related   Victor Town   
Gold Coin - 288   Spicer lode [aka Rexall Mine; Victor Town] - 808   
27.10.2011 at USD 36.030.03.2018 (17:09:13)
Mary McKinney Mine - Cripple Creek District.
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]

1906-12-31; Seen this mailed as a colored postcard January 8, 1907, and that took time to make, hence the December 31, 1906 latest date.

P-00001 [#1]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1
This large mine was once located near base of Guyot Hill in the outskirts of the town of Anaconda, with the F. & C.C. tracks passing below the mine (not seen) but with a siding/spur leading up to ore bins where you see 3 boxcars located beside the Shaft House in this image. The M.T. was also connected to this mine, making it dual gauge (3 rails track) just beside the mine structure.
You can see the narrow-gauge F. & C.C. tracks disappearing behind the mine just below the roadbed of the M.T. heading towards Victor. This spur was in 1917 converted into standard gauge which allowed the M.T. access to the El Paso Mine on Beacon Hill.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   
Mary McKinney - 136   
17.05.2011 at USD 0.9904.08.2013 at USD 2.4917.02.2014 at USD 4.508.08.2015 at USD 3.9927.04.2017 at USD 5.530.03.2018 (15:47:53)
Thompson Shaft From Elkton Mine




P-00300 [#386]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#386
A scene just below the Elkton mine, looking across the MT track at the hill where the wye connection to the Low Line was located. You can still see part of the trestle sticking partly up from the fill.
Unsure if the Thompson Mine was in the cut seen or up where the dump can be seen at the top of the hill at right.

Elkton Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   
Thompson Mine [aka Thomson lode] - 157   
10.02.2014 at USD 17.530.03.2018 (15:19:17)
Trolley on Low Line About 1905 [Near the Big Cut on the Low Line North of Anaconda]

1900-09-09; Low Line started Regular Service this date.

Sanborn
P-00225 [#291]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#291
This view of Trolley No. M-105, heading for Cripple Creek on the Low Line, is taking just after passing Alamo Junction where there was a side spur for steam trains up to the Index mine ore house. At one time, there was a plan to extend the track up to a siding along the Moon-Anchor mine, as far as I know this never happen though - only a road ever went there.
Up near top of view, above the Trolley, is seen first the shaft house of the Rittenhouse Mine, then the Short Line grade climbing Gold Hill and then the shaft house and orehouse of the E. Porter-Gold King mine, which is seen with its cupola plainly poking up of the roof.
Near upper left is seen a bad view of the Lexington Mine – easy to pick up due to the long trestle to the quite large ore house of that operation. A water-tank is seen left of that mine.
Short Line Related   Trolley Related   
Lexington - 63   E. Porter Gold King - 65   Rittenhouse - 66   
30.03.2018 (09:48:04)
Crossing Bear Creek on the Cripple Creek Short Line, Colo.


1916; Seen it in a book dating to 1916 due to mention of 1915 production info's
Great Western Post Card & Novelty Co.
P-03628 [#6282]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6282
I've seen this base negative used several times, mostly for postcards, and at the time of writing this 30.03.2018, it is known to me in 7 variations whereas this is the fifth of the 5 postcards I know about.
The view itself is of a passenger train on the Short Line climbing the grade and passing over the trestle/bridge No. 3-A which did cross over Bear Creek Canon till it burned in May 1918, closing the line till it finally was rebuilt July 1919, but alas, too late to really help save the railroad.
Short Line Related   

28.03.2018 (12:37:12)
Findley Mine, Cripple Creek District


1906-08-03; As card is dated on the front with August 4, 1906 it helps date this image to been taken no later then August of 1906.

P-00635 [#925]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#925
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.
Golden Circle Related   Independence Townsite   
Findley - 216   
21.05.2012 at USD 39.004.08.2013 at USD 4.5715.02.2014 at USD 18.4508.03.2017 at USD 13.2812.03.2017 at USD 7.4917.11.2018 at USD 22.7228.03.2018 (11:40:58)
El Paso Mine, Cripple Creek District

1904; as that is the year the F. & C.C. switchback branch down Beacon Hill was built to the Henry Adney & Old Gold mines.
1906-08-03; As card is dated on the front with August 4, 1906 it helps date this image to been taken no later then August of 1906.

P-00632 [#922]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#922
I never seen this view as a photograph, only as a printed image used for postcards and postcard folders, various crops from the source negative and various titles used. Also, various works been done to the print plates used to create the cards.
At time of writing thins I know off 11 versions/editions from the source, where 3 is from postcard folders and rest is postcards, and ten of those has the El Paso Mine used in the title, which here on this card can be seen about sideways center and about 1/3 down from the top, with a growing dump down the slope of Beacon Hill.
At left side, about 2/5 down from top, most of the surface Structures of the C.K. & N. Mine can be seen, while near bottom left the Henry Adney and Old Gold Mines can be seen. I often mix them together, but I think the Hendry Adney is the one to the left.
I am not certain of the name of the mine seen in lower right, but I think it is the Lonaconing Mine. Neither have I names for the several other smaller mine operations seen spread around this scene, but I hope one day to learn all this and be able to understand the relations and names and all.
Between the Henry Adney and the Old Gold mines there seems to be visible the tracks of the short-lived F. & C.C. switchback branch down Beacon Hill, built in 1904, which dates this view to be from between 1904 and 1906.

Florence & Cripple Creek Related   
El Paso - 127   C. K. & N. - 126   Old Gold - 324   Henry Adney - 332   
04.08.2013 at USD 4.5726.03.2018 (13:50:21)
Scene on the Cripple Creek Short Line, Colo.



The Great Western Post Card and Novelty Co.
P-00723 [#1071]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1071
This seems to be a popular view to use when showing scenes from along the Short Line, I have seen at least 13 uses in variations from postcard editions, used in postcard folders, in printed materials, etc. This view is looking out of a cutting at the backside of an Observation Car on a Short Line Passenger Car climbing the grades, taken at Point Sublime, on bridge/trestle no. 6-B from what I been able to gather.
Short Line Related   

04.03.2011 at USD 2.025.02.2013 at USD 5.526.03.2018 (13:49:43)
Cameron's Cone, Cripple Creek Short Line Ry., Colorado. [Error - It Should Be Marked Ute Pass, Along CM & MT]



The Thayer Publishing Co.
P-00740 [#1088]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1088
I seen this view several times claiming to be along the Short Line, but it really is a view along the Colorado Midland, later Midland Terminal grade in Ute Pass, looking out of Tunnel No. 3.
Colorado Midland Related   Midland Terminal Related   

04.07.2010 at USD 0.0125.03.2018 (20:19:46)
Parade View on Victor Avenue in Victor. Looking West From the Eastern Trolley Switch at a Fire Truck Leading with a Marching Band Behind it and Lot of People Looking.




P-03507 [#6064]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6064
This view from a non-dated and unknown Parade in Victor shows the Fire Truck leading a Marching Band, many flags are seen, and part of the eastern switch of the Trolley meet track on Victor Avenue is seen to the left of the fire truck, with a clown like person leading an animal with a poster saying ''Chicken Dinner 206 North 4 St.'' Lot of people lining the street, looking, some ladies are poking out the windows of the second level of the brick structure having a sign with something ending with ''Meats''. All the windows on that 2nd level lining the street are cupola type, extending out from the wall a little bit.
In the background, several houses are seen west of the F. & C. C. grade, where it crossed what barely could be called West Victor Avenue, as they line the hill south of the street not seen on anything but maps. Background top right is seen a cut along the M.T. tracks.
Behind the before mention houses south of W. Victor Ave., the Head Frame of the Golconda Mine is poking up, a large dump is seen partly to the left of that headframe, and some of the Hoist House and Ore House of that mine is seen on the higher DPI scans, but still not a good view of that mine, sadly.

Low Line   
Golconda - 287   
25.03.2018 (13:53:43)
The Corley Mountain Highway. Colorado Springs, Colo.



The Antlers Hotel
P-03354 [#5864]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5864
This view of the former Cripple Creek Short Line railroad grades is either a ''doctored'' view where the rails has been painted over, or it is an enhanced view of the actually roadbed of the Corley Mountain Highway who ran on the old railroad grade when the railroad was ripped out in the 1920's.
Either way, several levels are seen here, with the tunnel no. 6 (furthest left) and tunnel no. 8 quite visible due to the work on the image done by the artist making the base for this postcard.
Corley Mtn Highway Related   

25.03.2018 (09:45:21)
Men on Cage Cripple Creek District
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03554 [#6199]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6199
This is one of many unknown Mine Scenes from the Cripple Creek District, here 4 men are seen on a cage ready to go down into the hole in the ground to work some mine which name is a Mystery. Can't pick out anything to ID the location of this, neither in foreground or the huge dumps in the background.


24.03.2018 (13:31:29)
Dexter Mine Victor, Colo
William Henry Lehr [aka Bill Lehr]



P-03553 [#6198]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6198
I've seen this view as two postcard versions and one photograph, but none of them has given anymore info then that this is someplace underground at the Dexter Mine on Bull Hill, no level info ever been given.
The view is of 3 miners sort of posing for a photo at a chute with a at the corner of a curve in the underground works. One man is sitting partly on his knee and is working a hammer and chisel with his left arm holding the hammer unless the photo is a mirror copy of the original scene, as I've seen happen before in other images. The other two men has their backs at the photographer and seems to be working the chute to fill a bucket sitting on top of a wheel setup pulled away from the rails.
Underground   
Dexter - 330   
23.03.2018 (01:50:09)
Vindicator Mine, Showing Shafts No. 1 and 2, Victor, Colo.



H.H.T. Co.
P-00286 [#361]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#361


Vindicator No. 1 - 233   Vindicator No. 2 - 232   
27.03.2015 at USD 12.7518.03.2018 (16:58:53)
View East on Victor Avenue, Victor on a 4-Men Horse Race Running West Just Passed the City Hall.

1905-12; Gold Coin Mine reported to be sold to the Granite company, and as it is here marked as Granite Mine, this image must be from this time onward
1919; Sanborn Sheet 4 for Victor has the structure for Elite Studio marked as Vacant

P-03508 [#6065]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6065
This view is showing 4-men riding horses to win a race on Victor Avenue, going West, having just passed the Victor City Hall they keep to the south side of the Low Line Trolley track running in the middle of the street. Lot of spectators to cheer them along, they line both sides of the street so clearly this was an important event in town this day. Sadly, no info about when this was, is included with the card. But I know it must be after December 1905 as the Ore-House of the Gold Coin Mine in upper left is marked for the Granite Company, and they bought the Gold Coin around that date. I also know that the building the sign ''Elite Studio'' is hanging on in lower right, that structure is marked as Vacant in the August 1919 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map edition for Victor (sheet 4), hence it must be sometime in that timeframe there. Most likely after December 1908 as Sanborn for Victor (sheet 2) that year do not show a Wall Paper store where this image has one on the left-hand side while the 1919 Sanborn has one there.
There appears to be a switch on the Low Line tracks, seen about center top/down and someplace between 1/4 & 1/5 in from the right-hand side, that might help narrow the dating even more, but I do not know when the meeting track for this part of the track was extended and moved further east from where it first was located.

Gold Coin - 288   
18.03.2018 (08:17:12)
Overview South Cripple Creek, Inclusive a Mine Along the Short Line Crossing of M.T.




P-03378 [#5890]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5890
The mine in the foreground seems to be located the Red Bird claim, possible spilling over into the Yellow Bird, but it is not on the Admiral Dewey claim as that is a claim that is broken into tiny patches of ground in-between other claims as per a claim plat I've seen. I'm a little unsure which has the part the shaft stands on as while their parallel, reading the map and the image to tell for sure where this one shaft is, is a little bit hard but my feel is that this is located on Red Bird lode claim. But, if this is known as the Red Bird Mine, Yellow Bird Mine, or even as the Mariposa Mine, I can't tell. One of the houses behind the mine, inside the Short Line loop is marked with Mariposa Office on the roof, but my USGS Topo-map from around 1903 has the Mariposa Mine located quite a distance from her, outside the view at right, nearly 90-degree right. National Mining Tunnel and Land Company is reported to have had a large plant of machinery on the Red Bird claim with a value of $10,000. Hence, for now, November 2017, I continue to name and think of this mine as the Red Bird.
The tracks just behind the mine in foreground right is the Short Line mainline into Cripple Creek, but it is also the High Line and Low Line tracks of the Electric Trolley System, at least till that bridge barely seen a piece of in lower right corner area – a bridge crossing over the M.T. tracks and then the High & Low lines split where the High Line goes left together with the Short Line mainline to climb Gold hill, while the Low Line goes right to go along Gold Hill, heading towards Victor along the hills and valleys sort of following the F. & C.C. and the M.T. tracks, cutting the hills here and there as it is higher up.
If keeping in lower right quadrant, the F. & C.C. Depot is slightly above ¼ up from bottom and about 1/11 in from right-hand side. The Freight house is also seen, together with some of the industries along a side spur breaking of the mainline near left-hand side of this view and ending up just below the Depot where a string of boxcars can be seen.
Cripple Creek Town   Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Short Line Related   Trolley Related   
Red Bird Mine - 420   
18.03.2018 (08:15:32)
Strong Mine [at Victor]
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1909]
1909-01-01; Postcard scene dated only with 1909 opens up the whole year as a possible date
1909-12-31; Postcard scene dated only with 1909 opens up the whole year as a possible date

P-02145 [#3677]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3677
This view of the East & south side of the Strong Mine is quite a good one to tell how it looked sometime in 1909 when T.J. Hileman took the photo which was the base for this postcard view presented here. Down left is the yard of the F. & C.C. railroad, with its dual gauge tracks connected with the M.T. running passed the Ore-House of the Strong Gold Mining Company. Also, the mainline of the Victor branch of the M.T. is shown entering the scene along the right-hand side, where there is shown most of the side-spur for delivering coal to the powerplant of the Strong Mine for their operations, seen here with a single M.T, boxcar (no. 211) parked on the trestle, while the mainline where passenger trains were running is seen this side of that trestle, dropping downgrade to reach the Depot not seen in this view due to being behind the Strong Mine Ore-house.
The Ore-House also has an open-air Ore-Bin type of structure to the east, where Gondola & Hopper type of railroad cars was run under to collect dump materials to be used for railroad work I assume. Also shown is the big truss bridge coming out of the Strong Mine Ore-House, extending across the F. & C.C. yard unto another smaller bridge and taking it to a rock-house outside this view which delivered dump ore to Short Line cars to be used as ballast, fill-mass and similar along the lines, from what I have understood it as.
Just left of the single boxcar at the Coal-room part of the Strong mine, out on the crib-wall part left of the M.T. mainline is seen a small stone structure which Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Victor 1908 (sheet 0) say is the Powder Thawing House.
Just behind the Strong ore-house is the Ore-house and headframe of the Mary Cashen Mine seen, with dumps around it and some of their cribbing's is seen behind the big truss bridge coming out of the Strong Mine Ore-House.
Up near the right-top-corner the dumps and Shaft House of the Ajax Mine is seen poking up into the sky, and about center left-right and about 1/5 down from top, there is the dump of the Nellie V. Mine with a smaller two-post Head Frame and a hoist house and shed together as a long structure from what I can gather in a high dpi scan of this view. This do not match what Sanborn 1908 say the Nellie V. mine was to look like, as that say it is a shaft house type of structure.
I wonder if I see the Columbine Tunnel or if it is another one which is seen a distance to the left of the extension of Diamond Avenue up to the M.T. tracks in the higher dpi scans. Seen about 1/5 in from the left-hand side and 2/5 down from the top, a dump is there in addition to a tunnel portal and some sheds to the left of the adit opening.

Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Midland Terminal Related   Victor Town   

18.03.2018 (08:11:45)
Headquarters of the Elks Club, All Dressed Up for the June 11, 12, 13 Roundup in Cripple Creek, Colorado




P-03375 [#5887]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5887
No known Year for this view, and have not bothered to go hunt for the info either. Seller of the card was thinking it might be the June 11-13, 1913 Elks gathering in Cripple Creek. The image shows a three-story building just at the east end of the split on Bennett Avenue, draped with bunting and the Elks Club insignia. The G. R. Lewis Co. is in the same building. There are several men and horses in front of the building; it looks like they may be registering attendees. The card was not mailed, but has a CYKO stamp box that is consistent with a date around 1910.
The card was way more faded, but I've tried to enhance it and bring out the details better, so the look if the image part is not fully correct to what the card looks like.

Cripple Creek Town   

18.03.2018 (08:05:33)
Last Dollar Mine
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill] [1909]


H. & H. Studio
P-02150 [#3682]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#3682
This was the first version of this card I've seen, different crop where there is a little more seen on the right-hand side, in terms of a millimeter or three. Marked as H & H, Cripple Creek, 09 – making this a view by either Hileman or Hill as they worked together at this time. I've also seen a version of this view where the left upper side has some hill visible, but both my cards have that missing in the faded distance.
I think the background right is showing part of what was to become Portland Mill on top of Battle Mountain, while the head frame and high tower like structure in background against the sky just right of the center left/right is from what I'm able to gather, the Portland No. 2 Shaft & headframe, as it looks very much like some other views I have of it. I felt it was too visible from this angle, but I've been unsuccessful to find any other mine in that area to fit, so it must be the Portland No. 2 shaft.
The railroad track in lower left is the Short Line/High Line roadbed going towards town of Independence and the route down passed Goldfield and into Victor, while the railroad tracks seen nearly buried in the dumps at the Last Dollar mine is the side-spur of the Golden Circle 3-foot track going towards the Vindicator Mines and for a short while the Black Sampler at Victor Pass.
Golden Circle Related   Short Line Related   Trolley Related   

18.03.2018 (08:02:51)
CRIPPLE CREEK MUSEUM [District Museum at Old MT Depot]
Karl T.E. Gebhard


A. & S. Sales Company
P-01730 [#2616]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2616
[B]
CRIPPLE CREEK MUSEUM
Cripple Creek, Colorado
This historic structure is the former Midland R.R. Terminal building and nowhouses' relics and displays pertinent to the fabulous Gold Rush days near the turn of the century.
Cripple Creek Town   Midland Terminal Related   

26.08.2012 at USD 0.9518.03.2018 (08:01:46)
Portal Roosevelt Tunnel
Victor Studio
1907; The year this drainage tunnel was started.
1912-08-14; This due this card being post stamped the day after this date.
Top O'The World Foto Co.
P-01647 [#2481]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#2481
This postcard was to lovely to miss out... A great view of the Portal to the great Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel and I got it! Mailed in 1912 so this helps date the scene a little, but sadly not wide enough to see what is left of the water tank, of there is anything. I've got two photographs with structures not in this view, as the shed on the left-hand side here has in those view a more rambled shed in front, where there are in this postcard some stones seen left of the wood chute the water is running through about middle of this postcard view.

Roosevelt Tunnel - 916   
17.03.2018 (23:16:49)
Hull City Mine
Tomer Jacob Hileman



P-00919 [#1299]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1299

Golden Circle Related   
Hull City placer - 321   
25.04.2011 at USD 63.5120.04.2013 at USD 111.5117.03.2018 (23:15:33)
Elks Home Victor, Colo.




P-00918 [#1298]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1298

Victor Town   

17.03.2018 (23:07:16)
CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO - Winter 1895. Picture Taken From Second and Bennett / Site of New J.H. Wolfe Hotel, Bennett Ave. Cripple Creek
[1895]



P-00678 [#985]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#985
Text on image says:
Site of New J.H. Wolfe Hotel, Bennett Ave. Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek Town   

18.12.2011 at USD 1.5417.03.2018 (22:52:55)
Stage Line To Cripple Creek Via Colorado Midland Railway 1893 Cripple Creek Colo. / The Hundley stage line to Cripple Creek, via C.M. Ry.
W. Ira Rudy [1893]



P-00676 [#983]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#983



28.01.2017 at USD 0.9917.03.2018 (22:42:20)
Union Depot, Victor, Colo.
[1904]


H.H. Rosser
P-00453 [#552]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#552
Backside of card has a mention of the card being made in 1904 while the text itself is dated August 24, 1948 and talks about a trip down the Elkton Mine. At least that helps in dating the photo, if that 1904 date is to be trusted that is.
This is a photo of the Midland Terminal Depot in Victor, also known as the Union Depot after the Short Line started using it after 1905, when a connection between the Short Line and the Midland Terminal was made east of Victor, and the M.T. was running on Short Line tracks from a place called Vindicator Junction, but as that is entirely on the High Line route, there must been a connection from someplace at Victor Pass area from the M.T. tracks over unto the Short Line tracks.
The Head Frame seen behind the depot roof in the left side is from the Mary Cashen Mine.
Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   Victor Town   
Mary Cashen - 272   
26.01.2011 at USD 34.017.11.2013 at USD 15.521.03.2020 at USD 37.017.03.2018 (16:28:01)
Elk's Club Building, Victor, Colorado.



H.H.T. Co.
P-03407 [#5919]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5919
Different crop on the sides from my other known versions.
Victor Town   

13.11.2017 at USD 0.9917.03.2018 (16:25:18)
Cripple Creek, Colo. 9500 Ft., on M.T. and C.S. & C.C.D. Ry. [Looking From North Towards Short Line Yard]
Chas. F. Lemic [07.10.1920]



P-03424 [#5938]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#5938
Backside has stamped what I think is the name of the photographer, and also some handwritten notes:
OBv, 10-7-20 - No Record on Negative Index
STAMPED:
Chas F. Lemic
214 Oregon St.,
Corliss Sta., Pittsburgh, Pa.
----

Cripple Creek Town   Midland Terminal Related   Short Line Related   Trolley Related   
Moon Anchor - 56   
17.03.2018 (16:21:32)
Narrows-Phantom Canon, Colo. On F. & C.C.R.R.



Williamson Haffner Co.
P-03492 [#6049]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6049
This is slightly different on one of the sides from the other known editions of this view.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Phantom Canon/Canyon   

17.03.2018 (16:20:59)
People Posing on Hillside Near Train on a Railroad Mountain Day Trip Excursion Near Cripple Creek, Short Line [or Possible a M.T.] Train in Background
[07.1912]



P-03495 [#6052]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6052
Card on the backside has a handwritten note from Laura saying they had this view taken in July (1912) away up in the mountains near Cripple Creek when they just went on a One Day excursion and had the finest time. Laura is living in Pueblo at this time (1833 6th street), but fail to mention which railroad they used. Some former owner of this card has written in pencil that this was a Midland Terminal R Excursion Tour Group, but I think more it was a trip on the Short Line this people was on. I can't tell where this is either way, so I'm open for any suggestions.
Image is sadly so out of focus for anything other than those beings in front, so I can't tell anything from the passenger cars in the background, and my knowledge about the passenger cars used on the railroads are very limited so I can't tell from that either.
Midland Terminal Related   

17.03.2018 (16:20:13)
View at the Victor Roller Rink Structure Front after the Granite Mine Explosion Janurary 8th, 1911
[01.1911]
1911-01-08; Newspaper articles about an Explosion at Granite Mine wrecking all windows in Victor, has to be from this accident!
1911-01-20; They can't have used that long to board up the windows so 8-days from Granite Mine Exploding should be long enough

P-03496 [#6053]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6053
Comparing this to a view of the Tomkins Hardware to me say this is the same structure as I know as the Elks Home in Victor, located at the corner of Third Street and Diamond Avenue, today those brick columns I think has a porch behind them and the front is further in from the street.
Victor Town   

17.03.2018 (16:19:25)
Snow Scene in Front of Bank Block Victor at Corner of Victor Avenue & 4th Street, Probably Snow After Great Storm of December 4-6, 1913
[12.1913]
1913-12-06; aftermat of the Great Snowstorm of 1913
1913-12-07; aftermat of the Great Snowstorm of 1913

P-03497 [#6054]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6054

Victor Town   

17.03.2018 (16:16:00)
Snow Scene on Bennett Avenue at Corner with North Third Street, Looking East, After the Great Front Range Snow Storm of Dec. 4-6, 1913
[12.1913]
1913-12-06; aftermat of the Great Snowstorm of 1913
1913-12-07; aftermat of the Great Snowstorm of 1913

P-03498 [#6055]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6055

Cripple Creek Town   

17.03.2018 (16:08:06)
View of Mule with Tourist on Mine Passenger Car in Front of Shed/Portal to Cripple Creek Gold Hill Deep Mining and Development Company's Gold Hill Tunnel 1




P-03499 [#6056]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6056
The people for the most part looks to be same as the people on my other card from same sellerm see Ref. No. P-03500. Seller marked this as the Cripple Creek Gold Hill Bonanza Mining and Development Company, while I have other views that say Deep instead of Bonanza - as there is only a D or a B on the wall, and very hard to decode which, I can understand the confusion.
Cripple Creek Town   
Gold Hill Tunnel [Behind Trolley Barn in CC]- 1062   
17.03.2018 (16:05:41)
Labor Day Victor [Scene Street Interestion Just West of the F. & C.C. Depot, Setting Up or a Drill Contest]
[04.09.1911]



P-03509 [#6066]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6066
This scene from Labor Day 1911 show a large crowd of people on the Intersection of West Diamond Avenue and North Fourth Street, where sort of a larger angled area exists, where a platform is set up for what the backside of this postcard said was a Drilling Contest with a Price of USD 1,000 could be won. Just above middle top/down and center right/left is the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad Depot structure scene in a good view, and the large crib-wall of the Mary Cashen mine is holding back lot of dump materials from that mine operation behind the depot and to the left.
The Drilling Contest are still going on, as while the men on the platform looks down to the floor part, and a man kneels there, supporting himself with his left arm, another man is seen as a blurred figure holding some tool over his hand and about to drop it down, but on to what is a detail hiding behind the group of men on the platform, and even on a high dpi (2400dpi) scan of this scene, I can't pick out any particular from the platform happenings.
Florence & Cripple Creek Related   Victor Town   

17.03.2018 (13:16:50)
Paved with Gold Ore Bennett Ave Cripple Creek Colo.

1938; License plate on car front right has 1938 visible on top of the plate.


P-03623 [#6277]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6277
Sadly, yet another not so sharp postcard. This edition of this view is even worse than the other version I have it, clearly being some form of a copy of it. There is a date of 1947 on lower left, but the car on the lower right is still holding a 1938 date on the license plate, and I am not sure if that 1947 date is to be trusted as a date of the postcard image, possible more the postcard itself.
The card is not that interesting, a view east along Bennett Avenue, showing a single Light Pole at the corner where the road to Victor leaves, the old M.T. Depot in the background at end of street, lots of cars, a Lunch Wagon/Shed mostly hiding behind the before mention car in front right, and what appears to be snow on the ground of the hills east of town.
I've seen this image used for at least 11 editions of postcards, small differences in where the cropping has taken place most of the time, a couple of them has more words added to the front, like this one, but it is the same negative making up the source image.
Cripple Creek Town   

16.03.2018 (03:27:14)
How Fraziers Delivered Groceries. Dec., 6, 1913. Victor Colo.
[06.12.1913]
1913-12-06; as that is written on the card
1913-12-06; as that is written on the card

P-01233 [#1942]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1942
The backside mention 407 South 4th street in Victor, Colorado, and how the sender's Grocery Story used the sleight as that was the only way they could manage to drag a few things off to their customers. Lot of snow, but while city structures them self has useful info, I needed this card due to the fact that in the upper left corner one can see a mine shaft structure. That is the Dillon Mine Shaft House, and it is marked as part of the Granite Gold Mining Company. Seen much better in a 2400dpi cropped & enhanced view, but sadly not very sharp. Still, while not a sharp view it is one of the best views I have of this shaft house, and is a good companion to a stereoview from nearly the opposite direction.
Victor Town   
Dillon [aka W.C. Dillon] - 268   
18.09.2011 at USD 149.515.03.2018 (09:02:58)
Seeing the sights Cripple Creek




P-03559 [#6204]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6204
Not the sharpest card I have, there is some form of blur on it, making neither the old M.T. Depot at end of Bennett Avenue in the background right or the automobile in front right appear very sharp. I do think the reason is the way the card was made, not the image itself though.
The scene is several kids, boys & girls, around a small donkey hitched to a wagon, posing for an image outside a structure with a big stone archway on the north side of Bennett Ave., and an Uncle Sam poster in the window.
Cripple Creek Town   

18.02.2018 at USD 2.58314.03.2018 (12:55:25)
Bennett Ave Cripple Creek.
Tomer Jacob Hileman [1908]
1908-01-01
1908-12-31

P-00729 [#1077]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#1077
This view here is a popular view, I've seen at least 24 uses for it, mostly in various crops from the source image as postcards, or in postcard folders, but also in some printed publications and as a large poster type of image I also seen it appear.
The scene is of Trolley M-201 which rounds the corner off Bennett Avenue onto Second Street as it departs for Victor via what another source say is to be the High Line route. In the distance, at the end of Bennett Avenue, stands the three-story Midland Terminal station, seen about 1/4 down and about 1/3 in from right-hand side.
Cripple Creek Town   Trolley Related   

18.02.2018 at USD 2.58314.03.2018 (11:38:15)
Vindicator #1.
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill]

1910-09-21; Postcard is handmarked with Sept. 22 for the note written, hence can't been photographed later than day before due to time to create card.

P-03523 [#6091]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6091
This view of the Vindicator No. 1 surface structures is showing clearly how the trouble of getting rid of all the dump ore has made the whole area change into dumps and a myriad of pieces of structures, man-made things, rails and so on.
The quality is not perfect on this card so details in the background is more lost then I like, but on the left-hand side, about 2/5 down from top, the High Line is entering the image, while a little bit lower there should be some dual gauge tracks as it was shared between the Golden Circle and the Midland Terminal, at least for a short time, can't tell from this image if they still do or not.
What I can say is that the dual gauge track running this side of the Powder House seen near center top/down at left-hand side (with the curved roof, walls made in stone), and that the wood structure to the right is per Sanborn 1908 (sheet 15 of Victor set) a Store House, before the railroad ran between the whitish structure just to the left of the large smokestacks, and the darker brick structure with the dark roof hidden partly behind that before mention whitish structure that Sanborn indicates is the Powerplant for the Vindicator, while the brick structure was the Engine House/Hoist house.
There is much in this scene, the covered walkway, seen about center top/down on the right half of the image, is running across a structure given to be an Ore-House, possible at one time connected to a railroad spur on the side we do not see, as the Short Line has its mainline down to Victor on the other side of it. The covered walkway ends in another Ore-House, one that still stands, partly, in the District if I am not too much mistaken, and which has a side-spur running through it, coming down the hill via a switchback spur seen partly in its various levels at the left-hand side.
In the background, hiding behind the before mention walkway, the roofs of what is left of the old Lillie Mine structures, reused as a mill plant, is seen poking up, hard to tell how it looked below the roof, but comparing this to known views of the Lilly/Lillie Mine the top tower part is removed by the time this view was photographed.
--- Backside has some handwritten notes:
Your card at hand. Like to had some of those fish you got. The weather has been fine here so far, this is a picture of the mine you remember it well. As ever your little friend Noel Y.
---
Golden Circle Related   Midland Terminal Related   High Line   
Vindicator No. 1 - 233   
14.03.2018 (11:37:56)
View Towards El Paso Mine on Beacon Hill From Along the Railroad Tracks of the Midland Terminal in 1930
[1930]



P-03510 [#6067]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6067
This view from western slope of Guyot Hill unto Beacon Hill is taken from just above the Midland Terminal tracks around the hill on the route between Victor (towards left) and Cripple Creek (towards right), looking down to the el Paso Mine structures seen about 1/3 in from left and about 1/4 from the top. The switch; junction; turnout seen on the M.T. track is a little bit puzzling as I was under the impression that M.T. had reused the old F. & C.C. roadbed down to the El Paso, but if I am not mistaken that is shown here as ties only - seen about 2/5 up from bottom on the right-hand side and about center top/down on the left-hand side.
Possible they had their own junction more west and this is the start of the El Paso branch, or this switch here is for something else and the El Paso branch is already closed. No idea, neither do I have a certain date, but someone has handwritten 1930 on the backside of the card; in addition to this text:
''This is between Victor and Cripple Creek - 6 miles apart.
There was a car with 4 kids from here went over a 100 foot bank smashed the car all to pieces. Kids all hurt and in hospital.
I knew all of them.''
Midland Terminal Related   
El Paso - 127   C. K. & N. - 126   
14.03.2018 (11:36:51)
Hull City Placer




P-03505 [#6062]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6062
This was a new angle to me of the Hull City Mine, was very happy when I got a chance to get hold of this one!
Golden Circle Related   Independence Townsite   Midland Terminal Related   
Hull City placer - 321   
14.03.2018 (11:36:32)
Last Dollar Mine
H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill]



P-03504 [#6061]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6061
This is the second version of this card I've seen, different crop where there is a little more seen at the bottom and on the left-hand side, in terms of a millimeter or three. Marked as H & H, Cripple Creek, 09 – making this a view by either Hileman or Hill as they worked together at this time. I've also seen a version of this view where the left upper side has some hill visible, but both my cards have that missing in the faded distance.
I think the background right is showing part of what was to become Portland Mill on top of Battle Mountain, while the head frame and high tower like structure in background against the sky just right of the center left/right is from what I'm able to gather, the Portland No. 2 Shaft & headframe, as it looks very much like some other views I have of it. I felt it was too visible from this angle, but I've been unsuccessful to find any other mine in that area to fit, so it must be the Portland No. 2 shaft.
The railroad track in lower left is the Short Line/High Line roadbed going towards town of Independence and the route down passed Goldfield and into Victor, while the railroad tracks seen nearly buried in the dumps at the Last Dollar mine is the side-spur of the Golden Circle 3-foot track going towards the Vindicator Mines and for a short while the Black Sampler at Victor Pass.
Golden Circle Related   Short Line Related   High Line   
Last Dollar - 238   Portland No. 2 - 259   Portland Mill [aka Victor Mill; Battle Mnt] - 922   
14.03.2018 (11:35:27)
Portal of the Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel During its Construction


1914-06; Used as image in a mining magazine issue of July 1914

P-03501 [#6058]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6058
This group image of workers, management and equipment at the Portal of the Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel during its construction has been used in an article in the July 1914 edition of the Mining Science journal/magazine, so it predates that date with an unknown time. No names given in neither of my sources for this image, but there are many men here.
Image shows 8-ore-cars filled with rock from the tunnel work, also three horses are held in front of the cars, uncertain if they where the motive power used to haul the cars out of the tunnel. There are also some other foot powered rail cycle types shown, a shed makes up some of the background, a compressor building of some sort as there is a large pipe coming from it into the tunnel opening.


Roosevelt Tunnel - 916   
14.03.2018 (11:32:16)
View of Mule with Tourist on Mine Passenger Car in Front of Shed/Portal to Cripple Creek Gold Hill Deep Mining and Development Company's Gold Hill Tunnel 2




P-03500 [#6057]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/04library/scnd_postcards_all.php#6057
The people for the most part looks to be same as the people on my other card from same sellerm see Ref. No. P-03499. Seller marked this as the Cripple Creek Gold Hill Bonanza Mining and Development Company, while I have other views that say Deep instead of Bonanza - as there is only a D or a B on the wall, and very hard to decode which, I can understand the confusion.
Cripple Creek Town   
Gold Hill Tunnel [Behind Trolley Barn in CC]- 1062   

Back To Top

---