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18.02.2023 (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 4.516.02.2023 (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 25.5309.02.2023 (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 19.9516.01.2023 (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   
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 (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   
04.07.2022 (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 0.9915.04.2022 (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 6.010.01.2022 (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   
06.10.2021 (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 8.9923.12.2020 (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 3.002.11.2020 (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 9.9918.07.2020 (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   
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 17.6604.03.2019 (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 41.006.10.2018 (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 9.9928.07.2018 (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   
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 (13:43:22)
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   

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 3.008.07.2018 (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   
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   
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   
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   
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   

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   

14.04.2018 (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 (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   
09.04.2018 (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   

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   
04.04.2018 (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 4.7503.04.2018 (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 (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 (11:05:20)
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 (10:54:47)
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   
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 (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 6.530.03.2018 (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 17.526.03.2018 (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 0.0118.03.2018 (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 (08:02:51)
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 0.9517.03.2018 (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 (16:25:18)
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 (16:20:59)
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   

14.03.2018 (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]
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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   

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