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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   
28.09.2022 (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   
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   
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   
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 35.006.10.2021 (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 14.501.08.2020 (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   
28.06.2020 (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 26.004.03.2019 (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 41.019.12.2018 (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 12.9815.08.2018 (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 0.1901.08.2018 (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 34.3329.07.2018 (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   
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   
16.07.2018 (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 20.012.05.2018 (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   
15.04.2018 (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   
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 (11:08:42)
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 (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   

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 9.9906.04.2018 (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   
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 0.9931.03.2018 (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 (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   
25.03.2018 (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   
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 (08:05:33)
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   

17.03.2018 (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   
14.03.2018 (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.
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Golden Circle Related   Midland Terminal Related   High Line   
Vindicator No. 1 - 233   
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   

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