Thanks to
a few pictures found on the Internet, and from my own collection,
plus a Sanborn map I have now made one more of the small mines
that there where so many of in the District. I
wasn't able to dig up any info at all of this mine from the
newspaper site I use, but as that site only go to march 1900 for
the one Cripple Creek newspaper available, I had no hope either to
find anything. Reason for that is the fact that this mine don't
show on the 1900 version of the Sanborn maps for Victor, and while
it show up in the 1908 issue of the maps it is also labeled as
closed and with machinery removed. In
addition to the mystery, the mine is not showing up on my 1902
map either listing the mines & mills of the District, but
there are mines in the same area shown so I think it maybe changed
the name or something from one of the other mines - my guess, the
"Jolly Jane" as that seems to fit the best to the
location. Of course, I could be dead wrong, so until I have proof
I will not testify that it is the same mine. LOL Neither
is the company listed under the 1900 "Official Manual of
Cripple Creek" that is suppose to list all companies working
the District in 1900.
So,
there are very little, or actually, no info about this mine's name
other then the fact that I have a Sanborn map listing it and a
picture showing the mine with the name on the roof. The other
pictures I have seen have no such name as far as I can tell - and
in order to save on polygons and the fact that it's not always
easy to match a name texture on a model to a picture of the real
thing I decided to not put it in on my model. Also due to the fact
that I have no other information of the mine, no name on it makes
it therefore more useful other places too. LOL
I
must admit however that I'm not 100% sure the Sanborn is of the
same mine as I have the pictures of, or that the pictures all show
the same structure, but I'm as near 100% as I can possible be. Even
if Sanborn shows a extension on the back (south side) that don't
show up in the one picture I have of that side. - An extension I
have intentional left out as I can't get my head around to imagine
what it can have been.
The structure it self has this special look (the raised peaked
roof on about 1/3 of the structure), a look that makes me feel I can recognize
it from most of the other mines in the area just for the look of
it. At least from all the pictures I have seen - I reserve the
right to change my mind if someone shows me a picture I never seen
before though. LOL
Anyway, I'm sure you would like to see some pictures of this
mine, so below is how my model looks, and then a couple of the real
mine:
Victor from Squaw Mtn. 1903 - image courtesy of the USGS1
- large image.
A "cutout" from a picture I have in my own
collection.2
Image courtesy of the Special Collections, Tutt
Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado.3
Image courtesy from the Western History/ Genealogy
Department, Denver Public Library4
Sources:
1 - From a USGS
website I found some time ago featuring a lot of mine
photos from their own publications & photographers - unfortunately
the site has been down for quite a while. Glad I saved the
Cripple Creek ones. :-)
2 - My own collection, a
so-called Cabinet picture of the Gold Coin mine had this
part included. Unfortunately the image I bought of ebay
seems to be a printed type and not a photographic print as I
can't get anything out of the shadow/dark parts. Maybe that
is what lays in the expression "cabinet photo"...
3 - Found in the "George
H. Stone Collection" part of the Colorado College
website, glass plate negative #366
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Thanks to
a few pictures found on the Internet, and from my own collection,
plus a Sanborn map I have now made one more of the small mines
that there where so many of in the District..jpg)
1 - From a USGS
website I found some time ago featuring a lot of mine
photos from their own publications & photographers - unfortunately
the site has been down for quite a while. Glad I saved the
Cripple Creek ones. :-)