Thanks
to a good friend of mine, and some luck, I was able earlier
this year to get my hands on 5 old issues of an mining
oriented journal called "The Engineering
& Mining Journal" from 1903. One of those
issues had an article called "The
Head Frames of Shafts at Cripple Creek"(1),
and it is in that article I found a drawing for this head frame.
The article don't say very much about this particular one as
it is of a more generic type, but the following info I found
at least some interesting:
The
small two-post frame is a typical frame for prospecting
shafts up to about 300 ft. in depth. It is simple in
construction, and serviceable. It is usually mortised, but
may be simply toe-nailed. The writer has seen one with no
mortises in it doing good service.
Thanks
to that article I was able to make my self a generic little
head frame to be used all over so to speak, and when I get
around to it I also have other head frames to make,
including another smaller type one.
For me modeling a mining area on the computer in is a good
idea to use 1 item many times, makes it a little less hard
on the computer, hopefully not many will sort of notice it
is the same frame over and over and over... :-) By adding
different hoist houses (first on the list, make some...LOL)
and other stuff I think I can vary the scenes to look not
that alike. But, we see, it's in the future so to speak.
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Thanks
to a good friend of mine, and some luck, I was able earlier
this year to get my hands on 5 old issues of an mining
oriented journal called "The Engineering
& Mining Journal" from 1903. One of those
issues had an article called "
1 - The Engineering
& Mining Journal, 7
March 1903 (pages 366-371)