The Down Town Mines of Leadville: Part Two: The Penrose Shaft.

[Chris Walker]

I'm done cutting Bait.

The silent sentinel of the Penrose towers over Leadville in 1941.


But let us go back to an earlier period.







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This seemingly random Sanborn Postcard view of Leadville innocently shows us the new loading trestles of the Penrose: The stack of Pipes for the shaft pumps almost obscure the Coal track.



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Note the D&RG cars with C&S at rear; n.g. cars on 3-rail trackage.



Democrat Herald Mining Expose of Jan 1st 1902 shows both C&S and D&RG cars loading.


CRRM C&S 1918 Valuation excerpt.




USGS J.D.Irving Image 1908

Note the Headframe was rebuilt in 1904. Now 3 Sheaves visible.
Ooooh,what have we here?  This image was also in the Digerness' The Mineral Belt V-I, but unremarked and unidentified.  Let's lighten that up a bit.



Where else would one find a Leadville Waste Rock sidedump(aka Cindercar) car be found!!!






























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Library of Congress Sanborn Fire Map crop Leadville 1895

Library of Congress Sanborn Fire Map crop Leadville 1937


Colorado School of Mines Image post '43


USGS 1941


FOOTNOTE:
I've been researching this(and the Downtown mine story) for the past 15 years; the interest was started off by finding Digerness' Mineral Belt books back in the early 1980's; visiting Leadville on nearly every trip I made to the US, and most seriously over the past few years.  When Keith put up his April 1st 2019 Penrose thread I felt I shouldn't bring the story to light, lest I be thought of throwing shade on his fine modelling efforts, which certainly is not the case.
I have probably twice as much in addition to the above, but in the interests of readability, I choose to restrain myself.
Down Town Mines Pt. 1 will come soon; a Miner Epic!