Re: Stanley Mills: Part Three. Two Smelters and the Consolidated Stanley Mines.

Posted by Chris Walker on Jul 16, 2016; 6:49am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Stanley-Mills-Part-Three-Two-Smelters-and-the-Consolidated-Stanley-Mines-tp5619p5620.html


Lachlan McLean photo Idaho Springs Historical Society coll.

What a marvelous inspirational sight this must have been to the Mining Investor.  The Complete Plutus nestled in the Clear Creek Valley.

By the date of this the Whale Smelter is but a few bricks left, this snippet from the 1879 Engineering and Mining Journal 28(13) p 221-222 may or may not provide an answer ...
The Hukill, now including the Whale, is showing good ore; The Hukill concentration mill was removed due to insecure foundation walls; a new mill of 100 tons will be built. 
the Crockett Tunnel now just a waste rock dump outlet and the Plutus Shafthouse will be replaced within 5 years.


Sanborn Fire Map 1891


CHS-B1486  http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll21/id/4932/rv/singleitem/rec/1626

An inside view of the Plutus Smelter, note the longitudinal ridge cupola.

CHS-B398  http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll21/id/3902/rv/singleitem/rec/48



from USGS 1917

Here is the reason that the Plutus Mine Hoisthouse was replaced so soon by the much larger Gehrmann Shafthouse.



from the Colliery Engineer and Metal Mines 1894, Volumes 14 and 15. (SIC Standley)