Panorama view from summit of Mount Lincoln with Montezuma mine on the left. Park County, Colorado. 1873.
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1873
Summary
Album caption and index card: Panorama from summit of Mount Lincoln. On the left is Montezuma mine. Park County, Colorado. 1873. (Panorama with photo nos. 366, 369 - 371). Handwritten notes on album caption: See also photo no. 1351 (jwh01351). Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1873 Series, pages 56-57, nos. 79-84: A PANORAMA IN SIX SECTIONS FROM THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT LINCOLN, situated upon the western extreme of South Park, slightly detached from the main range or the "divide," which here turns abruptly to the west, to Tennessee Pass, and its junction with the Sawatch range. Its elevation, by carefully-computed [...]
Summary
Album caption and index card: Panorama from summit of Mount Lincoln. On the left is Montezuma mine. Park County, Colorado. 1873. (Panorama with photo nos. 366, 369 - 371).
Handwritten notes on album caption: See also photo no. 1351 (jwh01351).
Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1873 Series, pages 56-57, nos. 79-84: A PANORAMA IN SIX SECTIONS FROM THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT LINCOLN, situated upon the western extreme of South Park, slightly detached from the main range or the "divide," which here turns abruptly to the west, to Tennessee Pass, and its junction with the Sawatch range. Its elevation, by carefully-computed measurements, is found to be 14,297 feet, very much less than was supposed for a long time. It is the highest point in that spur or continuation of the Park range, which extend as far south as Buffalo Peaks, running parallel to the Sawatch range on the other side of the Arkansas. At its feet, extending eastward, is South Park, comprising some 2,500 square miles in extent, and bounded on the distant horizon by the lofty cone of Pike's Peak. The floor of the park is composed of sedimentary rocks, which have been litted nearly to the very summit of Mount Lincoln. A section through the mountain, as revealed upon its sides, shows, first, at its base, mica schists, passing up into quartzites. Then comes nearly a thousand feet of limestones, in the upper portion of which occur the richest silver-mines. A thin layer of decomposed sandstone follows, capped by a dike of porphyritic rock, forming the summit of the mountain.
No. 80 is more to the west. The foreground is the continuation from Bross to Lincoln. At the right are the buildings of the Montezuma mine, only one hundred feet below the summit, and the highest mine in the United States. In the distance is the Sawatch range, lying west of the Arkansas. The prominent peaks in the range are Grand, Elbert, La Plata, and Harvard, the highest mountains in the whole Rocky Mountain chain.
Note: Forms panorama with jwh00366, jwh00369, jwh00370 and jwh00371.
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Descriptive catalogue of the photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories for the years 1869 to 1875, inclusive: Miscellaneous publications - No. 5
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Jackson, W.H. Collection.
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