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Pikeview, Colorado

January 01, 1970

Pikeview (Pike View, Pike's View) is a neighborhood of Colorado Springs, annexed to the city as the "Pike View Addition" on August 1, 1962.[1][2] In 1896 there was a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad station in Pikeview, and miners had begun digging a shaft for the Pikeview Coal Mine. Pikeview also had a quarry beginning 1905 for the mining of limestone for concrete. Coal mining ended in 1957, but the Pikeview Quarry continues to operate. Quarry operations, though, have created a gash or scar in the landscape and efforts have been made since the late 1980s to reclaim the hillside landscape. The Greg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat in what had been Queens Canyon Quarry was founded in 2003 in recognition of the individuals and organizations that have worked to create a nature hillside habitat.

Home of William Morrison, miner, who lives in company housing project. Pikes Peak Fuel Company, Pike View Mine, Colorado Springs, 1946

Railroad station edit

The town of Pikeview, which began as a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad station[3][4] by 1896.[5]: 16  It was named for the scenic view of Pikes Peak 10 miles (16 km) away.[6] The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad station was situated at a confluence on Monument Creek, north of the Roswell junction and south from the 1875 Husted station.

Colorado Springs water system edit

Two Pike View Reservoirs, which were part of the extension of Colorado Springs Irrigation System to Monument Creek, were constructed in 1894.[7]: 105, 107, 240 

Town edit

A school house was built in Pikeview 1 mi (1.6 km) north of the station by 1903. The Pikes View Coal Mine was the same distance from the station. The post office was 4 mi (6.4 km) south of the station.[8] By 1906, the station included a depot, a pond, and a road intersection of the north-south Monument Valley Highway (now Interstate 25) with a road west[9] to Rampart Range.

Pikeview Coal Mine edit

See also: Colorado Coalfield War
External images
  Inactive Coal Mine Data and Subsidence Information for El Paso County (map)
  Rockrimmon / Pikeview (map)
  Pikeview Coal Mine
  Pikeview Mine buildings

A shaft was sunk in late 1896 and the main coal was discovered at what would be the Pikeview Mine, also called the Carlton Mine, on January 1, 1897. The Pikeview Mine is a slope mine, which uses the room-and-pillar method to extract coal.[10][11][a]

In the early 1900s, there was a mass exodus of people from Southern Europe. Many immigrants to the United States headed for the mining towns of Colorado—like Pikeview, Papeton, and Franceville—directly after having entered the country.[5]: 7  Many of the mine workers were Greek, and when the men went on strike in 1913 a man named Louis Tikas who worked for the United Mine Workers went to the mine to work undercover and take affidavits of workers regarding working conditions. The workers may have been prompted to return to work and await a coordinated union walkout because most of the Pikeview miners returned to work after a few days at the same pay rate.[13]: 70–72 

In a letter dated August 28, 1913, Tikas summarized that there were 350 Greek men working in the Southern Fields, which included Pikeview, Las Animas County and Huerfano County mines. There had been 13 men killed on the job and many more that had been injured since January 1, 1913. Affidavits taken by a Greek-speaking individual was important, otherwise information about the immigrants was often overlooked by government and company reports. They also paid very high prices for goods from the company stores, had seen the scales that weighed coal significantly under-report the mined coal per coal car, did not receive good medical treatment, and were dissuaded from seeing attorneys while in the hospital.[13]: 72–73 

Tikas reported of the Greek mine workers of Southern Colorado,

They are ready at any time unless conditions improve to engage in an industrial war and to fight, just as their fathers and brothers in the fatherland had fought the Turks until their freedom had been obtained, so these men are ready even at the sacrifice of their lives to fight until their industrial freedom had been obtained.

— Louis Tikas, United Mine Workers[13]: 73 

Labor conflicts like this immediately precipitated the Colorado Coalfield War, a strike that began in September 1913 and ran for more than year, with a significant escalation of violence in late April 1914 following the Ludlow Massacre, during which Tikas and other Greek strikers were killed by Colorado National Guardsmen and local militia.

The Pikes Peak Consolidated Fuel Company, a subsidiary of Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company, was located in Pikeview in 1920. Harvey McGarry of Colorado Springs was the president and Robert O'Neil of Pikeview was the superintendent.[14] In 1922, Pikeview's economy was nearly entirely based upon mining.[6]

The mine was owned by Golden Cycle Mining when it closed operations July 1, 1957. At that time, there were 30 miners who lived in company housing on the site who were affected. Management personnel were transferred to other Golden Cycle operations.[12]

Pikeview Quarry edit

Quarry scar edit

Pikeview Quarry has operated since 1905 and Queens Canyon Quarry has been mined for limestone since 1958. The extraction of the stone by Castle Concrete created a noticeable gash or scar in the Queens Canyon Quarry, north of Garden of the Gods, which closed in 1990.[15]

Reclamation edit

There is some mining that occurs at Pikeview Quarry, but that effort is being moved to another side of the hill. As the shift occurs, the terrain will cut back the quarry into the mountain, a plan devised by Greg Francis who worked for Castle Concrete for 30 years and spent 15 of those years working on reclamation of the quarried landscape. He started with Pikeview Quarry, about one mile north of Queen's Quarry. After failed reclamation attempts, he devised the plan to cut back the hill so that it can be "resculpted" into a terrain that will better support planted trees and landscaping. "Time and moisture will blend the quarry into the surrounding hillsides," states Colorado Mountain Reclamation Foundation (formed 1992) project manager, Wanda Reaves. By fall of 2003, 2,000 trees had been planted. An additional 800 trees were to be planted on the Pikeview Quarry in 2004. Castle Concrete intended to mine Pikeview Quarry until 2013, so the reclamation efforts were intended to continue throughout that timeframe.[15]

Greg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat edit

On August 1, 2003, the hillside was renamed Greg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat in honor of Francis, who died October 2002. A statue of a bighorn sheep stands on Greg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat in recognition of the herd of 65 bighorns (in 2003) and Greg Francis, hundreds of volunteers, and efforts by Castle Concrete to reintroduce Rocky Mountain juniper trees, native grasses, and small piñon to the hills.[15]

See also edit

Preceding station Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Following station
Roswell
toward Ogden
 Royal Gorge Route Palmer Lake
toward Denver

Notes edit

  1. ^ The Gazette said in 2015 that the Pikeview Coal Mine operated beginning in 1904.[12]

References edit

  1. ^ "Pikeview (193347)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-10-27. "38.9152705 -104.8221988"
  2. ^ (spreadsheet), SpringsGov.com, archived from the original on 2013-11-12, retrieved 2013-10-27, Pike View Addition 84.19 6319 19620801
  3. ^ "Denver to Southern California". Goodrich Route Book. B. F. Goodrich Company. 1915. p. 307. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
  4. ^ (abstracts), Colorado College Tutt Library, archived from the original on January 11, 2012, retrieved January 26, 2015 (lists numerous maps with Colorado Springs annexations/additions)
  5. ^ a b Angela Thaden Hahn (2014). Security-Widefield. Images of America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-3092-9.
  6. ^ a b Marius Robinson Campbell (1922). "The Denver & Rio Grande Western Route: Pikeview". Guidebook of the Western United States: Part E. The Denver & Rio Grande Western Route. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 33–34.
  7. ^ Town incorporation, city organization and reorganization. City Council. 1902. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
  8. ^ (PDF) (almanac), The Giles Directory Company, May 1903, pp. 33, 353, archived from the original (PDF) on November 12, 2013, retrieved January 26, 2015
  9. ^ (Map). "Geo. S. Clason, Denver, Colo.". 1906. Archived from the original on 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
  10. ^ Marius Robinson Campbell (1910). "Colorado Springs Coal Field, Colorado: Development and Markets". Contributions to Economic Geology, 1908: Mineral fuels. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 340.
  11. ^ "Analysis of Coal and Car Samples Collected in the Fiscal Years 1911 to 1913". Washington, D.C.: US Department of the Interior,printed by the Government Printing Office. 1914. p. 166. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  12. ^ a b "Pikeview Coal Mine Will Cease Operations July 1" (PDF). The Gazette. June 4, 1957. p. 1:6. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
  13. ^ a b c Zeese Papanikolas (1991). "Organizing the Southern Field". Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-8727-5.
  14. ^ "Colorado". American Mining & Metallurgical Manual. Chicago: The Mining Manual Company. 1920. pp. 170–.
  15. ^ a b c Bill McKeown (August 2, 2003). . The Gazette. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
  16. ^ "Cragmor Sanatorium (193349)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-10-27.

Further reading edit

  • R.A. Philips; D.V. Holmquist (1986), "Backfilling of the Pikeview Mine Manway", in J.L. Hynes (ed.), Proceedings of the 1985 Conference on Coal Mine Subsidence in the Rocky Mountain Region: Colorado Geological Survey Special Publication 31, pp. 39–80
  • J.P. Thorson; C.J. Carroll & M.L. Morgan (2001), "Geologic map of the Pikeview quadrangle", Open-File Report 01-03, scale 1:24,000, El Paso County, Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey

External links edit

  • Greg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat, Queens Canyon (aka the Scar), Colorado Springs Trails
External images
  Pikeview, including mine buildings, Pike's Peak in the background, 1938, Pikes Peak Library District
  Pike View Coal Mine, 1934, Pikes Peak Library District
  Pikeview Quarry scar

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Pikeview Pike View Pike s View is a neighborhood of Colorado Springs annexed to the city as the Pike View Addition on August 1 1962 1 2 In 1896 there was a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad station in Pikeview and miners had begun digging a shaft for the Pikeview Coal Mine Pikeview also had a quarry beginning 1905 for the mining of limestone for concrete Coal mining ended in 1957 but the Pikeview Quarry continues to operate Quarry operations though have created a gash or scar in the landscape and efforts have been made since the late 1980s to reclaim the hillside landscape The Greg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat in what had been Queens Canyon Quarry was founded in 2003 in recognition of the individuals and organizations that have worked to create a nature hillside habitat Home of William Morrison miner who lives in company housing project Pikes Peak Fuel Company Pike View Mine Colorado Springs 1946 Contents 1 Railroad station 2 Colorado Springs water system 3 Town 4 Pikeview Coal Mine 5 Pikeview Quarry 5 1 Quarry scar 5 2 Reclamation 5 3 Greg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksRailroad station editThe town of Pikeview which began as a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad station 3 4 by 1896 5 16 It was named for the scenic view of Pikes Peak 10 miles 16 km away 6 The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad station was situated at a confluence on Monument Creek north of the Roswell junction and south from the 1875 Husted station Colorado Springs water system editTwo Pike View Reservoirs which were part of the extension of Colorado Springs Irrigation System to Monument Creek were constructed in 1894 7 105 107 240 Town editA school house was built in Pikeview 1 mi 1 6 km north of the station by 1903 The Pikes View Coal Mine was the same distance from the station The post office was 4 mi 6 4 km south of the station 8 By 1906 the station included a depot a pond and a road intersection of the north south Monument Valley Highway now Interstate 25 with a road west 9 to Rampart Range Pikeview Coal Mine editSee also Colorado Coalfield War External images nbsp Inactive Coal Mine Data and Subsidence Information for El Paso County map nbsp Rockrimmon Pikeview map nbsp Pikeview Coal Mine nbsp Pikeview Mine buildings A shaft was sunk in late 1896 and the main coal was discovered at what would be the Pikeview Mine also called the Carlton Mine on January 1 1897 The Pikeview Mine is a slope mine which uses the room and pillar method to extract coal 10 11 a In the early 1900s there was a mass exodus of people from Southern Europe Many immigrants to the United States headed for the mining towns of Colorado like Pikeview Papeton and Franceville directly after having entered the country 5 7 Many of the mine workers were Greek and when the men went on strike in 1913 a man named Louis Tikas who worked for the United Mine Workers went to the mine to work undercover and take affidavits of workers regarding working conditions The workers may have been prompted to return to work and await a coordinated union walkout because most of the Pikeview miners returned to work after a few days at the same pay rate 13 70 72 In a letter dated August 28 1913 Tikas summarized that there were 350 Greek men working in the Southern Fields which included Pikeview Las Animas County and Huerfano County mines There had been 13 men killed on the job and many more that had been injured since January 1 1913 Affidavits taken by a Greek speaking individual was important otherwise information about the immigrants was often overlooked by government and company reports They also paid very high prices for goods from the company stores had seen the scales that weighed coal significantly under report the mined coal per coal car did not receive good medical treatment and were dissuaded from seeing attorneys while in the hospital 13 72 73 Tikas reported of the Greek mine workers of Southern Colorado They are ready at any time unless conditions improve to engage in an industrial war and to fight just as their fathers and brothers in the fatherland had fought the Turks until their freedom had been obtained so these men are ready even at the sacrifice of their lives to fight until their industrial freedom had been obtained Louis Tikas United Mine Workers 13 73 Labor conflicts like this immediately precipitated the Colorado Coalfield War a strike that began in September 1913 and ran for more than year with a significant escalation of violence in late April 1914 following the Ludlow Massacre during which Tikas and other Greek strikers were killed by Colorado National Guardsmen and local militia The Pikes Peak Consolidated Fuel Company a subsidiary of Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company was located in Pikeview in 1920 Harvey McGarry of Colorado Springs was the president and Robert O Neil of Pikeview was the superintendent 14 In 1922 Pikeview s economy was nearly entirely based upon mining 6 The mine was owned by Golden Cycle Mining when it closed operations July 1 1957 At that time there were 30 miners who lived in company housing on the site who were affected Management personnel were transferred to other Golden Cycle operations 12 Pikeview Quarry editQuarry scar edit Pikeview Quarry has operated since 1905 and Queens Canyon Quarry has been mined for limestone since 1958 The extraction of the stone by Castle Concrete created a noticeable gash or scar in the Queens Canyon Quarry north of Garden of the Gods which closed in 1990 15 Reclamation edit There is some mining that occurs at Pikeview Quarry but that effort is being moved to another side of the hill As the shift occurs the terrain will cut back the quarry into the mountain a plan devised by Greg Francis who worked for Castle Concrete for 30 years and spent 15 of those years working on reclamation of the quarried landscape He started with Pikeview Quarry about one mile north of Queen s Quarry After failed reclamation attempts he devised the plan to cut back the hill so that it can be resculpted into a terrain that will better support planted trees and landscaping Time and moisture will blend the quarry into the surrounding hillsides states Colorado Mountain Reclamation Foundation formed 1992 project manager Wanda Reaves By fall of 2003 2 000 trees had been planted An additional 800 trees were to be planted on the Pikeview Quarry in 2004 Castle Concrete intended to mine Pikeview Quarry until 2013 so the reclamation efforts were intended to continue throughout that timeframe 15 Greg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat edit On August 1 2003 the hillside was renamed Greg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat in honor of Francis who died October 2002 A statue of a bighorn sheep stands on Greg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat in recognition of the herd of 65 bighorns in 2003 and Greg Francis hundreds of volunteers and efforts by Castle Concrete to reintroduce Rocky Mountain juniper trees native grasses and small pinon to the hills 15 See also editBurgess cabin nearby on the United States Air Force Academy Cragmor Sanatorium the 19th century tuberculosis sanatorium was located within what is now the United States Geological Survey s Pikeview quadrangle 16 Nichols Field was an air strip near Pikeview Preceding station Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Following station Roswelltoward Ogden Royal Gorge Route Palmer Laketoward DenverNotes edit The Gazette said in 2015 that the Pikeview Coal Mine operated beginning in 1904 12 References edit Pikeview 193347 Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey United States Department of the Interior Retrieved 2013 10 27 38 9152705 104 8221988 annexdata xls spreadsheet SpringsGov com archived from the original on 2013 11 12 retrieved 2013 10 27 Pike View Addition 84 19 6319 19620801 Denver to Southern California Goodrich Route Book B F Goodrich Company 1915 p 307 Retrieved January 26 2015 Edmond C Cornelius van Diest Papers Ms0233 abstracts Colorado College Tutt Library archived from the original on January 11 2012 retrieved January 26 2015 lists numerous maps with Colorado Springs annexations additions a b Angela Thaden Hahn 2014 Security Widefield Images of America Charleston South Carolina Arcadia Publishing ISBN 978 1 4671 3092 9 a b Marius Robinson Campbell 1922 The Denver amp Rio Grande Western Route Pikeview Guidebook of the Western United States Part E The Denver amp Rio Grande Western Route U S Government Printing Office pp 33 34 Town incorporation city organization and reorganization City Council 1902 Retrieved 2013 11 02 The Giles City Directory of Colorado Springs and Manitou PDF almanac The Giles Directory Company May 1903 pp 33 353 archived from the original PDF on November 12 2013 retrieved January 26 2015 Tourists guide to Colorado Springs Manitou Colorado City and the Pike s Peak Region Map Geo S Clason Denver Colo 1906 Archived from the original on 2013 11 12 Retrieved 2013 11 01 Marius Robinson Campbell 1910 Colorado Springs Coal Field Colorado Development and Markets Contributions to Economic Geology 1908 Mineral fuels U S Government Printing Office p 340 Analysis of Coal and Car Samples Collected in the Fiscal Years 1911 to 1913 Washington D C US Department of the Interior printed by the Government Printing Office 1914 p 166 Retrieved January 13 2015 a b Pikeview Coal Mine Will Cease Operations July 1 PDF The Gazette June 4 1957 p 1 6 Retrieved January 25 2015 a b c Zeese Papanikolas 1991 Organizing the Southern Field Buried Unsung Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre U of Nebraska Press ISBN 0 8032 8727 5 Colorado American Mining amp Metallurgical Manual Chicago The Mining Manual Company 1920 pp 170 a b c Bill McKeown August 2 2003 Scar start to heal Damaged mountainside is well on its way to recovery thanks to hard work of dedicated leader volunteers The Gazette Colorado Springs Colorado Archived from the original on March 25 2016 Retrieved January 25 2015 Cragmor Sanatorium 193349 Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey United States Department of the Interior Retrieved 2013 10 27 Further reading editR A Philips D V Holmquist 1986 Backfilling of the Pikeview Mine Manway in J L Hynes ed Proceedings of the 1985 Conference on Coal Mine Subsidence in the Rocky Mountain Region Colorado Geological Survey Special Publication 31 pp 39 80 J P Thorson C J Carroll amp M L Morgan 2001 Geologic map of the Pikeview quadrangle Open File Report 01 03 scale 1 24 000 El Paso County Colorado Colorado Geological SurveyExternal links editGreg Francis Bighorn Sheep Habitat Queens Canyon aka the Scar Colorado Springs Trails External images nbsp Pikeview including mine buildings Pike s Peak in the background 1938 Pikes Peak Library District nbsp Pike View Coal Mine 1934 Pikes Peak Library District nbsp Pikeview Quarry scar 38 54 55 N 104 49 20 W 38 9153 N 104 8222 W 38 9153 104 8222 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pikeview Colorado 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