 Good morning YouTube mind-lovers, Tom and Julie here, yeah she's here, we're out roaming around the hills of Arizona, Western Arizona. We ditched the deep and we're heading up the canyon here going over to a butte about a mile over that supposedly has a few mines on it. Let's go see what we find over there, follow the burrow trails, what beautifully rugged country we're in with the cacti and the rock structures. We're going up a wash here, retracing the steps of the old miners, still making our way up this little canyon here, we've left the main wash that we ran and taken a side wash going up now. Look at the beautiful Akatios here in the morning sunlight, they're flowering and everything, this is kind of behind us, wow, unreal. We've been hiking around here, we came upon an old either mining camp or a junk pile of some sort, there's all kinds of carbide cans here and other cans and barrels and buckets and smaller cans, it looks like a short water tank of some sort, a pan, all kinds of stuff around here, corrugated steel, more carbide cans, obviously something to do with mining, looks like there might have been a structure over here of some sort, I don't know if that was a platform for a house, wow look at the junk, holy buckets, no pun intended, aluminum can, bedspring, horse, looks like a bomb on off around here, so this is pretty neat, it's a, I don't know I thought at first it was a Copenhagen but it says United States Tobacco Company which I don't know if that turned into Copenhagen or if it's just a separate entity, but I have never seen one of those before, there's a jar, what do you think it is, it's shaped like a mustard jar, yeah it's funny how jars have certain shapes on them, oh yeah it's got a little scalloping or something whatever you want to call it, neat, well we're mining, we're not mining or we're mining artifacts, there's a bottle over there too, yeah, or a jar of some sort, I don't know what that is, I think that's vinegar when they have that top that's kind of scalloped like that, there's an old five gallon can with a handle on it, there's a little jar with something white in there, probably won't be able to get it open, what kind of cans here, get something on it, oh wow, Maxwell House coffee, 100% pure, something good to the last drop, is that their slogan, that is cool isn't it, yeah neat, there's some more tops over there what's that one, see there's like three more over there, see up there, this one, yeah that's it, nothing, there's another one to your left there, to your straight ahead, straight ahead, is that the same thing, cool, here's this one, ton of cans here too, a lot of, look like beer cans, some are newer with the aluminum tops, some are older, oh wow look at this, that's Miller, oh it's look at that Miller, how life opened with the church key, wow that's an oldie, not super old but you know, full steel Miller that's probably from the 50s I'm guessing, nice, a piece of pipe that somebody looks like they made a like a flange mount type of thing out of it that's all bent up, no but it probably mounted on the, you know what I mean, that's a junk, there's a whole pile of crap over here, let's go down there and look around, another bedspring, one of the relics that never gets taken from a mine site is the bedspring, the bedspring and then inside the mine is the squeeze swab bucket and the muck sheets, the last surviving relics that don't get stolen, all kinds of stuff laying around here, the carbide cans there, looks like anyway, a lot of corrugate steel, I'm gonna watch out for rattlesnakes now, it's that time of year where they start coming out, it's gonna be about 95 degrees today, so yeah here's another bottle, kind of looks a little more modern, 51, you think it's from 1951, here's a funnel type of steel chute there and a whole bunch of round light duty steel pipe, another bedspring, really old garbage can with the heavy duty rim on it and the heavy duty handle, here's a whole bunch of bricks, it looks like maybe they were from a little kiln or a smelter or something, who knows, there's nothing evident around, some more stuff over here, Julie said she's on to something neat over here, let's go look, what did you find, breakfast cocoa, wow, Walter Baker and Company, half-pound net breakfast cocoa, is that a woman, looks like a woman, I'm convinced that miners really like their chocolate, because we found more chocolatey stuff, that's really cool, the rest of the can was there, looks like a small waste track pile ahead of me there and further up the mute, I see another pile and possibly an opening up higher in the side of the mountain, we'll have to get a little closer and see, here's what's left of something over here, I don't know, I haven't looked at it yet, here's this thing from the other side, I don't know what that little deal was, if it was a little orb in or something, here was a big water tank it looked like it has a hose coming out of it, or a pipe coming out of it, here's the waste pile, not huge, a lot of the mines in this area are relatively small, smaller prospects, this one looked like it had strap rail on it, because they're in it, because there's a piece of the strapping right there and here's the end of the waste track pile, and there's around something down there, okay let's go in the mine, there's a huge portal here, it looks like it's through some type of conglomerate material, there's a pipe or something coming out there, burrows have been in here, we see burrow tracks in mines quite a bit and it's kind of scary, look at the burrow tracks right here, you really wouldn't want to meet up with a burrow in one of these things, or worse yet three or four of them, because they kind of like to hang together, and we've seen burrow tracks as far as, I think the furthest we saw them back in the mine was like 700 feet, so obviously it's pitch black at that point, here for the ventilation, here the burrows are loving it in here, there's a working up above us too, I'm not sure what it was, but it's possible this could hook into it, see look at the burrow crap back here, look this is all burrow tracks here, I wonder if they're coming in here to drink the water, it could be, I can't see yet, yeah it goes a little further, you can tell we're not wet mine scores, okay there's Julie back there on the other side of the puddle, there's a tremendous amount of air blowing through here, so this connects up with something, like I said earlier there's a shaft, or another working up above us, there's another puddle here, and what we're thinking is, is that we can access this without having to go through this little puddle, I know you wet mine explorers are chucking on us, but we're out in the desert and we got long ways to hike here today, so I don't want to have my feet soaked, but this definitely keeps going and it definitely hooks up with something else because there's about a 12 mile an hour breeze coming through here, so we're gonna back out and climb up the hill a little bit and see what we see, that's the attic we just came out of, and with all that air going through there it has to connect up to this thing up here, whatever this is where this other waste pile is, we'll find out shortly, I'm standing on top of this upper waste pile, the bigger portion of it is ahead of me there about 30 feet, and it looks like somebody's been reworking this pile, there are a lot of finds right here, and here's the opening back here, the portal's open looks like, a lot of these mines are still under claim in this general area, so you don't want to be taking any minerals out of here, you can be claim jumping, okay here we go, more burrow stuff sign in here, and then there's a rat's nest here where they hauled in the choyabets to guard their nests, and I'll tell you what man they are good at guarding their nests with those things, so it looks like there's an open stope here and a bridge, which looks a little sketchy, wow that goes down a long ways, watch where you're walking now, no it doesn't look that great at all, so this is looking up into through the open stope, there are a few stalls here, a very steep vein obviously, it looks like there's probably a chute right there at the end of that, this is all supported by stalls, but they're pretty old, and this is looking down here, there was a ladder there a little bit in the middle at one time, it goes down a good long ways, this thing's not overly sturdy, I bet we can make it though, wanna try, here's the old ladder system, I'm not taking that, oh it hit water, did you hear that, are you recording, yeah, why you don't want to fall down there did you, oh my gosh, yeah it's not the best, so once I get past that terrible bridge there's a huge wall on my left, probably 15 feet tall, not the tallest up here, there's obviously a fissure where the minerals pushed up, and this to me looks like wine cat poop, it's got that look to it, there's part of a dynamite box that I'm sanding on it, and don't go up any higher, it gets a little more solid when you come this way, just try to stay on the on the stulls there, the braces, right here, I'm on it, looks like she's gonna make it, yeah don't step to your left now, there you go, you're good, nothing to it, that was scary, I'm not gonna lie that was scary, that is a little scary and then, there's a huge wall, all right let's keep exploring this old mine now that Julie's safely across the bridge, this looks like it's backfilled a little bit done, there's really nowhere for this to come from, and it looks like it's been blasted, well there's a Copenhagen tin in it, this is, I don't know, oh yeah, is it Copenhagen, I think so, this is sand, you can usually date them, is that the rest of it right there, yeah it looks like it, now they're snuff tin, they're all over the place there, yeah at the same time, and most of a dynamite box sitting here, except for it's all in about a thousand pieces, or a muck sheet already, you know what that means, we're getting near the end already, I think most of the working was down there in that huge downward stove, there's a big pile of wire, oh it's getting warm back here now, oh so this is a quartz vein, is that it, oh it looks like it goes a little ways, just a little cubby to the left, never get tired of looking at mineral veins, probably should have been a geologist, all the box parts, don't see any writing on them, there's some fairly modern yellow paint, it's got some crazy quartz patterns, here's some yellow, that's usually sulfur in it, smells a little like sulfur, I know the mine we were in not too long ago was a sulfur mine among other things that were they were mining like phosphorus, gold and silver and iron, a lot of wood parts here from boxes, let's see if any of them happen to see anything, I don't think they're dynamite boxes, there's something else, there was track in here, there's a tie with a spike still in it, looks like Julie put the brakes on, you know what that means, you know what that means, that means we're at the face, there it is, with a yellow 741 on it, yeah this is a little scary right here, I have to say these ladders don't look very good, I missed the blank, it's a little sketchy, take your time, hang on to the wall a little bit now, good job, so yeah this is what we're climbing over about, oh man I don't know, that's gotta be 100 feet down to the lowest point, yeah there's water down there too, that's a steep vein in it, probably about, oh I don't know, eight feet wide in some places, that goes right on up, look at the hole in the rock here, they had a couple of them, something was entered in there, and then right by this is one of those either a cigarette case for your rolled cigarettes or a tobacco tin, one or the other, it's a hinging one that hinges open, it's a little rusty, so there's a tobacco tin, I don't know what kind it is, old one, that's like a little one of those square boxes, you got crackers or who knows, then there's a wooden barrel hoop, chuck those down there, there's this thing, I don't know what this is, it's kind of heavy duty, you can see how old it is, how pitted and rusted it is, and it's uh yeah I don't know what it is, maybe it's part of a wheel off of a um or car, wow look at how much higher up the top of the beauties, I thought maybe we could climb it, but I don't know, and we're out of cliff right here too, that's looking off the other way, he's kicking back down here, here's an old top off a fuel can, looks like they cut the sides off to repurpose for something else, a lot of times they'd use them for roofing for like shingles, because this one has obviously been cut, but I like these little vent slash spouts, I think you turned that top knob to vent it, and then the spout was how you directed the gasoline or whatever you were pouring, and underneath you can see how it could have been a vent, so pretty cool, I've always liked these things, I like seeing them, a little beaver tail cactus is going to have several flowers on it in a few days, I will caught my eye over here with this piece of full-sized rail, I think it is, but it's got all these holes on the top of it, what would that be for, I haven't ever seen the likes, what do you know what that could be for, yeah weird, it's got some notches like it was mounting to something here and there, see that right here, so this is about a six foot long section of full-sized rail for you know a full sized train, it's got those weird drill holes in the top of it for some reason, on the side of it it reads Colorado section 753, and then it has the V111, I don't know if it's Roman numerals, but then there's a date 1915 down there, it's pretty neat, yeah, I wonder how the heck they got that way up here in the middle of nowhere, here's a hedgehog that just popped its flower last night, you can tell how fresh it is, and it's got four more big flower buds there coming probably the next day or so, we made it back to the Jeep, so that's going to end our exploration for today, we thank you for watching the video and we'll see you on our next adventure, see you next time, thanks for watching