 Good morning YouTube mind-lovers. Tom and Julie here Good morning. She's kind of dark. Where is she? We're on the Jeep riding up a wash And we're looking for some mines. So let's keep going. Where'd the road go? Where's the road? You're not going to fit a really wide vehicle to there, are you? No, I don't know if we're going to fit into here. I think this is... Is this the road? I think we're on an ATV trail. Well, we're making progress down the rocky road. Wow, not much of a road. There's some flowers right in the middle of the road. Well, we're supposed to be near a cabin, a spring, and a mine. Well, there's the cabin. Looks like it's pretty good shape still. There's an old fence here that somebody's put up for something or other. Oh, it's the back up in here, isn't it? Yeah. Here's the cabin. It's pretty well beat up. The cows have been using it. This is kind of free-range cattle country. The cows have been using it for something hanging out, I guess. This was a little screamed-in area back here. This is behind the main, the front of the cabin. Here's a little work table back here. I don't know what they were doing, but... This looks like a little pantry area. There are a number of cans and stuff in here. The cows have been hanging out in here pooping all over. I mean in a big way. Look at that mess. Wow. Look at the old wallpaper. That's crazy. It almost matches the couch. So that's all cow crap. And then there are some cans here. This looks like it might have been the kitchen. I'm guessing a bathroom here, maybe? Or another pantry. Not much going on at the old Dunbarton cabin. Well, it's funny. These were streamed into these cabinets. Here's a... Looks like a D-LO can. That's actually pretty scenic, isn't it? It's really windy again today, so... That's the cabin rattling behind me. It's about to rattle apart. We'll look at the front of it in a second. This is the minerals we're seeing. It's actually a nice looking vein. I don't know where Julia is. Oh, she's back in the Jeep. What are you doing back in the Jeep? It's cold. It is cold. It's cold and windy. So that's the vein. Here's another little part of this mineral vein. At least we get to see some minerals today. So there's the front of the cabin. It's pretty well beat up. The wind is going to tear this thing apart in no time. That piece right above Julia's head is going to come off later today. So, pretty well beat up. Let's go find the next thing. We're going down a canyon that's supposed to have a lot of mines and a lot of stuff going on, so... This is looking out. We've got to go back to those roads you can see in the distance there. Distance. Well, we just came over a ridge and we're going down. We've been coming up this whole time and now we're going down. There are a ton of mines down this canyon. I'm not even sure we can get down the thing, but we're going to find out. Well, we have found a mine. Let's go in and the portal is open. It's right here. This is the first one we've come to down this canyon. And while the waste pile didn't look very big, you never do know what these things. It's got a reddish color to it. Oh, there was some track in here. Strap rail, 2x4 with an inch strap on top. Screw down or nail down to the 2x4. It looks like they're using a cedar post, natural timbering. Doesn't that look like cedar? Yeah, it does, doesn't it? These other pine trees are in this area. Watch your head. Here's a little timbered area. I don't see it going past what you can see here. No, that just ends. That's just a cross cut about 30 feet long. Interesting little timbered area though here. Okay, let's keep going. A couple more timber sets here. That's weird. That's what you do to make a slat rail fence. Huh, I wonder why they did that. The rail is still present. Were these gold mines up in here, Julie? It was a little bit of everything. Cinnabar too? Yeah. Because they're red a lot of times as Cinnabar or mercury. A little less stable area here it looks like. I like the timbers. Not pazzard, not pretty. No, it's not pretty but it's working. It's holding all this back. On both sides they've used some natural lagging. Yeah, does this look like it went through at one time? I see a timber back in there. There are a few of them. Well, it doesn't look like it goes through now. If it did it was either completely backfilled or collapsed. I don't know where all this stuff came from. Kind of weird isn't it? Not the most stable mine we've ever been in. This is looking up alongside the timbering. I guess it's all pretty fractured. What this is going through is this drift. There's a gate or something. Let's go straight. Oh boy, that looks like a shaft over there. Let's finish the main drift first. Look at this thing. Wow. See this stuff is all very loose. Like this big one has come down obviously since they put this little stall in here. Oh yeah. Look at that. An old wheel barrel with no wheel on it. Just the barrel. Looks like it was well used. A wheelless wheel barrel. Turn around and take a look at it. Looks like a pretty standard. Although it's not. It's a riveted pan on this thing. You don't see that anymore do you? It could even be homemade. Here's a frame for something. Track ties, looks like. Yeah, use natural timbers for track ties. We've seen that before, but not very often. Only a couple of times. There's a can. No identifying marks. What does that say? Block Brothers West Virginia Mail Pouch Tobacco. Oh, Tobacco Pouch. Mail Pouch. Look, it's got the stamps on it and everything. Oh, here's the face. I'm going to take a picture of that when I get done looking at this. So that's the end of this drift. We do have the shop to go look at though. Alright, let's backtrack and go look down that shop. I'm guessing it's not much on these little lines, but who knows. So don't leave. Here's the wheelless wheel barrel. The wheelless riveted wheel barrel. Here's a wood barrel that's down the main line and this is taking a left as we're exiting to the shaft. Now look at that stack job. Does this go anywhere over here? Hard to say. Oh boy. Huh. This looks fun. Who would have guessed it? Should we try it? You up for it? The shaft support is loose. This one's a little tighter. The rungs are on the back side of the ladder for the skip ladder. It feels pretty solid so far. It's a little awkward where this first support is. The spacing of the rungs is awkward. Oh, looks like there was a windlass here. Let's see here. Look at the timbering up here. Isn't that neat? Up to the side over here. Otherwise it just kind of ends in a pit down here. Unless there's something I can't see. Okay. Okay, that's looking back up the ladder. And you get here. The ladder stops. And then there's about another 12 feet down to the bottom there. And I can't really tell if it goes left or right. What I do see right here is a little pocket to the left that they worked. Let's go look at that first. Now that's going to be all that is. It's just a small pocket. There's some bones down there. I don't know what that is. Probably a rabbit. This is looking back at the shaft and the ladder. There's a leg bone off or something. What happened down there? The bottom 10 feet of ladder is missing. It doesn't look like it does a full lot anyway, but it's hard to see. You have to go get a rope. There's another little excavation here, but quite small. Oh, there's a tobacco can now. Yeah, nice one. At least it looks like it had met. Oh, yeah. That's a nice one. That's about the shangiest one we've seen. Still got the stamp on top too. Interesting. Okay, I'm coming back to the ladder. The can was pretty cool. I'm back down. I'm thickened up. I'm almost up. You're back. I'm back. Ouch. There was an old manila rope on here at one time. I would have liked to have gone down to the very bottom, but the ladders are gone. It's not good. So there's a Prince Albert can. I straightened it out a bit. It doesn't have the stamp on the bottom. Some of the older ones had the bottom of the cannon boss. There's a stamp on the top of it. And the side. Sometimes they have a date on them, although I don't know. I'd have to put my glasses on to see if you can read that one. Well, it looks like this is a shaft. I feel air moving through here. I climbed up this little chute, and I can see up there a way that this goes. There's a prospect up above us. There's a tobacco can. So look at all the mess of natural timbers up in here. Anyway, I can't get up in here safely, so I'm coming back down. Okay, we're heading back out. It was kind of fun. There's an old bottle of some sort. Here's a last look at some of these timbers. Interesting little mine. There's an unnamed prospect up above us that maybe that shaft I was just up in leads to. Because there was a lot of air blowing through there somewhere. Going somewhere. So maybe we'll go look at that. Last look at these cool timbers. And we're back to the track. So that was kind of fun, wasn't it? It was. So I know it was a small mine, you guys, but we appreciate you watching. They can all be huge, multi-level monsters. So we appreciate you watching and hope you enjoyed it. And we'll see you next time. See you next time.