 Good morning my next spores Tom and Julie here You ought to be able to recognize where we are today by looking at this view even though it's a little hazy Yep that valley And behind Julie is telescope peak Give you an idea where we are That's looking over the bad water basin. I guess it is Little hazy today because it's been really windy the last couple days And there's still dust in the air although the wind has gone down now So We're headed up this canyon right here looking for some mines. Let's go see what we find Ready? Fill it up with premium, please Check to check the oil in the tires No, that's that's the old days. Well, here's something you don't see every day on a waste pile Gas pump Here's the huge waste pile No, the yellow gas pump Okay, it looks like a talk when there's a little benched right in the beginning here. There's a huge waterline coming out of here Lot of breeze going through some heavy-duty lagging on the entrance here Come into a little Bit of a timbered area Tracks curving left Talk minds always look pretty neat to me This will start with the Tracks and timbering against that pure white background Another area of timbering. I've got the back pretty well braced up here. Here's an old power line that's down You can see some more of them up the hill there. There's a nice trestle and a Round ore bend with a chute on it. I Always like to call those hoppers I always think of them as like grain hoppers and Stuff like that the farmers use Not your traditional wood ore bin Little dicey out here. It feels sturdy. Although we're missing some planks. It's looking down into that big offer Things big it's probably 12 feet across anyway. Oh, Mr. Burrow. Are you a relative of the burrows that pull the ore trains Out of the mines Not much to say, huh? There's water running down the road. We must be near spring Little water out in the desert and you can see what happens. Everything greens up Easy there killer Wow, is it hot in here? This must have water in it It's another one of these things Okay, we're going with the right hand rule here This looks like a big drive-in style mine Big huge talc mine vein looks like it's on about a 45 a couple big stalls here Bacon strips everywhere going down at a pretty good rate That's all backfill too. Here's some huge Flexible vent lines all rolled up. He said what it appears to be Boy they had Bacon strip salesman busy Delivering his goods here We generally don't go in these kind of mines What we happen to be driving by so we thought we'd check it out. There's a big table on a chair Here's their fuse table You can see that it's got the increments marked off To measure their length to their fuse Look at the tracks up here. It's like a mine catch been up there. See the tracks Yep So that's their table Yeah, and this is a little backfill and a big Vault cut of some sort. I know where the cat lives Now in there, it's probably a little outhouse or something In the in-house water. Oh, as I said, we could go swimming Come on, you can do it Yep, it's water That's interesting And this looks dangerous That's done it. You stay here. This looks very unstable doesn't it? That's done very unstable, obviously Unless there's something to the left. Yeah, I don't like to breathe on this stuff. I'm not going any further Okay, we're getting out of here Very unstable mine The more bacon strips This looks like it might have gone somewhere at one time. There are pipes going down there, but It's jacked up now. This was probably shaft of some sort at one time There's rail coming out of there and everything. I wish we could find the older parts of this mine I can't quite read what it is, but it's some kind of a booster See they've They've dumped all this in to seal this portal But somebody's taking a little time and dug around the corner of it there. This was a mine camp Oh, there was a pool and a diving board. You don't see that every day out here No, it's a big camp Very big camp. This must have been a refrigerator. Oh, yeah, there's a refrigeration unit up there This is a big walk-in refrigerator Yeah, there's a water heater shelving Big place in it. Let's go look at the other one over here Here's the spring A little bridge there and everything That spring really is flowing pretty good, isn't it? I wonder where the source is Oh, it's warm Yeah, that's why this whole camp is here because of that spring add water to add water to the desert and Boom you got her mate. It looks like it was a living quarters Another one I should say You must have had animals around here too because those Tens are those corrals are down there. Wow Who asked the fireplace that real rock real deal Nice big heart on that too big curved. That's really nice fireplace All these rooms had heated them and everything So that's the story Look at the size of those salt-seeders. Wow They are some wild trees This one kind of came crashing down into the pool. Look at the pool diving board and everything It's pretty deep too Derei looks like an old hit-and-miss engine over there doesn't it? So that's pretty nice It looks like what we have here is about a 10 to 15 horsepower diesel engine Julie standing by an Erastra Over here is a jaw crusher Over here is a ball mill I know I wrapped up into one here and then you can see the shaft above the ball mill there that was used to power everything the belts would come off of that and They would all come off the the engine over here and They would come to these shafts and there'd be a big wide belt on this that would Turn it looks like it would turn 90 degrees and power the Erastra. You can see the drag stones down here. They're all still here, which is nice It's a little windy today, so the the connections from the arms to the drag stones have been Taken apart for some reason so they're not here, but this is quite a quite a sight to see all this You don't see all this at all at once very often So let's go look a little closer at each one of these. This is the Erastra I'll be about a 10 foot diameter. It looks like a little water pump down there Here's the ball mill The ball's left. It looks like a water pump Everything they must have belts going every which direction on this deal because they're There are shafts all over the place And this was a little something else came out here This bit this little chute fed something. Oh, I guess that would be the output of the ball mill Maybe Something has toppled over here, too. There is a tram behind us. You can see going up the hill It's hard for this hard for you to see but see the waste pile up the hill. There's a tram tower there Right there and there's one below it too, and I don't know what these items were these were like Boxes wood boxes for something. These are rusted out barrel Oh Here we are at the bottom of this tram It looks like there's a tram from this lower Area that was been worked to the upper area then the cable is still there So let's go see what else you find That's looking back down the road. I'm standing on top of the waste track pile It's quite windy. You might get some wind noise Here's the pile. Here's the tram upper part of the tram up there Here's a portal. Let's go see if it's open. Here comes Julie crawling in the portal the thing she goes through All right, she's in I gotta give up a little bit Let's go see what we find in this old mine. It looks a little newer judging from the two by four Hangers for the vent and pipes and stuff sudden change in temperature Here's a swap bucket Of all the artifacts that nobody takes the swap bucket is number one Right up there with bed springs Nobody wants to take the swap bucket home and put it in their personal museum Mine junk looks like some mic guy here A couple of timbers here the face of this one at least everything turned We can take a left here. I'm pretty happy do any timbering at this intersection here Yeah, it's kind of a pink rock Here's a piece of rail It's curved. They they generally leave the curved sections when they pull the rail out because I Supposed they're harder to reuse because every curve is like a custom it looks like a Quartz vein with iron and Whatever else is in there. I'm not a geologist. You guys know that But there are enough of you out there that will tell me what it is So we came from that way We're taking the right hand curve kind of an interesting vein and it's a warm one in When we are in Death Valley Every time we visit Death Valley, we hope it's not gonna live up to its name. I know that's an old Little side cut there Kind of winds all over it on this There's a bunch of track that didn't get taken. Looks like it's all got some curve to it. There's some purple Minerals can have something Looks like he's had oil or something in it Wonder why these boards were here The guy who did the track bending wasn't the smoothest I've ever seen Little jerky Hello, it's probably not the easiest job in the world bending that track even the lighter stuff like this is pretty sturdy Getting attacked by wires. Oh, here's the muck sheets. That means we're getting close to the end Too big muck sheets Burlap sack You know what that means That's the other thing that nobody takes out of the mine as far as artifacts is the muck sheets Wouldn't you like to have a nice muck sheet in your garage? That's the end in purple Mineral there whatever that is Apparently not what they want because when they hit that they stop All right, let's go back and see if we can get to that upper top of this tram Probably more of the same but who knows might be What do we miss a turn here? Okay, we'll go back there We are back to this spot that had the big Timbering there. This is something teal I can't read it. My are you feeding So this is where we have an option to go, right? I think it's gonna go very far Maybe As you said, I didn't see any track tie marks. I don't have my UV lighter. I would see if that stuff for us is A Purple stuff or any of it One big stove out here in the face of this drift So that's it Back outside we go and up top to the upper Working which looked to be just as big maybe a little bigger That can is from richfield Oil company oils and gases it says We're getting there. I'm just about underneath the tram wire. It's the top of the tram There's the bottom of the tram There's another portal down below us about halfway between the upper and lower tram terminals And I wouldn't be surprised if this thing Runs into that somehow Tracks curve right on in there Let's see what we find in this one Track is still in here Is there a wedge that they were using to hang vent and pipe from? This takes a couple minutes for your eyes to adjust when you come in Dark mine after being in the bright. Well, it is between the bright outdoors You see this I can't see anything. Is that a tag up there? Okay, here's an intersection. No, not really. It's the right turn I wouldn't be surprised if there's a shaft going down to that lower part This is backfield. I thought this is gonna be bigger. See how that drift Well, that wasn't very big wasn't But we got her exercise This pastel purple is pretty neat. I believe it's a replacement deposit in limestone polymetallic In nature. This should be called the purple mine That was the Vikings. Oh interesting vein anyway. Now we're getting into the quartz here Well, we have one more little spot. We can check out down below And then we're back To their ants for the day. Okay, let's see what we have in here. The track is still here Water pipe is still here Quartz vein is right dead smack in the middle of the back of the mine Pretty nice looking vein What's left of it? But they didn't take That's straight up. I like these little mines oh, yeah, two four six eight nine on the right four on the left Kind of left wasn't working very hard It's a straight up again and some More timbering and a couple of legging boards and on their spot. They took straight up a lot of colors in there really That purple is the most prevalent of all of the colors in this particular area that we've been exploring And this is the face Kind of a room back at the end of this drift some mica all right well, that's gonna conclude our video for today So from Julia myself We appreciate you guys watching. We hope you enjoyed it and we'll see you next time