 Good morning Julie. Good morning mind-lovers. Tom and Julie here. We're gearing up today with all of our ropes. We're going down a vertical shaft, actually an incline shaft, but fairly steep one. We have about five hundred and some feet of rope. We're going down that little hole right there. Hopefully we'll find some cool stuff today. I have a good feeling that this will be a fun mine to explore. So let's get on with it and we will let you know what we find. It's a tight fit, but I think you got it. You just don't know what you're dropping them to. I know it. Okay I am on the ladder. We have a partial shaft plug just below me about 20 feet. I'm on the rope. Rope is here. So that's good. I think we can just sneak past that plug. I've already been down to it and cleared a few of the loose rocks so they don't fall on us, which is probably the major concern for today is loose debris falling on us, which is never good. That's why we're on a rope. You wouldn't have to be on a rope on this ladder, but if something fell and hit you in the head and knocked you out, it would send you to the bottom if you weren't roped in. Okay this is looking up at Julie. I'm just below this plug, which is right here. This is what I was talking about. A lot of loose debris could fall on you. I've cleared most of the stuff that I could. So she's gonna come down now and I'm gonna get out of her way. Come on. That's looking back up the ladder. As you can see a little bit of daylight up there I think. A lot of loose debris. I spent a lot of time clearing rocks. There are still a lot there, but you don't need to get so many. We're at a level. It looks like this has been burned for some reason. You can see down the shaft too. The lining has been all charred. Some sort of fire has occurred here. I'm not sure what caused it. This level goes a little bit that way. I see a barrel and a large... it looks like it was the bridge that went across this spot here so you could run a car across it. That looks like a bridge behind me. We'll go see what's on this level. Right up the bat I see a carbide can. Pretty good sized one. Miner's lamp. Union carbide. You tip it back a little bit. Union carbide for Miner's lamps. Pretty neat. Okay let's move down the track here a little bit. So this is going to be a fairly short level. Maybe they did not find what they were looking for because there's the face. We can try to go across this the shaft and see if the other side does anything. Thompson, check out the other side here. This is a bridge which that gap that you're standing by. Oh, they put it over there for some reason. Bridge and a barrel. I don't know if all just can. Okay that's back at the shaft. This level goes a little bit this way. That was just some kind of liquid. A little water tank probably. And this is just another very short level. A couple of cans down here. Looks like peaches and beefy o's. Alright back on the rope further down the shaft we go. Okay let's go down further. We are at the end of our original rope. And I've tied a new rope onto a cross beam here in the shaft. We backed it up to the old rope just in case this something let's loose. We're still tied up to the top. We're at a plug sort of but we're able to get through this I think without too much trouble. It will be on down to the next level. Looks like there's a cable guide roller right in front of me here. Julie switched over to our new rope and she's coming down through this little plug area. And then I'm gonna go down below. There's a I see there's a level just below me not too far so I'm gonna go down so I don't get busted in the teeth with some if it drops from her. Okay we are on the 200 level. We're on the west side which is the 200 W I'm assuming. There is a signal switch here that would have signaled the hoist operator up top to raise the skip car up the tracks that way. Let's go explore this level. Oh yeah. A few misleading cans. I'm guessing Julie might have taken some pictures. A couple of boxes of parts elbows and nails. Here's another. Oh that's wood. I think this was last work in the 1940s but there is some plastic lining here. I don't know what year they started using that. Here's a grease swab. And this looks like it was an ore drop because the tracks do go out here. Very big stope down below here. Or an ore drop like I said. Part of a dynamite box. What's it say? High explosive is dangerous. A couple pressure tanks or no barrel in a pressure tank. It doesn't see anything on the top. This looks like a mount for maybe a slusher winch or something of this sort where they could have mounted it on there and then slid it around possibly even down the tracks if it could have had a set of axles and wheels on there as a little equipment cart to roll stuff around on. Okay let's keep going down the tracks. It's sooty in here isn't it? Okay there is a nice little orange ore car looks like it was just painted last week. Still have the wheels on it. Not much inside of that. Here's the dump handle. The tip up. Yep it does. Yeah how nice that works. Boy that could still be put to work. Nice. And that is nice. Look at how nice the tailgate works. And then when you re-hook the tailgate that hook will activate. Look at how nice that works. Perfect. Moving past the ore car there's a large valve on a waterline I'm assuming. Yes it does. That's a big one. Pretty cool mine so far. I'm glad I found it. I'm obviously not the first one to be in here. For a while now there's looks like there's a big piece of ventilation line and some other stuff in here. It looks like another carbide can doesn't it? Same thing. Miners lamp. Another nice union carbide can. We're just in that little alcove. Now we're come up to a big stope. A big ladder going up and a piece of ventilation pipe going up there. Big stope. And a bridge going across this area. A big stope up here too. A lot of large stalls. That's cool. And it goes down to quite a ways. I want to rope into a stope. We'll rope a stope. I wonder if there's a level down there. I don't seem to track. There probably is no so they can service this stope. So this ladder looks like it goes up to a plank which in turn probably works its way up to this other bigger platform where they were working in the stope. That would be tough work wouldn't it? Working your stoper drill at a crazy angle because this is a steep angle on this stope. Okay let's cross this bridge. Once again we find ourselves on a bridge but this one doesn't look too scary. Pretty big stope though isn't it? Another valve. Man that's almost straight up and down isn't it? That's looking behind us on the bridge we just crossed. This is like a sleeping giant in here. It's so quiet and it's so big. All right we're going this way. Looks like another bridge. A short cross cut here. Not very long. Okay? It'd be pretty hard to fall through this one. Okay here's some graffiti. Looks like it's done in Miner's head lamp. Mike. Something. Here's a guy's likeness. I'm not sure what he's doing. It says two something. Oh a wheelbarrow. Yes there is a wheelbarrow. Does that a wheel? No. Here's this wheelbarrow. Wheel list wheelbarrow. Looks like some loads of backfill. They didn't feel like hauling off. I must get some moisture on it. That's the strange that can do. Yeah I see it gets moisture in here. Look at the mud cakes over here. Well it's rust too on the rail. Yeah the rails are kind of rusty. How pretty deep. Was it? Yes it does. Okay crossing over that bridge. Coming up to another chute. 314 up whatever that means. Just a small little alcove here. Yeah that's a big chunk of ground right there. That's slabbed off of somewhere. Obviously. Here's J.H. Jost from 41121. Here's some more graffiti. Somebody has crossed out Mike again or whatever that was. They crossed him out before. 11, 12, 38. Another one from 38. Cosby and in something big prick. Apparently he wasn't too popular. Looks like we're coming to the end of this drift. That's a pin to couple your ore cars together. This is the end of the drift right here. Alright we are going to head back to the shaft and go to the other side and see what that part of the level looks like. This one has been pretty cool so far I think. Here we are back to the ore car. Beautiful little car man that is in perfect shape too. Works just as smooth as can be. Can we roll it at all? You want to roll it a little bit? No I want to go the other way. Don't put it down the shaft though. Alright we better put that back where it was. There you go. Alright let's head back to the shaft and we'll go on the other side of this level. Okay here we have some artifacts laying around. There's a Prince Albert can that jumps out at you right away. Good color on it. Very nice. Yeah that's a nice one. There's a pie package. Bradley pie's cherry. Up here is a tobacco pouch and some cigarette papers to go with it. A Sunnybrook bottle that's broken. A newspaper from October 27th 1920. There's more of it up there. What's that little orange tag see? Bolder tobacco. Oh that's it that's the tobacco stamp. She just like that was probably on that purple. Oh yeah wheat straw paper. Rolling papers. Wrigley's gum. I wonder if that's an old one. I don't know it kind of looks like it doesn't it though. Yeah it does. Doesn't look like a new one. Sunshine Buster chocolates. 15 cents for 10 cakes. Wow. That's pretty good. Yeah you were in Ross Company in San Francisco. R-A-A-S. Oh. The largest millinery house in the West. Wow. Market Street in San Francisco. Cool. Here's some more graffiti from 1921 and 28 and 35 22. I don't know what people did in the old days but the print on these newspapers is so small I can't even tell if it's upside down or right side out. Here's what looks like a little oil pan. Big heavy piece of hemp rope and a heavy-duty bucket with handles. Looks like the top might be in here. That's pretty nice. Follow the tracks. There's another carbide can. Enough. Right? Copenhagen. So it says something right here. Bruton, Colorado. Something. I can't read the top. There's a huge chute and a ladder. I wonder where that goes. Well maybe on the way back I can take a little stroll up the ladder. Look up into the stove. There's back looking at that ladder. There's another chute here with a big collector above it. Let's continue down the line here. Another chute. They put these chutes so close together because this vein is so steep the ore won't move sideways. It only only wants to go down and instead of fighting it moving it sideways they just build another chute. Look at the thick mud cakes here. Well that's really been wet hasn't it? There's another ladder and another chute. That'd make for an exciting way to get to work. Right over dynamite box in the chute gate. Here's a little gobbling wall. A pile. Small gobbling. Usually you see bigger rocks than that. Nitsy. Another chute, another ladder. Just access this small stove. Well that is a small stove isn't it? That's just one little area. It doesn't go left or right. This was a gold mine from I believe 1907. Around that era Charles Schwab was one of the investors after he moved out of Rhyolite. Looks like this one's coming to an end. This is slabbed off hasn't it? That would be a towbreaker. Yeah it's really peeling off there and then there's the face over there. It's a very dusty mine so you're not seeing a lot of fresh looks at the minerals except where it's slabbed off here. All right back to I think we skipped one didn't we? Okay we're back to this area almost to the shaft for all these cans and stuff. I really like that this one here. Yeah I know that's a big rope. Another valve laying there. Brass valve. I like that can. Yeah let's go this way and see what happens. Looks like a classifier here right away. Here's another Prince Albert can. Well there's the top to this one over here. There's your top Mr. Albert. Looks like a classifier. No way to get by it but walk on it. It takes a hard left. Here's a stick of dynamite. They're part of one. It's got a ribbon around it. Not enough to blow much though. Just a couple fingers. Boy, tight curve here. Oh it's up to an ore dump. That goes straight down there. Where does that come from over there? I don't think we've been over there have we? Because there's a big tank over there. Well I'm not going to cross that thing. You? No. No me either. I've got my limits and that's that's one of them right there. I'm not crossing that baby. On to the next level. Alright gang here we go. Wish us luck. There's something dead right there. On to the 300. Okay. Alright here comes Julie. We're staying kind of close together on the rope because if something does fall it doesn't have too much time to accelerate because there's a lot of loose debris in this mine. Alright we are at a level number three. Watch that piece of ladder there Julie. Your next step is going to be on a poorly fastened ladder. You can use it a little bit just make sure you're not working. I would hang on to the rungs. Yeah that's a bad ladder. Hang on to the rungs please. Yeah you don't want to fall down this one. This is looking down the shaft. It gets a little steeper and yeah everything's still going though the ladders are still going and the skip track is still going. So we'll try and see if we can get down there later after we check out this level. Looking back up. Long ways up there.