 Here's the Joshua Hindi ironworks from San Francisco looks like a little winch That was used to lift We're out of a mine. Okay, Julie. Let's see your horsepower pretty smooth No, the old drum still spins on it. Yeah That's pretty cool Three kilns they would use to melt gold and Silver Dorae And to purify them Good morning YouTube mine exploring enthusiasts Tom and Julie here We are out in the hills of California. We're looking at a shaft here It's got a ladder, but it's about a 10 foot drop to get down to where the ladder starts So we're roped in We're tied to a tree over here And we're gonna go down and see what you find. So let's go Okay, Tom's gonna make the initial descent Okay, I see Julie making her way down up there the ladder ends here, but there's enough footholds to Walk down after that to get down into the drip time in Okay, here she comes. Okay stop climb down on your left. Yep There she is All that climbing gear for not much use Okay, there's a shaft over that way Okay, and then behind me this way is a drift you want to come this way first the right hand There's some kind of a blower down here. It looks like so we've come to some natural timbering here. I'm milled At least the posts aren't you want to take the right? Okay, looks like there was some electricity in here one time Looks like this is the vein they're following. Oh, I see daylight Okay, we're heading back to the main drift Okay, we're back to the main drift And we're gonna take it right And see where that goes There's a muck sheet There is Plumbing on the ground Here's the face Okay, we're gonna backtrack a little bit And look at the rest of this mine and other parts of it Looks like this area. They were pretty let's take some samples from here Julie Looks like they were pretty excited about this particular area Okay, we're back to the ladders Okay Nothing on it Moving past the ladders and we came down. There is another little lower thing here. You see this It might be interesting Yeah, there was some way on here Little skinny old rail. This is where the vertical shaft comes in This is looking up the vertical shaft. It's not terribly deep So here's an old chute And then this is the vertical shaft And I don't know if it was ever deeper than this where I am right now. It's Plugged right now So I don't know There's a big roller Where would that have been for it? Okay, let's go past the shaft Very small drift Very small What do you see? There was that lower drift. So maybe that's what we're walking over now doesn't look like a very big vein to me up here Up there following. There's something else that goes down. It looks like it did anytime What do you see? Yeah, that's probably part of that little lower drift And this is gonna be the end of it, isn't it? But very far though I can see the end of it right there But about another 20 feet and it goes up here too. We're going back through this door It was just beyond the shaft It says May there. I don't think it says what year does it? Here we are back to the shaft Okay, we're back to this little ladder that goes down a little bit Doesn't look like it goes terribly far down. Although there are a couple flights to it If I'm going down I'm gonna have to take everything off All right, Tom's gonna go down the slower level check it out He'll report back in a minute Okay, Julie's down here. So this shaft continues down over this way We had to put our mask on it's too dusty down here Okay, we found another part of the shaft Tom's gonna see if we can get down there a little bit Reach your arm around underneath the inside keep your hands free put your lights away. Whatever you're doing Reach around with your hand on underneath just like you were below further Yep, yeah, that's good to stand on I wouldn't die about it like that. Well, you just gently get on The ship continues down quite a ways Not there. Yeah Oh, yeah, so we're in a little drift here some old Timbering overhead parts of a dynamite box What did you say? Look like that's about it, huh? So I just came from down there and it goes a little ways This way, so let's go over here very narrow Shoot a little ladder. I can't really see but it looks like another ladder down there. That must be the upper level That we crossed over earlier and there's some timbering coming down to this level The shaft goes lower By quite a bit. I don't know how easy it's gonna be to get down there. There are ladders Seem to be an okay shape. Okay. We're gonna go a little further down the shaft Vertical. All right. Here we go. It comes you leave vertical ladder I don't know if there's tape thing behind me of the cable. I want I wasn't using it. I want to get out of your way This drift only goes a few feet this way Kind of a pit here There's part of an Atlas box So here's this strong box Like a day box for dynamite This box has big leather or Like a fire hole his hands or some sort and it's pretty heavily duty constructed Nothing in it. It's a piece of paper. Yeah piece of dynamite paper Anything else underneath that? Okay, not much in the box some dynamite paper The shaft keeps going down quite a ways actually I think we can cross over here at least I can and explore this drift Julie crossing the plank let your head Okay, you said what do we have can we cross out? Okay, I just truly I'm gonna head again watch out that timbers loose there This one comes up to that little ladder that you could see from up above It just looks like it goes down into a pit You know me this just goes down Kind of a pit And this keeps going forward it gets very skinny and I can see the face of it up there Here's the vein they're working on Kind of a quartzy rusty looking thing in it Okay Yes Okay Okay Yeah, hang on to something because that's not very sturdy. So close this way a little ways. What do you see? Oh cool little blue one, huh? I remember seeing blue ones before Edgeworth extra high-grade, huh ready rubbed smoking There's a nice scaling bar About a four-footer Beautiful private good old American steel. Yeah, nice stuff. Yeah So I don't think it's a very long graph But we'll see what we can find here Yeah, I did table the rock shouldn't be on it Let's take the rock off and there's a shoot here, too Yeah Bagging nails bag of 16 penny nails. That's about it So this is back to the shaft and looking past it it looks like there's a cave there But it you might be able to squeeze through that corner But also I can't really get across there real easily and this shaft still goes on quite a ways There's no shoot there with the retractable shoot mouth You pull that wire to let it up and down so you pull it up to let the Shaft bucket or whatever go past you and then you lower it to fill All right, there are more ladders here. I don't know if they go past this one I can't see underneath me, but let's take this one and see what happens Okay, down we go Yeah, they are aren't they they're not as nice now. Okay, where are you Julie? Okay, shine your light off to the side there you go Okay, that's looking up where I came from You can see the old platforms in the ladder coming down the vertical shaft. I Might sound a little muffled. I got a mask and it's really dusty down here There's no metal chicken ladder With the hooks on top of a hook ladder. I guess it is And that goes down here To another little ladder This is the bottom of the shaft right here. There's an old giant wooden Dynamite box Giant special gelatin. Here's the bottom of the shaft. I'll go down there in just a second Some kind of dead animals down there This box is Atlas on this side Atlas on that side Giant on that side interesting Okay, that's looking back up the shaft You can see the ladder Platforms and landings that came on the way down Here's the steel ladders at the very bottom And that side just has a big Blocker here's something hanging in this wire. I don't know what that one Fox maybe Some more parts down here The usual depth at the bottom of the mine Here's an old Battery The old lantern battery You don't see those being used very much anymore do you go this way a little bit, but Very much Nothing really over there, so All right back up we go Julie stayed up there. I hear somebody coming. There he is All right, here comes Julie up the final piece of ladder. She doesn't hook her pack One more step and you got her cleared There you go Here she comes we made it we survived another mine explore. Okay, okay, Julie's got her sample for Max Max's sample ready to go. Thanks for watching the video. Hope you enjoyed it. See you next time