 Good morning YouTube Mine Explorers! Good morning. Tom and Julia here, of course. We're here at a rock structure. I don't know if this was a cabin or... there's a bunch more over this way. This doesn't really look like it was a cabin. Maybe just a little protective wall. Here's another stacked rock wall, but it's obviously not a wall for a building because it's not level at all. Maybe it was just a protection from this drainage that I'm walking up. There's some over here, too. It's a lot of rock stacked up, though, isn't it? I don't know how long that one is. That's got to be... oh, I don't know, 7,500 feet long. There are mines scattered all over this hillside, way up high you can see some waste piles. We don't know a whole lot about it, so we'll have to scout around. Well, I'm here at a big ore bin and probably a little equipment shed and a beautiful rock wall. Stacked rock, still very square. Up here is an ore bin, and I don't know, it looks like there's a couple of flywills. I'm going to have to climb up there and see what was going on if I can figure it out. Some racks down here out of steel. It looks like there was a quartz vein somewhere nearby. Here's this area from up top. It looks like that's a draw crusher on top of this... on the bottom of this ore bin and on top of the next ore bin. I was wondering, what went out of that lower one is very small and it wouldn't handle more than about a six inch piece of material, so this is being crushed first before it's let out. And then I don't know, there looks like some tailings over there. There might be a leech operation or something over that way with those tanks. Here's the top of the first ore bin. There's some grizzlies up here made out of track that way they often are. That's looking down to the mouth of this upper bin. It had a davit type of thing kennel ebbered out here too for lifting something. That's looking back out into the main valley we're in. Look at this cool anchor holding the whole bin back from lurching forward. It's a big about a two and a half inch pipe at the end of its flatten. Got a big pin coming through it. All hand forged stuff. Pretty neat. Trying to get down here, it's pretty steep though. Okay, this is the bottom side of this bin. Looks like it comes into a jaw crusher here or a crusher of some sort. I haven't actually been able to see the jaws yet. It's got two big wheels on it. There must have been a mortar sitting here or an engine of some sort. This is looking down over the edge. See the little teeny suit down there? So things were crushed by the time they got into that one. Well, I don't expect you're going to be able to turn this one. I can't, I already turned it. This looks like it's adjustable here, this piece, which probably would have been to keep the belt tensioned or something to drive this thing. That's the output of this thing. I still don't see how it actually crushed if it's a regular jaw crusher or if it's something else. I don't see any badging on it, do you Julie? Interesting. It shares a heavy piece. This looks like the type of stuff that's being fed into the crusher here. A lot of quartz. Looks like silver. I think this was a gold mine though. Okay, we're on foot, going up a steep road that we've been with the crusher on. It was pretty cool. That's up the road a little way to my left as the way we're going. Here we're climbing. A lot of these workings are up higher in these hills, so there's like 50 openings around here. We haven't really been able to get close to any of them yet, so we'll see what happens. We're still working our way up this road. Very steep in some places. Always amazes me some of these roads that the old vehicles could make it up and down, hauling oar and lumber and timbers and whatever. I was noticing here the burrows have been eating this. I'm guessing anyway. Something's been eating it. Only tracks up here are ours and burrows. Julie's on the burrow trail right now. The burrows won't touch the creosote. That's either unpleasant tasting or harmful to them. Because it's right on the burrow trail. There's a big cable anchored into the rock here with a piece of drill steel and some clamps and a big turnbuckle adjustable style link there. That's a heavy duty one. I guess this might be a lower tram terminal and an orb in because this looks like I had a shoot on it over there. I'll go show it in a minute. Here's the cable taken off going to points higher and then over there to the right a little bit is a tram tower it looks like and way over there looks like another structure of some sort. I don't know if that's the top of the tram or an orb in or both. I suppose we'll have to wander over there. It looks like it's about a mile away uphill. Here's what's left of this I guess it's the lower tram terminal and because there's an orb shoot there comes out and you would have been able to drive up here although the roads are crazy right here. Look at this one going up here. I don't know how you'd ever get a truck up there but apparently they did. We're plugging away here. This is looking forward on our trail. It's getting a little messed up. There's a big road wall up here. I don't know if you can see it or not. It's not real tall but it's quite long. We were reading about the next canyon over from here which has a big road wall and it was built in the 1860s and 1870s by Chinese laborers on that to be kind of interesting. Something down here in the wash a couple of things I can't tell what they are. Here comes the Billy Goat mine and floor. Look at the view down this canyon where we've been coming up. Wow. We're starting on this road wall over here to the right as I'm looking now. We need a big court seam here. That's kind of neat but it only goes back a couple of feet. We're coming up to a bit of a mine working. I see a rock wall and a waste track pile. The only tracks up here have been burrows and now doolies. Well, there's a burrow. Somebody's been eating ribs the burrow ribs and burrows seem better days. I think there's a shaft over here some big steel pieces here. I'm not sure exactly what they are. This was bearing something right there. The Davis Hoistor Look at that data on that thing. December 11th 1888. Wow. So that must be a base for a winch of some sort. Here would have been the main shaft where that bearing is. Then this big piece. I don't know what this is. So this says machine works San Francisco, California and the Davis Hoistor patented December 11th, 1888. Up here you can almost see where it said something else and I think what they do is instead of completely remaking the casting molds for these things they would pound this out so you can't read it and then just redo the wording instead of making a whole new cast for it. So there's a vertical shaft here looks like I'm afraid to go much closer. So this is overlooking this shaft and collar. Everything is pretty much rotted away completely. I leaned on this part of this collar right here and it almost went down the shaft. And amazingly the ladder still comes up to the top but it's way too rotten and we didn't bring our ropes way up here. We're quite a ways up in the mountains. So this was a gold mine I believe though because you can see all the quartz laying around. There's some beautiful quartz veins up here. Judy's got the job under the burrow. Here's some vein material looks like. It's scattered all around here. Yeah there's the skull the skull and the jaw bone. Well it's been picked clean. Look at that. Put them back together here. Look at the choppers in that guy. Crazy people up here eating burrows. Here's one of his legs. Look at all the quartz rusty quartz. Wow. Okay. There's something else down here. Let's go down there and eventually we're going to try and work our way down to those other two big piles and that other big bin is down there somewhere that we could see from a long ways off. First we got to go right down here and see what that is. There's a colorful looking specimen. There's another hole here. A pipe coming out of it. The pipe's just sitting there. An open stope of some type so dark I can't really see in there. Here's the bottom of this waste pile. It's a regular mountain of about half quartz. Big chunks of it everywhere. Down here to the size of beach balls. Man, the minerals are just crazy around here. There must be a little working over here. There's a little quartz vein right here. And a little of this. Crazy. Well I went in there. This one didn't do a whole lot. This looks like it's a cable drum. Probably from that little hoist that was up top there. There's a big riveted tank down there and another galvanized tank. And then to the left of it I see some flywheels hiding in the weeds. Looks like they're about three to four foot diameter flywheels. Pretty decent waste rock pile. And I don't know what's going on with it. Looks like they kind of got it gated up or something. Let's go look. Looks like this is the corners of the little building at one time. I don't know. There's no door. It's almost got a little spring type feel to it. Because there are some bigger bushes here. And this is what looks to be a one time of possible corral. Wow, what a crazy place. It's like twilight zone here. Isn't it? A bucket over there? Maybe a feed bucket or a water bucket. Here's that riveted tank. A couple of beams up here and a big door for something. It's got something right again. Let's go look. Bridge Beach, St. Louis. Is that a part of a stove? A lot of parts laying around here. Kittings and stuff. Here's this thing with the flywheels on there. I haven't gotten over there yet. Getting there. Look at Tom unearthed. So we have some flywheels here on the crankshaft. I'm guessing this was an engine. Probably a cylinder bolted here and then maybe a compressor or a water pump mounted on these two timbers. What are the odds you think this thing will spin? Slim to none. Who do you think the last person that spun it was? I have no idea. George Washington? Maybe. Oh, look at that. How do you like that? You think she'll fire up? We could. Need a little more manpower. It's dragging on something over there. That's pretty good. Yeah, probably rock. It's like, thank you. Like a tin man. I know. Look at this ring. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a piston ring out of that thing. It's a split ring. It's not broken. That's pretty cool. Stick that in there. So there's a big tank. It's a big riveted tank. Probably about 10 feet long and two and a half foot diameter. It's not far from that engine and whatever else was mounted there. And there's some other water tanks and some looks like some water plumbing coming out of that area. So maybe that was a water pump. It's possible there's a spring up in here. And they were getting water somehow filling these tanks up. Here's part of a barrel. I don't know what they were doing with it. It's awfully white. Let's go see what this is all about. This is the top of the waste pile. I'm guessing this was a portal of some sort. Yeah, Julie's on a piece of rail there. There is a bin way over there. I don't know if that's the top of that tram. I guess it might be. It looks like there was maybe a wooden water tank here with these big bams. The edge of a cliff. Drop off. And then we got to make it over to that area over there. I believe that's going to be the top of the tram. But I'm not sure. So let's go see if we can get in this mine underground. Alright, well that looks to be the portal back that way. And this is a pretty big waste pile too. Look at that big chunk of quartz right here where our poles are leading up against. Crazy. And the left side too, same thing. Well, unfortunately, this is what you see. When you come in here rat's nest and I don't know if it's back filled in there or what, but it's plugged solid. Bummer. So I'm right up above where that attic where that portal was plugged. And look what I see. There's a big indentation here. Either it caved on its own or it was blown shut. And then right here there's a pit that's about I don't know, five feet deep. There is a hole in the bottom of it. But that would be going towards the portal. If you were to have to dig this you'd have to start up at the high side of it. It'd be a monstrous task. Oh man, what a bummer. Look at that big waste pile out there. We are working our way over towards what I think is going to be the top of the tram. And also an orb in. And there was probably a track going from all the way from where that portal is caved over to here I'm guessing. So I see a lot of pipe on the ground over here. And I notice inside here there is a wood dowel type thing. So this was pipe rail that they ran over to this here's another one. So that was what was holding the pipes in a line with each other and then they ran pipe rail all the way over here to run the ore from the at it where we were. It's clogged. So this is the bend. I don't exactly know I don't see it being the top of a tram. Although I can't see underneath it. Maybe underneath there's some tram workings. Well this is some kind of a hand crank rinse but I don't exactly see what it would have been for. It had a wood drum on here and there's spool but watch that last step. So we're going to the bottom side of this bend here. Oh wow look at the big hand crank windlass with a a natural tree for a spool. Look at that. I think a 7 foot wide windlass. Alright now here's more cool stuff. Here's a gate operated by a big lever and above that our gears a full wheel and this was probably just a back and forth tram meaning that there were cars on either end and the heavy one would pull the the full one would pull the empty one back up because there's not a big cable rail that can't be probably not even a motor on this thing if there was it would be very small and all this is all fabricated all these shoots have fabricated. Look at this had a flap or you could go one way or the other and then this big gate the operator must have stood up on something because I think it's pretty far up in the air. We are making our way back to where we came from Well once again there must be a little water coming out of this mine because there's a good amount of vegetation right there so here comes Julie through the portal look at the big natural timbers above the portal there we come in and right off there's some large like a 3 by 4 and strap rail and a fair amount of air and a hatch it looks like an ore drop down to a lower level a little cold breeze coming through here look at the old timbers boy this is old stuff isn't it look at the size of these old timbers they're all hand-hewing this look at that look at this thing look at the old axe marks on there it takes you right here let's take the right and take a look at it usually is an old carbide can and there's the face to this one up there about 20 feet a little stope up here a little teeny stall it's about a one foot long stall alright let's go back to the main line see where that goes okay here we are back to the main line in this really cool post here boy that was a big tree trunk and they squared it off with their axes that's pretty cool really cool I still feel air coming through from somewhere over here oh here's the quartz vein look at that yeah that's pretty mean yeah that's what they were after and this is what they left behind so it looks like it's at least a few feet wide there was a few feet wide right here alright let's go down the main line a little bit there's some rain again there's some gobby hair to your right oh yeah gotta keep going gotta be a shaft up here somewhere because of all this air coming through and here's the hanging wall on the left here there's a very steep vein almost vertical here's the quartz vein overhead again nice vein yeah it's getting colder looks like there's some iron in here too with all this rust colored stuff there's a little stope that followed this vein straight up here shoot here's some official track in here too well it almost looks like a placer deposit all this stuff number one shoot ok this is just looking up the other side of this shoot the far side of it and I can see quite a ways up and then here's the big quartz vein again boy that's a nice vein in it let's move a little further in and see what happens old natural timbering still just made out of trees for the most part there's a little bit of dimensional lumber here on the shoot there's another shaft of some sort it's not very deep there's a 5 gallon can down there and not much else there's another shoot and here's another little different vein here a little more red in it not as much quartz a little working to the right doesn't go very far and I don't see the quartz vein over here either there's a ladder that doesn't look very good does it no it's a little busted up these are the more modern pipes but that ladder has come off what do you see collapse a couple of collapses shoot number four look at the old cedar I think I have the bark like that isn't it that's a big stump up there man they took that vein all the way up I think we can get through there so I just came to that area comes to another either an ore drop or something that they had a hoist here and pulled stuff out of there another gobbling wall another collapse but let me see if I can get past this shoot so this is looking back at the shoot I just came past I still feel an enormous amount of air moving through here and this is what it looks this is what it looks like going forward doesn't look good although it does keep going I'm not sure how I get over there okay it does keep going that way a little ways but it's pretty jumbled up and it looks kind of unsteady so there's another drop right here another stope overhead alright that's that shoot that I just got past again there's another piece of an old ladder here a little can and that gobbling wall I don't think it can so much on it this is kind of a wetter mine look at this cool that's a ladder hook they used to hold ladders on to the timbering it would be like this is your ladder this is your ladder it would pound this into the timbering but instead of being alongside of it like that it would go into the timber it's a hand forged ladder hook doesn't surprise me because there's a lot of ladders that have fallen out of these stoves there it is for you and here's another shot of the beautiful quartz vein silver, gold probably some copper, zinc you know the rest of the story what an epic explorer though all that quartz up there and those colorful mineral veins and the add-ons and that great oh here's a V8 I think in the I think it's before they made a lot of V6's it's in the wash I'm guessing it was coupled to this piece of winch equipment that's down here I'm 100% sure they're fairly close to each other in the wash I couldn't budge this thing I was going to try to move it I don't exactly see what it is man the views are to die for up here pretty wild stuff looks like a wheelbarrow frame to me maybe which way is up that's just the way it 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