 What a view. Good morning mine fans. Good morning. I'm on Julie here bright and early. We're going to attempt today to go down the shaft that's in the mine which was in last week's video so we need to rope up to do that. Let's enjoy a little bit of the view here before we go underground for today. All right let's go. We got a little ways to go up this way. Not very far though. We are back in the hoist room of the mine we were in on our most recent video last week and we're gonna go down the shaft which is right here. You guys want to know what's down there and so do we. So Tom's gonna rope down and check it out. Hopefully I've got everything set right. You want to shine back over here once? I've got a safety. All right let's do it. Okay good luck to be careful. It's a leap of faith every time you do this because it's certain depth if everything fails. All right we'll see you later. Okay. It's a long jog up. Okay so it looks like a level right there so we'll check back with him in a minute. Okay so Tom's down about 80 feet. He says there's some really cool stuff down there so I'm gonna gear up and climb down there and we'll meet up down there. Okay I'm down here on a level. Julie's on her way down. I can't really get out there because of the debris field she's throwing down on me. I don't see her yet. There she is. Oh boy huh. What do we got? What's the long ways to go down? What do we got her so thick you know? You got to go down a little lower. You can't get in here though. Step on the rail behind you. Yeah you got to go a little further. There you go. Try not to step on that. There's a little ore car right here. Yeah I know. Just back straight up. I was trying not to muck up the ore car because that's its natural state there. There's a lot of debris that has fallen down the shaft on it. Let's see the little flat car. Oh neat. Oh cool. Okay so we are about 80 feet down. In fact while I'm looking at this thing I'm gonna move it because we might go down lower. The shaft continues down at a fairly sharp angle like 75 degrees or more. So the tracks ended out there. They would have dumped into a skip car. They must have removed all the infrastructure for the skip track because remember there's that big hoist room above us and there had to be some skip track down here. I don't know why they take it out sometimes to reuse it I guess. But anyway we're here. Look at this cool little flat car and the wheels are still there. It looks like it's metal. A metal bed on it and oh see here it's got this hoop. They probably had a shaft bucket maybe that would sit in that hoop. Now you can see on there there's a hammer. There's a hammer that's broken. Like a two or three pound hammer. Okay then there's a couple of chisels there or drill bits. Oh yeah. So different size bits. And then I wonder if we should dump this stuff off that car you think. Make a lot of dust. Yeah it would be nice to see it roll a little bit though. Yeah well we could roll it without dumping the stuff. True. Let's clear this. There's a nice can here too. It's still got some writing on it. I wanted to see. I wanted to see if we could read it because I see those cans but I I never get to. Oh my god look at this. Look at it. It's a miner's headlamp. Oh man you don't find those right now. That is so cool. Is it is that the reflector too or is that this missing the reflector isn't it? That is so cool. So this is made in USA AutoLite. AutoLite yeah. Panted Universal Lamp Company. This is the cap for the water. This is the adjuster for how much water drips in there. The more you drip the more settling it makes. This is on right here. And the carbide calcium carbide would be in the bottom part there. And then the the I think this igniter right. It's like a little lighter like a zippo lighter. And then these are that's your little jet. That is way too cool. That's just sitting right here. It's barely even dirty. I know. Okay well that was pretty cool. I was just moving this stuff to try and roll that car a little bit. Just gently so it doesn't get a bunch of dust here. I don't see any more interesting stuff in there. Well you never know what you're going to find around here do you? I'd like to see this thing roll just a little bit if we could. Okay. Since it probably hasn't rolled for a while, put it on a shaft. No. Can you pull it? Oh there's still a lot of stuff on there. There it goes. That hasn't rolled for a while has it? No. First roll then what probably? Many moons. I'm gonna still go as just right. Oh don't roll over your rope though. You cut your rope and we'll go find on the shaft. There's this can here. Now we've seen these before but I've never seen one with a label on it. So Julie's gonna carefully pick it up because there is a label on this side. There might be one on the other side too. Oh cool. What is that? Is that like a head frame? I know it's it's in like Asian print tea garden. Oh and it's like a... What do you call that? Like a seed. That is cool. I never knew that was tea. Tea garden brands Pacific Coast Syrup. Yeah so Pacific Coast Syrup Company. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland. Oh wow. We've seen those cans before. I remember the fluted top like because this is made to fit like a you know it's not threaded it's made to fit like a cork. Oh right. Stopper. That is cool. That's awesome. Well we're not even ten feet into the level and it's already been pretty cool. It's a neat little flat car in them and I'm pretty sure that that round thing would have fit a shaft bucket. I mean maybe that explains too why there's not a big skip track here. Maybe they just used a bucket but that seems like a lot of excavating just for a bucket even this is shaft. Let's move into the jeep a little more. See what happens. There's another can here. There's also some fabric but it's pretty well shot this thing over here. There are no mice in this level. It's they must not be able to come down that vertical shaft because I haven't seen any mice or rats I mean. I haven't seen any rat poop. The other bay in here is some colors here. Tracks are here. There's a swab bucket. The stick in it is still in there. There's a little bit of a cave here. So there's a fuel can. What's that other little can below you there too? Nothing. Nothing. Well something. Yeah something. There's a little bit of a side trick here. Not much though. Some rail. I wonder where this rail came from. Why it's here. Nothing on the fuel can. A lot of times that's kerosene. Boy those are sharp rocks. I guess I should have had my knee pads on. There's a little stemming stick. Or tamping if you like. For stuffing your dynamite in the holes. Now there was a ladder. Apparently it's a little moisture in some of these spots. This is just a very small stove. And there's the vein up there. You can see the drill holes where they were drilling straight up with their stoper drills. Beautiful vein in this mine. A couple little stalls here. Oh another fuel can. Put the rope on it. Is that a plastic cap tin? You can't tell unless you find the tops. The tops will say Cap company. Here's another working platform. I'm a couple of stalls. This one goes a little higher up. I don't know. I felt some fabric on it. A burlap. Two burlap sacks. See look it you don't see any rat poop. And any of this stuff. This is another very small stove. And the beautiful vein. Is that it already? Oh that's a small level. Is that more burlap? You can go to that side. There's the face of this little draft. Well that's a small level. I guess this vein pinched down huh. Okay let's go back track. Well look at this flat wall here this hanging wall. You can see where it's been scraping together over the eons. Made the fault gouge. Well for a small level it gave us some pretty good artifacts in it. Oh there's another real bit. Good find. Or that's a that's a hand. Or that's a little scaling way in the way it's curved. Or not. But that's pretty cool. A curved pick. Chisel. You never know what you're gonna find in here. This debris. It looks like it just stops right there. Oh there's a box or something back there. A wood. Is that just a chunk of wood? Oh my god this can't be. I'm kidding. Is it all there? It's a full dynamite box. Wow. Look at the bottom and everything. Look it's not even dirty because it's there's no air blowing around in here. Wow. I'll bet you that looks like it has a head oil in it. I'll bet you that was used up in that hoistroom. That's the end that was up apparently huh. Because of the dust. There is the side I'm looking for. 50 pounds. I can't read it. This is the end where it explains what this is. It says 50 pounds. DuPont explosive. DuPont label in the middle. Explosive DuPont. High velocity. 40% strength. Oh gelatin. 40% strength. November 15th 1944. 1944. See that that box must have been used up in the cell. Well it is. Yeah. That box must have been used up in the hoistroom for parts in that. That's pretty awesome. That's pretty awesome right. Okay we're back to this area. Now the question is do you want to go down further? We're both kind of dinged up. We're already 80 feet down and that's looking further down. It's pretty steep. There are a couple of footholds but what do you think should I try to go further down? Oh my god I can hear you guys all saying yes from behind your phones and computers. All right let's try it. Okay Tom is roped back up and he's gonna go down and check out and see if there's another level below us. Because inquiring minds want to know. I hope this is a good idea we're gonna be most of 200 feet down. You know. I think the hardest part is getting out there. I don't want to jump out here. No. All right here's the leap of faith right there. Okay here he goes. Yep. All right we'll see you later. Okay. Be careful if you come down and double check all your stuff. Okay. Well look at that. I'm at the very end of my rope. I didn't even have a foot extra. I'm 200 feet down. That's looking back up. There's not a level down here. If there was it's caved now. It might have gone that way but it doesn't anymore. Here's a dead fox. So there's the dead fox. I see bugs crawling on it so it's not that terribly old. And if this ever was a level what I think stinks. If this ever was a level it's not now. I'm guessing it might have been but it's not right now. You can't get through that. That's definitely a fox. Boy he stinks. Let's see what's up here. I guess they were just following this name. Man I'm gonna be whooped when I get out of here. Let's see what's over here. I can't even make it up this hill. That's nothing here either. I took a pretty big chunk down here though. All this. This is a big hanging wall behind me here. What a trip. Some other things I do. This is the other side. That's down where that fox is. It's pretty steep right here. You don't realize it. I can barely make it up there. I guess I might as well start the trek up. Good thing we found some things on that first level. That was pretty cool, wasn't it? Okay hard to see but there's Tom making his way up. Slowly but surely. Okay I'm working my way up the shaft. I'm standing on a small ledge here. This is looking back down. A little bit of loose debris coming down but not too bad. This is looking up. I'm about halfway to Julie from the bottom which was about 120 feet. It's about 80 feet from the top where she is and it's about 120 to the very bottom because this is 200 foot rope and we are at the very end of it. So that's the story. Hi there. I'm tired. I know you are. You need to spell Goddard to my level anyway. Then you can have a little rest. Just about got it. As he tips over. That is a long way. I know. All right let me help you out. Okay you made it just about. Well that rope is so heavy hanging below me that I can't get up. Yay. That is tough. It is. Good thing you got it. Julie is gonna head on up while I rest up for a minute here. Don't go swinging out there like Tarzan Jane though. I know it's hard to keep your balance. All right be careful. If you hear something starting to fall duck. Okay. Duck your head down. Don't let your left little finger get a blister because it rubs on the rope there with your half-gloves. Julie the Mine Explorer. Whose idea was this anyway? You know who it was. Huh? You know who it was. It's always your idea. Let's go down that shaft. Maybe there's something cool down there. I know. You got it still here too. This stuff right here. Mine is headlamp, a cool can, a hammer and three chisels. And of course the little flat ore car. All right I'm not gonna lean over anymore since I'm off rope here and I don't want to go back to the bottom. So we'll see you later. Tom's making it up the home stretch. Yeah it's easier without my heavy pack on. Yeah I pulled up the pack. Pulled the pack up. Which was heavy. It doesn't make a man out of you. In your case it's a stronger woman. I think I can rest. Good. No cut. Not quite. You about got her in you. Here he is. Almost. We were just noting how rotten it is underneath this. Yeah this is all rotten. Yeah. How about that little detail? Yeah I did the same thing. You made it. Woo! Well we're packing up our gear from our exploration of this 200 foot deep shaft with only one level about 80 feet down. I was noticing a fuel line here. At least what appears to be a fuel line to me. And then I got to looking up because I thought if there's a fuel line there must be an exhaust. And sure enough that looks like an exhaust of some sort. And it looks like some light tin with asbestos behind it. In fact there's part of a fuel can over there lining this top of this hoist room. So this must have been a an exhaust pipe of some sort. I don't know where it goes. But. And then over here I noticed an antique roller tape. Look at that. It's not sticky anymore. But that's an old roller tape. I forgot to look at the candlestick pick marks. In the beam here. You see this is all wax. They would stick their pick in there for a little light. That kind of tells you the age of the mine if they were still using candles. Hello little lizard. You're the color of the sand aren't you. Are you going to scoot off? Well we're loading up the Jeep after another fun explore. We finished that mine off. There is another shaft there but I don't think either one of us have enough energy to go down it today after jugging up that 200 footer. So that's going to be a wrap for today. Thanks for watching the video today you guys. We hope you enjoyed it and we'll see you on our next adventure. Alright sounds good. Let's get out of here. It's Miller time. Except we're not drinking Miller.