 Good morning YouTube mind-lovers. Good morning. Tom and Julie here. Finally, after months of less than perfect weather, we're in a sunny, calm, can dump with no rain and snow. So let's follow Julie up the hill a little bit and we'll see what we're actually after today. Although the can dumps are cool. Looks like a safe. Wells Fargo safe. Maybe. Who knows. They have this steel and then they put concrete inside of it. That's my guess anyway. This is a little shed. It's very low and there's not much in here. Just some shelves and the safe is right outside of this. And this was obviously some sort of a shop or something here where there was a roof on this. A roof. Let's see what else is over here. A bigger safe. That's about twice as big as that other one. Apparently they were finding some gold. Wow. A lot of fuel cans. And other stuff. This could have been a cabin site or just the dump. Here's an intact jar. That's anything on the bottom? Right here. There's a bottle too. Is that measuring on the side? Too bad it's busted. That's like a vase. A vase. There's a bunch of these. I think these were like coke bottles from probably the 60s when they started with those little fat bottles. That's anything on the bottom? Nothing. There's a skippy jar. Can you knock that further without breaking it? And then there are measurements. Oh there are measurements. Oh right here is better. I can't see in that direction. See the measurements? And then the skippy. Skippy. There's another little bottle that looks fairly old. It's a screw top though. Julie's got a little, what looks to me like instant coffee. It's funny because they still look the same. It's always amazing to be like vinegar bottles have a look and ketchup bottles have a certain look and instant coffee bottles like jars like this have a certain look and they keep them throughout the year as they keep that shape that's almost like trademark. Well that's a shaft that has got a lot of debris at the top of it although the shaft itself is open below this top plug. So that could be a project maybe for someone else, not me. Wow would you look at that? A very large hoist. That thing is huge. Some of the control levers are still here. Somebody's taking the bearing caps off of there. I bet they take those and recycle them. These would have been babbit bearings. They poured those. You melt the metal and pour it and it acts kind of like lead as a bearing. This would have been the drive. You're probably pneumatically operated or air pressure and would have driven a big cylinder inside of that. I mean it would have driven a big piston inside of that cylinder and then there would have been a crank here and another bearing here and this would have spun and then the gear reduction is there. I mean it could be steam powered but I'm guessing it was air. Here's another lever, a control lever. Look at that flywheel my god. Band break with wood lining on it. That is really cool. Here's what's left of the break. A lot of cable on there. Wow that was so neat. It's so fun when you come out here and you find stuff like this. Not that I found it. It's been sitting here since the early 1900s. But to come out and discover it for yourself is cool. That's a big wire rope on there too. Look at the size of that. That's probably three quarter inch. Man, it's so cool to see this thing running. There are some other controls here too. That pulled on this thing. And then the huge flywheel back there. What a hoist. Yeah and you're standing you're two feet up above the bottom. So a really cool old hoist you guys. You don't see these too often. This one's not all here but it's mostly there. There's a look back at that hoist. We're climbing the hill a little bit here. We can go that way or this way. There are piles either way. There's a little road wall over there. Looks like it goes to a shaft. But let's go catch up with Julia and we'll see. Because it may have some cool ladders in it. I don't know if you can hear the bird but I don't know what kind of bird that is. But I think his nest is right over there. He's pretty mad so I'm going to get out of his way. Okay here is an opening in the timbering about 20 feet below the actual original portal. And I don't know if this area caved on its own or if they tried to collapse it. A lot of times they'll come back a little ways and throw an explosive in there to try to seal these mines off. I don't know what happened but it looks like this is open so let's go down there and see if we can get in. Okay he's in. I'm next. There's a foot. Okay we're in. This is straight as an arrow. I wonder if this is a hollage or an adit that was made to intersect an orb body deeper in. Because it is straight as an arrow now. Got the traditional shape to it about the traditional size. No timbering. Very solid. That kind of conglomerate stuff that's really solid. There was track in here. I can see the cross tie marks. Smells like mine. What's that? It's like a lid to a tobacco can. Oh it's here. Look at how red it is. It sure enough is. That's a lid to a Prince Albert. Where's the rest of it? I did have some good color to it. Okay we've come to a split. Or a fork if you like. That way I don't know how far it goes. I can see a wall but it could turn. We'll go to the right. Stick with the right hand rule. A little spot to the right. It's been taken out. I think I see a hole in the floor. What does that mean? Yeah it looks like a couple of rabbits down there at least. More like three. At least three rabbits. It looks pretty fractured here. Yeah it looks pretty fractured alright. Another little pocket to the right here. Been taken out. It's getting warm back here. Another short cross cut. Only about 20 feet. We've taken several short pieces out to the left and to the right. I hear the ties are still here. There's your smooth wall. There's some old graffiti too. The fault zone. Oh yeah here's a guy. 1924 in a guy. Oh wow that's cool. 1924. December 3rd. Yep. December 3rd. 1924. A clean shaven guy. This would be what's left of the mineral vein up against this smooth wall here. There's another dead rabbit. Another cross cut about 30 feet long. Rabbits for some reason though are always ending their lives in a minor one way or the other. Whether this wall. There's a left. The drift is getting a little smaller in this area. Still very fractured. Skull and cross bones. Here's a little stope. And a ladder. There's no tobacco can. Dead, dead rat. Dead, dead rat. Oh yeah that was a Prince Edward can. You still eat it at all? No not really. This is looking straight up. Boy is it hot back here now. Looks like we have a pile of guano here. Must be some bats roosting up in there. I don't see any now but that stuff lasts forever in these dry mines. They could have been here years ago. Giant, I can see the logo there. Here it also looks like a stemming rod. It's broken. Here's the giant logo. This is a pretty long drift in there. Here's more of this fault zone where the smooth wall is. A little bit unstable here with some ground fall. Looks like some timbering failed. A stall must have come out of this little stoked area. They probably had a little working platform here that came out. Be my guess. Why is it warm back here? Looks like the face is coming up. If I can get through the ribbons. Okay we turned around we're going to go back to the one we skipped that was going to the left because we took a right. This is an old beer bottle. I believe it's a burgermeister because it's got that blue and the ER on it. Although ER could also be beer. But it just got that burgermeister look to that blue. And you can see it's an old... It's not a twist off. And that's pretty cool. It's not to be refilled so it's not terribly, terribly old. But they did that when the beer started being put in cans because the bottlers didn't want you to reuse the bottles they wanted to make more. So they made them no deposit, no return. Or not to be refilled was the original thing. And then that was so they could try to compete with the can guy. Okay we just backtracked from that direction. Now we're taking this one. We've been left on the way in. It's right on the way out. Lots of ribbons. The ribbon guy was busy. Not crazy about seeing all the ribbons. I guess they got to do their assessment work. What do you see up in there? I guess I better follow and find out for myself. Oh, I didn't go very far either. Let's see what this is all about. A lot of rat crap. I see a ladder. Probably only about 12 feet. I don't know what happens down there. A lot of rat crap around here. Should I go down there? Yeah. Let's see what's going on here. Why they made this. It's just a small spot down here. Here it comes. Okay, cool. Let's see if I can get through the rat crap here. Yeah. There's a couple of rungs here and there. No. Like wind. Interesting. This is intersecting a shaft. This hole is a shaft. A vertical shaft. And there's a large amount of wind going through. What's this? A large amount of wind. It's probably 10 mile an hour. So we don't know what shaft this is. There are ladders there. I can see the ladder right back there. It looks like it's in good shape. It's a vertical shaft. So maybe we'll go outside and see what's up top here. Maybe we can get in that shaft. Okay, we're back to the ramp we came off of. We'll take a right. And I think there's one more right we can take. So here you can feel the wind here. See, back beyond that it was kind of stagnant feeling. And the reason is is because all that wind is going up that shaft. We'll try to find that outside or you could chip away at that hole and get in there that way if you wanted to. Probably want to have a rope if you're jumping right into a vertical shaft. Plus when you're doing things like that when you're entering a vertical shaft not from the top you have to be really careful because you don't really know what's above you. It's really not recommended to do that. If you're going to go in a vertical shaft you should start at the top so you know what kind of debris might be around that could fall on you. Rocks and whatever else and you can clear them on the way down. When you jump in the middle of a shaft like that you don't have any idea really what's above you could be loose. Just a tip for you guys that want to go mine exploring. Don't ask me how I know. We're back to this guy. December 3rd 1924 dude we're back to this spot. This was obviously something at one time a little pit at least and that's where those red red rabbits are about three dead rabbits down there. Here we are back to this other branch that we skipped on the way in let's see what we find here. Maybe this will intersect that shaft it's kind of going the same direction as another one. Wandering around in a mine again okay here's a short piece to the left that was taken out straight ahead looks like it ends shortly of course you never can tell can you see my light over here okay let me take this short piece this must just end right over here then yeah I can see your light over here I thought so here's a 1932 so okay so this okay so it doesn't go very far to the left and it looks like it goes to the right the workings are kind of meandering all over here there's a hole in the ground I don't see any sign on that shaft do we? they've gone all over the place here you want to know what that is? I don't know what this is well that came from the other way there so this looks like this ends here here's the face I wonder what kind of mineral this was that they were mining gold in okay this is back to the we just branched off we just passed looks like it's been an overpass if I'm trying or something maybe not a little stop here about 12 feet tall it's always really fun to can part of a dynamite box not the number? no and this ends here okay we're heading back I see light but we shouldn't this isn't the main thing we entered on is it? no why do I see light? I'm going to take it right the main part of the mine was this way we just came from that way and the portal I guess is kind of a straight shot from here that's why I was seeing light so that was fun let's go see if we can find that shaft somewhere okay here we are back to the portal we're going to crawl out of here and we're going to wander around out the top and see if we can find the top of that shaft hi these are united so there should be a shaft up here somewhere do you think it's all the way to the top of the hill? I guess we'll have to go look we're going to go up this hill and see what's over this little ridge here and if we can find the top of that shaft because it had to daylight somewhere with all that air going through there we found the shaft here it is there are some ladders I don't know if you can see it or not the ladders go down 50 some feet and then they have fallen off after that and this is kind of what I was talking about here too where you see this bunch of timbers sitting down below me about 40 feet, 50 feet that's the kind of stuff when you go to the when you enter a shaft in the middle you don't know that's up there and if something comes loose you could be in trouble and then you can see the ladders end over there so we're not going to climb those ladders but that's where the shaft is what Julie has barely a 60 inch drill bit wow we're cut her head anyway I wonder why that's out here, that's not for core drilling, that's for like a well drilling through rock well you drill with that you can really do some blasts and go ahead and drop it