 straight ahead of me in the bighorn sheep blocked by bighorns we can't get to them I'm because of all the sheep up there there are 21 bighorn sheep in front of us and we've counted so far some to the left there there's some on top of the waste pile there and there's a bunch right here one big full curl one right over here I hope you can see it in the video and then and then these are right on top of the waste pile and there were some on the right side of the waste pile too so we're blocked by bighorns good morning youtubers good morning Tom and Julie here I think Julie has a portal right in front of her there and that's where we're going to go in so let's go see what's in there how's it look no monsters coming out at you once again we have hand-hewn timbers in here don't we and the lagging and the gobbling on each side got a little buckled timber right there boy look at the size of the rocks on the sides here wow that's pretty wild isn't it I'm not going to hang around under this broken one very long all gobbling mixed in with the timbering the timber sets some huge rocks in here like this I know it's crazy they really went through a fractured area here didn't they with this drift it is kind of crazy looks like it goes dead straight these are some skinny little timbers aren't they I don't see much of a vein of anything it's so fractured how could it have been you know it's not like a standard fault line in contact zone maybe they're going back to the intersect one I can see ahead of you it goes pretty far doesn't it interesting it looks like all mechanically placed rocks no animal sign yeah except for rats of course that's looking down the down the drift as far as I can see still same thing straight as an arrow okay here we are at 300 foot mark that's looking back at the portal this area was traditionally mined for silver since the 1860s I just talked to one of the guys that's with the mining company that is currently holding the claim here a Canadian company which most of these areas are owned by Canadian mine companies there's miss Dorothy anyway you said they're still sampling for silver 160 years later let's say first started mining silver in this area changed here yeah now it kind of changes from this fractured stuff oh listen you can hear the the echo now it's solid here comes some miners graffiti so now they must have intersected some of the stuff that they're interested in what does that say Stanford oh the Stanford geological survey august of 48 and there's some other stuff I can't read we've seen the Stanford survey in some other places they really shouldn't be painting them up but whatever they did so here's the left we might as well continue straight for now it goes back a long ways yet now I don't really see a vein here either but I'm sure we will that whole first 300 feet was just to get back here to intersect some of this other stuff it smells a little sulfury with 500 feet and there was a mark on the wall there was tracking here at one time for the or cars here's another intersection looks like is a cross cut both ways no just just that way and some backfill and gobbling here and then that hits the face does it let's be sure yeah this hits the face right over here yep let's get back to the main line oh here's the head frame you know what that means there's the sign of the old hoist there's a ladder so we're here at this vertical shaft it's got an interesting set of bearing or bushing that would have held the shaft here their metal it almost feels like lead hey maybe it's a babbit so here's the ladder there is a ladder here it doesn't look like it's terribly deep i'm guessing 60-ish or so and it looks like there's possibly a working level down there so let's explore more of the mine and maybe we'll come back and go down the ladder okay there's the shaft let's go continue down the main line finish this one what'd you see a cross cut probably 40 feet to the face well what did they see there that they were falling oh this thing right here yeah looks like the strap from strap rail probably an inch and a half by a three sixteenths flat bar that's all that looks like that mica yeah it does yeah yeah i've been stabbed by a track before like that i'm not looking at it and all of a sudden there's one that's peeled up like that what do you see ahead of you there still this keeps going here's a little different colored stuff and here the echoes is low so this is a softer area here the two by fours are still here for the rail so we've found the lid to a pot some dynamite paper it looks like there's some more mineral mineralization looks like somebody picked at that yeah predominantly silver mines in this area and a little bit of gold here and there according to the guy from the mining company who is still assaying different areas they dig different pits and they do different drillings well here's a lot of strap here's the first curve in this thing we should be able to still see the portal back there yeah this is the first slight curve and we're at a thousand feet i think station 10 plus a hunt 10 plus zero that if you were a surveyor you know that's a thousand feet 10 100 foot stations cross cut to the left at an angle 50 feet or so long we can put on there in a second i think we're nearing the the face of this main drift looks like a slight amount of backfill near the face unless it turns the turn okay oh so this is just a car couldn't see a weird yellow circle there sure it hurts my back to scrunch like that how's it look okay what's getting hot back here we're not got cool again what if there's air moving through here yeah it got hot and then it got cold not cold but cool not as hot all right there's the face narrow's down um i'm gonna see if this fluoresces this is under a UV light i don't know if you can see any of that a few different colored things gotta watch it that's just bad for your eyes there's a bat we won't disturb him he's sleeping i can see him breathing though you notice him breathing yeah his little body was pulsing look at all this draft all right i'm gonna check back when we get back to the shaft we're a cross cut whatever we miss a cross cut here's some advice about mining mining is good if you got the money sucker looks like it's from may either may 20th of 25 though how do you read it somewhere 25 29 so if you got the money mining's a good gig i guess that means they don't make a lot or it takes a lot to make some is this the right that he skipped all right let's go down here looks like there was track so it probably goes a little ways at least out of those short drifts they don't bother putting track in those short cross cuts it's funny they took the ties out of the other main haulage and here they took the strap and the tuba force here's some timbering some natural lagging on the left here i guess and on the right uh mill timbers but natural lagging his tree tree parts that lumber smells good didn't it yeah had a nice tree snow what's that say it looks like July 29 i can't read on anything tom July first 29 july 1st 29 wasn't me i wasn't around until 56 this is following something because it's drifting around these little mines can surprise you how big they are because there's not much of a waste pile outside this thing and it's gotta be i think it was about a thousand feet plus whatever we got here here's 200 on this drift looks like the rail is still intact up here and then we have an intersection just a short cross cut one big timber right here in the middle neat little mine oh here's some real real uh track kind of narrow this rock wall this has real soft material this light stuff whatever it is one of you a geology guys will know there's kind of a seam there every time you come to one of those places you get a lot of it on the ground i see something back here a barrel a little glove there that's a cardboard cardboard box oh yeah there's there's another glove there yeah there's a pair actually a pair set those up on the rock maybe see them a little drier i'm gonna cool it off again a little bit maybe there's an airflow here something's going on cool rabbit there's a rabbit in your live one you have big one poor guy he's right here if you go right on corner this must be the end because they're the end right there oh yeah he's lost in here let's chase him out yeah we can get him out come on buddy you're all blocked this way oh he went yeah he's pretty lost in here yeah come on big guy too i just saw the tail end of him come on we'll get back a little bit here's oh that's a nice barrel and then a muck sheet and then the face so let's see if we get this rabbit to go by us here could get him in this barrel and haul him on we'd have to cover him or something could grab him by the back legs if you catch him he's pretty quick yeah i know he hasn't been in here in a long time he looks pretty old come on you okay big guy come on oh he tried to crawl in a hole come on out of there come on come on you go by me come on come on you don't want to go in there come on go the other way other way other way other way there he goes there he goes go right come on might still be able to see him here you ran right into my leg he might have been a little blinder by the light he should see the fall right yeah if you if you went down this far poor thing was scared up an hour how long was this you're not there yeah he must have gotten turned around he wouldn't be way back in there well lisi's not in the cross cut anymore maybe we'll see him out here i don't see him down that way well that was something kind of excitement i guess i don't know where exactly where he went lisi's not stuck back in the back of that cross cut okay tom is going down an old set of ladders old old set of ladders he's roped in so theoretically he's roped in and there is a large bat down there no more well he looked me but maybe he runs away yeah maybe he's not all right see you down there that's a rope bat rope hook all right yeah sure so here's the bottom of the ladder it's got a little funky spot there and a little switch over there probably usable though but you don't know so much you get down here there's one drift going to the left here and there's another one going behind me there's a little teeny hole a purple one real small one looks like a child's toy probably good for getting in small crevices this area of the mine doesn't get much visitor many visitors i don't think since you gotta climb those sketchy ladders so this coming dead's in dead ends of a shoot let's see where this goes it's very red the material is up in here excuse me it looks like it's gonna run out here yeah i can see the end of it up ahead here let me make sure yeah that's the end of it apparently they like the other way better they weren't finding what they wanted this was about 50 paces all right so tom's making his way back up the ladder they look pretty old what are you getting there you said your bat took off yeah he went out the mine or in that direction anyway just are you just hanging out yeah i'm resting okay there he is wow what a trip what a workout mr bat didn't get me no you just have all got me okay all right good job thank you here's one last look at these beautiful hand hewn timbers you can still see the x marks in there so that's going to conclude our exploration for today's video it was a fun little mine we hopefully got the rabbit going the right direction we never some go out but anyway we appreciate you guys watching the video we hope you enjoyed it and we'll see you next time thanks for watching