 Good morning YouTube mine exploring enthusiasts I'm on Julie here. Hey Julie. She's looking good It's a little breezy here today. Look at the beautiful Hills with all the minerals in them all kinds of different minds in this area in fact in this general area is everything from turquoise to lead silver gold and tungsten and Mercury or cinnabar So all those mines are present all those minerals are present in this area Once again, we ditched the Jeep and we're on foot We got about a half mile to go to the mine that we're after today The old Jeep just wouldn't bounce over any more rocks. I Think they've had a lot of rain here over the summer and this road Is washed out pretty good as you can see right here. Looks like there was a trestle here and probably an orb in This is probably part of the orb in I think Julie's up by the portal There's the portal. It's partially eroded not too bad There's a jumble of stuff out here Looks like it may have been a small building of some sort There's a lot of rail and the rail would have crossed the wash and gone over to that trestle and then To dump the waste and the mine dump across the wash there Julie's checking for snakes The snakes are still out this time of year. This is September it's about 80 degrees today at least I would say Very warm so the snakes will still be out That's the portal we just came through We're headed this way Julie's already got her eye on a cat print. I didn't see it, but I don't doubt her There's some old track in here. It looks like there's been some mud Which is now dried and cracked looks like the tracks been removed here there's a box of peaches yellow cling peaches Track picks up again here in a minute I can see past Julie The mines in pretty good shape in general It's pretty cool in here. Anyway temperature wise Feels good. There's some somewhat modern paint in here from the surveying and Assessment work, I suppose Here's a curve in the track Which way you want to go? Okay peak over there then Maybe not. Let's see. It's that. Yep. Okay. Just a short side cut Or cross cut if you like Maybe they were searching for the vein and realized that it Took a right So that's where we're going And then I see a bat hanging there Stay there little buddy. I won't bother you Another short cross cut to the left Tracks in great shape. It could still be functional With some minor repairs here and there Coming up to a wooden ore chute Oh and a ladder Big junction here This is the lucky number one Look at that this This was a skip ladder Or a skip track But they somebody has turned it into a human ladder about 20 feet down because the rungs are on top of the Where the skip rail would be And there's some heavy timbering down there about maybe Oh, I don't know 70 feet Let's look around a little more here This is a three-way junction Um That's left. This is straight This is right. Here's some more timbering. Let's go to the right here Pretty good sized mine Okay, this is just a short Uh cut that comes over to a huge shaft Wow, it goes quite a ways down This looks like you've had a hoist in it at one time. I see the The rails here are greased There's a cable going out probably a signal cable Well, we got options here. There's There are there is a manly on this shaft That's got alternating ladders. They're pretty tight though as far as the wearing a backpack This this area right here Is pretty narrow. I don't know these must have been some small miners But this does look like it's in Decent shape as far as the first three I can't see past that Let's go back explore more of the mine here This intersection is just right here Only 20 feet from that big shaft Yeah, we might as well go straight. They removed the track from this but let's go straight see what we see This would be straight in from the portal. It looks like it's just another short cross cut. All right, let's go back to the junction Okay, this would be taking left on the way in it's a right for us because we're coming out There's a nice wooden chute that's had a lot of use You can tell by how weathered it is here It's had a lot of use from rocks falling down it There's a stove Goes up about 20 feet Tracks are winding around a little bit It's like a hard right coming up They had their track bender working on this curve They had a thing device similar to a pipe bender. Look at the big turds in here Yeah, remember Yeah, it almost resembles a tortoise, but they're a little too big for that. They're probably a cat I mean, I don't understand why a cat would be way back in this dark mine. I know they can see well in the dark, but It's just crazy There's another big chute coming in from up above What was that? This was clogged Pretty heavy duty though And then there's another big chute over here. Oh, yeah Look at that You better get your drill out to drill that one before it's coming down the chute Looks like some water and mud has flowed in This area from outside We'll take a look back at that chute. It's got some interesting timbering above it A mismatch of timbering Track picks up again hard curve to the left Another one back to the right Take a carbide top Pick that up once we do Flip it over Got the handle on it Yeah, that's a carbide can Oh, that's it Here's a muck sheet And that's the face of this drift Their last shot. They never even finished taking it off the muck sheet Which is an old piece of boiler plate probably from an old boiler that they flattened out and Use it as a muck sheet All right, let's go back and go down one of those ladders. What do you think? Sounds good All right, see you back at the ladders So we're going to go down this ladder. We're going to use our rope I have no idea how good this ladder is. I'm going to make sure to tie Amount in the end of my rope before you repel or use it as a safety I'm just going to use a barrel knot, which you can do with your hand Wrap around a couple times Come back through Leave about a foot on the tag end Okay, now can you sign your new chute down here? Mm-hmm I'm going to I've got my rope flaked into this bag, which means it's just carefully set in there And it should deploy on its own I'm only got partway down there I love to straighten it out when I get down there All right, down you go So far the ladder is decent shape There's some wires sticking here Okay, I haven't come that far down the ladders. They're not in awful shape I'm probably 50 feet down So we've intersected this big shaft that we were looking at from above and I don't really see a working level although we're going to be into that shaft again over here So I'm hoping this piece doesn't fall off. It looks like it kind of wants to So let's go a little further. We'll get down this platform and we'll look further down the shaft This is not a working level yet And the ladder runs out right here Looks like there might be a working level down below us here Julie's going to come down Don't stand underneath that thing that's about to slip off though Right this big thing behind you That whole thing I mean, I'm not saying it's about you with it. Good Okay, let's see if we can get a little bit lower here Trying not to lose any of my gear here Get a lot of stuff clipped on me Your backpack, go forward a little bit Yeah, I know I'm just leaning back on it for you Well, I'm staying out Your pack's going to want to hit a little bit You got it Yep, not easy but It's not even it's part rappel and part rock crawl Yeah, there's a bunch of depth over there To your left So over here's like a big Stope With several stones I don't want to fall down there There's a shovel Oh, it looks like there's a working level down here I see track And I see a shovel Could be kind of interesting There's a platform up here that they used to stand on to To chisel and drill and all the other things they do Are we on anything real sharp here now? Not terrible My backpack underneath there Get your gloves on Hey, just go straight down though Try not to slip with your feet You all right? I'm not pretty graceful but I did it You made it There's an old shovel, an old flat shovel Looks like it's cracked So let's went a bit on this way There's another shovel head With no handle on it That looks like a round shovel, I'm going to grab it once That's a big old round shovel in it They're heavy too, aren't they, those old ones? Yeah, it's heavy The old shovels are extra heavy duty All right, let's explore this way a little bit I see the track winding around a little bit This mine's a little bigger than I thought I looked down the shaft from here And it went down quite a ways although I believe it's It's kind of blocked on this level I'm not sure we'll be able to get down there Got a little cave area There's some pretty heavy duty earthquakes here about two years ago In 2020 And could have done some of this stuff What do you see? Julie says it stops here Let's go a little closer This looks like it's backfilled, doesn't it? Yeah Rather than caved Let's go over and look at the shaft for a second Clackety clackety, oh there's a bat That's a pretty big bat Here's looking up at a stove We came down through that other side of it There's some timbers in there, I'm not sure what this was Back to our rope Julie's degree hanging in there Here's this big chute Out of the room Oh yeah Watch it, they're dusty Yeah I'm sorry Okay, let's go over towards the shaft Here's this chute Fairly plugged Kind of an angled Timbering strategy here and some gobbling They gobbled this whole wall up here Here's an old Looks like an empty High-lex jug and an old gold pan Look at that, can you pick that up? Is it heavy? Yeah Does the frame pan turn over? Here's some more cans There's a uh, I don't know what that was It's got a design of some sort on it Here's a gallon can Here's a piece of rail Here's some dynamite box There's uh, the Hercules And a cloth bag Some cardboard boxes This is over at the shaft there I don't know what these things are They're leather What would that be hanging on their leather? ID tag maybe So this shaft keeps going down I'm not sure what I'm standing on here There's a trap door here for the ladders Let's see Big back Where? There's something just right below there Yeah, that was a big back I saw earlier There goes down a little ways Wait, nobody's had this door open for a while It still works though And this shaft does go down a long ways Yeah, another big chute that came in right there And yeah, there's a big back that wants to come out of this hole I don't know what I'm standing on I can't see down there Okay, I was able to see down that shaft It looks like it goes about another 50 feet I didn't see much down there Um, I wonder what that big thing was for, that big stool Anyway, Julie's on to the next section here Gonna climb over this gobbling pile Wait, I don't think anybody's been down here for a while A coffee can Or is it a coffee can? M.J.B. An M.J.B. canna Yeah It sure enough is An old pale Galvanized pale An adjunction here Let's follow the one to the right Looks like it goes a little ways It smells sulfur-y in here, doesn't it? Very sulfur-y Is that a, what is it, a pack of camels? Camels Does it have a date on that stamp? Sometimes you can see a date on it And here's the face of this one This is some strange looking stuff here, isn't it? All right, let's go back and see if the other way goes anywhere I don't think this is a massive mine I mean the waste pile wasn't that big It's already been bigger than I figured it was going to be Judging from the waste pile There's one of their Stakes that they use to hang their ventilation off of Here's a bunch of jumbled up track See another one Judging from Julie's stopping here It's a broom though Doesn't go very far Yeah, but here's the face of this drift That's a lower broom Full of rat poop Well, I don't think we can go any lower So, back out it is I guess There's a piece of fuse Right there Kind of a neat little room here though Must have been the main wasting level Well, this does go down lower And that cable keeps going Which I'm thinking might have been a Call pull To signal the operator So maybe there is another level I don't know how we would get there There's a tub of a Cigarette box More fuse cord Let's see what this box is There's a big bathtub on that hole It keeps wanting to come up here They really want to meet them Can food Something star So the tracks came right over here Where I'm standing And then there was this gate here That they would have opened And the skip bucket would have Come right to this level So they could have dumped the cars Right into the Right into the skip Peeled up these burlap sacks And there's an Atlas tube Box underneath there As in tire tubes This looks like it's practically Come off the showroom floor We'll put that back under where it was It was under here I was trying to see what was written on these things But I can't tell Alright, let's see if we can make Our way out of here We'll put that back to where it was Julie took a little whipper on that first one She's jugging up the line The pack might want to hit a little bit But we're hoping that stall holds out over there It hasn't moved yet We decided we don't want to spend the night down here So we have to climb on You're doing good Here comes Tom up the rope Drugging Drugging Pack's about to hit That was creepy Yeah, it was creepy Good job there, Sonny Jim Yeah, Sonny Jim, same to you Alright, we'll get out of here We're back up to basically the bottom of the ladders here I noticed up above me here a board With a date on it in Miner's Soot It says From the best I can tell December 19th 1930 something I can't tell for sure 1932 or 3 Looks like it starts the same as the 3 does Anyway, hard to say But 1930 something So we made it back up to here Let's go the rest of the way up the ladders There's a blue Dr Pepper can It's kind of old, it's got the pull top But what was the blue Dr Pepper? There's the death pit right here There's at least one big jackrabbit And probably some more stuff Rats Well, I just came up this little ladder here This chute kind of got my Peeked my interest I'm going to see where it goes It's not in the greatest shape But it might just go right here Alright, good job We were heading out We made it up the ladders Didn't have any issues Got our rope back Sometimes your rope gets snagged up And you got to go back down and unsnag it But that didn't happen Man, we're just about scraping our way out Here's a nice little cabin still standing Pretty square even Missing a couple windows There's another one that's flattened I see a gable end poking out to the left there Let's go take a closer look at this little guy They used old flattened fuel cans for roughing I wonder why the window has such a big frame If it had like a I see their screen there I wonder if it had like a sliding glass pane I'll bet you it did Because there's the glass pane down on the ground broken I'll bet you the glass would slide open that way Let's go around the other side So this window is the same way I'll bet you it had a screen And then the sliding glass pane Watch out, I'm going to get bit by a rattlesnake Fuck around these bushes There they used old cam tops to fill the gap in the flooring The wood floor The miners were resourceful There's the screen door I just paced it up It's about 12 by 16 Looks like sugar boxes That they used partially for finding the walls A lot of bones in there Yeah, sea nature And there's also some purity French bakery and macaroni factory from Reno Yep, yep, yep Oh, here was the old cot That's still here Look at that cot frame A folding cot Still there That little square galvanized little tank Is something I supposed to be able to hold some water in Okay, that's that Just unearthed a little bottle in the wash It's got a cap on it still Glass bottle I can't see if it says anything on the bottom It's not full of gold This is probably the outhouse And the can dump, of course There's a lizard I can't bend down that far He's almost tame Now we see a lot of milk cans Like this one Condensed milk Usually pretty fun going down a wash You always seem to run across something That's halfway interesting We made it back to the jeep Now all we have to do is drive down this rocky canyon And we'll be back to happy hour So, Juliana, thank you for watching the video We appreciate it as always And we will see you on our next adventure See you later, thanks for watching