While the building looks uniform on the outside, inside it’s clearly divided between a hoist room and shaft room (seen here).
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A Kiva is an underground, or partly underground, chamber for ceremonies.
In the mountainside are a number of air shafts, indicating where the tunnels traced under the rocky surface.
The depot at the head of town seems to be being disassembled. Behind it is a dead signal where the tracks used to be; they’ve been pulled.
Since this picture was taken, the roof has totally collapsed in this area.
In the far back of the cellars there are some old bottles. This arch shows an old entrance to the cellars, now collapsed.
Looking from the shaft room into the room where an electric hoist would be.
Happy mine bacteria ‘chews’ away at one of the narrow gauge rail ties still embedded in the sand floor. The orange color is not a mistake of mine; it is the result of different minerals leeching into the water table and draining into the mine. Keep in mind that, about 100 feet above, is the Ford plant itself!
A collapsing and unstable building.
Colorado, the most miningest state in the union, seems to be pictured in this lunchroom mural.