One of a few rolling workbenches to keep the thousands of pulleys, cogs, and belts working properly.
history under ground
carts
The elevator near the offices seemed a day’s work away from being operational
Looking into the tunnel system from below the Women’s Ward. The tunnels were used mostly by staff to move food and laundry.
This load of lime seems to have been left right where it was loaded.
This steel cup on the card would move molten copper to the caster from the furnace.
Spare parts ready for this building’s reactivation.
Note the wood and rubber wheels on this powder cart.
Because there’s no Port-a-John underground.
This drying house was full of ventilation ducts, broken scales, and insulated carts to haul powder around the line.
These dump cars moved copper ore to the top of the furnaces… it’s about two stories above ground level.
An industrial cart next to an inspection point on the evaporator floor.
Ask your dentist about brushing your teeth with asbestos!
An old handcart sits next to a rotting elevator.
There is a flipped tram car about a third of the way down the cliff.
A light-painted portrait of one of the few remaining carts that moved everything from fresh eggs to soiled laundry through the tunnels.
An open mine cars waits to be lowered back into Eagle Mine in front of the rust-locked modern mine shaft in the middle of Gilman.
I wonder if these handcarts will become decoration for the hotel being building next to the silos.
Because the shaft is nearly vertical, rocks riding inside shift a lot. To keep them from breaking down the door and raining into the shaft.