Strike Prices

Mitchell Avenue, the main drag of a ghost town. Traces of asphalt and curbs are barely visible through patches of grass. In the old plan of the town, Mitchell Hotel would be to my direct left in this scene, and about 10 houses would flank this street to the left and right.

Note the tiled floor between the bucket conveyors and an old mill.

Local kids probably call this the ‘Shootin’ Shack’, judging by its war wounds.

If there were no other options, operators could climb this ladder from the Communications Room to the surface, after opening two heavy steel hatches, of course.

Looking across the mountain tramway from an abandoned house in Gilman.

Cracked gauges have a certain quality that hearkens to movies, I think. One can imagine the gauges going off the scales before dramatically cracking, throwing glass right at the camera. This damage, however, is unfortunate vandalism.

This miner locker room has probably never been so clean.

A cracked sign at dock-level, where loading boats would be tied below the taconite conveyors. All across the surface of the concrete dock were taconite pellets, like slippery little marbles. One wrong step could put a worker in the water, which is a bad, bad place to be.

At night the city lights blast through the broken windows, casting crazy colors through the off-white interior of the mill.