The mill is one of the tallest buildings in the city. It’s too bad that the cupola with its big skylights and flagpole were removed.
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On the left is the broken glass room that contains the controls for the cable spool, now gone, that sat in the metal shell on the right. The stairs led down to the hoisting engine itself. You can make out the slits where the cable ran up to the headframe tower through the gaping archway.
Part of the 1917 mill that had a little bit of roof left over it–most of this building was open to the sky. The birds loved it, but everything metal was quickly becoming too unstable to walk on.
When I looked out of the old mill, I couldn’t help but wonder what the hell was holding it all up.
Worm in the path of raw ore where it would be dumped from rock cars into the silo below.
Part of the brewing process is sterilizing the kettles, pipes and tanks all product would touch. This was done with a caustic solution. To the left is a healthy pile of asbestos where a heating tank used to stand, insulated in the carcinogenic mineral. The tank got cut apart, the asbestos stayed here.
It seemed the only way to get a view of the room was to climb above the mounds of rotting donations, now not even fit to burn.
The building in the foreground–the old control booth–was arsoned in 2009.
Kate for scale. Powder that passed the floatation level was flowed over sluice tables, another mass-based way of separating gold. I’ve never seen so many of these in one place. Though it was a hardrock mine, it worked more like a placer mine.