There big filters helped the mill sort through the flour, for additional milling, for example.
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The aerial tram at the Mayflower Mill gives a sense of what the Gold Prince Mill in Animas Forks once looked like. Trams connected the mill to the mines around it without the need to negotiate trees, rivers, and rough terrain.
What looks to be a skip for repairing the dock, in the concrete steeple.
A bank of vertical filing cabinets, probably dating to National Guard days.
I really like the porcelain guides for the silk threads, probably used because they could be polished for perfect, persistent, smoothness.
An abandoned news stand between the concourse and ticket booths. This is one of my favorite pictures from the 2000s.
The hoist room, before it was used for storage.
Steam pipes snake up the walls like vines, but with asbestos.
This rockhouse was added below the shaft to load Gilpin Tram cars.
The doorframes become more askew every year as the buildings slip downward into the gulch at different rates. This seems to be the part of the mine ruins where transients leave their marks. The graffiti dated back to the 1970s, at least.