Top Floor

While the stokers are gone, the pipes bringing pulverized coal down were left.

Standing on the ruins of the burned Northern Pacific RR Freight House. It’s the best place to watch ships move around the harbor. Some things haven’t changed…

The end of the new elevator. Line of bird droppings follow the fire sprinkler pipes and wires in the room.

The elevator works on gravity… this is where a conveyor belt was to move the grain toward the main elevator to be loaded into ships.

The only way to get to the second floor–since demolition crews punched-out the staircases and ladders leading upwards–was to climb this elevator shaft. In the lower-left corner is a blower for the foundry furnaces.

When boiling beet juice accidentally spills from the gas-fired tanks two feet away, you better be wearing some of these, or bye-bye legs.

The sun lowered behind the dead flour mill, bending its image upon itself.

Miller Creek, in one of the wider sections that features a trout (as in the fish) canal in the middle of the drain. Even though it is underground, the fish are able to visit their breeding ponds upstream by swimming through the specially designed tunnel.

Sprays of water kept the muddy mixture flowing across the sluices, which filtered out gold particles from gravel and dirty.