Gold, which has a relatively high mass, would drop through the slats of the sluice boxes as the water flowed over them. Around the dredge were a half dozen radiator pipes to keep the water flowing through the machines.
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Across the walls of the brick repair shop, near where men and machine entered Shaft No. 3, vines, pipes, and graffiti battle unknowingly for visual prominence.
A staircase leads behind three of the dock chutes, seemingly to nowhere. The lower on the left held one end of a string of lights above the dock.
There are so many pipes i the factory–I wonder how many people knew where they all went, in the days these machines operated at capacity.
Typical bunk rooms in MS-20.
A lime auger and massive feet of the lime hopper.
The side of King that faces the lake is stained yellow-green.
I really like the porcelain guides for the silk threads, probably used because they could be polished for perfect, persistent, smoothness.
…a little close for comfort.
The city constructed a wall in the early 2000s to discourage visitors. Note the staircase is cut off, too.