On the newspaper it says Clara Morris. She lived from (1846-9 - November 20, 1925) and was a Canadian/American stage actress of the Victorian Era. She wrote that she had an encounter with Mark Twain. Morris said that the person who was intended to introduce her onstage had missed their train and couldn't attend the performance. Twain offered to introduce Morris instead, and the two walked to the stage, arm in arm. "Thus we made our entrance upon the stage," Morris wrote. "The applause was hearty and prolonged. I thought it was for him, and made no acknowledgment -- he thought it was for me and waited unresponsive. We looked reproachfully at each other -- then we both bowed. The audience understood and laughed happily." Interesting what you find in a mine.
That bit of newsprint at the beginning blew my mind. Was not expecting that at all. Easily the oldest scrap I've ever seen, hell, heard of! Super cool. Oldest I've found was from the late 1890s.
Interestingly enough the newspaper is already archived online in case anyone wants to read it. It's at UCR, Daily Alta California, Volume 42, 23 January 1887.
Here’s a tip for trying to read inscriptions in the walls or in this case the bucket with writing. Hold your light from the side to cast a shadow on said writing. This is called raking light and it will help tremendously with reading such things. Hope this helps in the future.
@@TVRExploring This mine had a lil of everything - old boots, not one but two jack legs, ore cart ( WITH wheels ) dynamite and boxes...and the cherry is BAGS OF ORE ! I sure hope you took some samples from those bags??? I'm curious how many mines you have sampled over the years - maybe you don't want to say here, since you are a mine owner.
Ive used those same airleg/jack leg drills, drilling underwater course I had lights, thermal pro, and top side support. I cannot imagine how these old miners toiled in near darkness for 8-12 hours a day its just mind blowing how hard these folks worked!
Every time I see a TVR Exploring notification hit my screen I stop immediately to check out your video. It never disappoints. Thanks for another awesome video!
I've made maple taffy with a similar receipe in the past. Good finds. The "water drip" and "hard ball" are candy making terms for testing the consistency of the mix as you cook the water out of the syrup. Think of boiling down maple sap into syrup and then keep cooking into maple sugar, etc.
Omigosh Justin! You guys are knocking it out of the park with your explores lately! Thank you for all your posts! At my age I will never do anything close to this, but I would have so been on board back when I was able.
That is some of the best preserved wood I've ever seen in a mine. I'm amazed at the good condition of those dynamite boxes, stolls, and ladders. I'm glad you were able to document all of this stuff. Great finds Talc is nasty stuff. I'm not sure what types of mines are more prone to collapse: Placer mines, or Talc mines. I've seen plenty of placer mines in your videos, and on a few other mine explorers, I've seen evidence of dry-looking timbers just snapped like kindling in talc-heavy mines.
20:00- I believe that is a catsup bottle. 27:11- If I remember right, that is part of a jack leg drill. Part of the clamping assy. for the drill bit. 33:40- I believe that is a chemical bottle, or it could be a patent medicine. I have an almost identical bottle labeled nitric acid. (Could they have been using nitro there?) 35:15- Yes vinegar was used in food. I have the receipe for taffy that uses vinegar. Pretty tasty. My mother & I used to make it when I was a small child. It would be interesting to know what that white material is, if it is talc or something else.
I saw the time on this video and I held off so I could watch it without stopping and I'm glad I did! What a treasure chest! All the artifacts are just mind blowing! Beautiful! Thanks Justin and Crew!
What a cool mine, I bet there is gold in there too. The white stuff looks like talc. The living museum mine. The artifacts from the 1880's to the 1980's are incredible. What a time capsule Justin, great mine.
17:28 Brings out some relief. 1st line: "AllCutt Packing Co." (They are mentioned in old newpapers from the late 1880s.) Last line: "Kansas City, MO.", The middle line says "---CERPINES" (or similar) "FAMILY LARD"
@@Danzoid61I see an M, an O, and an R before packing. Its hard to read no doubt, just had another theory about what it could say. In fact theres other comments saying it says armour, not very clear at all
@@MrWhips243 I disagree. If you go to the exact timestamp I gave, (or @17:22,) you can clearly see it says "ALLCUTT". You are misreading the C as O and the double L as an M.
It's the latter moments of 17:29 just before 17:29 when he pulls the camera away and the light from the side casts the embossed letters into clear relief. Absolutely "Allcutt Packing Co", "Family Lard". I would have to step through the frames on my computer to get the rest of the letters.
Man, I'm gonna end up leaving a handful of comments on this one, sorry. I Should've just waited til the video was through, lol. The wooden ore buckets/skips?! Have never encountered those before, anywhere. I'm rather sure Graham is correct on those being 19th century. Incredible.
In 1000 years from now, university scholars will watch 3D renders of your videos and marvel at the ancient practice of mining. That's if we haven't blown ourselves and the planet to hell.
Hey! I've been looking for some Gargoyle Mobiloil 'E' for my Model T (especially for Ford Cars). Some Very Cool Stuff in that mine! Thanks for sharing your explorations.
Not often do you get to see drills of such vintage, especially in the underground they were (likely) operated in; they're drifters/bar and arm drills, the antecedents of the more modern airleg drills/Jacklegs which were invented after WWII and mostly adopted en masse during the '50s. Those unit steels you observed earlier fit the time period for those older style drills that had evolved from the basic Leyner, so your appraisal of the last era of operation being during the 1920s (possibly up into the early '30s even) would be my guess as well. Neat little set of workings, this!
Justin and Crew another great exploration video. Your explorations are the most through and detailed I have come across! You continually knock it out of the park! Keep up the good work and stay safe. I would like to see you and your crew explore the Governor mine in Acton, Ca. It's a mile from my home. If you do, I will be happy to host you and your crew at my house. Mel The Ice Man Acton, Ca.
Wow! This one one of your best explores for artifacts that you have done since you found the underground train of ore cars in the Buca Della Vena Mine . Just really cool stuff everywhere. Thanks for showing it to us.
I really appreciate you doing this. I live in Alabama and will be moving to Oregon this next year. I look so forward to trying some of these things. I am such a vintage/history freak. Thank you!!
Just loving your channel, the best American mine exploration by far! I can give it a thumbs-up before I've watched it all, can't do that with many other channels. ❤😊👍
The lard bucket is a bit difficult. Kansas City Mo. but can't make sense of the company name. Maybe refined family lard. Families obviously used a lot of lard back in the day. Just a suggestion Justin, but if you could shine the light from some different angles, that might help in cases like this.
When he pulls away at 17:28 to 17:29 you can read it better. Top part is "Allcutt Packing Co", bottom definitely "Family Lard". He needs to learn to shine the light from the side. Helps when the letters are embossed to throw a shadow, and it helps reduce glare from ink on flat letters.
Someone may have commented earlier, but that glass bottle at 33:18 with the unusual top, usually has a glass stopper instead of a cork from some I have seen. I guess it would depend on if the inside of the neck is tapered or not.
Wow ..what an amazing mine ..looks like its huge ..just a fabulous explore ..thank you very much for showing this its just anazing what the old timers achieved ..just such tough men never to be seen again .. amazing.. From Australia 🦘🦘🦘
Do the scratch test with steel and you will know if it is calcite or quartz. Steel is 5.5 and quartz is 7 on Mohs hardness scale. Calcite will be scratched and quartz will not.
Yours is one of the best videos I have seen in a long time. Great finds that was a bottle from around the 1910s I've seen them before. Wondering if this was a gold or silver mine. The rock looked very good, not so many collapses. Hey thanks.
Man I've been a subscriber for a min now. Every video i watch just keeps getting cooler and cooler. Question though how's you're mine going haven't seen anything on that in a while just wondering. Keep exploring 💯💯
Those barrels you found on the first pitch down, here in the UK they are called Kibbles and were used for hauling rock and mineral up and down a shaft. Later these would have been replaced by metal tubs then larger skips. Wooden Kibbles also date back to 16th century and earlier mining, by the 18th Century wood had been replaced by metal.
This is so cool and dear god you guys are brave for exploring it! From the pick axes to the olive jars (sure that wasn't moonshine jars) you found some awesome remains of a world long gone. Did you find any cool rocks while down there?
Thanks for sharing guys that was an interesting explore the wooden ore kibbles were very interesting and are very old, I would love to run them ore bags and see what the value was
The ones with the smallest /and hardest openings always seem to hide the biggest surprises. Sure the entry is caved a bit but how was everything fit in there. Super awesome as always. If you guys could do a video on cave entry safety equipment you use that would be awesome. I want to explore deeper in local mines but do know what environmental reading equipment is best.
41:00 ... so did a Miner invent the game Chutes & Ladders? 57:21 ... that pipe was very Interesting. I think it confirms your theory that the collapse behind you was intentional ... a natural collapse usually has the pipe running into it, and that one has been disconnected ... What an incredible mine!!! Thanks for the adventure 🇨🇦
That second bottle is a 1900 blown in a mold, could have been anything from medicine to liquor. Man that shot looking straight up and out , best shot in a long time.
You know what those brown stains on the newspaper scraps are right? Pick head at 10:50. I'm kind of wondering if that 'talc' is actually rhyolite porphyry - it may in fact be where the silver was coming from.
A very interesting mine, Justin. Thanks for sharing. I am guessing those ore bags must have only had silver ore in them, or else they would have likely been scooped by someone over the years. Too bad talc is only worth a few hundred dollars per ton. Otherwise, you could have mined and sold it to pay for furthering your exploration beyond the collapse(s). :)
What a neat mine especially with all of those artifacts from the ore buckets to the ore cars! That hood/vent you found, do you think it would have been part of a blacksmith station? Or was that too deep into the mine for such a thing? Great video!
The woods slats from the ore bucket we’re laying at the side of it. It looked like it could have been repaired fairly easily. Idk if you guys think that would be wrong or right but it would be cool to see the bucket repaired.
@19:49 Ketchup bottle, you can always tell by shape. @23:00 oil can is worth $300.+ USD, The LS cig tin top is shot in good shape $20. USA @33:29 Squared up Bottle is a "Pickled goods" jar, and the other looks like a Rx ,or chem bot. 1890+1920's ez. @49:00 is that "Talc" ?
1st do you or can you Show the maps of these mines? As hard as I try to follow where you are--I get lost fast. I'm glad your little "sphincter check" was just that and nothing more. I would constantly be worried about having light down there. Batteries are heavy and you said you were down there over 12 hours? I'd freak before I really freaked lol. Excellent content
The bottle at 10;40 looks like a ketchup bottle. It is interesting that the track(rail) here is steel and the rail above this level is strap-on-wood. The device at 27:15 looks like it is what holds the drill steel propped up against the wall to the left. The spring on the right side is missing.
those artefacts are very period correct, the rough wood, the tools, the whole mine just looks „closed before 1900, nobody been here“! better watch ones step when walking off the beaten track, a hole like around min 13-14 isn’t what one wants to stand in. thank you for taking us with!
Those wheels and brackets about 10 minutes in look like repurposed hay barn parts, used to hoist the hay up, hay/ore lifting are the same thing basically.
Wow, what a find! I don't know how you guys so consistently find such good mines! You are blowing all the mine exploring channels out of the water!
That's a huge compliment! Thank you very much...
Need to research white county tennessee over 1100 mine were here
On the newspaper it says Clara Morris. She lived from (1846-9 - November 20, 1925) and was a Canadian/American stage actress of the Victorian Era. She wrote that she had an encounter with Mark Twain. Morris said that the person who was intended to introduce her onstage had missed their train and couldn't attend the performance. Twain offered to introduce Morris instead, and the two walked to the stage, arm in arm. "Thus we made our entrance upon the stage," Morris wrote. "The applause was hearty and prolonged. I thought it was for him, and made no acknowledgment -- he thought it was for me and waited unresponsive. We looked reproachfully at each other -- then we both bowed. The audience understood and laughed happily."
Interesting what you find in a mine.
Ah, very cool! Thank you for sharing the interesting details... That's a great Morris/Twain story.
Wonderful vignette!
That bit of newsprint at the beginning blew my mind. Was not expecting that at all. Easily the oldest scrap I've ever seen, hell, heard of! Super cool. Oldest I've found was from the late 1890s.
I definitely was not expecting it either! That really blew all of our minds...
Interestingly enough the newspaper is already archived online in case anyone wants to read it. It's at UCR, Daily Alta California, Volume 42, 23 January 1887.
Here’s a tip for trying to read inscriptions in the walls or in this case the bucket with writing. Hold your light from the side to cast a shadow on said writing. This is called raking light and it will help tremendously with reading such things. Hope this helps in the future.
TVR Exploring always takes me along for a good time! The best.
Impressive find! thanks for taking us along to places that most of us will never be able to see :)
This is a good one!
@@TVRExploring This mine had a lil of everything - old boots, not one but two jack legs, ore cart ( WITH wheels ) dynamite and boxes...and the cherry is BAGS OF ORE ! I sure hope you took some samples from those bags??? I'm curious how many mines you have sampled over the years - maybe you don't want to say here, since you are a mine owner.
Ive used those same airleg/jack leg drills, drilling underwater course I had lights, thermal pro, and top side support. I cannot imagine how these old miners toiled in near darkness for 8-12 hours a day its just mind blowing how hard these folks worked!
Every time I see a TVR Exploring notification hit my screen I stop immediately to check out your video. It never disappoints. Thanks for another awesome video!
Still the best part of my Wednesdays. Loving the longer videos too.
I've made maple taffy with a similar receipe in the past. Good finds. The "water drip" and "hard ball" are candy making terms for testing the consistency of the mix as you cook the water out of the syrup. Think of boiling down maple sap into syrup and then keep cooking into maple sugar, etc.
Omigosh Justin! You guys are knocking it out of the park with your explores lately! Thank you for all your posts! At my age I will never do anything close to this, but I would have so been on board back when I was able.
That is some of the best preserved wood I've ever seen in a mine. I'm amazed at the good condition of those dynamite boxes, stolls, and ladders. I'm glad you were able to document all of this stuff. Great finds
Talc is nasty stuff. I'm not sure what types of mines are more prone to collapse: Placer mines, or Talc mines. I've seen plenty of placer mines in your videos, and on a few other mine explorers, I've seen evidence of dry-looking timbers just snapped like kindling in talc-heavy mines.
20:00- I believe that is a catsup bottle. 27:11- If I remember right, that is part of a jack leg drill. Part of the clamping assy. for the drill bit. 33:40- I believe that is a chemical bottle, or it could be a patent medicine. I have an almost identical bottle labeled nitric acid. (Could they have been using nitro there?) 35:15- Yes vinegar was used in food. I have the receipe for taffy that uses vinegar. Pretty tasty. My mother & I used to make it when I was a small child. It would be interesting to know what that white material is, if it is talc or something else.
Thanks!
27:06 - the imprint of a century in the dust when you picked up the glove. Very satisfying explore, thanks.
Great explore of this mine Justin & friends! I look forward to your video every week ! Stay safe my friends!
I saw the time on this video and I held off so I could watch it without stopping and I'm glad I did! What a treasure chest! All the artifacts are just mind blowing! Beautiful! Thanks Justin and Crew!
Thank you! I absolutely love love love this episode, thank you so much for your time and passion sharing this lost history with us all
Yet another amazing mine! Thanks for showing it to us!
Mate you are the real deal when it comes to mine exploring, love watching your videos, cheers.
He truly is.
What cool old mine and lots of unique items!
Thanks for doing all the hard work for us to enjoy! ❤
Best mine explorer channel on youtube!. Anders (Sweden)
What a cool mine, I bet there is gold in there too. The white stuff looks like talc. The living museum mine. The artifacts from the 1880's to the 1980's are incredible. What a time capsule Justin, great mine.
17:28 Brings out some relief. 1st line: "AllCutt Packing Co." (They are mentioned in old newpapers from the late 1880s.) Last line: "Kansas City, MO.", The middle line says "---CERPINES" (or similar) "FAMILY LARD"
I believe it actually says Armour Packing Co. Would make sense because they had a massive factory in the west bottoms of KC around that time period.
@@MrWhips243 Sorry, but No. The name is clearly "Allcutt Packing Co.".
@@Danzoid61I see an M, an O, and an R before packing. Its hard to read no doubt, just had another theory about what it could say. In fact theres other comments saying it says armour, not very clear at all
@@MrWhips243 I disagree. If you go to the exact timestamp I gave, (or @17:22,) you can clearly see it says "ALLCUTT". You are misreading the C as O and the double L as an M.
It's the latter moments of 17:29 just before 17:29 when he pulls the camera away and the light from the side casts the embossed letters into clear relief. Absolutely "Allcutt Packing Co", "Family Lard". I would have to step through the frames on my computer to get the rest of the letters.
A fantastic find, it is like walking around in a museum wow, very interesting from the start too the end thnx loved it Justin!
Incredible to see that near intact wooden kibble at 8:20. In the UK you'd just find some rusty bands & the handle lying in the mud!
Man, I'm gonna end up leaving a handful of comments on this one, sorry. I Should've just waited til the video was through, lol. The wooden ore buckets/skips?! Have never encountered those before, anywhere. I'm rather sure Graham is correct on those being 19th century. Incredible.
Oh, yes, those were definitely 19th century... Pretty awesome, huh? It was so cool to come across those.
Great find! Thank you for going to these cool mines.
In 1000 years from now, university scholars will watch 3D renders of your videos and marvel at the ancient practice of mining. That's if we haven't blown ourselves and the planet to hell.
Hey! I've been looking for some Gargoyle Mobiloil 'E' for my Model T (especially for Ford Cars). Some Very Cool Stuff in that mine! Thanks for sharing your explorations.
What an awesome mine. much cool stuff. Thanks for the adventure. Stay safe.
Great job, best channel out there
Not often do you get to see drills of such vintage, especially in the underground they were (likely) operated in; they're drifters/bar and arm drills, the antecedents of the more modern airleg drills/Jacklegs which were invented after WWII and mostly adopted en masse during the '50s. Those unit steels you observed earlier fit the time period for those older style drills that had evolved from the basic Leyner, so your appraisal of the last era of operation being during the 1920s (possibly up into the early '30s even) would be my guess as well. Neat little set of workings, this!
You guys found the mother lode of intact dynamite boxes! The bit of newspaper from 1887 is pretty amazing too.
My dad started to work in the mines at Park City after he got out of the army in 1919 and he worked there until he passed away in 1956
He was out there during a golden time.
Wow this has to be one of the best mine explores in awhile.....freaking awesome! I Wish i could see it in person!.... wow just wow!
What a great exploration of a terrific mine, thx for the tour-
Justin and Crew another great exploration video. Your explorations are the most through and detailed I have come across! You continually knock it out of the park! Keep up the good work and stay safe. I would like to see you and your crew explore the Governor mine in Acton, Ca. It's a mile from my home. If you do, I will be happy to host you and your crew at my house. Mel The Ice Man Acton, Ca.
Wow! This one one of your best explores for artifacts that you have done since you found the underground train of ore cars in the Buca Della Vena Mine . Just really cool stuff everywhere. Thanks for showing it to us.
Awesome video. Nice work fellas
Cool to see!
I really appreciate you doing this. I live in Alabama and will be moving to Oregon this next year. I look so forward to trying some of these things. I am such a vintage/history freak. Thank you!!
I know you're in Washington, but.....
Just loving your channel, the best American mine exploration by far! I can give it a thumbs-up before I've watched it all, can't do that with many other channels. ❤😊👍
Super cool finds.
TVR. The best explore channel .. awesome !!
This is a great mine! Nice artifacts.
Once again a mine that keeps on giving, how do you guy's keep finding these gems .. and as always stay safe and I'll see you in the next vid..cheers.
The lard bucket is a bit difficult. Kansas City Mo. but can't make sense of the company name. Maybe refined family lard. Families obviously used a lot of lard back in the day. Just a suggestion Justin, but if you could shine the light from some different angles, that might help in cases like this.
When he pulls away at 17:28 to 17:29 you can read it better. Top part is "Allcutt Packing Co", bottom definitely "Family Lard".
He needs to learn to shine the light from the side. Helps when the letters are embossed to throw a shadow, and it helps reduce glare from ink on flat letters.
Great video. Lots of artifacts. Interesting how they were able to do all that back then.
Yeah that newspaper scrap was stellar!!! 👊😎
Someone may have commented earlier, but that glass bottle at 33:18 with the unusual top, usually has a glass stopper instead of a cork from some I have seen. I guess it would depend on if the inside of the neck is tapered or not.
Wow ..what an amazing mine ..looks like its huge ..just a fabulous explore ..thank you very much for showing this its just anazing what the old timers achieved ..just such tough men never to be seen again .. amazing..
From Australia 🦘🦘🦘
Do the scratch test with steel and you will know if it is calcite or quartz.
Steel is 5.5 and quartz is 7 on Mohs hardness scale. Calcite will be scratched and quartz will not.
I love old shit! You boys show the best 🤩 Jeremy Justin 🤩 Awesome explore..
Yours is one of the best videos I have seen in a long time. Great finds that was a bottle from around the 1910s I've seen them before. Wondering if this was a gold or silver mine. The rock looked very good, not so many collapses. Hey thanks.
Great explore .You were showing some white fluffy mineral and the left and right side of the tunnel could it be asbestos that you seen ??
Man I've been a subscriber for a min now. Every video i watch just keeps getting cooler and cooler. Question though how's you're mine going haven't seen anything on that in a while just wondering. Keep exploring 💯💯
Remember take nothing but pictures and memories..leave nothing behind but foot prints 👍
Good job guys 👍
Those barrels you found on the first pitch down, here in the UK they are called Kibbles and were used for hauling rock and mineral up and down a shaft. Later these would have been replaced by metal tubs then larger skips. Wooden Kibbles also date back to 16th century and earlier mining, by the 18th Century wood had been replaced by metal.
That was so interesting you guys. I didn't want it to end..👍
Love ya. Thank you tons.
Y'all should really get up to Cerro Gordo sometime, soooo many lost mines out around that town. Keep up the great work!
Hard no.
@@aridcrawler Why not?
Wow, best mine ever. This is Great!!!!!
I like yer history of the artifacts . 😮 Thanks alot great show*****
What is happening in your Gold mine??
Cool video
Hello again from Australia what a great mine indeed.
Vacuum Oil Company was started in October 4, 1866. It merged with Standard Oil in 1931.It was steam cylinder motor oil. Nice finds in artifacts.
Looks like someone wiped their a$$ with that newspaper lol 😂
This is so cool and dear god you guys are brave for exploring it! From the pick axes to the olive jars (sure that wasn't moonshine jars) you found some awesome remains of a world long gone. Did you find any cool rocks while down there?
Thanks for sharing guys that was an interesting explore the wooden ore kibbles were very interesting and are very old, I would love to run them ore bags and see what the value was
The ones with the smallest /and hardest openings always seem to hide the biggest surprises. Sure the entry is caved a bit but how was everything fit in there. Super awesome as always. If you guys could do a video on cave entry safety equipment you use that would be awesome. I want to explore deeper in local mines but do know what environmental reading equipment is best.
The can at 17:23 Could it be, Armour Packing co, ………… Lard, Kansas City MO. I can’t quite get the middle bit.
HELLO FROM DENMARK.
Excellent
41:00 ... so did a Miner invent the game Chutes & Ladders?
57:21 ... that pipe was very Interesting. I think it confirms your theory that the collapse behind you was intentional ... a natural collapse usually has the pipe running into it, and that one has been disconnected ...
What an incredible mine!!!
Thanks for the adventure 🇨🇦
That looks like a real good mine to prospect!
The Bucket at 17:28 looks like it says "All Out Packing Co, ?????? Family Lard, Kansas City MO
Very cool. ...Havnt seen a break rack used in a minute.
Wow... those huge sticks of dynamite... The blast of those things would've been pretty mineblowing! LOL
That second bottle is a 1900 blown in a mold, could have been anything from medicine to liquor.
Man that shot looking straight up and out , best shot in a long time.
Wow considering it's a silver mine it turned out to be a gold mine.
Well said...
There was big gold there ✨️!!!; )
You know what those brown stains on the newspaper scraps are right? Pick head at 10:50. I'm kind of wondering if that 'talc' is actually rhyolite porphyry - it may in fact be where the silver was coming from.
A very interesting mine, Justin. Thanks for sharing. I am guessing those ore bags must have only had silver ore in them, or else they would have likely been scooped by someone over the years. Too bad talc is only worth a few hundred dollars per ton. Otherwise, you could have mined and sold it to pay for furthering your exploration beyond the collapse(s). :)
What a neat mine especially with all of those artifacts from the ore buckets to the ore cars! That hood/vent you found, do you think it would have been part of a blacksmith station? Or was that too deep into the mine for such a thing? Great video!
The woods slats from the ore bucket we’re laying at the side of it. It looked like it could have been repaired fairly easily. Idk if you guys think that would be wrong or right but it would be cool to see the bucket repaired.
We are often warned about going in old mines, but this one seems perfectly stable, i.e. reasonably safe, if you are extremely careful.
@19:49 Ketchup bottle, you can always tell by shape. @23:00 oil can is worth $300.+ USD, The LS cig tin top is shot in good shape $20. USA @33:29 Squared up Bottle is a "Pickled goods" jar, and the other looks like a Rx ,or chem bot. 1890+1920's ez. @49:00 is that "Talc" ?
1st do you or can you Show the maps of these mines? As hard as I try to follow where you are--I get lost fast. I'm glad your little "sphincter check" was just that and nothing more. I would constantly be worried about having light down there. Batteries are heavy and you said you were down there over 12 hours? I'd freak before I really freaked lol. Excellent content
The bottle at 10;40 looks like a ketchup bottle. It is interesting that the track(rail) here is steel and the rail above this level is strap-on-wood. The device at 27:15 looks like it is what holds the drill steel propped up against the wall to the left. The spring on the right side is missing.
i hope this place is protected...some of this is worth a lot of money, ive seen worse condition boxes go for 400-800 each
No, it isn't protected. Very few of them are...
those artefacts are very period correct, the rough wood, the tools, the whole mine just looks „closed before 1900, nobody been here“!
better watch ones step when walking off the beaten track, a hole like around min 13-14 isn’t what one wants to stand in.
thank you for taking us with!
22:50 sounds like the days of the Poison Squad
Basic candy recipes.
The crack method is used when you don’t have a thermometer.
Pretty sure the old bottle is from Heinz Ketchup, which was first released in 1876.
Almost like a huge fire above, and pushed all,the debris into the drifts
Is that powdery white stuff spent carbide, on second thoughts it may be decomposed chalk or talc
Those wheels and brackets about 10 minutes in look like repurposed hay barn parts, used to hoist the hay up, hay/ore lifting are the same thing basically.
Incredible.