"The property is owned by Mrs. B. Cislini of Ione and the estates of S. Lompa and J.M. Doonan. Discovered in 1907, the deposit was purchased by the Nevada Cinnabar Company of Salt Lake City in 1912 and produced 3, 462 flasks of mercury, from 1914 to 1918 in a 50 ton Scott furnace erected by the company. The mine has been idle since then, except for a period of high mercury market during World War II when lessees treated hand-sorted ore in a 2 pipe retort. Total production has been about 4,200 flasks of mercury. It is reported that some processing equipment and several buildings remain on the property." - University of Nevada Bulletin - Geology and Mining Series No. 50 - Mineral Resources of Nye County, Nevada - Victor E. Kral, Mining Engineer January 1951
So you are probably asking what is a "flask of mercury". Is it anything like a flask of Bourbon? A flask of mercury is approximately 2.7 quarts (2.5471 liters for those of you outside of the U. S. A.) or 76 pounds (34.473 kg).
The smoke stack was a part of the mercury retort. They would roast the cinnabar in the retort the mercury vapors would then condense into mercury flask. If I remember I thing the flasks weight 79 pounds.
Yay! back to the classic, charming Wonderhussy theme. I believe that your insight into divining the building's functions and inclusion of a woman's hand were spot on as always. Thank You Dear Sarah.
The comic strip was a Katzenjammer Kidz cartoon strip. That was a very funny bunch of characters to read about, especially the shenanigans of the two young boys who were always pulling outrageous pranks on the old sea Kaptain.
As soon as you get up in the hills you hit water it seems in Nevada. Gotta love the high desert! Freewheeling Frank Franklin is my channel with Nevada homestead videos Cheers Frank PS Yes, I am a 2 year old Great Pyrenees dad helps a lot.
Looks like there was a women cooking the food (chef) and servicing the miners (hooker), to keep them entertained at the mining site, so they would not leave. While she was in one room taking care of business with one miner, she had the next miner waiting in the other room at night. These ladies of the night must have made big bucks out there! They probably had women lined up to take over when one got burned out in the rotation. She always had a builtin clientele! Easy money back then. :-) We have had a mine in the tri-state area for many years and know the history of how they kept the miners at the sites, so they would not leave on payday and go into town, get drunk and find a woman, then not return for a few days, which would mess up the production schedules. That is what really went on back then out there! The women would rotate to different locations to keep it exciting! :-) WOOHOO! The real wild west! LOL!
Dawn Robinson LOL they were not the slave there for sure. There were all women doing this and no one was ever forced or held anywhere. Learn your history. Whore houses and hookers existed back then. They refer to it as the oldest profession.
Gary For sure! If they did not provide the entertainment on site the miners would get paid,leave the site, go to town, get drunk, get laid and disappear for days which would then screw up the production schedules at the mines. This way the miners were always on site.
@@aicsusa Thank you for suggesting I do my history. It is perfectly conceivable that a woman alone with men has power. Why didn't I think of it before? I took your advice, did some digging and discovered that the men paid her all of the money. There was no need for rape, heavens no! No pregnancy, no UTI, no problems with the "back door" because back then a man respected a woman, knew no meant no. Sure, it took a couple of burrows to haul out the money she made, but if one was lame, the men would all pitch in and help her haul it to the bank. Wow, looking into history sure opened my eyes! Thanks for the fantastic advice!
Wow, another great one Sarah, keep your head down, I don't want hear you and Larry getting fried 🤪. That was some cool stuff, can't wait to see the next one. Your fan for life🤩.
Walking through the wall at 6:06, that is sheetrock on the walls. Most places didn't have sheetrock until the mid 50s. That is kind of interesting.Comic strip appears to be "Smokey Stover."
@@kevins1114 An answer (but perhaps not THE answer), and a lot more info is to be found in this Wikipedia page. In Sweden the comic is called "Knoll och Tott".
Hi ,I love your videos and envy the life you have, it's super 😎 and I myself if I ever get up the kahonies lol would like to travel around and just see the world that's around me, 20 years ago I use to do expedited deliveries and been to 20 states and a few we're to Laredo and eagle pass and just loved the somewhat vacationing and now I'm in my 50s and have a endless bucket list, Happy trailing
Fascinating!!! The mining camp wasn’t bad either. I dig your adventures and this one was ‘way cool’. Stay awesome and go take a long soak to get the HgS dust off those hard to reach places.
With lightning that close, you all apparently don't know qiute how dangerous your sistuation was as you two took your time about getting back to your vehicles. The safest thing to have done would to have immediately begun walking back to your vehicles after the first strike. Don't linger outdoors while that thunderstorm charges up again for the next big spark Being inside your vehicles is one of the safest places to be in a thunderstorm because they are a Faraday Cage around you. They conduct electricity safely through the frame around you and to the ground without harming you. Waste no time getting back to safety. Especially stay away from those outdoor metal objects such as those old abandoned vehicles or metal fences. When it's close enough to hear as was in the video, it's close enough to strike you. You were closer to that lightning than the top of that thunderstorm was above the ground. They're like a giant Tesla Coil. Here's a spectacular video that demonstrates the safety of being inside a vehicle ruclips.net/video/ve6XGKZxYxA/видео.html Being outside a vehicle is no place to be as some of the current can also go through you to the ground as this video graphically shows. ruclips.net/video/JSUMT8lFik8/видео.html
Cinnabar (otherwise known as mercury sulphide) is the single most toxic mineral known to man. ... The problem with Cinnabar, is when oxidized it produces methyl and dimethy mercury, two toxic compounds that cause terminal damage to the nervous system.Oct 5, 2019
I can understand Larry's caution. A lot of good it would do him to repower the X5 then rub the belly out of her on that trail. Really great tour of the old mining camp...and some folks in the comments explained how cinnabar was processed to get the mercury out of it. Very educational.
the comic strip is the kitzenyammer kids! don't know if the spelling is correct ,its based on the pronunciation of the word! the last I saw of them was early '60's.
Andean Experess Railway to Lake Titticacha is a fabulous Peruvian adventure. You can be out in the middle of nowhere Monteicchu. Interesting the hill on an island in the lake is higher than Montepicchu.
This must have been a money making concern because it looks as though they went to great effort to haul in building supplies. Standard framing, sheetrock and toilets shows a real effort to create human comforts. I would have loved to see the place in its heyday. Was cinnabar dug in the same fashion as hard rock gold or coal?
Hey how about looking for the town dump for old bottles and stuff to film ?! I don't recommend touching or taking home anything , might be carcinogenic IMHO
I'm no expert so just guessing here but the 'smokestack' may actually not be to dispel smoke but rather to create an updraft and constant air supply for the cooking process.
You sound is much better on your video. Think Larry's needs a wireless mike when you talk on his videos to help it out. I like both videos y'all do a good job cant waite to see what you both find next
awesome adventure Sarah you never fall short of amazing,i have a question,have you ever explored the abandoned mining town of Bodie?if not.it sure would be nice to see your take on it,keep blessing us with awesome videos dear,stay blessed!
I don't think that smoke stack will be staying intact for much longer, interesting video, mercury is a huge pollution issue, it is toxic even in it's ore state..
4:46 LOL, I'm pretty sure that is a food serving cart. 9:04 Kurtzmann & Company operated under that name from 1901 to 1935. So the newspapers are from that time period. Probably closer to 1935 then 1901. It's not really surprising the LA Times was there. Keep in mind that Las Vegas was just a very small relatively unimportant town until the 1950s. So the nearest major cities were LA and San Francisco. They probably got the LA Times mailed there. So the miners could get the news.
Must had his wife and. Kids that bedroom with Dutch boys looked like it was a kids room, and maybe that tin room with all the little rooms could of been rooms for the miner and wife if they brought their wives someone had to help with the cooking
Reading the comments this reminds me of the movie McCabe & Mrs. Miller which took place in a mining town. I'm sure there were other women in this town as well and the superintendent's wife was similar to Julie Christie in the movie.. the prostitute in charge.
"The property is owned by Mrs. B. Cislini of Ione and the estates of S. Lompa and J.M. Doonan. Discovered in 1907, the deposit was purchased by the Nevada Cinnabar Company of Salt Lake City in 1912 and produced 3, 462 flasks of mercury, from 1914 to 1918 in a 50 ton Scott furnace erected by the company. The mine has been idle since then, except for a period of high mercury market during World War II when lessees treated hand-sorted ore in a 2 pipe retort. Total production has been about 4,200 flasks of mercury. It is reported that some processing equipment and several buildings remain on the property."
- University of Nevada Bulletin - Geology and Mining Series No. 50 - Mineral Resources of Nye County, Nevada - Victor E. Kral, Mining Engineer January 1951
Thanks
So you are probably asking what is a "flask of mercury". Is it anything like a flask of Bourbon? A flask of mercury is approximately 2.7 quarts (2.5471 liters for those of you outside of the U. S. A.) or 76 pounds (34.473 kg).
The smoke stack was a part of the mercury retort. They would roast the cinnabar in the retort the mercury vapors would then condense into mercury flask. If I remember I thing the flasks weight 79 pounds.
I’m on a Sarah and Larry overload today! I’m somewhat laid up right now so y’all made my day. 🧡
Lol
Same here Jonathan.
Debbie Wagstaff 🧡
I love the way you say Larry's name. You do this little emphasized attitude thing that's really unique and cute.
Yay! back to the classic, charming Wonderhussy theme. I believe that your insight into divining the building's functions and inclusion of a woman's hand were spot on as always. Thank You Dear Sarah.
The comic strip was a Katzenjammer Kidz cartoon strip. That was a very funny bunch of characters to read about, especially the shenanigans of the two young boys who were always pulling outrageous pranks on the old sea Kaptain.
It looks like a great hike and adventure! Thank you for sharing the video of this old mining town. 🧧🤙
I just can't believe all the things you find. It's endless and I love it. Mr. B.
Good video, Sarah Jane! Another great Wonder hussy Adventure!
Interesting. Them Cinnabon rolls are awesome!
Thanks... now I'm hungry :)
Great place for a Cinnabon roll. Yikes!
I love the narrative and it's wonderful to see you enjoying your time out there while also bringing these gems to us👍
Another great adventure! Stay Safe!!!!
Thank you Sarah,,.Very cool and glad you guys bailed,Nothing to be messing with Lightning/Flash flood.Stay well Safe travels.
cinnabar! wow kool.. watch out for deer ticks in the wet n greens.. ....happy trails always......
You know by now, I'm a tried any true Nevada gal. My heart will always be there. Love that there's so many places like this.
Great vidie once again WH!
As soon as you get up in the hills you hit water it seems in Nevada. Gotta love the high desert! Freewheeling Frank Franklin is my channel with Nevada homestead videos Cheers Frank PS Yes, I am a 2 year old Great Pyrenees dad helps a lot.
Thanks for another super video Gal.
"...more bullet holes. Sigh...." LOL!
Great video. Would have been a great mining camp if it wasn't for all the damn vandalism. Destroying a lot of history.
Looks like there was a women cooking the food (chef) and servicing the miners (hooker), to keep them entertained at the mining site, so they would not leave. While she was in one room taking care of business with one miner, she had the next miner waiting in the other room at night. These ladies of the night must have made big bucks out there! They probably had women lined up to take over when one got burned out in the rotation. She always had a builtin clientele! Easy money back then. :-) We have had a mine in the tri-state area for many years and know the history of how they kept the miners at the sites, so they would not leave on payday and go into town, get drunk and find a woman, then not return for a few days, which would mess up the production schedules. That is what really went on back then out there! The women would rotate to different locations to keep it exciting! :-) WOOHOO! The real wild west! LOL!
Those "ladies" were sex slaves. No doubt they died there. F*cked to death. Think about it.
Vagina is a part of Mining History !
Dawn Robinson LOL they were not the slave there for sure. There were all women doing this and no one was ever forced or held anywhere. Learn your history. Whore houses and hookers existed back then. They refer to it as the oldest profession.
Gary For sure! If they did not provide the entertainment on site the miners would get paid,leave the site, go to town, get drunk, get laid and disappear for days which would then screw up the production schedules at the mines. This way the miners were always on site.
@@aicsusa Thank you for suggesting I do my history. It is perfectly conceivable that a woman alone with men has power. Why didn't I think of it before? I took your advice, did some digging and discovered that the men paid her all of the money. There was no need for rape, heavens no! No pregnancy, no UTI, no problems with the "back door" because back then a man respected a woman, knew no meant no. Sure, it took a couple of burrows to haul out the money she made, but if one was lame, the men would all pitch in and help her haul it to the bank. Wow, looking into history sure opened my eyes! Thanks for the fantastic advice!
Wow, another great one Sarah, keep your head down, I don't want hear you and Larry getting fried 🤪. That was some cool stuff, can't wait to see the next one. Your fan for life🤩.
Nice One! I thought that hole in the Stack was for a boiler but perhaps not. Old Dodge Dually.
Hi. Thank you for putting this together. Charming, funny, informative. I have enjoyed all your vlogs.
Wow... that is a remote area. Not many bullet holes in the old vehicle.
Thanks for adding one more place to the bucket list.
The Awesome Video Gang. Another great video thanks Wonderhussy and Larry. Someday you two will be explored. :)
Walking through the wall at 6:06, that is sheetrock on the walls. Most places didn't have sheetrock until the mid 50s. That is kind of interesting.Comic strip appears to be "Smokey Stover."
Creepers Gang ! It looks like you found a Katzenjammers Kids Comic Strip ?
I've long wondered why the creators of that comic strip chose that name. "Katzenjammer" is the German word for "hangover" (the alcohol binge kind)...
@@kevins1114 An answer (but perhaps not THE answer), and a lot more info is to be found in this Wikipedia page. In Sweden the comic is called "Knoll och Tott".
Love your vids, !!!
Hi ,I love your videos and envy the life you have, it's super 😎 and I myself if I ever get up the kahonies lol would like to travel around and just see the world that's around me, 20 years ago I use to do expedited deliveries and been to 20 states and a few we're to Laredo and eagle pass and just loved the somewhat vacationing and now I'm in my 50s and have a endless bucket list, Happy trailing
Fascinating!!! The mining camp wasn’t bad either. I dig your adventures and this one was ‘way cool’. Stay awesome and go take a long soak to get the HgS dust off those hard to reach places.
This location looks awesome.
Nice vid wh
Beautiful views! Something worked a lot of overtime building that nest. That thing was gigantic!
thx
Excellent, enjoyable and your the best. Best of luck with your your National Geographic career, you’d b awesome.
superintendent? it's worth to your husband 'cause he love you .fantastic abandoned place
Nice trip that looks generally unexplored for the last few years for the most part! I think your truck would’ve made it 😜
Lol - Lurking Larry in the window.
Hey old Kenny here, Hi Larry, love you Sarah Ha!
It's so beautiful up there.
With lightning that close, you all apparently don't know qiute how dangerous your sistuation was as you two took your time about getting back to your vehicles. The safest thing to have done would to have immediately begun walking back to your vehicles after the first strike. Don't linger outdoors while that thunderstorm charges up again for the next big spark Being inside your vehicles is one of the safest places to be in a thunderstorm because they are a Faraday Cage around you. They conduct electricity safely through the frame around you and to the ground without harming you. Waste no time getting back to safety. Especially stay away from those outdoor metal objects such as those old abandoned vehicles or metal fences. When it's close enough to hear as was in the video, it's close enough to strike you. You were closer to that lightning than the top of that thunderstorm was above the ground. They're like a giant Tesla Coil. Here's a spectacular video that demonstrates the safety of being inside a vehicle ruclips.net/video/ve6XGKZxYxA/видео.html Being outside a vehicle is no place to be as some of the current can also go through you to the ground as this video graphically shows. ruclips.net/video/JSUMT8lFik8/видео.html
Wow that place has seen better days not much left
Cinnabar (otherwise known as mercury sulphide) is the single most toxic mineral known to man. ... The problem with Cinnabar, is when oxidized it produces methyl and dimethy mercury, two toxic compounds that cause terminal damage to the nervous system.Oct 5, 2019
I think the comic was Snuffy Smith
.....Like your smile..... Love your style.....Put on your flip flops and chat a while.....!!
Cool video great scenery. I'm startin to think anywhere in Nevada is in the middle of nowhere.
15:00 Wood fired pizza oven to feed the workers? Funny that the newspaper on the walls weren't dated. You definitely need a drone.
I can understand Larry's caution. A lot of good it would do him to repower the X5 then rub the belly out of her on that trail. Really great tour of the old mining camp...and
some folks in the comments explained how cinnabar was processed to get the mercury out of it. Very educational.
That's a $37 Dodge pickup I have one exactly like it and it runs like a dream all original could use a few parts
the comic strip is the kitzenyammer kids! don't know if the spelling is correct ,its based on the pronunciation of the word! the last I saw of them was early '60's.
That is one heck of a chimney!!
mercury and lead paint, you do find the best resorts
Another great vid!
Lucky larry enjoys that beautiful smile once again bonus . ✔👍
Andean Experess Railway to Lake Titticacha is a fabulous Peruvian adventure. You can be out in the middle of nowhere Monteicchu. Interesting the hill on an island in the lake is higher than Montepicchu.
That old truck. Wow. 16:10.
That's worth more research
if you think nevada is only desert than you haven't been to great basin national park, a truly majestic place that you gotta see
That was Andy Cap comic dtrip you saw.
Larry needs to buy a jeep.
So What did they say about smurfet
So funny every abandoned location has an old truck !
This must have been a money making concern because it looks as though they went to great effort to haul in building supplies. Standard framing, sheetrock and toilets shows a real effort to create human comforts. I would have loved to see the place in its heyday. Was cinnabar dug in the same fashion as hard rock gold or coal?
Hey wonderhussy!!
I Like the outrow music. Sounds like a watermelon ukelele and a martin travel guitar.
@11:24, did you not notice the target shooting human silhouette target?
Awesome!
I Googled mercury. One site said a flask of mercury was worth $2000 (2018).
Sarah Jane, thanks for showing me something I will never be able to witness!
So... how was the 'Happy Burro' in Beatty ????
Nice report of the mine. Mining Mercury in Nevada and smelting the ore into liquid form? Thanks Larry and Sarah.
Sounds like you need a 4 x 4 mud truck that would get you up there.
I wish there where places like that here in Texas... But most if not all the land is privately owned. :(
Dually 4x4 truck camper will get thru that road at the start of the video, no problem.
Very Nice 👍
Hey how about looking for the town dump for old bottles and stuff to film ?!
I don't recommend touching or taking home anything , might be carcinogenic IMHO
I'm no expert so just guessing here but the 'smokestack' may actually not be to dispel smoke but rather to create an updraft and constant air supply for the cooking process.
Nice to see snake-proof boots. When ya gonna spring for a drone (says lazy-ass me).
That comic strip could have been the Kats & Jammer Kids.
Comic was Andy Capp (maybe?!)
You could save time by just going to your local dump. It might even be more interesting.
I need this Chevy I wonder If the state of Nevada would even sell that truck
You sound is much better on your video. Think Larry's needs a wireless mike when you talk on his videos to help it out. I like both videos y'all do a good job cant waite to see what you both find next
What's the Name of Larry's Channel on RUclips
awesome adventure Sarah you never fall short of amazing,i have a question,have you ever explored the abandoned mining town of Bodie?if not.it sure would be nice to see your take on it,keep blessing us with awesome videos dear,stay blessed!
David Ramirez
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Somebody used it as a shoot house. (Indoor shooting practice)
Nice
I don't think that smoke stack will be staying intact for much longer, interesting video, mercury is a huge pollution issue, it is toxic even in it's ore state..
The border was jack and jill
4:46 LOL, I'm pretty sure that is a food serving cart. 9:04 Kurtzmann & Company operated under that name from 1901 to 1935. So the newspapers are from that time period. Probably closer to 1935 then 1901. It's not really surprising the LA Times was there. Keep in mind that Las Vegas was just a very small relatively unimportant town until the 1950s. So the nearest major cities were LA and San Francisco. They probably got the LA Times mailed there. So the miners could get the news.
Snuffy Smith?
Must had his wife and. Kids that bedroom with Dutch boys looked like it was a kids room, and maybe that tin room with all the little rooms could of been rooms for the miner and wife if they brought their wives someone had to help with the cooking
Reading the comments this reminds me of the movie McCabe & Mrs. Miller which took place in a mining town. I'm sure there were other women in this town as well and the superintendent's wife was similar to Julie Christie in the movie.. the prostitute in charge.
I wonder if cabin #5 was a brothel?
5 stars
I am a Sccarred that you gonna fall thru the floor, Be steady Hussy!
14:30 industrial pizza brick oven
Google the headline to know the date.
At like 9:45 Larry scared the heck outta me