Scale not given. Includes names of mines in vicinity: Cortez Silver Lead Mines, East Silver Belt, Silver Mountain (Bunker Hill and Hecla), Princeton Mining Company, etc. Includes parts of Montana.
Miners are being transported underground in flat cars pulled by an electric powered motor. Mine is located near Mullan, Idaho in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District.
Cordelia Farrer in dining room, Note icebox on left. This photo shows the furnishings and decoration of the dining room. Various pictures and photographs are displayed on the walls. Assorted serving dishes and utensils are arranged on the icebox...
The Caswell brothers in their cabin. The Caswell brothers discovered gold at Thunder Mountain in Valley County. The discovery of gold at Thunder Mountain initiated a massive rush to the area in the late 1890's. Left to right: Lew, Ben, Dan based...
Photo of two wilfley tables at the Yellowjacket Mill. Notice the bucket used to catch gold, bottom left. Materials ran down the trough from the first wilfley table to the second wilfley table.
Phots shows the lower level of the Yellowjacket mill. Ore was dumped beside the mill, then washed into a trough that fed into the trommel screen. The trommel discharged onto the wilfly table which caught the free gold.
Flotation cells in the mill at the Bradley Mining Company's Stibnite Mine. During World War II, this mine was one of the principal producer of tungsten and antimony in the United States.
Miners in the hoist room at a mine (probably the Checkmate) in the Pearl Mining District, Gem County, ID, Lower left man identified as L.S. Gerlough, later a Rhodes Scholar. Identified by T.D. Gerlough (now of San Francisco) of Squibb & County,...
Miners standing near the headframe at a mine near Pearl, Gem County, ID, ca. 1899. Note the miners candlesticks and candles in some of the miners hands. Candles were used for lighting underground before the invention of the carbide light.