Ruby Creek Mine near Bovill in Latah County circa 1933. Photo shows mine buildings in fore ground three early 20th Century automobiles are parked in the yard. Two miners are pushing an ore car along the track in the midground of the photo. The...
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,...
Miner operating brake and reverse engine. Close up of pipes, springs, bearings, and valves. A mining employee is featured in the right side of the photo.
Switch gear of the first electric hoist used at the Bunker Hill Mine operated by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company near Kellogg, Idaho. The hoist serviced the No. 1 shaft. Photo circa 1917.
Drumbs and wire rope on a double drumb hoist in an underground mine hoist room. Hoists were used in shafts to raise and lower, men, materials and ore. Hoists operate like elevators.