View of the Idaho Comstock mine shaft, located 82 miles from Grangeville. Two miners operate a hand powered windless. A third miner is cutting logs in the background
Open connected bucketline "Risdon" type dredge operated at Warm Springs near Idaho City, Idaho August 1899. The steam powered dredge was one of the first dredges operated successfully in the Boise Basin.
Steam powered close connected bucketline dredge ooperating in Warren Meadows near Warren, Idaho prior to 1942. The dredge was owned by the Idaho Gold Dredging Company.
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.
Water wheel and water powered arrastra on Silver Creek near Pierce, Idaho. Arrastras were used to crush ore to liberate metals from the waste rock. Photo circa 1892.