Exploration of the Eureka Mine, page 2


 

 

the winch room

This is the winch room.  The small yellow dot (digitally inserted, left center) marks the entrance to the room (the end of the drift leading from the entrance, past the obstruction).  The room probably measures at least thirty feet wide by about fifty feet from the photographer to the yellow dot.  The arched ceiling is about twenty feet at the apex.  The winze is under the ice in the front left of the picture, and the winch alcove is just out of the picture on the left.


 

 

 

Pike Hill winch alcove

The winch alcove.


 

 

 

the winch         the winch

Views of the winch.


 

 

pike hill ore cart showing wheels    2005 photo of ore cart

Just past the winch, there is an ore cart.  The wheels on the cart on the left can still be seen in this older photograph; by 2005, when the other image was taken, they are completely covered in ice.


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