Jay Wrix: I do want to add that the building last picture seemed very unstable and right inside the door its being held up by sheet metal and people that put logs into it to prop it up, and i wouldn't recommend...
Jay Wrix: And those are the tunnels i found, Thank you for clarification on what I found, i really wasn't 100% sure what they where used for but I was sure they where large tunnels, at least two, And Glad you h...
Jay Wrix: That underground building that was blocked off is just a a basement, with two sides, and a wall in the center, there's old boxes,metal shelves, metal tools, a sink, a stove, and candles all over it ki...
Jay Balliet: That is unless the entire tunnel is actually still intact past the barriers....
Jay Balliet: Are you sure about the location of "E" on your map? It seems like a pretty long ways from the shaft to have "mine stench"....
explorer: Oops! My mistake. Here I thought I was on to something but it turns out I should of been paying closer attention back in my Mechanical Engineering days...
Thanks everyone....
Bill In Indiana: The cut is original to the construction and is a keyway used to lock the nut and keep it from turning once tight. The "key" goes partially in this slot and partially in a matching slot in the nut thus...
Jay Wrix: Im going to have to agree with Gordy,
Keeping a torch that straight and that nice for that long, and just to bust a nut off, Not likely what someone with no intention of keeping the base of the struc...
Gordy Schmitt: Those cuts in the bolts sticking up look more like a way to keep the nut from coming loose. They look to "clean" to have been cut by someone wanting to scrap the hoist. I would venture to guess the nu...
dcclark: I really like the photo with the edited-in drive shaft, axle and drum -- it makes the whole arrangement much clearer!...
explorer: Welcome aboard Tom! Great story, and though I wouldn't of had the guts to do into the adit I wish that the building's were still standing today as they were for you back in the day. It sounds like an ...
Tom: I was about 14 years old in 1956 when I first explored the Cliff Mine site. I visited what I now assume to be the Avery Shaft House which was still standing at the time. I have 8mm movies of this stru...
Gordy Schmitt: http://www.mg.mtu.edu/mining/mining/MINE_SHAFTS/baltic.jpg
Techs old Mining site had this one of the Baltic #2 in 1897.
Looks like the same mine although with less clutter than the link in the other...
Gordy Schmitt: In the 1904 Copper Handbook they were already called 2, 3, 4 and 5 with the new #2 coming online in 1906. Also mentions #2 having a new engine and hoist house in 1904. That maybe because the early #2...
