| The old school building is in the center of the picture. The
"haunted" Goldfield Hotel is to the left. |
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| For a period of time this was the tallest building in Nevada. |
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| What a great example of an old gas station. I wish the old fashoned
gas pumps were still out front. |
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| This is the back side of the old school house. The size of the
building gives an indication to the population when the town was booming. |
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| As you might expect, there's a lot of old mining equipment to look
at. The side dump ore cars are really neat. |
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| This is a neat example of a |
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| This is a horse powered whim. A board would be attached to the
channel at the top and a horse harnessed to the far end of the board. As the
horse walked round and round, the drum would rotate either letting out or
taking in the cable. |
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| I couldn't see a manufacture date but it was patented in 1888! I'm
guessing it was made in the early 1900s. |
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| This winch would have been powered by an internal combustion engine
or an electric motor. This size of winch were sometimes used inside the mine
when a vertical or incline shaft was sunk to a lower level. |
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| These teeth were a safety innovation to stop the lift cage from
dropping down the shaft if the cable broke. A strong spring would cause the
teeth to clamp down on the wooden guide rails and stop cage. |
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| This is another example of the safety pawls. The roof was also a
safety feature to protect the miners from falling objects or a long length of
broken winch cable. |
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| Each manufacturer had a different design for the safety stop
mechanism. |
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| I believe that this is an air powered mucking cart. |
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