As we were driving up to this mine we came across this
camp or something. It's kind of extensive. Here's a shot looking around at all the structures.
Lethe saw this
thread there on the left -- a spool of thread. I'm not sure what that was used for. Wow!
Those chairs have seen better days.
Looks like this was a barbecue pit here.
Here's another chair. Here's old metal plating they put on for the wall.
Look at the design on that!
Yes, here's the outhouse. This might have been a shower, too. They had a toilet.
There is a toilet in here and maybe a shower. There are all kinds of pipes going across
up on the ceiling, too. There's a bathtub right there. There's a bathtub over here.
Oh yes! Look at that! Wow! Luxury! They had a bathtub here. There are the pipes for the
water. There are two pipes, so they must have had hot and cold water. That's pretty fancy for as far
out as we are. We are pretty remote out here up on the mountain. This is how we drove in.
What's that? Oh, look at that! There is a jar of green beans!
Wow! That doesn't look that old.
Nick was saying that there's a message here: "History Repeats." There was a
jar like this at the Moser Mine in Joshua Tree National Park that had white powder in it, and
I had heard that the powder might have been cyanide which was used in the processing of ore.
So that's either a jar of flour or a jar of cyanide. I'm not sure. I'm not going to test
it either. This is quite the place! Let's go check inside the main cabin here.
So let's check out this part of the cabin. There's Nick! NICK: "Hey, guys! " Wow! This
is pretty extensive for a mining cabin! Looks like there are some storage shelves in there.
This was locked at one time.
And here's inside.
LETHE:
"There's a lot of canned food." NICK: "I know what we're having
for dinner! " There's an old mattress.
This is another bathroom.
There's a tub, and there's where the toilet was.
Look at that tile! Those are 1960s or 1970s colors!
Yes, I think Nick found a bunch of canned vegetables in this room. NICK: "I don't
dare eat them, though, because there's no dates." What are those? Carrots and green
beans and is that about it? NICK: "I'm not sure what this." Yeah, who knows!
Here are
carrots and maybe those are beets. I don't know. So here's a close-up of one of these jars of green
beans. There are no dates on these jars, so who knows how old they are. I'm not going to eat them.
And these are definitely carrots.
That's some kind of a crawl space. That's kind of creepy. So here's that bathroom I just showed you.
Up above in the rafters are two big water tanks. There is one there and one right
there. That was obviously for this bathroom. They obviously had hot and cold running water.
This was a kitchen, maybe.
There was probably a stove right here because there are two pipes
going through the ceiling. Here's some storage space and then somebody's bed.
Look at all these pipes in the ceiling! There's an array of pipes up here.
I wonder what that's for? All these pipes! Well, obviously one came over here to the kitchen sink.
It came down right there, so maybe these were hot water pipes, and somehow that was
a source of heat. I don't know why they had that many pipes.