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jlsphotography > Remains of Mill, Masonic Ghost Town.
jlsphotography > Cabin, Masonic Ghost Town.
jlsphotography > Cabin and Mill, Masonic Ghost Town.
jlsphotography > Keane Wonder Mine, Death Valley. Ore was discovered in 1903 but the mine was not developed until 1907. It produced over one million dollars and was operated until 1916.
jlsphotography > Cable Tram of the Keane Wonder Mine. The system carried ore from the mine to the mill, over a distance of a mile with a drop of 1,300 vertical feet. The processed gold, silver and lead were hauled to Rhyolite.
jlsphotography > Leadfield Ghost Town, Titus Canyon, Death Valley. It was established in 1926 on fraudulent and distorted advertising. A man name Charles Julian formed a company called Western Lead to supposedly mine rich deposits of lead in the hills around Leadfield. He seeded the surrounding hills with high-grade lead ore to fool investors. Three hundred people invested and moved to the site. They soon realized they had been bilked, and by late 1927 the town had been completely abandoned.
jlsphotography > Methodist Church, built in 1882. According to the old miners, there were two things that signaled the death of a mining camp: a school and a church.
Remains of Mill, Masonic Ghost Town.
jlsphotography > Remains of Mill, Masonic Ghost Town.
Remains of Mill, Masonic Ghost Town.
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