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| carbide lamps replaced candles |
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| One of the types of drills |
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| Most mining was done in vertical shafts - miners would stand on that board up there and work |
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| Epsom salt leeches out of the walls |
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| The purple vein is flourite - often associated with gold around here |
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| This 'donkey' replaced real donkeys when Roosevelt outlawed them in the 30s. |
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| new stalactites |
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| for drilling overhead |
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| Can't tell, but this is looking nearly straight up |
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| riding a passenger cart (would not have been used by miners) |
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| the tool 'shed' |
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| There are no tunnels - there are cuts and drifts. Cuts are transportation corridors and drifts follow the veins. |
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| Mollie was one of the only females to stake a claim - the ore pictures is what she found that led her to make her claim. |
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| A Victor miner developed this communication system with the surface |
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| Cripple Creek from the overlook |
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| https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178445512/rhody-baayen |
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| Couldn't find the story behind all the markers at the Cripple Creek overlook. Maybe it has become a popular place for ashes or general memorials? |
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