Re: Stanley Mills: Part One....The Lincoln and Alma-Lincoln Mills.

Posted by Chris Walker on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Stanley-Mills-Part-One-The-Lincoln-and-Alma-Lincoln-Mills-tp3389p3394.html

These views above the Mill show some otherwise undiscernable details of the two Elevator towers and the stacks of Timbers for the mine workings.  Is that an International truck? 1941 model maybe?  Looking at this sequence of photos taken around the Portal one can piece together the surface trackage.   The tramtrack in the foreground runs back behind the photographer to the old Lincoln Mill and the Westernmost adit


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shows that the tramway needed slidesheds build to protect it from the ever-encroaching wastedump.




An earlier view of the ALma Lincoln Adit.   This working is post publication of the USGS 1917.

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This photo was used by Harry Brunk in the Nov/Dec 1982 issue of the Gazette pg58 describing the Newhouse/Argo Tunnel.  

Whether Harry thought this was the Argo or just showed the picture as an illustration of a horsedrawn minetram,  I can't say.  I'm surprised that he didn't click as the Newhouse was built double-track right from the begining and the Alma portal is very narrow in comparison.



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I'll cover more in the next offering of Stanley Mills: Part Two.  Salisbury Mill and Donna Juanita Mine.  Soon.