Mysterious Miners Camp

hello everyone it is stephen and andrew from pin in the atlas and we have stumbled upon another little mining camp would appear now we don't know anything about this place whatsoever it was one of those i was looking through the binoculars and i spotted something so we decided to investigate and this is what we found so let's explore we're going to start here with the workshop and work our way through the other buildings and at the end there is a surprise so you got a bunch of wire hanging up an old ladder got some miscellaneous tools and things on that bench it's like a bunch of newspapers all over yeah september 18th or 16th 1990 so fairly modern yeah the great scheme of things yeah oh i do have found a little uh one of those are they prince albert tobacco tint tobacco team no writing no writing now here spray painted there's a it says let's say located whatever else is hidden behind that thing but located 1970 three three possibly now i wonder whether or not they painted that or whether or not that was just a piece of wood found that they've used that they've used again perhaps some of this is pretty uh like all the wood and things see all that just the the parts scattered throughout in different containers mines have obviously taken back over and what i oh here we go look at some of those incredible vehicles brand new 89 nissan pickup 7 000. how long ago was that this was uh 89 89 centra 69 66 240 sx coupe oh styling 12 grand for that one and the nissan pathfinder you still see some of those on the road to this day sixteen thousand two eighty eight wow so 80s 90s early 90s i do like this little cabinet up here and they've even put fabric over it to make it look pretty originally a woman's touch no doubt just guessing but i can't see a hardcore miner making a little cabinet looking pretty i could be wrong yeah look at this old kenmore washing machine you can see there it does say kenmore now what age would that be that beats me washing machines aren't my thing seven tests maybe by the design possibly and the color color of rust was that popular in the 70s this is top top yellow oh and we'll head over here well this is a bit natty because this is just propped up on barrels so i wouldn't have thought it was particularly safe yeah i would imagine there was a lot of movement in there i mean it has got some wood structures would support but predominantly barrels well making use of what they have now let's see if i can open this door i'll get you to poke inside without stepping in side there's a latch and i can't quite reach it i need a stick or something pink oh wow if you can see that so several rooms shall i see if i can get in because it might take my weight all right i'm actually going to brave it in here hopefully the floor will hold my weight so let's start from the right so you've got an old single bed headboard wooden and there's the base and a single bed that's a tiny bed what's in here don't know what those are an old chair mattress it is actually surprisingly sturdy the floor she says when it just creaked oh no not going in that bit that might be a bit silly i obviously spoke too soon you can see around there and then in this was obviously a bedroom it's very very hot in here bedroom and again i'm not going to venture in but you can see an old chest of drawers there and it was wired for electricity you can see there's a light socket in the wall and then this would be a second bedroom i take it so i wonder if this was like a bunk house that's got me that floorboard creaking like that it's got me a little bit nervous yeah no damp doesn't smell just very hot a few rat droppings and that is about it oh there we go so before we stop yeah before we go into the house i wanted to check out the fridge just containers what's on the bottom nothing bit of plastic and the drawer empty all right okay let's see what treasures behold us in here the fly screen now i'm wondering whether or not this was an original miner's cabin from back in the 40s or whatever similar sort of era but then it's just been carried on being mined and used [Music] wow up until the 90s very very stale moldy but extremely cute i guess we'll start clockwise so these are oh my goodness a pantry there yeah still filled with food plates pots pans that one's a bit uh sin worse for wear no mice droppings in the pantry at all 2012 expiry date i'm not gonna dig around too much in there see what's in the other side cleaning products huh paint the little brushes brushes and readers and soaps cute cute little sink now these work boots uh is it me or they are either female or for a very young boy because they yeah the soils are i would say they're more likely to be female but no i'm thinking more of the size look how tiny they are i mean i've got small feet my feet wouldn't fit in there right so yeah female shoes let's see ah not going to go into that box [Music] route's on that's home let's pop that backs quickly firewood faraway and there's some drumsticks oh yeah and another newspaper i'm not gonna go through the back of that just to get to the newspaper gorgeous stove that's for the sixth burner that is lovely and no no mice or rats oh what's that in the bottom that's another one of those on the top lids i'm not sure what they're supposed to be called okay so you've got an o2 a 95 i like that etching up there yeah that's cute isn't it and then you've got some papers october 78 skiing what do that is i won't show that's got the address on so i'll cover that up because that's got the address on of the person who owns the place or did own it diane rain 1979 79 so it was the first one that i said 78 so i'm just gonna pop those back again some more up here smithsonian skiing could go on forever couldn't hear a little table with one of those plastic picnic tablecloths oh it's a formica table and i've noticed that there's a 2010 calendar and now so this lots and lots and lots of poop so you've got a closet wardrobe it's with some bedding linen closet yeah and i'm going gonna close that i probably can't it was open when we came here uh let's see what's in the bottom that's not gonna close trying to not breathe too much uh rat's nest so not even gonna go there and then further in here an old tv dressing a chest of drawers which that is wet with rats we look at the door whoever lived here loved animals bionic dog moo is in peak condition with a pacemaker how funny so he loved dogs love for sale isn't that gorgeous little puppy no date on it though he's got his jacket still hanging the bed like right next to the window so this would be kind of like a i guess we would call these a bachelor apartments where you've got a living room and bedroom and then a separate kitchen yeah like a studio it's type and a stove would have been in the corner up there you've got a vent pipe very cool isn't that quaint and obviously the other door that goes back out so they've got a front entrance and a back entrance all locked up again and along the outside we've got a bench oh pair of jeans i don't think those are levi's so an old shovel shovel look at that a wire spool they've used as a table or mouse trap on top i think that's such a natty idea looks like an old shower pan there so this was the bedroom lounge yeah this is the other door and the other doorway with the horseshoe facing up for good luck and again you can then see the where the nails go in the little square nails yeah that's a really tiny horseshoe and that old uh part of a stove i guess is it your guess is as good as mine or is it just a like a container small pots on there interesting [Applause] then a bench seat out of a car as we stated earlier we're going to save the best for last and here is a homemade little mill operation we'll take a peek inside and see what's left a large door clad with metal here's one of the homemade stoves very cool instead of an old 55-gallon drum you got some miscellaneous parts in there look at the tiny little door it's kind of buried yeah the earth has taken it over that window's all popped out over there too but you can see there's water pipes running all over the place in here there's still a hose there's several water pipes you're right there's that's up on the next level we'll walk up to there inside in a second and they definitely had electricity because i found uh what do you call these that's one of those like insulators but i couldn't see any insulation of any electrical pylons coming through so no i'm not sure then of course here the the workbench a bunch of newspapers bolts and things so we'll walk on up to the next level and get a closer look at that an old sardine tin with the key still in it and then right here is a ore chute still got a conveyor belt on there and the gearing so what they did was very clever they've uh built this mill on the slope of the hillside make it easier for them might be able to hear the wood creaking with the wind so i'm curious with all these pipes and water valves where on earth are they getting their water from because i haven't seen any sign of a spring anywhere nearby no perhaps they stumbled across a well somewhere got the water rights and yeah here's another valve with the hose buried now a bunch of serpentine belts there very cool next level up you can see the floor those boards are not in very good shape so we won't venture up into that if you can see the ore chute there that angle going down so it would have continued through that little section there so part of it is missing then some other items on the floor like right there looks like a fire hose a type of same type of material and a rope and box and some other fabric rolled up it looks like over there and we've got one more level to look at but let's take a moment and appreciate all the work that they put into building this with the materials that they've got on hand see the railroad ties and they keep them sturdy like this one on the corner put tin around it all the bolts and all the just the amount of hours and labor that went into building this so they could start to process what they were mining they worked very hard and then here's the top up at the very top i know the light's going to be bad for this but this is where the process started seeing what dumped their ore down into here don't know if you can make out all the little divots that the metal is taking so the bigger pieces obviously wouldn't go through so they wanted the smaller stuff process it all the way down and like we've been saying no explore is complete without a trip to the loo this is a funny lou because it's got a chimney obviously the chimney is not attached but it goes down right next to it yeah i thought that might have been for to venting out the uh you know the bad stuff the poop it won't close hasn't closed for years [Music] and there's one more little thing and that's this little building up here i'm guessing that's another oil i think it probably is two trips to the bathroom take it from a female you can never have enough loose this one looks to be in much better shape the wood floor i'm puffing hiking up here how uh how high are we i have no idea six thousand oh you can't get in but i really need to go there we go kind of looks more like a little sauna wow thank you for coming along with us to explore this little mining camp it was really cool to see all these places really preserved yeah and you never know what you're going to discover with a pair of binoculars and just driving up an unknown road and on that note get out there go and explore put another pin in the atlas and we will see you on our next adventure bye [Music] baby dvd