Along the mining trail

[lumbercamp]

Here are a few items that I found at a mining town the last couple weeks. The first photo shows:

Miniature horse shoes. The mines here were drift mines, dug into the hillside. Miniature horses were used to pull the mine cars loaded with coal. Full size horses would have been too large to fit in the mines.
Stove lid from a cook stove
Broken mattock

Second photo

A stove poker.
A short spike remover used in the mines. Again a full size one would be too cumbersome in the mines.
A full size pick head.

Third photo

A mining pick used in the mines.
A broken copper mallet.

Forth photo

A miners lamp. I found this last fall, but cleaned it up during the winter.

 

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[colorado14ers]

epic relics!!!! where are you located?

 

[MaineRelic]

Great relics Lumber ! Finding and preserving those lumbering and mining relics is a fun , fasinating , and important hobby . I love the miners lantern Excellent recovery Happy hunting and keep us posted MaineRelic

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice finds Lumbercamp! HH, Mike

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

The lantern is cool.
Don't thionk I could be a miner though.

 

[lumbercamp]

epic relics!!!! where are you located?

Pennsylvania, in the middle of great bear and turkey hunting, but no longer good deer country.

 

[huntinghunter]

epic relics!!!! where are you located?

Pennsylvania, in the middle of great bear and turkey hunting, but no longer good deer country.

I believe that would place you somewhere in the vacinity of Potter, Elk, Cameron, Clearfield area...Love it up there...Had a camp in those parts a couple years ago...Stopped going, the deer herd diminished drastically...I visit once in awhile for bear and turkey!

 

[lumbercamp]

epic relics!!!! where are you located?

Pennsylvania, in the middle of great bear and turkey hunting, but no longer good deer country.

I believe that would place you somewhere in the vacinity of Potter, Elk, Cameron, Clearfield area...Love it up there...Had a camp in those parts a couple years ago...Stopped going, the deer herd diminished drastically...I visit once in awhile for bear and turkey!

Right, there are areas I hike in the winter and I see more coyote tracks then deer tracks in the snow. Years ago, you could go in the woods and hear deer snorting all the time. I don't know when the last time was that I heard a deer snort. Young kids nowadays would have no idea what a deer snorting sounds like.

 

[huntinghunter]

epic relics!!!! where are you located?

Pennsylvania, in the middle of great bear and turkey hunting, but no longer good deer country.

I believe that would place you somewhere in the vacinity of Potter, Elk, Cameron, Clearfield area...Love it up there...Had a camp in those parts a couple years ago...Stopped going, the deer herd diminished drastically...I visit once in awhile for bear and turkey!

Right, there are areas I hike in the winter and I see more coyote tracks then deer tracks in the snow. Years ago, you could go in the woods and hear deer snorting all the time. I don't know when the last time was that I heard a deer snort. Young kids nowadays would have no idea what a deer snorting sounds like.

Those were the good days at deer camp...anymore you have tourist bothering the elk around Winslow hill or Bennezette, I can remember herds of deer and my dad and I bugling the elk in, back some distant gas line or having a camp fire only to have a local bear show up to the smell of roasted marshmellows to run us all into the camp...Ahh..the good ole days....

 

[kuger]

Your mini horse shoes are donkey shoes.

That is an early (1850ish) pick as well!

I found a wooden crate 200' back in a mine that had six of those oil lamps,still have them,they are in great shape....as is yours

 

[lumbercamp]

Kuger, you know your shoes. Someone told me they used miniature horses in these mines. (They were wrong). I checked with the history of the area and it stated that mules were used in the mines. I should have checked before posting. The mines here were all closed up years ago, so there is no way to explore them.

 

[kuger]

Kuger, you know your shoes. Someone told me they used miniature horses in these mines. (They were wrong). I checked with the history of the area and it stated that mules were used in the mines. I should have checked before posting. The mines here were all closed up years ago, so there is no way to explore them.

Thanks L.C. actually Mules and donkeys are two different animals(You probably knew that)each shoes are easily distinguishable when you have seen a few.There were Mules and donkies that spent there entire lives in the mines,never seeing daylight for there whole lives Horses make poor beasts of burden compared to the others