The Lost Town of the Uncle Sam Mine - Has Nobody Been Here in a Century?

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  @PartTimeExplorer · 4 years ago · pinned

  Thank you everyone for the continued support! There was a lot of interest in me making a video about the Mizpah Hotel, which I&apos;ve published here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9S9BequQRw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9S9BequQRw</a><br><br>As for the canyon, it&apos;s one of the most remote places we&apos;ve explored, but it turns out some people have been there in the past century for sure and a couple comments had some excellent additional research on the place. I&apos;m now planning a Part 2 of this video including some of the new information that was shared as well as some of the material I cut from this video. Honestly, I didn&apos;t anticipate this much interest in the subject and trimmed out quite a bit to cater to my usual subscribers. There isn&apos;t much to see of it, but I&apos;ll be including shots of the blasted mine entrance as well as more surveying of the town. &nbsp;I hope to have that out on this channel Saturday, March 19.

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  @thebigred1megayaught911 · 4 years ago

  The large building was the bar, kitchen and scale. I have 4 poker chips fused together from time and weather we unearthed in 1971when we went back. The entrance is at west end of great smokey valley where our ranch was. The governor of Nevada in 1972 flew over the canyon with me at 6yrs old and I broke my finger in the plane door on that trip. All in all 5 trips we took into the mine and we came from the gold rush end. I have the documents and photos to show. I am completely excited that someone else took the trip there and I would be honored to donate the chips to the public and meet that gentleman. I&apos;m the last survivor of the mine and I now live in selah WA . The records for the mine are in my mother and grandfather&apos;s name in the Nye county courthouse. Bert Leroy Carder and Francis Joan Carder. Only one town I didn&apos;t get to see was Kimberly Nevada which is 15 miles southwest of Ely and I would love to get information from there

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  @Jadegreif · 4 years ago

  Living in central europe, where pretty much every square centimeter is occupied today, I find this very interesting, that there spots like these that haven&apos;t been visited in over a century. I always underestimate how huge the US is. Thanks for the video, really great to watch.

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  @terryhigdon802 · 4 years ago

  Sorry, but I am an old explorer of the west. &nbsp;I am 75 now and unable to do much. &nbsp;Me and my friends were Marines. &nbsp;We would plan for a week of &nbsp;exploration. &nbsp;We used burros to help with supplies, as you had to walk into these areas. &nbsp;Really enjoyed our discoveries, but no one was interested in them at time. &nbsp;Found many claims, with stone monuments that had the old claims inside inside old tobacco cans (Prince Albert). &nbsp;Left everything as it was. &nbsp;Glad to see that someone is documenting these places

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  @bruce2keys217 · 4 years ago

  Alan was a trooper hiking down 3 miles, exploring around and then hiking back up 3 miles during extreme heat. Right On Alan !!!

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  @Mr100741 · 4 years ago (edited)

  A lot of credit to the old man for making this rugged trek in the oppressive heat. &nbsp;Many much younger men wouldn&apos;t or couldn&apos;t have done what He did.

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  @thoughtful_criticiser · 4 years ago

  Well done for walking down and up that valley. Next time you attempt something like that drop a water store en route to pickup on the way back. Saves carrying it. I used to work regularly on 52°C and above, in desert conditions, we always dropped water to save on carrying it.

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  @lorim7849 · 4 years ago (edited)

  That stamp mill belonged to my grandfather. The McCoy&apos;s mined that area in the early 40&apos;s. Pigeon Springs had a cabin that was their home. Above the stamp mill was a canvas tent. They mined the Buster mine. The shovel at Tonopah museum also belonged to my grandfather and his brothers. A man by the name of Roy Wilber had a couple mines as well. He lived in a cabin from 1932 I believe until his passing.

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  @niallwildwoode7373 · 4 years ago

  Using a drone to save you hours of trail finding misery in such heat, was a game changer. Great video - I really enjoyed it from the comfort of my UK homestead.

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  @TamaraBeinlich · 2 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;ve been to this area in the late 70&apos;s early 80&apos;s. We use to look for where the old outhouses were and dig for old bottles. Men tended to sit on the pot drinking and when the bottle was empty they dropped it into the hole 🙂The buildings were in much better shape then. I still have many bottles collected from our treks into the hills. Thank for posting this, bring back many good memories of my younger days.

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  @VeeDubConnoisseur · 4 years ago

  Best part of exploring the SW US mines and ghost towns is how well preserved they are. In the Pacific northwest, alot of the old camps are over grown and or rotted away. There&apos;s not much left to see.<br><br>But in the desert, there&apos;s much more evidence left.

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  @MaryOKC · 4 years ago (edited)

  My dad, in 1965, bought an old house that was a stage coach stop for mines in the mountains of northern ID. The house was 100 years old when he bought it and 6 acres for $500. We lived in the house and it still stands today. The property had lots of smaller bunk houses all over the property and several old automobiles as well! My dad even got one running and my mom drove it around and people looked at us like we were nuts … today I still love old cars. None of the buildings were made of stone/rock…everything was wood. ..up the road were three mines and all were made of wood and falling down but there were three huge settling ponds and when I say huge I’m talking huge…it’s a big EPA headache. Arsenic, lead, mercury, iron…all coming from the ponds where the cribbing is collapsing. Good memories. Thanks for the video.

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