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Show TRANSCRIPTION OF ORAL INTERVIEW WITH CLYDE WOLF, BILL, BOB CONRAD mucking room where finished sample was done - now an office BILL: We would pull the ore carts from the thaw house to the hopper. Six men up on top of car who would trip and 1/2 the train car would go right down into the hopper. Then sweep that part out, then they would pull the rest of the car down and dump the other half; that is on the gondola side car. The other carts, the silver carts with three doors - a different looking ore cart. This is the main hopper drop area. All cars that came in were belly dump type. It [the ore] came up here and there was a screen that trapped the larger rocks hit this crusher. Then the crusher would take it up there and they had a cone that would pulverize the ore & then go through these shakers and break it down. Had three different size screens that would break it [ore] down and it would run back down here. There were two separate operations - East & West sides. This is east side of mill known as Mill "0", the west side the floor has been filled in. This [east] mill was built after the sample mill burnt down- fire destroyed old mill about 1922-26. The west wall built 1890s or early 1900s for the other building. The ore went up there through cones, through the procedures, then go over and out to chute to load it back into same cart. Area where hopper is, the lower area of the mill: there was a crusher, its big motor located left corner. The motor was set on top of the chute. Ore went from car to here to crusher then sort it to a certain size [about a river rock] then go up to cone & pulverize it, then back down through 3 screens. GHOST STORY CLYDE: Me and a police dog came in one winter night. We got here and the dog froze. The hair on the back of his neck stood up. I never knew what it was, so we retreated and went home. That spring, Gunnard Andersen came over and told me there was only one man killed at this mill. right in this spot [where the dog froze] a bar rolled of that thing and hit him on the head. Gunnard Anderson was a contractor in Murray, he built Mortuary. Bob never had any "ghostly" experiences. Big pedestal with hole in center - ? There was nothing in this basement. LOCATION : 100 feet from the south end: rail/dock put in by ALLminerals upstairs: The existing hopper was put in by Allminerals. There was nothing else on this floor. third floor: There was a cone, and a conveyor belt to top. The conveyor went through the roof. BOB: In the 1970s there were 500 tons of berite in a bin here- the cinderblock room was put in by Allminerals, before, this room was empty. CLYDE: One time I saw a broken rail- I flagged the train down & made him stop. LP cars blow up whole neighborhood . North end: The ore dropped down from the upper part, big cone. Allminerals altered this area- punched holes in floor- it did not go clear to the top. The ore came from over there. to this cone. It took 8 men to set up the cone to size it for crushing-tighten bolts down or release them. A cone is a round object, like two dishes, 6 feet around. A cone was located 50 feet from North end of building. Ore would then drop down onto screens, each screen its own size, down to the size of flour. There were 3 screens. Clyde: there was an elevator we could ride up to top. Little Room in North End, West side: This room was used for parts and tools - a tool crib. In this area three 27" I beams support whole floor. Top of conveyor was here. Landing: area is original [except for a hopper put in by Allminearals]. There is a 10 ton hoist used to raise parts to work on/repair the cone. These are the original lights here. |
