500-feet Level Sulphate Stope Tombstone Consolidated Mine 1904-2013 #2
by David Lee Guss
Title
500-feet Level Sulphate Stope Tombstone Consolidated Mine 1904-2013 #2
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"Following years of recession and closure of the mines Tombstone's population had sunk to 646 people according to the 1900 census. Early production figures are not accurate, but it appears that Tombstone mines produced more than $19 million dollars of total value from 1879 through 1886. Following the loss of pumps, mines still averaged around a half million dollars a year for the next ten years and $4.5 million from 1897-1907.
The Tombstone Consolidated Mines Company was formed in 1901, new pumps installed and mining continued below 1,000 feet. Magnesium flash powder made possible this photo taken in 1905 on the 500-feet level in the Sulphate Stope of the Consolidated mine. It shows laborious hand drilling of holes for blasting with the only light coming from candleholders spiked in the wall."
Miners "clothing included a wide brim hat stiffened with resin, an undershirt, union drawers, woven shirt, baggy trousers, and boots or ankle-high brogans.
Many were miners from Cornwall in England, also known as Cousin Jacks, along with Irishmen and refugees from Pennsylvania oil fields."
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