The Kennecott Mines


Bonanza Main Barracks, circa 1918:




I have several photos of this structure. In front is the boiler building. Behind it and slighly up the hill on the right you can see a stack the seems to come out of the ground. It does. That is one of the entrances to the mine.
The other major entry point was behind the ore bunker that you see on the left.  The ore reached this bunker by means of hand-tramming on 30 inch rails. The ore was then dumped into one of two compartments of the ore bin. Below the bunkers were chutes that allowed the ore to enter the aerial tram buckets for the 45 minute ride down the hill. (click).

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