Today I set up and shot photos of the Wabash Valley Markle Mill elevator, and of the uncovered vertical shaft mine headframe finished before the elevator. I have a number of machines around it: rock crusher, portable stamp mill, cable drum and hoist, and a Hart-Parr tractor and Case steam tractor to power them. This mine complex is larger than that of the famous Matchless Mine of H.A.W. and Baby Doe Tabor in Leadville, Colorado. Looking at the Matchless, it is hard to believe that "Haw" told her to hold onto the Matchless at his death, and she froze to death in that little shack honoring his request. Photos done, I opened and began an American Model Builders "Farmer's Grain" elevator kit. Prairie railroads can't have too many elevators, although I already do.
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