Photos from White Caps, including the giant roaster
1 Overview of the site
2 The wedge furnace
3 Lots of buildings, and some other visitors
4 I'm guessing the superintendent's home
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7 We got there before this fell over. Won't be long ....
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9 Someone took some pride in their work.
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16 A peek inside the furnace
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27 Judging by what's left, we figure this was part of the carpentry facilities.
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29 Limestone partly replaced by coarsely crystalline white calcite, 310-foot level White Caps mine. Nye County, Nevada. 1915. Plate 11-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 723. 1924. - USGS
30 Death certificate of "George" Fasia,who met an unfortunate demise working in the White Caps mine. His real name was listed both as Guliehmo and Guglielmo. I suspect the latter was his real name.
31 This was in my "White Caps" folder but frankly, I'm not sure of the source and have no idea what it is we're looking at here. Could be it, though.
32 This is a Herreshoff furnace, similar to the wedge furnace at White Caps, to give you an idea of the layout.
