Northwest Shovel

Sterling Truck I *Start Primitive Trail (1 mile) C Robson's Ranch Chapel Tractor Surface Exhibit J Mining F B Solar & Mining Power Plant Equipment Superintendent’s A G Mill Shop House (PRIVATE) Camp Rotary H E Pressure Blower Extended Campfire Tour Starts Here Ring * Foot Trail Large Drag 18 Bucket Rock K Ore Wagon 19 Hill D Crane 17 20 39 15 16 21 Litsch’s Boarding 8 9 House ENTRANCE 12 13 14 22 32 33 34 To Hwy 71 - GATE 35 36 1 mile 6 7 23 24 25 Main Street 5 End of 4 Parking 26 31 Primitive 3 27 28 29 30 “The Plaza” Trail Short Tour Starts 41 Hiking Trail to Here* 10 the Black Tanks 2 11 38 (about 1.5* miles) Ferrier Display 37 1 Early Day Mining 40c Gold Foot N 40b Panning Equipment Bridge 40a P 40 Carriage House Wash

1. Hand Operated Winch 12. Dillon Hoist 23. The Manche 34. Blacksmith Shop 2. The Whim 13. Road Grader 24. The Jumbo 35. Machine Shop L 3. Rock Arrastra 14. Water Pump 25. Air Tram 36. Fire Engine The Sputter Wheel M 4. Allis Chalmers Iron Arrastra 15. Gardner-Denver Compressor 26. Nella-Meda Opera House 37. Cook Shack Well Driller Rig 5. The Davis Whim 16. Ingersoll-Rand Compressor 27. Gold Leaf Restauran 38. Miners’ Cabins The Fairbanks-Morse 6. Chilean Arrastra 17. Two Stamp Mill 28. The Mercantile 39. Litsch’s Bed & Breakfast First Generating Power Plant in Wickenburg 7. Rix Compressor 18. Charcoal Beehive Furnace 29. Barber Shop & Assay Office 40. Carriage House 8. Huge Fly Wheel 19. Mercury Still 30. Hillside Press 41. Ice Cream Parlor/Admission Most of the tour is 9. Farm Equipment 20. Air Compressor Engine 31. Generating Plant & Gift Shop accessible to the 10. Office & Antiques 21. Early Manche 32. Five Stamp Mill wheelchair traveler. 11. Fairbanks-Morse Engine 22. Compressor 33. Steam Hoist Welcome to 7. Rix Compressor – this compressor was a bearing ore or cinnabar. Cinnabar was placed 29. Barber Shop & Assay Office – the red stripe forerunner to the Gardner-Denver, the modern in the upper over; a wood fire below heated the on the pole indicates that the barber was also Robson’s Ranch air compressor. It has a Climax tractor engine cinnabar to a point that vaporized the mercury. qualified to perform medical procedures. The made in the early 1900s. It operated the air drills The mercury vapors exited by the pipe, cooled, assay office was where many of the prospectors & Mining Camp in the mine. dropped and were collected in vast containing found out the value of their “strike”. 8. Huge Fly Wheel – the huge fly wheel at the water. The mercury was used to reclaim the gold 30. Hillside Press – this is an old newspaper office Robson’s Mining World is a step back in time at the gate came from the Live Oak Mine in Globe, and returned to liquid state to be used again. with an antique linotype machine and hand site of the Nella-Meda Gold Mining Camp. The mine AZ. The halves displayed at the gate were at one 20. Air Compressor Engine – this engine came press. Also, an ancient telephone exchange sits in a notch in the Sonoran Desert’s saguaro covered time bolted together making one wheel and used from Harrisburg, built in 1918 and had to be complete with a glamorous operator. hills. Trails around the mine lead to an ancient Indian to secure uniform motion in working parts of a cranked by hand to start. When it was necessary 31. Generating Plant – this store houses a steam- campsite, an old stage stop and miles of untouched machine. to be moved mules were used. Later it was run electric generating plant that once powered desert and wilderness. This is the land of stunning 9. Farm Equipment – old farm equipment from converted to be pulled by motorized vehicle. the lights in Kingman, AZ. vistas, star-filled skies and is home to many species of the 1800s to the early 1900s. 21. Early Manche – this engine was built in the 32. Five Stamp Mill - this mill was in operation at birds and animals. 10. Office & Antiques – this structure is a railroad early 1900s to replace the work of the mules in the Congress Mine, Congress, AZ and previously house. It was the trainmaster’s house in Aguila, the mine tunnels. It was powered by electric at the Vulture Mine, Wickenburg, AZ. The Westly Rush family operated the large ranch AZ in the early 1900s. DC current and pulled the ore cars. It also 33. Steam Hoist – in the late 1800s this steam out of Aguila. They filed a mining claim in 1917 to 11. Fairbanks-Morse Engine – the engine is transported the miners to and from the mine. hoist was used at the Christmas Mine in develop the Gold Leaf Mine. In 1924 Ned Creighton from Pearce, AZ and drove the generator and This Manche was the first generation of the Christmas, AZ to hoist large buckets of ore that acquired the mine and renamed it the Nella-Meda in compressor at the Commonwell Mine. Manches. were dumped into open railroad cars and then honor of the two Rush daughters, Nellie and Alameda. 12. Dillon Hoist – this hoist was electrically 22. Compressor – using an old car frame and the transported to distant smelters. At times the The mine operated until 1942 when the Federal operated and came from Signal, AZ. To the right engine of a Model T Ford, an old prospector hoist was used to lower or hoist a small cage that Government closed all gold mines. of the hoist is a rectifier. The drum with the made a compressor. This is a reflection of the carried miners to and from the depths of the handle is a switch that controlled the speed of ingenuity and inventiveness of the men who mine. The mining engineer of the mine, Harold Mason the hoist. mined Arizona Territory. To right is another car 34. Blacksmith Shop – this was the heart of the became the caretaker and eventually received the 13. Road Grader – this grader was built by the engine used to make a winch. mining operation. Machinery and tools were deed to the mine. Charles & Jeri Robson purchased Adams Manufacturing Co. and called the “Square 23. The Manche – this engine was powered by made and repaired. On exhibit are forges, anvils, the mine from Harold in 1979. In the late 1980s they Deal”. It was the first road grader to be used electricity and ran very much like a street car on trip hammers, etc. embarked on the restoration of the mine. Fourteen in Phoenix, AZ in the 1800s and was pulled by tracks. It had a trolley wire overhead to conduct 35. Machine Shop – this shop houses antique of the original buildings were restored. Old buildings mules and later a truck. the current. This engine replaced the work of engines built in the late 1800s. Six engines have were moved from other locations, new buildings were 14. Water Pump – a row of steam and hydraulic the mules and pulled the ore cars out of the mine been restored and are in running order on a line built looking old. Slowly the town, once again, came pumps used to pump water from the mines. tunnels and pulled small cars transporting the drive. to life. 15. Gardner-Denver Compressor – this is the men to and from the Copper Queen Mine in 36. Fire Engine – this 1941 Seagraves fire engine more modern compressor used in the early 1930s Bisbee, AZ. with a Pierce Arrow Motor was used in Bagdad, The town is home to thousands of pieces of antique at the Magma Copper Mine in Hayden, AZ. 24. The Jumbo - in the big mines air hoses run AZ. equipment and 26 artifact-filled buildings. The 16. Ingersoll-Rand Compressor – this throughout the tunnels. This machine would 37. Cook Shack – when the Nella-Meda Mine was displays show how the equipment was used. compressor was made in 1928 and used in the hook up to one of the air hoses and drill holes in operation this building was the “cook shack”. Harcuvar Mine. The engine was hand cranked. and could also be used as an air hammer. Harold Mason, caretaker of the mine lived in this 1. Hand Operated Winch – this winch was used Just down the hill from this compressor is a very 25. Air Tram – this engine is unique in that it ran house for a total of 50 years. to haul buckets of ore form the shaft of the mine. old ore wagon used in 1863 at the Lincoln Mine on compressed air. Air was compressed into 38. Miners’ Cabins – these four cabins were built 2. The Whim – the whim was used to haul an ore in the Bradshaw Mountains and was built for the large tank at various stations throughout the to house the miners employed by the Nella- bucket from the shaft of the mine. The vertical heavy duty work. mine…like today’s “filling stations”. This tram Meda Mine. They were well ventilated, (note the drum was usually turned by a horse or mule. 17. Two Stamp Mill – when gold is still in the transported ore and men to and from the mine double roofs) simply furnished but comfortable. 3. Rock Arrastra – in Spanish “Arrastra” means host rock, it is known as “Lode” gold and its’ on a track. It was used in Bisbee, AZ after the 39. Litsch’s Bed & Breakfast – the boarding to haul or drag. Mexican prospectors used this extraction is called “hard-rock mining”. After the copper mine was partially closed down. house was constructed for the Mining World in device long before the 1863 Anglo American gold-bearing ore has been dug out of the mine 26. Nella-Meda Opera House – this building 1992. It was built on the same location as the prospector did. Power was obtained by hitching shaft or tunnel, it must be crushed to free the houses a first-rate collection of mineral one-story frame boarding house that served the a mule to the pole and walking the animal in a gold. The stamp mill is used and operated as its specimens and memorabilia from the early part Gold Leaf Mine. It has 26 units. Litsch is the circle. The large stones dragged over the lode name implies. The stamp acts as a giant pestle, of the century, in addition to the theatre seating maiden name of Charles Robson’s mother. ore, crushing it and freeing the gold. rising and falling by means of a cam driven by a area. 40. Carriage House – all of the trucks, engines, 4. Allis Chalmers Iron Arrastra – This iron power shaft which pulverizes the material being 27. Gold Leaf Restaurant – the Gold Leaf is a wagons and farm equipment in the Carriage Arrastra was operated by early steam or gas fed into it. The ore car was used at the Hillside fully operational restaurant serving fine home- House have been restored and are in running engine. This arrastra used water in the process of Mine in Bagdad, AZ in the late 1800s. cooked meals in the 1800s setting. or working condition. Paint and parts used in crushing the ore and flushing the gold to separate 18. Charcoal Beehive Furnace – this furnace 28. The Mercantile – This was Dick Wick Hall’s restoration are as near to the original as possible. it from the ore. made charcoal to be used in the furnaces that Grocery Store in Salome for many years. It See that tour pamphlet for more information. 5. The Davis Whim – this whim was burro melted gold so that it could be poured into brick closed in 1950 and Robson purchased the 41. Ice Cream Parlor/Admission & Gift Shop operated and hoisted buckets of ore from the form. building and dismantled it board by board and – the fountain came from an old mining town in shaft of the mine. 19. Mercury Still – mercury is a heavy silver-white reassembled it here. The merchandise came Colorado called Agular, est. 1896. In addition 6. Chilean Arrastra – this arrastra was operated metallic element remarkable for being liquid at from another historic store in Solomonville. to ice cream, soup & sandwiches; gifts and fine by two horses walking in circumference of the ordinary temperatures. It was used in mining Most of the unsold items had been packed antiques are for sale. arrastra causing the huge wheel to grind and because gold would adhere to it. This still was away in boxes for fifty years before once again crush the ore. used to separate the mercury from the gold becoming part of this store.