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You used to be able to go in but they now have it fenced off. However, you can find pictures on the internet. Top photo is looking up the inclined trestle. Note the winch used to haul ore cars up the loading rails.
My research: During the Depression, the mining regions here experienced a second gold rush. As miners arrived, long-time rancher-miner Bill Keys recognized the need for a gold processing mill. In 1930 he bought the Wall Street Mill site, which had an existing well. Keys gathered the stamp mill and other machinery from area mine and mill sites to assemble his mill. For a fee, he processed ore for small-mine operations. When the gold was removed from the ore, it went back to the miner, to a smelter in Mojave, or to the U.S. Mint in San Francisco. Keys ran the mill on an as-needed basis, last using it in 1966.
http://npshistory.com/publications/jotr ... t-mill.pdf 1975: The bunk house was a two storey structure which has partially collapsed in such fashion that it is difficult to ascertain what the original configuration of the building was* The walls are of wood frame construction, built directly on the earth without foundations, These walls are covered with rolled mineral surface paper held in place by broad-headed nails and wooden battens. There is no stair to the second floor and apparently never was one — access must have been by exterior ladder. The ground floor featured a bedroom, a kitchen, and a living room or parlor with a rubble stone fireplace. Crudely and flirasily built and much decayed, this bunkhouse is not regarded as being of significance,
The outhouse or privy, located some distance from the bunkhouse, is in an advanced state of collapse. The roof is missing except for three rafters; part of one side wall is gone; the door is missing; there is a large gap in the front wall beside the missing door, Like the bunkhouse, this ruin is not regarded as being of significance,
My research: During the Depression, the mining regions here experienced a second gold rush. As miners arrived, long-time rancher-miner Bill Keys recognized the need for a gold processing mill. In 1930 he bought the Wall Street Mill site, which had an existing well. Keys gathered the stamp mill and other machinery from area mine and mill sites to assemble his mill. For a fee, he processed ore for small-mine operations. When the gold was removed from the ore, it went back to the miner, to a smelter in Mojave, or to the U.S. Mint in San Francisco. Keys ran the mill on an as-needed basis, last using it in 1966.
http://npshistory.com/publications/jotr ... t-mill.pdf 1975: The bunk house was a two storey structure which has partially collapsed in such fashion that it is difficult to ascertain what the original configuration of the building was* The walls are of wood frame construction, built directly on the earth without foundations, These walls are covered with rolled mineral surface paper held in place by broad-headed nails and wooden battens. There is no stair to the second floor and apparently never was one — access must have been by exterior ladder. The ground floor featured a bedroom, a kitchen, and a living room or parlor with a rubble stone fireplace. Crudely and flirasily built and much decayed, this bunkhouse is not regarded as being of significance,
The outhouse or privy, located some distance from the bunkhouse, is in an advanced state of collapse. The roof is missing except for three rafters; part of one side wall is gone; the door is missing; there is a large gap in the front wall beside the missing door, Like the bunkhouse, this ruin is not regarded as being of significance,