Elkhorn, Montana

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Elkhorn Mine and Mill

Tailings Dams of the Elkhorn Mine

A peculiar feature of the reduction plant at Elkhorn is shown here. The tailings are impounded by a series of dams built up of sacks filled with tailing sand. The bags are those in which the salt used by the mills is received. Their cost is therefore trifling, and when filled with sand they form excellent retaining walls. These dams are made necessary by the fact that the water is used by the ranchmen downstream for irrigation.

Incline Shaft of the Elkhorn Mine

Miners at Elkhorn, Montana 1911

Elkhorn District Map 1900

60 foot long timbers at close spacing necessitated by loose slate roof - Elkhorn Mine.

1,250 foot level of the south stope - Elkhoen mine.

Timbering in the Elkhorn Mine

South end of 950-foot south stope, Elkhorn Mine, looking south

60 foot long timbers in the Elkhorn Mine

Elkhorn Mine

Vertical Transverse Sections of the Elkhorn Mine

Incline Shaft of the Elkhorn Mine ca. 1900 (Colorized)