Rochester (Pershing County)
Dump truck adds to the tailing pile at the Coeur Rochester open pit mine at the east end of Rochester Canyon.
How much longer this building will be able to defy gravity is anyone's guess.
One of the few foundations built with rock that we saw- this one had built-n shelves.
One of the advantages of the later camps was the availability of screens for your windows to keep bugs out, let cool breezes in.
This home boasted a pen for animals and a hammered-flat-cooking-oil-can siding, not uncommon in this camp.
 Closeup of that custom siding material, in case you were thinking about something similar for your own digs.
An argument for sunscreen protection
One of the many many dumps in the area.
 An interestng pottery or cup fragment is still colorful and ending up here. I wonder what its story is.
Downtown Lower Rochester is pretty much like you see here, hugging the ground. The remains, I should imagine, of someone's gate? Suspicious cows, looking east (you, not the cows)
This cozy little place is located on the south side of the canyon
Something catches Luis's eye. But what?
Lower Rochester, looking towards Golden Gate Hill (I think)
The remains, I think, of a freight wagon
This was probably a water tank.
The foundations of another mill in Lower Rochester
The Mill
The grate that separated the Big Ones from the Little Ones. This is on top of the mill.
A close up of the Mill
The rest room at the Mill
Various ladders, platforms, and work benches at the Mill
Inside the mill
Power came from down at the bottom of the canyon, up the hill, and connected here.
A bit east of Lower Rochester at what I think was the Octopus Mine
A view of the hoisting machinery at the Octopus.
Now here is the guts of a serious electric motor
Some heavy-duty rock crushing hardware
Kinda of a weird, spooky picture of the rock-crushing thingies.
Rock crushing took place here
Here's the whole gizmo
This is the bluest glass I've ever come across
Cropped from a 1916 USGS map of the Rochester Mining District
(Courtesy W. M. Keck Center)
Cropped from a 1928 USGS map of the Rochester Mining District
(Courtesy W. M. Keck Center)
It's dark, it's windy, it's blowing sand, we're in a gully- perfect conditions for a cook out!

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