looks like a retired stone mason who never had a family. probably had a Portland lime deposit on his property to mix all the mortar on location with the sand and water

What an amazing place ... I wonder, what made the wood beams to give in.

Some truth to the phrase "If you build it they will come" That fridge bathroom vanity and kitchen sink 100% someone would repurpose it.

Frank Vinatras place before he got big !

Its one of my dreams to do something like this or restore one. Have seen many video of people stumbling onto very old homesteads on blm land that are very obviously still being tended to by somebody once in a while.

fantastico

Wonder how blazing hot that place must have been in the summer

Fascinating video! Back in my Army days, I used to train at nearby Fort Irwin. The desert landscape is beautiful and you uncovered so much history. Great work.

Pretty cool hike it would be exciting if you explored some more of the mine😊

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Yep, cool mine area! We went there many years ago and took the route you took. Yes, very steep. We found going back up a lot easier on our knees than going down.

Fascinating. so much remaining . . .

Nice ,Thanks for sharing..difficult to live out there.So beautiful ,i can see why they settled there,and why they left..so sad.

That old trailer reminds me of the one scene in kill Bill movie

Those burly cacti sure do remember whoever planted them.

Love it thanks for sharing!

I know how rude this sounds. But like my old man used to say. Everything goes to hell eventually.

love the area its near home

What a neat place

I spent a long afternoon near the marble quarry digging my 2WD truck out. I had driven too far up the road and tried to turn around. Big mistake. I eventually got the truck to hard ground and backed down most of the 3 miles back to the highway. Interesting quarries and unusual type of mines for this area.

For clarification. The Bates Well Ranch lies within the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument property and was built in 1935 as a working ranch, which is certainly not a significant portion of the 1900's. Robert L. Gray, Sr., is historically significant locally as a cattleman who with his sons, Henry, Jack, and Robert Jr., strongly influenced the cultural landscape of the monument with no less than fifteen properties devoted to nothing but cattle-raising. Sonoran Desert cattle-raising is certainly of vital importance to Arizona history. The period of productivity for the property dates from roughly 1913-to-1942. Thanks for the upload.

Happy holidays 🎄⛄🧑‍🎄🎄

thanks for the video. Regards from Ody Slim

Another great find.must be way out there. No graffiti. Good work

Nice find. Thanks for your work.

As you said "amazing stonework", some industrious and talented folks put great effort into this. I wonder who owns the surrounding area or if it's just government land. The actual idea of living on the desert appeals to me, water being the major priority would of course need to be dealt with first off. A fantasy would be to have a livable unit helicoptered in to a location set up with a water and power source. At my elderly age I wouldn't be equipped to build anything on my own even though I do have some knowledge and skill in those areas. But to be able to live in such a desert surrounding would be wonderful. Thank you for the fine video.

A lot of work went into this place.

Horrible.... I am from Maryland...a user-friendly, hydrated verdant place. I do not understand being in desert. If one can control where one is....😂❤❤❤

Looks like an old mining townsite... It's huge.

My wife and I just stumbled upon your site and really enjoy seeing the desert landscape. We live in rural Michigan with wall-to-wall pine trees. It's interesting seeing something different. We also enjoy the historical background and information. Keep up the good work.

Sad really

Very cool! I do similar videos on my channel.

Not even 2 minutes in and fucking ads. Fuck KZbin ads and blocking another channel.

Very nice place beautiful

That first area was a pool that’s been filled in. There were a lot of those out there in the 50’s & 60’s.

It must have been expensive to have a propane truck come out and fill that tank. This at one time must have been a group of survivalists but time made them retreat to civilization. Wow it would have been a peaceful place to live after all the work was done.

With the amount of stonework, they could’ve build a stone house completely

Ive see this cabin on YT before

Where is this at?, what state is it in?

I have plans to move to the SW and start out with dispersed camping on BLM land...if this place were eligible (for inhabiting), I'm in (figuratively and maybe literally)!!!😊

Wow nice video Explore nevada..🤔

Those sure were wise words about the water

Theres a lot of f16 crashes around gila bend. Have you been to any of the crash sites if they didnt clean them up?

Looks like the well went dry. Which caused a catastrophe.

A pretty nice hike have a Happy Thanksgiving 🦃😊

Nice to learn more about places that are abandoned there history

You're blowing my mind with all these places you're visiting that I have absolutely no idea where they are. I thought I've explored all of the Southern California desert thoroughly! You've gotta give me at least the vaguest hint of the area you're in!

Their spirits are still around these places

It’s been abandoned for as long I have been alive.

4:03 that's where the opening to THEM (1954) was filmed...lol