This ghost town used to be the wildest mining town in Utah

This ghost town used to be the wildest mining town in Utah
This SightseeingSally ghost town episode is divided into TWO videos. You can watch Part 1 here:
• Utahs wildest mining t...
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[@richardbeee]

Harmonica reed

[@SightseeingSally]

Ding, ding, ding! We’ve got a winner, sightseers!!! Congratulations 🥳 if you want your sticker, please email me an address to where I can send it.

[@richardbeee]

@SightseeingSally You should have my address as you sent me a thank you card. At least now I know it's a sticker. Thought it was a cup thingy. On my frig of wonder I stick you.

[@RiisPark99]

Great video--I’ve always been fascinated by ghost towns.

[@tictacjak5247]

It's hard to imagine 6000 people living and working there. Thanks for sharing!🤩

[@SightseeingSally]

You’re welcome! I hear it was also quite the wild and crazy town with lots of no-good doers around.

[@treeandaturd]

Jimmy Dean’s “Big bad John” was beginning to run through my head there for a moment!

[@juliogonzales5441]

Thanks SALLY AND MARTY 😊😊

[@SightseeingSally]

Our pleasure!

[@jimihendrix1575]

It's too bad Meandering Marty couldn't go with you to the 'head frame.' Wish he could've driven up there, he would have loved it! Another great video! Love you guys!

[@128titanic]

Hi, Sally. Thank you for your video. Best wishes and Happy the week. ❤

[@SightseeingSally]

Same to you! 😊

[@joannunemaker6332]

Fascinating old town. Thank you for sharing. Great scenery. 😊❤

[@Yey1nasJourneys]

Cool pieces of glass and good idea staying on the road walking. Do you think that room with a roof that was low to the ground was that way to keep it cool in summer or??? Cool - harmonica 😗. I love old cemeteries. Sad so many children died due to lack of appropriate medical care . So the fence is like a cage for the dead? Never knew that! Cool to see all those buildings. Thanks for bringing us along Sally. This has been an enjoyable video 💐. Those shacks are cool. Truly historical stuff!

[@jenniferbaragar8254]

My Grandma commented on “gated plots” in cemeteries as an old belief. The thinking was to keep the living away from suspected deaths due to communicable disease!

[@SidDTheSimschannel]

The Miners built the roof to keep the sun from shining into the mine entrance which would stabilize the temperature of the gases inside the mines, the second, reason is they built roofs of the mine shaft to keep animals and people from falling into the mine shaft, some mines even had shaft that connected to the general store of the town so the miners could get equitment and something to eat without leaving work.

[@cleokey]

Thanks for taking us along 😊

[@colacola2]

Your my neighbor SALLY - MARTY ! Northern Michigan ! Love your vids . New Subscriber P.S. THUMBS UP !!!

[@moviedog1]

When I retire I want to visit all the old west ghost towns I can find, or just ghost towns in general. But until then, thanks Sally for bringing all this to life for me. And at 3:45 it a Harmonica. I have a couple of your stickers. love them.

[@SightseeingSally]

You’re welcome K! If you don’t already have it, there’s a really interesting book called “Ghost Towns of the West” that you’ll want to pick up to use as your guide.

[@moviedog1]

@@SightseeingSally oh thank you, I will look it up.

[@edvalentine5127]

Great video, Sally! You are the best. Thanks again!

[@oldtop4682]

I knew about this place, but have never been there. I'll have to fix that problem the next time I'm visiting some family near there. I suspect you may be able to use a bicycle or even an electric bike to zip around there v walking it. Another town, that Louis Lamour himself tagged as the wildest of western towns, is Alta, Utah. For about a year, that place was off the chain crazy. Known gunmen law officers were brought in to tame the place. Now, it's just known as a ski area, but it has a pretty interesting history (as does Park City).

[@JohnShinn1960]

5:29 Black Bart appears to have a termite infestation. 👍🤪 Thanks for the tour you two! Stayin tuned! 👍🤠

[@SightseeingSally]

Hahaha 😂

[@sandyzalecki1145]

My dad was a cowboy and I have no idea what that thing is you found. I guess I'll just have to wait for it. Great video. That was quite a town you showed us.

[@northernbackwoodsman263]

cool place, The game show you were referring to. My dad was in the audience once and met the original host. :)

[@tonyhill6300]

It looks like you did a lot of hiking for this video. I could see the roads had tire tracks so I was wondering why Marty didn’t drive to the sites.

[@richardbeee]

Hey Marty, i found you an old abandoned warning siren mounted on a hill in Southern NV. Last used by General McArthur. Makes a nuke siren. Bring your ladder!😊

[@SightseeingSally]

Marty says he’s on it lol

[@richardbeee]

@@SightseeingSally let's go!

[@NOLADEEJ]

Love ghost towns!!!

[@SightseeingSally]

For sure! They are the Old West version of Urbex exploring.

[@sapphiresword139]

Did it make noise when you blow on it? If not then it's a type of bicycle-rack for the cowboys spurs.

[@SightseeingSally]

Yes, it did. 🎼

[@sapphiresword139]

@@SightseeingSally Then it's a male harmonica.

[@onrycodger]

What an awesome find. You an Marty need a side by side to explore the desert with. But then, how often could you use one?🤔 May not be worth towing all over the country. Anyhoo, just a thought because Marty would've went ape over that mine. As always, Thumbs up!😎👍 Hey! Weren't you just on a train's engine with meandering Marty?😁✌️

[@richardbeee]

Thanks!

[@SightseeingSally]

Wow, thank you!! 😁

[@ClayMunson]

Old harmonica

[@garybryant6148]

Sally did you post a video this week I have not seen one?

[@SightseeingSally]

Not yet, should be out within the next hour.

[@katerhodes6945]

Sally, those "cross-like" poles r/were probably telegraph poles.

[@Dogsout78]

Am I seeing things or was the header on the door frame of the last building of the video constructed of old railroad steel rails?

[@lindaniedringhaus8790]

Could those pits be where dynamite was stored?

[@1954shadow]

The spirits will be the only thing left after a time for this ghost town. Have you ever visited, Cuervo, NM? It is an interesting ghost town, was there some years ago.

[@davidcarlisle6244]

Road to the right can't be anything but "Right".

[@andrewmacaller]

yap harmonica i found one in bodie and you should leave it were you found it you dont need bad luck

[@quantumedgeLLC]

Juice Harp or a harmonica

[@aussiegoer]

Harmonica reed…😉🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@SightseeingSally]

Yes!! 😁

[@aussiegoer]

Do you post the sticker to australia 🇦🇺🤔🤣🤣…..nice vid sally and Marty

[@richardbeee]

Up by the head frame was an ore bin. Still ore in it. Over by the "big dig" where all the tunnels were going into the cliff face was the remnants of the pit. Where the collapse occured. I can't remember if it was 12 or 16 miners perished due to the pit walls collapsing. Some i understand are still under the rubble. They didn't stair step the grade. They just dug. Eventually causing the wall to collapse after a shot. Just as the guys ran up to it to see how it did. I have heard also that there is/was some company interested in mining it again, especially with the price of silver on the rise. But it's a very speculative business. So who knows. Wonderful explore. Most of the babies died from diphtheria or scarlet fever. Amazing how modern medicine has changed our stats. Be cool. Peace.

[@SightseeingSally]

Sounds like you’ve been here before. One source I read after the fact claimed there were no fatalities. It would be quite amazing if that were the case.

[@richardbeee]

@SightseeingSally yea there was fatalities. I don't remember how many.

[@ed2111964]

The remains of a old harmonica

[@granthryze2694]

Are the no trespassing signs still there on the roads leading to the mines on the mountain ?

[@cherylyoung440]

Harmonica

[@MrSTOUT73]

What is a "head frame"?

[@bryantint1339]

Already on the road? I am stuck in King County.

[@patriciaguenzler9150]

I hit like button ✅ everybody thanks 👍

[@robertchristian4679]

Have you ever been to Ceirco Geggo in California

[@petekeller1424]

Why couldn't Marty have driven up there? Looks like others have.

[@hooty7396]

Radiator

[@tictacjak5247]

Open air dining! HaHa!

[@SightseeingSally]

I hear it’s all the rage 😜

[@todddewey7218]

Earth home.

[@seanyancy1809]

Lets ask Marty he always knows what the deal is thank you guys for bringing us troglodytes along.

[@griswald7156]

Maybe they built in a trench to stay cool….

[@SightseeingSally]

It could have been used for cold storage but I don’t know that for sure.

[@griswald7156]

@@SightseeingSally they used to dig holes to store ice through the summer in the UK..

[@richardbeee]

As i just donated again, y'alls should have my address. That round thing ya sent me must be a coaster.

[@SightseeingSally]

lol no, that is a sticker. But it might work as a coaster.

[@kennykittrell2549]

Hello Sally and Marty from Longview Texas

[@SightseeingSally]

Hello Mr. From Longview in Texas!