Joshua Tree: Contact Mine, Pinto Wye Arrastra and Wall Street Mill

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A small four horsepower International upright gas engine drove the wagon wheel through a pulley.  Ore would be placed in the rock lined channel and as the wheel turned it would pull heavy drag stones over the ore, crushing it.

A small four horsepower International upright gas engine drove the wagon wheel through a pulley. Ore would be placed in the rock lined channel and as the wheel turned it would pull heavy drag stones over the ore, crushing it.

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