The shaft is capped with rail and steel plate, which lies underneath the dirt, the same as No. 9 Shaft is capped. The hoist is electric and still resides in the hoist house, it is a single drum and came from one of the Osceola shafts as did the head frame, which is a single compartment head frame used only for hoising men (as you guessed from the man cage on the landing). Homestake rehabed the shaft to about the 2200 level (+/-) and reestablished compressed air and water. Their goal was to find the offset for the Pewabic lode, as it pinches in the shallow workings inbetween No. 8 and No. 9 (Mesnard and Pontiac), coincidentally the pinch corresponds to a fault which is the northern control for the lode… The idea was that the lode was offset, Quincy never explored this option and Homestake only had one drill hole in it before they pulled the plug (managment change), which is also when they pulled the plug on Centennial, S543, what little work they were doing at Kingston and the other defunct C&H operations…

- Original mine — named Mesnard
- Acquired by Quincy, becomes Quincy #8
- Reopened by Homestake, called Mesnard again

Homestake left the metal frame pictured here — the link from Gordy is from the Quincy era, apparently.

As far as White Pine I’m not sure, although I know a few of the old mine buildings are currently being used. One is the power plant, which had recently been brought back on line, and the second is some time of machine shop or mill of some type. The mine itself is still being used for a variety of environmental and science studies, including an underground hydroponics garden i think.

As far as those ruins to the east of these structures – it is the remains of Quincy’s hoist and boiler plant. And dcclark is right..

…I’m going to feature those ruins tomorrow.