Wow, that would have been one dandy trestle to serve that mine, basically hillside to hillside. They sure high hopes on a money maker

This Arial view does show a faint hint of a road or R.R. bed or the possible trestle on each side of the river that you located the footings.

It was a railroad trestle, I wish I could post the photo out of Monettes book , other than that short piece of right of way showing on the right side of the river, the rest was all elevated, so nothing else would show. The trestle went from the river all the way over to the Phoenix Ashbed Mine.

ahahahahah…that Crestview joke never gets old with you guys does it? lmao

all this reminds me of the parts in the Fellowship of the Ring where they are going down the river Anduin and pass the Argonath, and all the old half buried ruins of Gondor.

theres nothing much cooler than ruins, is there?

Before the Lord of the Rings comparison gets TOO out of hand, I’m totally calling Aragorn. That’s right, I’m a Ranger… named Strider.

Its officially gotten out of hand.

I was hoping Mike would do a post with pictures from the Mines of Moria!

Hmmmmmm, between the mythical Crestview and the mythical Fire God of “Phoenix”, I can understand whats happening.

I know I am coming into this discussion a little late but if memory serves this is just below a shaft. I think this is a reinforcing wall to help prop up the shaft entrance. There are three shafts up there. One on the point, one just above this, and another near the little water fall.

A supporting wall would make sense.
If it was a dam, it would have to been removed before the trestle was built. You wouldn’t want the trestle supports sitting in water, or the concrete footings would be much taller.
A support for the water wheel would be ok except what else is there to restrict the flow of water past it, the more current, the faster the wheel could turn, also the fact it would probably be a belt drive for the mill, that would be a long belt.

SMG…

Didn’t check on top of the cliff there and had no idea there was a shaft there. But that makes perfect sense. Thanks!

Looked in my copy of Keweenaw County Mine Location Maps, and it does show two mines on that corner by the wall and an adit once you pass the mill on the next corner in the river on the opposite bank.