Arcadian Mine

10
Dec

A Beautiful Failure

Arcadian Mine | Hoist House | Rock House | Shaft House (24) Comment

For all of the Copper Country’s copper richness, the difference between success and failure was often a matter of feet. A lode that proves extremely rich to one company can prove helplessly bare to another only a few hundred feet away. But the bombastic success of mines such as C&H and Quincy drove a highly speculative market, prompting an insane amount of investment in mines that had little chance of succeeding. No mine illustrated this concept as beautifully as the Arcadian. It was Standard Oil in fact – the oil dynasty run by Rockefeller himself – that developed the Arcadian Mine in 1898. With such a name like that behind the mine, investors saw little chance of failure.

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11
Dec

A Typical Stack

Arcadian Mine | Boiler House | Smokestack (1) Comment

While there was very little left of the great Arcadian Mine when we had last visited, there were still some treasures to be found. The most notable was what you see above, a large poor rock and brick behemoth rising up from the ground apparently all by its self. How we missed this thing the first time through is beyond me, but it existence we should have predicted. As mentioned here on this site many times before, hoists need boilers to supply them with steam, and boilers need a large smokestack to vent off the smoke from the coal. If we look hard enough we are bound to find the remains of this stack somewhere on a mine site. At Arcadian we just didn’t look hard enough.

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