A Family Mine Where Mining was Second only to Drinking
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2024
- This was a small, family owned and operated mine. From the looks of the tunnel they did not produce much, but from the amount of whiskey, beer and wine bottles, they did drink a lot when up at the mine. #ruins #abandoned #decay #desert #explore #travel #Nevada #deserttrails #mine
Thought you might want a little background on the Cleland Mine. In 1933 Duke Cleland and Howard Bryant went in as partners on these claims. I believe it’s 8 claims. During WWII they were serving their country so for those years the mining ceased. There was a rack mounted as you came around the corner and see the main house with each year welded on a metal strip. 1933 until he passed in the 90’s. Scrappers stole them for $$
As a family we spent every possible weekend at the Mine. It was a hobby. All of us kids loved it. He’d dynamite one weekend. We’d muck the next. The windmills were not for power. We had a generator. The wire from the main cabin was for a handcrank telephone at the main tunnel. Which also was stolen
as well as all the ore carts he had accumulated. Duke collected stuff. He was not a big drinker. He liked a shot of whiskey on occasion. And he and my aunt shared a glass of wine of an evening. But the bottles you see everywhere we’re collected from businesses in Bishop CA where he ran CLELAND BROTHERS RECAPPING. For 60+ years he was the original ‘recycler’ in his tinkering projects. Hauling his stuff over to the Mine on weekends. A fun guy and a fun uncle to all of us kids. I still have my original hard hat that I wore in all our adventures.
Great story! Please tell us more.
Wow! I LOVE that you filled in story of what was really missing in this video. So thankful to you for your first hand experience that you so interestingly revealed to all of us curious explorers.
Thanks for the background history
Thank you so much for sharing your memories with us. 💓
Does your family still own the mine claims
Duke Clealand owned a re-cap tire store in Bishop, Calif. His brother Sam owned the Coca cola bottling plant in Bishop.
Both were WWll vets and worked for my Dad before the war. They had a few mines around the country to play with.
Thank you for informing us to more of the story. I appreciate that!
If anything, Duke left his name to be spoken for all of eternity. We are saying it now. So I would say he did a good job marking his turf for all to see. No one will ever wonder who lived there. Enjoy!, Kurt in Santa Rosa, California.
Good job on taking people into the backcountry where many never venture.
at 9 minuets in the thing is called a track bender. it was used to bend the ore cart tracks
That’s the most sensible thing I’ve heard. Art owee
It's a machine for making retread tires.
Recently started watching. Thankyou. I lived in the Reno area 50 years ago and loved hiking in the desert. Yes I came across a few old mines. They had greenish water and no bugs. Not a good sign
If I had to live out there like they did I would drink too!😂😂😂
But looks like the corner liquor store is closed! Seriously, id bet it's quite a distance out of there, through the desert, and to the nearest town with a liquor store!
That's why you learn to make moonshine and your own beer
That family resides in Bishop they used to own the Coca-Cola bottling place in bishop. I know a few of them good people I live in the same town.
@J D
South of mammoth mountain ski resort or about 300 miles north of LA google map it
That is why so many bottle caps are there!
My wife and I keep wanting to move to Bishop. Owens Valley is the best kept secret in California
@@331Grabber
Come up any time and hang out we’ll go out and explore. It is a nice place to live I will say that
my mother was born in bishop my great great grandmother was one of the first settlers of lone pine it is so nice up there wish i had time to visit.
Great video! I really enjoy seeing the places you explore. 👍🏻🇺🇸
Glad you enjoyed
Thank you for letting us all tag along with you on your adventures.
I don't know if the bottle structure has the same meaning for the family but here in the south it's a type of safety totem. It's thought that the colorful glass attracted the devil/spirits and they would go into the bottle and get trapped then they wouldn't bother the people living there. Very interesting to see it there. :)
Thank you for a wonderful adventure !
I would love to explore places like these. Thank you for taking us on your adventures.
Thanks!! Love your exploring and attitude.
They’re not shooting the bottles because ammo is worth more than gold now. 😫
it's been like that for a few years now. I refuse to pay scalpers prices so I haven't shot since.
Sad, isn't it?
I was stationed in Fallon Nevada from 69 to 71. Sure did like the West and it's ghost towns. Great place.
Will See you on the Next One!! Thank You! God Bless! Very NICE!
I grew up in a place like that in the 1950's, my dad and grandpa mined all kinds of different ores in New Mexico. Thanks for bringing memories back, yes good memories.
Where at? I explore the caballo mountains.
Great video, thanks for taking us all on an adventure!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you. Great video
Great presentation and thanks for your effort to show us this peace of history. Like to know what they were mining though. I could not see any sign of the mineral they were after. To me it looked like they where having a good time living out there and digging the tunnels. Oh yes, can't forget all the adult beverages to make it all fun. Family still lives in Barstow. Amazing.
Amazing. Thanks
great video, I appreciate the way you are a low impact visitor
Awesome brother, thxs for the adventure. good times .. Be safe
Loved this, thank you.
I think that was an outhouse with a magazine for TP.
That’s what I was going to say😝
Definitely smart viewers.
The hills have eyes.
Thanks for sharing.
Any share is a good one interesting mine always has a stories past to share..,🙏😔✌️👍🤙❄️
You’re crazy going in alone. Thanks for showing
Keep exploring my friend I love your videos
Waving the camera around too fast
I do appreciate the effort and I’d love to see what you are shooting, however the camera moving that fast makes it difficult to take it in and is disorienting.
Need a camera with some image stabilization.
*_ And a Mic that doesn't pick-up his HEAVY BREATHING..... Stopped after three mins as it gave me the 'Woolies' _*
Phone booth! Out house! Nice vid very interesting
Just subscribed! I’m from the East Coast and love history. Part of the US I haven’t seen. Thank you!!
Great video. I spent a lot of time Jeeping the southwest desert in the 1980s before moving to Texas. Good to see the vandals haven't been there. Clear liquid inside the mine...nitroglycerin maybe? Best not to fool with it. Enjoyed the remoteness, always loved the desert.
I'm retiring soon and going to sell my home and live in my travel trailer. So, watching these vids gives me ideas on where to spend a month at a time for free and have nobody around to bother me. Thank you for this info bro.
Cool Insight!!
Interesting... makes me wonder what was mined and how much
Thank you for your video it was amazing I don't think I could have lived there tho, but you have to do what you have to, many thanks.
Just found your channel really love this sort of stuff! although your camera movements are very fast leaving close ups blurry! Like inside the cabin It felt like you just stood in there and swang the camera around in circles.. love the concept though
There is The Opening!! COOL!
Love your video do be careful
They must have found gold , silver. But a few kooks build a mine around nothing. Thanks for posting. 👍
Nice weather vane
I love the desert. This was right up my alley. Thanks! New sub.
If some one is stranded this place fixed up some can mean the difference in making it or not, so I think ti is positive that they are fixing it up, for weary travelers. nice video.
Thank you.
Very Good Video 👍🏻
Thank you Desert Trails . I always enjoy every video . I see dislikes and it always makes me wonder why anyone would do that . You go to some very interesting way out of the way places . I watch several other channels and they are all pretty good , I might like yours the best . I would enjoy going on some explorations with you . Keep up the good work . I can't wait for some more good ones . P.S , people say you pan around too quick . Maybe the viewers can just pause the video to get a better look ? Peace !
Thank you for that. I do pan a little quick. Even though I have been to some of these sites many times, I still get excited and I forget that I am trying to film for others to watch.
@@DesertTrailsExplored dont spend to much time worrying about people sitting in the basement worrying about your camera work.
It has been a lot of years since I was there but some where on their claim they laid bottles side by side and made trails through the brush and over the hills, we called it the bottle ranch.
Directly behind the outhouse up the hill and over.
thank you for going in the mind that was awsome i am wanting to go in one like that on the way to denali state park from ancorage i noticed them on the left side a couple years ago .that was so cool thanks
Looks like moonshine to me. That "stove" you showed looked like the remains of a still.
BS WRONG! There is no condenser and you have to have a massive amount of water for a still! Show me the water? no corn sacks nor sugar bags either!
@@donraptor6156 the huge rain collection system on the roof did you miss that? Plus paper bags are not going to last long with pack rats and the weather. But still it could have been for mercury distillation to free up the gold it's all just guess work...lol
wonderful vid - all that stuff and the make shift rail line are amazing, cool lizard and rat too
Glad you enjoyed it
Lot of work here.good vid
Thank you, for vicariously taking me with you, on your exploration. It was fascinating. How would I research about the history of this location, the productivity, and the family's? I'm guessing they were after gold or silver.
Amazing! Yesterdays trash heap is tomorrows archeologist treasure.
Did a google search for Deston Cleland and alot of links popped up. Died 1964 buried in Bishop.
that was Dukes father.
Great video!!!! By the way you talk to those critters I'm surprised you don't have a dog following around "comon scruffy"
That's the coolest wind mill I ever seen
WOW the only interesting thing about your whole trip is ALL OF IT So Cool.
Well Stay Cool!!
7:23. Sad the gaffics of a business was on this Truck 🚚 Box but have been scorched off by the sun 🌞
7:33 shows a possible hanging loop on the door ! 7:37 the ceiling is cold insulated and all the hooks to the left might be for home delivery of meat and cold grocery ? 1920 s maybe ?
Great find .
12:00 imagine that view on a huge porch when it was new !
Wow they were certainly very resourceful using every thing and converting things to make something different out of them.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💞
I do indeed enjoy the exploration of the desert. Joshua trees? Why not? The desert, right? Very cool site. Everything you're doing is absolutely perfect! Keep it up. Thanks.
You need a stabilizer for panning. I get a headache from watching your videos and I am really interested in what you film and your narrative. Would be way more enjoyable without the dizzying panning.
If you are that delicate don't watch! Move on!
What on earth are you talking about?
Nice!
Just subbed to your channel, love this type of content.. thank you and your doing a great job.. I'm from Wisconsin and love the desert life.. I know I'm in the wrong state but I do get to travel a lot on my solo trips on the road.. so I'm coming out that way in 2 wks..
I agree with you Regina. I like the West myself but I live in Louisiana. Worst than Wisconsin...lol
@@johnwilliams640 is it that bad there?? I hate Wisconsin like you hate it there. Best of luck and hopefully you can get out of there and explore. Sometimes you got to get away and see different parts of the world. Like Arizona, so much to see and do there..☮️❤️
Wisconsin sucks, out west yes please!! Stupid lake. Give me desert and mountains.
@@johnwilliams640 I was there last week.. then to the Gulf of mexico...
@@Regina0964 come out to southern Nevada and I will take you to a dozen mines and ghost towns.
I love all the names on the wall. Kind of poignant... I wonder how many of those folks are still around, where they ended up. Very cool video. Thank you...
Makes it really easy to find the corners of the claim.
EXELENTES VIDEOS FELICIDADES , ME HE PASADO LA NOCHE VIENDO VARIOS DE ELLOS.. UN ABRAZO DESDE CD. OBREGON SONORA MEXICO
Cool video But I Wish you Had Someone With You in Places Like That
To catch all the details, this video was more enjoyable with the playback speed set at 0.25 and muted the sound.
What a big couple families
Mate you took us to places we never dreamed about this deserted places, It's like we are going back in time, nice video keep up the good work, I will dream about one day visiting these abandoned places, where people have left their skills and marks .I would like to come there, may be one day, mate will you take me around there so that I can see thanks.
Glad you enjoyed
@@DesertTrailsExplored Mate god willing I will put this on my bucket list , one day I come there may be I will camp up there to see the night sky and enjoy the peace and tranquility cheers mate
Jim Beam Bottles make nice Sun Catchers ! 😜
Man, I love these. Thanks. Very cool to watch.
Great stuff here, subbed!
This is my most favorite videos of yours. I love the ingenuity of these people. Was there a spring?
No spring. Duke hauled water in 55 gallon barrels from Cottonwood Creek on the west side of Fish Lake Valley
Adding bottles to it. People just won't leave anything alone.
Some hard breathing. You might want to buy a gimbal to remove shake of video cost very little for what they will do to make video look way more stable.
I think the strange contraption you couldn't identify may have been a "petrol"pump? Thanks for the guided tours, I have watched a couple now and they are excellent well done all round. Greetings from Wales.
i really enjoy this video thank you i sub to you
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the sub.
Have you found any arrowheads in these old places?
I am really enjoying your videos. May I suggest when you point something out that you do more of a close up and just pause a few seconds? How hot does it get in these places in Summer?
Noted!
With so many people what did they do there? where did they get food an water for all those people?? how did they survive in an area that can get too hot n too cold??
more i think bout it...how can that many people live out there...theres not one big cabin..so the place..to me is too small for that number of people....doesnt add up.
Dang, that is quite the little operation they had going on there!
Saw the video and loved it. It brought me back to my family tree. I had a grand father that worked a mine in that area in 1927, all the family had was Cleveland mine. the last one to see it in the family was my mother who past several years.Do you have any more info on it which could trace info from. Let me know.. thank you....
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for sharing. I just found out a little more on the people involved with the mine. I think I will be doing an updated video after I have a chance to talk with the surviving members.
@@DesertTrailsExplored Thanks for replying if find any family names of Hancock Carl COYLE OR MEARS I can fill you in on more info on them.. Thank You Jim///
@@DesertTrailsExplored Pkease do a follow up !!
@@DesertTrailsExplored Any news?
What were the bits of white cloth along parts of the mine??
Thank you for the video. Is the location a place that is open to the public? I couldn't quite tell, but you mentioned that someone had cleaned up a bit at the first cabin. I gathered that this is likely a protected park of some sort?
Blm or public made with a claim
Duke's camp I always thought this was one of those weekend miner's video's
GREAT! Pictures! How old is the Mine!!! Itself?
Like those old tea kettles
Pretty Big OUT Fit!!
thanks for the great vids. I was wondering if you take security with you on these lonely journey's? I also wondered what you might do if you were bit by a snake or stung by a scorpion up in those desolate hills and mines.
I always wondered how and from where did all the whiskey in the Wild West come from. And how did they make cold beer in the desert!
There’s a post apocalyptic themed video game called Fallout New Vegas. The old abandoned ruins in the desert setting look just like it, and the currency in the story is bottle caps, so kinda ironic that you find them in abundance on the track. Lol
Well done ... l always wonder where they got water from ? .
This man made use of what he had out there very intuitive the way he made items like the bottle use I saw some 4 a second that lined the shed roof nice have fun out there desert tails show more of the cool items out there slow down enjoy & steer clear of the hungry 🦎 looks like he says ya want a piece of me come on🤣
Can't enjoy your hard work, gettin dizzy.
Thanx for sharing...
You sure are sensitive for being a man! Work on it Fred.
I think
the furnace is used for cooking the ore to release the sulfer.