Mascot Mine | Hedley BC | Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2020
- Welcome to part one of our Mini Series!!!
Described as a daily game of snakes and ladders, a maze of stairs, skips and catwalks would take these mine workers to and from the mine offices, cookhouse, bunkhouse, blacksmith shop, the tram station and most importantly to the mine! Mascot grew to be one of the most stunning and unique operations in the world, perched 5,000 ft above the town, built directly on the side of the mountain.
Once in operation shifts ran around the clock, with 130 men claiming the Mascot as their home. The married men with families, would ride the empty ore skip on the tramline down the mountainside to 20 mile creek and follow a footpath into town Hedley.
We explore some of the 4800 level, the Mascot’s main portal. It’s called the 4800 level because it’s 4800 feet about sea level and stretches almost 1 km into Nickel Plate Mountain. The Mascot had 2 other main levels, the 4300 level, driven in 1948 and the 3700 level, driven in 1944. Many sub levels lie between the main levels, connected by manways, raises and inclines.
Duncan Woods, described as a down and out prospector, arrived to Nickel Plate Mountain to find out that he was once again late for the party as the ground in the area had already been staked up. Not the kind to easily give up, looking at maps he noticed a small 40 or so acre sliver of ground that hadn’t been claimed. Calling it the Mascot, the terrain was very steep and the work was hard, but Duncan kept looking for his gold. In 1904, the Daly Reduction Company, which owned the claims surrounding Woods’ and operated the Nickel Plate Mine, discovered that their main ore body angled into Duncan’s claim and the superintendent Jones, approached him to purchase it. No one knows what was said, but Duncan refused to ever sell if Jones was involved. Refusing to sell to his rivals, in 1933 Duncan sold the Mascot to a group of investors from Vancouver and they started the Hedley Mascot Gold Mine. The tramway was constructed, and was 4700 feet in length, ran at an angle of about 40 degrees and was one of the largest in the world. The majority of production took place between 1936 and 1949 producing over 7 tones of gold valuing an astonishing $47,000 000
In the 1990’s, the British Columbia Ministry of Mines deemed it a safety risk and planned to burn the site down. Fortunately this did not happen and steps were taken to preserve the site as a Provincial Heritage resource. The buildings were stabilized and rebuilt over an 8 year period and in 2004, opened for guided tours ran by the Upper Similkameen Tribe. The tours ran from 2004-2017 and The Mascot sits once again abandoned, a fading piece of history, a relic in the clouds.
“One thing about the stamp mill, was the tremendous noise it made 24/7. It is said that in 1955 when the last stamp was lifted, the town went a little vertigo without the constant noise and babies had a hard time sleeping without the crushing lull of the noise.”
Hedley Museum
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really glad to see that the restored this incredible work of art and its open to the public to see.......just imagine what it took to get all the materials need up there to build the structures .....not to mention how the found it to start with ....they were tough as nails back then I tell ya
Wowww!! Can’t tell you how happy it makes us to see a comment from you!! ❤️We were surprised to see you like a few of our posts on the California/Nevada Gold Mining page on FB and this just tops it off!! So, thank you 😀😀The Mascot is truly an incredible place and has been definitely a favourite of ours so far. You are correct there that’s for sure! It’s amazing to see what people were capable of and every little bit of it makes for great stories and even better pieces of history. Thanks so much for stopping by our channel Jeff, can’t tell ya how much we appreciate it!!! Take care and stay safe out there❤️
@@AdventuresRUs you betcha and you two keep them vids a coming and be safe out there .....so you know what I am gonna say huh .....you better ....So C'mon...let's Go !!!!
My great grandparents are from here ♥️ Always stop in at the country store.
It’s a beautiful area and a favourite of ours to swing by too. Thank you for watching and commenting:)
Amazing video. I just love all the rich history we have here in British Columbia. Thanks for taking us with you on this journey.
Great Show Allways wanted to go there...used to live in Princeton in 80s&90s heard Guys talk 🦜 about the Canary in the Mineshaft but I never went there......finally I got there in the Virtual 🌎🌍 👍😊 thanks!
Glad you came along and got to see a little bit of it :)
Your. Partner. Shure is. Very. SWEET !!!!
What a views in there! Great video! 👍
Another badass edit! Love the red rock and yes seeing that place in it's hayday would be something else. Awesome to see places like this not getting vandalized.
Thanks man! ❤️ Chyanne put this one together!
Wow thank you for showcasing your part of our world. I appreciate that nothing appears staged not that I can see how it could be fearless Chyanne is always 3 steps ahead of the camera.
We appreciate you kind words Allan! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Beautiful place to explore very nice.
Love the way you have edited this one - such a great tour thank you for sharing :)
Thanks for taking the time to watch. With it being closed and the future up in the air, we wanted to create a video to share it with everyone, and see it for ourselves before it was to late.Take care!
Great tour, so beautiful place. Thanks for taking me in this wonderful tour, my friend. Full watched and supported. Stay connected, my friend
Thank you for taking the time to watch the whole video!❤️ It’s a beautiful place and hopefully one day it will be open again for tours!
Great tour guys with such a history !!! Was good to share that stuff guys 😊👌
Thank you for taking the time to watch! It has a wonderful history and hopefully will reopen and start tours again.
Cool walking throught the old mining buildings. Lol that ladder at the end.
Thanks for coming along on the tour:) Yes, the ladder had seen better days lol
love the place I hope they don't let anyone touch it and leave it alone, amazing place for locals to look back on in history.
Thank you for watching and commenting. Yes it’s an amazing place with an even more amazing story! We hope that someone steps up and restores Mascot back to its glory days, definitely one of BC’s gems! Thank you for subbing, we really appreciate the support. Take care and stay safe.
Awesome view ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for commenting! The views of Hedley are incredible, take care.🤘
Great find, this one is a gem.
This is the same mine you told us not to bother filming or going in…
wow this place looks truly impressive and great
It’s an amazing area, a true gem💎! Thank you for watching and commenting.
Hi Adam & Chyanne, what an amazing feat of engineering, it must have been a very difficult task to build all of those platforms, stairs and building.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖
From what we’ve heard they might continue their restoration on the site and reopen it to the public again. It’s truly an amazing place and needs to be restored. Thanks again Sue for all your love and support!
You guys made it . Glad to see no one has trashed the place since we were there . Those stairs suck huh lol . Excellent video guys .
Thanks so much:) This place is amazing and surprisingly just tagged to death lol The stairs....ya.....they were rough lol
Welll that was quite the adventure! Pretty neat to see those old mines. You guys went plenty of places that I wouldn't. Too bad the tours were not running still. That place is starting to get dilapidated and dangerous. Way impressive how they build and mined these places back in the day. Cool video. Take care and be safe out there in these types of adventures.
It’s definitely too bad!! We’ve heard great things about it and if it’s not saved soon, it’ll be gone one day in the near future:( Thanks for watching and you guys be safe too!!
Great video one of the very few I've c which explains history you guys made a great video
Usually we try to add more storyline to the video, but this one was so long and I was worried about adding too much. My program I use for editing has been giving me some trouble, so I played it safe and put it in the description. Thanks so much for your watching and your nice comment:)
Awesome video guys! Had to delete my comment to get rid of some ad posts. ❤⛏
Hey guys! No worries! But we are curious, what do you mean ad posts?
@@AdventuresRUs for that movie deal. They make it like a chat, one account asks if anyone knows of a good movie spot. The next drops the ad, yeah check out such n such. But word for word same 2 accounts all over. Gets old. Figured I'd get rid of it. 😁
Ohh ok! Ya we get spammed on our comments sometimes, but we always erase them right away lol. Cheers and take care guys🙂
Really cool video, guys. Looks like a great place to explore. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for watching. It was awesome to explore the area and we can’t wait to go back!
One day, im going to move to the state of Washington so i can visit places like this. And even camp in Canada.
wow love it... amazing video, great view.... New friend here in Japan, lets stay connect.
Support from Japan awesome! 🤗 🇯🇵 Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
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Never got the chance to visit Mascot Mine, but we did do French's Mine while Geocaching once.
That’s awesome! It’s really neat there too, an entirely different experience! Geocaching is becoming a really popular thing. There’s one at most locations we visit lol We should get into it!!
Great video. The tour of the old buildings was the best part. Was there much spport under the floorboards? Seemed dangerous.
Thanks for watching this one:) Unless there was a lower level, then no. At times we could feel the buildings move with the wind!
Part 2 please.
Hello Don:) This is the part 2, but it’s of another mine up in the same area. th-cam.com/video/U3vHFIagHnc/w-d-xo.html
This was the third part of that trip th-cam.com/video/JdRT8ayM0XU/w-d-xo.html
And the part 4 if you make it this far!! th-cam.com/video/zzug0sr5j2o/w-d-xo.html Take care!!
Great video, just hope you don't end up in trouble like the last person who video'd this place. They found out the place is privately owned and the owners threatened them with legal action.
Thanks!! We spoke to the Hedley Museum and were among quite a few people there. Seeing there are lots of videos out there and thousands of pictures posted regularly, I’m not too worried!!! But stay tuned!!! 🙂
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Hey guys! Any way you could point me in the direction of how to get to the Mascot gold mine? I checked out the french mines today and it was unreal. I was actually searching for the Mascot mine. I would really appreciate it!
Hello Mike, do you have an email we could send the directions to, or if you’re on fb Chyanne can send you them there. :)
@@AdventuresRUs any chance you still have directions handy? We tried but were turned around by Nickleplate workers
Hope my videos will have the same quality one day my friend!
Thanks for the kind comment! Checked out your channel and it had some great content, keep it up!
Hey man when you went did you hike in?
Yes we did.
@@AdventuresRUs could I ask if you went though the town side or the "back side"
Through the back. I believe they’re working up there now and have built a road up to it. It’s supposed to be opening back up soon for tours.
At 44:33 it looked like 406 ft. level maybe.
It’s the 4800 level
Wow!Great content! LIKE for you my friends. come with me, May the force be with you!
Thanks for watching and commenting, we really appreciate it!
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