Inside A Mining Ghost Town – Red Mountain Town – Idarado Colorado
Inside A Mining Ghost Town – Red Mountain Town – Idarado Colorado
Idarado and Red Mountain Town is are bit of an enigma and is a hard Ghost Town to identify. The final resting place of Red Mountain Town is equal distance between Oury and Silverton Colorado off of U.S. Highway 550. However; the Abandoned town was moved once and burnt twice. Meaning you can find a few versions of Red Mountain Town. The Denver Times described the town by saying “Red Mountain was the mecca for all who were allured into the San Juan by the fickle goddess of fortune.”
The original town was settled in 1879 when a group of silver deposits was found nearby. At that time it was a small mining camp and went by the name of Sky City. The camp was below the National Belle Mine; however, it would later be relocated. This is because the residents of Sky City first built their camp in wintertime when the ground was frozen solid. Once spring came around the townsite became swampy, fly-infested, and messy…
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1:18 – Red Mountain Town History
5:23 – Strange Equipment Left Behind
7:41 – How it Became Abandoned
10:41 – How to say “Ouray”
11:52 – What the Clean Up Looks Like Today
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The medical equipment shown is an autoclave which sterilizes, by superheated steam under pressure, any durable equipment like surgical instruments and linens. This would be a must for even the smallest and most remote type of emergency clinic/hospital. My guess is that this equipment was at one time part of probably the only medical help in this off-the-bearen-path region. I have seen similar facilities in the boondocks areas of Thailand where sometimes just a nurse was on hand to perform surgery and other procedures that only doctors in Western countries would be qualified to do.
That is a sterilizer and exam or surgical table.
Thanks for this video and all that you do!
Beautiful country
I think it would be cool if they could figure out how to plant vegetation on the mts. that are denuded by avalanches. Cover those big scars to.
Yes, you clearly ran across the hospital. The first round horizontal cylinder is an Autoclave, a pressure steam sterilizer used to sterilize surgical instruments. The table looks to be an early operating table. The stainless steel rectangular tank is a hot water sterilizer also used for syringes, needles and other surgical instruments.The twin vertical tanks are probably a water still to provide distilled water.
Love all of your videos and the history within!!!
You should do a video on Gilman, CO. Definitely one of the more spectacular ghost towns in the state
5:52 is a sterilizer for needles, syringes etc. Before they had disposables. 6:55 also appears to be a sterilizer; maybe to clean glass Petrie dishes (used to test antibiotics on germs.) Again this was before they had plastic disposables.
The tubular item is an ‘autoclave’ for sterilization as you surmised.
Mark is right….It’s an autoclave…..a technology used today for everything from sterilizing dental tools to curing commercial aircraft fuselages (really….in Wichita KS). It a pressure chamber that quickly under various heat loads. Some of the largest ones are 30′ in diameter and 100 feet long !!
5:54 is a commercial Autoclave. The table would have been used by the mine/area doctor for everything. 6:09 This is battery chargers for the miners for underground lamps excetra! I grew up in a mining town in Northern Ontario!
I live in that general area, have for 28 years…this is neat to watch:)
So I went to this place and went inside these buildings first dual story abandoned building I visited at the time. I heard the were built in Eureka and moved to the present site in ’48. (making it one of the last standing buildings originating from Eureka I realized they had electrical outlets so obviously abandoned after the 20’s. Were this buildings abandoned when the Idarado closed in the 70’s seems like they were abandoned for at least 50 or 60
This is a great video of history .. Well done on the camera work.. I knew there were a large number of mines in CO but most of what you visited i did know about .. Very interesting .. Gawd what a hard life in the winter months ..
The instant I read "Red Mountain…" I clicked! One of my favorite books of my "Paper Time Machine" is "Narrow Gauge in the Rockies," by Lucius Beebe ("Bee-bee") and Charles Clegg. There’s a wonderful photo of Red Mountain at the bottom of Page 111, taken from high up, showing the mine buildings and the Silverton Railroad of Otto Mears, "Pathfinder of the San Juan" running along the base of a sort of sugar-loaf mountain in the back. One of the pretty little 2-8-0 Consolidation type locos the locals sometimes called "Sewing Machines" because of their valve rockers and stems flailing away behind their cylinders. Your videos have given me the urge to spend some time revisiting the book—with a cold drink by my side. I’m working my way through your excellent videos!
Hi Doug another incredible video..this one was definitely in worse shape then the last one I watched it looked like a old dentist room to me, it awesome you got to look inside some places this time.. that old wooden bridge at the end was amazing..👍see yah soon
😊 exodus from yellowstone blast 💥
😆 or chernobil of colorado 😷
That equipment was used for brewing espresso accompanied by an examination table used by people who over-dosed on the strong brew so they could be treated until they had their wits about them once again. Of course this is just a quess. Thanks for sharing the video.
Congrats on 11 thousand subscribers!!! That is an astonishing accomplishment my good brother and you deserve it lad!!! Was that you on the quad? Loved the old photos you dug up of this place mate plus the amazing facts and history you tell us all! Not sure if it was the hudson house but the first one you went into looked so unstable from the outside! (Just love how theres always that 1 creepy chair sitting by itself, but that one how it was warped was way trippy and cool) OMG lad that surgical table or whatever it is, was an epic find!! VERY creepy looking but such an extremely cool find mate! Im just as stumped though, i really couldn’t tell you what half that cool old school looking equipment was!! Pretty crazy though to know theres/or was 100’s of miles of tunnels!!! Thats insane! Very sad for that 7% of children with the lead poisoning!! Apology excepted with your mispronunciation HAHAHAAHAHAH straight up jokes brother, I really don’t mind, but i guess some do LOL
Some really cool footage at the end too mate!!! I hate repeating myself but as always your videos are some of, if not my favourite abandoned vids to watch!!! Much love lad and hope you and the family are doing well!! I know colorado literally doesn’t have that much abandoned places (i think?) but you always seem to find something, so thanks always for showing us all and informing us of abandoned parts of your beautiful city of what use to be. Peace from ajusta!!
Great find Doug there were some cool relics left there great story too awesome views as well
Pretty Cool Stuff
The leaning chair looked as if it was trying to offset the slant of the structure.
We saw the same type of light chargers (at 6:07) when we explored the Bon Ami mine.
Another well presented documentary of this mining town! Awesome job Doug!
AGAIN KNOW THE AREA WELL.WHEN I WITH OTHERS WERE THERE. WE HAD PEOPLE.LIVING THERE,I SAW AUTOCAIVE..ALOT OF PLACES ARE GONE. MIND YOU SPEAKING 47 48 YEARS AGO.I USE TO LIVE IN A MI NEING TOWN.IN COLORADO. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES.
❤️ the history of the places that you go to! Thank you for taking us with you!
Medical equipment looks like an iron lung something that they may have used for people that are suffering from the elevation sickness.