carpenter and supply shop ghost

During a building boom in 1893, the Quincy Mining Company erected a number of structures at both the mine atop Quincy Hill and their mill site on Torch Lake. At the mine, the new construction supported surface operations, and included a supply office, oil house, and carpenter shop, all in the vicinity of the No. 2 shaft.

For underground workers, upward mobility meant becoming a miner or timberman. For surface workers, it meant moving from apprentice or general laborer positions into the ranks of skilled machinists, blacksmiths, and railroad workers, or boiler, compressor and hoist operators. They also advanced into the ranks of the carpenters working in this shop.

Today the supply office is used by the Quincy Mine Hoist Association for ticket sales and--fittingly--their gift shop. The carpenter shop which once stood beside it is #MissingintheCopperCountry

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1893

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