The Ghost Town of View Cove, Dall Island, Alaska
View of the Steam Shovel
What is now the Ghost Town of View Cove on Dall Island, Alaska, located in South Eastern Alaska, about 45 miles west of Ketchikan, and about 6 miles southwest of Hydaburg, which is located on Prince of Wales Island. View Cove operated as a limestone quarry camp where crushed limestone was quarried and shipped to Seattle, WA where it was made into Portland Cement. It operated a an active quarry from about 1928 to about 1942 when it was shut down because of World War II.
The Steam Shovel, Electric Powered, as seen from the Top of the Quarry Face, 1938.
The steam shovel loaded the chunks of limestone into the two cars being pulled by the locomotive. Rocks that were to large for the shovel to lift wer drilled with a jackhammer and broken apart by a stick of dynamite in the hole. The rocks were hauled to the crusher building, dumped into the hopper of the crushed, passed through the crusher and down into the hammer mill and then by a conveyor belt into the "glory hole".
A View of the Steam Shovel With the Quarry Face in the Background, 1938.
The Well Drill was located at the top of the quarry face, about 175 feet up.
The Steam Shovel as it Appeared in 1985.
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The Steam Shovel as it Appeared in 1985.
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