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Open-pit mine. Called "The 300 level," it was so named because it's 300 feet below where the first excavation was made. Waste from the pit was used to fill in the canyon where the large flat surface was used a the football and baseball field for Jerome High School and the various miner's softball teams. Tractors graded the filed to revive larger rocks before the games. The big tin buildings housed enormous hoists designed to lower miners into the ground. Built during the depressing at a cost of $1,000,000, neither the shafts into the ground nor the hoists were ever used. |
