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The Vulture Mine EnginesBy Ed C. Stimpson, Jr.3682 Millcreek Road, Salt Lake City, Utah 84109 Cylinder-head of the Western engine. Cylinder-head of the Western engine the intake manifold and its complex fuel metering linkages are shown. The automatic oiler sits atop the cylinder driven by a slender pushrod. The crudely-marked disk above the drum rotated past a fixed pointer to indicate rotations of the winch drum and thus the position of the cage in the mine shaft. In the hot, dry Arizona desert about 60 miles northwest of Phoenix lies an idle precious-metals mine, the Vulture. Discovered in the 1860s by Henry Wickenberg and named for the nearby Vulture Mountains, the mine produced in excess of $200 million in gold and silver in its lifetime. The Vulture was shut down in 1942 by a government order that closed all precious-metals mines to concentrate mining effo... 810 of 22048 characters shown.
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