Independence Mine

Independence Mine, originally uploaded by aimos325.

"Those holes in the mountains will stay there and that's the only
monument that the miners will ever have, because they just wander off
the face of the earth. They'll go back into the ground just like the
buildings at the Independence. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust I guess,
the miners, the buildings, the whole darn thing. The only thing that
will be left will be the holes in the mountain that were burrowed in
by various people. The names won't be inscribed anywhere but the holes
will be there. It will be there for as long as that mountain lasts." -
Joe Sertich, mucker and miner