This
image shows "First Shaft Opened at Pratt Mines" and is taken
from Armes, p. 275. Based on the locomotive shown, this image
would be from about 1880 -- the locomotive certainly dates from earlier
than that, and likely would have been "used" and purchased by
the new Pratt railroad.
According
to Armes, Slope No. 1 was opened first, then Slope No. 2, and then Shaft
No. 1.
Compare
this image with the following, taken from Birmingham Southern Railroad
Company, The First Century by Ron Mele, p. 5. The date is not
known, but the rail cars indicate that it could be about 1900.
Mele does not clarify the location as being one of the slopes or shafts. It is believed to be slope No. 1, since the surface plant
there is similar.
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