Mule skinners (drivers) and pack mules loaded with cordwood where it will be transferred to wagons pulled by sixteen-mule (jerk-line) teams and hauled to ore mill at Belleville, Nevada. The ore was to be used for fuel.
Mule skinners (drivers) and pack mules assembled before a huge rick of cordwood at wood camp near Belleville, Nevada in 1880s. Wood provided fuel for ore mill. In the background, there are many tree stumps.
Sixteen mule team hauling fifteen cords of wood on one wagon to ore mill at Belleville, Nevada. Water barrel lashed to front of wagon, mule skinner riding wheel horse. The team is controlled by a jerk-line, a single line lead by a trained lead horse or mule.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.A. Boni Family (Manhattan, Nevada). The last time the mill operated was just prior to World War II.