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.

Packed mules assembled after unloading cordwood to be transferred to wagons and hauled to provide fuel to operate the ore mill at Belleville, Nevada.

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.

Mule teams and wagons loaded with cordwood on way to ore mill at Belleville, Nevada. Trees stumps show extent of cutting operation. The collected wood was used for fuel at the ore mill.

Ore mill at Belleville, Nevada where ore from mines was processed. Cordwood is stacked in the foreground. Mule teams with ore wagons are being unloaded on the ramp above and behind smokestacks.

Ore mills are to the left, sixteen-mule team is pulling four wagons on way to mine or wood camp. Mule skinner (driver) is riding a wheel horse, swampers and passengers are standing, water barrels are lashed to the sides of the wagons. Cordwood is stacked below the mill.

Ruby Hill Mine in Eureka, Nevada.