Bathtub – Vulture, AZ

Vulture was a gold mine and mining camp near Wickenburg, AZ, about 50 miles northwest of Phoenix. At its height, about 5000 people lived there, most of them in tents. It was abandoned in 1947 when the mine was no longer profitable. Today, about a dozen buildings still stand, among them the ball mill, a couple of dorms, the support building at the head of the mineshaft, and the assay office building. This bathtub was found behind one of the dorm buildings, although I don’t know if that was its original location.