Lush mountain setting surrounds the Lost Horse Mill (sometimes Dead Horse Mill) near the ghost town of Crystal, Colorado. This building actually housed a power generator for the mill, which was standing next to it.

Crystal never had nor does it have now, electricity. The mill powered a mechanical air compressor for use in ore processing. The mill had a horizontal water wheel which turned a vertical shaft that ran up through that housing now held together by cables. It turned an air compressor that was used to operate the air drills for at least two of the local mines on the hill above the mill. The broken boards littering the river bank adjacent to the mill are from the stamp mill used to reduce and process the silver ore. It may have also been directly powered by the water wheel as the two buildings were virtually connected.

Daniel's pictures were taken with Canon reflex cameras on Fuji color print film. He uses Kodak Photo CD to have this large amount of pictures digitized. Daniel works as a web designer, he uses a lot of his sparetime for working on the pictures while Carola writes captions that tell these old town's stories. They both live in Switzerland, visit their website at http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/