Old, Decaying, and Colorful.

An old building stands boarded up in the ghost town of Southern Cross, Mont. Southern Cross used to be a mining town during the mining boom in the late 1800's. The Gold used to "float to the top of the soil."

Poems and curse words cover this door frame inside of an old shed in the ghost town of Southern Cross, Mont.

What is left of an old fuse box on the side of a one the few buildings left in the ghost town of Southern Cross, Mont.

A Christy Brick Company brick lies amongst rubble left over from the Kirkville mill in Kirkville, Mont.  The mill, which was considered the largest building in Montana when it was built, was burned in 1967 by the United States Forest Service for safety reasons. 

A decaying piece of mining equipment sits in what is thought to be the old kiln room, where the ore was melted down. Behind the equipment the smoke stacks can be seen. 

An ore shaft filled with brick from the decaying floor above. 

Decaying sections of the mill. This entire area used to be inside a large red building. 

A crack in the ceiling of the shaft leaks mineral-filled water from the floor above.