Windows in TimeHistoric Preservation at the Idarado Mine Part 7 in The Mine Next Door series By Samantha Tisdel Wright Master carpenter Loren Lew balanced on the steep, ramshackle roof of the old Lewis Mill, chainsaw in hand, on a summer morning in 2002. His mission: to stabilize this marmot high-rise at the head of Bridal Veil Basin, even as it was falling apart in slow motion all around him.