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| Posted: Mon Feb 10th, 2014 05:13 am |
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Ray Dunakin
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Great old mining equipment there.
Is that an abandoned site, or what?
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| Posted: Tue Feb 11th, 2014 06:21 am |
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JawboneFlats
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Hi Ray,
From their website,
"Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center maintains and stewards Jawbone Flats,
a rejuvenated historic mining town in the heart of the 35,000-acre ancient forest watershed,
of the Opal Creek Wilderness and Scenic Recreation Area."
http://www.opalcreek.org/
It's a wilderness education site now,
with a lot of this kind of old equipment and machinery laying around.
The first set of photos showed the mining stuff.
There is a small town called Jawbone Flats which was the mining camp from the 30s.
(Yes, I signed up for Freerails shortly after my visit.)
They mined gold, lead, zinc, copper and silver.
Here's a second set of photos that show some of the remnants of the sawmill.
It's a couple of miles away from the town.
I read that the logging company gave up on the site because the terrain was too steep,
and they had lost some trucks into the canyon (maybe true; impressive canyon).
Somehow this valley escaped serious logging,
and there are many stands of giant old-growth trees remaining.
Dennis aka JawboneFlats
 
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| Posted: Tue Feb 11th, 2014 10:35 pm |
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Herb Kephart
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I loved stumbling across stuff like that,
out in the middle of downtown nowhere,
back when I used to take walks.
Herb
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| Posted: Sun Mar 8th, 2015 01:34 pm |
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Broadoak
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What a superb collection of photographs.
Many thanks Dennis.
Peter M
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| Posted: Sun Mar 8th, 2015 08:30 pm |
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W C Greene
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If I could find old stuff like that around here,
then I would be out in the woods...stumbling.
Please continue with the photos!
Woodie
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Rob V
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Hello Dennis
Really interesting collection of mining photos
Nice to see the details
Great truck
Rob
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