very cool Roger!
It sounds terrific and fascinating! It seems you have found the perfect place for you to be! I'm very happy for you! Terrific and interesting post! Really enjoyed the history!
Enjoy!!
Sylvia
"Miner's inches." This that like "Fisherman's inches"?
I still can't get over how the landscape in your area must have been totally transformed and destroyed by mining. It seems virtually everything you see from base geologic material on up is only a little over 100 years old.
that sounds so interesting!
is there a local historical society? my town's historical society has all kinds of old photos and information. the town was part of a huge rancho in the pre-american days; the owners' casa later became a dog-racing track, and is now our shopping plaza. we live on the former property of one of two rock quarries; ground central for that quarry is one block away, and the cliff created by quarry operations is still very evident. a couple blocks in the other direction is a city park, which used to be the staging area for another quarry up the hill; that second site has been a boy scout camp and a public park for the last century or so.
i predict that you will be spending some time with the local history collection at the library -- it is really amazing what librarians save!
Keep it coming! Very interesting! Thanks for the history....
Having backtracked into a plethora of local history after reading a "Ghost Towns of Kansas" book, despite having grown up here, it amazes me how little anyone knows of the place they dwell.
May your explorations bring you many happy hours!
And may they bring faces and places to light you never dreamt of!
alan
Wow. What bizarre and arcane facts about measuring water...and it's still in use? I guess any method that doesn't waste water is good.
Meanwhile, we got so much falling from the skies, it seems a shame no one is collecting it.
4 million was sure a big chunk of change back then!!!
(not that it isn't now....)
Finally catching up........WOW, what a move, eh? In my youth, we spent a lot of time camping (in a tent, no tv, radio kinda stuff like now) in the Sierras, Murphys, Yosemite (remember the firefalls, no bears breaking into your car), well, beautiful pictures.
A friend had a place in the hills about 70 miles from Yosemite and she'd run in the woods. She learned to read tracks and scat and cougars were a real scare for her in that area. Also, since there was no garbage pick-up, there was a hill in the area everyone in that small community would use, which attracted the bears.
Peaceful though, I think you've found.
Cheers and greetings to Roger also!
Wow! No wonder they call that area the motherlode.Thanks for the links to Tom Killion and Susan Lamela and Hank Meals. Sure looks like a good place for you and robin to come home.
That second picture is so beautiful! Geology is quite fascinating. Usually, it's not something one reads every day. Thanks for the reminder.
neat! yes, keep it coming.
"along the banner cascade trail' looks like a beautiful place to take a walk. I love this history. Thanks.
All very interesting, roger. It's neat to research the history of a place.
I just spent a short while in Death Valley and it's amazing how much mining went on there during the 1800s. Also, how much money was spent piping water across miles of country, etc... I was up to the charcoal kilns on Wildrose peak. They were built with Chinese labour under direction of Swiss foremen. Mind blowing to see such large structures high up a mountain in such a remote area.
It's very cool that you're learning about the local area. That's certainly one of the charms of life in a new place.
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