https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/16ea4aae35d4b17e898c9af19780c09b.pdf dad6a098559376aef4742d06b8ecd412 PDF Text Text PHOTO DESCRIPTION FOR "TWO'STORY OUTHOUSE, etc. by: Norm Weis Explanation of Gode: A means absolutely necessary to story; B means better use it, it supports story; C cautionary - would like to see it used; D Delete if you need to. Also: L Keep it large; M Medium S Small is preferred will do; None of the rules are unbreakable, except pictures designated "A" SHOULD be used. Elevated ^thouse built on a log crib in Dillon, V^oming The outhouse collapsed about 1960. Photo courtesy Encampment Museum. 2. B,L The remains of the Ferris'^Haggarty Mine just north of Dillon, Wyoming. The small stream at the base of the building flows over chunks of copper ore, bringing out its bright blue color. hno/ui �Photo Norm Weis Remains of a two'story outhouse that was once connected to the second floor of the largest hotel in Dillon, Wyo­ ming. The roo^^ike structure at mid'height is actually the collapsed portion of the catwalk that gave access to the hotel's second floor. Both levels of the outhouse functioned. Note the single outhouse on a log crib to the right. Photo courtesy Encampment Museum. Grant Jones, the short=live<J^hard=drinking ^ditor of the B. M, ^^^llon Doublejack.Photo courtesy Encampment Museum. Part of the Ferris-Haggarty to Encampment Tramway, the longest in the world at the time of its construction. ^^All the modern conveniences. M or S Notice the "S" added to a later improvement. The reconstructed two-story outhouse built on the Museum grounds in Encampment^about twenty miles east of its original location at Dillon, Wyoming. Things are quiet now in Encampment, Wyoming. At the ’’Three Mile Hog Ranch, had its own door. each crib, or small room. Inside there was room for bed and walkway. Calamity Jane is documented as having been one of the gals ________ at ’’^ree Mile.’’^________________________ __ _______________ / ^Id wood building next to the grout crib house at Three V L or mJ Mile**^as probably the saloon that attracted the soldiers from the dry grounds of Fort Laramie. �Photo Description Norm Wei Hot lead on a two»story outhouse cooled rapidly when the lx tall, but single floor outhouse was found to have been made from an old potato vent. The Wolf Mine at Kirwin, Wyoming has been out of use for nearly one hundred years. Note the coarse slab siding, and the wooden rain gutter. Tumlum or Tumalum Mine had its gallows wheel structure enclosed a tribute to the severe winters in the area. ______________ n___________________________ _____________________________ Construction on Amelia Earh^^rt’s cabin was stopped abruptly when word of her disappearance arrived. Note the propeller windvane, a small tribute to her profession. The quicksand ford leading to Bonneville, Wyoming. Caboose in the clutches of the quicksand of Bad Water Creek. Photo courtesy of J. T. Border. Typical residence in Bonneville is built of old ties and trestle timbers. 18 Deleted A two story outhouse? Right in the middle of the deserted town of Rock Creek? No, it's not an outhouse -- it's a combination water tower/ ice house. Tall structure photographed in Jardine about 196^ was not investigated at the time. In 1984 it was gone. the wood crib on top of the log crib. Note �'23. \ K7 M ) One of several deserted mills in Jardine. It is visited by horses more often than by humans. (EDITOR; Use only one, 22 or 23.) Chinese store and other places of business front by well worn boardwalks lit by old gas lamps now converted to electricity in the town of Virginia City, Montana. Elevated outhouse behind the Dry Goods Store has lost L or M f f contact with the store’s rear entrance. Colo/ Note the second outhouse to the left for ground level use. Reconstructed non functional two story outhouse of Nevada ( L or -My City, Montana, has been a problem to hotel owners. Visitors insist on using it. ’’Nevada City Hotel” was once the Salisbury Stage Station I or SJ of Ruby, Montana. Robbers Roost, originally Pete Daly’s roadhouse, became the ( 7 { “ 7 hangout for outlaws working the Virginia City to Bannack road. Built in 1^62, Bannack’s first jail offered max^um security and minimum ventilation. ( ) Bannack’s second jail had bars made from straightened wagon wheel rims(^ (^TOR; use just one of 29 and 30, if you wis]^ Bannack, Montana’s Meade Hotel had high ceilings and spiral staircases. �■Oto Description^ orm Weis Broadwater, Montana was big and beautiful, and was to have attracted the elite from around the world. Only the rock waterfalls remain at the Natatorium at I ] A Im or sj Broadwater, where Johnny Weismuller learned to swim. One of the many deserted residences that stand in Ring­ ling, Montana, once the home of the famous Ringling Circus folk. ( A, L j Catholic Church of Ringling, Montana now offers shelter for the resident flock of pigeons. A Only a portion of the many buildings that fronted Main Streeiy\of Castle, Montana have survived the hostile winters. J ( A few remnants of the Cumberland Mine, biggest producer in Castle, Montana. f K? M J An overview of Zortman, Montana business district, with saloon at right, and salvation on the hill. Zortman’s jail has seen better times but they still keep the door padlocked! (T^r^ The Ruby Mine stretches over a considerable distance. Waste material was simply dumped in the ravine. Ore cars are still lined up at the entrance to the Ruby Mine at Ruby Gulch, Montana. �Extensive trestle made a level connection between Mine © adit and Mill at Ruby Gulch, Montana. The "old" frames the ''not so old" in Landusky, MontanaQ This old chair, made with loving care, and often repaired, rocks gently in the wind, on a porch in Landusky. Pearl, Colorado, a town that grew on speculation, then like a faulty firecracker, fissled rather than boomed. One of the mines near Pearl that was mostly stock sales and promotion rather than sweat and pay dirt. Only the stoutest structures can withstand the high winds in Caribou, Colorado. 48. Caribou Mine was the richest of the half dozen profitable L or M silver mines that took $2OfOOfiUlQO in precious metal 11/ from the ground. Snows were deep in Caribou. Roomers in the two rock hotels of Caribou often had to enter and leave by way of second floor windows. Note late July snowbanks in distance. This two story outhouse, connected to the Masonic Hall in Crested Butte, Colorado, was the first such structure to be found functional and still in regular use. Enclosed walkways to outhouses were common in Crested Butte, sometimes extending one hundred feet. �1 Photo Description 52. A L, M or Norm Weis City Hall had classy architecture at the front and -----see next photo for rearview I TOR - 53 must follow 52 -- do not use just one) At the rear of the City Hall we find a two story A L, M, or S. "inside outhouse." 54. One of our first astronauts built this summer home below the ski slopes of Crested Butte, Colorado. Note the re- semblance to a re=entry vehicle. 5. L or A three-way outhouse attached to a little used saloon and dance hall offered inside access from both floors, and outside ground level access to the addendum. 56. Second look at Masonic Hall masterpiece shows upper level L or of the bi-level outhouse can be reached by covered stair. 57. A L or A last look at the Masonic Hall two story outhouse in Crested Butte, Colorado. posted at the upper floor: That's the one with a sign "ANYTHING OVER EIGHT POUNDS MUST BE LOWERED BY ROPE." Near the Slum^ullion mud slide south of Lake City, Colorado lie the graves of five meny^killed and cannibalized by one Alfred E. Packer. Marker at grave site listsy^the edible victims of Alfred E. Packer. kvno �Description Norm Weis f —\ The students showed their opinion of the c^ow at the \ L oir 1*1 f J Memorial Union Grill at the University of Colorado by Voting in an appropriate name. f ) Surface works of the Sunrise Mine of Sunrise, Wyoming make up only a part of the equipment needed for subsi­ dence mining, 7^6 ;---------- sixty-five f A“ “*M \----------/ longest garage in the world claims to hold cars, but has only fortycodd doors. I I Street of Cascade Springs, South Dakota holds the } Allen Bank, Mercantile, and, hidden under the trees, a saloon^bowling alley combination. N f S7*M 1 J k Bowling alley added to rear of saloon utilized small pins and grapefruit sized balls — one of the first duck pin alleys in the area. Bathhouse-Hotel combination was built beside small hot W spring that town builder Allen hoped would outdo the larger hot springs to the north. Tarpaper covered shaft head building was headquarters and first stage concentrator for the Rusty Mine. /^7r / A, M View through well shaded town of Tinton, South Dakota, �brm Weis Community Hall had most windows boarded over, but one window, covered with chicken.wire, had been broken through, giving access to the town's only resident -a mountain lion. Home of Anna B. Tailant, early visitor to the Black Hills and long time teacher and postmistress. Old jail in Rochford, South Dakota, was lined with steel plate, with brick inside and rock outside. Standby Mine and Mill at east edge of Rochford, is now so rotted that snooping about is hazardous, especially on the trestles and stairways. Alta Lodi Mine and Mill near Myersville, South Dakota(^ A long deserted miner's cabin in Myersville, South Dakota. A view down the main drag of Myersville. Myersville's finest home, where the 1884 book "Things Worth Knowing" was found in the attic. The two story outhouse that the author drove 800 miles to see turned out to be a deserted skeet house. ■ I Adobe outhouse served the local school kids. Building in background was the mansion of Howard E. Perry, prime mover of Terlingua, Texas. �Norm Weis 79. M or Sy Head frame of Mine No. 245 just east of Terlingua, is framed by doorway of miner's cabin. Rock from which miner's cabin was constructed was more substantial than the deposit of mercury^^in the mine nearby. Well worn photo of a two story outhouse that hung in the hotel at Oatman, Arizona. The photo carried no label or information, and no one knew where the outhouse originally existed. The only unusual outhouse in Oatman, Arizona. The rock crib was unique. The wild burros visit Oatman every afternoon for a hand^ out of popcorn and candy. Ove review of Oatman, Arizona, showing quartz outcrop above town. Such outcrops meant mineralization, and acted as a magnet to prospectors. EDITOR; please crop to lines, and you may place this photo anywhere on pages 91, 92, 93.1"—— > Powder house outhouse of Gold Point, Nevada, source of a variety of stories. Although Goldfield, Nevada is not entirely deserted, a number of very substantial buildings like this four story brick and stone hotel, have been long vacant. �Photo Description Norm Wei Santa Fe Club of Goldfield, Nevada has catered to miners for eighty years. Business was good when miners could trade chunks of'^igh graded for drinks. I 88 A S7*M I Charlie Cecchini, the ranking old timer of Goldfield, and story teller extra ordinary. 89 (Z X7*M 1 -- y Mill ruins on the left, mess hall and kitchen on the right, with old brick schoolhouse at mid distance, make up the remains of Grantsville, Nevada. Stout adobe outhouse manages an upright stance in spite of losing two walls. Note tall vent for odor-free operation. V 31. J W. T. (Bill) James, and T. H. (Tom) James, guardians of Humbolt, Nevada history. f ( 92. J Somewhere among these ruins of Humbolt was the saloon where a shootout left no survivors. 93.' M ( 1 The open door of this Humbolt outhouse invites, the sign denies. Use this facility with mixed feelings. /^94. ( \ Mohawk Mill lies to the east of Johnsville, California. 1 L or M 1 Sixty stamps of 600 pounds lifted eight inches and dropped in turn, crushing 150 tons of ore per day. Hotel and firehouse in the town of Johnsville. \ Town was L or M J ' named after William Johns, superintendent of combined mining operations. �(2^ Norm Wei Photo Description The longest single-span wooden covered bridge in the United States, and probably the world. Structure was recently declared a California Historical Landmark. Photo from ''Helldorados, Ghosts and Camps of the Old Southwest." J. R. Meeks combination grocery, cafe, bar and justice court served the public for seventy-five years in Camptonville, California. Small version of the Pelton wheel displayed on monument in Camptonville. Monument was erected by the hell=rais­ ing E. Clampus Vitus Brotherhood. Tiny jail seldom saw service. HasjZ^ apparently used a nut and bolt locking system. Classy little miner's house of Cornucopia, Oregon, now an even classier vacation home, sported a diamond window and outside stairway to upper floor. Mine structures adjacent to the Coulter Tunnel, where ice cold air and ice cok/ water pour forth. Large schoolhouse of Homestead, Oregon, evidences the great number of families that once lived in the now deserted company town. Dining halls, pastimes, and probably bunkhouses for single miners of the Homestead Mine Company. kV^O/LSL �Norm Weis Looking upstream along Canyon Creek (see text for a more descriptive name) in the town of Burke, Idaho. Peaked roof is schoolhouse. X^O5.A. f k, M A Typical creek-drop attached outhouse common to most homes along the waterway. The residents’ regularity was public knowledge, of course. Z , A, L 1 I crofoi< Also} The George Gulch outhouse-bridge combination of Burke, N Idaho. It may be the only such structure in existence. K \ L or M J Rear view of bridge-outhouse implies a community use by f I Z108. , The bridge portion of the combo is wide enough and stout k L or My/ /<109. [ A, M residents of several homes. ) enough to handle cars and light trucks. This creek drop, self-flushing outhouse required a small diversion dam to course water under the drop zone. ^10. \ f kt M j The ’’Sneaky Pete” model is guaranteed to provide the ultimate in privacy. Just where the back door once led is a mystery. A I And where is the exit? L or Photo from ’’Ghost Towns of the Nor thwe st.” ______ _____ _ 1 Masonic Hall of Silver City, Idaho, straddles Jordan Creek. \L or Note the attached outhouses that drop into the creek. 1 Overview of Silver City, Idaho, looking north. The Idaho ( L or M y Hotel is at center left, butcher shop, Leonard’s Store and Barber Shop line up on the near right. �Photo Description 11^ Norm Weis \ j Idaho Hotel is still '*in business," catering to tourists, L or M / Qffgj-ing guided tours and refreshments. 115. Fanciest residence in Silver City was the Stoddard M or S So house. Stoddard was a mine investor, sawmill owner , and rancher. Colo/ \ M or S/ / 117. Baling wire holds the splayed bottom of this tall out- house together. Walkway to outhouse may have been wider at one time. M or S it gives [onlyja one doooption. EDITOR; 117 should follow 116 - same outhous^ 118. L or M Now This walk-through style tall house is behind the tin shop and newspaper office. Proximity to the creek, which runs under the Masonic Hall just behind, made the annual spring cleanout a cinch. 119. Well kept, and still used outhouse, has been patched and repatched with whatever material was at hand. There’a message here somewhere. 121. L or M Fancy paint job on the water tank was meant to lure buyers of lots in the proposed town of Teapot, Wyoming. Teapot never amounted to much -- a house or two, a number of oil wells, and some basic refining equipment. �Photo descripti 123. A L or Norm Weis Old wooden oil pumping rig is one of the last in exis- Note the hefty'talking beamV^that pivots on tance. the top of the vertical timber. —H.-UUIW- I—- ■ J nui IIHIlW!■ HWJ.. JII. ■ iri T.'- — - ■ Iron slowly replaced the wooden rig parts. / 1 V M or S j Here the wheels iron, but have the same design used in older wooden _ variety. f ’ X Pimping station hastened oil from the well to the refinery. /Long deserted, this old pimp stands in Ferris, Wyoming, k a town that was once called Sinclair Station 3. Photograph was taken from a partially stabilized sand dune that once approached town on a southwest wind. It will move again, and the houses of Ferris, Wyoming, will be buried. \ Headquarters of the ^Little Ilan MineV^as it became known f \ L or M J discovery of a mummified Indian baby in a nearby cave. f I —* \ Rock Cavalry bam of Fort Washakie, now a garage for the M or S / state Highway Department, still harbors a ghost that walks the wood floors in cavalry boots, according to some of the men that work there. Little remains of Jim Bridge?^s original fortified store, ( IM or SI — many buildings, like this officers'^ quarters built when the Army took over, can be found reconstructed at the site. �Photo descriptions^ (5^rm Vfeis View of distant elk as seen through ’’Old Gabe’s” Crystal Mountain. The pure diamond had a tendency to magnify the elk’s image. walked up to bleed it. After shooting the elk, Bridger ”Thet dum elk was twenty-five miles away!” 1^.11 ini»w fill II ■111Mil .■!.irni»wwi—i*i——WWW.IO—wwjw—iw*gn.ii». ii ~ I I ti*— I ‘^~.B‘wn~-r in - f —* \ Central Pacific and Union Pacific tracks met at Promontory by negotiation, but ^r«o/es ran past each other without joining for hundred of miles. ’ \ ’’White Water Bert” lives alone amid the vast remains of \L or deserted mine and mill in Re’tallack, British Columbia. /^33 f —* I Frequent floods on Carpenter Creek wiped out the boardwalks f IL or M / dock-like streets of Sandon, B.C. Fires took most of the remainder. Fort Steele’s central attraction is the Musetim built to duplicate the original Wasa Hotel. The ’’long hair and the hard hat” work well together, re­ constructing the 1887 Royal Canadian Mounted Police barracks, using only the tools of the time. Finished portion of the post is in background. Broad axe falls and chips fly as another log is squared for fitting. No chain saws were allowed, and all holes were drilled by hand without benefit of electricity. Fort Steele’s water tower can be seen in the background. EDITOR: Both 135 and 136 may be used, or just 135. �^Norm Weis (^oto Description^ /137 Z \ Perry Creek water wheel was freighted twenty-five miles \M or S pqj.|. Steele as an example of early utilization of water power in the mining effort. 138. A, M Oddly roofed outhouse in Fort Steele, B. C. is securely anchored by four posts. Old shops along Main Street are in the background. ZTsg. f A, M \ It was only a tiny sapling a few years after the child was buried. Now the tree occupies the complete grave site in iVild Horse, B.C. /140?^ \ ( A, L Owner of the Long Him Store in Lundbreck, Alberta, bemoaned the loss of the two story outhouse he purchased as a sales gimmick. He found it had been donated earlier to the Heritage Park in Calgary. In Lundbreck, Alberta, this gas station and store con­ stitute a "shopping center." ...................................................................... ■i.w » . i- Wainwright Hotel of Heritage Park in Calgary, Alberta, was said to have the old Lundbreck two story outhouse attached to the rear. World's finest two story outhouse, a two door four-holer over a four door eight-holer, with a cupola on top. And everything works! Everything functions in Heritage Park, including ste>-n wheelers and steam engines. You can even j2?/3!^/e fresh d baked brea^ from the old bakery. �Wei^^ (^^^Photo Description^ A Exact replica of the Hudson Bay Company’s Rocky Moun- \M or Sj House h^s been built on the grounds of Heritage —* J -- "'*'>* f 146 5^^ Park. ............... . — '' "* *... . —.. ... ...... ........ .... — '1 j Outside of the rebuilt Banff barracks of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, - a constable from years past answers questions and spins a few yams. X 1^7 / X7”L \v \ / Timmerman rebuilt the original Windsor Hotel two story outhouse quite faithfully. It stands in its original location, minus, of course, the hotel it originally served. Now it serves the public, and brings a few customers into the Long Him Store No. 7. ——. ��LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Library of Congress CatalogIng-in-PublIcatlon Data Weis, Norm. 1923A lighthearted tour of the West on a search for the two-story outhouse / by Norman D. Weis ; photographs by the author. p. cm. ISBN 0-87004-326-9 : (^9.95> 1. Cities and towns. Ruined, extinct, etc.—West (U.S.) 2. Cities and towns. Ruined, etc.—Canada, Western. 3. West (U.S.)-Descrlptlon and travel —1981- 4. Canada. Western—DescriptIon and travel. 5. Weis, Norm, 1923—Journeys—West (U.S.) 6. Weis, Norm, 1923—Journeys—Canada, Western. I. Title. F595.3.W45 198^ 917.8—dc19 87-35425 CIP ��Weis, TwosStox7 Guthouse. [ Outhouses have not been Norm Weid<4 only interest* After World War 11, he decided he valued time more than money, so he fell back on his gWWiWSTfc- physics degree and became a high school science teacher. This gave him his summers off plus a job that he thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the year. ( DuringRummer vacations. Hr. Weis explored other interests., Be writing in the late'{>$ds and discovered that he loved it. He has published several picture books on wildlife -- one the result of an intensive four^year study of grizzly bears. towns were another of his fascinations. Twelve years of wandering in and out of ghost towns provided the groundwork for two more books: Ghost Towns of the Northwest and Helldorados. Ghosts and Camps of the Old Southwest. Then his love of flying returned and he flew his hand^built tiny red and white biplane from coast to coast and into the world of air racing and aerobatics. Of course, there was a book there too, called. The Starduster. zlfr. Weis is a retired physics instructor from Casper College, Wyoming. He resides in Wyoming, fishing, traveling and photographing, and wx*iting of his experiences. �Weis, Two=Story Outhouse I Laughter, lies and lambency J- travel with these and tbs"SMM»r as I—* you cover eleven states and four Canadian provinces looking for tvos story outhouses -- the ultimate in yesterdaj^ feats of sanitary n, engineex*ing. [foii/ll find outhouses on hi^ trestles, outhouses hanging over river banks, creek straddlers, leaners, open=air jobs, outhousesbridge combos, and one superlative specimen in Alberta a two=:door fours holer on top of a four=door eij^ht=holer^ topped with a cupola. [where you don\/fc find tall outhouses, you will find tall stories. --Jim Bridger, legendary mountainy^ clear up there you claim^ the air bo ai. see for three days. --The crooked sheriff of Bannack, Montana, M ni^t and \>bha6e<i<X himself during the day. led hie gang at --The trial and conviction of Alfred E. Packer, in Lake City, M I Colorado, for cannibalism and murder. Packer ate five men — all M democrats. I^er 100 photographs show the outhouses as they were and as they now exist. Some of the old=timers, always good for a measure of history mixed with a goodly number of downrii^t lies, are pictured. [^yone who enjoys the unusual, or a good story, or has ever had the dubious pleasure of usingVthe little house out bac^ will find this book delightful. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norman Weis Manuscripts Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1971-1987 Description An account of the resource A collection of manuscripts by Casper College professor Norman Weis. <br /><br />This collection includes manuscripts of:<br /><em>Ghost Towns of the Northwest: Known and Unknown<br />The Starduster<br />Two-Story Outhouse<br />Helldorados<br /></em><br />Each manuscript contains written in edits by Norman Weis Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Norman Weis Language A language of the resource ENG Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Norm Weiss Manuscripts and Photographs, CCA 10.2003.01 WyCaC US. 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Title A name given to the resource <em>Two-Story Outhouse</em> Book Information Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/">https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1987 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Norman Weis Language A language of the resource ENG Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Norm Weiss Manuscripts and Photographs, CCA 10.2003.01 WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CCA 10.2003.01_Weis_TwoStoryOuthouse_BookInfo Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Searchable PDF