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                  <text>Weis,

TwosStory Outhouse

FM p. 1

TWO=STORI ODTfiOUS^

�gram BOOKS BT

AUTHOR

All About Grizzly Bears

All About the WhitesTailed Deer

Ghost Towns of the Northwest

Belldorados« Ghosts and Camps
^e Starbuster

the Old Southwest

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FM p. 3

- A- Id^thearted Tour of the West

0n u Search for '7’k, &lt;&lt;

Two=story Outhouse^TV-—

Norman D» Weis

PHOTOGRAPHS

BT THE AUTHOR

The CAXTON PRINTERS, Ltd.
Caldwell, Idaho, 83605

1987

�Weie, TwosStory Ottthousei

^1987 by­
Norman D. Weis
Casper, Wyoming
AU Righ^Reserved

�Weis, Two=Story duthousei

TO p. 5

To Mike Herbison
Who thought this book should be entitled,
Early American Evacuation

With special thanks to Jon Brady and Len Brakke

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COMTBITS

of Illustrations

Introduction

Part I
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Wyoming
Dillon

Bncampment

Horse Shoe Springs

.

Fort Laramie

Kirwin

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Bonneville

Lost Cabin

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Dale City

Part II pj-

Montana

Jardine

Virginia City

Ringling

Castle

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Zortman, Landusky and Aahland
The Good Old Days ^^Sid^Minnesota^

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Part III
Colorado
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Pearl
Caribou

Crested Butte

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Lake City

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Lost Springs

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Black Hills Area

Myersville
Part V X Tcms

Terlingua

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Part VI -7 Arizona
Oatman

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Part VII ~ Nevada

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Gold Point

Goldfield
Ione, Berlin and Grantsville

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Reno
Part VIH;^ California
Johnsville ■:&lt;Jaffli6on^

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Camptonville

Part^

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Qregeg

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Cornucopia
Homestead
Part_X J- 1^0

Wallace and Murray

Burke
Silver City

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Wyoming

Part XI

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Teapot Dome

The Pedro Mountains
Independence Rock

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Signor, Rongia

Fort Bridger

Part XII J- Utah
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Promontory

Part XIII

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Canada

British Columbia
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Betallack^
Port Steele

Alberta
Nordegg

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Lundbreck

Manitoba

Flin

Flon

Saskatchewan
La Ronge
Alberta

Calgary

INDEX

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�LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Elevated oathouee in Dillon, Wyoming

Remains of the Ferris=Raggarty Mine
Remains of a two=story outhouse

G) Grant Jones
(S) Part of FerrissHaggarty to fiacaaqjment tramway
©

All the modem conveniences

......................................................

Reconstructed two=story outhouse, Encampment
Things are quiet now

Three Mile Hog Ranch

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&lt;s&gt; Old wood building at Three Mile
(S) Outhouse made from an old potato vent
Wolf Mine at Kirwin, Wyoming

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Tumlum gallows wheel structure

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&amp; Amelia EarhartJ^s cabin
Quicksand ford leading to Bonneville, Wyoming

.......................

Caboose in quicksand of Bad Water Creek

Qny Typieal Residence in Boxineville

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Outhouse in the middle of Rock Creek?

. ............................ ..

Combination water tower and ice house

Tall structure in Jardine

..................

Deserted mill in Jardine

Chinese st^e in Virginia City, Montana
Elevated outhouse behind dry goods store

. ..............
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Reconstructed nonfunctional outhouse in Nevada City, Montana
Nevada,City Hotel

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Bobbers Roost

Bannacl^ first jail

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BannacU^iZs second jail

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The Meade Hotel in Bannack, Montana

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Broadwa^ter, Montana

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Rock waterfalls from natatorium

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Desertedk residence in Ringling, Montana

.

Catholic church in Ringling

. ..........................

Building fronting Main Street in Castle, Montana
Remnant^ of the Cumberland Mine

.................... ...................

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Overview of Zortman, Montana
Zortmaidk/s jail has seen better times

The Ruby Mine
Ore

cars lined up at Ruby Mine

.......................................

Extensive trestle

Old frames the not so old
Old rocking chair in Landusky
Pearly Coloradg^izzled

.......................

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One of ^he mines near Pearl

.....................................................................

Chlly stout structures can withstand hi^ winds in Caribou

Caribou Mine

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. ................

Snows were deep in Caribou
Twosstory outhouse in Crested Butte, Colorado

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Ihclosed walkway in Crested Butte

.

City Hall had classy architecture

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\jTnside puthous^^at the rear of City Hall

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Astronau'^s summer home in Crested Butte

A three=wa7.outhouse
Masonic hall masterpiece

Masonic hall two=^story outhouse* Crested Butte

.....................................

Graves of* five men said to be cannibalized

Alfred

Packeis/s victims

..........................................

Memorials Union Grill* University of Colorado

Surface works of the Sunrise Mine
Longest garage in the world

.............................................................

Main Street* Cascade Springs* South Dakota

Bowling alley added to rear of saloon

Bathhouse=Hotel combination

.......................................

Tarpaper=covered shaft head building
View •of Tinton* South Dakota

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Community hall is residence of a mountain lion

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Home of Anna B. Tailant

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Old jail in Bochford* South Dakota

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Standby mine and mill
Alta* Lodi mine and mill

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Deserted minei^ cabin in Myersville* South Dakota

The main drag of Myersville
Myersvill^s finest home

A deserted skeet house
Adobe outhouse in Terlingua* Texas
Head frame of Mine No. 2^5

............................................

.. ...........................................

Bock fsom which mine]M4 cabin was constructed

Well worn photo of two-story outhouse

....................................................

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The only unusual outhouse in Oatman, Arizona
Wild burros visit Oatman

.

Overvlev of Oatman, Arizona
Powder house outhouse in Gold Point, Nevada

...........................................................

Substantial building in Goldfield, Nevada

^7) Ssmta Fe club of Goldfield, Nevada

........... ........... .........

Charlie Ceechini of Goldfield
Bemains of Grantsville, Nevada

••.....

. .......................

Stout adobe outhouse

Bill and Tom James, of Numbolt, Nevada
The ruins of Numbolt
Open door of Numbolt outhouse

Mohawk Mill, to the east of Johnsville, California
Hotel aihd firehouse in Johnsville

.

. ............................... .. ............................

The longest singlexspan wooden covered bridge in the U.S.

jTTb. Medk/s in Camptonville, California

. ..................... ..

Small version of the Pelton wheel

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Tiny jail seldom saw service

Classy mine?&lt;/8 house in Cornucopia, Oregon

.

Nine structures adjacent to the Coulter Tunnel

.

Large schoolhouse in Homestead, Oregon

.................................................................................

lousing for single miners of the looestead Mine Company

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Looking upstream along Canyon Creek

Typical creek*drop attached outhouse

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George Gulc^ outhousesbridge combination

Rear Tiew'of bridge=outhouse
Bridge portion of the combo

A. creek drop, eelf=flushing outhouse

..............................................................................

\jSneaky ,Pet^/ model
And whene is the exit?

•••..•• ............................................•

Hasonicthall* Silver City, Idaho

Overview, of Silver City, Idaho

Idaho Botel is still\&gt;ln busines^
fl£} Stoddard residence in Silver City
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Baling «ire holds this outhouse together

Walkway gives a oue=door option
Walk=thz*pugh style tall house

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Although patched* this outhouse is well kept and still used
Therms a message here somewhere

Vater tank in Teapot, Wyoming

.......................................

Teapot never amounted to much
Old wooden oil'pumping rig

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Iron replaced •the wooden zd.g parts

Old oil pump in Ferris* Wyoming

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Sand dunes will bury Ferris

Headquarters* of Little Maa Mine

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Kock cavalry ham of Fort Washakie

Reconstructed officer^ quarters

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View of elk through Crystal Mountain

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Central Pacific and Union Pacific tracks met at Promontory
White Water Bert lives in Ketallack, B. C

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Floods wipe out streets of Sandon,

Fort Steel^^s museum duplicates Wasa Hotel

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The'oiong hair and the hard hawork well together

Another log is squared for fitting
Perry Creek water wheel

(j^ Oddly roofed outhouse in Fort Steel^B^f^.

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marker

Fh

in Wild Horse, B« C«

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Long Him store in Lundbreck, Alberta

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A '€(^hopping centei^n LnndbreckAlberta

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Wainwright Hotal'^, Heritage Park, in Calgary, Alberta

Worl(}&lt;4 finest two^story outhouse

..........

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Ererything functions in Heritage Park
Replica of Hudson Bay Compan;^ Rocky Mountain Bouse
Constable of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Don Timmerman rebuilt the original Windsor Hotel

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Elevated ^thouse built on a log crib in Dillon, Wyoming,

The outhouse collapsed about 1960.

courtesy

Encampment Museum

The remains of the Ferris^Haggarty Mine just north of
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Dillon, Vtyoming. The small stream at the base of the
building flows over chunks of copper ore, bringing out
its bright blue color.

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Remains of a two^story outhouse that was once connected

to the second floor of the largest hotel in Dillon, Wyo­
ming. The roof^ike structure at mid=:height is actually

A
catwalk that gave access to

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the collapsed portion of
the hotelVs second floor.

functioned.

Both levels of the outhouse

Note the single outhouse on a log crib to

^ourtesy Encampment Museunu^feZT

14

Grant Jones, the short=^lived&lt;hard=drinking Editor of the
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Dillon Doublejack.Plagto^ourtesy Encampment Museum

Part of the Ferris=Haggarty to Encampment Tramway, the
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longest in the world at the time of its construction.
All the modem conveniences. Notice the ’^^*^^ded to

osekt’ Msp

; explain a later improvement.

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f The reconstructed two=story outhouse built on the ^useum
grounds in Encampment^about twenty miles east of its

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original location at Dillon, Wyoming.
Things are quiet now in Encampment, Wyoming.

At the *^hree Mile Hog Ranch,’^ach crib, or small room,
had its own door.

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Inside there was room for bed and walkway. I

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Calamity Jane is documented as having been one of the gals
at *4hree Mile.*^

'Old wood building next to the grout crib house
Mile”^as probably the saloon that attracted the soldiers

from the dry grounds of Fort Laramie,

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�Hot lead on a two=story outhouse cooled rapidly when the

tall, but single-floor outhouse was found to have been

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made from an old potato vent.
The Wolf Mine at Kirwin, WyomingAhas been out of use for
Note the coarse slab siding,

nearly Q^e—hund-red years.

and the wooden rain gutter.
Tumlum or Tumalum Mine had its gallows wheel structure

enclosed -- a tribute to the severe winters in the area.

-

H

Construction on Amelia Earh^^rt'^J^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 'I
Creek,

■^trnarfy^ourtesy e/jdT. Border.^—

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Typical residence in Bonneville is built of old ties

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and trestle timbers.

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A two-story outhouse?

Right in the middle of the deserted

town of Rock Creek?

No, itVs not an outhouse -- itVA a combination water tower/—
ice house.
'
A
r 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

�€ne of several dtisertud mlllj in Jagdiiw.&lt;
One of several deserted mills in Jardine.

It is visited

by horses more often than by humans.
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A pl, ♦

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business fron.^ by well=
worn hoar&lt;:wai;k.'j)fR £7-rni-lan.pgaot!;'3o''^verted to

(electrlcity in the town of Virginia City, Montana.
Elevated outhouse behind the

tore has lost

contact with the stord^/s rear entrance. Note the second
outhouse to the left for ground level use.
Reconstructed non^functional twoastoay outhouse

Nevada

City. Montana, has been a problem to hotel owners.
I Visitors insist on using it.
Nevada City Hotel

was once the Salisbury Stage ^tation

of Ruby, Montana.
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Robbers Roost, originally Pete DalyVs roadhouse, became the

|angout for outlaws working the Virginia City to Bannack road.
s,

Built in 1^62, BannackO^ first jail offered maxjJLn security
minimum ventilation.
Bannack^ second jail had bars made

from straightened

wagon wheel rima^

Hotel^had high ceilings and

�Broadwater, Montana^-was big and beautiful, and
attract-^ the elite from around the world.

Only the rock waterfalls remain

the ^^atatorium at

Broadwater, where Johnny Weismuller learned to swim.
One of the many deserted residences that stand in Ring^
Montana, once the home of the famous Ringling Circus
folk.

CathoJ^ic ^hurch

■_for

Ringling, Montan^now offers shelter

resident flock of pigeons.

Only a portion of the many buildings that fronted Main
Castle, Montan^have survived the hostile
winters.

J A few remnants of the Cumberland Mine, biggest producer
l^in Castle, Montana.
overview of Zortman, Montan^business district, with

[^aloon at right, and salvation on the hill.

ZortmarfYs jail has seen better times — but they still
[keep the door padlocked!

The Ruby Mine stretches over a considerable distance.
V^ste material was simply dumped in the ravine.

Ore cars are still lined up at the entrance to the Ruby
Mine at Ruby Gulch, Montana.

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Extensive trestle made a level connection between^ine

^dit

and Mill at Ruby Gulch, Montana.
frames the

not so old

in Landusky, Montan^^)

This old chair, made with loving care, and often repaired,

^ocks gently in the wind/^n a porch in Landusky,
Pearl, Colorado, a town that grew on speculation, then
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,

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(jj-ke a faulty firecracker, fi«led,rather than boomed.

One of the mines near Pear

was mostly stock sales

and promotion rather than sweat and pay dirt.
Only the stoutest structures can withstand the high winds

*—in Caribou, Colorado.
Caribou Mine was the richest of the half-dozen profitable
►V't 11/ a rq
Sliver mines that took $20in precious metal

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=
A
floor windows. Note late July snowbanks in distance.
This two^story outhouse, connected to the Masonic Mall in
^0
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Crested Butte, Colorado, was the first such structure to

be found functional and still in regular use.

Enclosed walkway^ to outhouses were common in Crested Butte
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sometimes ex^nding one hundred feet7)'

�City Hall had classy architecture at the front and
next -photo f43r rca-rvinsw—

: the rear of the City Hall we find a two^story

ns ide outhouse.'^

Oiie of our first astronauts built this summer home below
the ski slopes of Crested Butte, Colorado.
semblance to a re^^try vehicle.

Note the re­

a little used saloon and
dance hal^offered inside access from both floors, and

outside ground level access to the addendum.
look at Masonic Mall masterpiece shows upper level
of: the bi-level outhouse can be reached by covered stair.

K last look at the Masonic ^all two^tory outhouse in
7^

Crested Butte, Colorado.

posted at the upper floor:

That'^s the one with a sign

’^STyTHING OVER EIGHT POUNDS

IjMUST BE LOWERED BY ROPE.
^Near the Slumgullion mud slide south of Lake City, Colora

one Alfred E. Packer.

3

Marker at grave site listSkthe edible victims of Alfred E
Packer.

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students showed their opinion of the cAow at the
Memorial Union ^rill at the University of Colorado by

Hating in an appropriate name.

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Surface works of the Sunrise MineSunrise, WyomingA

make up only a part of the equipment needed for subsi-

j^nce mining.

The longest garage in the world claims to hold sixty-five
Cars, but has only forty—odd doors.

Main Street of Cascade Springs, South Dakota^hoIds the
h_
Allen Bank,^Mercantile, and/hidden under the trees, a
^loon=bowling alley combination.

Bowling alley added to rear of saloon utilized small pins

and grapefruit^sized balls

one of the first duck pin

otel combination was built beside small hot
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town builder Allen hoped would outdo the

larger hot springs to the north.
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r^overed shaft head building was headquarters and

first stage concentrator for the Rusty Mine.

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view t^Bseeigh well shaded town of Tinton, South Dakot^

shows most residences to be covered with red tarpaper.

�Community ^all had most windows boarded over, but one
window, covered with chicken wire, had been broken
through, giving access to the towi4^ only resident -a mountain lion.

Home of Anna B. Tailant, early visitor to the Black
Hills and long-time teacher and postmistress.
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Old jail in Rochford, South DakotaA was lined with

steel plate'^with brick inside and rock outside.
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Standby ^line and ^ill at^east edge of Rochford, is now

so rotted that snooping about is hazardous, especially
on the trestles and stairways.
^^-Qlta Lodi ^ine and ^ill near Myersville,

South Dakota(^

A long deserted mine^&lt;Zs cabin in Myersvill^/f\^ South Dakota.
A view down the main drag of Myersville.

Myersville'^ finest home, where the 1884 book, ^Things

Worth Knowing

was found in the attic.

The two=story outhouse that the author drove

miles to

see turned out to be a deserted skeet house.

Adobe outhouse served the local school kids.

Building in

background was the mansion of Howard E. Perry, prime

mover of Terlingua, Texas.

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Head frame of Mine No. 24^ust east of Terlingua, is
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framed by doorway of minei?&lt;/s cabin.
Rock from which mine^\ys cabin was constructed was more

than the deposit of mercuryy|in the mine

Well worn photo of a two^story outhouse that hung in the

VI

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

The rock

crib was unique.
.

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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.

Powder house outhouse of Gold Point, Nevada, source of
[a variety of stories.

Although Goldfield, Nevad^is not entirely deserted, a
number of very substantial building^like this fourcstory

brick and stone hotel, have been long vacant.

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Santa Fe Club of Goldfield, Nevad^has catered to miners

for eighty years.

Business was good when miners could

trade chunks of'^igh graded for drinks.
ie Cecchini, the ranking old-timer
"

of Goldfield,

and story teller extraordinary.

Mill ruins on the left, mess hall and kitchen on the right

with old brick schoolhouse at mid=distance, make up the
/I
remains of Grantsville, Nevada.

outhouse manages an upright stance in spite
of losing two walls.

Note tall vent for odor-free

operation.
Bill^James, and T. H. 4Tom)^ James, guardians of

Humbolt, Nevad^history.
Somewhere among these ruins of Humbolt was the saloon
where a shoot but left no survivors.

The open door of this Humbolt outhouse invites, the sign
denies.
&amp;

Use this facility with mixed feelings.

Mohawk Mill lies to the east of Johnsville, California.
Sixty stamps of 600 pounds lifted eight inches and dropped
in turn, crushing 150 tons of ore per day.

/^otel and firehouse in the town of Johnsville.

Town was

named after William Johns, superintendent of combined

mining operations.

�The longest single-span wooden covered bridge in the
United States, and probably the world.

Structure was

lared a California Historical Landmark.

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rom -^lldorados, Gho^s ^d Camp.s

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Southwest.

O.’^^ee^ combination grocery, cafe, bar and

court served the public for seventy^five years in

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Camptonville, California.

Small version of the Pelton wheel displayed on monument

Monument was erected by the hell-raisA
ing EJ Clampus Vitus Brotherhood.

in Camptonville.

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Hasp

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and bolt locking system.
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lassy littlel ^inei&lt;/^ house

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apparently used a nut

even classier

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vacation home,

Cornucopia, Oregon, now an
sported a diamond window

_and outside stairway to upper floor.
j^^ine structures adjacent to the Coulter Tunnel, where ice^^

Icold air and ice=cold water pour forth.

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Large schoolhouse
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Homestead, Oregon, evidences the

great number of families that once lived in the now

deserted company town.
fining halls. pastlmeJ^^and probably bunkhouses for single
Iminers of the Homestead Mine Company.

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Looking upstream along Canyon Creek&lt;4see text for^a more
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descriptive name^ in the town of Burke, Idaho.

Peaked

roof is schoolhouse.
Typical creek-drop attached outhouse common to most homes
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along the waterway,

The resident ^regularity was public

knowledge, of course.

The George Gulch outhouse-bridge combination of Burke

Idaho.

It may be the only such structure in existance.

Rear view of bridge-outhouse implies a community use by

esidents of several homes.
The bridge portion of the combo is wide enough and stout
enough to handle cars and light trucks.
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self-flushing outhouse required a small

p, lAc

diversion dam to course water under the drop zone.

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TheVl^neaky PetdC/model is guaranteed to provide the
ultimate in privacy.

Just where the back door once led

is a mystery.
And where is the exit?
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Ghost Towns of the

Northwest.

Masonic

all of Silver City, Idaho, straddles Jordan Creek.

Note the attached outhouses that drop into the creek.
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Overview of Silver City, Idaho, looking north.

The Idaho

Hotel is at center left, butcher shop, LeonarcK/s Store

and Barber Shop line up on the near right.

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Idaho Hotel is still
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offering guided tours and refreshments.

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Fanciest residence in Silver City was the Stoddard
house.

Stoddard was a mine investor, sawmill owner ,

and rancher.

Baling wire holds the splayed bottom of this tall ou^
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house together.

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Walkway to outhouse may have been wider at one time.
it gives

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Now

pThis walk-through style tall house is behind the tin shop

and newspaper office.

Proximity to the ereek, which runs

under the Masonic Mall just behind, made the annual spring
^leanout a cinch.

Well kept ^nd still usec^^uthouse / has been patched and
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^epatched with whatever material was at hand.
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s a message here somewhere.

paint job on the water tank was meant to lure

^uyers of lots in the proposed town of Teapot, Wyoming.
leapot never amounted to much — a house or two, a number
of oil wells, and some basic refining equipment.

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Old wooden oil pumping rig is one of the last in exis
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t^nce.

Note the hefty''talking beatn^that pivots on

_the top of the vertical timber.

Here the wheels

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are of iron, but have the same design used in older wooden
variety.
Pumping station hastened oil from the well to the refine
Long deserted, this old pump stands in Ferris, Wyomin^z^
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 Ferri^ Wyomin^/fy will be

buried.

Headquarters of the'^Little Man Minev as it became known
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after the discovery of a mummified Indian baby in a

nearby cave.
Rock Cavalry bam of Fort Washakie, now a garage for the
still harbors a ghost that walks
the wood floors in cavalry boots, according to some of the

men that work there.

but many buildings, like this officersV quarters built

when the ^rmy took over, can be found reconstructed at
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the site

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View of distant elk as seen

Crystal Mountain.

The pure diamond had a tendency to

Iftagnify the ell^ image.,
walked up to bleed it.

After shooting the elk, Bridger

X^fhet dum elk was twenty=five

miles awayt/
Central Pacific and Union Pacific tracks met at Promontory
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by negotiation, but ^rao/es ran past each other without

joining for hundrec^ of miles.

'white Water Bert" lives alone amid the vast remains of
a

deserted mine and mill in Retailack, British Columbia.

Frequent floods on Carpenter Creek wiped out the boardwalks

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and dock-like streets of Bandon, B^.
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the remainder.

Fires took most of

Fort Steel^J^ central attraction is

[useum built to

duplicate the original Wasa Hotel.
hair and the hard ha^work well together, re­

constructing the 1887 Royal Canadian Mounted Police

barracks, using only the tools of the time.

Finished

ortion of the post is in background.

Broad axi
for fitting.

No chain saws were allowed, and all holes

were drilled by hand without benefit of electricity.
Fort Steeles water tower can be seen in the background.

Oax

�twenty-five miles

to Fort Steele as an example of early utilization of
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water power in the mining effort.
Oddly roofed outhouse in Fort Steele, B.^ C^is securely

anchored by four posts.

Old shops along Main Street

are in the background.
It was only a tiny sapling a few years after the child was

buried.

Now the tree occupies the complete grave site

In k/ild Horse, BX.

Owner of the Long Him Store in Lundbreck, Alberta, bemoaned
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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'^hopping center.
Wainwright Hotel of Heritage Park in Calgary, Alberta, was

said to have the old Lundbreck two=^story outhouse attached
to-the rear.
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two-story outhouse, a two=door four^holer
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over a four~door eight-holer, with a cupola on top. And
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eve^thing works!
Everything functions in Heritage Park, including stern

wheelers and steam engines. You can even
d
baked breast from the old bakery.

fresh

�Replica of the Hudson Bay Company'^ Rocky Moun-

tain House has been built on the grounds of Heritage

^Park.
Outside of the rebuilt Banff barracks of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Policy ^'^^onstable from years

^st answers questions and spins a few yams.
Don 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.

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