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| no partners | | I was leaving Lander in a light rain when off the Hwy 28 saw a sign " Historic Mining area" --pulled off and drove around and came to a sign off the well graded dirt BLM road, labeled "Miners Delight". The rain had stopped, and clouds lifting from the low rolling sagebrush covered hills. What to mine--- I didn't see any rock. The turnoff takes you to a small cemetery at the top of a hill, windswept, with views 360 degrees. One headstone. A forlorn little place. Park here and walk down to a wooded area with small aspen, here is the preserved mining town of Hamilton City aka Miners' Delight, a signed BLM area on the historic preservation list for Wyoming. Fenced off from the frisky curious cattle I encountered. There are about 8 buildings, most are shells, but a few items still about, an old stove, mining equipment, and lots of rock tailings from the hunt for gold, alluvial mining mostly I assume. Neat chimney rock work in one building. Some of the buildings had attempts at cellars, torn up I am thinking by treasure hunter types. A little pond nearby and nice flowers. Not too far away a large tailings pile with a gated adit and a large concrete perhaps mill base structure, with Aspen trees growing out of cracks in the concrete.
A special little place I am glad I took time to see, the register indicates pretty steady visitation but I was the only one crazy enough on this stormy day. |
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