Gallery #3--MINES
Flagstaff Mine. Located 5.8 miles NE of Baker City.
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Miscellaneous |
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Flagstaff Mine. Located 5.8 miles NE of Baker City.
Photo shows mill building on ridge with other buildings on the slope below. Mine produced about $100,000 worth of gold, most of it before 1900. Workings include 760-ft shaft and 6,000 feet of tunnel.. Buildings destroyed long ago. Underground workings caved in.
The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, which opened in 1992, is a couple hundred yards to the right. |
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1980.1.94 |
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Virtue District, 44.815759 -117.725436 |
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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: Credit Baker County Library, Baker City, Oregon
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Last modified on: December 09, 2017
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