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Pink Trailer
Mine
Then & Now
The year was 1983. While out exploring
the desert with the bikes and buggy.
We came upon a faint trail, we followed this
trail through deep sand washes
and a twisting rocky
path. Spinning the rear tire on my XT250 like
crazy, trying to get over a long soft stretch of
sand in the narrow canyon
until we came upon
this
lonely pink trailer, in the middle of nowhere.
It turned out to be a mining camp & time capsule of the 1950's.
1967 was the
date on the last newspaper found inside. This amazed
the
hell out of us, sitting here unmolested for the 16
or so years. Still supplied with gallons of
bottled water, lined up on the kitchen counter and food packages
with price tags listing
$.17 and $.23, prices of long
ago. The trailer was being used while digging a gold
mine about 250
feet into the mountain. The tailings can be seen above the trailer.
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Jessica stands at the entrance to the mine. More bottled water was
stored in here. Years painted on the inside walls showed how far this person had dug each year. He was probably mining for gold, as there is a lot of quartz rock in the mine. |
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Mine entrance. |
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Steve & Brian, 1983 |
2005 |
The mine is mostly intact over the past 22 years.
The glass bottled water
is largely undisturbed. Although someone has removed the 250' of
ore cart track.
Just what are people thinking?
1950's Time Capsule, as Found in 1983
How it looked in 1997. Unfortunately the inside was
trashed
by thoughtless idiots.
Just when we thought it couldn't get worse...
As it stands today in this 2005 Photo.
2005. Danny stands in the doorway of the
lonely 1947 travel trailer.
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1983, How the inside used to
look before the vandals. |
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1983 |
2005 |
Yes, disappointing. We knew it was only a matter of
time before other people
found this time capsule, but this is ridiculous.
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The trailer is seen here in the middle. They must have used a Caterpillar tractor to get this 1947 trailer up this sandy canyon. |
