My husband and I visited Leesburg in 1970 or 71. It was just as you see it here. In the cemetery there was a grave of a young man in his 20's and another one of a young girl. We found that getting up to the town was not an easy ride. The road is very narrow and only one car would be able to be on the road at one time. The side of the hill was dug away from the mining. Getting the gold down the mountain would prove to be difficult task.
Very neat! Since then, the road has been improved. They re-opened the diggings past the town as the Bear Track mine in the mid 1990's. It was an open pit mine, but it has since closed again. I think they plan to re-open again, but I haven't heard when. When they are done, they said they would turn the pit into a lake and stock it with fish, but who knows when? The Cemetery is kind of neat.
These old newspapers work like a time machine. They turn memories back in past times. I don't know why this happens, but in such places, people start talking in whispers, or in a low voice. I'm enjoying watching it. Great video with historical context. Thank you very much!
ImixSpb- By my calculation, if I can cast a 180 grain bullet (11.5 grams +-) in pure 925 silver, in caliber .308 Winchester, it will cost approximately $6.00 USD per cartridge. For 20 rounds that would be $120.00 US give or take a dollar or two. That's using Federal Ammunition. (7,890 Rubles). If I can't get at least four Vampires or is it Werewolves then I guess I should be [toast = (in a very bad state)] anyway. What do you think? Remember, the Moon is rising late and in its last quarter. (Gibbous) 👿👹💀🌗😫
Damn, this calculation saddened me deeply. With this money in my wallet, I can buy three Jack Daniels Old № 7. On the other hand, Halloween is coming up, and it's necessary to do something to stay safe.... Hmm.... Seems, I know how to save money! The sharp aspen stake and a lot of garlic are much cheaper ))
@@ImixSpb As the Blue Bird of Happiness says, "Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. )))) 🎼🎶🎶🎵 I have a solution, buy good Russian vodka. How is Водка Горловка? Да?
Tomorrow's bird of happiness, Flew over, tingling with it's wings Will I be the one you'll chose, Oh, tomorrow's bird of happiness? ----------------------------------------------------- That is the question )))
Good video. My great grandfather lived up there in the 1920's-1941 He had his own placer mine on Jureano mtn. First time we went to Leesburg was 1975 and he was in a nursing home in Salmon. Last time we were there was 1995. Nice to see the townsite hasn't chaged much
Mark, that is really neat! Do you still have the Jureano claim? I hear there is some good gold up there still. I think most of that area is patented claims now. It would sure be fun to go prospecting in the same spot your Great Grandad did! My Great Grandad was part of the Alaska/Canada gold rush.
@@MuskratOutdoors The last guy that had my great grandfathers claim on Jureano was a fella by the name of Don Adams and he had plans to work the claims but he was pretty up in years and his sons weren't into it. I know my grandpa's cabin was still there in '95 as well as my great grandpa. I put the video's of them on UA-cam today. on my channel at Mark Butschke
@@markbutschke9191 There are several Adams still around, Don Adams sounds familiar, but I'm not sure... Great! I'll take a look at your video right now! Merry Christmas!
@@markbutschke9191 Mark, I just tried to watch your video, but all I see is one about a Buick, and the one before that is "Unnamed Snohomish County Park" Snohomish Washington? My Mom lived there, but moved to Oregon now. Oh, I SUBSCRIBED too!
That is so cool I am just trying to take it all in. I'm a history NUT. I like that fact that you were able to get up close to the buildings. Seeing old newspaper wallpaper was ultimately a fantastic piece of history. Man, I could just go on and on. Thank you for sharing piece of living Americana! YEE HAA !!!!#
Thanks Fred! I love places like this! We have quite a few ghost towns in this area, but Leesburg is the closet one. The town of Salmon, where we live, was called Salmon City back then. Salmon City was a supply camp for the gold rush over in Leesburg. In a straight line, the two towns are about fifteen miles apart, but Leesburg is higher elevation and on the other side of the mountain making it harder to get to. Kind of funny, the mining town died, and the supply camp of Salmon remained.
@@MuskratOutdoors - I love it when I've been in the woods and I come across some old stone foundation or go into an abandoned barn. Haven't done that in years except for some park or historical site. I'd sleep in any one of those cabins and not give a hoot about ghosts, haints, or elementals. Now Banshees are something I'd steer clear of and of course, Squach. The bigger concern would be the living predatory carnivores and omnivores. But, I'd feel more at ease with a .308.
That was a nice visit, very interesting ! I really like that kinda stuff too! It could have been, as I'm sure you were thinking, better without all the noise from the workers! I always disliked anyone cranking up a generator when out in the woods camping, just messes up the nice quietness! Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
Until a few years ago, they were still actively mining this area. I was surprised to see them test drilling. They know the gold is there. When the mine was running, gold price was around $300 per ounce. It has been around $1,200 the last few years, so I'm surprised they haven't re-opened the mine. Maybe there isn't enough left to make it worth while?
@@MuskratOutdoors I thought the same thing about the mines here in Arizona but some friends that have a mine said that with all the new regulations they would have to meet it would still be a risky undertake ! Said they would have to sink about two million in it before they got the first shovel of dirt out !
Nice tour and great history. Most folks today could not live that way. We have been ruined by the easy life. In E.N.Woodcocks book, "50 Years, A Hunter Trapper", he spoke of building a cabin with a low door opening which could have been similar to the one in your video. He called it a "hog hole". lol! Those old building sure look like great rattlesnake cover to me!
It might be too high for the rattlesnakes. I've never seen one up there, but they sure could be there! I've seen a lot of low cabins like that. It doesn't make sense to me to stop short like that when it would only take one or two more logs to be tall enough. Maybe it's because they would be easier to heat? I don't know. I like the "Hog Hole" name! Some of the trapper's cabins I've found were short like that. I figured it was because they were only sleeping there a night or two, then going farther along the trapline to the next cabin. This one though, is in town. A permenate home. There were a lot of Chinese miners there, some of them are pretty small....who knows?
I wonder if it was a smoke house? Maybe they stored fire wood for the winter in there?That was fascinating! Really enjoy old buildings particularly cabins! I worked for the PA conservation corps years ago!!! Daniel Boone homestead was one of our sites!!! I put a metal roof on a old deer and bear check station!!! It was an old cabin built in the 1930s thank you guys for sharing you guys are just awesome!!!!!🦅
Thanks Muskrat , I really like the history you brought in with the video. It was really nice to see the cost of supplies also. That really puts things into perspective to wages and the expensive living there. My guess on the low doors, was the heating factor. I don't know if you ever watched the TV show, "Last Alaskans" but they built cabins like that with low ceiling and lower doors. That is the one with Heimo and Edna Korth , in the so called , Artic National wildlife refuse "
Hello Vic, I haven't seen that show, but it makes sense. Winter though, it would sure make it hard to get in and out with the snow. Most doors swing inward for that reason too, this one swings outward. Maybe they didn't use that door much, I don't know. Yeah, those prices are not far off from what they are today on some things!
It is a Discovery program now. It hasn't started yet this year. The film crew has to sleep outside in tents and it is so cold that the regular crews couldn't take it and they had to hire a filming crew from up there. I can truly understand, since -20 to -30 F is common and -50 below isn't real uncommon. Interesting read on him at : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimo_Korth
@@victorcastle1840 We don't get regular TV. Dish network kept raising the price, so we dropped them. We have something called a Firestick now. Mostly movies and a few TV shows. We might not get it anyway.
I was out a few years back just scouting and found an old power magazine and a out from that was where they kept the caps and shooting wire for an old coal mine....they can through and done some reclamation and its gone now....love this kinda stuff...seeing how it was and thinking if how it should be...
I love early construction. True craftsmen. I believe they built them so low to be able to get the snow load off the roofs. Just remember you you gonna call call Gostbusters
That's for sure! Gold price then was only a little over $18 per ounce, yet the prices of supplies weren't too far off of ours today. Gold price today has been around $1,200 per ounce.
@@MuskratOutdoors and probably hard to find a ounce right. Don't hear much about gold mining but I'm not big on it either so I don't know jack about it.
Back then it was a little more plentiful. Reading the sign it said miner's wages were five to eight dollars a day, so they would have been finding about a third of an ounce per day on average. Gold price then was about $18 per ounce. Compare that to $1,200 per ounce today, they would have been making about $400 per day. Looking at the super inflated pries of supplies in the gold camps though, they were spending as much as they were making. The folks that got rich, weren't the miners, but the store keepers.
That was a pretty interesting video it has changed a little since we went by there, it’s amazing how a little things change out there, I didn’t Elmer Keith live in that area somewhere
Wow, that was a cool place Muskrat. Loved the history of it. We went down to Savanah and visited Ft. Pulaski about a month ago. It was built in the early 1800’s to guard the coast and later a big battle during the Civil War. Did a little video on it if your interested. Love your vids👍🏻
I have no idea. That's a lot of work to build a cabin inside a cabin! It's very strange! It's a neat place isn't it! We didn't have time to go to the grave yard. Maybe I'll try to do that for Halloween.
PS: on the Stag beer advertisement in the newspaper and a comment asking if anyone ever heard of it. It is made in St. Louis Mo. from pure Mississippi river water :-) I am familiar with it because I ran around with a diabetic Detective and he drank it because it is sugar free. When on a hunting trip it was easier to pack only one kind. Not bad, a mild beer but not as mild , as Coors Rocky Mountain lemon aide.
@@MuskratOutdoors It is here any way but I'm only across Illinois from St. Louise where its made, about 120 miles from St. Louis MO. I did not know either and checked the other day at a package store and there it was. It isn't advertised much any more. With all the diabetic around, I'm surprised it is not. Back in the 1970's or so it was a common site around here. I use to kid the guy I ran around with, that it was made with, Pure Mississippi water . If you never seen the Mississippi down there it looks like rolling mud, most of the time. At that time I was drinking Coors, until we started hunting down in Shawnee Nat'l Forest , for Deer. Then it was easier to drink the same kind because a lot of counties were dry and it could be a long drive to a place big enough to have a package of any size, or town. Shawnee covers most of the bottom fourth of the state. At that time there was mostly long winding gravel roads, surrounded by beautiful woods and rock cliffs.
@@victorcastle1840 Sounds great to me! I've been down that way, but a long time ago. I was in St. Louis about 1987 or so. I didn't like it there much. Too many people and humidity was too high. That arch thing scared the stuffin' out of me! The day I went up in it the wind was blowing. That thing sways like a boat! Neat museum under it though!
Yes, My wife and son's said, it swayed bad in the wind also. St. Louis is hot and muggy. When you come from the East on I-70, you can really see how much you drop down in altitude , as it drops faster to the river bottom, than it does from the West, which seems more gradual. I've never like crowds or cities since returning from Nam. I don't suppose you crossed the Mississippi a few miles to see Cahokia Mounds ?......One of the greatest cities of the world, Cahokia was larger than London was in AD 1250
My husband and I visited Leesburg in 1970 or 71. It was just as you see it here. In the cemetery there was a grave of a young man in his 20's and another one of a young girl. We found that getting up to the town was not an easy ride. The road is very narrow and only one car would be able to be on the road at one time. The side of the hill was dug away from the mining. Getting the gold down the mountain would prove to be difficult task.
Very neat! Since then, the road has been improved. They re-opened the diggings past the town as the Bear Track mine in the mid 1990's. It was an open pit mine, but it has since closed again. I think they plan to re-open again, but I haven't heard when. When they are done, they said they would turn the pit into a lake and stock it with fish, but who knows when? The Cemetery is kind of neat.
Thanks so much for sharing this! Absolutely fascinating! Amazing that someone saved pictures of the inhabitants from so long ago! Thanks again!
Thanks! It sure is a neat place. I like history when it's a place you can go see.
These old newspapers work like a time machine. They turn memories back in past times. I don't know why this happens, but in such places, people start talking in whispers, or in a low voice. I'm enjoying watching it. Great video with historical context. Thank you very much!
ImixSpb- By my calculation, if I can cast a 180 grain bullet (11.5 grams +-) in pure 925 silver, in caliber .308 Winchester, it will cost approximately $6.00 USD per cartridge. For 20 rounds that would be $120.00 US give or take a dollar or two. That's using Federal Ammunition. (7,890 Rubles). If I can't get at least four Vampires or is it Werewolves then I guess I should be [toast = (in a very bad state)] anyway. What do you think? Remember, the Moon is rising late and in its last quarter. (Gibbous)
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ImixSpb - Well said!
Damn, this calculation saddened me deeply. With this money in my wallet, I can buy three Jack Daniels Old № 7. On the other hand, Halloween is coming up, and it's necessary to do something to stay safe.... Hmm.... Seems, I know how to save money! The sharp aspen stake and a lot of garlic are much cheaper ))
@@ImixSpb As the Blue Bird of Happiness says, "Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. ))))
🎼🎶🎶🎵
I have a solution, buy good Russian vodka. How is Водка Горловка? Да?
Tomorrow's bird of happiness,
Flew over, tingling with it's wings
Will I be the one you'll chose,
Oh, tomorrow's bird of happiness?
-----------------------------------------------------
That is the question )))
Cool stuff my friend, thanks for sharing!
Thanks Marshall, it's a neat place.
That's a pretty neat looking area must have been pretty cool to have afaresto live there back in the day. Hey thanks for sharing.
It's a great place. I really love seeing places like this and imagining what it would have been like back then.
Good video. My great grandfather lived up there in the 1920's-1941 He had his own placer mine on Jureano mtn. First time we went to Leesburg was 1975 and he was in a nursing home in Salmon. Last time we were there was 1995. Nice to see the townsite hasn't chaged much
Mark, that is really neat! Do you still have the Jureano claim? I hear there is some good gold up there still. I think most of that area is patented claims now. It would sure be fun to go prospecting in the same spot your Great Grandad did! My Great Grandad was part of the Alaska/Canada gold rush.
@@MuskratOutdoors The last guy that had my great grandfathers claim on Jureano was a fella by the name of Don Adams and he had plans to work the claims but he was pretty up in years and his sons weren't into it. I know my grandpa's cabin was still there in '95 as well as my great grandpa. I put the video's of them on UA-cam today. on my channel at Mark Butschke
@@markbutschke9191 There are several Adams still around, Don Adams sounds familiar, but I'm not sure...
Great! I'll take a look at your video right now! Merry Christmas!
@@markbutschke9191 Mark, I just tried to watch your video, but all I see is one about a Buick, and the one before that is "Unnamed Snohomish County Park" Snohomish Washington? My Mom lived there, but moved to Oregon now. Oh, I SUBSCRIBED too!
@@MuskratOutdoors ua-cam.com/video/ZHQeb_g19GQ/v-deo.html Here is the video of my great grandpa and grandpa's cabin that was still livable in 1994
That is so cool I am just trying to take it all in. I'm a history NUT. I like that fact that you were able to get up close to the buildings. Seeing old newspaper wallpaper was ultimately a fantastic piece of history. Man, I could just go on and on. Thank you for sharing piece of living Americana!
YEE HAA !!!!#
Thanks Fred! I love places like this! We have quite a few ghost towns in this area, but Leesburg is the closet one. The town of Salmon, where we live, was called Salmon City back then. Salmon City was a supply camp for the gold rush over in Leesburg. In a straight line, the two towns are about fifteen miles apart, but Leesburg is higher elevation and on the other side of the mountain making it harder to get to. Kind of funny, the mining town died, and the supply camp of Salmon remained.
@@MuskratOutdoors - I love it when I've been in the woods and I come across some old stone foundation or go into an abandoned barn. Haven't done that in years except for some park or historical site. I'd sleep in any one of those cabins and not give a hoot about ghosts, haints, or elementals. Now Banshees are something I'd steer clear of and of course, Squach. The bigger concern would be the living predatory carnivores and omnivores. But, I'd feel more at ease with a .308.
And yet, don't forget about a silver bullet ))) God helps those who help themselves.
@@ImixSpb That's for sure! You need the silver bullets for those Siberian Vampire Deer!
Hey my friend! Very Cool! ! thanks for posting, and stay Blessed!
Thank you! And you too!
Awesome video. The history was really interesting.
Thanks! It is a neat place.
That was a nice visit, very interesting ! I really like that kinda stuff too!
It could have been, as I'm sure you were thinking, better without all the noise from the workers!
I always disliked anyone cranking up a generator when out in the woods camping, just messes up the nice quietness!
Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
Until a few years ago, they were still actively mining this area. I was surprised to see them test drilling. They know the gold is there. When the mine was running, gold price was around $300 per ounce. It has been around $1,200 the last few years, so I'm surprised they haven't re-opened the mine. Maybe there isn't enough left to make it worth while?
@@MuskratOutdoors
I thought the same thing about the mines here in Arizona but some friends that have a mine said that with all the new regulations they would have to meet it would still be a risky undertake !
Said they would have to sink about two million in it before they got the first shovel of dirt out !
i love exploring places like this! fun!! very cool video!
So do I!
Such great videos
Glad you like them! It's kind of fun to do.
@@MuskratOutdoors So glad Gary ( Camo Cowboy )sent me been binge watching CYU
Nice tour and great history. Most folks today could not live that way. We have been ruined by the easy life. In E.N.Woodcocks book, "50 Years, A Hunter Trapper", he spoke of building a cabin with a low door opening which could have been similar to the one in your video. He called it a "hog hole". lol!
Those old building sure look like great rattlesnake cover to me!
It might be too high for the rattlesnakes. I've never seen one up there, but they sure could be there!
I've seen a lot of low cabins like that. It doesn't make sense to me to stop short like that when it would only take one or two more logs to be tall enough. Maybe it's because they would be easier to heat? I don't know. I like the "Hog Hole" name!
Some of the trapper's cabins I've found were short like that. I figured it was because they were only sleeping there a night or two, then going farther along the trapline to the next cabin. This one though, is in town. A permenate home. There were a lot of Chinese miners there, some of them are pretty small....who knows?
Man I enjoyed that tour very much. Lot of history there.
Thank you. I love these old places!
I wonder if it was a smoke house? Maybe they stored fire wood for the winter in there?That was fascinating! Really enjoy old buildings particularly cabins! I worked for the PA conservation corps years ago!!! Daniel Boone homestead was one of our sites!!! I put a metal roof on a old deer and bear check station!!! It was an old cabin built in the 1930s thank you guys for sharing you guys are just awesome!!!!!🦅
That is really neat! Old places like that have always fascinated me. We are related to Danial Boone somehow.....distant cousin I think.
Muskrat Outdoors that’s awesome!!! Daniel Boone’s man!!!!
Love IDAHO and all our history..
There is some really neat local history here if you are interested in the Old West.
Thanks Muskrat , I really like the history you brought in with the video. It was really nice to see the cost of supplies also. That really puts things into perspective to wages and the expensive living there. My guess on the low doors, was the heating factor. I don't know if you ever watched the TV show, "Last Alaskans" but they built cabins like that with low ceiling and lower doors. That is the one with Heimo and Edna Korth , in the so called , Artic National wildlife refuse "
Hello Vic, I haven't seen that show, but it makes sense. Winter though, it would sure make it hard to get in and out with the snow. Most doors swing inward for that reason too, this one swings outward. Maybe they didn't use that door much, I don't know. Yeah, those prices are not far off from what they are today on some things!
It is a Discovery program now. It hasn't started yet this year. The film crew has to sleep outside in tents and it is so cold that the regular crews couldn't take it and they had to hire a filming crew from up there. I can truly understand, since -20 to -30 F is common and -50 below isn't real uncommon. Interesting read on him at : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimo_Korth
@@victorcastle1840 I'll have to watch for it!
@@MuskratOutdoors
I'm still waiting for this season to start. They say, it will be back on the air this season and soon . But it is later than usual .
@@victorcastle1840 We don't get regular TV. Dish network kept raising the price, so we dropped them. We have something called a Firestick now. Mostly movies and a few TV shows. We might not get it anyway.
Loved it. Thank you.
Great! Thank you for watching!
I was out a few years back just scouting and found an old power magazine and a out from that was where they kept the caps and shooting wire for an old coal mine....they can through and done some reclamation and its gone now....love this kinda stuff...seeing how it was and thinking if how it should be...
It seems like "progress" never is. I hate to see these things disappearing.
Stumbled across this video while doing some ancestry research. Frank Barnett Sharkey was my 3rd great grandfather.
Wow! That's neat!
I love early construction. True craftsmen. I believe they built them so low to be able to get the snow load off the roofs. Just remember you you gonna call call Gostbusters
That makes sense! I bet that is the reason. That area gets 3 or 4 feet of snow some years, 2 feet at least every year.
Muskrat you are doing a great job on the content. You will be at 1000 subs in no time.
@@Shadeskast Thank you very much! I hope so. It's kind of hard to keep things interesting, but lucky for me, there are a lot of neat things here.
Wicked awesome they don't make men like that anymore. Hard working dude's right there. Rough life as well history is awesome when you can see it.
That's for sure! Gold price then was only a little over $18 per ounce, yet the prices of supplies weren't too far off of ours today. Gold price today has been around $1,200 per ounce.
@@MuskratOutdoors and probably hard to find a ounce right. Don't hear much about gold mining but I'm not big on it either so I don't know jack about it.
Back then it was a little more plentiful. Reading the sign it said miner's wages were five to eight dollars a day, so they would have been finding about a third of an ounce per day on average. Gold price then was about $18 per ounce. Compare that to $1,200 per ounce today, they would have been making about $400 per day. Looking at the super inflated pries of supplies in the gold camps though, they were spending as much as they were making. The folks that got rich, weren't the miners, but the store keepers.
@@MuskratOutdoors That's crazy the worker's always got screwed and still do lol.
Ain't that the truth!!
That was a pretty interesting video it has changed a little since we went by there, it’s amazing how a little things change out there, I didn’t Elmer Keith live in that area somewhere
He sure did! His family opened a museum about him, but closed it down again for some reason?
Wow, that was a cool place Muskrat. Loved the history of it. We went down to Savanah and visited Ft. Pulaski about a month ago. It was built in the early 1800’s to guard the coast and later a big battle during the Civil War. Did a little video on it if your interested. Love your vids👍🏻
Hell yeah I'll take a look! I love that stuff! Thank you for telling me!
Cool channel 👍
Thank you very much!
My guess is a sauna house, ther was some Chinese up ther in the day. Town still looks good, I was ther last about 25 years ago.
I have no idea. That's a lot of work to build a cabin inside a cabin! It's very strange! It's a neat place isn't it! We didn't have time to go to the grave yard. Maybe I'll try to do that for Halloween.
@@MuskratOutdoors Yes! You have to visit the bone yard during the waning gibbous moon.
PS: on the Stag beer advertisement in the newspaper and a comment asking if anyone ever heard of it. It is made in St. Louis Mo. from pure Mississippi river water :-) I am familiar with it because I ran around with a diabetic Detective and he drank it because it is sugar free. When on a hunting trip it was easier to pack only one kind. Not bad, a mild beer but not as mild , as Coors Rocky Mountain lemon aide.
It is still around then? I've never seen it. Thank's for the info Vic!
@@MuskratOutdoors
It is here any way but I'm only across Illinois from St. Louise where its made, about 120 miles from St. Louis MO.
I did not know either and checked the other day at a package store and there it was. It isn't advertised much any more.
With all the diabetic around, I'm surprised it is not. Back in the 1970's or so it was a common site around here. I use to kid the guy I ran around with, that it was made with, Pure Mississippi water . If you never seen the Mississippi down there it looks like rolling mud, most of the time.
At that time I was drinking Coors, until we started hunting down in Shawnee Nat'l Forest , for Deer. Then it was easier to drink the same kind because a lot of counties were dry and it could be a long drive to a place big enough to have a package of any size, or town. Shawnee covers most of the bottom fourth of the state. At that time there was mostly long winding gravel roads, surrounded by beautiful woods and rock cliffs.
@@victorcastle1840 Sounds great to me! I've been down that way, but a long time ago. I was in St. Louis about 1987 or so. I didn't like it there much. Too many people and humidity was too high. That arch thing scared the stuffin' out of me! The day I went up in it the wind was blowing. That thing sways like a boat! Neat museum under it though!
Yes, My wife and son's said, it swayed bad in the wind also. St. Louis is hot and muggy. When you come from the East on I-70, you can really see how much you drop down in altitude , as it drops faster to the river bottom, than it does from the West, which seems more gradual. I've never like crowds or cities since returning from Nam. I don't suppose you crossed the Mississippi a few miles to see Cahokia Mounds ?......One of the greatest cities of the world, Cahokia was larger than London was in AD 1250
@@victorcastle1840 We did. That was really neat.