A tremendous amount of work went into documenting this area. You should be commended for your efforts. Your soft, smooth voice is calming and is well suited for narration. Your video shots are logical and sequential. I love the way you mix current video with historic stills and vintage video. The video stream flows so well. I am glad I subscribed to your channel since you always amaze me. Each one of your new video sets the bar higher and the wonderful sound track complements your work. You are a great story teller. I need to explore this area this coming summer. The area has such a startling contrast to what it was during the mining heydays. A person can not appreciate the past until you compare it with the present. Many thanks again for posting this informative, educational and historical video. I will try to meet up with you this summer. Dave in Montana.
Thank you for your kind words. I have been been directly inspired by your presentations as I have tried to use more still shots (less pan and zoom) because of the look of your video using photographs. I still tend to go a little crazy and do to much movement but I am trying to settle down. I hope to get into western Montana (I'm only 13 miles from Montana border on I-90) and do some video. Perhaps someday we will run into each other. Take care and keep your videos coming!
Buddy, this is one of the best documentary I've ever seen about an old town. I don't even know the area. i just stumbled into this. Total enjoyed it! Now I want to go there. Kind of sad to see what once was in this country.
So great that you posted this (these) no matter how….less than perfect you seem to be saying it is. I’m from New York City and I travel, but the’s no chance I’m going to see this place or learn about it. You help peopke visit places without visiting them.
1:30 in the morning I ran around and partially grew up in the Burke area ran over around the mountains up in that area. I even swam in the book pool when I was a young man it’s nothing like it was when I was younger but thanks for filming the footage that you did.
Watching this 2022 September after watching Itchy Boots. I enjoyed this film: quality, sound, music and voice all very much okay! Best wishes from across the seas and below sea level: The Netherlands 🇳🇱🌷🌷🌷🌷👏👏👏
Very well done. We enjoyed your presentation. Very logical. Your voice is calming and the music was not hectic. Hope you do more of these. Much better than many that we've seen.
We went to Burke a few years ago and took a few pictures and videos wondering how it used to be like. Asked a couple of the people who live there and got some interesting information. I thank you for filling in the gaps I was missing. Truly a great place to see for yourself.
I really enjoyed the trip up the Canyon. Been there many times over the years. My dad was born and raised in Gem/Mace from 1927-1954. Lost his eye in the Star mine. My grandmother's house where she raised the family still stands, right next to the creek in Gem. I have listened to many stories of life there and I enjoy exporing the history of the area. Thank you.
I echo the positive comments by previous posts. You really bring this historic region back to life and have provided a great medium to preserve its rich heritage. Bravo!!
In 1955 a new foot ball/ base ball field was built in Silverton - but there did not build bleachers - A large group students and teachers from Wallace H.S.went with some "low boy" trucks and drivers from Zinetti Trucking to the ball field in Burke - we stacked those bleachers like chairs a rored through Burke horns blaring as we stole those bleacher for the new field. Harvey Wilson class of '55
the house that stands to right of where the hotel stood was owned by esther vincent who also owned the combination bar. the lemieux family lived in the lower part of burke .their grocery store was on the east end next to the school bus garage .on the west side of their store was the post office .except for eddies cafe and the gas station i dont remember names of the stores on down to the combination bar .
You did a great job! Thoroughly enjoyed it . . . I've been to Burke and had a great time walking the site, but after watching this .... I really didn't know what I was looking at.
in 1951 I worked one summer at the Star...I was in the Winze where the Shifter was Mandy Lundell and the timberman was Big Louie Hockstater. We were between 49-5100. I lived in the Tiger Hotel next door to Edward Joseph "Bud" Riley. I was with a group of students from Mich Tech who were offered jobs for summer money. There was a shaft shaft sinking project at that time to 6300. The food in the Tiger was tremendous. It was run by Bill Vipperman and his wife. $90/mo board and room. It was a great summer and Bud Riley met his wife Mary who was from Mullan, but worked in the Coeur D Lane hardware. She would loan us a quarter each to take the Guy Gillerie cannon ball bus up the canyon to Burke. I visited Burke in 1996 or so and the Tiger Hotel was gone and the town was a ghost town. I remember a bunch of old characters such as a timber repair man named "Little Tommy" Immiganan and his partner Alligator. They were trapped by a cave in and spent several days while miners dug them out. We used black powder fuses and caps and cut the fuses to the right length to pull the middle of the 11" holes and then shoot down the top and then use lifters to get the ore in the stope away from the wall where the slusher could be used to drag the ore to a rock chute that we carried with us. Bud Riley's friend from the U of Idaho married Messerly's daughter that summer. Messerly was the superintendent who was often mentioned in a tale of how he climbed up a rock raise that was blocked and jammed and set and lit a charge of dynamite to loosen it up. I see the name Mc Loed on the credits. Is this fellow any relation to Norman Macleod who was a great friend of Noah Kellogg's and played the part of Kellogg in festivals In the 50's. Norman was from Northern Michigan and was a shirt tale relative who took me on a tour of Kellogg and the area including the smelter during my time in Burke n 1951. .
You did a fantastic job. We toured this location yesterday and I got some great shots. I wished I would have watched this earlier because I missed a few things. Thanks again for the great videos.
Wow! Another amazing AuggieDogProduction. I really enjoyed the trip. My daughter enjoyed her time in your area and we both hope to visit this summer. So sorry to hear about your dog. Such a sweet and unique looking buddy. Not sure you can top this one, Ted. But I am sure you will try. Keep the videos coming!
Went and checked this place out today with the wife and kids. Would sure love to go in and look at the inside of the hotel and the rest of it. I understand that it’s not safe, but come on! You only live once. lol great video by the way. I am subscribing to your Chanel.
Absolutely amazing video. I enjoyed watching it and learning some of the vast history of the area. Thank you for all your efforts in researching this historic area
GREAT VIDEO!! Thanks so much. I am from the Kellogg area. My folks owned the old Brandon's Store in Enaville next to the Snakepit. That whole enaville area is rich in history also, especially logging and was settled by the early Finish immigrants. Would really love to see you do a video history of that area. 3 of the major saw mills were right there that milled for the mines, Kellogg Transfer right behind the Snakepit. Bear Creek mill in Bear Creek just in back of the Snakepit but on Bear Creek road a mile up. And Linfor Lumber Company on the west side of the north fork river. If you see the movie Dante's Peak, it was filmed in enaville (and Wallace). That bridge that gets destroyed at the end is called THE SILVER BRIDGE where you drive over the north fork river to get in the west side river road and Linfor Mill. Albert's bar is on the other side a historic spot of its own. All these mills are now gone unfortunately. But tons of history there. I have a lot of research material for the area. From Kingston off ramp on I90 all the way up the north fork river road to Mullan and Pritchard, both sides of the river, all the gulches and canyons have history. That area of the silver valley is/was the heart of the timber industry in north Idaho from the founding of the area and it's silver mines until the early 80's. The mining history is Bunker Hill to the Sunshine to Burke canyon and everything else in between. The Timber history is the North Fork of the CDA river from Cataldo to Kingston and all the way up the north fork. Do the timber history next!! Love how you have done the mining history.
Thank you for all your effort. I'm an amateur genealogist and was researching the places that one of my Great granduncles had disappeared to many years ago. I don't know his story, or why he left "home" in Iowa, but the only mention of him in the local paper was "Joe Coyle received the sad intelligence last Tuesday of the death of his brother Charles at Butte, Montana, earlier that day. He dropped over dead while at his work, information from that city revealed. He was last here twenty-nine years ago. He was born April 7, 1880 at Dumont. He went West with a railroad surveying crew, and has lived in Western states since. He was sixty-one years old." During my searches I found him on the 1920 US Census for Burke, ID employed as (you might guess) a miner. Over the years he worked in Spokane, Burke and Butte as a miner. Your video helps so much to place some historical context around how he lived out his years. Oddly, after having spent most of my life in California, I ended up a few hours northeast (in Kalispell) and will stop by on my next trip further west. Thanks!
Great video I only wish I had know of it before I took the family to Burke. Thank you so much for putting so much time and effort into this little bit of history.
Nice video. I just got back from Burke with my wife and kids. It was a fun little road trip. I will be back. It would be fun to take footage of the inside of the buildings.
You did a great job on this documentary.. I Love that area.. did you get a chance to stop in smelterville?... I remember drinking 25 cent beers from a bartender that had a few missing fingers from his days working in the mines.. Kellogg, Wallace area was quite a place before the freeway was built.
Very fascinating series. That was a lot of fun. I would love to run my metal detector at that old ball field but I would guess there have been hundreds already ran there.
GateGateGateFold I work for the Historic Wallace Preservation Society here in Wallace Idaho. I am lucky to have access to several different collections. Thank you for watching and the nice comments.
I know you said The Star shut down in 81, but I was laid off Aug, 15th, 1982. I was one of the last to go. And they were driving drift on level 8300 when they shut it down.
Been thru here now a coupled times, my last trip was this past August, good to be able to placed a name with some of the building's, see now, as of this past Aug. they were check the soil for contaminates .
Your video is interesting but u are doing a disservice to your area ( if u live there that is) It is increasingly almost impossible to find any solitude in these special places. May i suggest leaving the names of the locations off the title.
I'm definitely from out of town. Unfortunately, too many of us already know about these kind of places, and have been there, seeking solace if only for an hour or two.
I know you Mary. Your dad was the cop boss in Kellogg for years. I was the guitar player in a local band called the Hot Ded Chickenz in the Kellogg area in the early 80's. We played in Wanda's in up town Kellogg at times. Across the street was the old Johny's bar that was closed down. The other guitar player in the band, Don Folkman got a rental agreement which became our rehearsal place and when we were home and playing in town, after Wanda's and the sunshine Innand dirty earnies ould close at 2:00, many would come to our place at Johny's for after hours partys. Cops didn't care for that (or us for that matter). And I believe you were in the night your dad and a few deputies raided the place. We clicked off the lights and tried to be quiet but everyone was blasted and laughing so hard they knew we were all in there and busted in. No warrent. But your pols saw me a few days later in IGA parking lot and said he didn't want to see his daughter anywhere around my band again. I knew right then why we were raided THAT night. Laughable stuff now. Good to see your still around Mary. Many I know from those days (sadly) are not.
Your effort, time, and hard work makes this truly a Jem. National Geographic should hire you !!
Thank you so much, really interesting. More please on other areas too if possible. The rich history should not be lost.
A tremendous amount of work went into documenting this area. You should be commended for your efforts. Your soft, smooth voice is calming and is well suited for narration. Your video shots are logical and sequential. I love the way you mix current video with historic stills and vintage video. The video stream flows so well.
I am glad I subscribed to your channel since you always amaze me. Each one of your new video sets the bar higher and the wonderful sound track complements your work. You are a great story teller.
I need to explore this area this coming summer. The area has such a startling contrast to what it was during the mining heydays. A person can not appreciate the past until you compare it with the present.
Many thanks again for posting this informative, educational and historical video. I will try to meet up with you this summer. Dave in Montana.
Thank you for your kind words. I have been been directly inspired by your presentations as I have tried to use more still shots (less pan and zoom) because of the look of your video using photographs. I still tend to go a little crazy and do to much movement but I am trying to settle down. I hope to get into western Montana (I'm only 13 miles from Montana border on I-90) and do some video. Perhaps someday we will run into each other. Take care and keep your videos coming!
AuggieDogProduction we should get together do more filming in this area
Buddy, this is one of the best documentary I've ever seen about an old town. I don't even know the area. i just stumbled into this. Total enjoyed it! Now I want to go there. Kind of sad to see what once was in this country.
i guess I am kinda randomly asking but does anyone know of a good place to stream newly released tv shows online ?
@Davis Jaden lately I have been using flixzone. Just search on google for it =)
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So great that you posted this (these) no matter how….less than perfect you seem to be saying it is. I’m from New York City and I travel, but the’s no chance I’m going to see this place or learn about it. You help peopke visit places without visiting them.
I will give the narration a 11 out of 10. Well spoken, soothing voice and great information
Very interesting area. Well worth a visit.
1:30 in the morning I ran around and partially grew up in the Burke area ran over around the mountains up in that area. I even swam in the book pool when I was a young man it’s nothing like it was when I was younger but thanks for filming the footage that you did.
Great work. Thank You
Watching this 2022 September after watching Itchy Boots. I enjoyed this film: quality, sound, music and voice all very much okay! Best wishes from across the seas and below sea level: The Netherlands 🇳🇱🌷🌷🌷🌷👏👏👏
I just visited and was delighted to come across this documentary! I loved learning the history of this unique place. Thank you!
Very well done. We enjoyed your presentation. Very logical. Your voice is calming and the music was not hectic. Hope you do more of these. Much better than many that we've seen.
We went to Burke a few years ago and took a few pictures and videos wondering how it used to be like. Asked a couple of the people who live there and got some interesting information. I thank you for filling in the gaps I was missing. Truly a great place to see for yourself.
I really enjoyed the trip up the Canyon. Been there many times over the years. My dad was born and raised in Gem/Mace from 1927-1954. Lost his eye in the Star mine. My grandmother's house where she raised the family still stands, right next to the creek in Gem. I have listened to many stories of life there and I enjoy exporing the history of the area. Thank you.
We just purchased a 100 year old miner's cabin in "Gem" on Burke Rd. I wonder if it isn't near where your dad was born and raised?
Pretty darn good!
I echo the positive comments by previous posts. You really bring this historic region back to life and have provided a great medium to preserve its rich heritage. Bravo!!
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enjoyed the video, and the icing on the cake, is your last statement...Hillarious! Thanks
My father worked in the Burke mine was there when the sunshine mine blew up. He lived there for many years we loved going to visit him.
In 1955 a new foot ball/ base ball field was built in Silverton - but there did not build bleachers - A large group students and teachers from Wallace H.S.went with some "low boy" trucks and drivers from Zinetti Trucking to the ball field in Burke - we stacked those bleachers like chairs a rored through Burke horns blaring as we stole those bleacher for the new field. Harvey Wilson class of '55
the house that stands to right of where the hotel stood was owned by esther vincent who also owned the combination bar. the lemieux family lived in the lower part of burke .their grocery store was on the east end next to the school bus garage .on the west side of their store was the post office .except for eddies cafe and the gas station i dont remember names of the stores on down to the combination bar .
You did a great job! Thoroughly enjoyed it . . . I've been to Burke and had a great time walking the site, but after watching this .... I really didn't know what I was looking at.
in 1951 I worked one summer at the Star...I was in the Winze where the Shifter was Mandy Lundell and the timberman was Big Louie Hockstater. We were between 49-5100. I lived in the Tiger Hotel next door to Edward Joseph "Bud" Riley. I was with a group of students from Mich Tech who were offered jobs for summer money. There was a shaft shaft sinking project at that time to 6300. The food in the Tiger was tremendous. It was run by Bill Vipperman and his wife. $90/mo board and room. It was a great summer and Bud Riley met his wife Mary who was from Mullan, but worked in the Coeur D Lane hardware. She would loan us a quarter each to take the Guy Gillerie cannon ball bus up the canyon to Burke. I visited Burke in 1996 or so and the Tiger Hotel was gone and the town was a ghost town. I remember a bunch of old characters such as a timber repair man named "Little Tommy" Immiganan and his partner Alligator. They were trapped by a cave in and spent several days while miners dug them out.
We used black powder fuses and caps and cut the fuses to the right length to pull the middle of the 11" holes and then shoot down the top and then use lifters to get the ore in the stope away from the wall where the slusher could be used to drag the ore to a rock chute that we carried with us. Bud Riley's friend from the U of Idaho married Messerly's daughter that summer. Messerly was the superintendent who was often mentioned in a tale of how he climbed up a rock raise that was blocked and jammed and set and lit a charge of dynamite to loosen it up.
I see the name Mc Loed on the credits. Is this fellow any relation to Norman Macleod who was a great friend of Noah Kellogg's and played the part of Kellogg in festivals In the 50's. Norman was from Northern Michigan and was a shirt tale relative who took me on a tour of Kellogg and the area including the smelter during my time in Burke n 1951.
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I would love to hear more!
Man your series on this town is just fantastica thank you for the time you put into this! I really enjoyed it!
You did a fantastic job. We toured this location yesterday and I got some great shots. I wished I would have watched this earlier because I missed a few things. Thanks again for the great videos.
Thank you so much for making these videos!! YOu did great and I can't wait to see more!
Wow! Another amazing AuggieDogProduction. I really enjoyed the trip. My daughter enjoyed her time in your area and we both hope to visit this summer. So sorry to hear about your dog. Such a sweet and unique looking buddy. Not sure you can top this one, Ted. But I am sure you will try. Keep the videos coming!
Those two videos are awesome and quite informative.
Went and checked this place out today with the wife and kids. Would sure love to go in and look at the inside of the hotel and the rest of it. I understand that it’s not safe, but come on! You only live once. lol great video by the way. I am subscribing to your Chanel.
Absolutely amazing video. I enjoyed watching it and learning some of the vast history of the area. Thank you for all your efforts in researching this historic area
GREAT VIDEO!! Thanks so much. I am from the Kellogg area. My folks owned the old Brandon's Store in Enaville next to the Snakepit. That whole enaville area is rich in history also, especially logging and was settled by the early Finish immigrants. Would really love to see you do a video history of that area. 3 of the major saw mills were right there that milled for the mines, Kellogg Transfer right behind the Snakepit. Bear Creek mill in Bear Creek just in back of the Snakepit but on Bear Creek road a mile up. And Linfor Lumber Company on the west side of the north fork river. If you see the movie Dante's Peak, it was filmed in enaville (and Wallace). That bridge that gets destroyed at the end is called THE SILVER BRIDGE where you drive over the north fork river to get in the west side river road and Linfor Mill. Albert's bar is on the other side a historic spot of its own. All these mills are now gone unfortunately. But tons of history there. I have a lot of research material for the area. From Kingston off ramp on I90 all the way up the north fork river road to Mullan and Pritchard, both sides of the river, all the gulches and canyons have history. That area of the silver valley is/was the heart of the timber industry in north Idaho from the founding of the area and it's silver mines until the early 80's. The mining history is Bunker Hill to the Sunshine to Burke canyon and everything else in between. The Timber history is the North Fork of the CDA river from Cataldo to Kingston and all the way up the north fork. Do the timber history next!! Love how you have done the mining history.
Excellent! Thank you so much for your efforts!!
My grandpa worked the mines in Burke, passed away walking from his car to work, 2/14/67
Thank you for all your effort. I'm an amateur genealogist and was researching the places that one of my Great granduncles had disappeared to many years ago. I don't know his story, or why he left "home" in Iowa, but the only mention of him in the local paper was "Joe Coyle received the sad intelligence last Tuesday of the death of his brother Charles at Butte, Montana, earlier that day. He dropped over dead while at his work, information from that city revealed. He was last here twenty-nine years ago. He was born April 7, 1880 at Dumont. He went West with a railroad surveying crew, and has lived in Western states since. He was sixty-one years old."
During my searches I found him on the 1920 US Census for Burke, ID employed as (you might guess) a miner. Over the years he worked in Spokane, Burke and Butte as a miner. Your video helps so much to place some historical context around how he lived out his years.
Oddly, after having spent most of my life in California, I ended up a few hours northeast (in Kalispell) and will stop by on my next trip further west. Thanks!
Such a cool story!!!
What an amazingly great video, extremely interesting and so well documented. Thank you.
Great video I only wish I had know of it before I took the family to Burke. Thank you so much for putting so much time and effort into this little bit of history.
Loved this. Thanks for sharing
Great job! I have family history in the area. Very cool to learn more!
Love this Video, I love History of the Mining Towns of the West.
Great Video.
Nice video. I just got back from Burke with my wife and kids. It was a fun little road trip. I will be back. It would be fun to take footage of the inside of the buildings.
It was a GREAT video and you did a wonderful job!
You did a great job on this documentary.. I Love that area.. did you get a chance to stop in smelterville?... I remember drinking 25 cent beers from a bartender that had a few missing fingers from his days working in the mines.. Kellogg, Wallace area was quite a place before the freeway was built.
Great video, I really enjoyed it.......keep 'em coming, sir.
Very fascinating series. That was a lot of fun. I would love to run my metal detector at that old ball field but I would guess there have been hundreds already ran there.
went there in 2007, very cool place, u did a great job on the video and narirating it
Most is gone now, but we still enjoy riding through on our side by sides.
Good choice of music, can you list?
Great job! Where did you find the archival footage of the area?
GateGateGateFold I work for the Historic Wallace Preservation Society here in Wallace Idaho. I am lucky to have access to several different collections. Thank you for watching and the nice comments.
i in joyed it very much thank you.
Good job Mr Haldi.
Great video !
How much can you get out and explore the abandoned parts without being hassled? Is the Hercules mine original adit that you showed accessible?
You can look but no one is allowed into the mines. Most are boarded at the portal as a safety precaution.
I know you said The Star shut down in 81, but I was laid off Aug, 15th, 1982. I was one of the last to go. And they were driving drift on level 8300 when they shut it down.
My brother in law mark heglund's brother Mike was employed there in 81 til 82 until it quit. So your correct Derek.
very nice job
very nice!
Been thru here now a coupled times, my last trip was this past August, good to be able to placed a name with some of the building's, see now, as of this past Aug. they were check the soil for contaminates .
Can we go up gorge gulch? When i was up there i seen a house right next to what looks like the entrance to it.. is it all private property now?
The road up Gorge Gulch is a public road.
This video about to get a shout out on my next vlog
Also, great music.
Lemieux is pronounced Lem-yoo, it's a French surname, as there are many Lemieuxs in my part of Canada.
Your video is interesting but u are doing a disservice to your area ( if u live there that is) It is increasingly almost impossible to find any solitude in these special places. May i suggest leaving the names of the locations off the title.
I'm definitely from out of town. Unfortunately, too many of us already know about these kind of places, and have been there, seeking solace if only for an hour or two.
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I know you Mary. Your dad was the cop boss in Kellogg for years. I was the guitar player in a local band called the Hot Ded Chickenz in the Kellogg area in the early 80's. We played in Wanda's in up town Kellogg at times. Across the street was the old Johny's bar that was closed down. The other guitar player in the band, Don Folkman got a rental agreement which became our rehearsal place and when we were home and playing in town, after Wanda's and the sunshine Innand dirty earnies ould close at 2:00, many would come to our place at Johny's for after hours partys. Cops didn't care for that (or us for that matter). And I believe you were in the night your dad and a few deputies raided the place. We clicked off the lights and tried to be quiet but everyone was blasted and laughing so hard they knew we were all in there and busted in. No warrent. But your pols saw me a few days later in IGA parking lot and said he didn't want to see his daughter anywhere around my band again. I knew right then why we were raided THAT night. Laughable stuff now. Good to see your still around Mary. Many I know from those days (sadly) are not.
@@bennyh4950 Good recollection.
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