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[JeeperG]

One step closer.

 

[Hickey]

RV'ing (it ain't camping) with the Tramp-Scamp on our property in Helper. Next stop, the Helper Vibes Beer Garden 😎

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Damn bro, TREES?!?
“mUst bE nIce!”

 

[rholbrook]

I posted this on our social, with a comment about being tourists in Zion NP. It’s had some good traction, but no one has said anything about the obvious.

Are they being polite, or is it not actually obvious??

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The obvious is we all feel sorry for your wife. Based on this picture, you can see the embarrassment in your wife’s eyes. The helmet she can deal with, it’s the training wheels she is struggling with.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Damn bro, TREES?!?
“mUst bE nIce!”

Too many trees. We need to do some clearing and build some routes.

 

[Hickey]

Too many trees. We need to do some clearing and build some routes.

I wouldn’t mind helping with that.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

I wouldn’t mind helping with that.

I need to get down there with my 40, a chainsaw, a chain and perhaps drag and eventually a tractor. There is a wash in the middle of the property that could be amazing to drive too. I'm a partner on the property and I want to make sure my pal and I align our ideas before we start tracking the place up.

 

[anderson750]

I need to get down there with my 40, a chainsaw, a chain and perhaps drag and eventually a tractor. There is a wash in the middle of the property that could be amazing to drive too. I'm a partner on the property and I want to make sure my pal and I align our ideas before we start tracking the place up.

How many acres?

 

[cruiseroutfit]

How many acres?

Just shy of 100 with some addition options. It has some house/building/railroad remnants from the early coal town life of Spring Canyon. I found another near foundation while hiking today in fact.

 

[DAA]

Looks like it needs metal detecting... . Found two silvers again this morning. Just saying...

- DAA

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Looks like it needs metal detecting... . Found two silvers again this morning. Just saying...

- DAA

I think there could be some amazing detecting, particularly where the old homes were further from the highway. Peerless was just up the street and mined until 1953. I suspect many of the homes on this property were related to Peerless which had a population of ~300 during its heyday. The mine buildings were just .4 miles up canyon. The original railroad, newer railroad and modern road all ran across a corner of the property which is where I would expect to find stuff. There is old blue, purple and clear broken glass and porcelain all over the place.

 

[AaronPaige]

That is a cool way to spend the day, I wish I knew you were going there, my grand father was born in one of the homes next to the old store up spring canyon and I have a little information(passed down from him) of how that all worked in the old days…

 

[AaronPaige]

These pictures are of the stone in front of his old wine seller, he wrote on it in blue paint 20+ years ago

 

[cruiseroutfit]

That is a cool way to spend the day, I wish I knew you were going there, my grand father was born in one of the homes next to the old store up spring canyon and I have a little information(passed down from him) of how that all worked in the old days…

Very cool, I'd love to hear the stories. Do you know which town he was born in? Spring Canyon proper?

I've been doing a ton of reading and researching on Spring Canyon ghost towns.

 

[Kevin B.]

Very cool, I'd love to hear the stories. Do you know which town he was born in? Spring Canyon proper?

I've been doing a ton of reading and researching on Spring Canyon ghost towns.

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I know you know this but the museum in Helper is amazing. It's very cool to visit the museum after you've been up the canyon.

 

[AaronPaige]

He was from mutual and worked in the mine of latuda to support his family while his brothers went off to war

 

[cruiseroutfit]

I know you know this but the museum in Helper is amazing. It's very cool to visit the museum after you've been up the canyon.

Agreed. I need to schedule a time to go there when some of the more seasoned folks are in, hoping to dig deep on some questions.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

He was from mutual and worked in the mine of latuda to support his family while his brothers went off to war

Very cool. This is the best photo I've found of the Mutual building.



And this is a cool shot of Latuda in ~1940

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Sounds like we need to do an RME day at the museum and night in Spring Canyon!

 

[AaronPaige]

A book that a local historian published has this picture in it if my grandfather and his brothers getting warm with a bottle after shoveling snow

 

[cruiseroutfit]

A book that a local historian published has this picture in it if my grandfather and his brothers getting warm with a bottle after shoveling snowView attachment 161218

Very cool, what is the name of the book?