Bob Jarman
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lazlo369 wrote:
Excellent images Bob. I wonder what happened to the people in the town, why they had to leave.
Thank you Lazlo,
Short story:
Shaniko was a booming center of the wool industry in the early 1900s (US Olympic Team uniforms were made from Shaniko wool, last winter Olympics).
A railroad was constructed to transport wool and sheep to market, however it bypassed Shaniko marking the beginning of it's decline. Much like the many boom towns from gold mining when ore played out.
Our daughter lives in Prineville, a once booming logging town with three mills. By-passed by a rail line, the town built its own short-haul railway to get logs to major rail-heads. That effort only delayed the inevitable; the rail line is in place but the locomotive runs once a year on July 4th as a part of the celebration. Mills are gone - the last, a small fabrication mill, collapsed from snow storm two years ago; the owner chose to scrap the facility and move on. Much like heavy industry in the eastern part of the US.
Bob
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