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Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on June 15, 2018, 08:35 PM:
 
Took a little trip last weekend. Took a lot of pictures . Poking around ghost towns and old mines for a few days. Covered a lot of ground, saw a lot of stuff.

Here's a bunch of pics below. But if you want to check out a gazillion more pics and a full trip report write up, it's on my blog - Tybo to Treasure City

Hope you enjoy!















- DAA
 

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Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on June 15, 2018, 08:37 PM:
 
Some more...

















- DAA
 

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Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on June 16, 2018, 03:45 AM:
 
Awesome !!!!
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on June 16, 2018, 05:57 AM:
 
Those are very special, Dave! I recognize a couple. Interesting to see the power lines going into that one structure, and a couple frames below, a headstone dated 1878, I think it said?

Quite a few years ago there was some scare about people digging up graves and a few contracting a dormant disease while looking to rob wedding rings and brooches, too bad they had to caution people about disturbing these things.

I know that in my travels, every return shows degraded artifacts, sometimes scandalously disturbed sites. So, I notice you aren't giving directions and a map, which is understandable. Of course, it all looks deliciously hunt able. Please tell me you packed at least one accurate rifle!

Good hunting. El Bee
 

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Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on June 16, 2018, 06:34 AM:
 
Leonard, yup, I did pack a rifle. Never did get the urge to make a stand though.

Had a couple half grown pups on the side of the road. Not much for shooting crossers anymore anyway, but especially not half growns. Went for the camera instead of the rifle but they had melted into the sage brush before I got it ready.

And yeah... This stuff is all disappearing. Fast! Getting faster and faster, too. In truth, most of it is already gone. Compared to even just ten years ago. Hate to think how little will remain in another ten years, or twenty...

The good news, is I only saw two other vehicles in two days and nearly 300 miles of dirt. And they were both the first morning, near pavement.

- DAA
 

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Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on June 16, 2018, 06:42 AM:
 
Oh, and those aren't power lines. That's a still intact ore bucket tram. It goes a mile and a half up to the mine.

This is the mill.



And this is the other end of the cables, 1-1/2 miles and 2,200 feet higher up the mountain.









- DAA
 

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Posted by DanS (Member # 316) on June 16, 2018, 06:42 AM:
 
Those pic at night with the stars makes me miss the desert so much. Can't wait till I get a chance to explore some of that country and jeep around. Work just won't let me yet.
 

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Posted by Aaron Rhoades (Member # 4234) on June 16, 2018, 06:49 AM:
 
Awesome!
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on June 16, 2018, 09:21 AM:
 
Yeah, the STARS! Friggin' Awesome! And yet, folks that have been there on a moonless night with high pressure will see that sort of thing all the time.

Man! YOU SET ME UP! Powerlines, indeed!

But getting back to site degrading. What in the hell possesses people to happen on these places and trash everything? Souvenir hunters will rip up walls and ceilings, floorboards etc. looking for hidden cache. I actually know a guy that got into a remote camp by horseback. I saw the Single Action Army he found under a floor and it was so envious, it does motivate the treasure hunter instinct. He also went back with a rented mule a month later and hauled out a big load of birds eye maple.

I sometimes find the time to browse western graveyards. I think they are fascinating. Some, surprisingly, are still in use occasionally, meaning that an old-timer would rather be planted in his roots rather than the newer town where he died; and good for him.

Good hunting. El Bee
 

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Posted by DiYi (Member # 3785) on June 16, 2018, 12:16 PM:
 
Fantastic.Thanks!
 

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Posted by Eddie (Member # 4324) on June 16, 2018, 04:22 PM:
 
Dave thanks for some great pictures!
That's some good looking country.
 

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Posted by MI VHNTR (Member # 3370) on June 16, 2018, 04:42 PM:
 
Excellent pictures of some interesting country. Thanks for the pictures.
 

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Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on June 17, 2018, 02:00 AM:
 
Great photos as always Dave, we have three beautiful old coke ovens down near the Gila river near Cochran About twice the size of those in your pics you could four wheel out to them but somebody bought the property and they are now off limits. Still can be seen and photographed from a distance!

Thanks Dave great stuff appreciate your efforts !
 

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Posted by Aznative (Member # 506) on June 17, 2018, 06:46 AM:
 
Great Photos Dave. I am surprised to see these old mines in such good shape. Most of the stuff in Az is degraded/vandalized too much.
 

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Posted by Moe (Member # 4494) on June 17, 2018, 10:18 AM:
 
There's a small pioneer cemetery in eastern Oregon that we discovered some years ago. It contains the remains of 3 children from the same family. Born in different years but all died the same day.

One of the graves has a headstone of lava rock with the man's information scratched into it. The grave is also covered with lava boulder and has collapsed. I was going to see about getting volunteers to clean it up but then my health tanked.

Over the years on trips out to the desert to go hunting I've stumbled upon lone graves in the middle of nowhere. Still marked as graves but if they weren't you'd never know someone was buried there.

Remember this as you walk by
as you are so once was I
as I am so shall you be
Prepare for death and follow me.

Written on a tombstone in an abandoned cemetery outside of Chester, Vermont.

My favorite: Here lies the body of the atheist Joe
all dressed up and no place to go.
 

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Posted by Lonny (Member # 19) on June 17, 2018, 07:22 PM:
 
As always Dave, great pics and thanks for taking us along!

I'm always amazed, when looking at major projects from say a 120 plus years ago, how much work everything was. I'm talking hard physical work moving large equipment to remote locations.

I was talking with a guy the other day, who is pushing 90 and he was telling me about how they put up hay where they wintered their cattle. One comment especially stuck with me when he said, "The only thing good about the good ol' days is that their gone."

[ June 17, 2018, 07:23 PM: Message edited by: Lonny ]
 

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Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on June 18, 2018, 07:52 AM:
 
Those pics are incredible, DAA. Reminds me of the big set of Zane Grey novels I bought a year ago at a garage sale for $10. 18 volumes. I've read 9 so far. Some of the best reading I've done.

One of the riverbends I hunt has an old cemetery with about six old stones from the 1870's. All those buried there were from the scarlet fever epidemic that hit my home town of Solomon, KS, back then. The owner used to go out there every year and as needed to put the stones back upright that had fallen over and mow back the weeds. Just because. You can see it from where I sit to call.

Cemeteries fascinate me. Then one where I might be buried holds my family back as far as 1879. To me, that's roots. To my wife, who was adopted in Missouri where you cannot have access to any information about your family history, it means a lot to know that her kids - our kids - know where one of the branches in their family tree is rooted down.

I look at those old buildings and wonder how they were in their hey day. Someone's pride and joy at one time. Represents a lot of work by unknown souls. Were they happy? Were their tragedies? We'll probably never know.
 

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Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on June 21, 2018, 03:18 PM:
 
Wowzers Dave!! You have a great eye for setting up those pictures right!!

Wow Lance! 9 Zane Grey's in half a year?!?! I can absolutley guarantee you are falling behind on sleep. It took me a few years to get through most of his books...it's always - just one more chapter then I'll sleep and repeat after the next chapter is read!! LOL
 

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Posted by Lonny (Member # 19) on June 21, 2018, 08:07 PM:
 
Hey Loco,

I remember when you had a batch of mostly younger kids from pics you posted. So how old are your kids now? How are you, the critters, and the chick doing these days?

I hope all is well in your family.
 

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Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on June 22, 2018, 02:41 AM:
 
Wonderful pictures. From my years in Nevada I have watched so much of that stuff disappear. It is amazing that anything remains at all. During the 1950's early 60's almost every ghost town that had brick buildings were torn down for the bricks to be used in homes in southern California. They actually brought in vans and tore the stuff down and carted it off. There was no one around to stop it back then. Now most ghost town sites can only be found by the remaining tincans and metal bits left to rust away in the desert. Great pics.
 

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Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on June 22, 2018, 04:34 AM:
 
So Dave when do you open the studio and start selling this stuff ? Amazing photos art really !
 

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Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on June 23, 2018, 11:52 PM:
 
Hi Lonny!!

Most of them are big 'ol critters now!!

Still really, really love my critters and chick!!😀 [IMG]http:// [/IMG]

[ June 23, 2018, 11:53 PM: Message edited by: Locohead ]
 

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Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on June 23, 2018, 11:59 PM:
 
Hate to inflate Dave's head and all but Paul's right!

Dave,
Your stuff is really really good bro!! I hope you get rich doing it so you can do what you love full-time.....I don't know how you do it ALL now with a job and all...🙂
 

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Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on June 24, 2018, 04:30 AM:
 
Great looking family Danny!

I don't think I could make gas money off my pictures though. You need an angle to sell stuff like that. Orphaned gay Indian, or a woman that survived a normal marriage, or something like that to make you seem edgy. Nobody buys prints from a guy named Dave.

- DAA
 

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Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on June 24, 2018, 05:08 AM:
 
Loco;
You probably already know this but with those girls, the dogs gonna come round sniffin'.
They will test you to the limit. (The dogs and the girls)
And in the end they will choose one that's no way near good enough for her.
Trust me on this one.
Good luck & stay strong.
 

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Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on June 24, 2018, 07:08 AM:
 
Had enough trouble with one daughter she found a good man I have six stunning grand daughters thank God that's none of my business!
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on June 24, 2018, 07:38 AM:
 
ko ko, that's a typical "father" type of response. I only have one daughter, a man can't have too many, they always come in handy!

Just yesterday, I had a call. Caller ID said, Jerry Davis.

"Mr Bosinski, not sure if we ever met but I used to date your daughter".

Well, I didn't remember, but one thing lead to another and I wound up giving him her number. Probably 30 minutes later I got a text message from Shelley. Apparently, she had just hung up from talking to Jerry Davis. She said, that he said, that I was a nice guy. I always figured that. But, I also knew that Shell has been happily married for more than 26 years and there weren't many skeletons in her closet so why not give the guy her number, since he didn't sound devious or anything like that. Later on, I wondered if he could have been one of those guys that were jumping off the roof into the pool? Never mind that I used to do stupid shit like that.

Anyway, having daughters comes with certain responsibilities.

Good hunting. El Bee
 

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Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on June 24, 2018, 08:51 AM:
 
Beautiful family Loco!
Mark
 

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Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on June 24, 2018, 09:33 AM:
 
I think that I would have told Jerry to give me HIS number and I would pass it on to the daughter so she could decide if she wanted to contact someone from the long ago past.
Yeah, father response. The next time that I show a big muzzle loading pistol to some kid and tell him that this is what I'll blow your nuts off with if your pathetic little pecker comes out of your pants tonight, won't be the first time.
 

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Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on June 24, 2018, 10:43 AM:
 
Dang, Danny. You and the missus sure do throw a fine looking peck o' pups!
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on June 24, 2018, 11:18 AM:
 
They are a fine looking family, for sure!

Follow up: This morning I got a text message from Shelley.

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lol No, that was Adam and Bruce (jumping off the roof) funny and scary!

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