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Steamboat

Collapsed adit, Steamboat mine

Mbhs #: 0708

Location: View north of collapsed portal of ca. 1910-1930 adit, located upslope and northwest of Fowler Lode Adit

Source: Historic American Engineering Record - Library of Congress

Notes: The mine was the first significant lode gold mining operation in the West, north of California. It brought hardrock mining (tunneling) and milling to Oregon, techniques that later spread across the Pacific Northwest to far richer mining centers in northern Idaho and elsewhere.