Skip to main content

Mbhs #: 0705

Location: Description by HAER: View northeast from USFS Road 300; Fowler Lode adit portal on left (location of original Steamboat pocket on slope to right, above the road cut)

Source: Historic American Engineering Record - Library of Congress

Notes: Summary of description by HAER: 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.