A new campground and recreation area is going in at the former site of the huge Oregon Lumber Company mill at Bates. The project is requiring an awful lot of earth moving, and a large number of artifacts from the logging and railroad era were uncovered. The railroad was allowed to recover any artifacts we wanted for preservation.
The Oregon Lumber Company mill at Bates in the late 1940's.
Some of the old rails and ironwork that were used the same way that rebar is used today.
Darlington Iron Co. Lt. 81 - Steel. English rail.
For more information on the history of the Darlington Iron Company, click HERE
A door from an Edward Hines Lumber Co. company truck. This lumber company purchased the Oregon Lumber Company and exists to this day.
A prize find is this fully complete Alliance coupler. It will be cleaned up and used on one of the original Sumpter Valley Railway freight cars being restored.
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