More Desert Stuff

[BosnMate]

These pictures are the Doherty ranch, located in Guano Valley, Oregon. I don't know any of the history of this place, except it has been abandoned for a long time.

The above picture is the house. There is a second story, and at one time it looks like it was a nice place.



The next picture is the house and an out building, which might have been a bunk house.


The root cellar.


Inside the root cellar.


Close up of the out building and inside it. The floor is caving in, so there is no way I was going inside.




Finally what's left of the corrals.

 

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[Terry Soloman]

Great Shots!

 

[ronwoodcraft]

I love those old buildings!!

 

[Jim in Idaho]

Good pics. The west was much wetter a hundred years ago. There were still grizzlies on our desert as late as 1918. No way they could live there now.
You look at those ranch pics, and see how dry it is, but it was a nicer place back then. I imagine lack of precipitation eventually drove them out.
Jim

 

[BosnMate]

Good pics. The west was much wetter a hundred years ago. There were still grizzlies on our desert as late as 1918. No way they could live there now.
You look at those ranch pics, and see how dry it is, but it was a nicer place back then. I imagine lack of precipitation eventually drove them out.
Jim

Fremont came through that country in 1845/46, in what is now called "Lake County, Oregon." There are still a number of lakes, but they aren't as large as when Fremont found them. Guano Valley got it's name from Fremont, who came to a lake that had so many geese on it that the water was totally unpalatable, and he named it Guano Lake. Doherty must have had a pretty good well, because there are no springs or evidence of springs where the buildings are located. There is a Guano creek, that has water in it, but not anywhere close to these ranch buildings, so the country had to be wetter even100 years ago. I saw no windmill, but there is a huge tank for water storage, so there was probably a windmill in conjunction to it. The nails in the building are wire, no square nails.

 

[Old Dude]

The foundation of the outbuilding looks like it was laid by a pretty good mason. That house looks more like tobacco barns I grew up around in Kentucky. Great pictures. I really enjoy seeing pics from the western US from you guys.