Corkscrew Grade Traditional Cache
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On the hill in back of the small ranch visible from this point is Corkscrew grade. (Yep you are part way up the grade.) Here extra teams of horses or oxen were hitched to heavy freight wagons for the hard pull up the steep hill. On top of the hill near a small natural lake was Slab Barn, where stagecoach drivers changed to fresh horses. The small lake is now called Slab Barn Lake.
The mining camps of Bonanza and Custer were already established before any roads came into the Yankee Fork area. Pack trains brought supplies into the Yankee Fork and delivered gold and silver ore to Challis, charging 20 cents per pound for their loads.
In 1879, Fred Myers and Alexander Topance constructed a road to link Bonanza and Challis. The road was 35 miles long and climbed over two steep summits. Finished by September 1879, the road proved a boon to the growth of Bonanza and Custer.
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