Kiamichi River Bridge (Muse) Traditional Cache
Kiamichi River Bridge (Muse)
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Remains of Pive Valley, OK Lumber Mill site
The purpose of his cache is to show some of the remains of the lumber mill that was located here during 1927 thru 1941 era.
The larger timber corporations created actual "company towns," very similar to mining towns. Some paid workers in scrip to be used at the company-owned commissary. Mill workers' lives were pretty well controlled, from living in the company's dwellings and boarding houses to patronizing its restaurants and entertainment venues, attending its sponsored dances, and taking part in its baseball teams. The corporation would centrally locate a town to take advantage of as much timber as possible. They would also send out groups to cut distant trees and, if a railroad spur did not reach that area, would use a skid (log or metal rails that cut logs could slide on) and/or a skidder (a power-driven system of cables or blocks) to move the cut product to its transportation.
As the Dierks brothers built a railroad into southeastern Oklahoma, they founded towns such as Broken Bow and Bismark (later Wright City) as mill towns to support various aspects of the business. In 1927 the company ambitiously established Pine Valley in LeFlore County, one of the largest lumber towns in the American South. Pine Valley offered a large hotel, general store, drugstore, post office, barbershop, doctor, school, boarding house, movie house, ice plant, jail, churches, and over one hundred houses. There was even a segregated section for African American workers. In the early 1900s Dierks also had mobile company towns consisting of entire buildings that were transported into an area on railroad cars, unloaded to serve the workers while they cut all of the surrounding timber, and then loaded back onto the railroad cars and moved to a new location. These towns, such as Clebit, could have as many as two hundred homes and businesses.
Leaving highway 63 just to the west of Muse via county road # N4645 heading south. It looks like just any county road in Leflore county. however to the East of the road (PRIVATE PROPERTY) is the last standing and lived in house from the mill era and beyond the house in the tree line are several concrete structures and footings. Also if one looks close to the road there are a few concrete slabs and footings on both side of the road. Part of history fading away. Continue on to the bend in the road at the river, on both side of the road the railroad track bed is still very present even the wye that led to the mill from the east west service line.
Please respect the property owners rights and do not trespass.
The cache is a medium medicine bottle, log only, on the bridge. Enjoy the view, do not climb or lean over the bridge members.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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