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Scans - Stibnite and Cinnabar, Idaho

My summer in Stibnite salvaging barn wood in the mid 1970's.

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cabin-1.jpg	cabin-4.jpg	cabins-2.jpg	cabins-5.jpg
cabins-6.jpg	cinnabar-3.jpg	cinnabar-8.jpg	gary-car-6.jpg
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Yellow Pine	Heading to Yellow Pine	Indian Paintbrush	Hand painted bowl fragment
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tailings.jpg	tailings2.jpg	mining2.jpg	camp.jpg
dam.jpg	dining-rec_center.jpg	mined_valley_with_hawk.jpg	overview.jpg
overview2.jpg	primitive.jpg	riordan_lake.jpg	self-trusting_rope.jpg
yellowpine-wall.jpg	stibnite.jpg	stibnite1.jpg	structure.jpg
truck.jpg	overview-pana.jpg

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Helen Jackling		22-Mar-2014 02:33
I have just posted old pictures of my husbands dad, working in the mines .. Actual pictures of in side the mines.. the fire and after the fire pictures. His Brothers went to school there. My Facebook is open to look cause, of sharing these pictures.. My name is Helen Brundage Jackling on Face book please look at the albums Stibnite, ID - Yellowpine, Idaho - Warren, Idaho Also the Albums 1950-53 Just sharing info and picutres Helen Jackling

Brian Imel		05-Jan-2012 05:44
Thanks for the memories! Awesome pictures. My brother and I spent many days over 9 summers in Stibnite and Cinnebar (Fern Creek, Dewey, Sunny Side, Bilco, and Roosevelt) from 1968 to 1976. I return every year, and have fostered a love for the area in my chldren and grand children. Thanks to you they can see things the way I saw them in the day. Gary Dake was a dear friend, may he rest in peace.

Mike and Haylee Brown		03-Aug-2011 04:24
just got back from a trip in Yellow pine and we took the 4 wheeler up to Cinnabar and Stibnite and it was AMAZING! These pictures have a lot more buildings and what buildings i do recognize have either fallen over or are about to soon. Thanks for the pics! PS. rumor has it a new mining company bought stibnite and are closing cinnabar off for good starting next year. PPS. there is a back way :)

Keith Imel		10-Feb-2011 03:35
My name is Keith Imel. I grew up around YellowPine in the 70s. My good friend Gary Dake is the long blond haired guy with the VW bug. Gary is no longer with us God rest his soul. As children my brother and sister and I played all around these old buildings. Many many fond memories of Stibnite and Cinnabar. Most of the old ruins are now gone. I still go back every year. My heart will always be in that country. I now live in Juneau Alaska.

Rod Watkins		24-Aug-2009 20:59
My Dad was the gamewarden in Yellowpine in the mid 50's. His cabin was at the edge of town just above the schoolhouse. The cabin was hauled down from Stibnite. I had an uncle that had a contract to tear down much of the town. I remember wondering through the rec center and picking up books in the school. I thought is was all gone. I found this site while looking for air strips other than Johnson Creek to visit next summer. Is the Stibnite strip open to the public? I know a lot is gone, but I can't believe there is still so much after 50 years.

nancy		27-Jul-2009 20:09
I was very happy to see your photos of Stibnite. My family lived there from 1942-1949. We lived on Fiddle Creek for a time then moved to Lower Midnight Creek where we lived until we moved away. Living in that mountainous area gave me a real love for the mountains and for the past 30 some years I have lived in a mountain community. We've always wanted to return to Stibnite for a visit, but judging from your photos there wouldn't be much left to love. I especially enjoyed the photo of the rec hall, (restaurant, library, bar, bowling alley, gymnasium, movie theater) . The building shown at the right of the rec hall was the school. Thank you for the photos.

Bob		01-May-2009 23:58
I visited several times as a kid. It was after the town had been abandoned along with the mine but there were still a few hearty souls living there. I remember it being beautiful and I was amazed that the town had simply been abandoned. I remember a posting on the post office door...Notice to Residents, Effective (I cannot remember the date), pick up your mail in Yellow Pine. My visits were in the late 50's and the town was still basicall in tack. I am sorry to hear it is gone. I was planning on going back with my grandkids. This website will help me tell the stories. I do remember that the water lines for the strip mining were still charged when we visited.

Donna		07-Mar-2009 06:50
My mother, born 1942 died 1987, lived in Stibnite. I don't know many details about her years spent there other than she had fond memories. I was planning to visit this summer. I was sad to read the comment posted here that it is gone, but at least I'll know what to expect when I get there.

Maynard Smith		09-Feb-2009 23:54
my father worked in the mine at Stibnite and lived their with my monther about 1930-31. I have a small sample of Gold taken from the mine at that time. I am not sure whether they lived in Stibnite but I do know that they lived in Yellowpine for a time. I have pictures of them and the Wall Tent they lived in. Also Salmon that they speared .

hunky		30-Jan-2009 08:09
We were salvaging barnwood for restuarants and bars in California or whomever would buy it. But only in Stibnite. We went to Cinnabar on a day off just to look around. It was pretty cool back then as if people had just up and left without packing. I would suppose most would be carted off by now. I visited Stibnite two summers ago and was pretty dismayed at the scene there - just a big gravel pad over all that history. Maybe it is for the best - but it didn't feel right.

Guest		28-Jan-2009 21:52
I was up there this past summer...half of what's in these pics of Cinnabar is gone. Too bad but still a great visit/adventure.

guest		28-Jan-2009 17:49
salvaging?? I came back to my old homestead cabin at Big Creek and found the whole summer kitchen gone.

Guest		25-Jan-2009 21:09
thank you for posting these pictures Jay,Yellowpine Id.

Racine		26-Nov-2006 22:01
I grew up in Idaho and my grandfather took us to Stibnite every summer and sometime early winter. He had every Stibnite Newspaper ever writen Now my uncle has them. We got to read them growing up. When he passed away we put his ashes there. He lived there for a few years during the war. I am glad to see someone else cares about the ol' town. I really miss it. The pictures are beautiful and I am glad I was able to find it on the web to tell my children about it. They to have read the Newspapers and visited there. I hope to pass on this ol' towns history to my grandchildren some day. Thank you for the web site. Racine Miramar, Florida

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