and the 37th day and no car museums

Before we left Boise I had 2 car museum to check out this morning, and struck out
on both [ closed ] We are off to Sumpter Oregon today, this little town has been around
since 1862, by 1901 Sumpter had grown to 3000 people and 81 businesses. In 1913
they started dredging the valley, by 1916 the 2nd dredge was working. In 1917  3/4 of
the town burnt down. the #2 dredge worked until 1923, # 1 dredge until 1924. Things
died down including the town until 1935 they built a new dredge #3 from  1&2s parts
#3 worked until 1954 and it alone recovered 4.5 million.and is on display today.. I can
only think what the first settlers thought when they saw this valley, now its piles of rock
from one end to the other. How can it be left like this ??
After visiting the Dredge and Steam train we headed into the hills looking for Bourne
a ghost town that was finished off in 1937 when a flash flood finished off the town.
a few building remain with a couple of mines above the town