Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Hydro mining By Finn J.D. John A few dozen miles southwest of Baker City, if you know right where to look, you just might stumble across a few weatherbeaten gravestones — all that’s left of an old cemetery. And that old cemetery is all that’s left of the biggest city in Oregon, a teeming rough-hewn metropolis of 6,000 souls that was called Auburn, Oregon. Auburn was Ground Zero in the eastern Oregon Gold Rush. It was a massive mining camp, pure and simple. It was founded in the spring of 1861, and by 1864 it was already fading away. Gold...
Row crops at Berggren Demo Farm CAMP CREEK: A agricultural commodity, with the potential to rival the current value of Oregon’s lucrative wine industry could soon take root locally. This year, the Oregon Department of Agriculture has awarded $1.49 million in federal funds to 22 diverse projects, including establishing a demonstration three-acre truffle orchard at the Berggren Demonstration Farm. Photo courtesy Cascade Pacific Current crops crops at the Berggren Farm range from salad green to beans as well as herbs and root crops. Just like Fren...
McKenzie River Reflections...
McKenzie River Reflections...
