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GENERAL VIEW OF ROCK OUTCROPPINGS AND BRIDGES THROUGH WHICH THE GOAT TRAIL MINING ROAD WAS CONSTRUCTED, LOOKING NORTHWEST. NOTE THE WIRE-ROPE SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN THE LOWER LEFT-HAND CORNER. - Goat Trail Mining Road, Highway 20, 1.5 miles North of Newhalem, Newhalem, Whatcom County, WA
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Randolph; Zabel, Albert; Jones, Kimberly, transmitter
Depicted place Washington; Whatcom County; Newhalem
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER WASH,37-NEHA.V,2-1
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  • Significance: Goat Trail [Mining Road] at Devil's Corner is a spectacular example of the physical barriers which challenged those who sought to exploit America's wilderness. It was the most difficult stretch of a mining trail which ran up the north side of the Skagit River, from the present town of Newhalem to the upriver mining areas of Ruby Creek and Thunder Creek. The road not only represented a formidable barrier to the gold fields on the upper Skagit during the late nineteenth century, but was also a significant obstacle to the development of hydroelectric power on the Skagit during the 1920s.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13
  • Survey number: HAER WA-19
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1895 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1918 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1920 Subsequent Work
It is unclear from the description whether this was strictly a foot trail or was somehow used as a road.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/wa0228.photos.169345p
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