ipernity: Rural Architecture by Diane Putnam

After rain

19 Jun 2016

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Former Triple M Trucking Company, now closed down.

Lipstick factory

27 Jun 2016

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Just kidding. It's part of a trucking company that has closed. The white tank and Quonset hut are part of Cal-Ore Produce, a potato growing/shipping co-operative. The climate in this region is good for cattle ranches, large hay and potato farms and not much else for industry.

Large container of air

19 Jun 2016

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This makes me think of an old theater, for some reason.

Cloud factory

19 Jun 2016

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Fallen G

19 Jun 2016

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C Building

19 Jun 2016

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Former Triple M Trucking Company, now closed down.

B Building

19 Jun 2016

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Former Triple M Trucking Company, now closed down.

Wigwam burner

12 Jan 2018

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Sawdust pipe on its support on the right.

Abandoned Whitsell Mfg.

12 Jan 2018

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Showing the sawdust pipe leading to the burner, which is to the left of this frame. Sawdust and small shavings were blown through this pipe into the "cyclone", which was attached to the burner, from where it dropped to be burned. This company manufactured wood products like power poles, tool handles and fence posts. That explains the big piles of cylindrical scraps I saw in the back.

Wigwam wood burner

12 Jul 2016

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This is quite small, about 18'-20' tall, relative to the burner to the north. That one is about 60'-70' including the spark screen. By the way, at this point in my adventures, I stepped into a large, decomposing rodent - argh!!! ; -o The Big One:

Water tower

09 Jul 2016

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In the distance, a very large wood burner belonging to a lumber mill that was demolished a long time ago.

Whitsell Manufacturing Inc.

12 Jul 2016

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Closed and abandoned. It was a small mill making items like utility poles. Most of our poles, at least in the west, are still made of wood. There are tracts of tree farms in the west growing trees for this purpose. They are not made of "trees from the wild," as they were in the old days of endless forests. Some types of power poles are made of metal, though.