[or-roots] Kinzua

[Leslie Chapman]

Verdena;

I think you have the right general area, here is the USGS info on the
"populated place";

Feature Name:  Kinzua (historical)
Feature Type:  populated place
Elevation (feet):  3420
Description:  Kinzua was a company mill town in which it and company
property has been removed and abandoned.
State:  Oregon
County:  Wheeler
USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map:  Kinzua
 lat 44degrees 59' 23" N
 long 120degrees 03' 28' W

the golf course, which they list as historical?, is about 30 seconds further
north and a minute and a half further west than the town. Kinzua was at the
confluence of Searcy Creek (Scarcy? hard to read) and Thirty mile. There is
an airstrip a couple of miles north of it that still bears the Kinzua name,
and the topo map shows the Condon Kinzua and Southern railroad as still
running through the townsite, I seem to remember reading about that train,
but don't know if what I read was it is no more or what. Okay that was too
easy;

FROM; http://www.brian894x4.com/UPCondonRailroad.html

In 1928, a line was built from Condon, 24 miles to Kinzua and called the
Condon, Kinzua and Southern.
This line served several logging operations and eventually terminated at a
large mill town called Kinzua
that was built in 1937, by the Kinzua Pine Mills Co.   This section of track
between Condon and Kinzua
was abandoned and the tracks pulled up when the mill and town closed in
1976.  This short line only
operated one engine in its last days.  A GE 70 ton, numbered 104, that was
acquired new in 1951.   A
Heisler - 3 truck steam engine, built in 1929 for the line was used for
several decades and actually
survives today.   It is currently being used by the Mt. Hood Scenic Railroad
in Elbe, Washington, in
active tourist service!  In it's earlier years of operation, several other
steam engines were used.

Judy should contact the person who posted this web page, he is interested in
exploring Kinzua, and if she was interested in going there too, they might
be able to arrange a joint expedition, it appears to be somewhat
inaccessible.

Les C

-----Original Message-----
From:  Verdena Veelle
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 11:39 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Kinzua

Was this located near Fossil?  A goggle search brings up
http://www.pasturegolf.com/kinzua.htm which is a golf course now.  It has a
picture of what is left of what was the millpond.
Verdena Veelle

----- Original Message -----
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 10:06 PM

I too lived in Kinzua-about 1941 and in Camp 5 as well.  I was very young.
Do you have any other stories about the area?  I understand that it has been
purchased by someone with a great deal of money and the roads have been
closed and you cannot even go near the place now.
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