Are you sure it was Kellogg?


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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [72.47.153.28] on Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 18:04:59 :

In Reply to: Re: Depot Days posted by Rick [67.188.186.65] on Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 17:45:40 :

I've seen pictures, probably from the Barnard-Stockbridge collection, of a Yellowstone Trail Garage in Wallace, and if you google it, it comes up in lots of old newspaper stories and ads.

By the way, the "Yellowstone Trail" was a predecessor to I-90 from Seattle to Montana, at least. There are still bits of road here and there called "Yellowstone Trail". The original road over the Bitteroots was the Mullan Road, but there's very little of it left. Then came the Yellowstone Trail, in the early days of motoring. Calling it the "Yellowstone Trail" was a way of promoting it so as to get money to build it, because back in the '20s road construction was pretty much up to each county, which meant that good roads could be stopped by one poor county along the way. In the early days, there was a break in the road at the pass over the Bitterroot Mountains. Motorists had to load their cars on railroad flat-cars in Mullan and pay to have them hauled over the hill to Montana. I'm not sure where they offloaded, whether it was Saltese (the first town down on the other side), Taft, or Haugan (the main railroad section crew base).

US 10 was built on top of much of the Yellowstone Trail, and then I-90 was built on top of much of US 10.

What were you doing in Wallace (if you don't mind my asking)? There's a interesting book that came out a couple years called "A Room For The Summer" by a guy who spent one summer in college as a nipper in the Bunker Hill, working with Chris Chistopherson underground sometime around 1960. He went on to a career at Boeing, but retired recently and wrote his memoir. One thing he learned quickly in Kellogg and Wallace is that a sign outside a building advertising "Rooms" (as in "Oasis Rooms") isn't what you'd think it would be.



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