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across the Elk River, near the mouth. Although a ford existed on the old
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Breeders Livestock Association. By the mid-1950s, the village comprised two small stores, a school, a dilapidated hotel, and many empty houses. The post office closed in 1967.
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trackage to transport logs to the mouth of
Englishman Creek, from where the log rafts were towed to the mill. The mill closed in 1923. Finding no buyers, the Shays were cut up for scrap at Waldo in 1927.
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Kootenay was dynamited.
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