Journey: Sumpter
This machine on display at the Cracker Creek Museum of Mining in Sumpter combined a 1900-era cone crusher with a 1950s-era gasoline engine.
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Rich gold diggings in the Elkhorn Mountains of Eastern Oregon drew 5,000 residents to the town of Sumpter in the early 1900s. At its height, Sumpter claimed plank sidewalks, seven hotels, 16 saloons, three newspapers, two churches, an opera house and a red light district.
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