1995
Not sure what year truck this is, although it looks
like about an early sixties model to me. That would date the
last major operation in the Cranberry Mine. This and several
other abandoned vehicles, including some bulldozers and hoists
were sitting where they left them in various states of repair
or disrepair when we visited the mine in 1995. In the spring
of 1997 all the mining buildings and equipment, and I assume
these vehicles too, were taken down by Elizabethton Herb and
Metal, scrap dealers. These dump trucks were used by the last
company that worked the mine to haul ore out of the mine and
along the old right-of-way to Iron Street in Elk Park where it
connected with 19E. I'd still like to hear from someone about
this operation and find out who it was, what exactly they did,
and what years they operated. I believe the very last operation
at the Cranberry mine used some of the leftover crusher equipment
in some sort of business involving sand. I don't think the sand
business involved the mine, though, only the old outside equipment.