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<br />Commissary Park on the state line was a supply point for the timber industry early in the century. A freight <br />stoP was at Halfway House (half way between Encampment and Hog Park on the Hog Park Road), and the <br />Ellis Freight Trail (running from Commissary Park to the Hahns Peak settlement in Colorado) is of <br />historical interest. <br /> <br />The Hog Park Guard Station, built by the Forest Service in 1910, is still maintained and has been <br />nominated as a National Historic Site. <br /> <br />While most of the highly-publicized mining ventures at the turn of the century were just outside the present <br />unit, they were supplied over roads crossing the area. Most notable of the mining and prospecting <br />operations were the Kartze.Chatterton, five miles southwest of Encampment, and the Cascade mine seven <br />miles south of the town, which yielded high grade copper until flooding forced its abandonment. Discovery <br />of gold in Purgatory Gulch, a few miles northeast of Cascade in the 1890's spurred prospecting so that the <br />hills south of Encampment soon were pitted, but yields were generally small. <br />