{"id":120,"date":"2004-05-04T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/hanging-flume-from-1890s-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2004-05-04T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T15:30:05","slug":"hanging-flume-from-1890s-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Flume from 1890&#8217;s, Southwest Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cortezjournal.com\/news\/images\/news040501_1a.jpg\" alt=\"Climbing engineers, with Vertical Horizon, descend to the remains of the hanging flume in Montrose County\"><a title=\"Cortez Journal Online - Cortez Colorado\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cortezjournal.com\/asp-bin\/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&amp;article_path=\/news\/news040501_1.htm\">Flume holds history on canyon walls<\/a> By Nate Thompson , Cortez Journal Online &#8211; Cortez Colorado<\/p>\n<p>A few miles northwest of Naturita, a sleepy town in Montrose County, state Highway 141 winds past the remnants of a structure that is garnering attention from historians, engineers, archaeologists and climbers. A research team arrived Monday to spend a week studying the significance of one of Colorado&#8217;s longest historic sites. <\/p>\n<p>Started in 1888 and finished in 1891, a 13-mile hanging flume built along the Dolores River delivered water to a now defunct mining project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flume holds history on canyon walls By Nate Thompson , Cortez Journal Online &#8211; Cortez Colorado A few miles northwest of Naturita, a sleepy town in Montrose County, state Highway 141 winds past the remnants of a structure that is garnering attention from historians, engineers, archaeologists and climbers. A research team arrived Monday to spend &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hanging Flume from 1890&#8217;s, Southwest Colorado<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}