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Death Valley National Monument, California, 1998 Photograph by Len
Jenshel Abandoned charcoal kilns sit in Wildrose Canyon in Death Valley
National Monument. The 25-feet-tall (7.6-meter-tall) beehive-shaped
kilns were built in 1877 by the Modock Consolidated Mining Company to
produce charcoal for a nearby silver-lead smelting plant. The furnaces
were closed after only about a year when deteriorating ore quality
forced the silver mines to shut down.

According to the National Park Service, the kilns, which still smell of
smoke, held up to 42 cords of pinyon pine logs and could produce 2,000
bushels of charcoal per week. Due to their short usage time and quality
construction, they are considered among the best surviving examples of
such kilns in the western United States.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published
in, "Dual Track in a Dry Place," September/October 1998, National
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