John Ferris' Placer Miners' Cabin
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Erwin Baer Unknown 1600.0188.0000.jpg M - 188 B&W 1600-0188-0000 m188p Photo Card Print 5x7 Historic Photographs 1890s Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
John Ferris' cabin on Lynx Creek, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. In the photo are John Ferris and Walter Scott. This crude cabin was located just below Thomas G. Barlow-Massick's property on Lynx Creek. In the crude enclosure adjacent to the dwelling, "Old John" raised vegetables for sale to other miners working in the Lynx Creek area. The equally crude fencing was meant to stop local wild animals from foraging his garden. Miner's cabins were very simple structures. They were erected and meant only to be inhabited temporarily. They were built using limited salvage and lumber, and anything of use in the immediate surroundings that could be collected to construct a basic shelter. Once the amount of ore from a dig or the surrounding areas waned, cabins were often dismanteled, loaded onto burros, and then set up in another location. On the other hand, Thomas G. Barlow-Massicks was a prominent miner on Lynx Creek. His mansion-house was meant to be a permanent structure. It still stands in Fain Park in Prescott Valley (as of 2024) and serves as proof of his mining successes.
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