There are about three sets of cost studies done on the panhandle and they said for what you are getting, it isn’t worth the move.
I guess they even thought about taking over Wilson’s at one time in the early ‘eighties.
Then, of course, the Denton Park, Peyton had the RV park there (53).
Is old Mr. Wilson still there, do you know?
I haven’t run across him.
At Wilson’s? You mean Wilson’s still running?
Yes.
We used to get there for seven dollars a night. Mr. Wilson must not be running it.
Probably different.
He was really getting old. You know a lot of those buildings came over from Sand Creek.
They were built in 1940.
He was buying up a lot of the old buildings, dismantling them, and hauling them down there. The stoves he has in those cabins are the stoves out of some road camps at the rim. He told my brother that story.
It would be interesting to look around them.
He sold several of his buildings, too, which is really sad. You see some empty foundations to mark what used to be there. Have you ever been inside one of those cabins? It’s really something; knotty pine interiors, really nice for a man who was just building this out in the middle of nowhere. He wasn’t a real true artisan as such. He just built to be practical but to make it look nice at the same time.
