hank Wrote:
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> Kurt Maechner Wrote:
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> > I'm totally guessing here, but Otto Perry would
> > only have been 16 when the Alpine Tunnel closed
> in
> > 1910. I can't imagine he would have gotten the
> > lantern or that it would have lasted so long
> for
> > him to find it later as an adult. I suppose
> > someone else could have gotten it and he just
> got
> > it some other way. Just speculating.
>
> ISTR reading that it was still hanging at the apex
> of the tunnel in the late 1930's, when you could
> still walk the length of the tunnel, but was gone
> a decade later. Never heard even a ghost of a
> rumor of Otto Perry having it though.
>
> Hank

More likely someone of the Kindig, Poor, Thode, Halely, etc group.
They made a trip(s) to east portal 1938-1939.

Jimmy