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Baker County Comes Back –
How MMT Is Working To Help Rural Oregon Survive
From MMT's 1998-99 Annual Report
Lit by the waning rays of late afternoon sun glowing through the multi-colored skylight, Barbara Sidway stands looking down into the atrium of the Geiser Grand Hotel, where diners are finishing their meals at the white linen-clothed tables below. “I don’t want to sound self-serving,” says the hotel’s owner, “but I think this building is a perfect metaphor for this community. When it was built, it represented the belief that the gold wealth was never going to stop.”
Pointing across the atrium, Sidway continues, “Right there was the third elevator the Otis company installed west of the Mississippi River.
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