In 1869, San Francisco entrepreneur William Bowers Bourn, Sr. acquired control of the Empire Mine, forming the Empire Mines and Investment Company. The Cornish men continued to provide the labor force. …
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On the cold morning of January 24, 1848, James Marshall, a construction foreman at Sutter's Mill, inspected the water flow through the mill's tailrace.The sawmill on the American River banks in Coloma, California, was owned by John A. Sutter, who desperately needed lumber to build a large flour mill.On that particular morning, Marshall found the …
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The principal mine was the Modoc, which was bought in 1876 by George C. Hearst and other capitalists who formed the Modoc Consolidated Mines Company of San Francisco. The mining camp that grew up around the …
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However, many believed the very same rich quartz that Charles had discovered became the Johnnie Mine, north of Pahrump, Nevada. The rich lodes of the Johnnie District were first discovered in 1891 by George Montgomery, who was searching for the famous Lost Breyfogle Mine. Yet others believe the mine to be in California in the Armargosa River ...
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Hundreds of "lost mine" stories have been localized everywhere over the West. The richest always were somewhere in the desert, beyond water, or within almost inaccessible mountains, where wild Indians guarded the …
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— From the first Spanish explorers to cross the plains and deserts, the quest for the West's rich lodes of silver and gold has been unceasing. And over the centuries, …
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A short drive north of Big Bear Lake is Holcomb Valley and what little remains of the historic ghost town of Belleville. During the 1860s, Holcomb Valley was the richest gold mining area of southern California, supporting some 10,000 residents.. Gold was first discovered here by William F. Holcomb in 1860.
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— A Guide To Treasure In California, 2nd Edition: Treasure Guide Series; Buried Treasures of California, W.C. Jameson; Lost Mines and Treasure Tales of Southern California: Counties of San Luis …
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Part of the Greenwater District mining boom, one of the most spectacular in the history of Death Valley mining, several towns started in the district, including Furnace, Kunze, and Ramsey, which were later consolidated as Greenwater.Furnace was initially known as Clark's Camp after Patrick "Patsy" Clark, a well-known copper mining operator from …
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Today, Owens Lake is nothing more than a sterile sandy basin nestled in Owens Valley between Death Valley National Park and Sequoia National Park. The lake, lying at the end of the Owens River for eons, was about 23-50 feet deep and covered over 100 square miles during the late 1800s.
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Marin County – Not all lost treasures of California are related to the Gold Rush.During the wild and wooly days of Prohibition, a German whiskey smuggler named Carl Hause was doing a brisk business. Hause's …
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Calico, California is an old West mining town that has been around since 1881 during the largest silver strike in California. With its 500 mines, Calico produced over $20 million in silver ore over a 12-year span. When silver …
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The Gunsight Silver Mine allegedly found more than 150 years ago, is lost today. In 1849, a group of California-bound emigrants was headed out of Utah with 107 wagons led by Captain Jefferson Hunt. However, by …
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He has been featured in several television programs, writes for Lost Treasure Magazine, wrote Mysteries of Tahoe – Lost Treasure, and is currently working on a second book. Also See. California – The Golden …
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— California's Lost Gold Mines and Gold Sites. A gold prospector investigates a sluice in California. Source: Wikimedia Commons. More than 500 mining camps sprang up seemingly overnight in …
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Since the 1848 discovery of gold in California, Death Valley has experienced over 140 years of boom and bust mining, creating several ghost towns in the area. Little did those many miners passing through the area in 1849 know that there were vast deposits of gold, silver, copper, and borax just waiting to be taken out of the mountains and valley floor.
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The soon-to-be bustling miners' camp of Sailors' Diggings, Oregon, started in 1851 after a group of sailors jumped ship in Crescent City, California.Working their way to the northwest, they discovered gold near the junction of Josephine and Canyon Creeks near O'Brien, Oregon.They called their camp Sailors' Diggings.
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Lost Mines in Arizona by James Harvey McClintock. Menu. Legends of America ... Written by James Harvey McClintock in 1913, compiled and edited by Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated April 2023. ... He died in California on …
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In 1912, Utah mining men acquired the Cerro Gordo group, whose property now consisted of tunnels, shafts, and an aerial tramway connecting the mine with the narrow-gauge Southern Pacific Railroad at Keeler, which had absorbed the old Carson & Colorado Railroad. Shipping 1,000 tons of ore daily, Cerro Gordo became the largest producer of …
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The Humbug Creek Mine was found in Siskiyou County, California in the 1850s, but the man who found it soon died and today it is lost.
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Columbia, California, started in March 1850 when Dr. Thaddeus Hildreth, his brother George, and a couple of other prospectors made camp near here.In just two days, they hit a bonanza, and the gulch yielded more than $4,500 in gold ore. News like that didn't take long to spread, and the area was soon flooded with thousands of miners hoping to find their …
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Legendary Ghost Towns of California features the rich history and photographs of these old towns.
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Sitting on the western outskirts of Death Valley in Inyo County, California, tiny Darwin, a semi-ghost town today, was once the largest city in the county. The settlement started in early 1860 when a prospecting expedition led by Dr. E. Darwin French set out from Visalia, California, searching for the Lost Gunsight Mine and a place that had long been referred …
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A California State Park, the district includes the workings of Malakoff Diggins adjacent to the ghost town of North Bloomfield. ... In 1893 Congress passed a law that all hydraulic mines must be licensed, but the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company ignored the ruling. In 1896, the mining company was found in contempt of this law and was ...
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Cerro Gordo, California– Located in the Inyo Mountains of California, the Cerro Gordo Mines produced high-grade silver, lead, and zinc from 1866 until 1957.The mountain's production led to the creation of the towns of Swansea and Keeler and the transportation hubs below. Chrysopolis – Located on the east bank of the Owens River south of …
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From the mill to the mine, visitors will travel east on Ashford Canyon Road for three miles and then hike about 1.25 miles up Ashford Canyon to the mine site. Following the remnants of the old road up the Canyon will make for an easier hike. Compiled and edited by Kathy Weiser-Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2021.
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The Pleasant Canyon Loop Trail is just outside of town, a rugged and fascinating path of about 27 miles that features many of the camps and mines that Ballarat once supported, including Clair Camp, the Radcliffe Mine Thorndike Mine, and more.
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There are men who have claimed to have found Pegleg's lost Mine. One story describes the journey of a discharged soldier who followed Pegleg's trail from Yuma to Los Angeles. During his travels through the desert, he …
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The mad treasure-hunters of the California mines, restless, insubordinate, ... it was then that the western outfitting points of Walla Walla and ton lost their importance. ... Compiled and edited by Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated April 2024. Also See: Henry Plummer – Sheriff Meets a Noose.
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Three miles north of Interstate-15, midway between Barstow and Yermo, California, sits the historic and restored ghost town of Calico, California.. It all began in 1875 when roving prospectors first found silver on the south …
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However, like other mining boom towns, ia City eventually began to decline, beginning in 1877. From the time it was first established through its decline, ia City suffered five widespread fires, the worst of which was dubbed the "Great Fire of 1875," which burned nearly 75% of the town and caused some 12 million dollars in damages.
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The bandits who were involved with the initial discovery of the rich ore of Panamint were also still there, along with numerous other outlaws who hoped to make their living more easily than working in the mines. According to legend, these original bandits had planned from the start to let the senators do all the work and then steal the bullion when it was …
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— Lingard's Lost Lake of Gold – Lost Mines of California. This mysterious tale refers to the now lost lake which Lingard had discovered in 1853 while exploring the …
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Lost Soldier Mine – In the early 1870s soldiers from Fort Tucson ran into a waterhole filled with gold nuggets ... Secret Pass – A wagon train of Spanish priests headed from Mexico to California was loaded with all the religious refinements need to establish a new mission. However, while in the area of Secret Pass, the wagon train was ...
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