Some place in those mountains, there is a vein of pure gold.
A prospector, brought in samples to Needles, Calif.
Later the prospector got caught in a storm, but 2 of his burros were found tangled reins hooked on a tree and the back packs full of pure gold.
No one has ever found them.
I found one canyon that had been worked, rough and beautiful, but most of the work was the surface soil.
To the east of Yucca, is silver and southeast is copper.
You would enjoy a book by NeLL Murbarger [sp?] the name of the book is “Ghosts of the Adobe Walls”.....a lot of it is around Yucca and the photos of the Signal Canteen, is where I took clients to camp for a weekend.
They had sold their riding stable and moved to Kingman, and brought the dogs with them.
We were sitting around the campfire, talking and Joyce said
“You don’t suppose those dogs found a horse do you?”
LOL, they were working dogs and went out into the brush and rounded up all the ranchers horses, wild horses and burros and brought them to the camp.
The ore from the Alsea mine was shipped to Wales for processing, it is beautiful country and I never had a chance to fully explore it.
I have long laughed at the “campers” for trucks, for they are indeed the Gypsy wagons, the Chuck wagons and the Covered wagons that are so much a part of our history.
Thanks a bunch - I will try the library tomorrow and see if I can get that book.
I know that there is speculation of good quantities of gold in the Chocolate Mountains. Dianne Feinstein, whose husband is a mucky-muck with the Santa Fe Railroad, had the state give her husband's company claim on the mountains in exchange for the relatively worthless Anza Borrego desert area. This was during the Clinton era, naturally.
We are being governed by a generation of brazen thieves.