Re: ?anybody know anything about GARABALDI MINE
Posted by David A. Wright on June 23, 2004 at 20:24:49:
In Reply to: ?anybody know anything about GARABALDI MINE posted by Mosaic on June 23, 2004 at 08:05:53:
Pick up a copy of WESTERN PLACES - SKIDOO! by Alan Patera and myself. Some Garibaldi info in there.
Some early newspapers put it this way:
1906, July 12 Inyo Register
OLD PANAMINT HISTORY
DISCLOSING, FACTS PERTAINING TO THE CAMP’S DISCOVERY -- PAST AND PRESENT
EDITOR REGISTER -- In your issue of July 12th is an article taken from the Bullfrog Miner under caption “Emigrant” that deserves a little overhauling. ...
WILD ROSE AND EMIGRANT SPRINGS.
Shortly after the discovery of Panamint a party of Italians, Joe Nossano, Jeff Nossano, Joe Lanji and Chas. Andrietta, discovered mines north of Wild Rose known as the Garibaldi group. These properties lie in the vicinity of the new camp of Harrisburg; they were all silver mines , and eight in number. In the spring of 1876 a syndicate composed of W.M. Lent, Chapman, Gaswiler, Bowie, Boyd and Irwin, was formed in San Francisco, which purchased the mines for $70,000 cash down. Irwin took charge of the work of development and spent $30,000 thereon. Not finding them good as expected, he abandoned them and went to Bodie, where Lent and Boyd had secured the Standard mine. Wm. Irwin was Lent’s right hand man. He had recently come from Oregon, where he had been operating a mine; was evidently a good miner, but a poor prospector. He followed the usual course in those days -- after sinking 50 or 60 feet and encountering a broken condition of the veins, he concluded there was no use of searching deeper. He did not seem to realize that the conditions of Oregon mines do not apply here, and that to obtain a correct knowledge of a mine one has to search below the broken upper crust or strata of the earth and enter the permanent rock formation beneath. Although these mines are still lying idle, the day will come when they will be thoroughly developed and become producers.
1906, July 26 Inyo Register
OLD WILD ROSE LOCATIONS
EDITOR REGISTER -- Mention was made in the Tonopah Sun July 19th of the finding of a notice bearing the name of Ed Hall, on a mine near Emigrant Springs.
As this brings to mind some scenes and events of other days, the writer feels assured that a passing notice of Ed Hall may prove to be of interest to many of your readers.
During the summer of 1875 he came out to Wild Rose, making that his headquarters and frequently taking short trips northward. This he kept up through the following winter. He usually had for a companion one Jim Cummings. He was working one of his locations some four miles north of Wild Rose when Irwin, Lent & Co. purchased the Garibaldi mine in 1876, and so continued for some time after, but as the camps went down he went to Darwin and turned his attention to other business. He finally died at or near Mojave, some twelve years ago.