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JULY 1966
"Cooking and Camping on the Desert" is more than just a book on pre-
paring for a desert outing or making meals that will appeal while in
camp. This book is a brief manual on how to survive in the desert . . .
the book is a must for anyone making a trip to the desert, whether it is
his first or fiftieth. BILL HILTON, Santa Barbara News-Press.
Now a recognized wizard at camp cookery, none other than Choral
Pepper, who edits Desert Magazine, has written a new book, "Cooking
and Camping on the Desert" which needs to be in everyone's camp kit,
and above all needs to be read while desert safaris are yet in the plan-
ning stage. L. BURR BELDON, San Bernardino Sun-Telegram.
Those who've done even limited camping know what (Erie Stanley)
Gardner is talking about—and will probably enjoy what Choral and her
husband, Jack, talk about in the book . . . This reporter, sometime cam-
per-fisherman is neither gourmet nor cook—but Choral's handy book
makes me enthusiastic enough to want to be. REX NEVINS, Riverside
Daily Enterprise.
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bend, there it was—a one-man digging. Although we found it 15 years too 7" Penny
A pile of tailings sat beside a hole about late, we still had the pleasure and adven- 8-12". Silver
Dollar
3O-feet deep. Was this really it? All the ture of finding the elusive lost mine of
18" Pistol
signs seemed to fit. Hank Brandt and that was gold enough 24" . Jar of
After two days of exploring, we found for us!
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Coins
Kettle
36" Placer Gold
Deposit
48" Metal Chest
60" Large Metallic
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E LEFT U. S. 395 where it crossed Black Mountain herself glowered, her there had been several good rains lately.
W the railroad tracks south of Inyo- tumbled boulders of desert varnished
kern and continued up a wide, bladed basalt threatening to bound down and
Facing us, on the sheer east side, Black
Mountain showed a creamy yellow "bib"
road bisecting the El Paso Range in the crush us. under her chin where enormous black
area known as Sheep Springs. Here the Yellow buckwheat, feathery bunch- boulders had scoured a downward path
road deteriorated into a rough trail lead- grass, tiny yellow and white dwarf daisies, through ages of storms. This is wild and
ing to collecting sites for jasper, moss twisted greasewoods, peeping splashes of rugged country, and the deeper we pene-
agate, opalite, and petrified wood. Out- Indian paintbrush, purple lupine and wee trated, the more intriguing it became.
lined in all its frowning, forbidding ma- blue-eyes scattered prodigally about, for Quail called; chukars chuk-chukked deep
in their throats, safely out of sight. We
saw the swift flirt of vanishing powder-
puffs as little cottontails made for holes,
and lizards and tortoise went sedately
about their business. There were also signs
of burro, coyote and bobcat!
Despite Black Mountain's inhospitable
appearance, the recent rains had opened
hospitable arms to the wildlife. Hitherto
dry springs showed bubbly gleams beneath
matted growth, and tiny pools still re-
mained in rocky basins. Where the trail
now made a sharp left turn around the
base of the great mountain, we turned
abruptly west into the southern flank.
Then we crossed a narrow little canyon
J and ran the vehicles up as far as they
1910. For many years afterward the Babbitt Brothers, with C. H. Algert built
by Gladwell Richardson squat stone building was visible from a third stone post closer to the wash and
old Highway 89. not far from Clan Rocks. It was known
INETY-THREE years ago, Wiley stared in amazement at Mineral King's millionaires roamed the streets of Porter-
N Watson, one of the earliest mayors
of Visalia, California, had a dollar-sign
panorama of sawtooth peaks and timber
covered slopes, he envisioned a project
ville and Visalia boasting of the rich-
ness of their claims and dreaming of sil-
twinkle in his eye and a promotion that would permit you and me and little ver, mansions and servants. Rumors rolled
scheme up his sleeve which has earned Johnny Gitalong next door to behold freely as • they always did in a mining
for him the distinctive title, "prophet of and savor this wonderful sight. community and there was considerable
Mineral King." Up until recently, that In late December of 1965, Mr. Disney counting of silvery chickens, so to speak,
monicker didn't mean tiddle-de-winks to was notified that his plans for the devel- before the eggs were even laid.
anyone. But the name Mineral King is opment of a $35,000,000 summer and A town which included saloons, mill
now beginning an ascension in fame winter recreational facility at Mineral sites, boarding houses, general stores and
which could surpass almost any mountain King had been accepted by the Depart- a livery stable was eventually built in the
area in the world, Zermatt, Garmisch, ment of Agriculture and the United high valley and named Beulah, meaning
Interlaken, Sun Valley and Aspen in- States Forestry Service. So, the claim for the land of promise. It was a typical
cluded. Mineral King's second and biggest pay- boom town, but the lack of violence in
load has finally been staked out and, after the district was something of an oddity
Back in 1873, Wiley Watson first pro- all these years, Wiley Watson's comments for those days. There were fist fights, a
moted the building of a road from his about tourist trade in the Sierras is re- shooting, a suicide, a couple of mob hang-
hometown of Visalia in the San Joaquin membered. ing threats and a few dynamite accidents,
Valley to the Mineral King District, a but all in all the boom town was a pleas-
high valley in the Sierra Nevada Moun- The project which conservation-minded
Mr. Disney (he is honorary president of ant place to work.
tains rich in wildlife, timber, beauty and,
much to Watson's delight, minerals. The the National Wildlife Federation and Although work was pushed twenty-
Mineral King Silver Rush had begun and honorary member of the Izaak Walton four hours a day and explosions echoed
Watson concluded that his road would League, among others) is now beginning around the peaks every few minutes, pro-
greatly benefit local merchants and farm- has the populace of San Joaquin as well gress was slow. Mineral King was and
ers who ship their produce to the mines as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacra- is an extremely difficult place to reach.
if a large settlement should develop there. mento about as excited as the hill-and- Twenty-five miles of precipitous trail
A wise investor, our good man wasn't gully-thumping miners of old Porter- through country that has been compared
placing all his silver ingots into one ville were when James A. Crabtree re- only to the Swiss Alps by top ski cham-
bread basket. If the silver played out and vealed his find at Mineral King. pions and geologists presented an over-
the boom was a bust, Watson argued Something of a spiritualist, Crabtree whelming problem to the miners. Today,
that a road could be used to capitalize on told a tale of discovery involving a White before Disney can proceed with full de-
the beautiful scenery which would draw Indian Chief who appeared to him in a velopment, an all weather road expected
sightseers to Mineral King. The valley dream and pointed out the path to follow to cost some three million dollars must be
is surrounded by half a dozen majestic for riches. Upon awakening, he and a constructed for easy access.
peaks approaching an elevation of 12,000 friend left at once for the mountains. One of the major problems for the
feet. When they returned to Porterville in the miner in the early days was his lack of
foothills, they jointly filed claim to The adequate drilling tools. But they used
Watson himself never did completely White Chief Lode. The old sourdoughs good ol' American ingenuity and started
finish his road. The magnificent yet in town may have laughed at Crabtree's busting rocks with heat. Huge bonfires
awful mountains around the 8,000-foot tall story, but not too loudly. He had a were built on the rock and kept going
Mineral King Valley have, for decades, reputation as a successful prospector and all night. When cold water was thrown
resisted man's efforts to develop the area. the ore samples he carried in his poke on the hot rocks, they would crack and
But Watson was undoubtedly the first to helped to spread the fever that started split open. Powder was then packed into
gaze past the glitter of silver that blinded Mineral King booming. the cracks and touched off to shatter the
every clodhopper and mucker in the state rock.
During the first winter of the rush
in those days to see profit in the awesome
when snow kept the miners from work- Residents of Beulah had to be alert
beauty of the jagged, granite peaks.
ing their claims, Tulare County spirits for they lived in a veritable bowling
When California's own Walt Disney, were mighty high. Every discussion em- alley with tenpins anything in sight. With
a "bonanza" king in his own right, first braced the Mineral King mines. Potential careless miners blasting the steep-sloped
granite mountains, rocks and boulders 500 people were permanent residents hoe-downs with the miners themselves
careened into the valley and tumbled there (a fair size for a boom town with providing the music. Hob-nail boots
right through town. In the writings of mines yet unproven). Once the reason- pounded the floors and the few wives
one Orlando Barton, a law "requiring able facsimile of a toll road was finished, who lived in town had a wonderful, if
miners to keep their rocks on their own construction increased and still more treacherous, time high-stepping with
land," is mentioned, but evidently it people came to scour the hills and work everyone. Organized Sunday baseball be-
wasn t enforced. The rolling stone menace in the mines. To feed them, the local came so popular that the Tulare Times
became so severe that the flats of Mon- butchers obtained bear meat and venison newspaper claimed, "politics and baseball
arch Creek were finally abandoned as a by none other than a Kentucky sharp- together with silver excitement make
place to do business. shooter named George Washington Mineral King the liveliest place on the
Fcr 10 years Mineral King popped and Boone, grandson of Daniel Boone. The coast."
boomed with ups and downs of enthu- town was even fortunate enough to have Mineral King flourished mainly
siasm that broke hearts, bankrupted rich a full-time physician, Dr. T. F. Pegg. through the energy, finances and am-
men and brought a touch of wealth to The first forms of recreation in this bition of one Tom Fowler who was con-
just a few. In late summer of 1879 some future playground were old-fashioned vinced that these craggy mountains were
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The Magic of Baja
by Choral Pepper
Editor of DESERT Magazine
7 he only tracks along Cordon Boulevard were our own. Never before have wheels crossed this land.
With Grasshoppers, we climbed the mother-of-pearl wall deposited by eons of turbulent seas.
Flores to El Barril. Such a route, if estab- Ynez nodded. now calling by their Mexican name,
lished, would open a new area of interest "It's being used?" Erie prodded. Chaptdinos.
and entice more tourists to the Diaz re- "Tracks," Ynez said. Our caravan whizzed along at about 15
sort, which now lies at the end of a Well, this was a blow. Here we miles an hour to Las Flores. With the
branch road off Highway No. 1. We ex- thought we had a story in being first to addition of Ynez to our party, there were
pected Senor Diaz to register great enthus- break a new trail and now we learn it's a drivers for all trucks so J. W. Black and I
iasm. regular truck route! Things had changed unhitched one of the Chapulinos and tra-
Instead, he shrugged and said, "Trucks since 1962 when, following the Gardner veled in it.
go thit way." breakthrough, the Automobile Club tried J. W. has improved this vehicle since
Later, when Uncle Erie discussed our to map it, but turned back after the first introducing it on our search for the John
projected route with Ynez, a Yaqui In- 22 miles. Nummel mine in Arizona last year (DES-
dian guide from Bahia de los Angeles Nevertheless, we consoled ourselves, ERT, April 1965). Now its roll bar sup-
who had accompanied other of his expe- touristas don't know about it yet and with ports a red and white striped canopy to
ditions and who joined us now, Ynez also the route so well established, we could cut the sun and a windshield provides
shrugged. travel faster and have more time to ex- wind protection. I can't imagine any trip
"You know this route?" Erie asked. plore in the Grasshoppers, which we were more fascinating than one covering the
Uncle Erie, in the lead, waits where the road ends where we'll plot a course into unmapped terrain.
quicker conversions among the natives, doubt upon this idea, but in turn there's the Santa Maria de la Magdalena mission
missions should be established in the so much doubt cast upon the references on the Gulf slightly above 29 degrees,
north of the peninsula and united with that they can hardly discredit the possi- as indicated on their 1757 map, and then
those of the south; and that the number bility. In Camp and Camino in Lower abandoned the project and moved it south
of missionaries should be doubled. In California published in 1910, author to the 27th parallel where Arthur North
return, a complete report and description North writes of visiting the ruins of the reported his ruins in 1910, but because
of missions and mission stations was to Jesuit mission chapel of Santa Maria de further reference to this mission is ignor-
be drawn up and sent back to the King. la Magdalena about six miles south of ed in other records of importance, I'm
It was from this report, dated 1745, Santa Rosalia. However, Gerhard and inclined to believe the ruins south of San-
that we learned Indians had been con- Gulick in their superb Loiver California ta Rosalia never were a mission, but in-
verted by Fr. Fernando Consag and the Guidebook refer to these same ruins as stead are those of an early Dominican
mission of Santa Maria Magdalena begun those of the Magdalena chapel built by chapel established to. serve rancheritas
in the north. On an old mission map it the Dominicans in 1774. They don't refer and mines in the productive Magdalena
is identified as Mision de Santa Maria to them as a mission at all, which makes and Santa Rosalia mining area.
empezadd (empezada means "begun") good sense, as the Dominicans didn't As the days passed by, we explored
slightly north of latitude 29 degrees and even get to Baja until 1773 and their other enigmas, by land and by helicopter.
within a few miles of the Gulf. More- first mission, established in 1774, was This was only the beginning of the Erie
over, Fr. Consag was assigned to the much further north and on the Pacific Stanley Gardner expedition of 1966! •
Mision de las Dolores del Norte, the coast. It's possible that the Jesuits began To be continued.
closest one at that time to this location.
No subsequent reference is ever made of
this mission and it was not among those
inherited by the Franciscan order after
the Jesuits had been banished from New
Spain by the King.
Judging from the ruins in the isolated
area we were in, it appears likely the
original plans had been aborted and the
project never completed. However, the
plateau atop the mountain offered an
ideal lookout for a military post and it
was located close to two convenient ports
—that of Bahia de los Angeles and Las
Animas—in line with the demands of the
King. Later, the mission trail followed up
the center of Baja and then crossed to the
Pacific Coast, but at the same time the
Mision de Santa Maria Magdalena was
instituted, Fr. Consag was interested in
the Gulf coast, hoping to establish land
contact with the missions of Sonora.
There are a few references which cast The author is great at finding chip pings, but never comes up with a whole arroivhead!
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M OST LOST mine directions are
rather nebulous, but this one has
a sign that undoubtedly still points right
grantly violated the axiom that it is not
wise to mix your drinks or occupations.
at it. The trick is to find the sign! He drank what was available and worked
I first heard of the lost ledge of ame- as a miner, cow-poke, cook or carpenter,
thystine quartz (speckled with yellow as the mood and opportunity suited him.
EL ICO slugs big enough to see after sun-down), All of which helps to muddle his trail
and account for what happened. Even
when Dad and I were leasing in central
his first name had variations (some un-
Nevada back in the hungry part of the
printable). He was also known as Big
'30s. That version was too filmsy to chase
Swede, Big Red, and Pete the Swede.
and besides, my tires, grub box and budg-
et were in the same condition, even if The mountain ranges of Northern Ne-
the story had been stronger. It wasn't vada stand like petrified waves in roughly
until recent years that I again cut the trail north-south parallel rows. Between the
of Swede Pete and his bonanza rock. For Diamonds east of Eureka and the south-
portions of this, I am indebted to long- ern end of the Rubys, is a wide valley of
time lawman Stanley Fine and to Charley good grass. At the north end of this val-
Vaccaro, both of Eureka. Charley is a ley is the old Cold Creek Ranch.
soft spoken, unexcited, hard-headed In the old days the Simonsons used to
mining man who has hunted for the ledge run the ranch, and I understand Charley
a number of times. If Charley says it's got some of his story information from
fCeld Creek Ranch
about here "solid," you can bet your saddle it's them.
worth looking for. Late one fall, shortly before the snows
Pete's Shortly after the turn of the century, were due, Swede Pete was working at the
apprex. route
Swede Pete showed up in the Eureka ranch. A small bunch of uncounted beef
country. He was a big, raw-boned, rugged in prime condition had been discovered
character who seemed to have no last hiding out in a box canyon and it was de-
There's a lot of empty country this name—perhaps he wanted it that way. He cided to chouse them up north to the
part of Nevada. rode an oversized, mean, dappled grey loading pens on the railroad at Elko for
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Bellflower, California 90706 1400 17th St., Denver, Colorado 80217 Fullerton 7, California
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