Desert Fever
An Overview of Mining History of the California Desert Conservation Area

Imperial County - End Notes

1. Arizona Sentinel , February 16, 1895.

2. N. H. Darton, Guidebook of the Western United States, Part F, the Southern Pacific Lines, New Orleans to Los Angeles, U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 845 (Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1933), pp. 242-257: George Daniels, The Spanish West (New York : Time-Life Books, 1976), p. 76.

3. WiIliam B. Clark, Gold Districts of California , Bulletin 193 (Sacramento: California Division of Mines and Geology, 1976), p. 154; Paul K. Morton , Geology and Mineral Resources of Imperial County, California County Report 7 (Sacramento: California Division of Mines and Geology, 1977), p. 7.

4. P.C. Henshaw, “Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Cargo Muchacho Mountains, Imperial County, California,” California journal of Mines and Geology 38 (April, 1942) :148.

5. Ibid. ; Frank Love, Mining Camps and Ghost Towns (Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1974), p. 38.

6. Paul K. Morton, p. 49 ; J. J. Crawford, Thlrteenth Report of the State Mineralogist (Sacramento : California State Mining Bureau, 1896), pp.333-334.

7. Paul K. Morton, p. 60; Frank Love, pp. 115-116.

8. Arizona Sentinel , December 7, 1895.

9. Paul K. Morton, p. 60.

10. Ibid.; J. J. Crawford, pp. 337-33.

11. F. J. H. Merrill, “The Counties of San Diego, Imperial, California,” Fourteenth Report of the State Mineralogist (Sacramento : California State Mining Bureau, 1916), pp. 726-728 ; Paul C. Henshaw, pp. 147-196.

12. Paul K. Morton, pp. 53,57.

13. Ibid., p. 47; Mining and Scientific Press , November 28, 1914.

14. Paul K. Morton, p. 47; Frank Love, p. 122.

15. Paul K. Morton, pp. 48, 54.

16. F. .1. H. Merrill, pp.723-743.

17. Paul K. Morton, pp. 1, 36; P. C. Henshaw, pp. 147-196.

18. J J. Crawford, p. 343.

19. Paul K. Morton, p. 58 ; Kirk Bryan, The Papago Country, Arizona: A Geographic, Geologic and Hydrologic Reconnaissance, With a Guide to Desert Watering Places, U. S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 499 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1925), p. 16.

20. William B. Clark, p. 163; P. C. Henshaw, pp. 147-196.

21. Paul K. Morton, p.60.

23. Frank Love, p. 59 J. J. Crawford, p. 343 ; Arizona Sentinel , December 30, 1893 ; Peter Odens, Plcacho (privately printed, 1973), p. 21.

24. PauI K. Morton, p. 57 ; Peter Odens, p. 22.

25. Frank Love, pp. 73-74.

26. Peter Odens, p. 25; Paul K. Morton, p. 57.

27. Paul K. Morton, pp. 52, 92.

28. Ib1d., pp. 38,50-51.

29. J. J. Crawford, p. 333.

30. Frank Love, p.79; Arizona Sentinel , February 16, 1895.

31. Paul K. Morton, p.38.

32. Ibid., pp. 92,93 ; Frank Love, p. 112.

33. Frank Love, p. 179.

34. The material in this section is based largely on the reports on each commodity found in Paul K. Morton, Geology and Mineral Resources of Imperial County, California, County Report 7 (Sacramento California Division of Mines and Geology, 1977), as follows: gypsum p.62; marble pp.66-68; manganese pp.72-78; celestite p.94; tungsten p.95; clay pp.34-36; geodes, gems pp.39-40; kyanite pp.65-66; mercury p.78; sodium sulfate pp.40,84; salt p.85; carbon dioxide p.33.