Mojave Desert: Mining History Sources

The material on this page consists mostly of scrap books of clippings of selected articles that were scanned to Adobe PDF files. After scanning the articles I ran optical character recognization to make the files searchable. Unfortunately, this also makes the files larger. These scrap books were primarily created by Alan Hensher and I (Larry M. Vredenburgh). Ted Weasma has also contributed information on the East Mojave. This work (which as of April 2010 is only just the tip of the iceberg) represents thousands of hours of research and probably thousands of dollars of investment. We encourage you do down load these files. Make copies. Share CDs. Tell others. We only ask you don't package these files and sell them.

Also, a lot of primary source material is now available on line. Check my page of mining related links. One word of caution, when you download books from Google Books, they are no longer searchable. It is best to create your own on-line library.

Larry M. Vredenburgh, Alan Hensher

NEWSPAPERS

Anaheim Gazette

1877-1878

The Calico Print

East Mojave Desert Articles
The Calico Print (East Mojave only - transcribed by Ted Weasma)

Coso Mining News

May 22, 1877

Barstow Printer

East Mojave Articles
1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915-1917 (Transcribed by Ted Weasma)

Indio Date Palm

1912 - 1931 (Discontinuous)

Las Vegas Times

1906

Las Vegas Age

1906 - 1908

Los Angeles Times

Fact or Fiction? The Mint at the Mescal Mine (Los Angeles Times, December 8, 1895) contains just enough factual details to make you wonder!

Los Angeles News

1861-1869 Transcribed by Alan Hensher

Los Angeles Star

1861 Transcribed by Alan Hensher

Mariposa Chronicle and Gazette

1854 -1861 Transcribed by Alan Hensher

Mariposa Free Press

1863-1866 Transcribed by Alan Hensher

Miscellaneous Papers

California Mining 1881 - 1917, a small selecton of clippings from an assortment of newspapers

Rhyolite Herald / Las Vegas Age 1906, 1907. 4 pages

Shady Myrick, A selection of articles

Twenty transcribed pages, 1912-1915

Mojave Press

1914 - 1918

Needles Eye

1893-1894
1908 (Jan-May)
1908(Jun-Dec)
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914

Needles Nuggett

1916 - 1919
1921 - 1928
1928 - 1937
1937 - 1940

Panamint News

1875 Transcribed by Alan Hensher

Parker [Arizona] Post

1911 - 1917

Randsburg Miner

1900
1904
1905
1906
1907
1912
1913
1914-1915

The Randsburg Times

1938-1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 (Scanned - searchable pdf )

Redlands Citrograph

1887-1907 Compiled by Arda Haenszel in 1978

East Mojave Articles
1887 - 1903 Transcribed by Ted Weasma

Sacramento Union

1860 Transcribed by Alan Hensher

San Bernardino Valley Index

Mar 1881 - Feb. 1882 (pdf) - open bookmarks for article date.

San Francisco Evening Bulletin

1861 - 1864 Transcribed by Alan Hensher

Searchlight Bulletin

1907
1908-1912

Stockton Daily Independent

1864 Transcribed by Alan Hensher

Stockton Republican

1854-1855 Transcribed by Alan Hensher

MINING PERIODICALS

Engineering and Mining Journal

Los Angeles Mining Review

Mining and Metallurgical Journal

The Mining Journal (Phoenix, Arizona)

Mining and Scientific Press

The Mining Investor

1905 - 1907

The Mining Reporter

The Mining Reporter (Selected East Mojave articles 1899 - 1907) Transcribed by Ted Weasma.

Salt Lake Mining Review

1907 - 1926 (Not Continuous)

Mining Science

1908-1911

Mining World (aka. Engineering and Mining World)

1903-1906
1907-1912
1912-1916

Pacific Coast Miner

1902-1904

Pacific Miner

1907 - 1911

1908 - 1911 Transcribed by Ted Weasma.

UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS

San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors Minutes. Extracts 1875 - 1940.

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT DOCUMENTS

Mining District Minutes

Calico
Clark
Grape Vine
Panamint
Solo
Summit [Tehachapi]
Trojan
Valley View [Erskine Creek, Kern County]

List of Mineral Surveys of California

Humbolt Meridian
Mount Diablo Meridian
San Bernardino Meridian

 

 

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