Randsburg, CA
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2024
- Randsburg California
Wandering prospectors from the El Paso District discovered that the Summit Range, located northeast of the El Paso Mountains, also contained placer values and began to dry wash for gold there in the early l890s. No more than 100 men lived at Summit Dry Diggings, a tent and dugout camp. Supplies came in from Goler and water from El Paso (Willow) Spring. At least two prospectors from the Summit Dry Diggings, Frederic Mooers and William Langdon, ventured south to explore the Rand Mountains in 1894.
Finding only traces of gold, they returned, content at the time to work what seemed to be richer earth. Frederic Mooers never forgot what he found on Rand Mountain, and a year later was startled into taking a closer look at his earlier find. A group of miners, displeased with the scant returns from their present claims, were talking of looking into that ground on Rand Mountain that he and Langdon had discovered earlier. Concerned with the thought of outsiders cashing in on a find that was his, Mooers planned his own trip.
The Yellow Aster Mine, originally known as the Olympus Mine, was located in April, 1895, by John Singleton, Fred Mooers and C. A. Burcham. Other discoveries soon followed and hundreds of claims were staked. The town of Randsburg grew at the center of the new gold district. The rich ore from the Yellow Aster Mine was at first, shipped, but within a short time the proceeds from the mine were sufficient to allow of the erection of a 30-stamp mill which began operations early in 1901. A 100-stamp mill was completed the same year. The 30-stamp mill leased operations in 1913, but the other continued to operate until temporarily closed down in 1918. Since then, a few stamps have operated occasionally on leasers' ore.
In 1897 the Santa Fe Railroad constructed a branch line from Kramer to within two miles of Randsburg, where Johannesburg is now located.
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my aunt had a cabin out in what i thought was Randsburg or Red Mountain back in the early 1970's my mom and dad would take my brother and i out there during the summer to camp and ride dirt bikes... i still to this day remember our times spent out there in the middle of nowhere, sleeping in the back of my dads ranchero staring up at the big skies.... Beautiful!
When I was living in Ridgecrest, almost 40 years ago, I was seriously contemplating opening a secondhand store in Randsburg. Love that Town! I haven’t been there in a very long time and really appreciate this video. Thank you!
My hometown. You can see the house I grew up in at 15:15. It's at the left behind the church. Everything is much as I remember.
Some areas of California haven't changed at all over the decades. Thank you for another great tour.
Glad you enjoyed it
I used to work at an Antique shop on the NW corner of Main Street owned by the Parkers which had burned down many years ago. It has been a long time since I’ve have been back to Ransburg. Thank you for your video.
Glad you liked the video.
I wonder if I used to shop there? I still have a few things that I picked up at a Randsburg secondhand store back in the late 80s.
There's so many little towns out here in the western deserts
Amazing pictures from the past and the history told to us with your great patience - thanks !
Glad you enjoyed it
WhooHoo....my backyard as I was born in Trona and raised in China lake and Ridgecrest for 30 years..🎸🎸
🤔Guitars??🎸
A nice tour. Too bad stores were closed. Im planning a roadtrip up 395 for late Spring,this little burg will be a side trip for sure. I wanna see what other cars are at the Rod Shop.
Have fun!
Love that historic area 😅😅
Thanks for this.
I was in the area on a 1968 Physical Geology field trip and returned many times.
Ok, I will relax now and enjoy the ride.
Great video, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
I had to look it up...We would always head for Mammoth Mtn. by crossing through Bakersfield and Tehachapi from Santa Barbara County tohead north on Hiway 395. No wonder I hadn't noticed it as it is before where 14 connects to 395 going north! Thanks for the great video and the wonderful music....
Glad you liked the video. Part of the editing process is trying to find the right music. Sometimes its a hit and sometimes its a miss. Thanks for watching and glad you liked the video.
As always great video and audio of Randsburg.
Thanks for showing me a map of the area.
I saw Searles Lake to the north which was the destination of our 1968 college Geology class.
We were after dual terminated NaCl crystals in the brine.
I got bored and we headed up to what could have been the Panamint Range. We found a mine adit with a headfrane that was signed by John B Searles in carbide lamp.
We returned and explored Red Mountain and explored a shaft with wooden latters that went for hundreds of feet. Of course I would never encourage anyone to do what I did.
Young and stupid;)
Now I am old old and
stupid.
Great story. Thanks for watching.
Never mentioned off road aficionados inundate the town all fall, winter and Spring.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
one can still pan for gold, up in the hills
You missed the jail
At 4:50 into the video there is a nice map of the area. Can you tell me where you got it? Is it USGS map? Whatever it is could you possibly provide or point me to a link for it? Would appreciate it. Thank you.
I found this the best place to create maps. Have fun. apps.nationalmap.gov/viewer/
@@GhostTownWonders I followed the link and found the map you show in the video I believe but the gold mines information is missing. I tried every option available and could not find an option to produce the mine areas. How in the world did you do that? My map does not feature the side tab off to the upper right that would seem to be the key.
For the mines, if I recall I drew them on the map. No magic layer or app.
@@GhostTownWonders Where did the tab with check box options to the upper right come from? Several of those are check marked and It would appear those have something to do with the additional information. Sorry for the questions but i'm wanting to figure this out. Thanks.
What do you think of Dunken Donuts Coffee? Dark roast latte. McDonald's not so much.
I haven't tried that. Great idea. I will let you know.
Nice production and interesting facts, reminds me of Oatman Az. And the Church still stands, I definitely need to check this place out.
Thanks for watching Robert. You definitely need to make a trip there.