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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLT0_white-gold_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Though steeped in legend, the frenzied searchfor gold and other materials in Death Valley produced few fortunes. Borax, the "WhiteGold of the Desert," ranks as the valley'smost profitable mineral.Harmony Borax works, in front of you, wasone of Dea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLFO_20-mule-team-wagon-train_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Used in hauling borax from Death Valley toMojave, 165 miles - 10 days. The borax weighed24 tons. The entire weight totaled 36½ tons.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLFK_old-dinah_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Steam tractor and ore wagons introduced at Old Borate to replace the twenty muleteams and replaced in turn by the Borateand Daggett Railroad. The tractor was laterused and abandoned on the Beatty-Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLET_furnace-creek-ranch-death-valley_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Furnace Creek is a spring fed stream flowing into Death Valley. Native Americans lived here centuries prior to its discovery by lost Forty Niners. In 1881, Aaron Winters found borax nearby, and sold his claims and water rights to William Tell Cole…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLBY_old-harmony-borax-works_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
On the marsh near this point borax was discovered in 1881 by Aaron Winters who later sold his holdings to W. T. Coleman of San Francisco. In 1882 Coleman built the Harmony Borax Works and commissioned his superintendent J. W. S. Perry, to design w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLBS_death-valley-49ers-gateway_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Through this natural gateway the Death Valley Forty-niners. More than one hundred emigrants from the middle west seeking a shortcut to gold fields of central California, entered Death Valley in December,1849. All suffered from thirst and starvatio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6NO_laws-station_Bishop-CA.html
In 1883 the Carson & Colorado Railroad was built between Mound House (Near Carson City, Nevada) through Laws to Keeler, California. A distance of 300 miles. Laws Station was named in honor of Mr. R.J. Laws, Assistant Superintendent of the railroad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3PU_power-for-the-diggins_Bishop-CA.html
With the discovery of gold and silver in Nevada at Goldfield and Tonopah, the need for electric power for mining operations was fulfilled in September, 1905, by construction of a hydro-electric plant on Bishop Creek, which supplied 1,300 kilowatts…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3PJ_bishop-creek-battleground_Bishop-CA.html
On April 6, 1862, a battle took place around this site between newly arrived citizens of the Owens River Valley and the Paiute and Shoshone Indians, original inhabitants of the land. The reason for this battle is lost in obscurity, but brave men o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3P8_san-francis-ranch_Bishop-CA.html
In 1861, Samuel A. Bishop, his wife and party left Fort Tejon for the Owens Valley driving 650 head of stock. On August 22, Bishop reached a creek later named for him and southwest of this spot, established San Francis Ranch. There a peace treaty …
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