|
THE LOST BASIN
...Continued
Continuing their search the party found evidence of placer mining
in many of the gulches running down towards the Colorado and extending
over a stretch of country some fifteen miles in width lying between
Steen's Ferry and the point where the Wallapai wash runs into
the river.
When our informant left
the scene of these interesting discoveries the party were still
prosecuting their search, and we, in common with many others await
with considerable interest the results. One thing is certain from
the numerous traces of old work found in many different portions
of our mining districts, that Mohave county was once peopled by
a generation of miners of whom we know nothing and of whom nothing
remains but a few scattered bones, and the evidence of their work.
Photograph by Francis H Clark.
Ruins of a stone house, probably at Pearce Ferry. From the Arizona
State Library.
Who knows...maybe this image of ruins is the
same place.
|