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
The Calico Print
East Mojave Desert Articles
The Calico Print (East Mojave only - transcribed by Ted Weasma)Coso Mining News
Barstow Printer
East Mojave Articles
1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915-1917 (Transcribed by Ted Weasma)Indio Date Palm
1912 - 1931 (Discontinuous)
Las Vegas Age
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!
Miscellaneous Papers
California Mining 1881 - 1917, a small selecton of clippings from an assortment of newspapers
Mojave Press
Parker [Arizona] Post
Randsburg Miner
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
Mining Periodicals
Engineering and Mining Journal
Los Angeles Mining Review
- 1899 (32mb)
- 1900 (12mb)
- 1901 (7mb) (Jan - Jun missing)
- 1902 (17mb)
- 1903 (17mb)
- 1904 (21mb)
- 1905 (25mb)
- 1906 (20mb)
- 1907 (14mb)
- 1908 (9mb)
- 1909 (6mb) (January -March missing)
- 1910 (5mb)
- 1911 (2mb)
- 1912 (12mb)
- 1913 (4mb)
Mining and Metallurgical Journal
- The Mining and Metallurgical Journal 1897 - 1900 (pdf) (Transcribed by Alan Hensher)
- The Mining and Metallurgical Journal Dec 1897 - Sep 1898 (Scanned - pdf)
- The Mining and Metallurgical Journal Oct 1899 - Dec 1900 (Scanned - pdf)
The Mining Journal (Phoenix, Arizona)
- 1930
- 1931
- 1932
- 1933
- 1934 - part 1
- 1934 - part 2
- 1935
- 1936
- 1937 - part 1
- 1937 - part 2
- 1938 - part 1
- 1938 - part 2
- 1939 - part 1
- 1939 - part 2
- 1940 - part 1
- 1940 - part 2
- 1941 - part 1
- 1941 - part 2
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944
- 1945 - part 1
- 1945 - part 2
- 1946
Mining and Scientific Press
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
Mining World (aka. Engineering and Mining World)
Pacific Coast Miner
Pacific Miner
1908 - 1911 Transcribed by Ted Weasma.
Unpublished Document
San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors Minutes. Extracts 1875 - 1940.